030: [Location: Buffy's castle/ Accidental Visual] we're not in Hell anymore, Toto--

[fudgingkillyou.livejournal.com]

Every morning, Dean Winchester awakes to the smell of fire and brimstone and rotting flesh, the sounds of screaming and pleading, the sight of things so gruesome the human mind couldn't even begin to imagine them. He takes his morning walk, and then goes to his office, where he starts his work. It's not pleasant work, not by any means, but he does get enjoyment out of coaxing whimpers out of those who are sent to him. He always gets the most stubborn souls, you see.

This morning, he wakes up in an entirely different place. Even as a demon, Dean Winchester hates to wake up in a place he doesn't know.

He doesn't think, just rolls out of the bed he's in and heads for the door (where the hell is he, a castle?), immediately getting lost. This is around the point that the tablet turns on, showing Dean wandering the castle with a rather lost look on his face-- lost, but irritated.

In fact, at one point, when he opens a door and it leads to a room that has nobody in it, people watching the tablet may see a flash of black in Dean's eyes. It's gone a second later, though. Must have been a trick of the light?

[ooc: Dean's glitch! Go go go~]

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[iwantafamily.livejournal.com]

"I don't want to bother you, sweetheart." It's hard for her, because seeing him on that tablet reminds her that he's the only one still in the city. Ever since Sam left, she's been even more worried about Dean and Toby than she was before. She wants to make sure that they're safe all of the time.

"How is life at the castle? Everything alright?" Mary asks, curious as to how things are going over there.

[fudgingkillyou.livejournal.com]

He doesn't remark on the first comment Mary makes-- she is bothering him, and as capable a liar he is, Dean's sure he couldn't answer that without blowing his cover. Sour-faced for a moment, Dean goes back to where he thinks his room is, and settles on the edge of the bed. He has to rearrange the expression on his face into something more pleasant, but it's fine, only takes a moment.

"Yeah, it's good," Dean replies, letting some of that irritation creep into his voice. Have to set up an opportunity, after all. Pause, and then, almost casually: "Better family than what I had before."

Oh. Ouch.

[iwantafamily.livejournal.com]

Dean's words might as well be a knife piercing Mary's already fragile heart. She knows that it's different for him without Sam - it's different for her, too - but they haven't talked about that. She was expecting him to be a little less blunt if it ever did come up, so she winces instinctively, immediately trying to recover and act like that didn't bother her at all.

"As long as you're happy," she says quietly, ready for this conversation to be over. "I'll let you get back to them."

[fudgingkillyou.livejournal.com]

Later, he's going to hate himself for this. Hate himself. As much as he may ever feel resentful, there's no way that he'd ever blame his mother for it. His father, maybe, but never Mary. Right now, there's decades of pain and suffering on top of everything else, and Dean is too much of a demon to care about her feelings.

"Guess I will," Dean says casually, like he doesn't realize he's just hurt her. He does realize it, and he's amused by it. If Mary's paying attention, she'll be able to see the gleam of black in Dean's eyes as he prepares to throw the tablet aside.