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[affectioning]

You don't think I'm biting off more than I can chew? [ A glare. Please don't laugh. He's heard them all. Call him Rover. Really. ] I haven't been here a week and I'm already researching what we need for the new clinic? I just got here. It hasn't even sunk in yet. Stiles is still recovering. Is now really the time to try and head an animal clinic?

Do you think I can actually do it? If you haven't noticed, I never went to veterinary school. Because I'm seventeen.

It's not that I don't want to help. I just don't want to do more harm than good. I want to help.

If you're going to go through with this, then make sure I do my research. If I'm doing this, I'm doing it right.

At least it'll distract me from never seeing my mom again. Or Allison. Or, seeing how everything has gone to crap.

On second thought, can you just send me back. My friends need me and I don't know if I buy this "time stopping" thing.

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[garou]

You're good at that. Helping.

[affectioning]

I try to be. I'm not always.

[ He couldn't help Boyd. Or, the Sheriff. Or, any of the darach's victims. He tried. That's all he feels like he does. He tries. He learns. He betters himself. But, to what end. ]

They don't have anything there like that. Just an animal shelter.

[garou]

It's still something. That's what you did before, right? With Deaton?

[affectioning]

Yeah. And I've been there alone before. But, I've never put one together. I'm trying to make a list of everything I need and I can't remember everything. Things are slipping away. Things I knew like the back of my hand. [ Where everything goes. Where everything is. But, this is Scott and Derek is here so he's switching modes. He's on the edge - canon mixing in with his worrying about this clinic - so he's switching gears. ] Cora's going to be okay.

[garou]

[ Derek opens his mouth and then closes it again, nodding. ] Thank you.

[studmuffin]

I'm totally done recovering. [ In case you were, y'know, insulting his manly virtue. ]

And dude, you don't actually have to do anything you don't want to, right? Because like, a handful of people have pets sure. But some people even have dragons so maybe you shouldn't. Could you even wolf-out a dragon into being y'know, calm.

[affectioning]

And so will the sheriff.

[affectioning]

... Dragons? There are dragons?

[studmuffin]

The Mundane's girl - she had a dragon with Mae. They were totally adopting it. Not sure what happened to it though.

[affectioning]

Did it set anything on fire? You'd probably know if that'd happened...

[studmuffin]

Nah, they put it in the bath.

[affectioning]

Maybe I could wolf out a dragon. Should I ask Derek?

[studmuffin]

Can I be there when you do?

[ 8DDDDDDD ]

[affectioning]

Aren't dragons dangerous?

[garou]

[ He swallows at that. ] Yeah.

[affectioning]

If I could, I'd get you and Stiles out of the city. I get everyone out.

[garou]

...That is a terrible idea, on multiple levels. [ Not the Derek in question, but man. ]

[garou]

I'm not sure I'd want to go back, if I were there.

[affectioning]

We can calm wild animals down. With our howl. You don't think the same could be said for dragons? I'd be careful...

[affectioning]

You don't even know about Cora, yet. About Boyd. I don't even know about Boyd... I don't know. Could it be better that way? I couldn't save Boyd...

[garou]

There probably wasn't anything you could do. [ It's blunt. ] Boyd's death is my responsibility, not yours.

[studmuffin]

But also cool.

[ You missed Stiles and his How To Train Your Dragon jokes. ]

[garou]

Dragons aren't the same as a wolf or dog, Scott. They're, usually, sentient beings.

/threadjacks for justice

[studmuffin]

Or the best idea.

[affectioning]

No. It's not. It's on the Alphas. Not you.