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We're already in some magical land that makes our dreams come true - mostly the bad ones - so let's think about the impossible some more.

[Leonard may be calling it "impossible" mostly to heckle one specific Brit, given he's travelled through time himself, but maybe it will also flush out other time travellers. May be interesting.]

If you could travel to any point in history, where and when would you go, and why?

Also, if you could travel to any point in your own personal history, your lifetime... Same questions.

Would you try to change anything?

[He has experience with trying and the resulting failure too.]

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You gotta face the facts. Ask Kendra or Sara, they were very taken. Or Mick, I guess, not that he'd admit it.

[No one can resist those steel blues.]

Recently is relative, but yeah. That's the one. He's a rogue Time Master. Still stiff, but more fun.

I think if I really wanted to get to the bottom of things, it's Mick I'd ask.

( iris ain't blind, okay. and she's not above teasing, either. )

Look, I didn't know your dad, either. So my word might not mean much to you, but I do know what drives a person to want to go back and change something. ( she understands that gut-wrenching desperation, the single-minded determination. )

It's not your fault you weren't able to change it. ( he couldn't help the fact his father was an abusive asshole anymore than they can help the fact they're stuck in wonderland. captain cold is guilty of many crimes, but not this one. )

Never talk to Mick about bottoms.

[That's just general good life advice, that conversation would get lewd in no time. But then, Iris may enjoy that. No judgement.]

Not my fault. I don't know. This thinking's hard to follow if you're not affected. I'm glad you can't. Met kids here that could. That's the sad thing.

But you got a point. I don't believe in fate. Blew fate up, really. But people being who they are, that factor's hard to change.

I walked right into that one, didn't I?

( she can't even be pressed. )

Yeah, it is sad. ( and not exactly a surprise to iris. she lost her mother young, and so did barry, his in an unspeakably violent way. iris learned this from the time she was little. life favors no ages. )

Hard, but not impossible, right? Maybe not everyone can change, but some people do.

I ain't so sure. If they wanna change, maybe.

Mick's accused me of changing. A lot. He wasn't in favour, I guess. I don't know if I really changed.

Priorities shifted.

Things aren't so hot between the two of you lately, huh?

What would you say your priorities are now? ( he can't steal stuff in wonderland, bless. )

Lately? I don't know. Lately I'm dead and he hallucinates my ghost, so at least it's not boring.

Lisa. Mick. It's after that that things start to shift.

Is there really no way of getting through to him?

( mick rory can't spend the rest of his wonderland days hallucinating. )

Sure. He got it's the real me after I punched him.

But I can't really make him stop hallucinating. I ain't no doctor, but I'm guessing that's a medical phenomena.

He's getting better. Drinking less. He's resilient. Just getting used to me being gone.

No, you can't.

Sometimes we wish we could do that part for them, but we can't. I'm glad he's doing better all the same.

Are you getting used to it? It can't be easy.

Well.

I better.

It's not easy, not really what I thought would happen. I got no regrets about dying,
but I believed it'd just be over.

Got to relieve some of the worst parts of my life, so at least it never gets boring here.
I could live without ever being turned into a teenager again.

I could do with some more boring around here.

( truth be told. )

And I believe you. When you say you have no regrets about what happened.

I guess I can't regret it wasn't just over, either. I feel like I didn't get to really meet you until we both ended up in Wonderland.

( and the alternative would've been a crying shame. she once told len everyone'd had a rough child hood and to get over it. at the time, they were on opposite sides. but she understands a bit better now, not that, y'know, she'd ever approve of stealing or otherwise. )

We've run in some of the same social circles [Pun intended.] but I doubt we'd have ever gotten much time together elsewhere.

One good thing to come from this place. Not that you'll remember.

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