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[familybusiness]

[ ♪ bury your head - saosin ]

WHO || Sam and Dean Winchester
WHAT || Sam confronts Dean about what he's learned.
WHERE || Dean's Room
WHEN || November, shortly before leaving on the Thanksgiving Mission
HOW || spam~

[Fortunately for Sam, this time around, when Dean arrives at the Castle? Sam hears about it.

He's made friends since back then, ones that know their relationship, and know that he would want to know. And they're right, because he's been waiting for this awhile, wants to know what took his brother so damn long to come home, wants to know if he'd being avoided on purpose or...no, it's probably on purpose.

Well, that was going to come to an end in a hurry. He doesn't particularly want this conversation, because it'll probably be uncomfortable and angry and horrible, but it has to happen. He can't sit on any of this forever.

Not when he's not the only one who knows.

So that afternoon, Dean will hear a rather...forceful knock on his door, following quickly by a voice.]

Dean, it's me. Let me in.

[Because he's not going away. Sorry, bro.]

Comments

[familybusiness]

[...considering Dean is usually all 'let's take the fight to them,' hearing that is...especially disheartening.]

Great. That makes me feel so much better.

[likedillinger]

We used to both be protected from them tracking us down by magic. Cas... burned some sigils into us that meant nobody from upstairs, downstairs, or anywhere else could hit us with a scrying spell.

Maybe we can find some way to do the same for you. I don't know.

[familybusiness]

Might be worth looking into. Can spells directed at him hit me instead?

[He not a real big buff on magic just yet.]

[likedillinger]

If we're lucky, we won't have to find out. Iscariot knew we were untraceable that way. They got no reason to try again.

[familybusiness]

[That's...not exactly the most comforting, but it's still a start.]

What about demons? I'm used to them showing up from time to time, possessing someone, causing some damage, and then having to exorcise them back to Hell. We only ever found one weapon that could kill one, and it had some pretty limited ammunition.

[likedillinger]

I've got my hands on a knife that can kill 'em once and for all. Once in awhile they'll possess somebody but usually they just break through into this world and start crawling around like they own the place.

[familybusiness]

Until they get unlucky and run into someone like us.

[likedillinger]

Pretty much, yeah.

[familybusiness]

Any chance there's another one of those knives lying around somewhere, or am I going to have to learn a few new exorcisms?

[likedillinger]

Why don't you ask the hell-skank, since she's the one we took it from in the first place.

[familybusiness]

[Wow, Sam sure bombed the fuck out of that will save, so he very visibly winces at that reference.]

Maybe I will.

[likedillinger]

That was sarcasm. [ there's an edge of concern in his tone as he lowers his gaze at sam, picking up on that vibe easily. ] And don't give me that look.

[familybusiness]

Then maybe you could trying being more helpful.

I wasn't kidding around. Everything else we usually hunt is ass backwards. Considering I'm used to them being clouds of black smoke when they aren't walking around in someone's body, I'd say demons probably are too.

[likedillinger]

Seems pretty straightforward. Holy water, enchanted weapons, all that stuff's good for taking 'em out.

[familybusiness]

Oh.

[He looks surprised, okay. Sure, holy water stung like a bitch but...]

That's...easier.

[likedillinger]

[ lmao he looks a little offended ] Easier?

[familybusiness]

Yeah.

[He's not wrong, okay.]

Like I said, you've either got a cloud of smoke or a possessed human on your hands. You can shoot and stab all you want, but all you're going to end up, if you're lucky, is a dead person when the demon decides it's bored. It can keep the body going as long as it's in it, but once it leaves, those injuries take their toll.

The only way to send a demon back to hell is through an exorcism, which generally requires some serious force or a devil's trap, and a bunch of Latin that you have to get out before the thing finds a way to shut you up. Holy water will burn their skin, and stun them for a few seconds, but it doesn't do any lasting damage. You can keep them at bay with salt, but a little wind and you're screwed there, too. We've only ever found one weapon that can kill one permanently, and it had a very limited ammunition supply.

[There's a beat while he takes another sip of beer.]

So yeah, it's easier.

[likedillinger]

Possession's the same thing here, you know. It's just rarer to find demons who've wormed their way inside somebody.

[familybusiness]

I wish that had been the case. Even when you manage to send the thing back, you know they can come back the second they find a way through. And all they've left behind is a mess and a corpse.

We exorcised this one girl. Her name was Meg. And that demon...came back and possessed me the first chance it got just to get some revenge.

[He waves that memory away, sighing.]

I don't know how common they are here, but we didn't run into them all that often. I just...I saw them in Chicago and...it didn't look that way.

[likedillinger]

Depends on where you go. But you can find 'em almost anywhere, if you're looking for 'em. You mean you never got a tattoo to keep from getting hijacked?

[familybusiness]

Huh?

[That would be a no.]

I didn't know that was a thing you could do.

[likedillinger]

[ he yanks his collar aside, pulling it down enough to reveal the symbol etched there. ] Quick and dirty demon repellent.

[familybusiness]

[He is like...blown away right now.]

Dean, that's freaking brilliant.

[likedillinger]

It's a helluva lot more reliable than an amulet. Rose is gonna get one too.

Just in case.

[familybusiness]

Better safe than sorry.

[Rolls a delayed spot check of 24 to have noticed Rose's tattoos one of the several times she's stalked away from him. :)]

At least you won't have to talk her into the whole getting inked idea, too.