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I need everyone to listen closely.

[It's unusual for Angel to show his face on the network, especially if it comes to leaving a message of his own. He'll reply to people here and there, but largely, he doesn't think it's worth the effort -- phones being the invention of a bored warlock and all.

But this is different. This is urgent, and it's written all over his face, his jaw squared and his mouth set in a hard line, tense.]

Your pal Tom that started warning people over the network, apologizing for this creep from his world? Don't trust him. In fact, stay as far away from him as you can -- lock yourselves in, do whatever you have to do, but do it immediately. He's the one responsible for these murders.

[He hadn't been sure at first. He'd smelled the blood of more than one of the victims on Tom when they'd gone to investigate one of the more recent crime scenes together, but it hadn't been enough to go on -- Tom could have just gone to two or three different sites to help handle the aftermath and picked it up that way -- but then Angel himself had gone to each and every point of discovery. Every one.

And at each one, he caught the same scent. None of them belonged to this 'Harry Warden,' but each and every trail lead back to the same place.

He hadn't wanted to believe it at first, thought he had to have been mistaken, but his senses had never lead him wrong before now. People were surprising where demons and other vampires were predictable. Angel expected better from humans, admired humanity for what it was -- there were always bad apples, but even after two and a half centuries, he wasn't used to them coming in mild-mannered packages like Tom Hanniger.

Just goes to show. And yet, something about it still didn't sit right with him, like it couldn't possibly be as cut and dry as Tom lying, but there's no time for him to try and pick that apart now. What matters is keeping people away from him, getting Tom contained somehow and keeping him from doing any more harm than he already has.]

Every one of these crimes leads back to him. There is no Harry Warden, that story is nothing but a decoy.

Do not try to go after him on your own. He might be human, but that means he's unpredictable-- this guys is killing like he's got nothing to lose. Get yourselves somewhere safe, each and every one of you. Arm yourselves if you have to, just in case.

This will be over soon. I promise.

[He plans to see to that personally.]

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How many people has he killed?

[ Quinn's heard of a couple of them, and one important person (to her) but she's been holed up since it started ]

What the FUCK, Angel?!

What.

[It's not even a question - it's the hard realization that Tom's the one who came after him with a pickaxe, Tom's the one who attacked all those people, and Tom's the one who killed Souji and Martha and Charlie and so many others.

James has since been healed by Minato and is finally able to really give the network some attention, and this is what he's met with. He can't just leave it alone, but when he replies he's pale and horrified.]

...You're serious. It was Tom, this whole time?

[He has to ask, but it looks like he's not having trouble believing it. It's all adding up with what he already knows - Tom's future self didn't want Jo getting involved. His own future self had gotten in a fist fight with him even though present Tom seemed...quiet. Normal.

There didn't seem to be a reason for it then, but James certainly wants to punch him in the face now. Of course he wouldn't want anyone getting involved. He wanted it to happen. He wanted to keep everyone from interfering. He wanted to be able to get away with it, even though there were tons of people from the future who knew it was going to happen. He was covering his tracks, making sure everyone would believe him.

And he had. James had believed it, when Jo told him.

He had trusted Tom, and Tom turned around and murdered their friends, while acting like he was the one trying to stop it all.

That confusion and shock morphs very quickly - his face reddens and James looks like he's never been more furious in his entire life.]

That fucking bastard!

he hasn't killed everyone.

Congratulations, you've no doubt started a witch hunt.

[Though, yeah. Thank god she's not under suspicion for ripping out hearts anymore. Not her style, people.]

And if you turn out to be wrong?

That can't be true. I know him. He's not a killer! I even ran across that guy in the mask and almost got axed. Tom would never go after me!

You figured it out.

_{[There's an air of congratulations in the boy's tone. About time, honestly. He'd been starting to wonder if any of these bird dogs would actually find the bird. They'd run out of people for Tom to kill before too long.]}

Good job. How did you do it?

[he is suddenly very interested in this. So it's someone in the castle murdering people?]

