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Video; oo3 [3am]

Um.

[The video feed kicks on at some ungodly hour during the night and finds Isaac- or, more accurately, the faint outline of Isaac. The world around him is dark, but for what it's worth, he seems to be outside. In the snow.

The first thing you'd probably notice is that he isn't dressed for it at all. Isaac is actually pretty much wearing a t-shirt, fabric pajama pants, and has no shoes or socks to speak of. He's drenched, shivering something awful, and seems to be rather in the middle of nowhere.]

I could use a little help. [His teeth chatter as he speaks. Not fun.] Is anyone awake? I just kind of... woke up here a few minutes ago. So, uh- a jacket or a way home would be nice.

[[ooc: Isaac's weapon is sort of in the process of leveling up and as a result, he's sleepwalkin'. Anyone is welcome to find him! c:]]

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Yeah. I managed not to freeze to death.

[He laughs a little dryly.]

I don't think I ever would have heard the end of that.

[There's no mistaking the relieved breath she lets out when she hears his voice.]

I'm glad you're okay.

[It's too early and she's too worried to really do anything with the joke.]

Did you figure out what happened?

[He sighs.]

Official word is sleepwalking. Which it was.

[There's a pause though, and a rustling of fabric as Isaac situates himself.]

Unofficial word is sort of crazy, but Peter and Tempest are sort of buying into it, so I dunno. There was this weird dream- I mean, it sounds stupid, but how else would I walk a mile out into the middle of a frozen wasteland and not wake up? Maybe mind control. Maybe hypnotism or something.

[There's another sigh, and Isaac curls around the notebook, hesitating like he's at loathe to tell her this but doesn't know what else to do. Peter trusts her, Isaac trusts her. That day in the warehouse proved that. So, when he speaks again his voice is soft, barely audible.]

...maybe I'm losing control. With Scott here, things have been... just, not normal.

[She can't help thinking of Ellie walking off into the Outlands all those months ago, but there's so little chance of something like that happening again, that she's sure it's not the cause of Isaac's problem.]

We have telepaths here, they could probably check if anyone was messing around in your head.

[She doesn't think that's likely, but it might reassure Isaac to be able to cross it off the list.

What he says next makes her frown, but not because she's worried about him losing control.]

Isn't it supposed to work the other way? I thought having Scott around helped you.

[She can't see it, but Isaac is nodding slightly at her suggestion. Loathe as he is to invite someone into his head, it might put him at a bit of relief to see what's going on.]

Scott- I don't know. [And he curls a little tighter, thinking on it.] It does help me. It makes me stronger, makes us stronger. But he's not... there's something different about him right now. I'm sure it's just a side effect of becoming an alpha so recently, but- I don't know, there's so many factors that I don't know about, and the only person who does know about us is... well, we can't trust him.

[There's a pause, and then-]

He has control, but it's shaky. And if his control is shaky, then mine sort of feels that way too. It's like a chain reaction.

[She listens carefully, adding what he's said to the other bits and pieces she's picked up from Isaac, Peter, and Allison about how the different types of lycanthropy work.

She can't help but think that she prefers Peter.]

Is there any way you can get away from Scott's influence? Focus on Peter or something? You shouldn't have to lose your contorl just 'cause Scott's here.

[That is not a good thing to suggest. Especially with the newness of Scott and the shaky alliance that seems to stretch across their household right now.]

I'm with Scott. He's my alpha. Peter and I are just friends- he's not even in my pack. [The sudden hardness of his voice suggests that this isn't really open to negotiation.]

[Yeah, she had a feeling that might backfire.]

Hey.

[It's gentle, not a reprimand, and she's reminded again why she prefers talking face to face, since now is the point she'd put a hand on his arm for some kind of physical comfort.]

I'm not saying you should abandon Scott, but you mentioned anchors, right? Could you use Peter as your anchor? Scott'd still be your alpha, but if you need someone who can be steady....

[That's Peter.]

[There's a long pause at that, and Isaac doesn't know exactly how to respond. He'd brushed over the topic of anchors with her, but had never actually explained them, explained what they meant, or even... began to explain what his is.

