[Open] Three Things Cannot Be Long Hidden

[electricfox]

Who: Kira Yukimura and YOU
Where: The Gardens
When: Wednesday
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Kira lands in Wonderland with a splash
The Story:


Well...this was, ok maybe not the strangest thing that happened to her, that honor went to finding out she was a Kitsune and her mother was actually 900, but it was definitely up there as one of the strangest things that happened to her. One minute she was watching Scott walk away from her, disappointed that he was apologizing for kissing her (even if it wasn't a real kiss) and the next she was free falling and landing with a giant splash in a...fountain?

She sits up quickly and looks around, pushing wet hair out of her face. What the actual hell? This wasn't Beacon Hills High, this wasn't even Beacon Hills, unless someone got a giant garden with a fountain and didn't tell her. Oh and also transported her there?

Okay, no reason to freak out, this happens all the time right? Yeah right, Kira, keep telling yourself that. She pushed herself up and out of the fountain, dripping water onto the ground as she looks around. It's times like this part of her wishes she was a wolf. She could just howl and Scott could come find her and tell her she wasn't crazy, she just accidentally drank wolfsbane laced water or something. This was all a very strange hallucination that was all. If she just stayed here and waited it would wear off. She would still be at school...

The last time she ended up in a garden when it should have been school was with the Nogitsune...

No, they had trapped it. It was in the box and it wasn't coming back. Oh she really hoped it wasn't coming back, that was not something she ever wanted to go through again. Almost having to kill her new friend who happened to be best friends with the guy she liked was not something she wanted to repeat, ever.

Well, she would just sit here for a few minutes and if nothing happened then she would try to figure out what exactly was going on. She was really hoping for wolfsbane hallucinations and not at all expecting what the truth actually was.

[OOC: Feel free to find her anywhere she'll be wandering the grounds before making her way inside.]

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[itwouldbeatragedy]

Kaneki mostly stays inside because, outside, it's cold. He hopes that it won't be long before it warms up, but he hasn't been in Wonderland long enough to know when winter typically ends. Of course, one of the few days he ventures outside for more than a few moments, he would find someone climbing out of the fountain. That can't be on purpose--at least he hopes not--and she looks surprised enough to support that determination.

He blinks at her for a moment, before shedding his coat and approaching her.

"Um...excuse me." Getting close enough to her, he holds the coat out to her. "Are you okay?"

[electricfox]

Kira blinks at the new comer. She's noticing how cold it is outside, definitely not in California anymore, and she dripping wet in a skirt and t-shirt. She hesitates because she doesn't know who this is or where she is but coldness wins out and she takes his jacket smiling slightly, gratefully.

"Thanks, um, where am I?"

[itwouldbeatragedy]

He's a bit embarrassed--she's wet and cold and a girl okay and he's only nineteen--but he offers a small smile back.

"Wonderland, if you can believe that."

[electricfox]

She blinks at him. "Come again? Wonderland?" Well good Jon, Kira, you've taken a crazy person's coat.

[itwouldbeatragedy]

"It's um. It sounds weird, I know." He looks down, to the side, trying to think of the most realistic way to explain. "People are snatched from wherever they live normally and brought here."

He looks up again, holding up both hands, open palms upward in a gesture that's simultaneously expansive and helpless. "And we come from all kinds of worlds, too. Like..."

Well, he can't really give a good example, since he has no idea where she's from.

"Like I'm from Tokyo, Japan. It's 2013 where I'm from."

[intelligently]

With the recent horror that has recently befallen Wonderland now thankfully fixed and over Lydia has been spending a lot more time outside than she had in the previous few months - partly to make up for not being outside, and mostly because sitting in the gardens was actually quite nice. It was a lovely sight, at least it was when certain foxes weren't falling into the fountain.

Lydia had a couple of textbooks with her again, one to continue her research into ideas for 'anonymous's' problem and two more on reading up more on magical theory. Lydia had no idea if the books that she'd pulled from the library were at all useful or even correct for any of the residents here but knowledge could be something, and maybe if it wasn't magical theory for a resident here it could be left from a past resident. Mr Gold had theorised that Wonderland adapted itself based on the people that came here, and the worlds. The book could do something more than just be an interesting read.

