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[ lets not talk about biting. ]

[ so, cora's now regretting never watching the exorcist, since she's certain some of the methods used in that film could be used on adam's mirror. pity. just like silver bullets are a bitch to pull from flesh, she's starting to think she's going to have to do her own secondary research on demons. ]

The hunters better. I'm pretty sure you could turn your "I don't know" into something - the library is bound to have books.

[ cora's beginning to wonder if adam really doesn't know. he's been eaten by a monster he can't recall, he's been used by an angel in the worst of ways, and his mirror is the opposite of the guys he's warned her about. is he really that clueless and unlucky? or is he holding his cards close to his chest — closer than she is with hers? ]

Anything's possible in Wonderland. Why not a How To for putting demons down?

Some seem to.

_{[Like Ellen, who'd held him captive in a devil's trap when his Mirror had possessed him. That's plenty of proof hunters know what demons are and what to do about them.

But what Cora's talking about involves him confessing to John Winchester's friends and family (a different kind of family than what a bastard kid counts for) about his experiences in Hell, that his Wonderland duplicate is a demon, that he has mixed feelings on everything to do with these mirror personas. It's not like he hasn't been to the library for just that purpose, but it's not all that easy to master a whole new way of life through sources that may or may not even be accurate.]}

Fact checking is the hard part and I doubt they have books on Wonderland twins and how to deal with them. But if you find one that makes it that easy, great. Send it my way when you're done with it.

I will.

[ out of the two of them, adam seems to be the one who could use it the most. what does she gain from looking up demons? she's occupying hours she'd otherwise spend being bored in her room. she has no intention of finding adam's mirror again. but if mirrors haunt their reals ... how does he not know a thing about the creature his mirror is? is he disinterested? does he not want to know what makes it tick? cora doesn't understand it, how he doesn't know the basics of how to put his own mirror down. but maybe it's simpler for her to be critical since she hasn't had to tango with hers just yet. ]

You really don't think someone in Wonderland would've written down things that happened? Some people here must be adamant at keeping notes. surely, someone before the two of them must've tangoed with demons and jotted down a few notes on how to dip them and twirl them on the dance floor.

[ look at the pamphlet that sometimes circulates around when new kids flood wonderland. even though it's not exactly an academic piece of literature, it's still useful. cora always opens it up when she's in doubt about something. ]

_{[Adam's been absorbed in learning how to put a different kind of demon down--himself, his Hell self, the memories that eat up his waking moments.

Too many demons, too many things that would be all too happy to rip a person to shreds. There's not enough time or peace of mind to deal with them all.]}

Have you noticed there's no real record of this place? Nothing like a history book. I haven't exactly asked around the people who've been living here. It's not one of those question you want to fire off on a public forum.

_{[And not with the kind of company this mansion keeps.]}

Hunters and I aren't really buddies if that's what you've been thinking. But I've got my ears open.

I haven't exactly been in the library, no. Figured someone who was bored enough would keep some sort of record — even if it was brief.

[ but adam shoots that down. cora spends the majority of her time outside. it's been a few months or so since the bank vault, but cora's felt like she's been trapped in a stuffier and smaller room for years; being able to move freely and outside of the confines of beacon hills and being a hale in beacon hills has been a breath of fresh air. besides, stiles knows everything — she figures he's more useful than whatever one can find in the library. ]

[ he does say something surprising, though. ]

I thought you were. Aren't you in with them? Not a hunter, but a friend of.

Not that I ever heard.

_{[And although the library has a ton of reading material and it's the one place he'd think to go looking for information, it's not the most helpful place, never where it's supposed to be, never looking the same from day to day.

If there is a cache of factoids on Wonderland, Adam hasn't found them yet in between his search for supernatural-related books.]}

No.

_{[Which is the simplest and most truthful answer.]}

The people I know from home aren't my friends.

It doesn't hurt to look. It's not like I'm doing anything crazy during my days.

