14. A warning to the people/The good and the evil/This is war.

[voluntaryapnea]

[Video -- Filtered Against Jerry]

For those of you who don't know, there's a vampire on the Barge named Jerry. He hasn't been here long and he's not a very nice guy. Mountain ash can trap him someplace, or keep him out of a place. It acts like a supernatural barrier. I've asked the Admiral for more. I have some already, but not enough for everyone.

[His jaw tightens a little. His face is just a slight shade paler than usual, but if you haven't really paid attention to that sort of thing -- you're not likely to notice.]

Someone with a shitload of super powers should probably go let him out of the laundry room. But be careful. He's probably really pissed off about now.

[He looks like he wants to say something else, but he doesn't. He just disconnects the feed.]

[Private to Werewolf Friends]

Obviously you guys can't handle mountain ash. So you're going to need to be extra careful with this douchewad. We don't know what kind of damage a vampire could do to one of you.

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[ Private : Voice ]

[surfaceshine]

Dunno. Maybe.

[Dean's end falls silent again, and then the sound of movement, wood being pushed over wood, fabric rustling, and the dull clink of something heavy and glass. The hunter clears his throat.]

You said he was trapped in the laundromat, right?

[ Private : Voice ]

[voluntaryapnea]

[Even if it is, unless Jerry happens to be from Dean's world, it probably doesn't even matter. Still. A tiny sliver of hope is better than none.]

Yeah. In a circle of mountain ash about three feet wide. I think Zane and maybe Steve are heading down there, too.

[ Private : Voice ]

[surfaceshine]

[It's the tiniest sliver of hope, so tiny that Dean doesn't even call it that; it's a possibility, one he never got the chance to test in his own world. Vampires were always too rare, anyway, and then they weren't the main problem. Still.

Focusing on a vampire hunt is much preferable to anything else Dean has to focus on right now, and he'll ignore how it feels like a life raft in the midst of whitewater rapids.]

They taking him to Zero? Can they?

[ Private : Voice ]

[voluntaryapnea]

[Mostly he's hoping that nothing happens that will require the need to find out if that's how Jerry's kind of vampire works.]

That's my guess, yeah. And they definitely can.

[ Private : Voice ]

[surfaceshine]

Okay.

Let me know if anything changes.

[Dean doesn't even notice that he's switched into whatever gear it is that lets him issue orders with the expectation that they'll be followed; in the next moment, he's hanging up.]