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[video via mirror] IT BEGINS.

[You know what this network was missing? A grown man in an incredibly frilly cravat and magenta suit, crying into a video feed.

But not any more. You're welcome, network.]

I'm--oh my god, I-- [sigh] Okay. So, uh.

S...somehow I-I ended up in this guy. I don't even know who it is! A-and now I don't know how to get out! I'm stuck! This is--this--[he breathes in deep to try and calm down, running a hand through the not-his hair and messing it up.] I don't even know where to begin, it's just.

I don't want to be stuck inside--whoever this is forever! I know it's unlikely, but...does anyone know how to fix this? A-at all? Maybe?

[The video turns off, but then it turns back on for part two of this video, recorded a few minutes after part 1. He looks and sounds a tad calmer.]

Oh, and, um--this is Danny, by the way. Yeah.

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Bumped into him... So where did you go?

I...I don't know. I didn't see me--or, well, my...body, I guess. I didn't see my body afterwards, even though I was standing there right next to him when it happened!

So is this like passing through something and getting stuck, only it... works differently with people? ...ugh. [he's imagining Danny half-fused into this big frilly guy, both of them freaking out. Actually-] Wait, what about him? Is he there... mentally? Can he hear this?

[Julien's going with voice.]

...Uhhhh.

[Danny pauses and takes several minutes to reflect on this possibility. He reaches deep inside himself and tries to think, tries to embrace the flamboyantly dressed stranger inside of him (or more accurately, outside of him).]

I don't think so? I-I don't know what it would be like if he was, uh, here, but. I don't think so? It--really, it just feels the same as I normally do, I just...look and sound different, I guess.

[slowly, almost meditatively] That is creepy. [more normally] But, you know that already.

[pause. Julien closes down his phone and writes his number on a wall in skin oil, to get a larger view.]

I want to try something. No nasty surprises, promise! It's just, I have weird eyes and I can see a lot of little twitches people make. A lot of the time something shows, just for part of a second. [he can usually tell when someone's lying.] If he's there at all...

So - this is a mirror right? And I'm only sending voice, so - Look right into it at this poor bastard. Give it a second.

And tell me: who are you?

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Uhh...o-okay?

[He stares into the mirror, very intently back into his own (not actually his own) eyes.]

Right. I'm D--

[Before he can get any further, his arm flies up and smudges the number on the mirror. The video cuts out. When he connects again seconds later, it's in text. For some reason, it doesn't feel right to go back to video immediately.]

Sorry, I don't know what just happened. That was...really weird. Just hold on a bit, let me try it again.

[The feeling seems to have passed because he doesn't have any problems going to video any more. And this time, he stares straight at not-him in the mirror.]

I'm Danny Fenton.

...is that what you needed?

[verrrrry interesting]

I think so. I guess so, this isn't something-

[focus]

...well, someone else is there. That or... you or he is clearly pretty prone to uh spasms.

Does he have a wallet? ID?

...a wallet. I can't believe I didn't--let me check, uh...

[He rummages around in his pant pockets and pulls out a wallet.]

Here it is! Uhh... [He opens it up and pulls out a driver's license.] This is...Miles Edgeworth.

...I know that name. He's numbers club - a lawyer. I think.

[Julien is very good with names and details like that, though he didn't talk to the guy he saw that post.]

Better than someone random, I guess... If he is uh conscious, um, sorry, we're working on this.

Danny, do you have a usual way for getting out of things you're stuck in, or like... does it just happen?

H-He's actually someone on the network? I...don't know if that makes it better or worse.

I kind of do, I guess? Sometimes it's easy to do and sometimes it's really hard... and I've never had to get out of something like this. But, uh, let me try.

[He scrunches up his face, focuses, and tries with all his might to get out. It's just like that bathroom stall, right?

Apparently, it is not like that at all.]

U-uh.

Maybe better. It means when you get out of him if he remembers any of this he'll not spread it around. I hope.

[It's fortunate that Julien can't laugh involuntarily anymore, he's getting to a point where this is simultaneously terrible and inappropriately funny.]

Ah. Nothing?

I wish I knew more about... I don't know, astral projection and stuff. Maybe that would work? We're counting this as like... phasing all the way into this Edgeworth guy and not... [absorbing him. hmm, maybe shouldn't say that.]

M...maybe? I don't know what this is, if it's just me being like...completely phased into him, or if it's like astral projection or something and my body's like--asleep in a cellar somewhere controlling him from a distance.

[He puts a touch more confidence in his voice than he actually feels.]

You'll figure it out. If... huh. Can you control the phasing at all these days? Can you phase him through anything? I've been assuming you can't.

I don't think so, let me try...

[And try he does, to no avail.]

Yeah...okay, no. I can't do it like this. But I'm--well, I thought I was getting better about the phasing. I still couldn't keep it from happening accidentally, but I could mostly do it on purpose just fine! But, well, after I went to the Tuning Towers, it got a lot worse again...

[His tone is mild, friendly, concerned but steady. Like he's got this. ...He doesn't got this.]

Those things make everything worse, I swear.

Anyway, that does seem to imply that you can get out again somehow. Otherwise if the other you phased into someone he'd just be stuck as them always and lose all his abilities, right?

I...maybe? I don't actually really remember much about me from before. I definitely don't remember ever using any abilities, at least.

All of this is mostly...completely new.

Some people get more in the way of memories than others. It's just like that, I don't know why! But general consensus is that everyone's getting these things from one person each.

...so how does that work if one person's inside of another person?

I think it's like if you're... hitchhiking, or something. The other you and the other him are still distinct.

...Of course, don't take me as gospel, I'm just speculating here. Ahaha.

[maybe Danny can get out by killing this hapless lawyer.

Julien's not going to say that though.]

I guess. I just--it'd be great if I could just figure out what I have to do to get back to being me again.

It's getting late, and I have to get home before my parents start trying to hack into NSA databases to find out where I am.

...Plus, I have school tomorrow, and I don't think anyone wants to see a grown man sitting in a 10th grade English class.

Yeah...

Do you think if they heard your voice saying you're at a friend's house or something that might work? At least for the night?

I have a weird voice, I can impersonate voice pretty well.

I...I guess so, yeah. You think you could really do that?

[It's pitch-perfect. Julien tries to keep to the cadences and nervous-to-frantic edge he usually hears from Danny, but he thinks he might be overdoing it.]

Right! Of course, it's only a uh stopgap measure, I don't exactly know what you'd say in any given situation, haha, so really an answering machine or something would be better than a phone conversation. You know? Yeah.

[and back to normal]

How's that?

Holy crap. That's actually kinda creepy.

[HE SAYS, WHILE POSSESSING SOMEONE]

But yeah, if you could call my house and tell them I'll be staying over at Julie's tonight, that would be really great. The phone number is 609-555-1212, and when they ask if you've finished all your homework, make sure you say yes, except for question 4a on the trig homework.

I'll try and get this fixed before I actually have to find somewhere to stay tonight, but a cover would make things easier.

I know!

Okay. I can take that pressure off, anyway. They have caller ID? Eh, I can ask to use a phone at a shop or something... Also, are they paranoid enough about voice mimics or something to have like a secret question, or ask things only you would know?

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