I'm fairly new to Wonderland, but I have to ask what you plan on doing once he's captured.

[Considering that both Angel and Castiel don't use their phones nearly as much as other people here, it's not much of a surprise that they haven't had any reason to speak to each other since their initial conversation, in which Castiel found out about Angel's true nature.

Angel seems to be as in control now as he had been then, taking charge of the situation in much the same way that Dean did. The difference being that Angel's gotten to the bottom of this mystery already.

It's something that Castiel's already suspected, due to having it hinted at back during Christmas time. Nonetheless, it's both good and bad to have it confirmed. Castiel thinks of Jo, of what this is going to do to her, but right now he has to focus on stopping Tom.]

Are you going after him?

[Castiel doesn't see much reason to listen to any of those warnings. A human can't kill him, plain and simple. If anyone should be sticking his neck out, it's an angel -- and perhaps, a vampire.]

[ Philip vowed to keep away from the network during this- whatever this is, but nearly a week after his attack all that bed rest is starting to make him restless. So he reaches for the device instead of a book, and-- lo and behold, something already catches his interest.

And oh, how he frowns at that. True, Tom is wearing Dean's face, but judging by the conversation they had he must have some good traits, too. That need to leave home behind. Philip thinks his reasons are flawed, but the sentiment hits too close to home. And this? Something about this brings back a familiar lurch in his stomach too... ]

What makes you think any of that?

[Kid doesn't know this guy, barely even knows what has been happening, just knows that a little over a day ago he followed Harry out to the edge of the woods and--]

[And...]

[He knows Tom. Not well, but he's part of the resistance; he's on their side.]

[He remembers how there was something...familiar about the miner. Just slightly. Just enough to stick in Kid's head.]

Your sure?

How certain are you? And what exactly is being done to stop him?

[Because if no one else is doing anything, Crowley might just go burn him out of existence.]

[No forgiveness here.]

How the hell do you know that and why the hell should anyone trust a fang?

How can you tell?

_{[Martha. Charlie. Souji. These are people who've been murdered, just ones Adam knows and has heard about. All at the hands of... who, Tom? Dean's alternate universe twin? The soft-spoken guy who's supposed to be a friend of his in the future?

He's no stranger to being half out of his mind with no sleep and too much adrenaline, but days of having a killer on the loose, not knowing what's going to happen... It leaves Adam loopy, fingers white-knuckled around the phone.]}

So... it wasn't an event. _{[He's compelled to speak up, even if his Mirror is the one who really knows this guy. Tom had called it his event. The evil he'd brought. He'd even apologized. Who to believe? Tom? Angel? Neither?]} How? How'd he do it?

_{[It's not the question he really wants an answer to, but it's the one that comes out.]}

[ It's taken the Doctor this long to respond to Angel's warning, because he's been trying to work out how he feels about the whole situation.

It seems that the default stance might be to be out for blood, and on some level, the Doctor wouldn't say no to his own form of revenge for everyone he's killed or hurt, but then again, there's others with more claims to that than him, even if he were of a vengeful mind.

As it stands, he's really not, although that doesn't mean he isn't angered by the whole affair. ]

Right, so what's to be done about him now?

[Adam looks curious. Not because of the news about Tom - that's old hat, for him - but rather about the source of the information.]

Seems t'me you mighta had more luck if you'd let somebody else tell folks what's goin' on. [He shrugs a bit then offers a faint grin.] But good on you for figurin' it out, least. That's somethin'.

What will happen to him?

[ And what will you do? She doesn't know him, nor any of them well enough to know already what will happen but for this... it has to be whatever is necessary. Is there a way to truly hold someone here? To permanently stop them? There was at home, she'd had it used on her before but that wasn't an option here. Hopefully they knew something just as good ]

[ Huh. That's a twist. ]

So, our little girlfriend stealing clone is the killer?

[ She might look a little impressed, because he wasn't even on her list of 'Who's Got a Murder Boner". It's a mental list and made more out of boredom than any real need to investigate and help. ]

How'd you crack the case, Sherlock?

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