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[im_apimp]

[and video turns on with this lovable cat boy sprawled comfortably in his cabin, not really feeling all that up to joining the rest of the world quite yet. He still hadn't managed to find the guy who Faith had mistaken him for, and while he was sure that yeah, that was probably a good thing, he's still keeping himself indoors during the day, just

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[tearsandtildes]

Who are you?

[im_apimp]

[sighs because seriously, if he's gonna threaten to kill him too, Alec's going to go start punching trees. Or invest in voicemail:

"Hi, you've reached Alec, he is NOT a shapeshifter. Have a nice day."]

My name is Alec. I was born in Wyoming in 2000. I now live in Seattle. I work for a bike messenger service named Jam Pony. I'm not sure why I landed here in creepy forest world, but I swear, I didn't steal Dean -- it's Dean, right? -- either way it doesn't matter. I didn't steal his face.

My face is my own. I received it through the miracle of genetics. I swear.

[tearsandtildes]

And we're supposed to just believe that? [Yeah, sorry Alec. Paranoid hunters are paranoid.]

[im_apimp]

Yes?

[sighs as he flops back]

You know what? Fuck this. You think I'm this shapeshifter thing? Fine. I'm sick of people not treating me like a person. You and your love monkey decide that you want to come after me for what you think I am? Then fine. It's your goddamn funeral.

[rolls his eyes]

This is such bullshit. At least the blond was nice enough to give me the benefit of the doubt.

[tearsandtildes]

If you were a shapeshifter, I'm not sure why you'd be advertising the fact, but you can't blame us for being cautious.

[im_apimp]

[a pause]

Okay. You want to try some logic? Let's try some logic. If I were a shapeshifter -- if -- one would assume that I would be taking your friend's face to use him to get close to people to do some kind of nefarious business.

So why would I claim to be a bike messenger from 2021 Seattle instead?

[tearsandtildes]

It's a good question.

[Ok, he's getting over his initial wtf reaction.] So what explanations do we have left?

[im_apimp]

Well, as I was telling Jo, there's the fact that this could all be a simple coincidence. There's a theory that everyone has a visual double. She says that people come here from different realities. One would theorize that if other realities get thrown into the picture, the odds that that theory is true actually go up.

Or.

Since Jo indicated that she was from 2009, and I'm guessing that you guys are somewhere in the same area, there's a chance that we actually might share the same genetic material. But that's less likely, considering that she said her world showed no signs of the Pulse when she left it, and in my world, it definitely happened in February oh-nine. There's no wiggle room on that one.

[a pause]

But seriously, I swear this is my face. And I know that when someone with your face does something shitty and you take the blame for it, it sucks. Trust me. I have my own genetic twin back home.

[note the clinical way he said that, because Ben SO isn't his brother]

But this face: mine.

[tearsandtildes]

I'm not sure what the Pulse is supposed to be exactly, but I guess that only reinforces your theory that it's something in your world, and not ours.

So. Alternate universes. Great.

[Sigh.] I'm Sam, by the way. Your face twin's brother.

[im_apimp]

Sam and Dean. That works strangely well together.

[ruminates on that for a moment, before shaking himself out of it]

Right. And Alec, as I already said. Should I be expecting a punch in the face from you two, or is that only a special moment between a boy and his look-a-like?

[tearsandtildes]

I'll leave those to Dean unless you do something to earn it.

[im_apimp]

See? Reasonable. I like reasonable.

[tearsandtildes]

One of us has to be.

So what do you mean things were starting to get interesting?

[im_apimp]

Oh, a friend of mine had just shot me in the arm, it sounded like he had called the police, and another friend of mine was definitely in labor. I'm probably missing the delivery as we speak, and I probably won't even get a namesake out of the whole thing.

[tearsandtildes]

Some friend you got there.

[im_apimp]

Hey. Normal's one of the best friends a guy could have. Him shooting me is a small misunderstanding.