Room 328, Thursday Evening

[likethegun]

Sam was enjoying some quiet time re-reading the last Barry Plodder book, and watching Scout feast on a bone like he'd never had one before.

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[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean had been... resting in his room all day. He was definitely not moping. Nope. But one can only mo... rest for so long before starting to feel restless so he wandered down to his brother's room.

He was most certainly not checking to make sure Sammy hadn't disappeared too. Course not. Why would you even think that?

So there was definitely no relaxing when he saw Sammy through the open room door right where he was supposed to be. Not at all.

[likethegun]

Sam only needed to glance up for a second to know that Dean was there, before smiling softly and focusing back on his book. "Are you just going to stand there, or are you going to come in?"

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"Don't know," Dean said, with a smirk. "Is Scout gnawing on someone I know?"

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"I don't think so, unless people you know stock parts of themselves at PetSmart," Sam replied, laughing.

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"Ya never know," Dean said, coming in and flopping down on the bottom of Sammy's bed. "We've seen weirder things."

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"True," Sam admitted. "I don't plan on turning Scout into a man-eating dog yet though, so it's safe for now."

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Dean was quiet for a minute, watching Scout gnaw on the bone. "Alec's gone."

[likethegun]

That got Sam's full attention away from his book. "What do you mean, gone?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"He got whiff of some rumours about another X5 with the same DNA and's gone to try and track him down." Dean didn't look at his brother as he spoke. "He left me a note. Told me not to follow him."

[likethegun]

"He what?" It might have been a good thing that Dean wasn't looking at Sam with the way he was glaring. "He didn't say anything to you at all?"

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Dean gave a half shrug. "He left a note," he repeated.

[likethegun]

"Are you going to do what he asked, or are you going to find him and drag his idiot ass back here?"

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Another half shrug. "He said I'd get in the way -- that it was going to be confusing enough without another person with our face running around. He has a point."

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"Maybe. But...you're just going to let him go?" Sam asked.

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"What, you mean try to get the damned portals to take me to the right reality and then track him down while he's doing his damndest to stay hidden from everyone including Manticore? In a world he knows all the ins and outs of and I'd be flying blind?" Dean snorted and shook his head. "Yeah, that's a good plan."

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Sam frowned deeply as he realized all the flaws in that plan. "I'm sorry, Dean. Seriously, I am."

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"You've been wanting him to go away since we got here."

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"Yeah, but I wanted him to go away after a point where you wanted him to go too," Sam explained. "I didn't want him to leave you like this."

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"He didn't leave me," Dean argued, finally turning to look at Sammy. Well, glare at really. "God, you're making it sound like I'm some girl that's just been dumped."

[likethegun]

"That's not what I meant," Sam said. "But he did leave in general, and he left you behind, and I'm sorry about that."

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"Yeah, well..." Dean shrugged again. "If he has to move at X5 speeds, I probably would be a liability."

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"You'd be a help, no matter what," Sam insisted.

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Yeah, Dean thought that too, but obviously Alec hadn't. "He's coming back," he said instead of replying directly to Sammy's assertion. "When he got this thing with the other X5 all straightened out, he said he's coming back. So it's more like when Dad went on hunts and left us behind. Not, y'know, anything permanent."

[likethegun]

"It better not be, or I'll drag him back here myself," Sam said. He didn't know if Alec would really be coming back like Dean said, but he certainly didn't blame him for wanting to think that way. "Are you okay?"

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"I'm not the one walking back into the lion's den with no backup hoping to sneak by the lion when its looking elsewhere." It wasn't exactly an answer.

[likethegun]

"Alec is good at what he knows," Sam said, trying to sound reassuring. "He'll be okay."

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Dean snorted. "If you listen to him, he's always okay. Even when he's not." Not that that described anybody else Dean knew.

[likethegun]

"I mean he'll really be okay," Sam said. "Until he comes back and I beat the crap out of him for leaving like he did."

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"If anyone's beating the crap out of him for leaving like that it's going to be me."

[likethegun]

"Can I watch?" Sam asked with a smirk.

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"I don't know Sammy, that could be a little kinky."

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"Did you have to go there with that?" Sam asked.

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"Absolutely," Dean said with a smirk that even reached his eyes this time.

[likethegun]

Now at least Sam knew that Dean was somewhat all right. "Okay, how about you kick his ass your way, and then I'll do it my less dirty way?"

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"You've been wanting to kick his ass since about five seconds after you met," Dean pointed out. "I'm not sure he'd get the significance of you doing it now. Or, y'know, when he gets back."

[likethegun]

"I'd be sure to explain the significance this time around. He knows that messing with you is grounds for violence."

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"So you want to beat him up because he left me a note?" Dean said, not quite understanding the messing with you comment of Sammy's. Yeah, Dean wasn't happy about being left behind, but he figured Sammy would be just as happy about it as not.

He was pretty sure his brother would've been pissed if Alec had asked him to go along.

[likethegun]

"I want to beat him up because he didn't say anything to you, and because you can't tell me that you're not at least a little hurt by this," Sam said.

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"He left me a note," Dean repeated again. "It's not like he took off with no word." The second part of Sammy's statement? Conveniently unanswered.

[likethegun]

Sam didn't miss how Dean failed to answer his second part, and frowned. "He could have said something to your face," he insisted.

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"There's no way I'd've let him go alone if he had," Dean said. "He had to have known that."

[likethegun]

Sam's immediate thought was that it was almost better this way, but he didn't want to voice that idea. "Okay, fine. But I'm still pissed at him for this whole scheme in the first place."