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[Jovan appears on the screen, wearing old glasses that very few people on the network have seen before, and generally looking quite timid and sheepish.]

I...I think I might have made a mistake. I just wanted to re-enroll at LCU, but I had to go get my death certificate revoked first, and now there are reporters swarming my house constantly asking how I'm alive again.

Does...does anyone know what to do? I can't just leave to let my dad get swarmed by these people all the time, but I also need to get back to school and get my degree...

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[Well, this is a surprisingly non-terrible Jonvan here. Maybe this is his doppelgänger.]

Have you considered telling them it's the doing of... whatever gives Numbered their powers?

[He shakes his head meekly.] I didn't want to get wrapped up in all the Numbered media. I just want to go to school and help my dad.

You may not have much of a choice there...

[He sighs.]

That was always what the real Jovan did--all the fancy magic Numbered trick show stuff. I just want to do what I was doing before all this--mess.

[Stefan inwardly groans. Just how much damage control is he going to have to do this month?]

So uh, I don't have much precedent for this, but how many people know? Roughly? [He is going to be so PISSED if one of his churches call for the Rapture, Jovan.]

That I'm alive? Um...probably most of the local news outlets, by now. There's been a pretty big swarm of people outside our house all day.

Edited 2015-03-26 07:35 (UTC)

[He pauses for a few seconds--] I think I could help you with that. Hang on, could you send me your address?

My...address? Uh, right, sure, hang on.

[He makes the message private, and then speaks his address to Stefan.]

...What are you going to do?

[Stefan immediately plugs the address into his GPS. With his super-speed, he can run there faster than he can drive...]

I'm gonna talk to them. I've been told I'm pretty persuasive. [Amending, his tone softening:] It'll be fine. I'm pretty big in the religious community here.

Really? I-I hope so, because this crowd is getting a little unruly...

I hope so too.

[He hangs up, going ahead and making his way to Jovan's house. The crowd is unruly - and he's not even going to bother with those cultists, but the reporters? The reporters have made it onto his list. In the blink of an eye, he moves the cameras away from Jovan's house as he tries to stare into their eyes and "persuade" them into discovering a bigger and better news story.

It takes him a few minutes, but slowly and surely, the crowd's starting to quiet down as various news outlets get "breaking updates" on the misinformation that must've spread.]

[Jovan is watching from inside the house behind the curtains, silent and impressed. If Stefan looks closely, he might even spot him staring in awe. He's trying to keep hidden from the remaining cultists, but not doing a very good job of it.]

[It takes him a bit longer than he'd like to convince the last reporter - mainly because she's flirting with him (gross). Once they're taken care of, he sighs and turns towards the door.

He doesn't even know how to deal with the cultists, but he can see Jovan from the curtain, so he mouths:] You're welcome.

[Hopefully the kid won't ask for an explanation, because Stefan doesn't think he can actually give one.]

[Jovan almost runs out the door to thank him when he realizes how absolutely foolish and counterproductive that would be. So instead, a few minutes later, he settles for sending him another network message.]

Thanks. I really appreciate it.

...how did you manage to get them all to leave like that?

Edited (WOW I SURE DID FUCK THAT UP) 2015-04-08 20:19 (UTC)

I appealed to them and their reporters' desire for the truth. That's all.

Though I don't know what news story they'll use to replace yours. Different stations'll go with different answers, so keep your eyes open.

Alright, I'll be sure. I'll try and keep them from running anything too nasty, if I can...but I'm not really sure what I can do about any of this. I'm just some kid, I haven't got any ties to journalism or...anything else for this sort of thing.

Tell them the truth. Not all reporters are willing to report something absolutely absurd.

I kind of wish being legally dead were the only reason I can't go to college, though. It's just been one thing after another... the mafia, then the military, then almost getting killed, and now things are starting to get crazy again...

They're still going to end up printing something, though, aren't they...

I-I suppose that's the good thing about being immortal, though. If I die, it doesn't change much--I can still go home and go back to school and all. Even if it's difficult.

...I'm--I'm sorry about everything going on for you, though. [He ends it on a slightly higher tone, as if he's going to continue speaking, but then doesn't. Oh god. Ooohhhhh god. He always forgets how difficult it is to people until he's actually doing it.]

[Among the reporters outside the house, there's a number of cultists who demand to see their new messias. Yes. Those cultists. As time passes by they start to perform purification rituals around the house. All of this may or may not bring a lot of Vermini along.]

[Jovan has just been camping out in the house the whole time trying to keep his dad calm through this whirlwind of insanity. If he ignores the cultists, maybe they'll go away.

Once they start performing rituals, though, he realizes he's screwed. Especially when he notices a few Vermini popping up here and there around the edges of the group.

He bursts through the front door. This is getting too far.]

What--what are you all doing here?

Edited 2015-03-27 07:24 (UTC)

Master Jovan!

[They stop their chanting and crowd around him, every single one of them trying to touch Jovan.]

[He ducks and cowers.]

Oh--oh my god, why! Why is this--don't do this to me, please!

Master Jovan, you are the first! [cries one of them while they crowd even closer, and the others take up the chant:] The first to come, the first to return, the first to go the way before us, the first, the first of the risen!

[Oh god this is all so alarming. Jovan throws his arms up in the air as a gesture for mercy.]

I don't--I swear I didn't--I just wanted to go back to school!

He wants to go back to school. [One of the repeats, and almost immediately a fight breaks out between them.]

We should support him!

No, they will tarnish his soul, he should not go there!

It's the order of things in this world, and he follows them!

Out of respect!

He shouldn't! Yes he should!

[If there is a wish to run away, he should do that now because they're currently preoccupied with fighting.]

[With a squeak that sounded suspiciously like crying, Jovan retreats into the house. He regrets every decision he has made in his life, including the dying.]

Other than being a Numbered, I don't think there's any other explanation. I'm not sure if that would really decrease the media attention that much though.

I thought it would increase it... especially here in Locke.

But I don't know, if I don't say I'm Numbered...people might think I'm Jesus. That's probably even worse.

That would probably be worse. At least you'd be part of a known weirdness.

...You have a good point. Who knows what they'd do to Jesus.

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