I'm Alyssa and yes (plantstalktome) wrote in madisonvalley, @ 2022-05-10 16:50:00 |
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Entry tags: | !closed, !completed gdoc, alyssa gardner (plantstalktome), rebekah mikaelson (lovesblindly), ~2022 may |
Who: Rebekah and Alyssa
What: Alyssa’s reappearance
Where: Verdant
When: the evening of the 10th
Warnings: Low
Status: closed/g-doc
Alyssa closed her eyes, nestled next to Morpheus as the two fell asleep. Their children slept down the hall and Alyssa’s heart felt completely full. Ruling Wonderland felt easier after all the time she’d spent here.
A moment later she opened her eyes, no longer feeling Morpheus’s body next to hers in a strange bed. This room. Where was she? The room seemed oddly familiar and she sat up from her empty bed. The art on the wall looked like something from her human life, a collage from a Wonderland memory. “I don’t think I’m in Wonderland anymore,” she mused out loud.
But then her eyes fell on a painting. The artist hadn’t yet completed the work. The almost-finished face reminded her of Morpheus in that it was lovely, wild, and dangerous as fuck. And then memories assaulted her brain: a boy who wore someone else’s face, before he returned wearing his own face. The face staring at her from the easel. Had he meant something to her? There had been ecstasy at an orgy, battling a life-size Darth Vador, a battle in Narnia, the people in this house. She’d shown and sold art here, gotten a promotion at work. A boyfriend had been here and sent back home to his death. Jason, she thought, but without certainty after a decade.
But mostly she recalled friends. Liz, whose boyfriend’s girlfriend arrived. Ned and Peter, her surrogate bros. Scott who felt like an uncle. Leo who taught her how to use a sword. Rachel, who she’d kind of been seeing. Others, as their faces floated in and out of her brain before it settled on Kate. Kate who she cried to when both of their boyfriends left. Who had let Alyssa paint her as a wolf during a Full Moon. Kate, whose boyfriend returned and had no memories right before Alyssa got sent home.
The face in the painting called to another individual. Bex. The vampire who looked out for her and treated her like a little sister. And Alyssa found she wanted to talk to Bex. Thankfully she found her phone, charging in the wall. The date…when had she left? Had she only been gone a week?
A moment later she posted on the network to let everyone know she was back, before she texted Bex specifically. “Can we go get drinks at Verdant?” Bex wouldn’t expect anything from her. And she didn’t have the bandwidth to deal with anyone else yet. Kate would be a close second, but Alyssa knew she wouldn’t be a good friend until she got a better grip on everything. At the last second she took a picture of the painting, something telling her Bex might help solve the ‘who’ mystery if nothing else.
She located a dress that she could easily throw on, which held space for her wings. In Wonderland, she’d never hidden her Netherling markings and it didn’t occur to her to do so now. Unfortunately, human rules about the legal age for drinking slipped her mind, and while she may have spent a decade in Wonderland, she hadn’t aged and still looked like the teenager who left.