Ninteenth Unused Utility Belt | Video, backdated to after the breach ends (cw: fire damage)

[hellofist]

[The feed comes on to show Cass... well, she kind of looks like crap. But more than that, behind her her room, her real room on the Barge, seems to be confused about what it wants to be. In some places it's a replication of what Merlin's room looks like - there's his bed in one corner, a large wooden table with a red rose in a pot, for example.

Other parts are what the inside of a burned down building would look like. There's smoke damage, blackened walls, the remains of a dresser. The big computer is halfway melted and warped, the screen cracked and beyond repair. Looks like the Barge couldn't recreate what home is for Cass because she doesn't even know herself anymore.]

I'm back.

[There's not... that much to say after that, really. She's back, yay, no she doesn't want to talk about it.]

It was... about a week? I think. Learned... lots of things. About me, about... what I'm for. Why I... was made. It's funny, how you can... be so sure, who you are, but be... completely wrong.

Anyway. Back.


[Private to Merlin]
Are you... working? Or in room?


[Private to Dean, Chris, and Cassel, sent separately]
Have... to give you something. Can I come over?


[Private to Stephanie]
I understand, now. Why... I'm not Batgirl. Why you are. I didn't really, before. But... I'm glad you are.


[Private to Kon]
[After far too long passes with no answer to Steph, Kon gets a slightly panicked message from Cass.]

Where is Stephanie?


[Private to Dick Grayson and Tim Drake]
I know... that you won't see this. You can't. I just miss you. I shouldn't, but I wish... you were here.

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[patheticvillain]

[His voice is a strange mess, so messy he won't even attempt video because he doesn't know what his body would be saying to her now. He's angry, sad, confused, so confused after breach, but - he's happy, too, desperately happy to hear her voice. The happiness brings the grief he felt at her absence to clear light for the first time.]

[Cass.]

Yeah. If you want.

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[tolaywaste]

[Alex's face is screwed up, pleased to see her but concerned with what's behind her, what she's saying.]

You . . . want to talk?

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[bodilesswarrior]

Oh thank God. [The words are a breathless rush, and her eyes are bright.]

I - that's your room?

[Private]

[mistconduct]

[On a similar line with Cassel, Chris has slunk back to his room after the breach to mull over the confusing thoughts in his head. Still, Cass is important, and he's relieved as hell to see her back]

Jesus, Cass, you know you don't have to ask by now. Come on, come over.

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[surfaceshine]

[Dean has no idea what his emotions are doing right now; he's relieved and excited to see Cass again, but the state of her, the distance he can hear in her voice and see in her face is worrisome, almost as much as her being here again at all. No one comes here because their lives are going fantastic.

He's smiling, but it's an uncharacteristically complicated one, pleased and concerned, his voice warm.]

'Course, sweetheart. You don't have to ask - or I can come to you.

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[takeyouapart]

Cass -

I'm in my room.

[He'd say he'll come to her but honestly he doesn't want her in that mess of a cabin any longer than she has to be.]

[youwillgotohell]

[Hey she knows a feel like that, but she's also pretty good at knowing when people don't want to talk about things.]

What's happened to your room? [Her body says it, even if she doesn't: she's glad Cass is back.]

[inexactitude]

You're back! [What is up with your room. Seriously though.]

We were like a day away from sending a search party. [She doesn't know how to ask if everything's okay, given they're not super close, but she will worm her way there.]

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[notdreaming]

[ This is kind of a disturbing thing to see when you've just arrived and not gotten used to the weirdness of the barge. Though from her own history she's hesitant to ask about it. Although, her own room was in perfect condition, as though Argo had never been blown from the surface of the planet into the orbit of a dying star. ]

What, um...

[ Nope she is not quite comfortable asking. ]

Where did you go?

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[fridgetothefire]

[Softly.]

Why somebody else made you doesn't need to have anything to do with what you're for.

[silvestris]

Welcome back. I almost thought there'd be a parade ready for you.

[Private]

[wedonot]

I completely understand if the answer is no, but if you want to talk, you know I'm more than happy to listen.

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[velocette]

About every seven years you've pretty much got a new body you're in, and your brain never stops developing. You think you get to a point where you're who you are, but then you age and the world's different again.

So who do you like better? Person you were, or the person you came back as?

Private.

[an_abomination]

[Kon came across her entry a good hour ago, but he needed more time to decide what he wanted to say to her.]

Hey, Cass. Welcome back! We all missed you a lot. Where are you? [Hopes that's not her room...]

[darknessb4me]

Made?

[strangehistorian]

Oh, hello! I know some people who will be very happy to see you again! Welcome back.