[ considering how clarisse spilled the beans about the whole luke thing before, she figures adam deserves to know that his twin is in wonderland now before he happens to run into luke somewhere and things get really awkward. adam can at least try to avoid luke if he knows another version of his face is wandering around. ]
Congrats, Milligan, you're officially a Wonderland twin. [ it's a thrilling development, she knows. but thankfully adam and luke are the only set left, as far as she knows. she doesn't even want to think about luke showing up with the percy jackson brigade running around. talk about a nightmare. (there were three of them at one point. at least d'artagnan knew his way around a sword.) ] Watch yourself, yeah? I don't know what Luke is up to, but it's probably best you stay the hell away from him. [ but, you know, it's not like she cares or anything... it's just common courtesy. or something. ]
[Clarisse--and by extension, his face-stealing twin--have impeccable timing. It's not like this hasn't already been a hard month what with murders and monsters from every letter of the alphabet coming out of the woodwork. When she starts talking, the first thing Adam thinks to say is how is this any different than usual? They've all got twins thanks to the people behind the mirrors.
But then what she means becomes clear.
Is he thrilled knowing one of the things he'd hoped wouldn't happen has happened? Not especially. Not even a little.
Adam should thank her for giving him a heads up, he's grateful for it; it's not like any of these demi-gods are obligated to put him ahead of one of their own. But all he finds himself is angry, angry at the shit that keeps piling itself up on his doorstep.]
Great, when did he get here?
[His answer comes after a long beat of silence, and when it does, it's terse.]
I should worry until you knock him into next week, you mean?
[There's got to be a perk to this. Like Clarisse coming down on his doppelganger like the fist of God and discovering how to evict people to other storybook worlds in the process.]
[Talking about the monsters that have ruined your life and killed your family is a bit like cutting out a piece of yourself and displaying it on the tip of a knife for all the world to see.
He'd give Allison a chance to say what she had to say in person if need be, but he'd understand the reasons not to.]
You didn't have to. But I'm glad you did. Thanks for the heads up.
So then that whole family isn't human?
[What he knows about werewolves is what pop culture had taught him before the Cage, that people are bitten, that they ending up shedding fur everywhere on each full moon. Now that all the pieces are sliding into place, Adam can see from his conversations with Cora that there's a lot more going on here than what meets the eye.]
[ what she means is i'm trusting you with this. she trusts all of them, really, which might be the issue in the first place. but she does, and when he asks that question, she feels her stomach drop.
did she make the wrong decision? she doesn't know. she hates that she doesn't know, but it's too late now. ]
peter's nothing like the rest of his family derek's the one who killed him in the first place
[ clarisse doesn't really want to talk about when he got here, because for all she knows wonderland pulled him in specifically to fuck with her during the last event. but she knows he had to have been here before then, because that's exactly who annabeth had been worried about when those freaky glowing numbers showed up on their mirrors. as always, wise girl was right, even if it had felt like a stretch at the time. ]
I dunno, sometime before the last event. Pretty sure he was trying to stay under the radar, but "Storybrooke" blew him out of the water. At least for me. [ but she's not about to go into detail about how. she's pretty sure adam really doesn't want to hear about how she was fucking his doppleganger from an alternate universe, so let's just not talk about that. ever. ]
Just keep your eye out. I can't guarantee I can keep him away from you, even if I punch him into next week. [ aw, clarisse. uwu ]
[Adam might go so far as to say he likes Allison, and even Cora, as people when liking people is a good way of setting yourself up for failure, whether it's because those people don't turn out to be who you thought they were, or they disappoint you in some other way.
That's why he's more gentle than he has been in the past when it comes to saying that what they are is just as important as who. All of the Hales being a type of monster matters.
There must be a reason Allison hasn't lived up to her own family's profession and hunted them, and it probably has something to do with werewolf girls going out of their way to save humans for no reason, but that's Allison's reason, not his. He needs the full story before he can put the issue of species to bed, if ever.]
They're the ones that wolf out every month and need to be locked up outside, aren't they?
[He's starting to see he'd been in closer proximity to the neighbourhood werewolves than he'd thought.]
