[But the reasons don't matter so much as the results. If there's a light at the end of the tunnel, it's that there will hopefully be an end to this one way or the other.
As for her question, Adam's unsure how much Bela knows about the creatures they're sharing the mansion with--and neither is he really sure monsters and demons aren't responsible for this. He has to wonder if it's worth bringing Crowley's name into up, given that the person who'd warned him hadn't been a well-meaning sibling, but rather Crowley the mysterious demonic entity.]
[Perhaps he'd be surprised at just how much Bela did know about the supernatural monsters that existed where they were from. How she knew about the existence of angels after talking to Balthazar and Castiel.
It might come up in conversation eventually but until one of them directly brings it up, it mightn't happen.]
I received a message of my own also. But I knew about this when I saw a message over the network.
No one has given me any updates since then though.
Thanks for the heads up. I forgot my phone before.
[Even though people seem to die and come back here all the time, Bela shouldn't be one of them. It's good to know she doesn't count among them so far.]
[Which is as close to a promise as Adam can make. If he had to make a bet, Bela's chances are still a bit better than his own, and that's a compliment to her tough-as-nails attitude.]
[ because guess who is no longer a boy — or old, or anything other than her normal, grumpy self. she wonders if adam has returned to his usual unpleasant self or if wonderland had decided that he was better off as a mopey, pretty girl who ran into doorknobs. ]
[Huh, now here's a message he hadn't expected to get. As far as Wonderland crap goes, the body snatching had ended as abruptly as events usually tended to do, and the only thing he'd thought at the same had been thank god. Between Krissy, and Dean, and everything else, he's ready to take a nice, long lap to forget the outside world for a few days.
Until he gets Cora's text, that is.]
Back to normal.
[Thankfully, no, he's neither his girl self, or in Krissy's girl body, which is a damn relief to the both of them. Back to owning a healing face, but oh well; strangely enough, he hadn't missed his body this much since coming out of the pit.]
[ and cora's so happy about it she'll use her emotes to show her emotions through text to her good pal, adam. can you sense how happy she is to have her long hair back and all her girl parts? ]
Did you change into anything else after you stopped being a girl?
[ this is basically the reason why she texted him. not to see how he's going, how are the abs, how are the pecs, how's your emotional well-being now that you're a dude again, how's the lack of breasts. nah. ]
[But how does she know? There is some definite staring at his phone while he considers if someone's passed along the information that he and Krissy had gotten way too intimate with each other thanks to another extremely poorly-timed body swap.
He could always lie for the sake of his reputation. But then he has to stop and remind himself that his reputation can't possibly get any worse at this point.]
I got double-billed for a bit, but with everything else I heard going on I wasn't dropping by the tourist attractions for more.
[ since, if cora turned old, maybe adam did, too. wonderland always seems to deal out its event in phases — in the tunnels, the first two days had been quiet and lonely, but the last few had been rampant with creatures and monsters cora never wants to see again. maybe it's the same here — swap your gender and then age ten years. ]
[Old? So she'd done more than just... swap bodies and different anatomy.]
Not that I know. How'd you manage that? Did you get too close to one of the places that's not normally here?
[Logic doesn't apply here, but Adam's hard put not to pick up on the pattern. Weird places, weird structures... weird effects. Samandriel's vessel had gone through something similar, only he'd gotten younger, not older.]
Figured I'd check out the playground. I don't advise trying to climb the thing if it ever comes back. Ended up being 27 for a while.
[ and it kind of sucks knowing things she isn't meant to know at the age of seventeen. but maybe adam lucked out and transformed into a cute little puppy with no additional memories now clouding his brain. ]
[Cora? Hanging around playground equipment? He tries to imagine why she would and fails. She hasn't given the impression she's a big fan of kicking back and climbing jungle gyms, but what does he really know...]
That's a specific number. Did it update your driver's license for you? At least it didn't make you 80 like I heard the Weeping Angels did.
[To be honest, he already has hundreds of years of extra memories, adding twenty seven more to the pile probably wouldn't be a stretch, but that's another exceedingly long story...
He's tempted not to tell the truth, but if Cora's admitting how Wonderland had punk'd her, ]
Another dose of Freaky Friday with someone here. I laid low.
[ the way to be a true hale: take everything literally. ]
But I aged 10 years. Got more than I bargained for. Know if the Weeping Angels gave you a trunk load of memories that weren't there before?
[ cora's about to ask if he'd been changed back into adrianna (is that his female name?) but since he didn't simply say got boobs again or anything like that, she'll have to take this literally, too. ]
Who'd you swap with? Hope it was someone more interesting than the girl version of yourself.
[ cora liked girl adam. he'd been a little more open, if a little more defensive than usual, but at least he seemed to let loose ... just a little. and she's not thinking literally, either, with the lack of support he gave himself. ]
[Good to know. Cora doesn't drive, and she's also... what, normally seventeen? He's learning all sorts of fun facts lately.
