( is he in shock? good question. Peter has dealt with a lot in his life, but the supernatural and inexplicable rattles him a great deal. for some reason being face to face with a man made out of electricity was less startling than a door to nowhere. but his world had rules and limits and made scientific sense, more or less — temporal dissonance, the ability to step through a door that should lead to a grocery store and is instead an outdoor glen of Christmas splendor? it ravels at his understanding of reality, pushes him back toward the possibility this isn't real, that it's a continuing rabbit hole of hallucination.

so yeah, even if he's coming back to himself, wandering around in the quiet crunch of snow with wide, mildly startled eyes — something to sober him up and ground him might be a good idea.

Peter was, in fact, here in October. even though he woke up all over again and it was December, and there were new parents in all his creepy family portraits. ) Yeah. I just had a "mom" in October, but now I have both. And they're both different from the lady I met the first time.

( it's disconcerting, like he's a doll that can be picked up and thrown into a new dreamhouse, no matter how he feels about it. )