[ and that's the main line in which they disagree. where they'll always disagree. because allison doesn't think that liking people is setting you up for failure. if anything, the only way true failure could happen is when you're left totally alone.
maybe that's a niave way of looking at things. maybe that's why allison was always fated for the same end. but no matter what does happen, or did, she's not going to let adam sit in that black and white world of his. ]
no
[ because they don't have to be locked up. they have control over it- which means he's probably thinking of the others. of remus, and more. ]
I didn't even know we had ones being locked up on the full moon I heard that they used to do that a while ago with some others I didn't know it was still happening
[Adam's not sure he believes that. This is the same sort of runaround he'd done with Cora, getting answers that are about as clear as dishwater, which doesn't help.
And maybe he wonders how someone who'd lost a family member to a breed of monsters wouldn't want to flay them with her words until there's nothing left. Hell hadn't taught him how to hate the monsters, and angels, and relatives who'd helped put him in the Cage and forgive the rest.]
How many werewolves are there besides just the Hales?
[ she has a lot of answers for him, if he wants to ask the questions but she's also not 100% sure which answers would be better. still, she handles this as well as she can - just like cora, apparently.
So I'm not going to find out later you've got more hunter secrets and you know more than you're saying, right?
[He trusts Allison's being honest about Peter--he wants to believe someone who's really suffered like that is being sincere about her family.
But when they'd talked about hunter stuff before, she'd left the part about werewolves out of it. He's met a lot of people in the habit of omitting the truth, and it all amounts to the same in the end: leaving out details he'd rather know than not know, regardless of if he deserves to.]
if you mean like do I have a secret list of every supernatural creature left in wonderland at every time no, I don't but if your family is anything like mine was, you know I can't answer that
[ she trusts adam implicitly, it's something that has come with the time they've spent together, the bonds they've forged. she wants nothing - literally nothing - more than to have him trust her back.
but derek, isaac, cora and scott were her family. and if there's anything she's learned from hunters, it's that family supersedes all. even with adam, who seemed to have a more complicated relationship with his. ]
I need you to come over. You're not safe on your own tonight. Dean is back, he's a demon. Sam's dead, and I get the feeling he's not going to stop there. Charlie is coming, and Maxine and Sam have been asked too. I know your room is warded like crazy, but I'd feel a lot better if you were where I could see you tonight. I want to make sure everyone stays safe. First floor, room 44. Please.
[For a hot second, Adam had been having an okay day. He should know by now the universe has to balance that with something shitty.
Dean coming back after being missing? That's bad enough. But Dean stepping up his asshole game by coming back with no soul and killing the brother he'd sacrificed Adam to save once is a whole new level of crap he really doesn't want to deal with. If he had a choice in the matter, though, this wouldn't be happening.
Adam allows himself one deep breath, re-reads Jo's text a second time, then replies.]
Are YOU okay?
[If anyone's high up on a demonic Dean's hit list, it must be Jo; making sure his half-brother isn't banging down her door is the first thing he thinks to do.
The second thing, he doesn't need to be asked twice about.]
Fine, I'll come. Don't worry about me, I'll be there.
[Great, just what he doesn't need. If they're calling Isaac the good twin, he can't wait to see how low the evil one can go. Secret teen werewolf is hard to beat.
Normally, he doesn't do the video thing, but this guy's gone out of his way to track him down personally--Adam takes that as a bad sign and a challenge. After thinking about what to do, he decides to drag a chair to a nondescript part of his room and respond in kind.]
Yeah, that's me.
[It's a lukewarm greeting. It's hard not to read Isaac into everything Kol says and does, and he's still more than a little sore about how things with Isaac had gone.
Plus, he's just a lukewarm greeter to begin with.]
Given any other circumstances, I guess you wouldn't look like someone I used to know. [But that's not what this is about, is it? Adam lets his eyebrows rise and fall before continuing.] So, what friend is this?
[Go on, share with the class. He's interested in who's been running their mouth.]
[ Aw, who says Kol is the evil twin. He could be the innocent saintly twin, gosh geez.
The response isn't what he expected, but then again, he didn't really know what to expect. At least a response is a good sign, it means he can put his silver tongue to use. ]
Oh, you knew the little wolf? Sorry, apparently I've got a Doppleganger... or had... From what I gather he was here for a long time before popping off back home.
[ Michael didn't tell him not to throw him under the bus. ] Michael told me about you, he's an angel. But he said the others were from a different world - one you'd know about.
[ This guy's behaviour is a bit like piss and vinegar, so Kol decides to try to work him in a better mood. ] My brother, I think he's made an enemy of one of them, and I just want to be able to make sure he's safe. [ Ah yes, the loving family card usually works on everyone.
