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Awesome.

[When the camera pans around at first all you see is jeans and boots before he's got it up and focused on his face. Dean flashes the receiver an unimpressed look, whatever this was he didn't want to be in on the joke.]

As far as abduction sequences go, the digs are nice. I'll give you that. Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered, but I so don't do Stockholm.

[Zachariah might want him to sign up and put his body on layaway for the apocalypse but he didn't have any plans to go belly up. As far as he was concerned, there was still a shot, and he'd only consent to Michael if he didn't have any other choice. He was a lot of things, but letting someone else do his dirty work wasn't his style.]

Whatever sick twisted things you had planned, I don't go that way. ...No matter what you've heard.

[Dean takes a minute to scratch the side of his cheek, and then sets his jaw and squares his shoulders. The usual off-the-cuff sarcasm is still as confident as ever, but he's over the showmanship. Broadcasting wasn't his bag.]

And anybody else that wants to feed me another line of crap about mirrors and royalty, don't waste your time. The creep I'm looking for has Fifty Shades of Douche written all over him.

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What're you ten? [That's a pretty bleak outlook for a kid, and as much as Dean wants to actually treat him like he's worth his salt he's more blindsided by the fact that this place ropes kids into its mess too.] You're talking like a seasoned vet. How long have you been here?

I'm thirteen. [More or less. Wonderland makes it complicated.] Over a year. So if you have any questions, I can answer them.

Okay, first question. What's up with the timelines, and please don't say magic. There's a lot more than magic at play here to have this many people roped in.

[This kid means business and Dean learned a long time ago not to underestimate someone just because they're young. He'd rather give him the respect he should've gotten at that age. Everyone needs to know that they're worth their salt, even if right now he's just testing the waters.]

Well, it is magic. [He gives Dean a flat look.] But it probably also has a lot to do with the unstable nature of interdimensional travel. We're outside Earth time.

Magic's not magic. [That might not make sense to this kid but in Dean's experience power and magic were two very different things. Witches toyed around with magic, power like this didn't really qualify as that.] And yeah I got that. Anything that can pull people from the brink or beyond isn't something you wanna mess with.

[Yep, that makes zero sense.]

It's powered by the Core, probably. It's on the mirror side, and you really shouldn't look at it if you like having all your memories in your head.

[Put it on the list of shit he's said when he's frustrated. He doesn't care because he doesn't care, Dipper.]

Yeah, I was starting to wonder why people seemed to have gaps. If it's any consolation I'm sorry you're stuck here. This place is all sorts of backward.

The time travel is also a factor for the gaps.

[Dipper shrugs. He hates being stuck here, but he hates the pity too, especially since it so often comes with no child should be stuck here. Which is true, but no adult should be stuck here either.]

I haven't given up. I'll find a way out eventually.

If you come across any real leads, you know where to find me. I'm itching for an out just as much as you are.

[Dean wasn't sure what was worse, being stuck here or being stuck here with people that shouldn't be so damn relaxed about it. His parents were one thing, but Jo and Sam should know better.]