[Accidental Voice/Written]

[reshape_destiny]

[There's silence for a long moment before the journal picks up a sudden loud splash, followed by silence again... which is then broken by the sounds of what seem to be someone surfacing from the water and splashing around.]

Shit--

[More splashing as whoever the voice is tries to swim to shore, coughing as he does so.]

Alice? Alice, where are you?

[Then, muttered:]

And where the hell am I? This isn't Cauldron Lake...

[The water dripped on the pages a few minutes later indicate that he's found his journal and is flipping through it.]

Is this Zane's idea of a joke? Because I'm sure as hell not laughing.

[Then, written in a cramped, messy hand, comes part of what looks like... a story?]

I'd written the ending. I knew I had, remembered writing it, but the lake that stretched before me wasn't Cauldron Lake, and there was no sign of the cabin at all.

What had happened to Alice? I'd done what Zane had told me to do. I'd used the Clicker. But had everything really gone back to normal as a result?

I had to keep writing until I knew whether it had worked or not. I wasn't about to let the darkness take control of me again.

[OOC: Who fails epically? LUNA FAILS EPICALLY. And to compound said fail, tags may come a bit slowly because I am currently in England on a temperamental hotel connection that likes to go "NO LOADING PAGES FOR YOU" every so often.

Also, please see Alan's permissions post here regarding fourth-walling with him due to the nature of his canon.]

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[Voice]

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Alice?

[He's looking around for her as soon as he hears her say that-- and then the journal drops to the forest floor, forgotten, and he's racing towards her with a happy, triumphant cry. This really is real, not just another dream...

... but even if it is a dream, he's going to savor it for as long as he can. That familiar form that his arms close around is no dream, however; Alice is going to be getting what's probably the best hug of her life as he just laughs out of sheer relief and elation, even going so far as to pick her up and spin her around for a moment before setting her back down again, still holding her close.]

If this is a dream, it's the best dream I've had in a long time.

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[Alice smiles so hard it hurts. She can't stop from smiling, even with the tears in her eyes, and the memory of what he had to go through; it was just so good, so good to see him again. She lifts her right hand and presses it to his cheek, thumb brushing over the stubble lovingly.]

It isn't a dream, honey, I promise. [She's had a good long while to figure out if this world was a dream, and... she knows better. This was real, all real, and they were together again. Finally. It seemed like she'd been waiting, praying forever.]