hey old friend, whadaya say old friend

[beanchaointe]

[Stiles has told Lydia several times that she doesn't need to stay in Mystic Falls. She's refusing to listen. Things are starting to get worse here, and whatever impending storm is coming is going to be here soon. She puts herself out and about in town when she can, trying to see if she can catch something that might give her a clearer idea of what's going to happen.

What she isn't expecting, is to run into a familiar face.

She's having another text argument with Stiles about her current life choices when she catches a familiar set of cheek bones out of the corner of her eye. She turns towards them, eyes narrowing before she asks:]

Jackson?

Comments

[unforgivably]

( Might be old enough rules out immortals. While he sends the waitress over for a nice lunch on the house, he starts a group text with Caroline, Stefan, Elena, Alaric, whichever Winchester brother is first on his contact list (Dean), Tyler and - sigh - Katherine. )

Two new players are on the board. A banshee and a werewolf. Say they're here to stop whatever 'bad' thing might happen. The banshee name-dropped Monroe.

1/??? idk we're gonna see where this goes

[vampireboulevard]

[Caroline's first reaction, not that she should be surprised given the things that have popped out of Malivore in recent years, is still the tried and true:]

Banshees are a thing? Are they a good thing or a bad thing?

2/4, i think

[braveandstupid]

[And then Elena, a little more seriously:]

Did you get their names? What did they say about Monroe?

3/3 nope, never mind, it's 3

[somanyadjectives]

They are a thing but they're ... pretty rare. I've only really heard about them in theory not in practice. And no, they didn't come out of Malivore.

[They're close enough to human or witches that they likely didn't ping Malivore's monster-dar.]

I'll admit, I'm not sure what to make of the fact that a literal death omen is in town.

1/?

[recrudesce]

Literal death is on the horizon. Names, Damon.

[unforgivably]

Jackson. Lydia. Werewolf. Death omen.

[cholesterol]

Not just death omen. Inflicts literal death. Unless this is another, 31 flavors of vampire.

[daydrinker]

You also can't count anything out with Malivore. The 785 area code is right. Two types of vampires, two werewolves, hybrids. We can't rule anything out.

DONE

[recrudesce]

Jackson Whittemore?

1/??

[vampireboulevard]

Like Whitmore College?

[Look, she's just trying to pull in any connections she can here, she's still playing catch-up in a lot of ways.]

I'm not sure I like the sound of a literal death omen being here for graduation either. Does she have any specifics we can work with? Why reveal themselves if they're not here to help?

actually done

[somanyadjectives]

They could be plants. Banshees tend to be just close enough to human that they don't really stand out. Did the werewolf do anything werewolf-y?

[He ... may be spending too much time with Buffy.]

1/??

[unforgivably]

Yeah, he scratched himself at the table.

Any relationship to a long line of dead people?

2/?

[recrudesce]

Coincidence and different spelling. These Whittemores are Californian. He's also a dick.

3/4

[daydrinker]

Correlation or just your colorful commentary?

Whittemores span the country, it's possible his last name could've been slightly changed, from a mistake on a piece of paper or marrying into someone else's family.

DONE

[cholesterol]

Whether or not these Whittemores are related seems beside the point. Coincidence or not, 804 knows him.

Our contact knows him, too. Knows em both. They're legit.

1/??

[braveandstupid]

Maybe we should all meet, then? Share what everyone knows at the same time?

[vampireboulevard]

FYI 804 = Tyler, which means I'm going to assume that 785 = one of the Winchesters?

[She met them the night before, but not enough time to swap numbers.]

Has anyone looped in Hayley and Klaus? Not necessarily because we need Klaus making this a bigger mess but more because they're probably pretty big targets.

DONE

[somanyadjectives]

The hunter is almost ready to go. Might as well have everyone in the same place. Save time.

1/?

[unforgivably]

Everybody come to Damon's.

[cholesterol]

Dean Winchester. I know everybody but you, looper.

[imnot_likeyou]

[And once Dean gets the names from Damon, Sam steps off to the side to send his own text message to their fearless leader:]

Do you have a banshee named Lydia and a werewolf named Jackson working with you? I didn't get the last names.

[matriarchate]

They're ours.

Are they there?

[imnot_likeyou]

[That's good to know. He will indicate as much to Dean before going back to Allison.]

They ran into one of the Salvatore brothers. I think the rest of the group was debating whether or not to trust them.

[Which is why he decided to just go right to the source, save them all some time.]

[matriarchate]

They can.

Jackson's his own person, but he's trustworthy. Lydia is my best friend in the world.

[imnot_likeyou]

[And that is a big boon, Allison doesn't seem like the type to choose her best friends lightly.]

Looks like we're meeting up with them in a bit. I'll keep you posted.