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15. Who knows what's right?/The lines keep getting thinner

[He finds himself on the fourth floor, just outside of what's left of cabin 407, the room next to Dean's. He already has a pretty good idea of what exactly happened. Already knows that the vampire had been sealed inside the room courtesy of mountain ash. He sees it on the floor just outside the door and he kneels down, running his fingers through it and pursing his lips.

He's an awesome warden, really. Helping incite his inmate to attempted murder. Not that Jerry doesn't deserve it. It isn't about Jerry. He has no guilt or sympathy for the guy. It's that Dean is the one who dealt the strike. And Stiles had handed over the information he'd needed to do it with. He doesn't see a difference really, between someone handing a loaded gun to a psychopath out to commit homicide and his own role in the events that had taken place the night before. He lets out a breath and then steps inside the room, looking up at the scorched ceiling. Scorpius had been injured, too. Others could have been. People could have died.

Stiles rubs the back of his neck and grimaces. Innocent people getting caught up in this isn't something he'd wanted to happen, but it has and now he has to figure out how to deal with the fallout. The question is...how?]

[Private Video -- Dean Winchester.]

[It takes him a few hours to decide what to do about the whole situation with Dean. He can't just allow him to go around setting people on fire -- even if they deserve it and he maintains that Jerry did. But he also isn't going to be terribly harsh about punishment in this case. Maybe it's wrong, but considering he played a role in Dean's actions, he can't be too hard on the guy.

And he won't put Dean in Zero or confine him to his room. That's not even a punishment for the guy. Dean wants to be alone. Which is exactly why he can't be. Not just because it's supposed to be a punishment, but because it's unhealthy. Solitude is great, but everyone needs someone, and Dean is no exception, even if he believes otherwise.]

So. We should probably talk about what happened last night.

[Video -- Public]

[The video feed clicks on and it shows Stiles in the pub. There's a blender beside him that's full of ice, and several bottles of various syrups around. He's holding a container of sugar and eying the blender before he begins pouring it atop the ice.]

So, someone wondered about Slurpees on the Barge. I think this is everything it takes to make one. [Maybe. Possibly. Mostly he's just experimenting right now.] So if anyone would like to be a taste tester, come up to the Pub. [You know. If you're feeling brave. Or if you want to bounce off the walls. He's still pouring in the sugar and now half the container is in the blender.]

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[Oh my god, Vergil. Stiles is so gonna try and talk you into movie night so you can catch up on some of these things. This just isn't right.]

Oh. Yeah, okay then. [That doesn't sound bad at least.] Swim with the fishes means -- it's a metaphor for drowning basically. [You know. After someone is murdered horribly.]

Cool.

So far I've found cherry, strawberry, lemon, coffee, Irish creme, almond, chocolate and...eggnog. Because everyone wants an eggnog Slurpee, right? [He smirks.]

Really? More ice? [He considers for a minute, then dumps more ice into the blender, too.]

[And this is something that Stiles excels in: having faith in people in his life even when they don't have any in themselves. It's strange, considering how little trust he has for most, but faith and trust aren't really the same thing, either. It crosses over on occasion: he trusts both Scott and Lydia absolutely, and has faith in their ability to do things that neither of them believes they're capable of. When Scott became a true alpha, Stiles wasn't surprised. He doesn't entirely trust most of his new friends on the Barge -- mostly because he hasn't known them long enough to develop the same levels of trust he has with his friends from home. But faith? He has faith that his warden friends -- especially Bucky and Steve and Gwen and Peter -- will be able to graduate inmates and get their deals. He has faith that his inmate friends, like Needy will graduate.

And he has that same amount of faith that at the core, Dean will protect innocent people however he can. Or that he'll try, at least.

He nods at Dean's words.] I'm not sorry you went after him. I'm not going to lie and pretend otherwise. [But then he pauses as he realizes what else Dean's just said, and he's confused.] Wait -- you nailed Scorpius to a wall? When did that happen? [Because this is news to him.]

[The corner of Dean's mouth twitches again, not quite a smile, but close; he's satisfied by the surprise, as much as by the memory of having done it at all. Another time it might not come so close to amusing him, but considering the subject they're currently on? Dean is glad for the confirmation that neither Stephanie nor Scorpius (nor Anya) bothered telling anyone.]

