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[matriarchate]

It was not my grandfather. It was a Japanese spirit called an Oni. A chaos demon had been unleashed, had possessed Stiles, and kidnapped Lydia.

( His plan to this day was convoluted and began and ended with - chaos. )

[imnot_likeyou]

Oni and a chaos demon?

[He makes a face.]

I forget how crazy places like Beacon Hills can be. Usually we're just doing these one-and-done jobs and heading out of town again. It's easy to forget how things can collect over time.

[matriarchate]

The demon summoned and controlled the Oni. They were a packaged deal at he time.

( But, they also felt more like coincidence as well, as the fireflies led separate chaos-spreading efforts. )

Beacon Hills could've given Sunnydale or Mystic Falls a run for their money. In our case, we had an ancient Druidic tree that drew the supernatural there. The Nematon. Sunnydale had their Hellmouth and Mystic Falls had - ( she shrugs, nothing ancient came up as a sort of Beacon ) interpersonal relations? Did you ever come across a town with recurring incidents?

[imnot_likeyou]

Sioux Falls? But that was probably more our fault. We had friends there and we visited a lot.

[Mystic Falls is a strange outlier. For a place that doesn't have a supernatural magnet drawing everyone in, a lot of big magic was cast there. Part of him wonders if there is a nematon somewhere in those woods, but no one's managed to find it.

Maybe, perhaps, that white oak that Esther channeled to make vampires? Thoughts for another time.]

Naturally, trouble decided to follow us, usually because someone was trying to prove a point.

[matriarchate]

Naturally. Paving the way for you and Dean to make your own point and save the day.

( Days. )

[imnot_likeyou]

Yeah, our points never seemed to get driven home quite as hard, because they'd just come back and try to do it again.

[Sam rubs his eyes a bit.]

There was this big push for a while to get us to submit to the apocalypse. They mostly took it out on other people because they needed us intact.

[matriarchate]

That's what people say, that the Winchesters get mixed up in the apocalypses. Plural.

( There's an entire faction of hunters that says the Winchesters saved them from their own Apocalypse world. )

[imnot_likeyou]

[He holds up a finger as he winces.]

Buffy gives us a run for our money. She does like an apocalypse a year or something nuts like that. Dean and I only have the two.

[And yes, it is two. That time he threw Lucifer into Hell, and that time they killed God.]

[matriarchate]

Buffy's reputation is less textual. She's more like a myth or an idea. You two... Is there really a book series based on you?

( Buffy is like Allison's family's bestiary. She's not common knowledge. You know she and the others exist, but they're not on the tips of other hunter's tongues...

Sam and Dean have a reputation. )

[imnot_likeyou]

Yeah.

[It's not Sam's favorite thing and you can tell by the look on his face.]

The fans are a little ... intense.

[matriarchate]

Do they know you're real or just think your parents were fans? Or, worse, the authors?

( But, this is fascinating and amusing. Learning about one another. )

its rare that i have a chance to use this icon

[imnot_likeyou]

[Does he tell this story or not tell this story? Well. Well they were kind of talking about his exes.]

Most of them, no. But there was one super fan who did find out that we were real and she kind of ... kidnapped me, drugged me and tried to force me to marry her and a shotgun Vegas wedding?

some of my missions in life are getting you to use icons or write scenarios you rarely do!

[matriarchate]

Is that a question?

( That's insane. )

[imnot_likeyou]

No, unfortunately it was a reality.

[He makes a face.]

Thankfully we managed to talk her down. She's come really far with therapy. Is married with kids now.

[matriarchate]

Good for... her. Glad she isn't kidnapping and drugging people anymore. You... she doesn't count as one of your exes, right?

( Right? )

[imnot_likeyou]

No. Fortunately Dean saved me from the altar otherwise legally she may have to.

[But no, his list is probably a lot smaller than she thinks ... if they don't count that time when he didn't have a soul.]

[matriarchate]

( So's hers. You get gunshy after your first real relationship ends like hers did with Scott's, and her relationship with Isaac took a backseat to her recovery and her declaration of love on death's door. Moving was complicated enough. She needed the fresh start. )

Good. Because, I may know a good lawyer.

( She laughs. )

Let's keep doing this. If you have a feeling, we carve out time to express it. Because we can't all be like your brother.

[imnot_likeyou]

No, we can't. And I really don't want to be.

[He pauses as he takes another sip of his beer.]

Maybe we should just make time in general. If you're going to be here a while, maybe we should ... go on dates?

[Is that too normal for this couple?]

[matriarchate]

We should. We should let ourselves date. We're not running from anything - anymore - and we have the time. We should be normal and date.

( It's settled! )

[imnot_likeyou]

Great. Then we will date.

[Sam could do with a little bit of normal.]

Should we stop talking about my exes and maybe do something a little more fun?

[He could be persuaded to dance, maybe, if Allison wants to laugh at him.]

[matriarchate]

Let's take it one thing at a time. Should we fire up the jukebox?

( Nobody has yet, she doesn't think. )

[imnot_likeyou]

Let's do it.

[And with that, off they will go to have some good old fashioned fun.]