i never wanted anything from you, except everything you had.

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who | elena gilbert & friends
where | e v e r y w h e r e
when | throughout december + maybe january??
rating | i can never tell.
summary | life in wonderland is never boring. if you'd like a starter, hit me up at moonbows.
the story |

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i'm sorry it's such a lousy story. i never liked that ending, either.

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[ she never stops searching.

for answers, for reasons, for truths. she doesn't always get somewhere, but elena is nothing if not persistent.

she wonders sometimes. not often if she can help it, but she's wondered: what she would look like if she were not the doppelgänger, with eyes and hands and lips that were manufactured centuries ago. would she have isobel's eyes, or john's? it doesn't matter. the eyes that stare back at her are brown, and try as she might, elena cannot see what's on the other side of the looking glass. it's unnerving to know they can see her. a disadvantage if she ever saw one. ]

is anyone there?

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Yes.

[The answer comes with some delay, because Leo has hesitated to write anything at all. His own real, he's hardly ever even seen him. Always destroying mirrors when he can, always avoiding standing near them. All he really knows about him he has learned from the man's friends.

He doesn't know this person at all, but he's here and that's all she's asking.]

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[ elena wasn't actually expecting an answer, and now that she has it, she finds herself at a loss for words. and it seems she isn't the only one, if the mirror's succinct answer is anything to go by. elena's handwriting is rounded and loopy, yet somehow neat; it comes across clearly. ]

I don't want to get you in trouble. I just want to talk.

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What do you want to talk about?

[No, he's not used to actually talking to someone through the mirror like this, but now he is intrigued nonetheless.]

I'm Leo. Who are you?

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I'm Elena.

[ no sense in hiding what any mirror could determine if they peek for long enough. she is getting the feeling that this leo doesn't do that, however. it's important to remember the mirrors aren't a monolith. ]

Do you like it over there, Leo?

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It's not so bad.

Usually your side looks like more fun.

[There's a pause and then he draws a smiley onto the mirror.]

^-^

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[ oh my god leo way to be adorable. consider elena endeared in spite of herself.

a grin tugs on her lips, adding some formidable eyebrows to his lil drawing over there. ]

I don't know if fun is the word I'd use to describe it. Sometimes it's pretty scary, too.

[lesscold]

Everywhere can be scary.

[The mirror side definitely isn't lacking there.]

I hope you have no reason to be scared right now!

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I can safely say the last thing I feel right now is fear. How about you?

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I'm not that brave, unfortunately. But there's nothing immediate to fear.

What do you do, Elena?

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Currently? What I'm doing is trying to gather information about Wonderland, and that includes the Mirror Side. I was hoping to talk to one of you to see what it's really like on the other side.

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It's empty.

What do you want to know?

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[ what does she want to know?

she'd made a list in her head, but now that she's been confronted with such a sweet mirror, elena's admittedly aggressive m.o. no longer works quite as well. ]

Have you ever met the Queen?

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No. I don't think she'd be very interested in me.

I hope not.

[He doesn't really feel brave enough to even consider the possibility.]