Lydia has one of the magical theory books open, slowly reading through it but this time - or not yet - is not making any notes. At least Lydia was reading until she heard a splash. Looking up and towards the fountain Lydia frowned, finger still on the page where she'd paused in her reading.

Was it? It certainly looked like it was, but-

"Kira?"

Lydia was a little dumbstruck. She'd seen Kira in Wonderland once before but that had been months ago, and it had been almost as long since anyone from Beacon Hills had arrived in Wonderland - people left more than they came back.

[electricfox]

Kira glanced around, she totally heard Lydia's voice, she knew she did. She wasn't going crazy. She just had to keep repeating that. Catching sight of her friend across the garden surrounded by books, was a sight for sore eyes and she rushed over as quickly as she could.

"Lydia? Please tell me you're real and I'm not hallucinating."

[intelligently]

"If you're hallucinating me does that mean Scott has something to worry about?"

It's said with an entirely serious face before Lydia gives Kira a small smile, closing her book and putting it to the side of her. Kira was real and Kira was here - back in Wonderland. This would actually be the first time that Lydia had had to explain what was happening to someone from home - or anyone. Oh God.

"Are you okay?"

After a fall like that and then getting soaked. Lydia stood from the bench she'd been sat on, books abandoned as she moved across the garden towards the fountain - to Kira. Maybe they could do the hug thing later when she'd dried off a little.

[electricfox]

"Why would Scott have something to worry about? It's not like he's my boyfriend." No, she's still not bitter from the weird not kiss, honestly, not bitter at all. She shakes her head and smiles at her friend.

"I'm ok, I think. Uh, so, where are we, and how did I go from school to landing in a fountain in a strange garden? Which is freezing, by the way."

[hulk_ling]

Teddy had been walking Rufus around the gardens when he noticed the girl who looked completely lost and out of place. It wasn't difficult to tell she was a new arrival. Teddy could understand that confusion. Wonderland wasn't the easiest place to find yourself, especially alone.

Rufus gave a short little bark and looked up at Teddy, his tail wagging behind him. Teddy had to smile. "Alright boy, we'll go see if she needs some help."

Rufus barked again and pulled on his leash, heading toward Kira. Teddy waved at her, hoping she didn't mind puppies. "Hi. Are you all right?"

[electricfox]

The sound of barking startled her a little and she turned towards the noise noticing the adorable tiny dog was attached to probably the cutest guy she'd ever seen. And she was soaking wet, good job Kira.

"Umm, no?" She said tucking a wet strand of hair behind her ear. "Do you know where I am?"

[hulk_ling]

"You're in Wonderland," Teddy said gently, knowing it was going to be a bit of a shock to find she wasn't home. He noticed that she was dripping wet and his expression became one of concern.

"You must be freezing," he said, immediately unzipping his jacket. He offered it to the girl, a friendly gesture. "The last thing you need waking up in a strange place is to come down with a cold."

[electricfox]

She looked at him skeptically. "Wonderland? As in Alice In? And let me guess, you're the white rabbit? Although I don't remember him having a dog."

She hesitated, because she was cold, it was apparently winter here and she was wearing a skirt and a t-shirt and not much else. A jacket looked warm, but she didn't know this guy.

[henrydaniel]

It's not really every day that someone lands in a fountain across from where you're reading comics, and Henry looks up, eyebrows raising when she just kind of...sits there. He's kind of to her side and behind her, so he isn't sure she's seen him, but he calls out when she doesn't get out of the water.

"...Are you okay?" He just watched her come out of nowhere, so he's guessing Wonderland's picked up a new resident.

[electricfox]

It's not every day Kira lands in a fountain either. She turns when she hears a voice and is surprised to see a boy sitting there. "Umm, i think so? I mean, the water was kind of a soft landing which I guess is a good thing when one minute you're in a school hallway and the next you're actually falling through the sky?" And she's rambling at this poor kid while sitting in a fountain.

She should probably get out.

