[He's got a point. He's got a really, really good point, actually, and it hits Jay all at once: He's just given Tim's Mirror some fantastic ammunition. Here he is, like a jackass, doing exactly the thing Tim doesn't want him doing, barely a month after they finally started to build up something resembling cooperation. Barely a month after Tim finally started telling him things of his own volition.]
[Tim's Mirror doesn't have a visible camera, but that doesn't mean anything here. His own Mirror's got a camcorder. (He saw it from across the room, in what might have been the most unsettling moment of his stay here in Wonderland if not for that massive shadow thing a couple weeks ago.) Tim's Mirror could've gotten a hidden camera from George's Mirror or Shaun's or the closets or anyone. He could have a microphone. It could be that the whole conversation's going unrecorded, but even if Tim's Mirror just scrawls the story across the mirror in the hallway or something, it'd be stupid to think Tim would write it off. It would be too easy to believe.]
[Either he keeps quiet about this and prays Tim's Mirror does, too, or he tells Tim himself so the Mirror won't get there first.]
[Shit.]
[Stick and carrot, for one Jay Merrick.]
No. No, he...he really doesn't.
[He needs a subject change, now. Even if he can't talk about home, he needs to make this conversation worth something.]
[He's paused too long. He can't think of anything to say, and he's paused too long, and he knows if he looks up at the Mirror's face, he's gonna have that condescending smirk, and he can't deal with that right now, but he can't think of anything to say.]
How's...how're you doing? On this side? I mean, how're you liking it?
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[He's got a point. He's got a really, really good point, actually, and it hits Jay all at once: He's just given Tim's Mirror some fantastic ammunition. Here he is, like a jackass, doing exactly the thing Tim doesn't want him doing, barely a month after they finally started to build up something resembling cooperation. Barely a month after Tim finally started telling him things of his own volition.]
[Tim's Mirror doesn't have a visible camera, but that doesn't mean anything here. His own Mirror's got a camcorder. (He saw it from across the room, in what might have been the most unsettling moment of his stay here in Wonderland if not for that massive shadow thing a couple weeks ago.) Tim's Mirror could've gotten a hidden camera from George's Mirror or Shaun's or the closets or anyone. He could have a microphone. It could be that the whole conversation's going unrecorded, but even if Tim's Mirror just scrawls the story across the mirror in the hallway or something, it'd be stupid to think Tim would write it off. It would be too easy to believe.]
[Either he keeps quiet about this and prays Tim's Mirror does, too, or he tells Tim himself so the Mirror won't get there first.]
[Shit.]
[Stick and carrot, for one Jay Merrick.]
No. No, he...he really doesn't.
[He needs a subject change, now. Even if he can't talk about home, he needs to make this conversation worth something.]
[He's paused too long. He can't think of anything to say, and he's paused too long, and he knows if he looks up at the Mirror's face, he's gonna have that condescending smirk, and he can't deal with that right now, but he can't think of anything to say.]
How's...how're you doing? On this side? I mean, how're you liking it?