Middleman/28 Days Later: The Mirror Christmas Carol Reinvention (3/5)

[lotus0kid]

Rating: PG13 for some language and implied violence
Word Count: 1,770
Disclaimer: Middlecharacters and places belong to Javi Grillo-Marxuach, West belongs to Danny Boyle, I think.
A/N: For visiblemarket on my advent calendar. Better get this up before Christmas is really gone. I'll post a chapter a day

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[visiblemarket]

Was not expecting regular Wendy as the Ghost of Christmas Present, but it works. I'm just surprised she didn't make a present as in now/present as in gift pun. But then I'm always surprised Dickens never made one, so.

“He liiikes you.”

Wendy rolls her eyes, “Shut up, he does not.”

“Are you blind? He so does!”

Heh. I think Alt!Wendy is pretty in need of someone to girl talk with, and if it has to be with an image of herself from an alternate universe who's representing Christmas present, then so be it.

a gun without an owner, carefully preserved

Awww. And also, kind of, hee, West is Tiny Tim.

[lotus0kid]

Hee, well, who's more present to Wendy than her own alternative self? Heh, yeah, that was a pun opportunity I don't think Wendy herself would have missed.

I'd say Non-Mirror!Wendy would be the only person Mirror!Wendy would be comfortable having girl talk with. Mostly because...

... She doesn't know anybody but West! Seriously, I had to collapse Cratchit, Scrooge's nephew (Freddy?), and Tiny Tim all into one character because there's just plain no one else Wendy would actually talk to or even give a crap about. She's actually worse off than Scrooge himself, when you think about it.