First week I got here. He wanted to dig through my brain, I figured it was a good time to make sure he knew that wasn't going to be as easy as he thought.

[He doesn't quite trail off, but his mood does dampen some; he's much too good at bluffing to let it show entirely, but the fact of the matter was that in the end, Scorpius had gotten what he wanted anyway. Dean still hasn't decided what he's going to do about that, if anything. Certainly apologizing for almost roasting him isn't in the cards, but that really had been an accident.

Karma, maybe. The hunter snorts.]

[ Good luck, dude. Good luck. He;d have more luck handing him the novels they were based on. He stopped watching movies when Karloff stopped acting... He has seen a couple here and there but it was mostly to kill time on travels.]

...then why not say so? If you were going for death there are better euphemisms.

[There's something else there, fleeting. Impossible to read with any accuracy. But Stiles always goes with his gut feelings even if other people think he's full of crap most of the time. And there's something else he doesn't know.]

Yeah, I remember. Most everyone was pretty pissed at him for even suggesting it.

[He was one of them.] I don't know if uh -- if you really talked to him before he left, because he left shortly after you got here, but John Crichton had a history with Scorpius. Not the good kind.

Most everyone was protecting their precious runaway hero.

[Bitterness shoots sharp through the words, clipped and dark. Dean's made no secret of hating his previous version, nor of accepting any of the empathy that others have extended to him on blatant behalf of the relationships they had with him. It was stupid of them not to take the opportunity, but he's not going to point that out while it's still him under the gun. He's no one's guinea pig, not while he has a say, no matter how tactically sound it is.

He's distracted by mention of Crichton, though.]

Yeah, we talked. I know about the history. I... we talked.

[She admits, she's feeling a little better about this already, simply because it seems that he's learned to try some moderation.

Needy has the lime one ready to hand him as soon as he's finished with the cherry syrup.]

So it's got that real slush to it, you know? I just hope you have a kickass blender.

[Sigh.]

Yeah, probably so. It's just -- it's a pop culture thing.

[He grins at her and takes the bottle of lime flavoring, dumping about the same amount in that he did the cherry.]

What do you think? More ice, or should we just...blend?

[He nods.]

They don't call 'em Slushees for no reason.

[He eyes the blender warily. He hopes so, too.]

[ yeah she saw that look ]

Do you want me to come help? That way if you bust the blender, it's my fault. No- marks against your Warden report card.

[He smirks at her offer, and shakes his head.]

Nah. But you should come and taste test assuming I don't blow the place up.

Oh, that explains that. Either way, best of luck.

[ he's just gonna go on and kill the feed since he feels talking any longer would seem awkward.]

Don't blow the place up. Not if it's a direct result of you trying to make a slushie, that would leave me with a whole shit-ton of guilt I just wouldn't know what to do with.

[ she huffs though, eventually getting up from her bed to head out ]

I'll be there soon.

I'll do my best. Guilt sucks.

[He grins when she finally gives in, though.]

See you soon.

[He pauses at the bitterness. He knows that Dean hates the other version of himself -- it's been clear from day one, really. It's something that maybe they'll have to address at some point in the future, but not now. Now, though, he does need to start working on getting Dean to not hate and be bitter with everyone else on the Barge.]

And a lot of people just take issue with anyone messing with someone's mind.

[His words are mild but honest. And while yes, he and most everyone who'd spoke up that day had been friends with the other Dean, he knows his own reaction would have been the same to most anyone possibly getting their brain picked apart.

And when Dean confirms that he talked to Crichton, it clicks.

Crichton had told him that Scorpius had gotten someone in that stupid chair, but hadn't told him who.

Dean, he realizes. Somehow he'd managed to get Dean after everything.]

We have eggnog?

Maybe you should save that one for Christmas Slurpees.

Or you know. I could spare everyone's tastebuds and just pour it down the drain.

Definitely. What's the point if they're not sweet?

See! That's what I thought but people keep saying to slow down on the sugar. I say the more sugar the better!

Anyone who says less sugar is crazy and you shouldn't listen to them.

[He's very solemn about this. Very solemn and very serious.]

[He beams at the validation of his sugar usage. Beams.]

You're totally coming down for a Slurpee, right?

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