The Mikaelson pauses, eyebrows tugging together in thought for a moment, before he frowns. ] Will you help me? [ Or is he going to have to track the bastard Winchester down and poke around in his head now that he knows what he look like. ]
[That brings Adam up short for a second or two. It also tells him everything he needs to know.
Dean had gone after her? Sam is one thing--Sam is someone who hadn't cared about Adam in his hour of need, and Adam returns the favor--but Jo is quite another. Human. Still decent. Not someone Dean has dibs to smack around while he has his... his fucking crisis of humanity or whatever.
It never takes much to kindle his temper, but he reserves a special fury for this.]
[The way Kol brushes off Isaac doesn't sit right with Adam, but it's the name of the person who referred him that really does it. Adam narrows his eyes immediately, expression darkening with the connotations and the memories angels bring with them.
You've got to be fucking kidding me, he thinks right before he accepts that angels--even one as different as the other Michael--have their heads jammed so far up their own asses that they wouldn't know a good idea from a bad idea. He doesn't know why Michael would try to refer people his way, and he doesn't care. He'd made a promise not to get involved in this kind of thing ever again.
It's one he's going to damn well keep.]
Michael.
[He repeats the name with distaste.]
Well, sorry, Michael told you wrong. He knows I don't get involved with anything to do with angels. You should do yourself a favor and find better friends. [But since the loving family card is in play, Adam doesn't stop there.] I learned from a hunter. Try one of them if you really want to know.
[ The way Adam brushes him off doesn't sit right with Kol. But the way he visibly darkens with anger with the mention of Michael has Kol immediately regretting telling him. This child wouldn't attack his friend, would he? That would be a headache he doesn't want to have to deal with. Maybe he should just kill him here and now if he's going to be no use... But then he'd just come back.
Kol lets out a sigh. ] Aah, pity.
[ But Adam does throw him a bone, one which Kol doesn't find very helpful. He doesn't trust the hunters here. ]
A hunter? Alright.
[ If he were nicer, or if he cared he might thank him, but Adam decided not to help him, so he had no issue not thanking him for his time. ]
[If this guy knew angels the way Adam does, he'd get why Adam's keeping a hundred mile radius from whatever's going on. Fuck Michael for trying to put him in the middle of it.
The sigh earns a one-shouldered shrug--one that has the barest tinge of sympathy in it. Angels coming after your family? Adam gets that one. He gets it loud and clear. He'd want to learn everything he could to keep the buzzards off his ass, too, and he doesn't blame anyone for being afraid of them.]
While you're doing that, don't believe anything that comes out of Michael's mouth.
[Smartest move Kol could make for him and his brother. Whatever happens, the guy can't say Adam didn't try warning him.]
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Date: 2014-11-10 05:21 pm (UTC)I just want you to know what he's capable of and what he might do
just for a frame of reference
[ she doesn't want everyone going out and hunting him down, but at the same time if someone were going to, she wouldn't stand in their way.
and there's the question, and allison has to pause. because she'll fight for her friends come hell and high water, but peter? ]
werewolf.
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Date: 2014-11-14 03:33 am (UTC)Congrats, Milligan, you're officially a Wonderland twin. [ it's a thrilling development, she knows. but thankfully adam and luke are the only set left, as far as she knows. she doesn't even want to think about luke showing up with the percy jackson brigade running around. talk about a nightmare. (there were three of them at one point. at least d'artagnan knew his way around a sword.) ] Watch yourself, yeah? I don't know what Luke is up to, but it's probably best you stay the hell away from him. [ but, you know, it's not like she cares or anything... it's just common courtesy. or something. ]
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Date: 2014-11-16 06:10 am (UTC)But then what she means becomes clear.
Is he thrilled knowing one of the things he'd hoped wouldn't happen has happened? Not especially. Not even a little.
Adam should thank her for giving him a heads up, he's grateful for it; it's not like any of these demi-gods are obligated to put him ahead of one of their own. But all he finds himself is angry, angry at the shit that keeps piling itself up on his doorstep.]
Great, when did he get here?
[His answer comes after a long beat of silence, and when it does, it's terse.]
I should worry until you knock him into next week, you mean?
[There's got to be a perk to this. Like Clarisse coming down on his doppelganger like the fist of God and discovering how to evict people to other storybook worlds in the process.]
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Date: 2014-11-23 10:19 pm (UTC)He'd give Allison a chance to say what she had to say in person if need be, but he'd understand the reasons not to.]
You didn't have to. But I'm glad you did. Thanks for the heads up.
So then that whole family isn't human?
