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[Cissie takes her time to get her bearings before she makes her first video post to the network. She appears on screen, looking like any other ordinary blonde haired, blue eyed American teenager. It's an image she intends to maintain, just like she does at home. She holds a hand up in a small wave, offering a tiny smile.]

Hello, Wonderland. Can I call you Wonderland? That's what I hear this place is, and can I just say that I'm kind of seriously regretting never reading those books before? I mean, I'm not the best student in the world, but I do like to know what I'm getting myself into. Not that reading would ever prepare me for getting kidnapped into a children's book, but I don't remember anything about kidnapping anyway, so clearly this is a case of the movie not following the book. ...Where this is the movie, if that wasn't obvious.

[Oh my god stop rambling, Cissie. She looks a litle abashed, blushing faintly. Great, her shot at introducing herself and she's sounding like a complete dork. She clears her throat and continues. Here comes the awkward part.]

Anyway, my name is Cissie King-Jones. I'm from Pennsylvania. You... may have seen me on a Wheaties box? If you're from where I'm from, that is. And if you are, I'd really like to know. And if you're not... it's nice to meet you?

If anyone wants to be kind enough to give me the Cliff Notes version of things, that would be awesome. I guess these kind of 'hey I'm new, what's up with this place' kind of questions probably get old after a while, so if you just want to introduce yourself, that's fine, too.

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[He coughs and holds his pointer fingers next to his head in an imitation of bat ears.]

It wasn't my call.

[Cissie laughs and rolls her eyes, smiling.]

I know that, too. But... Alvin Draper? Please tell me that was an alias he picked for you, and not a name you picked for yourself.

Uh.

No, actually I made up Alvin. I used that with you guys?

You absolutely did. Batman finally let you give up the double mask thing, but you still couldn't tell us your name, so you told us you were Alvin Draper.

[She smirks and bumps shoulders with him again.] It kind of worked. Bart thought it was too dorky a name to be made up.

Well, my girlfriend uses Alvin, so I guess that's about as honest as I get when Batman won't let me use my name. [He gives her a wry smile and returns the shoulder bump.] She knows it's not my name, too.

[Cissie looks at him in surprise, both because he had to use a fake name with his girlfriend, and because... She realizes he's probably talking about the girlfriend who died. Let's not go there right now, Cissie. Or ever.]

...You do know that's kind of messed up, right?

I was aware. [His tone is dry, but he's smiling a little.] But since I met her as Robin...

[She laughs, and nods.] Okay, fair point. I'll give you this one. [There's a lot she wants to say and ask, like why he lets Batman call these shots for so long, but she knows why. And she knows she only stopped letting her mother rule her life when someone else stepped in, but Tim has to wait to get to that point on his own. So it's time to change the subject.]

So. This place. It's... kind of crazy, I hear. How long have you been here? What's it like?

Definitely crazy. [He grins.] But not terrible? I've been here about a month, and things definitely get interesting around here sometimes, but it's also... kind of cool? There are people here from different times and universes, so it's definitely not the worst kidnapping I've ever been a victim of. Kind of interesting, actually.

[She laughs and shakes her head.] Tim, the fact that you can say that and mean it is so not normal, you do realize that, right? Most people don't get kidnapped at all, never mind often enough to have a comparison scale to go by.

[He gives her a--barely--solemn look. The humor is in his eyes and at the corners of his mouth.]

Most people live really boring lives.

You are terrible, [she's laughing, and she shoves him. She's missed this, more than she wants to admit to herself.]

I've heard worse. I think I can live with terrible. [He shoves her back lightly, grinning.] Kon's here, too. It's like half the gang. I wonder if Cassie or Bart will turn up next.

[Cissie laughs, trying to cover her discomfort. She really doesn't know what she'd do if Cassie or Bart showed up, whether it was from Tim's point in the past or her point in the present--her present. Or if they showed up from the future? It's more than she wants to think about. It's hard enough wrapping her head around being from a different point in time than Tim and Kon.

So she's not going to talk about that yet.]

Wouldn't that be something? It's kind of weird, isn't it, though? With all of the worlds and realities to kidnap people from, this place picks up the three of us? And from totally different times. I mean--don't get me wrong. I am super grateful we're all from the same reality and I didn't wind up stuck here with Mr. Sarcastic, but you know what I mean.

[Tim gives her a bemused look.]

Mr. Sarcastic?

[Cissie smirks and shrugs innocently.]

I'll tell you about him someday.

...Should I be worried?

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