the ground could open, he could still say please

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[cholesterol]

So, it's hunter-gate 2.0 but witches are the hunters. And the gatherers. Just - great.

( He needs a beer.

"We don't know that the Gauntlet has started," Ryan says "Only that the witches at the Bed and Breakfast were preparing, trying to stockpile magic. They raised a golem." (14) for that recognition.

Well Dean and Sam have experience with that.)

Was a Jewish guy named Aaron Bass there? ( To Sam. ) You remember my gay thing?

[imnot_likeyou]

[Caroline's eyes swing over to Dean at that statement, eyebrows raising. "I really don't know what to make of you sometimes." It's unclear on whether that's a compliment or not.

Sam, on the other hand, sighs.]

Yeah, I remember. And if this is going to be bad, I should probably go update Allison. Excuse me.

[And he'll leave Dean to tell the golem story, if he wants.]

[cholesterol]

He, Aaron was full-on coming onto me, we were FBI on this college campus and he threw himself at me. ( This happened! Maybe it was a source of pride at one time, it even flustered him. But Aaron dropped the whole gay act once he realized Sam and Dean were the good guys. ) Turns out, he was working for the Jewish mafia, he had a golem. There were Nazi necromancers. Were your witches Aryan dead-lovers?

[vampireboulevard]

[She makes a face because really, can't Nazis just go away already.]

The last resurfaced Nazis I heard about were a bunch of vampires who all got dead because they tried to bind the abilities of Klaus Mikaelson's daughter.

[These witches didn't have the same vibe.]

I mean, I'm not saying there likely isn't some casual eighties racism involved, but I don't think they were the Mein Kampf types.

[cholesterol]

Just humans who sold their souls and offed a bunch of people for their own good.

( Somehow just as bad. (Not Holocaust bad, mind you.) But, mindless, selfish killing? Still bad. )

On a scale of trying to resurrect Hitler, how bad is this Gauntlet?

( Did he say he killed Hitler? )

[notjustamom]

[Mary shrugs.]

Two-hundred people were involved in the North American witch trials. Not all of them were executed for witch craft but they all died one way or another. And that was just in North America. In Europe it was an even bigger hysteria - those trials maxed out at around fifty-thousand executed.

[So yeah. This could be a real big problem.]

[cholesterol]

I thought the Gauntlet is internal. Who's who of -- who. So, anyone can usurp.

( He just needs to get it straight. )

[notjustamom]

That, I don't know. Might be a good question for your witch friend when she gets here.

[All she knows is what the journals have told her, and they're all from a hunter perspective.]

[shreds]

Where do hunters fit into all of this?

( And how does Mary Winchester know about witch business? )

[notjustamom]

Put out the fires wherever they happen to pop up?

[That's really the only choice they have. They're the clean up crew, not the front line fighters.]

I think that unless we know more, it's the only thing we can do.

[shreds]

Oh how I love to be behind the 8-ball.

( She does take after other hunters. Her vernacular has definitely grown. But, she doesn't like the sound of this. )

Say this includes every witch. Where does Bonnie fall? Could she take up the mantle of witchy badass head of this or that coven?

[notjustamom]

Sure. If she wants to kill all her competition.

[Caroline's eyes widen. "So this really is the witch Hunger Games?"]

Not sure I get that reference, but if that's a big battle royale where only one person walks out alive then yes.

[shreds]

( "Literally Battle Royale," Ryan says, remembering the movie Seth forced him to sit through. And yes, Hunger Games. )

If it's kill or be killed...

( "Only if she takes up the cause. She doesn't, Bonnie's safe?" Dean asks, pointing. )

[notjustamom]

[She nods, because at least those were the rules as she understood them.]

Not saying that she couldn't be mistaken for being involved if she's in the wrong place at the wrong time, but in theory, the only people in danger of being dead are the ones vying for the throne.

[widenecked]

What happens to the victor?

( He's guessing they become all-powerful, something they probably want to prevent. Unless the coven's business is not... their business. )

[notjustamom]

[She shakes her head.]

Don't know. The journals ever said. I don't think the people writing them ever met the victor.

[cholesterol]

Maybe the people writing them were found.

( He doesn't like any of it. )

[notjustamom]

[Neither does she. She tips her head back towards the library.]

Maybe the Men of Letters know more than we did. Since we're all hanging out down here - plenty of research hands to go around.

[cholesterol]

( "Sure. I can hit the books," Katherine drly says. But, she will actually be of help. He's done it before. "What about Ryan?" she asks.

"Yeah. I can do some research," he says, looking to Caroline. Don't leave him alone with Katherine. )

Library free-for-all.

[vampireboulevard]

[Don't worry, she won't. She narrows her eyes at Katherine, before reaching to take Ryan's hand.]

Why don't we go get settled in, and we'll come meet you once we're done?

[cholesterol]

Sam'll hole up in there with you.

( Caroline and Ryan leave the group in the great room as her phone goes off.

I'm back. )

[vampireboulevard]

[She glances down at her phone and then straightens.]

Oh, that's Bonnie. You want to go get her, or should I?

[That question is directed at Ryan, giving him an out if he doesn't want to dig into the research quite yet.]

[widenecked]

I'll go.

( He holds his hand out for her keys. He likes the out because it also involves Katherine. )

How are you doing with this? I know you and Katherine have history.

[vampireboulevard]

I can handle her.

[Katherine did kill her once, but she's human now, and that evens the playing field some. She passes over her keys and gives him a smile.]

We'll be in the library when you get back.

[widenecked]

I'll bring back Bonnie and Isaac.

( He leaves Caroline with the library (and Katherine.)

Katherine sits herself down at the table in the library not knowing what she should look for. She guesses Sam or Dean or someone will give her the right book. Allison has joined Sam and the others in the library. )