[ for the first time in forever, cora actually has downtime to be normal. and she's not quite sure how the hell to do that, when she's so used to leaping from one dramatic extreme thing to the next. ]

[ cora supposes she's lucky to have the people she likes from home in wonderland. even though she thinks lowly of a few of them … it's not like she's stuck here with jennifer blake or kate argent or peter and his confusing lies. she doesn't quite know how she would approach it, let alone cope being in a place with no already built-in support system. ]

Sorry. At least you can avoid them in Wonderland. Or anonymously harass them on the network.

[ that's an upside, isn't it? ]

_{[It's a little weird, the sudden sense of guilt that she wants to research something dangerous that had come from him. His Mirror, his demonic other self. She's right to push him; he should be trying to bolster his education instead of being ashamed and uncomfortable talking to someone like Ellen thanks to what he is.]}

I want to know, too. We can end up swapping if something pans out. If I find out your twin's a grade A psycho along the way, I'll pass the news along.

_{[Trying to joke, even just a little, is the best he can do. Mirror clones aren't funny, and being surrounded by the kinds of people he is isn't funny, either. He doubts he'll put her suggestions into action, but he appreciates what she's trying to get at all the same.]}

It's fine, it's not like you knew. It's a long headache of a story. But they know things. If anyone knows, it must be monster hunters.

Do one better and put her in the ground.

[ she doesn't want to know her mirror out there is free to run around being a grade a psycho. she'd feel better if she knew she was gone, kaput, like how she's meant to be. though, she doesn't completely trust adam to be the one to put anything in the ground, at least she knows she can trust him — as much as one can trust a boy who is a blend of confusion and teenage angst and death — with whatever information he happens to pass on, demons in general or her own damn mirror. ]

Isn't that what every story is? One massive, long headache? It sounds like a migraine if you toss in monster hunters.

[ and it feels awfully a lot like betrayal to type monster. werewolves have hunters, but she doesn't view them as such — but she supposes, sort of like adam, the ones that have hunters seeking them out fit the bill of monster. but the hales had been hunted down as though they were, when all she can remember is mom wanting harmony. if she looks at it black and white, monster hunter describes the alpha pack and nothing more. ]

_{[Cora doesn't pull her punches, does she? Adam can't say he disagrees with the sentiment. A good monster is a dead monster in his books.]}

You think they have nine lives like the rest of us?

_{[Because having a Mirror come back from the dead in a pissy mood sounds like a good way to start a turf war. Who knows, maybe Cora's Mirror is as soft-spoken and sweet as they come...]}

I'm not arguing, but that story's one especially.

_{[As much as he might claim he's not a part of Sam and Dean's profession, and as much as he doesn't want to be, the fact remains that it was partly thanks to them knowing what kind of assholes angels really are and their intervention that he'd seen the truth about Michael's plan. Not enough to save him, but enough for him to realize his mistakes.

To him, a hunter is at the bare minimum someone who's aware of the supernatural and smart enough to have an idea of what to do about it. What's that saying, "knowing is half the battle"? That's a philosophy Adam could learn to live by if he had the chance.]}

The idea of them having one life and one life only sounds too good to be true. Why not double it so they have ten lives to our five?

[ this little ray of sunshine. perhaps her mirror really is her literal opposite — all about rainbows and puppies and positivity and excessively using exclamation points! it sounds a little too simple and idealistic for the mirrors to only have one chance at living. there's always a catch — one cora's none too keen to find out any time in the near future. ]

Sounds like a dream. Remind me not to ask you to tell me it. I bet the reality is bad enough.

[ having to see the goons every day — or, possibly, once a month. while cora's gone six years without seeing one familiar face, she knows, sometimes, if it's particularly rough, six years is a blessing in disguise. maybe adam deserves her unlucky luck with that. ]

If you ever want to get rid of the migraine. It's not like I know them.

Unless they die for real, getting rid of them will just piss them off.

_{[Adam's ray of sunshine is slightly more pragmatic. He doesn't have werewolf healing or Hale confidence to go around picking fights with every creature he meets.]}

Yeah, it is. That's why you're better off not knowing.

_{[Cora sounds like she's offering a listening ear while not wanting to hear the whole whale of a tale, and Adam can't blame anyone for that. Once you know, you can't unknow. If he could scrub his mind of every damning thing he's learned about life, and family, and monsters, he would.]}

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