It All Started With Magnets

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I was vaguely aware of the sound of rapid knocking on my door but it was being shaken rather roughly that woke me up with a gasp, my heart in my throat. "Up, up, up, up!" Hudson was speaking quickly and my heart thundered in my chest as I tried to figure out what was going on and where I needed to go.

"What? What's goin' on?" I muttered it, looking around as I sat up on the bed.

A phone was shoved into my face. "My team called me, they don't believe me that there's dragons. They told me it was editing, you need to tell them it's true!" Hudson practically barked it out like an order.

"I-What?" I looked at him, rubbing at my eye with my free hand.

"My team's on the call, you need to tell them that dragons are real." He shoved the phone at me and I struggled to process it as I took the phone from him.

"It's like five in the morning, Hudson, what the fuck?" I looked up at him as I yawned. I pressed the phone to my ear, struggling to keep my eyes from closing again. "Hello?"

"There ain't not way!"

"He's lying!"

"Yooooo! He's still jelly we left his ass!"

"Those are good fakes but they ain't good enough, bro!"

"Stop being a baby, Riviera! We'll see you in a few weeks!"

"I can't believe he's be caught by some deep fakes!"

"He always was our naive baby girl."

"Awwww our baby girl is throwing a tantrum cause she misses us!"

"It's okay, booboo, we still love you!"

I felt like I was being shouted at by a huge group of people and they were laughing loudly and I looked at Hudson. "Ummmmm... what?" I held the phone out for him, clearly the call wasn't for my ears. Baby girl? Riviera? Booboo?

"No. You need to tell them I'm telling the truth!" He pushed the phone back at me, crossing his arms over his chest and I yawned again and gave a slow and tired blink.

"The dragons are real." I said it into the phone and then held it back out as I slowly flopped onto my side. "There you go." I murmured it, trying to burrow into my pillow as the phone was taken from my hand. I was just getting settled when I was picked up off the bed without warning. "Hey! What the fuc-Hudson, put me down right now!" Going from laying down to hung nearly upside down over a shoulder was disorientating as fuck and I squirmed, not sure what else to do before he set me on my feet near the kitchenette.

"Tell them it's true. You need to explain it to them." He held out the phone and I groaned.

"Hudson, dude, it's five in the fucking morning." I looked at him rather imploringly. I was sore and I was still tired. I wanted to sleep for another three hours. "How long have you been up?" For all I knew, big baddy had been up since four am and this was just regular breakfast routine for him.

"I didn't go to sleep, I had to watch videos. Now explain it to them." He shook the phone and I blinked at him as I rubbed at my eye with the heel of my hand.

"What?" I stared at him in confusion, my brain slowly coming on line. "Hudson, how many videos-Which videos did you watch?" He watched more videos? What the hell? The one I had given him was like an hour and twenty minutes tops.

"All the arena ones, then looked at the pictures of you and Tel'bak'gorth, then with the dragon tamer and the warriors. I also watched your saved videos of the after battle down in the lower portion of the arena. I couldn't understand most of it cause it wasn't translated but I understood parts." He listed it all off, nodding as he did so, and I slowly blinked. He had dug around on my laptop to find more picture and videos, specially the ones where we had been having fun and hanging out that I sometimes sent to the others on the Council to show that I was having fun and wasn't going to run screaming from the planet? That thought was fucking embarrassing.