But as for the Weeping Angels, he thought they'd more or less just been stealing time to feed themselves and kill their victims. This sounds different. More Tom Hanks' Big kind of different.]
No one said anything. They just gained years. Sounds like you really aged.
At least a version of yourself isn't someone you met here and have to look at. That's plenty interesting. She's just another girl here I was in the wrong place at the wrong time with.
[For Krissy's sake, he'll keep her name out of the papers. He can't pretend the body swap hadn't happened, but he doesn't have to embarrass her further. Or himself for that matter. There's something uncomfortably intimate about getting to know someone from the inside out when neither person involved had given their permission.]
Lucky me. I got to be old and you got to be someone else.
[ cora really shouldn't be amused that adam got swapped with the one body that he probably never wants to be in again. but she should count her blessings — it could've been worse. she could've swapped with someone like adam had. being a boy sucks. ]
I'm starting to wonder if Wonderland wants to give you some sort of gender crisis. Guess you still don't like being a girl, not even after the second try?
[Maybe Wonderland just didn't want to be boring and do to him what Hell already has. Cora's not the only one who has more memories than her physical age suggests; he's way too old to be nineteen.
Physically growing old, in a way, would just be sad, like a person glimpsing a future they're never going to have. He doesn't really envy Cora, either.]
I like you fine, I just don't want to be one of you full-time. And it's just wrong having to use someone like that.
[Being in their body is a bizarre and uncomfortable way to violate someone's privacy.]
[ cora can't begin to fathom what it must be like to be in possession of someone else's body. while it's easy for her to make jokes about it and what it could possibly mean for adam, she doesn't get it. and hopefully she never will. ]
Couple days. But the body came back in better condition than when it left, so I guess I can't complain.
[Well, that's a lie, Adam has plenty he can complain about, up to and including the fact that Michael had gotten close enough to Krissy to touch her and heal his injuries while she'd been in his body, but still...]
Must be running out of steam if it's wearing off for all of us.
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Date: 2014-02-21 04:09 am (UTC)[He's sure he doesn't have the best phone skills himself, but having Crowley hang up on him makes him double take for a second.
Demons, super helpful.]
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Date: 2014-02-23 03:42 pm (UTC)This could be one of those occasions.
[The longer it went on, the more dangerous it could become for everyone.]
Did someone give you a warning message?
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Date: 2014-02-24 05:19 am (UTC)[But the reasons don't matter so much as the results. If there's a light at the end of the tunnel, it's that there will hopefully be an end to this one way or the other.
As for her question, Adam's unsure how much Bela knows about the creatures they're sharing the mansion with--and neither is he really sure monsters and demons aren't responsible for this. He has to wonder if it's worth bringing Crowley's name into up, given that the person who'd warned him hadn't been a well-meaning sibling, but rather Crowley the mysterious demonic entity.]
Yeah, a neighbour from downstairs.
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Date: 2014-02-25 07:56 pm (UTC)It might come up in conversation eventually but until one of them directly brings it up, it mightn't happen.]
I received a message of my own also. But I knew about this when I saw a message over the network.
No one has given me any updates since then though.
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Date: 2014-02-26 02:34 am (UTC)[Even though people seem to die and come back here all the time, Bela shouldn't be one of them. It's good to know she doesn't count among them so far.]
I'll pass along anything. Just to check in.
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Date: 2014-02-26 03:59 pm (UTC)[He shouldn't be one of them either. Adam was one of the handful of people that Bela gave half a damn about.]
I'll do the same. With any luck, this will be over sooner than later.
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Date: 2014-02-27 04:01 am (UTC)Let's hope.
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Date: 2014-02-27 08:10 pm (UTC)Keep me updated as well. I'll keep in touch.
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Date: 2014-02-27 09:15 pm (UTC)[Which is as close to a promise as Adam can make. If he had to make a bet, Bela's chances are still a bit better than his own, and that's a compliment to her tough-as-nails attitude.]
Will do. And you can call if you need anything.
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Date: 2014-03-01 04:53 pm (UTC)See you later.
[Because neither of them were going to die and that was that.]
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Date: 2014-03-02 06:04 am (UTC)[Fingers crossed.]
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Date: 2014-03-28 10:34 pm (UTC)[ because guess who is no longer a boy — or old, or anything other than her normal, grumpy self. she wonders if adam has returned to his usual unpleasant self or if wonderland had decided that he was better off as a mopey, pretty girl who ran into doorknobs. ]
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Date: 2014-03-30 04:38 am (UTC)Until he gets Cora's text, that is.]
Back to normal.
[Thankfully, no, he's neither his girl self, or in Krissy's girl body, which is a damn relief to the both of them. Back to owning a healing face, but oh well; strangely enough, he hadn't missed his body this much since coming out of the pit.]
