[Video, Sunday afternoon]

[catchingflies]

[There's a kind of nervous-looking Toad on the network today. He's obviously flustered by something or another, but knowing him, that could be anything from Outer Authorities to an unplanned encounter with a bar of soap.]

Yo, guys! Where the heck are ya? I've been lookin' everywhere for you guys! Edmund's takin' people outa town, I wanna get goin' and you three'd better come along, a'right?

[Yeah, so this is wide-open to everybody. It's not really all that clear who he's talking to, but probably the people he's actually talking to can guess he means them. Probably. Maybe? He hopes?]

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Re: [Audio back, this time]

[cantcatchme]

And I'm handling it!

[One gets the impression that he's holding the communicator at a distance and grimacing at the noise.]

Cool it. Go on your little camping trip or whatever. I don't care.

[catchingflies]

Yeah, like you handle everything else.

[He sounds a bit less panicked, though, and a bit more annoyed. Maybe a tiny bit sulky, actually, at being shut out so thoroughly.]

So what happened? I mean... you really did the whole-- shaking and falling down thing?

[cantcatchme]

[Some day, Todd might realize that the whole 'being a dick' thing is a defense mechanism, and that Pietro actually saw him as a friend. As much as he did anybody. Because he was actually feeling a little guilty. Maybe it was just the sick.]

Only because Blue Boy there botched a teleport!

[That's his story and he's sticking to it. Even if he's had a couple smaller episodes since.]

[catchingflies]

[That someday isn't now, unfortunately.]

That doesn't mean it ain't bad! I'm comin' to see you guys. An' you can't stop me, so don't even try.

[This is Todd having a backbone. Sort of.]

[cantcatchme]

And what'll getting sick yourself prove, you idiot?

[He chokes and breaks into a coughing fit for a long moment.]

Just go do the quarantine thing. Whatever happens to me happens.

[Because yeah, he is afraid that he won't make it out of this.]

[catchingflies]

Shut up! You're gonna be fine.

[He doesn't say anything to the part about not coming. Because he totally is and there's nothing Pietro can do about it. He's actually tugging his shoes back on right now.]

[cantcatchme]

There's no talking to you. Geez, fine, get yourself sick!

[catchingflies]

I will!

[Wait. That's kind of not what he meant.]

No, I won't. I ain't got sick yet, I bet I'm just fine. Never been sick since I was, like, four or somethin'.

[cantcatchme]

How'd you know? You're already green and spit up weird shit.

[Another coughing fit, or he might've kept going. And yeah, Pietro swearing? Doesn't happen much. If ever.]

[catchingflies]

Yeah, and you're already a spaz, so how do you know you had a seizure?

[Obviously, he doesn't expect a response.]

I'll be there as soon as I find the place.

[cantcatchme]

Forgive me if there aren't refreshments when you get here.

[And yeah, Pietro's putting the communicator away. Stupid Toad.]