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Who: Oliver and YOU
Where: all over
When: throughout the event
Rating: PG13, mentions of death, torture, trauma
Summary: recently shipwrecked and tortured young Oliver in Wonderland. with dinosaurs.
The Story:

1. arrival

[ every day on the island, oliver thinks he can't get any more scared. every day on the island - proves him damn wrong. there are so many questions that need answering; who are those people looking for yao-fei? where is yao-fei? where is he? everything hurts so bad, but oliver forces himself to somehow - somehow - pull himself up and examine his surroundings.

he's indoors. how could he be indoors? did he go crazy? was it all a sick dream? no - the way his body yells at him feels way too real. maybe this is the dream. maybe this is a drug? some sort of comics-worthy hallucinogenic? if it takes away his pain, he's more than game for it.

he digs in his pocket for laurel's picture. he finds a phone. a phone? this is crazy. it's a long shot. it's not possible. he tries to dial home.

of course it doesn't work. but he seems to be getting through somewhere - and he instantly hangs up and drops that phone like it bit him. there are no cell towers on lian yu. how could it be going through? he expects the phone to ring, expects a menacing threat or a gun shoved in his face. nothing happens. with a groan he picks the thing back up and shuts it down. maybe it'll come in handy, he's in no position to give up resources.

hurt, pale, with long unkempt hair and dirty everything, oliver starts dragging himself through the hallways, leaning against the walls at times, resting on the floor when his strength deserts him. ]

2. that's a dinosaur.

[ because that's what the worst place on earth was missing: dinosaurs. what kind of worst place on earth would it be without dinosaurs? did he somehow wash up on isla nublar?

oliver has managed to clean himself up a little bit, and made it a whole oh - step? ish? outside the front door - when he made the critical mistake of looking up.

his eyes grow huge, and he tries to - slowly - search for that door handle. ]

This can't be real - [ muttered to himself in an attempt to reassure. it's not doing a great job. the fear sure is real.

after the door incident, you can find him glued to a window peaking at the creatures with a mixture of awe is fear. is he expecting them to storm the mansion? well, he's not not expecting them to do that... ]

3. wildcard!

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[ luckily for them both, they narrowly avoid another funny emergency rescue right at the front entrance. rather, peggy is striding through the first floor with something else on her mind when she comes across the sight of someone staring up and out the window. her momentum slows; her curiosity gets the better of her. ]

Intimidating buggers, aren't they? [ she only speaks up once she's closer -- once she realizes that beneath that mess of hair is a marginally younger version of mister queen. he looks more spooked than composed, which is remarkable in and of itself.

peggy draws back and edge of the drapery. ]

I do believe I've now seen it all.

[ dinosaurs. ]

[ curiosity is a maddening thing. after everything he's been through, oliver should just be grateful for having four walls and a roof (and he is) and a door to shut behind him. a magic closet that supplies him with everything his heart could desire - besides his family, his home, his life back. food, that he doesn't have to kill or roast on an open flame. he should stay in his room, relish the warm bed until it's ripped away from him by reality.

but he can't shake this. it all feels too vivid to not be real, it feels too insane to be real.

he jumps when she speaks, and looks at her, calming a little when she turns out to distinctively not be the man in the mask. ]

If this isn't all, count me out of the rest.

[ she knows the gig by now. people, made younger. they don't remember here and they don't remember her. peggy has witnessed it now with half-a-dozen. the polite thing would likely be to steer clear and leave mister queen to his devices -- but neither of them have exactly been playing polite since the day they met.

no, it's hard for her to ignore the opportunity at hand. ]

It could be worse. [ she suggests. ] It could be zombies.

[ somehow, dinosaurs are preferable. ]

-- could it be zombies? No, strike that, of course it could, it's just what the worst place on earth needs.

[ as far as he's concerned - wonderland, the island - they're a continuation of the same thing. he doesn't know what to believe, and doesn't really want to stop and think about it too hard. he doesn't really want to stop and think about anything too hard, because if he's to survive this place - whatever it is - he can't look back. and thinking, well, it can't help but drag him back there. ]

Worst place on Earth? [ peggy eyes him -- rather interested in this candid dislike and disbelief. he's not half as cagey. good lord, what happened to him between this time and his proper one? ] You must never have been to New Jersey.

[ ah, yes, a joke made in honour of one steve rogers. she grimaces through it before continuing. ]

Although, truth be told, I doubt we're even on Earth.

[ no, not even a little cagey about his displeasure. were she to ask, he would probably even share some of the parts that already transpired. her joke earns her a smile and even a little laugh - he's miserable and scared, but not yet devoid of hope and humor. ] Twice actually, but it's been a while. Dinosaurs would've probably been an improvement.

[ he looks back out the window - and back at her ]

You really believe it? This - being Wonderland? [ his tone isn't judgmental - it's curious. he's trying to figure out where he stands and he's never had to stand all on his own before. ]

I do believe it's somewhere -- other, let's say. [ which sounds as though she's hedging her bet just a little. even had he been judgmental, she might have answered him in exactly the same way. the difference is that his lack of difficulty threatens to allow peggy to actually like him.

heaven forbid. ]

And perhaps 'Wonderland' is just the easiest way the oldest inhabitants, here and gone long before us, might have had of understanding the whole thing.

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2: DINOS

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