[henrydaniel]

Rolling his comic a little, Henry stuffs it in his back pocket and gets up, holding out his hand to her. "Here, let me help." He's a gentleman, even if he is a young one.

[electricfox]

"Thanks." Kira takes his hand and let's him help her out of the water, suppressing a shiver. "I'm Kira."

[notmymccalling]

Okay, so Scott wasn't so used to catching a scent he recognised when he wasn't aware they were here. He almost thought that maybe he was being overly hopeful. So many of their friends had slowly slipped out of Wonderland that he felt he might be just wanting a familiar presence to hard. But the scent of a very specific fox caught his nose and made him very optimistic.

He followed it, leading him to the fountain and around the garden. There were signs of a crash landing in the water, as well as puddles around as a result and eventually, he saw her. His heart jumped in his chest as he called her name and rushed to catch up with her.

"Kira!"

Last time he'd seen her, he'd stabbed her. Even if it wasn't entirely him, he still was overly happy to see she was alive.

[electricfox]

So, she'd met some people in the gardens and they told her she was in Wonderland? Which...what? She wanted to call them crazy but, they seemed to really believe it, she was wondering if maybe Womderland was code for some mental illness institute or something and she had finally lost it.

Then she hears Scott's voice and she whirled around. "Scott!"

She rushed forward as she caught sight of him feeling relief wash over her. Scott wasn't crazy so she couldn't be either. Right?

[notmymccalling]

Yep, it was her. He'd half thought that maybe he was either imagining her or she might be another look-alike (smell-alike?) but nope. His smile brightened, reaching out and touching her arm just above the elbow partly for comfort and partly to make sure she was really there.

"Hey, you okay? Did you just get here?" Of course she did. She wouldn't be hiding from him, unless of course she didn't know he was here. "And... did you fall in the fountain?" That last question seemed a bit amused, but he was trying to hide it.

[electricfox]

Oh god, don't laugh at her Scott, it totally wasn't her fault. She blushed, grinning up at him for a second. He was really distracting, it wasn't fair.

"Hi, yeah, umm I guess? Where exactly is here? Because there were some people in he garden who said Womderlamd but that's ridiculous right? Did someone slip us Wolfsbane or, is this a really really weird dream?" It couldn't be a dream she knew that, not when she was cold and wet. "I landed I the fountain, from school. You said goodbye and suddenly fountain."

am i too late for some Teen Wolf action???

[lifeskills]

Though winter seemed to be mild in this world, perhaps it was still strange to find a man in a dark overcoat scratching away at a notebook with a charcoal pencil. Sketching what manner of wildlife he found on the grounds was Victor's activity of choice this day (and had been for weeks now), and he had taken up residence in a field not far from the mansion to do just that.

In any case, making anatomical drawings of birds wasn't any more strange than a girl wandering about in the snow with hair still damp as if from a recent bath.

Occupied in his business, Victor failed to notice her until a glance up from his journal alerted him to a smudge of color standing out against the snow. Upon closer inspection, the smudge resolved itself into a young lady. From an Oriental background, so said her features.

Noting these sorts of things took precedence over greeting her. One of Victor's many bad habits.

Never!

[electricfox]

As if this place couldn't be stranger there was now a man with a sketch pad in his lap staring at her. And he had a long dark overcoat on, that wasn't creepy or anything. Kira glances around before approaching him slowly.

"You know staring really isn't very polite, right? It borders on creepy, even."

sorry, Kira, then you're resigned to the Matt treatment

[lifeskills]

Victor considered her a moment longer before letting his gaze fall again. Better?

"Then I won't ask what brought you outdoors in that state," was his reply, outwardly unbothered by the presence of a stranger who mostly likely had an odd or uncanny quality about them like most people did in this place. If given reason to, Victor was more than happy to rise to provocations, but all in all, hers was not worth protesting.

Besides, he couldn't exactly talk when it came to morbidity, could he? He was one of the focal points of one of the nineteenth century's most macabre tales.

[electricfox]

"Then I won't tell you that one minute I was in California, where it was warm, and the next I was in a garden fountain, in a fictional place from a children's book." She couldn't help it, she was intrigue now.