e x p e r i m e n t #07 (voice)

[mviw]

Hello Wonderland! This is Dr. Pines speaking.

Out of curiosity, how many of you have been to different dimensions, not counting this one? Alternate worlds? Other parallel planes of existence? Or... engaged in any form of time travel, for that matter. How did you do it? Was it even on purpose, or by some fluke?

I myself spent three decades adrift in the multiverse. Fascinating stuff.

[PRIVATE TO FIDDLEFORD & STAN]

Stanley, Fiddleford--

--We need to dismantle the portal in the basement and we have to do it as soon as possible. I can't just let that thing sit around being dangerous.

Fiddleford and I should be able to take it apart with no problems, but Stanley, since you did push to have it built in the first place I thought it was only fair to tell you what I want to do.

[There's a brief, awkward pause, and then...]

I've hurt enough people with my recklessness.

Comments

[failedparenting]

Oh, wow, thanks.

[Stroke? God, he knows he doesn't actually go out like that, but it's still embarrassing.]

You really think I'm that old? That hurts.

[mulletrock]

Yeah, cuz my subconscious desire is to compare you to an apple pie straight out of retirement fogey.

[It was right after he died, but Dean doesn't feel like saying that. Instead, he plays it off just like his dad is. All sarcasm, no emotion.]

[failedparenting]

Well, it obviously is or else I'd have been, I dunno, alive and working? [Okay, so maybe it does sting a little that in Dean's dream life he was dead.] What else, I have a pet cat and I played bingo on the weekends?

[mulletrock]

No cats. [Dean's not a big fan, but being allergic will do that to a person. There's no comfortable way to tell him that it happened after he died. Too soon after.] It's not like I was in control of the delusion. If it worked that way it wouldn't be a delusion.