Home Sweet Home

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:36 pm

As the chaos dies down and the AIs use Tosh's goober to begin sorting out the entangled dimensions, buildings and landscape fades back to normal and portals open up, pulling people back to their proper places.

Sara is hurrying across the former battlefield, looking for the telltale sign of green hair in search for her two Wills.

by **Null** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:40 pm

The Boy was slowly pulling himself together in the center of the mess, reconnecting clay as it went.

"Remind me to look into obedience training if we ever get a dog back home," he groaned, sitting up.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:40 pm

The other Will was checking on Sam.

"Geez, Sam, I'm sorry about that; I wasn't expecting to roll quite so far away," he smiled, leaning over her.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:42 pm

"...I'm a little more cross with Tereza, but I'll live," she groans, still bleeding a bit but fairly intact as she gets up.

by **Robin Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:42 pm

"Hey mum, dad said we're getting a dog!"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:43 pm

"No he didn't." Sara shakes her head.

"Is everybody okay over here?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:46 pm

Will looked up, smiling. "I think so.

Sara, this is Samantha McManus. She's been watching over me since I've been here.

Sam, this is Sara Stanton. She watches over me when I'm back home."

by **Null** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:46 pm

The boy rolled his eyes a little at that, standing between Sara and Robin.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:51 pm

"Hi Sam. Nice to meet you. Another you. It's... confusing. Thanks for keeping an eye on my goofball husband. As you can see, he tends to find new and exciting ways to keep us on our toes."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 7:59 pm

"Oh! You're... older than I expected. I don't know why I expected that considering I already met Robin," Sam babbles.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:07 pm

"I know, it's like I'm the only one who actually bothers to age in my family."

by **Null** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:12 pm

"Hey, you have to deal with US. That probably explains that," the boy smirked.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:15 pm

"I'm... ah... sorry I didn't prevent your husband from getting... subdivided."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:18 pm

"Honestly, I'm just glad to have him back. Them. I'll... figure it out."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:23 pm

"She always does!

Sam, it's been...wonderful getting to know you over here. You're going to be great when you finish growing up; it's been amazing seeing the initial sparks and fires grow and develop," Will said, squeezing Sam's hand.

"Give Tereza and Viv my love for me. And, who knows? Maybe you won't have seen the last of me afterall," he grinned.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:38 pm

"...just like that?"

"I mean, I guess I should've known this was coming."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:43 pm

"I'm sorry, Sam, but...there's no time. I've got to go home. I don't know how long these portals are going to open, and I've been waiting a very, very very long time."

He reached up and swept some of the hair out of Sam's eyes. "I wish I could take all of you with me, or just...keep it like this. With all of us, together. I don't want to leave you behind, either. But trapping you in my world is no better than me being stuck here.

You're my family, no matter on what side of a dimensional rift you're on. We're pack, right?"

by **Null** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 8:44 pm

"Am I always this maudlin?" the boy whispered to Robin.

by **Robin Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 9:12 pm

"Lil bit, yeah." Robin whispers back. "Don't knock it too hard."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 9:17 pm

"I just..."

"...stay safe, aye? Don't go jumping into any more black holes."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 9:28 pm

"Not unless they explicitly ask. Enthusiastic consent," Will grinned.

"And...don't stress about any of this. Any of, well, this," Will said, gesturing wildly. "You're the only Samantha McManus here, and you get to decide what that means, OK?"

And with that, Will gave her a kiss on the forehead.

by **Tereza Rozanov** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:46 pm

About that time, Tereza ambles up, apparently not settled enough to put the wolf away just yet.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:47 pm

"Looks like you get to tell Tereza yourself," she says to Will before turning to her shaggy girlfriend.

