mirror event catch-all

[agentofhydra]

Who: Mirror!Coulson and various
Where: The Real Side
When: Throughout the mirror event
Rating: PG13
Summary: Mirror!Coulson pretends to be Real!Coulson, interacts with whoever could be useful. (This is a closed catch-all post for pre-planned threads).

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[conscientiae]

"Do we not know anything about what's over there?"

Coulson in her space feels more normal than most things in this place, more familiar and more secure. Jemma's feelings of being unsettled start to ease away with him in here now; she must've just been rattled from the experience, and from it being one of the first situation here that feels real, and not just a form of hallucination.

[agentofhydra]

"Not firsthand, but there are others who have been over there. I'd rather get a report from one of our people where possible, though. At least we know that we're all thorough."

He lets his shoulders relax just so and smiles a little more warmly.

"I think for now I want to focus on that riddle. If what everyone has told me is true, we might need that sword."

[conscientiae]

She supposes that makes sense, and now she wonders what it's like over on that side. Would she volunteer, if that were even possible? Though she supposes that depends on who her Mirror is and what she might be like; it's hard for her to even begin to guess, though she rather hopes that she isn't dreadfully stupid. That would just drag their whole reputation down.

"I'm still not entirely clear on what we ought to expect from the Jabberwocky beyond certain doom. I haven't been able to find more details than that, I'm afraid, and it's not easy to prepare to defend yourself against the dark unknown."

She turns her back on him to start going through some notes on her desk. Any thought that he might not be him is long forgotten by now.

[agentofhydra]

"I wasn't here for it, but from what I hear, some time last year Wonderland was filled with ghosts from the future and visitors from after the Jabberwocky appeared and the basic gist of it was that that monster is going to destroy Wonderland and kill a good number of us if we can't stop it."

This future affected the Mirror side, too, which is why this Coulson genuinely would like to find that sword and stop that monster.

[conscientiae]

She slows to a stop and straightens up as he explains the situation, and she half looks over her shoulder.

"Oh." That's slightly more upsetting than she'd anticipated, but she tries to push through it and get back to work. As much as she can. "That does sound certain doom-y." Her smile is half-hearted, but she finally comes up with a list of notes that she brings over to him.

"I've done what I could with the riddle, but this isn't really my area of expertise. At the same time, I am a genius, so." You know. She gives a small shrug. "It's a tricky thing to unravel. Everything I've tried has led to a dead end."

[agentofhydra]

"I'm sure you're doing better than I am. I'm trying to pool all of our resources, though. At least from the other SHIELD personnel."

Not that he's sharing what any of them give him with anyone else, but he's gathering all of their intel. It would be stupid not to use every resource at his disposal.

"I figure we have a better shot at finding it if we work together. We don't want it falling into the wrong hands."

[conscientiae]

"Have any of the others made any progress?"

She takes her folder and sits down, assuming that Coulson knows he can sit down in the other chair if he likes. She rifles through her notes, trying to see if she'd had anything specific she'd wanted to share with him.

[agentofhydra]

"Not much. We've got guesses on a few locations to check out, but nothing concrete that solves the whole riddle."

He half wonders what she'll do if no one solves it, because that seems like a very real possibility right now. They've got some smart people here and none of them seem any closer to cracking it.

[conscientiae]

"It is frustrating. I like a good riddle and scavenger hunt as much as the next person, but this is rather more serious than competing for a trophy in the Academy."

She gives him a small, amused smile, because surely he remembers those scavenger hunts. They were epic.