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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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Mm. Thought as much.

[James sighs a bit.]

You'll be filled in soon enough I'm sure - prolly by Sam or Jo, I'm guessing. But you're going to have to get used to people being very familiar with you - that's what happens when someone passes through here as many times as you have.

[He knows Dean's going to be a pain in the arse every step of the way - that's just how Dean is when he comes back to Wonderland, apparently.]

Judging by the reactions I can do a little guess work when it comes to public opinion too.

[Which meant that there were more than a few times when he came in swinging for whatever reason, and that didn't bode well. He figured he'd get the story straight between Jo and Sam, whatever blanks they didn't fill in he'd get from the rest of the people that replied. In his line of work friends sometimes spared the details to avoid unnecessary injuries or explanation. It wasn't uncommon, so Dean had a few different sources he could pull from to piece together whatever got left out.]

[Honestly? That's enough for James to ease up a little. He even laughs.]

It's not as bad as you might think. Mostly you've got a reputation for not taking your returns to Wonderland well, and a few good friends from other worlds who get bloody exhausted trying to reconnect with you.

[For once though, he's wondering if it might not be so bad this time. Maybe.]

I'm James Potter. You won't remember me, since Wonderland wipes your memories when you go, but we used to know each other.

No kidding.

[He got that much from the first half of the conversation. Whatever happened the past few times he showed up didn't matter now. So Dean was trying not to get involved in any of that crap and focus on the present. If it happened to come up, he'd handle it then.]

I'm not gonna bother introducing myself, and I wish I could say it's good to be back but in my experience, these kind of places aren't healthy for anyone.

It's fine. No one ever thinks it's good to be back, and for good reason. Frankly, you'd be better off if you'd stayed gone - anyone would be.

[Wonderland is absolute shit and he's not about to pretend it isn't, even for a former friend.]

Well, would you look at that, I didn't really get offered the option. So I'm in this until the next inevitable swap. Sorry to break it to you.

[James seems like a good guy, and Dean's not gonna pretend like he isn't. There's no way he'll pretend like he's happy to be here either. So far everything he's heard about it hasn't been good.]

Maybe if I'm still here in a few weeks I'll check in and buy you a round if everything hasn't gone to shit.

[James can't really blame him for any of this, but...at least he's easing up a little. He grins a bit at the offer.]

I'll hold you to that, if you haven't gone and forgotten me a hundredth time between now and then. But for now, I suppose I ought to let you go and get reoriented and all of that.

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