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'Tis rather inconvenient like this. +

Who: You! !oot ,uoy dnA
Where: Wonderland, both Real and Mirror side
When: June 3 to June 10
Rating: PG-13, will vary by thread, warnings for higher ratings appreciated
Summary: A catch-all log for Mirrors and Reals during the reverse espionage event. Anything from Mirrors leading their daily lives, over Reals reacting to the show, to Reals and Mirrors exchanging messages goes here. Just label your locations and sides accordingly!
The Story:

Your own medicine is worth twice the sweetness in the bush, that is what they say! Here is my plan, now make sure you listen well, or you get it wrong, and then I would need to pair you all up, for only two even wrongs set my head back on right, and we've no time for such things, no time at all, do we?

As mighty as the sharpest blade, as stout as the hardest shield, a spool of thread woven from hearts of gold. It must exist, and I must have it! She'll do worse to my head if I search, but you'll help, won't you? I will let you see, and you will be my eyes! All good things come tomorrow - then I'll let you see, and you'll be my eyes, and when it's all done you'll use your own mouths to tell my personal ears all you know, won't you?

All of Wonderland's mirrors are suddenly working in reverse. The Real side can see everything, and the Mirror side is left with nothing but their own reflections. Details of the event can be found here.

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I don't know. I couldn't think of a good reason why you wouldn't.

I can share with you too. I don't really know what you want. [peter knows it's about give and take though. kinda. he doesn't have to deal very much with people so he is not as good at navigating social situations as someone else would. it helps it's all in writing so he doesn't have to respond verbally, stumbling over his own words like a dumbass]

Oh, you don't have to share, Peter. We see everything. That's how I know about you and Little Miss Muffet.

[ her arms fold across her chest. she's more annoyed than she's letting on, about their role reversal. sure, she likes being able to look at herself in the mirror, but she doesn't like that loss of control over the other side. ]

I wonder how my brother would feel about that.

Did you just nickname your best friend after a nursery rhyme character?

[peter is grateful that she cannot see through the other side of the mirror, because his face is hot, and yeah, he'll think about that nursery rhyme in a moment and wonder what the hell that means (because yeah, she just implied that peter is gonna scare bonnie... somehow... scare her away since he is the. spider. and yeah)

but first he's distracted-]

Why would your brother feel anything about that?

Everything's a fairytale, Peter. Keep up with the rest of the class, please. You're supposed to be the smart one.

[ of course, peter doesn't scare bonnie; it's the feeling he evokes that scares bonnie, but elena isn't here to spell things out for him. it's not surprising that he doesn't know bonnie as well as elena does. no one will ever know bonnie the way that elena does. that's their curse. ]

They were dating, last I knew. I even gave them my blessing. I probably should've been more judicious, since he's been so easy to forget. [ it's hard to ignore how little elena actually feels offended on her brother's behalf. but then, she's also the person who brainwashes him when it suits her.

as far as grievances go, bonnie's is slightly more forgivable. isn't it? ]

[peter grimaces at what she says, but he has already written down the name of the nursery rhyme, running through it in his head as he jots it down in his scribbled hand writing on the piece of paper. spider. that's him. he bites down on his lip but why- why would he scare bonnie away? he shifts on his feet, wanting to ask, afraid of the answer.] You're saying I'm going to scare her away.

[and then

oh shit. he had no idea about elena's brother dating bonnie, and here he was like feeling things for her and staring at her and sharing pancakes with her, and it's not like he- well, he was dating gwen before wonderland. he was going to break up with her because- because he should keep her safe, and he is the reason her father died (and doesn't it make sense he'd scare anyone, really? what's his death count up to now?)]

Why are you like this? [it seems easier to ask about her, about that than-]

That's not a question I can answer.

[ she was made. and just as easily, she can be unmade. she doesn't forget that, despite her otherwise nonchalant demeanor. m!elena tastes something bitter on her tongue, and swallows it back down. ] This is who I am. This is who we are. That'll never change.

[ she's certain all the real little people will comfort themselves by way of denial: reminding each other the mirrors aren't an honest portrayal of who they really are. repeating to themselves like a mantra that mirrors are their polar opposites. but a part of peter is as irresponsible as his mirror.

or uncle ben would be alive, wouldn't he? ]

You don't want it to change?

I mean, what do you want? There has to be something. You exist. You don't exist in a vacuum with no desire and no plans and nothing to have for yourself.

[peter can't imagine life on the other side where she's just stuck to stew and to stare at the other side and to feel and think the things she so obviously does from the way she's talking to him- it can't be great. it can't be fulfilling. it can't be anything, can it?

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...ha. it's a good thing the narration does not exist outside of the narration and maybe that is part of why he is so annoyed at the other version of him who is not evil, who is not particularly mean. he is just irresponsible. he just doesn't care, and peter wants to wring his fucking neck]

[ if elena rolled her eyes any harder, they'd have done a full threesixty in her sockets. ]

Are you trying to connect with me? Appeal to some hidden part of me that will show you I do have a heart after all? [ u g h ]

It's trite and frankly, boring.

[ she sees no reason to answer his questions. they wouldn't give him any solace to read as it is.

she was made this way, quite literally. whatever he is looking for, he will not find it in her. she either does not have those answers, or she refuses to give them. she was not made to be disloyal to the queen. the queen is the reason she exists at all, and if elena knows how to do anything, it's align herself with the stronger party. ]

[peter is grateful for the fact that the mirror is oneway as he is incapable of putting on any kind of poker face. and he finds himself reeling slightly from her response despite himself. it wasn't what he was trying to do. peter doesn't even really know what he's trying to do (except maybe drive himself crazy with the lack of answers despite his unending staring into the mirrors

like there will be something useful, like all of it will mean something)]

No, I'm just literally trying to figure out how you tick.

I mean, obviously, you still really care about Bonnie, right? You watch her enough to know about what's going on in her life. Do you watch the real version of yourself too?

[ it's almost cute: he thinks he can figure that out.

she'd be angry at the attempt, if she thought he was anywhere close to being successful. elena tips her head to the side at his obviously, as though it's a done deal. she doesn't like you, peter, and she has very deliberate reasons for that. it won't do to give them all away. ]

Have you figured anything out since you got here?

[ it's almost a sincere question. ]

Does it kill you? All that science and power, and you're still here. [ all but a mirror himself. ]

You're not sharing with me so I'm not sharing either. Funny how that works.

[peter is being a sassypants despite the fact he's already flinched more than a few times. she's good, talented at knowing exactly what to say somehow, which means she has to have watched... and since she doesn't seem to care about anything else, it has to be because of bonnie that she's even seen him, right? or does she just want all the information she can get about the Real side to survive, to live, to get in good with the queen

he can see both being true, and he honestly doesn't know which is- which is more true.]

Me and everyone else. There has to be a reason why we're here, and I get it. You're good at this. You know exactly what to say which means you've been paying close attention for whatever reason.

I'm absolutely devastated.

[ except elena's expression is deadpanned, and she sounds not at all upset that peter won't share. it's not like she hasn't already glimpsed into his wonderland life. the real side really ought to be more careful with its mirrors, but then, they aren't wholly escapable. ]

The question isn't whether or not I've been paying attention, Peter. The question is — have you?

[ she smiles a little, this time a little bit more in earnest, and with that smile, all sharp teeth and promise, elena disappears from view. ]

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