Tentatively looking at entranceway

[needsapplause]

This username is perfect! It's fabulous! You know as well as I do that I need applause to live! It's just like I said, I'm like Tinkerbell.

I'm not so sure about this other idea you seem to have, though. How will I make it in New York if you send me away? My future is there, on Broadway, not in some magical mansion!

This is punishment for something, isn't it? No, I don't know why you'd want to do that, but it's the only thing that makes sense!

Why are you asking me to put my dreams on hold?

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[usskickass]

Well, it ain't Broadway, but I'm pretty sure there's worse places you could show up, from the sounds of it.

[needsapplause]

But I'm starting college now! What's going to happen if she just ships me off to... to the middle of nowhere for who knows how long? No, this is just going to ruin everything, I just know it.

[Sorry, Coach, Rachel's too busy being dramatic.]

[usskickass]

But it'll be like you never left. You don't even lose the time you were gone.

[needsapplause]

What? How is that even possible? When she said the mansion was magical, she didn't really mean that, right?

[usskickass]

Um.

Yeah, it's pretty dang magical.

[needsapplause]

That's it. My life is officially over. Instead of New York, I'm getting a magical mansion. That's not going to look good on my résumé.

Is there anything good about that place?

[usskickass]

You won't even remember the place when you go back home, so, uh.

You get to meet tons of interesting folks. I dunno. You'd probably find somethin' else interesting about it, but I think it's pretty cool to talk to people I normally would never get to meet. It's like a multi-universe UN...

[needsapplause]

Are you sure?

I just don't know if I can still like it there if going there means not starting at NYADA. Are you the only one there from McKinley?

[usskickass]

Is the Pope sittin' on a cherry tree?

[Apparently the answer is no, because she starts listing people who're there.]

It's me, Hudson, Fabray, Hummel, Lopez, and Brittany.

[needsapplause]

Finn's there?

[She tries to smile, but it's a bit stilted.]

Wait, wait, wait. There's four of them there, and if I'm there too, that's enough for us to have glee club. Or is there already one?

[usskickass]

They made one with some other kids around the mansion, yeah.

[heretolookhot]

Some of the places these people send us to are pretty crazy, but they're not all total crapholes. You might luck out.

[needsapplause]

You don't understand, Santana. I need to be in New York, chasing down my dream. I didn't take all those dancing and singing lessons for nothing!

[heretolookhot]

I've been rolling my eyes at your New York tunnel-vision for years, I get it. But your mun is like, legally obligated to make your life as difficult and stupid as possible. It could be worse than a magic mansion, trust me.

[needsapplause]

Why? Where has yours put you?

[heretolookhot]

For round one, I spent a year in a creepy girls-only garden where everyone turns into lizards and has to fight off monsters and hallucinations on the regular, and the goddess of the place gets all passive-aggressive if we don't make out enough.

Now I'm in a place called Death City. It's better.

[needsapplause]

You... you turned into a lizard? And had hallucinations?

And Death City?

[She's just going to sputter for awhile.]

[heretolookhot]

Yeah. And the queen there who keeps pulling that shit looks like a Broadway chick. Berna-something.

It sounds awful, but it's way better. ['Never going back to Lima' better, even.]

[blazer]

I'm sure they don't mean to put your dreams on hold, Rachel. Maybe you'll learn things there that you can put into practice in New York!

[needsapplause]

No, I think that's exactly what they mean to do. Everyone knows how important this is to me.

[She just looks confused.]

But I don't think I'll remember anything when I get home, so even if I did learn something new, I'd just forget it later.

[blazer]

I'm sure if anyone could find a way to remember things it'd be you.

[ He's trying to cheer her up, but... Mission failed. ]

We know how important it is. But if you don't remember anything then you won't even realise you were gone! So really nothing will have changed and you'll go to New York anyway, right?

Ignore Kurt because eway is wonderful and would love to have a lovely Rachel like yourself in it <3

[thisisherson]

Rachel, don't listen to any of them. Stockholm Syndrome has desensitized them all. Wonderland is terrible, and your mun is out to ruin your life. There is nothing good about being trapped here. There's no bright side.

[Courtesy of the only person who could rival her for dramatics. But, he pauses, thinking of something.]

...No, I take that back. The magic closets are amazing and I want to bring one home with me. But everything else is just designed to make you miserable.

Ignore Rachel too, because you're all wonderful and I want to join!

[needsapplause]

Kurt, I don't know what to do. It sounds lovely only because all of you are there and you've started up a version of New Directions, but I just can't wrap my mind around it.

My career is too important to me, and I've already had one setback. I won't let anything else stop me.

[She pauses, obviously conflicted.]

How am I supposed to choose between performing and... No, it's not even a choice, is it? I can't go!

<3!

[thisisherson]

I know it's not much of a consolation, but time stops at home when you're here. So, if Wonderland ever does decide to spit you back out, you'll go right back when you came from and you won't have actually missed anything. ...It's just a longer wait.

Well, that and you were actually in Wonderland before. ...Three times. And every single time you managed to diva out of Wonderland, so you probably have a better chance of going home than any of us, really.

Rachel!!

[bigbrothercoop]

Kurt is right. This place is terrible. I'm missing auditions being here!

The closets are nice. And yes, time does stop. So, at least you won't miss too much when you go back. If you go back. It would be like you never left.

I hope that you don't get dragged here. A beautiful woman like you should be working and following her dream, not trapped somewhere.