[What he knows about werewolves is what pop culture had taught him before the Cage, that people are bitten, that they ending up shedding fur everywhere on each full moon. Now that all the pieces are sliding into place, Adam can see from his conversations with Cora that there's a lot more going on here than what meets the eye.]
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Date: 2014-12-01 08:58 pm (UTC)[ what she means is i'm trusting you with this. she trusts all of them, really, which might be the issue in the first place. but she does, and when he asks that question, she feels her stomach drop.
did she make the wrong decision? she doesn't know. she hates that she doesn't know, but it's too late now. ]
peter's nothing like the rest of his family
derek's the one who killed him in the first place
[ both comments true. ]
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Date: 2014-12-02 06:06 am (UTC)I dunno, sometime before the last event. Pretty sure he was trying to stay under the radar, but "Storybrooke" blew him out of the water. At least for me. [ but she's not about to go into detail about how. she's pretty sure adam really doesn't want to hear about how she was fucking his doppleganger from an alternate universe, so let's just not talk about that. ever. ]
Just keep your eye out. I can't guarantee I can keep him away from you, even if I punch him into next week. [ aw, clarisse. uwu ]
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Date: 2014-12-04 01:10 am (UTC)[Adam might go so far as to say he likes Allison, and even Cora, as people when liking people is a good way of setting yourself up for failure, whether it's because those people don't turn out to be who you thought they were, or they disappoint you in some other way.
That's why he's more gentle than he has been in the past when it comes to saying that what they are is just as important as who. All of the Hales being a type of monster matters.
There must be a reason Allison hasn't lived up to her own family's profession and hunted them, and it probably has something to do with werewolf girls going out of their way to save humans for no reason, but that's Allison's reason, not his. He needs the full story before he can put the issue of species to bed, if ever.]
They're the ones that wolf out every month and need to be locked up outside, aren't they?
[He's starting to see he'd been in closer proximity to the neighbourhood werewolves than he'd thought.]
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Date: 2014-12-08 04:13 pm (UTC)maybe that's a niave way of looking at things. maybe that's why allison was always fated for the same end. but no matter what does happen, or did, she's not going to let adam sit in that black and white world of his. ]
no
[ because they don't have to be locked up. they have control over it- which means he's probably thinking of the others. of remus, and more. ]
I didn't even know we had ones being locked up on the full moon
I heard that they used to do that a while ago with some others
I didn't know it was still happening
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Date: 2014-12-12 06:36 am (UTC)And maybe he wonders how someone who'd lost a family member to a breed of monsters wouldn't want to flay them with her words until there's nothing left. Hell hadn't taught him how to hate the monsters, and angels, and relatives who'd helped put him in the Cage and forgive the rest.]
How many werewolves are there besides just the Hales?
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Date: 2014-12-17 07:49 pm (UTC)there's a reason they got along. ]
no idea
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Date: 2014-12-19 02:21 am (UTC)[He trusts Allison's being honest about Peter--he wants to believe someone who's really suffered like that is being sincere about her family.
But when they'd talked about hunter stuff before, she'd left the part about werewolves out of it. He's met a lot of people in the habit of omitting the truth, and it all amounts to the same in the end: leaving out details he'd rather know than not know, regardless of if he deserves to.]
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Date: 2014-12-28 01:35 am (UTC)do I have a secret list of every supernatural creature left in wonderland at every time
no, I don't
but if your family is anything like mine was,
you know I can't answer that
[ she trusts adam implicitly, it's something that has come with the time they've spent together, the bonds they've forged. she wants nothing - literally nothing - more than to have him trust her back.
but derek, isaac, cora and scott were her family. and if there's anything she's learned from hunters, it's that family supersedes all. even with adam, who seemed to have a more complicated relationship with his. ]
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Date: 2015-03-17 04:43 pm (UTC)Dean is back, he's a demon. Sam's dead, and I get the feeling he's not going to stop there.
Charlie is coming, and Maxine and Sam have been asked too. I know your room is warded like crazy, but I'd feel a lot better if you were where I could see you tonight.
I want to make sure everyone stays safe.
First floor, room 44. Please.
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Date: 2015-03-26 12:33 am (UTC)Adam Miligan - yeah? Hello, I'm Kol.
My friend said I should talk to you if I wanted to know how to defend myself from angels - which given any other circumstances would sound bloody mad.
