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[cholesterol]

Killing someone. Meaning to kill someone. Luring. Pulling together a nest, going after a town. You want to take responsibility, then what he does, it's on you. Or, her, or your school. But, if he goes into the world and blood gets the better of him, and he's dangerous. Not accidental-dangerous. Not defensively dangerous. Meaning to rip someone's throat out. Dangerous.

( Don't talk to him about murder, about killing. He's a killer. He's killed more than you have, Lydia. He assumes. And more than Caroline twenty-years Forbes. Try thirty-five. He doesn't apologize for how honest he needs to be. This is how he was raised. Werewolves, he knows, they can be something. Vampires... he's always had the problem with.

Elena's hurt. Maybe that's influencing him, too, Elena being in the supernatural web. )

[imnot_likeyou]

[Sam's face grimaces, because he knows that making these threats when the guy hasn't even made the choice whether or not to turn is probably not the best way to ingratiate yourself to a grieving banshee.

He places a hand on his brother's shoulder and pulls him back slightly.]

Look, tension's running pretty high right now. Why don't Dean and I go get everyone some coffee?

[Jo nods in agreement. "That's a great idea. By the time you get back, Elena will probably be out of imaging and we'll have some better answers as to her status."]

[cholesterol]

( Dean 'Non-Apology' Winchester breaks his intense gaze in Lydia's direction and heads past Caroline, with Sam, toward either the first coffee machine they find. )

[imnot_likeyou]

[And Sam will give him a look once they get there.]

Dude. He doesn't even know he needs to make a choice yet.

[Because that was a little intense.]

[cholesterol]

Who do you know that chooses that choice, Sam. Vampire or no vampire? It's like Deal or No Deal. No deal, Sam. And the sooner they accept that, the sooner they'll stop seeing me as the bad guy. How many times have we given that speech? It comes with the hunter handbook. They need to know that if he chooses a briefcase with control issues, we will come back.

( As intense as it was, he stands by it. He's not going to apologize. )

[imnot_likeyou]

They might when it's that or death, Dean.

[And he's not saying it's the choice that he would make, at the end of the day, but they can't make that choice for him.]

And the McCall pack doesn't run things the way we're used to. He won't be alone. He might stand a chance of making it out okay.

[cholesterol]

He better.

( Now where is that coffee? )

[imnot_likeyou]

[Yep, Sam will do one of those deep breaths in through his nose and help him gather the coffee for everyone before they head back to the rest of the group.]

[cholesterol]

( And when Dean is mad with everyone, Castiel gets a text. )

[toomuchheart]

I don't think there are pills that induce insanity, Dean.

[In true Castiel fashion.]

[cholesterol]

First off, they're called acid. You observed the sixties, right? You see all of time at all times and you skip the great acid drop?

Second, Mystic Falls is ass backwards

[toomuchheart]

Lysergic acid diethylamide isn't distributed as a pill, it's usually in a powder or liquid.

Has something happened?

[cholesterol]

Hunters attacked a car Elena was in. This kid, a friend of the werewolves, Stiles, he died with their vampire blood in his system.

Now it's transition or die.

[toomuchheart]

And you believe he should die.

[Because this is Dean, and Castiel knows how his brain works.]

[cholesterol]

And Blonde Ambition is going to give him a choice, and if he chooses transition, she's going to take him under her wing.

How dare I tell them what'll happen if he goes off the rails.

[toomuchheart]

[There's a long pause because how to phrase this.]

So you're assuming the worst of a person you don't know just because they may choose to become a vampire, to a group of mostly supernaturals, and are annoyed that they're upset about that assumption.

[He just wants to make sure he's getting all the details right.]

[cholesterol]

Way to make it sound insensitive, Cas.

[toomuchheart]

Their friend did just die, Dean. Whether or not he chooses to transition, they still died.

[You could have waited until after Stiles was awake and actually made a choice and all that jazz.]

[cholesterol]

Yeah, and now he might be a vampire. You know vampires.

[toomuchheart]

I know the vampires that you've dealt with. But I also know the vampires that Caroline has taught and trained. They will always struggle with the hunger, but the students at the school are doing well, and there have been minimal casualties.

Perhaps we should give Caroline the benefit of the doubt?

[cholesterol]

I guess it makes me a hypocrite, letting Jack go to school, and judging a decision someone hasn't even made yet.

[toomuchheart]

I wouldn't go so far as to say a hypocrite. But perhaps a little inconsistent.

[cholesterol]

There's no handbook, Cas. This is how I was raised. Just because Elena Gilbert swims with vampires, doesn't mean I'm gonna take to the water like a friggin fish.

[toomuchheart]

Why does it matter what Elena Gilbert does? Do you plan to keep in touch after this is done?

[cholesterol]

I don't know. She's an old friend. I have friends. I keep friends.