It was a bit of a hike from Magic Man's house to the treehouse. Normally Jake would have stretched them home in considerably faster time, but when he casually begged off (citing wanting to walk around back home, soak in the nature), neither of his brothers called him on it. Finn may have taken him at face value -- out of desire for it to be true more than cluelessness, probably -- but Jermaine wasn't so easily swayed by his brush off.

The sight of the treehouse did coax an honest moment of vulnerability out of Jake. Halfway through the hike, he'd hopped up on Finn's back (to get a better view, y'know, of the nature) to hitch a ride. As their home came into view, Finn could probably feel the way his grip tightened a little. He fell silent for a bit, processing just how unlikely it felt he'd ever see this place again.

Life was pretty wild, huh?

BMO sobbed. Neptr made a pie, which Jake pretty much immediately devoured. Finn continued to hang around him like a limpet, trying to play it off as happenstance that he always happened to be standing right next to him at all times.

"You guys must've been running around a lot up there, huh?" Jake jokes, elbowing Finn a little. "You reek, man."

Despite the long journey back, the specifics of what exactly Jermaine and Finn had done to get him back hadn't been discussed. They'd mostly just talked about what Finn had been up to the last five weeks, his lice adventures, all the ways in which he got confused at the store, and so on. The fact that Jermaine screamed on the Mars transporter on their journey out was as close as they got to talking about it.

Jake didn't mind. He had a lot to talk about, too, and very little idea how to do so.

"Maybe you should go shower and hit the hay, you're getting those dark circles."