recolle | Closed: Matthews/Nelson Family meeting

WHO:Derek Matthews, Amanda Matthews, Noni Sorensen-Matthews, Foggy Nelson, Natalie Nelson
WHERE: Derek's apartment in Tisse
WHEN: Wednesday evening, November 8, 2017
WHAT: Matthews/Nelson Family Meeting
WARNINGS: None

Since Derek got home from work, he has been prepping for his family to arrive at his apartment. He dug out his notebook he had taken notes in September and placed it on the coffee table. His roommate had already left to do something that evening, so he had the whole apartment to himself.

By the time he is ready, he has a tub of chocolate ice cream in the fridge, a two litre bottle of root beer in the fridge, and pan of brownies cooling on top of the stove. Blaise is perched on top of his cat tree staring at Derek.

"Be nice Blaise, this is a very important family meeting."

By the time people arrive, Blaise is lazily lounging at the top of his tree where he can see everything. Bronte is in Derek's room, flying in and out of the window, enjoying what ever rodents he has found for his dinner.

A. Serious Talk

Derek stands in front of the family and takes a breath and tries to organize his thoughts.

"So, the reason I asked you guy to come here tonight, is because all four of you recently got the Retrospec app. I've been on the app for the past two months, so I know some things about it. I'm willing to answer any of your questions, but I still don't know everything."

Derek picks up his notebook.

"I do have a notebook with some notes I took at a police meeting back during the beginning of September. It wasn't an official police meeting, more of just the cops and those associate with the police department who have the app were there. I haven't read through them lately, so I don't remember what is all in there. But needless to say a lot of stuff has been going on. I would have written more, but last month... well, I was preoccupied."

Derek pauses because he's not sure if he wants to share, but he does want his family to know the seriousness of the situation. Besides, he did just get another memory back today.

"I've also gotten memories of my 'other self', so if you want to ask about him... I won't stop you."

Derek now waits for his family to start asking questions.

B. Family Hangout

Various family chit chat.

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They can talk about the end of the world, there is nothing that will come between Foggy and the brownies Derek baked. Thankfully he has the table manners not to speak up with his mouth full. Instead he dutifully raises his hand when a question comes to mind during the chewing process.

"How do we know when we get a memory? The way people describe them they sound like they're just really elaborate dreams."

[Derek looks over at Foggy. He had to ask an uncomfortable question huh? Sighing, Derek sits in his recliner.]

"Bloody hell, where to begin."

[He sees his notebook on the table.]

The first one was at the unofficial police meeting. It kind of just hit me, like it came out of nowhere. My first memory though, was the most different compared to the rest of the ones I have.

[Derek pauses to calm himself down. Even though he now knows what he saw, it still creeps his out.]

The other me was on a train and he saw a creepy, dark hooded figure. It's called a dementor and they guard a prison called Azkaban. He was terrified of it and was running away from it. These beings have the ability to make the air around you feel cold and when it is near you feel like every happy feeling is sucked out of you. And when I got my memory back, that was exactly how I felt, cold and completely miserable. It took me a while to shake it off. Though, if I had known at the time that eating chocolate would have helped, I would have done that.

[Derek is not sure if he has actually answered Foggy's question, he has more of just rambled.]

"That's some great horror movie material. Nazgul on the Orient Express or some crazy story like that. That was memory number one for you. How many have you had so far? Is this going to be happening several times a day or just every once and a while?" Foggy asks. He has kids to teach. He wants to avoid interrupting class.

[Derek frowns. He honestly can't remember off the top of his head.]

Uh... give me a sec.

[Derek walks to the back of his apartment and into his room. He opens a drawer in his bedside table and pulls out another notebook, his memory notebook. Walking back into the living room he starts to speak.]

This is my memory notebook. I've been writing down the memories I've recieved. Not all of them are memories though, some are just bits of information.

[Derek flips it open and looks at the last page.]

According to this, I've gotten twelve.

