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[ she's been missing for a month. cora doesn't know it for certain, but she can sense something is different about wonderland. it's the smell, the way the leaves crunched differently beneath her feet when she walked out of the woods earlier that day. she can't quite put her finger on what's different, but she knows that the world she had left behind earlier that morning (five weeks ago) has somehow shifted on its axis. ]

[ however, despite her suspicions, cora's not going to bother with the pleasantries. nor is she going to bother to ask. she doesn't do network posts — doesn't see the purpose in them — but she'd been out for a run in the woods. she'd gone out in hopes of pushing herself out of her negative headspace, but has only seemed to dive further in it. ]

Throw a dog a bone. Anyone know any good jokes? Could use a couple. My brother doesn't smile much and it'd be nice to see him :) for once. Or :D if I'm lucky.

[ ha ha. something is off and perhaps it's because derek hale has learnt how to smile. ]

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They'll just come back here, remember? And it's not really them, you're hurting the people they're possessing.

_{[Adam understands that much, even if he has only an indistinct picture of what side of the fence Cora's on.

Not even he knows what he thinks right about now. With the Cage in his recent past, he's tempted now more than ever not to bother thinking too hard about anything that doesn't concern his survival. One foot in front of the other, that's it, that's all he should be focused on. Getting involved in situations where he doesn't understand and doesn't belong seems like asking for another Zachariah to take advantage of him these days.

He's tempted, too, to wonder if these other monsters deserve protection if monster hunters have a reason for going after them.]}

Seems like there's a lot of that going around.

_{[Hunters, supernatural creatures, Tom... So maybe some hunters aren't any better, but no one's guilt-free.]}

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[ she's about to say kill them the number of times it takes for them to stay dead before she even reads the rest of his statement. nothing is ever simple, not in wonderland or outside of it. ]

Can't you just exorcise the angel? Or would that kill the person they're using?

[ she imagines that the exorcist rules must apply to angels. angels and demons both possessing defenceless, innocent humans. how else is one meant to evacuate earth and go back up to heaven? but she wonders if they need a priest or man of god to toss those angels back to their rightful homes or if the people they're driving are merely stuck along for the ride until someone decides that killing them to rid the earth of an angel is the way to go. ]

[ but cora's kind of relieved that adam hasn't pressed on hunters and her experiences with them. while she still thinks a house fire caused by arsonists lead by a hunter can go either way — she's human or she's something else — she's glad she doesn't have to type out the details to that particular story. ]

Wonderland seems to have that effect on things. Sometimes makes me wonder if it's the true bad guy in all of this rather than the Queen of Hearts.

I don't know about the exorcisms. No one's mentioned anything.

But Wonderland's not changing who people are around here, it's just bringing out their real colors.

_{[Monsters, and even hunters, could be killers with or without Wonderland's influence--Wonderland's not special that way. The hunters she's got a bone to pick with could still be assholes, and her werewolves could still be as bad as ghouls in their own way and Cora's just covering their asses.

Either way, Adam's not willing to put all of the blame on Wonderland or the Queen of Hearts for making people bad. He likes Cora enough that he won't ask about what she won't talk about, but he's not going to forget that there's more to the story and let his guard down anytime soon.]}

You really think that?

[ maybe it's the fact that the people she tends to surround herself with — the very few, anyway — are people who she considers good. derek doesn't have it in him to use and abuse his family like peter does, nor does scott seem to have the ability to even kill a fly. out of all the kids in the pack, cora wouldn't be surprised if isaac had turned out twisted with how his shoulders matched hers with the weight of carrying the entire world on their shoulders. but maybe cora's natural ability to be anti-social has saved her from experiencing wonderland's talent in revealing people for who they are and not what they want to be perceived as. she's too overwhelmed with the fact that she doesn't have to fight the world as much as she did back in beacon hills. ]

[ or maybe adam just has bad luck. ]

_{[He does, actually, but then it's the truth. Actions speak louder than words.]}

People have to make hard decisions around here. Save yourself, or save someone else.

You could have ignored me plenty of times and you didn't. Not everyone's bad news, it's just easier to tell when the chips are down.

_{[People's true colors don't have to be the kind of black and blood-red colors he'd experienced at his father's real identity, the angels' deception, and his brothers' betrayal. When he's needed it, some people have helped him at cost to themselves, like Cora. Like Daryl. Like Emma. Like Jo. All people who could've walked away like Sam and Dean had walked away.

And when you no longer have anything to call your own, it's easier to see kindness for what it is, even if the flip side is fearing the same kind of cruelty and sadism that ripped it all away from you in the first place.]}

You don't think people are capable of saving themselves and another person?

