Chapter One [Video]

[thebestseller]

[When the feed clicks on, someone's obviously showing off. First, a blank notebook opens and turns a few pages of its own volition... before post-it notes stick on it out of nowhere, followed by a few splatters of ink. Castle then turns it on his smiling face.]

Now, as far as superpowers go, throwing ink and paper around isn't the worst thing someone could have. In fact, it's quite fitting for a writer and avid reader like myself. Just imagine all the possibilities... reading without needing to turn the pages, writing a grocery list with a few twists of the finger, putting up wallpaper... okay, maybe it's not THAT cool. But look what else I can do.

[Castle holds the phone up with one hand while writing WAFFLES in his notebook with the other. And lo and behold- a plate of waffles appears. Except one is still frozen and one is slightly burnt, and they only linger a few moments before vanishing.]

... I'm failing at demonstrating my abilities and looking halfway-competent at them, aren't I? Anybody willing to help a writer-turned-sudden-superhero out? You'd have my eternal gratitude as well as a dedication in my next novel.

[He then signs RICHARD CASTLE on the notebook page, and awaits replies.]

Comments

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[andaway]

That's really sweet. [There's the slightest touch of sadness in his voice. The closest he got to having a son was Chris, and he... jumped to the Phantom Zone to protect Earth. Comics.]

You must miss her already.

<3

[thebestseller]

[COMICS.]

I do. I was a single father- her mother signed custody over to me... long story... so my daughter and I have always been close. Being a writer and working mostly from home meant I could be there for all the big moments.

[andaway]

That's... really sweet.

[He was close to his family, he sill is. But he does with he could eventually be in the other side of the relationship.]

I hope you ge to be back with her soon- back home, obviously. We don't want people getting randomly kidnapped here.

[thebestseller]

Definitely not- as awesome as suddenly having superpowers is, I have a feeling she'd be under a lot more scrutiny here. I've met a lot of locals who adore us strangers. Much better if she stays where she belongs.

[andaway]

I've met some of those myself, to my surprise. I expected people would be- perhaps not afraid, but way more reluctant to accept people with superpowers.

[Basically because he got the first hand experience of that.]

[thebestseller]

Same here. I guess they've become used to it, though- considering the government's all ready for us when we get here, it must have started happening a long time ago.

[andaway]

From what I've gathered we're something like the second batch of imPorts, after the Porter here was infected by another reality's Porter. Which is why they can't send us back yet.

[Yet, because he has no doubt they will find the way. Eventually.]

[thebestseller]

Yet- hopefully someone will be able to figure it out, especially considering the variety of people that are showing up here. All those different realities, though... makes my head spin.

[andaway]

That's something I am kind of sort of used to, at least. Civilians don't get to interact with alternate realities often, but we're still aware they are a thing back home.

[thebestseller]

Whereas I've suspected it but never been able to prove it. I'm something of a fanboy, so I try to find the magic in the world and in the crimes I help solve, but as far as I've been able to discover my world's comparatively mundane.