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I do hate to interrupt, [ comes the voice behind the network's latest entry. his voice is weighted down heavily by a distinct brand of southern drawl — georgia flavor, to those able to recognize it ] but seein' as I won't be goin' anywhere any time soon, I do believe proper introductions are in order. The name's Henry, and I hail from a small town called Purgatory. It was 2017, last I checked, but I don't suppose dates mean much in a "wondrous" place such as this.

[ yeah, the alice in wonderland references are completely lost on a man who missed out on not only the book's publishing, but all the disney adaptations that followed it. ]

You wouldn't happen to know if things you were... say, tethered to in your previous, less than wonderful life are still that way in this one, would you? I'm also interested in hearing what one does in Wonderland, other than wait for one of these so-called "events" to crop up, of course. A man of my specific skillset could get awful bored mighty fast without something worthwhile to entertain him.

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[ that most definitely should be a concern, considering his mirror side doppelgänger is a revenant. ]

More cryptic messages. Oh, I always look forwards to those. [ /sarcasm ] You ever get any from yours?

Perhaps you ought to ask, see who's all interested in gettin' the hell outta this place.

That's another strange feature of this place, then.

But would we actually get the right people?

[Fun times.]

Oh, mine did one better. She crossed over and caused a whole lot of havoc.

[And from her tone, it wasn't the good kind.]

Yeah, exactly like that. Except, you know, I thought it was just kid's stories and all, too. I mean, I went along with them, but I thought it was going to be a wild goose chase.

Right until I was punching one. Or two.

[ Evil twins?

Well. It's not inaccurate. ]

...Yeah.

Yeah, that'd be why.

( uh huh. damon can hear the quotation marks around that 'associate' the more this guy talks about her. )

I can see that. I was surprised to hear she's a US Marshall too, but I meant mostly because she seems like she talks like she's from the modern era, and you seem a few decades behind her, but we're in fictional Wonderland here. Stranger things have happened.

( he smiles, because talking about elena always makes him smile, and she's back (and not in a sleeping coma that he can't wake her from) so he's not a mess anymore. he can feel steady in her presence, and the tone of his voice is incredibly, openly fond, loving.

trust, doc. it's good to move past the complicated part, but it also took damon and elena years and heartache and pain to do it. it took a long time for damon to grow up. )

Elena Gilbert. You'll meet her if you hang around my bar enough.

I beg your pardon, but did you just insinuate that our doppelgängers can appear in this world?

[ congratulations, you're the first person in wonderland to pick up on what all of purgatory is aware of. ...save wynonna, bc that girl is blind as fuck, yo. ]

We are both from 2017, and the Marshals didn't exactly up and disappear once the territories they were roamin' gained statehood. They are still around, you know.

[ more like a whopping thirteen decades behind her... also, still not getting any of these alice in wonderland references. give it time, though. doc is a #nerd and will undoubtedly read the books sooner or later. ]

It's likely. I do enjoy hanging around bars.

Dare I ask what motivated you to do so?

It'd be a start. Could always weed out those who aren't proving themselves to be as useful as they claim to be.

Duly noted. Last thing I need is some look-a-like stirrin' up trouble.

[ tough cookies, doc. he's probably gonna ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ]

Cuz, uh... there's a lot a' shit where I come from that most a' the people here ain't gonna be equipped to face.

[The guilt will be there - that something from his own mind killed people, and there was only so much that he could do about it - but eventually he would shake it off. Eventually.]

An', dependin' on what showed up, a lot a' people are gonna die.

You may.

[She pauses a moment before answering without waiting for him to ask.]

They were jerks, and they were rude to my friend.

Oh yes.

[That much is absolutely certain.]

They can pass through almost any reflective surface, actually.

I don't like the sound of that.

They were... [ rude to her friends. what? ]

Hold on now, are you tryin' to tell me that these mythical beasts spoke to your friends?

Good thing, then, that I am far more than just a dentist.

[ sometimes, it pays to be the fastest gunslinger who ever lived. ]

You say that like death is a common occurrence.

Mmhmm. ( damon comments noncommittally, disbelievingly. okay, obviously if he knows wynonna then he's from 2017 but there's something else that's weird there. that vocabulary is so outdated. ) I know that, but Wynonna didn't give me the initial impression she'd be a badge toting law bringer. They tend to be very straight laced.

( to say the least, and he wouldn't really call wynonna that, which is a compliment btw. he would not get along with most law enforcement... except where his best friend was the sheriff of mystic falls. )

Best place to hang around in Wonderland. Sure you can get booze out of the closet, but this way it's delivered straight to you. No walking required between glasses or bottles. ( and completely free. )

People still like putting labels on things when it's all they've got left to differentiate them from everyone else.

Especially when people are from different worlds.

Well, you sound like just the person for that.

Then most likely...

[ He's probably already drawn the conclusion, but why stop explaining and stating obvious things? ]

You're still connected. For better or worse.

Then I opt to stick by the label given to me when I penned my name to that contract. Wonderland may be out of our jurisdiction, but sitting back and doin' nothin' while potential dangers run rampant through these halls just ain't my style.

Lucky me.

[ at least he's here and the witch is still there. (please don't ever bring clootie here, wonderland. that would just be cruel.) ]

I do not believe I caught your name.

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