Sam and Jack have been here longer than me. You'll have to get with them on the shit I can't tell you.
["Kid," the nickname doesn't get a reaction out of her, she's used to Dean taking up a semi-fatherly mantle with her. If it isn't Castiel it's him, he fits the role naturally - more like an actual big brother than anything paternal.]
This place hasn't killed me yet and - I've met some pretty good people. Friends I wouldn't have had back home.
[Fine was their go-to word, wasn't it? It blanketed any and all serious emotion and kept them from being too vulnerable. Claire's definitely not about to tell Dean that her parents came out of the darkness like zombies, or that Kaia came back with a vengeance. Whatever thing this place put them through next, Dean would experience, and then he'd know the way this shit worked and how rolling with the punches was the only way to survive.]
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["Kid," the nickname doesn't get a reaction out of her, she's used to Dean taking up a semi-fatherly mantle with her. If it isn't Castiel it's him, he fits the role naturally - more like an actual big brother than anything paternal.]
This place hasn't killed me yet and - I've met some pretty good people. Friends I wouldn't have had back home.
[Fine was their go-to word, wasn't it? It blanketed any and all serious emotion and kept them from being too vulnerable. Claire's definitely not about to tell Dean that her parents came out of the darkness like zombies, or that Kaia came back with a vengeance. Whatever thing this place put them through next, Dean would experience, and then he'd know the way this shit worked and how rolling with the punches was the only way to survive.]