( colligo ¬ get collected ) → network.

You know, the welcoming committee should learn to be more...welcoming. I really wanted to hang out in a library for about five hours before getting kicked out by giant statues. You should get working on that faceless collecting god. Or rather...Morgan Freeman. Well, it makes sense. With Batman and all. Hey, does this mean I can get a cool ride too?

I can be Batman. [ a laugh ] From what I read I would also like to put in a request while I'm here. No musicals. I don't sing.

Well to everyone here, I'm Dean Weston. I'd say I don't plan on staying here for long but I really doubt I have a choice in this. Might as well find a bar and settle down for now.

Right. Waking up as a skeleton in a library. That's new. Getting shuffled out by a pair of tin cans and tossed out naked in the street. Also new. Not having a drink, clothes, or a cigar. That's not, and it's a problem.

Last time this happened..well, lets avoid that. Answers. I'd like them. If things thing works like it looks like it does, the rest of you would really rather likely me to have them to, and clothes, and a smoke, and a drink.

Well, now. Isn't this a cozy little set-up that you've got going on here? I'm almost insulted I've been kept out of the loop for so long.

Jack! Meri! I sawed a clown! Him outside. Him waved at me! I think him wants me to go outside and play! Yous can come too!

[There's the sound of a baby screaming in the background and a lot of shuffling around; Meri's voice is echoing slightly and a bit hard to understand through her tears.]

DADDY! MOMMY! SOMEBODY HELP!!! [a shuddering breath]

I din't mean to, honest! I was just trying to put Gabbi in the big bin where the drink cans go so's somebody else could have a baby [there's the banging of something on metal and the baby's screams grow sharper] and then there was all these zombies and I tried t'get her back and I did but then one bit her and now we're in the big trash can and they're banging lots and lots and [she starts crying louder]

She's hurt and bleeding and [Meri shrieks, there's the sound of inhuman moaning, some metal slamming against metal, and the moaning becomes muffled once more as she managed to get the trash can lid shut again. This time when she speaks, Meri is clearly talking to her sister and not directly into the PDA, worry heavy in her tone.]

I'm sorry, Gabbi. Please be okay...

Claire?

I found your tiny human in my TARDIS. Did you misplace her?

Because she's here. In my TARDIS. She's fine. Don't worry. She quite likes it here. She also insists that 'the girl child' is unpleasant. Her words, not mine. I'll bring her back.

Also, she was quite insistent that she wants to be called Captain Gabi the Fearless. Apparently, she's a pirate. Or will be, once she masters walking.

I just thought you should know.

[ooc: This is posted a touch early as I'm not sure I'll be around for most of tomorrow until the evening, and this is meant to take place around 10AM or so.]

(For a second or two, there's nothing but the sound of a baby crying. Then Meri can be heard speaking, her tone worried and slightly muffled. In the background, there's a banging sound as though someone is pounding on a door.)

Shh, Gabbi, it'll be okay, you'll see.

(There's a bit of shuffling around, Gabbi's crying becomes a bit less audible and Meri's voice louder as she picks back up the PDA and starts speaking into it.)

Daddy? Daddy, I tried t'call just like you showed me but the phone won't work right and-

(The banging gets louder. Meri raises her voice, both out of fear as well as to be heard over the noise.)

Daddy, mommy sent me and Gabbi and Chomper in here and said t'call and there's these little monsters and they 'lectrotued mommy and the lights all went off and now they're trying to get into the bathroom where me and Chomper and Gabbi are. (She draws in a big breath; there's the sound of wood cracking.)

Daddy, you gots to come home RIGHT NOW cause I only gots four shots and there's least seven of them and-

(The door splinters, there's a clatter as the PDA is dropped followed by an inhuman growl of sorts and a snarl from a baby-sized velociraptor. Then two shots from a shotgun echo over the PDA with Meri's voice, a bit distantly, shouting for something to 'Go on, get OUT of here!')

((OOC: This voice post is brought to you by the fact that Claire and Dean were dressed as a nun and priest last night. Please note that they were not dressed that way at the Halloween party but instead changed into those particular costumes when they came home later... to celebrate their anniversary. >.>))

[There's a moment of silence then you can hear the muffled sound of a little boy's voice in the background. A little girl's voice is heard next, slightly louder and a combination of worried, frustrated, and very stern.]

I can do it, Jack! Gimme!

[There's some shuffling around before Meri's voice is suddenly clear; this time she's speaking into the PDA.]

H-Hello? Can somebody hear us?

[There's some more shuffling, with Meri hissing at Jack to 'Gimme' again, then a loud thud that sounds suspiciously like Jack being shoved to the ground if Meri still maintaining ownership of the PDA a moment later is any indication. This time she's doing her best to sound as grown-up as possible but it's obvious she's still very worried and a little afraid.]

This is Meri Winchester. Can somebody come pick up me and Jack and Chomper, please? Mommy and daddy are acting real funny. Mommy keeps talking 'bout how she can't have kids cause she's a Bride of Jesus and daddy keeps yelling something 'bout Satan tempting him and BOTH of them keep talking 'bout how Chomper can't really be real since God made the world in seven days and made man but not dinosaurs. Only I know Chomper's real and Jack knows Chomper's real and mommy and daddy don't like us calling them mommy and daddy either and... and...

[She pauses to draw in a breath then finally just sighs heavily.]

So if anybody can hear us and can come get us, we're in my bedroom with the door locked and we gots mommy's phone. Thank you very much.

[A bit of shuffling as she pulls the PDA away from her, clearly thinking it's been turned off as she talks to Jack again.]

See? I told you I could do it! Somebody'll come. Uncle Sam or Auntie Ruby or Uncle Lyle or Auntie Elle or Uncle Cas or Uncle Gabe or somebody. You'll see.

I have not been such a young age in many millenia. It was interesting. Although being slightly scared of Max wasn't very fun, even if he did realize it was still me somehow.

Daddy are you coming home soon cause Chomper got into me and Jack's super secret candy bag and got sick and now mommy's got that little line in her forehead she gets when she's mad for really real and THEN Jack called me a stinky stink-head so I pushed him and he fell down into mommy's work papers and NOW we can't come out our rooms til you come home so are you coming home soon cause I wanna show you the picture I drew of the (a pause, as she pronounces the next work very carefully to ensure she says it correctly) Im-pal-a.

Am I right in thinking we've all been kidnapped?

Why would anyone bother with me?

Hello, World! It's a boy! I finally gots my own machine! Daddy says I has to be careful with it, cause it might break. I already dropped it once and it still works!