Which, he shouldn't have to. It's an incredibly personal thing. But Peter is... Peter's not that kind of thing for him. He can't be.]

Scott isn't my anchor. [His voice is quiet again, lacking all of the earlier tension.] It's... more complicated than that.

I don't even know if the sleepwalking is because of him anyway.

[She didn't necessarily think that Scott was Isaac's anchor, just that while Scott's here, it might be better to have a counterbalance, and she thinks that's what Peter can be.]

Okay.

[But she'll let it go, because she's sure that if he wanted to explain, he would.]

Do you have any other ideas? Is there anything else that's changed recently?

I don't know.

[The change of subject is good though, and it makes him think.]

Not... really? Just the dreams, but I thought that was because of Scott too. I mean, if anything, I actually felt better than I have in the past. Control-wise, I mean. After going up to the moon, everything was all haywire in my head and it feels like it's settled a little recently- even with Scott here and pulling at me.

[That doesn't really shed any light on anything.]

D'you mind telling me what the dreams are about?

[God knows that dreams are personal, but if he's willing to talk about it, that might help her think of some explanations.]

[He frowns a little at that, before trying to figure out how best to describe them.]

Nothing prophetic or anything like that... I actually had sort of similar ones when I was first bit. But the one last night was, I don't know. I was going through the woods, hunting for something. I was- [A pause here, and the flush is almost audible.] -a wolf. Like Peter turns into.

[Isaac thinks about that for a moment.] I figured it was just me dreaming about his powers for some reason, but... I mean, I woke up a mile away.

[And she's quiet for a moment, just the sound of her breathing on the other end of the line, as she rolls that answer around in her head.

It's the mention of Peter that does it, the mention of his powers.]

What's your weapon, Isaac?

[He just sort of gives a halfhearted shrug.]

Same crap as last time. Augmenting werewolf stuff- when I was fighting with you, and I suddenly got better? I'm pretty sure that's it.

[There's a pause, and this question seems sort of out of the blue, but Isaac doesn't really put two and two together yet. He's actually sort of sulking.]

You know, some people got guns and stuff. That would have been cool.

Ellie used to be able to make herself invisible.

[Because she weaponized herself.

Not that it ever helped her sneak up on Steph, but details.]

What do you know about Peter's weapon?

[She's going somewhere with this, but she doesn't want to say too much about Peter's weapon if Isaac doesn't know already.]

I... dunno.

[Isaac has to think for a moment on that.]

It's his sixth sense or whatever, isn't it? [Isaac isn't quite sure how much he can really reference Peter's balls while he's talking to Steph.] The psychic impression thing.

[Okay, she figures if Isaac knows that, it's okay to talk about.]

You know how he had a calming effect on you and Scott? It should only work on you guys 'cause you're werewolves, but since he weaponized it, it works on me, too.

[And other people, but she's sure Isaac will get that.]

He didn't even realize until I pointed it out, so I'm just thinking-- you know, maybe it's another side effect of weaponizing the whole werewolf thing.

...oh. [Isaac supposes that makes sense. He and Peter had never really talked about weapons past the first explanation of the swadi-whatever.]

Wait, are we still talking about Peter?

[He purses his lips for a moment, before shaking his head.]

When I was first turned, I had dreams kind of like that- I was told it was normal. But the sleepwalking is new. I don't see how my powers would be trying to kill me with frostbite.

Back to you now.

[At least that last little bit, since technically she wouldn't call Peter's weapon his lycanthropy.]

They're probably not trying to kill you, it's just an unintended side effect. Our weapons respond to what we want, consciously or not.

And I wanted... to go running barefoot in the snow.

[This is just frustrating.]

It doesn't always make sense. Maybe it's something to do with, I dunno, freedom or escape or something like that?

[Running away, or just running.]

Maybe.

[But he doesn't seem entirely convinced.]

Thanks, though. For the encouragement.

S'okay.

[She doesn't feel like she helped much.]

If it's worrying you, you could change your weapon?

I didn't know you could do that. Maybe I can ask whoever's in charge?

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