Are you still a guy?
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Date: 2014-03-30 06:52 am (UTC)[ and cora's so happy about it she'll use her emotes to show her emotions through text to her good pal, adam. can you sense how happy she is to have her long hair back and all her girl parts? ]
Did you change into anything else after you stopped being a girl?
[ this is basically the reason why she texted him. not to see how he's going, how are the abs, how are the pecs, how's your emotional well-being now that you're a dude again, how's the lack of breasts. nah. ]
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Date: 2014-03-30 07:56 am (UTC)[But how does she know? There is some definite staring at his phone while he considers if someone's passed along the information that he and Krissy had gotten way too intimate with each other thanks to another extremely poorly-timed body swap.
He could always lie for the sake of his reputation. But then he has to stop and remind himself that his reputation can't possibly get any worse at this point.]
I got double-billed for a bit, but with everything else I heard going on I wasn't dropping by the tourist attractions for more.
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Date: 2014-03-30 12:51 pm (UTC)Did you get old, too?
[ since, if cora turned old, maybe adam did, too. wonderland always seems to deal out its event in phases — in the tunnels, the first two days had been quiet and lonely, but the last few had been rampant with creatures and monsters cora never wants to see again. maybe it's the same here — swap your gender and then age ten years. ]
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Date: 2014-04-01 07:32 pm (UTC)Not that I know. How'd you manage that? Did you get too close to one of the places that's not normally here?
[Logic doesn't apply here, but Adam's hard put not to pick up on the pattern. Weird places, weird structures... weird effects. Samandriel's vessel had gone through something similar, only he'd gotten younger, not older.]
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Date: 2014-04-02 04:11 am (UTC)[ and it kind of sucks knowing things she isn't meant to know at the age of seventeen. but maybe adam lucked out and transformed into a cute little puppy with no additional memories now clouding his brain. ]
What happened to you?
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Date: 2014-04-03 05:56 am (UTC)That's a specific number. Did it update your driver's license for you? At least it didn't make you 80 like I heard the Weeping Angels did.
[To be honest, he already has hundreds of years of extra memories, adding twenty seven more to the pile probably wouldn't be a stretch, but that's another exceedingly long story...
He's tempted not to tell the truth, but if Cora's admitting how Wonderland had punk'd her, ]
Another dose of Freaky Friday with someone here. I laid low.
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Date: 2014-04-03 06:46 am (UTC)[ the way to be a true hale: take everything literally. ]
But I aged 10 years. Got more than I bargained for. Know if the Weeping Angels gave you a trunk load of memories that weren't there before?
[ cora's about to ask if he'd been changed back into adrianna (is that his female name?) but since he didn't simply say got boobs again or anything like that, she'll have to take this literally, too. ]
Who'd you swap with? Hope it was someone more interesting than the girl version of yourself.
[ cora liked girl adam. he'd been a little more open, if a little more defensive than usual, but at least he seemed to let loose ... just a little. and she's not thinking literally, either, with the lack of support he gave himself. ]
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Date: 2014-04-04 12:00 am (UTC)But as for the Weeping Angels, he thought they'd more or less just been stealing time to feed themselves and kill their victims. This sounds different. More Tom Hanks' Big kind of different.]
No one said anything. They just gained years. Sounds like you really aged.
At least a version of yourself isn't someone you met here and have to look at. That's plenty interesting. She's just another girl here I was in the wrong place at the wrong time with.
[For Krissy's sake, he'll keep her name out of the papers. He can't pretend the body swap hadn't happened, but he doesn't have to embarrass her further. Or himself for that matter. There's something uncomfortably intimate about getting to know someone from the inside out when neither person involved had given their permission.]
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Date: 2014-04-04 04:22 am (UTC)[ cora really shouldn't be amused that adam got swapped with the one body that he probably never wants to be in again. but she should count her blessings — it could've been worse. she could've swapped with someone like adam had. being a boy sucks. ]
I'm starting to wonder if Wonderland wants to give you some sort of gender crisis. Guess you still don't like being a girl, not even after the second try?
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Date: 2014-04-05 04:55 am (UTC)Physically growing old, in a way, would just be sad, like a person glimpsing a future they're never going to have. He doesn't really envy Cora, either.]
I like you fine, I just don't want to be one of you full-time. And it's just wrong having to use someone like that.
[Being in their body is a bizarre and uncomfortable way to violate someone's privacy.]
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Date: 2014-04-05 12:42 pm (UTC)Did it last long?
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Date: 2014-04-06 05:19 am (UTC)[Well, that's a lie, Adam has plenty he can complain about, up to and including the fact that Michael had gotten close enough to Krissy to touch her and heal his injuries while she'd been in his body, but still...]
Must be running out of steam if it's wearing off for all of us.