[ it's probably not as black and white as she's reading it to be. cora's always thought she approached things like they were technicolour — peter's a bad guy, but she had trusted him enough to team up with him in their search to see if derek had been the werewolf who had crawled his way out of the suicidal warehouse. it's not the same, though, not with what adam's saying. cora thinks back to the tunnels, of how she could've left lena to shake in her self-deprecation of losing whatever it was that gave her an edge in order to save herself, but she'd lifted the girl with all the human strength she wasn't used to and pushed her to move forward. and derek had died right in front of her, doing what he did best — placing himself before her. if it came down between her and someone else, cora's not so positive on what path she would choose — if she had a choice (and the chance) to pick. ]

You were going to walk into trouble. I couldn't just leave you to be zombie lunch.

_{[He's heard something like that before, from Dean. He'd believed it, and he'd hoped, and he'd prayed, even after Michael had taken the fall, even after Sam had disappeared. Saved, he now knows.

Good intentions have limits.]}

Not everyone thinks like that.

Then maybe they're people not worth knowing.

[ because it's simple like that, clearly. peter can manipulate his way to the top of the ladder and cora still looks at him like he's her uncle, even though she knows he'd throw her under the bus the moment he got the chance. so much easier said than done. ]

Just try to stay away from zombies, though. Not sure I'll be around to turn them off from wanting to bite you the next time they fall through the rabbit hole.

_{[Or human, he thinks as he reads the first part of her reply. Monsters don't seem to be very interested in pacifism, but he also accepts that this is a generalization as much as putting all of your trust into people, even the heroic people, the people you're supposed to rely on most like your blood. Monsters, humans... neither of them are completely trustworthy. They've covered that point and agree on it.

That doesn't leave a lot of options.

Adam supposes that in the end, the point is you can't trust anyone these days. That's exactly why Cora doesn't want to expose everything about herself through text message, isn't it?]}

I wonder if that's not most people.

_{[Be lied to as much as Adam has, and you get tired of it. But there she goes, fighting against his cynicism with the decency he's stopped expecting in all instances to protect himself from more Sams and Deans.]}

I'm trying to. Once bitten, twice shy. Don't go walking into trouble yourself. Avoid big brother's lectures and not get them, right?

_{[Not putting a smiley face is probably saves the monster snack humor in there from becoming too demented.]}

[ he has a point. isn't that why cora makes it a point to not get to know anyone within wonderland? there's the pack, and then there's the few outliers who have gotten beneath her skin and wedged themselves there like permanent fixtures. lena and adam seem to have broken through her desire to remain that of an omega when it comes to forming packs outside of the one from beacon hills. he says not too many people are worth knowing, and a good portion of cora knows it's true. ]

[ but if anyone's due for a lecture, it's derek, having died almost too many times for cora to consider it okay. but she takes what he says to heart — he doesn't seem like the type to wish people a good day unless he really means it. ]

Something tells me he's going to give them to me, regardless of what I do. But thanks. I'll do my best.

_{[There must be some kind of theory for circumstances like these, some explanation for why people who've been hurt badly and fear ever suffering the same again end up circling around each other despite everything, like a werewolf from a broken family and and illegitimate child without one.

Misery does love company.]}

If we make it til then, one day you'll have to tell me more about your werewolves.

[ she's not too sure what to make of it. curiousity? gaining information to use for ill intent? cora's a little too paranoid on revealing more of her furry hand than she already has. ]

Maybe. If you don't get scared.

[ monsters and angels and werewolves, oh my. if adam can take on an angel, despite what may have actually went down, something tells her he may not be afraid of the big bad wolf that comes knocking on his door. nonetheless, if cora has her way, she has no plans to tell him more. she's already said a little too much. ]

Try not to die. I have good stories.

[ incentive? ]

_{[When it comes to why Adam wants to know, it's a little of both. Gaining information to use to his advantage is something he'd failed to do once and not a mistake he cares to make again.]}

Try me.

_{[Prolonged stay in the Cage has given him perspective. Even after what Wonderland's put him through, he's not the same terrified kid from the ghoul attack, he can say that much.

As long as her stories don't kill him, he's willing to hear them.]}

It's not on my list of things to do.

Good. :) How much do you even know about werewolves?

[ she figures she might as well ask — considering she knew false information about angels, according to adam's home-world knowledge, it doesn't seem as though it would hurt to know what kind of things adam believes werewolves to be. even though she has no desire to tell him, it doesn't hurt to be prepared in case he's a little insistent on her telling him a bedtime story. ]

_{[Hadn't he already made the answer pretty clear?]}

I didn't think about them being real until here.

