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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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_{[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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