"...he's leaving. They both are."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:52 pm

"You take good care of her, OK, Tereza? Alpha's gotta make sure their flock doesn't go wandering off course," Will smiled, mixing animal metaphors.

by **Tereza Rozanov** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:56 pm

Tereza smiles, bumping her head against Will. "I'll do my best. You take care of yourself. Both of you," she says, looking at the Boy.

by **Null** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 10:59 pm

"I'll make sure the next wolf I see doesn't throw me into a spinning whirlygig of blades, if that's what you mean," the boy groused. He was smiling slightly, though.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:13 pm

"You say that now, but then you end up getting yourself stuffed down the garbage disposal or something." Sara says, putting an arm around the boy.

by **Null** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:15 pm

"That's his job, not mine," the boy groused yet again. Grouse grouse grouse.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:21 pm

"I mean I have to side with him here. The wall of invisible razor blades wasn't pleasant."

by **Tereza Rozanov** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:29 pm

"I had to improvise," Tereza says with a half-shrug.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:31 pm

"Well, to each their own, I suppose," Will smiled.

"With the Crystal Computer back running in the lighthouse, maybe we can figure something out in the not-too-distant future. But for now..."

Will grinned once more as the rift opened up behind the Assembled Stantons.

"We bid you all a fond, FOND, fond adieu."

Through the rift, Sara's lab sat, waiting for them; home in the distant future, a dimension or to the left.

They walked towards the rift. Sara and Robin passed through without any issues.

Will and the Boy...

Will and the Boy bounced, thrown back into the quad by the dimensional boundary.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:38 pm

"That... wasn't supposed to happen, was it?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:41 pm

Sara turns around after walking a couple steps into her lab and the smile on her face falters.

"No, but... I vaccinated you with the right dimensional stuff and everything!" she says, taking a couple rapid steps towards the boundary and hitting it like a brick wall. Worse, because brick walls she could do something about. "No no no no no!" she shouts, banging her fists against the barrier.

by **Robin Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:42 pm

Robin freezes as Sara's smile disappears, stopping mostly through the portal with her back-foot still on the grass of the other side. Afraid to move one way or the other her head twists around on her shoulders to look back. "D-dad?"

by **Null** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:43 pm

Sara's smashing was quickly joined by The Boy, sending his weight into the barrier with all his might, and bouncing off it again.

"NO. Damn it, no, no, no," he swore, as if he could pierce the dimensional rift with the sheer force of anger, slashing and clawing at the brick wall-ian rift.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:44 pm

Will, meanwhile, just sat on his butt on the grass, his eyes widening.

"S...Sara? What's...why can't we go through?"

by **Tereza Rozanov** » Mon Apr 08, 2019 11:47 pm

Tereza looks confused, glancing at Sam and then the others. "What...?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Apr 09, 2019 12:01 am

"I... I don't know. The sample should have given you the right dimensional properties. It should have worked, damnit!"

She pulls out the doohickey and fumbles with it for a moment, almost dropping it with shaking hands before she manages to get the small piece of clay inside of it out.

"I got both of you, this isn't right!" she says, looking around frantically until she spots the spectral analysis chamber on the nearby benchtop and rushes over to put the sample inside.

Muttering to herself she turns it on and rapidly scans through as the results come scrolling down the screen.

"Pattern's right, genetic sequence is the same, dimensional signature's the same, how..." The machine suddenly beeps loudly as lines appear in red.

Code: Select all: Temporal Anomaly detected Dimensional Constant off-set Sample out of Synch with Temporal Alignment by approximately 25 years

"Fu--uudge!" Sara curses. "Fudge, fudge, fudge!"

"You know I'm an adult, right? You can say fuck. Cause fuck!" Robin interjects.

"It's from way back in the day. The sample. That was 25 years ago from this reality. I overwrote you with a sample that's not old enough..." she goes on, ignoring her daughter's comment with a dejected voice. "It's my fault. I screwed it up..."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Apr 09, 2019 12:10 am

"OK. OKOKOKOK.

OK.

What do...what do we do?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Apr 09, 2019 12:47 am

"Can't you override it somehow?"

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