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 ]

[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.]