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Date: 2015-04-05 04:38 am (UTC)Dean coming back after being missing? That's bad enough. But Dean stepping up his asshole game by coming back with no soul and killing the brother he'd sacrificed Adam to save once is a whole new level of crap he really doesn't want to deal with. If he had a choice in the matter, though, this wouldn't be happening.
Adam allows himself one deep breath, re-reads Jo's text a second time, then replies.]
Are YOU okay?
[If anyone's high up on a demonic Dean's hit list, it must be Jo; making sure his half-brother isn't banging down her door is the first thing he thinks to do.
The second thing, he doesn't need to be asked twice about.]
Fine, I'll come. Don't worry about me, I'll be there.
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Date: 2015-04-05 04:52 am (UTC)Normally, he doesn't do the video thing, but this guy's gone out of his way to track him down personally--Adam takes that as a bad sign and a challenge. After thinking about what to do, he decides to drag a chair to a nondescript part of his room and respond in kind.]
Yeah, that's me.
[It's a lukewarm greeting. It's hard not to read Isaac into everything Kol says and does, and he's still more than a little sore about how things with Isaac had gone.
Plus, he's just a lukewarm greeter to begin with.]
Given any other circumstances, I guess you wouldn't look like someone I used to know. [But that's not what this is about, is it? Adam lets his eyebrows rise and fall before continuing.] So, what friend is this?
[Go on, share with the class. He's interested in who's been running their mouth.]
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Date: 2015-04-06 03:28 am (UTC)The response isn't what he expected, but then again, he didn't really know what to expect. At least a response is a good sign, it means he can put his silver tongue to use. ]
Oh, you knew the little wolf? Sorry, apparently I've got a Doppleganger... or had... From what I gather he was here for a long time before popping off back home.
[ Michael didn't tell him not to throw him under the bus. ] Michael told me about you, he's an angel. But he said the others were from a different world - one you'd know about.
[ This guy's behaviour is a bit like piss and vinegar, so Kol decides to try to work him in a better mood. ] My brother, I think he's made an enemy of one of them, and I just want to be able to make sure he's safe. [ Ah yes, the loving family card usually works on everyone.
The Mikaelson pauses, eyebrows tugging together in thought for a moment, before he frowns. ] Will you help me? [ Or is he going to have to track the bastard Winchester down and poke around in his head now that he knows what he look like. ]
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Date: 2015-04-06 08:03 pm (UTC)[Plus Cas fixed her up after Maxine had given her a once-over, so she's about as well-off as she can be right about now.]
I'll see you when you get here. Feel free to bring Cooper.
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Date: 2015-04-22 12:38 am (UTC)Dean had gone after her? Sam is one thing--Sam is someone who hadn't cared about Adam in his hour of need, and Adam returns the favor--but Jo is quite another. Human. Still decent. Not someone Dean has dibs to smack around while he has his... his fucking crisis of humanity or whatever.
It never takes much to kindle his temper, but he reserves a special fury for this.]
Then you can tell me what the hell happened.
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Date: 2015-04-22 12:58 am (UTC)You've got to be fucking kidding me, he thinks right before he accepts that angels--even one as different as the other Michael--have their heads jammed so far up their own asses that they wouldn't know a good idea from a bad idea. He doesn't know why Michael would try to refer people his way, and he doesn't care. He'd made a promise not to get involved in this kind of thing ever again.
It's one he's going to damn well keep.]
Michael.
[He repeats the name with distaste.]
Well, sorry, Michael told you wrong. He knows I don't get involved with anything to do with angels. You should do yourself a favor and find better friends. [But since the loving family card is in play, Adam doesn't stop there.] I learned from a hunter. Try one of them if you really want to know.
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Date: 2015-04-22 03:22 am (UTC)Kol lets out a sigh. ] Aah, pity.
[ But Adam does throw him a bone, one which Kol doesn't find very helpful. He doesn't trust the hunters here. ]
A hunter? Alright.
[ If he were nicer, or if he cared he might thank him, but Adam decided not to help him, so he had no issue not thanking him for his time. ]
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Date: 2015-04-27 01:33 am (UTC)The sigh earns a one-shouldered shrug--one that has the barest tinge of sympathy in it. Angels coming after your family? Adam gets that one. He gets it loud and clear. He'd want to learn everything he could to keep the buzzards off his ass, too, and he doesn't blame anyone for being afraid of them.]
While you're doing that, don't believe anything that comes out of Michael's mouth.
[Smartest move Kol could make for him and his brother. Whatever happens, the guy can't say Adam didn't try warning him.]