[He starts flipping through the pages again.]

I had four in September, seven in October, and one so far this month. I don't really see a pattern to when the come. Sometimes I get multiple a day it seems.

Totally random then? They just pop up out of the blue? They don't last super long do they? I don't think I can claim that five minutes of staring into space during class was just a brain fart.

[Derek shrugs.]

I guess? There is definitely no warning and I don't know how long they last. I kind of loose track of time when they happen. They haven't lasted too long for me. And the info ones, the ones where I just get random knowledge, is really quick. It's like, BAM, I realize I suddenly know something. But that is just my experience, it could be different for you.

A.
"Mn, no questions. Someone else can go first." Amanda is flippant. She's reclining on the couch, one leg over the other, bouncing her foot idly. Despite their kinda-sorta argument several days prior, she seems to have fallen back into the same careless attitude. Honestly it's impressive she paid attention at all.

B.
Who is here to chitchat when you can steal brownies? That's it, that's the prompt, Amanda is going to take all these brownies.

[Derek stares at Amanda for a moment before he speaks.]

Seriously? No questions at all?

Might as well say what you want to instead of baiting me for questions. [ She waves a hand dismissively. ]

Fine.

[Derek picks up his notebook from the table and tosses it at Amanda and then points to it.]

Read it.

Ugh, whatever. Only if you drop that accent already. [ She picks up the book, and... skims it. Well, she makes an honest effort to read it, but she makes it about two paragraphs in before she stares skipping lines and generally glazing over the words. ]

Hm. Interesting. Don't care. [ Then she tosses it aside.

Yes, she's partially doing it for a reaction. ]

[Derek rolls his eyes at Amanda.]

You didn't even read it. And for another thing, I can't drop the accent, because this is my accent now. You can thank Retrospec that your favorite brother sound English, I've had it since the beginning of the month.

This kind of thing happens you know, suddenly you start changing. It could be the way you speak, you loose body parts, or you may gain some.

[Derek smirks.]

How would you feel about a tail? Then you would have to alter all of your wardrobe.

[ Correction: ] I read some of it.

And an accent isn't really the same thing as a tail, you can't scare me. I'm not a little kid anymore... [ Her tone gets more sly] And who says you're my favorite brother? That's a pretty tall order, you know.

[Derek rolls his eyes at Amanda.]

Accent, tail, it's still a noticeable change. And of course I'm your favorite brother, I practically RAISED you. I was there for your first steps, when you transitioned to solid foods, you're first day of school...

[Derek smirks at Amanda.]

I know I'm your favorite, you just don't want to admit it.

All the brownies? Not on Foggy's watch. Sure he has questions but he's a teacher. He's a champion multitasker. So long as his mouth is clear by the next time he talks he can eat a number of those brownies before Amanda can swipe them all.

Somewhere in the middle of Derek's lecture on Retrospec their hands crash into each other over the plate of brownies. Foggy's eyes dart over to Amanda. He knows his little cousin. She won't hesitate so he can't either if he wants more. Foggy rushes to grab another and holds it in his mouth. Then his hand shoots forward to grab another to make sure Amanda can't take everything left.

"Hey, what the hell!" Of course, Amanda is fast, but she's still taken by surprise by Foggy's adamant attempts at brownie-stealing. She gets more vicious in turn, and instead swipes the whole plate to make her get away. Foggy might have his hands full, but Amanda has the rest!

"These are mine now."

And, while Foggy is great at multitasking - something Amanda is not - she's an athlete, so she puts her skills to put some distance between her older cousin, all without tipping her chocolate rewards onto the floor.

"Hey that's cheating!" Foggy ditches his manners and calls after her with brownie still in one cheek. He chews it quickly and scoots across the couch after her. "C'mon it's no fun if you abscond with the plate. You've gotta carry them via mouth and hand."

The second brownie gets shoved into his mouth.

Closed: Matthews/Nelson Family meeting

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