_{[After that first brush with the supernatural, there hadn't been a whole lot of time or interest on his part to study the monster encyclopedia.

Hell hadn't exactly offered a great mentorship program, either, but if Cora is assuming he'd survived his little stint as an angel vessel, maybe he assumes he's a little more well-versed in monsters now. Too bad he's not.]}

[ how can she not assume that he's alive? while he's hammered into her that angels are bad and angels shouldn't be trusted and to stay the hell away from them, she figured while adam is someone who hadn't survived the hannibal lector of monsters, he had to have survived the ones with the halos and wings. she's not exactly a positive person, but she really does want to believe in that. no one can have that much tragedy in their lives, even though she sometimes think derek embodies that possibility too well. ]

Hopefully you never meet one and they stay blurred between being fictional and real for you.

[ #too late. even though cora paints werewolves with a positive brush, she has a feeling she'll have a difficult time convincing a kid who was monster chow that they're fluffy, docile puppies. ]

_{[No.

No, that can't happen. Definitely too late.

Adam's willing to tolerate some things, and give someone who's helped him more latitude than most, but one thing he can't do is turn a blind eye. Cora's suggesting he go back to being food, prey for barely-defined phantoms that live in storybooks. If he doesn't know, he'll never be anything but prey.]}

It's a little late, you already said they're here. I'd rather know ahead of time.

Don't go around provoking them.

[ she doubts it needs to be said, but it doesn't hurt to hone it home. if you see a werewolf, don't touch it, simply walk on by and try and hide in a room lined with moonstone. but how can she say that without it becoming even more suspicious? ]

I'm not going to be around all the time to pull you back.

[ she remembers what it had been like to be untouched by the moon for three long months. even though she had recognised she was gunning for kids, she couldn't control her urges. she'd gone as far as almost slashing derek to death because of the rage and untamed power she had felt. adam's not exactly her friend, but he's someone she knows — and even if he wasn't, she'd still feel awful if she somehow hurt him. ]

_{[She must think he's stupid. He'd say "do you think I have a death wish?" but they've already established the answer to that in no few words.]}

Is that to protect them or me?

_{[If he has anything to say about it, anything at all, he'll turn the tables and kill a monster before they have the chance to do the same to him. Monsters don't deserve to have the lay of the land, not even here.]}

Definitely not if you keep wandering off.

[ she doesn't think him stupid, but there are things she wishes she had said to some of the people she can no longer talk to. if stating the obvious and implying he's stupid is one of them, then so be it. she'll think him stupid if he tries to provoke a werewolf into an aggressive conversation where his sarcastic quips won't do any harm. ]

Both. But mostly you. Most of them only go after other wolves.

[ like the alpha pack had gone after their own kind, rather than humans. if adam stays out of mind, out of sight, and definitely quiet on knowing whether or not they exist, she thinks he has a good chance of escaping being puppy chow. ]

Hopefully Wonderland decides slowing down time for me for a month was boring. I have no plans on wandering off; really doubt Derek would let me.

[ she really doubts the pack would, either. and that's a comforting thought, even a little strange, to think of herself in a proper pack rather than ones that shift and change as unpredictably as the weather. ]

_{[Cora's being too lenient in Adam's opinion, but then that probably has to do with her singing werewolves' praises and playing devil's advocate. Adam has no fond feelings for anything supernatural and dangerous; if they can go after a person, then they likely will, that's a philosophy Adam's all right sticking with until he's unequivocally proven wrong.]}

But it's some kind of secret who they are?

_{[She hasn't been too forthcoming with details, and as a result her warning is half-assed at best. Adam doesn't fail to notice this.]}

That's what older brothers are for.

_{[The irony.]}

[ considering she doesn't know who half of them could be, let alone if it's only her pack in wonderland that's a wolf, cora doesn't particularly feel like boxing herself in by saying she knows, but she won't tell. it requires more sniffing around, catching onto foreign scents that don't smell so much as human as they do wolf. she's probably doing that exact same thing with her response, anyway. ]

How about I rain check on the whole Wonderland's Most Wanted Werewolf list? Still fine tuning.

[ but: ]

If you see a big dog, stay away from it.

[ that's not a half-assed warning, is it? even though she could add to that to stay away from derek, he looks like a big dog, anyway. ]

So a secret.

_{[And he just loves those, along with the mental image of being torn apart by a giant, ravenous werewolf.

Sam and Dean are assholes when the chips are down, but the least they could've done was provide a list of what's dangerous around here and what's not. Adam would still like to avoid becoming the main attraction in a bloodbath again.]}

That's a helpful. I'll try to do that.

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