there are prizes all around you if you're wise enough to see

[praevaricatio]

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[cholesterol]

( and also Damon Salvatore, but nobody mentions Damon, right? )

Easy for you to say, you're not attached to their now-grown daughter.

[imnot_likeyou]

In the long run, her opinion is the one that matters. And I'm pretty sure she wants you to stick around.

[Elena will reaffirm this later, but hopefully Dean will trust Sam for now.]

[cholesterol]

( and either way, the four become a group again as Elena's parents bring their choices to the counter and set them down with Dean's.

"Thank you," Grayson says, gratefully. Even though he should eat, he's not hungry. Everything unsaid just sits between them all, doesn't it. )

[imnot_likeyou]

[Yes, yes it does.]

So I'm going to reach out to a rune expert we know to see if they can help figure out what exactly it is that's going on. Hopefully we'll be able to come up with some answers.

[founderscouncil]

And that will get to the bottom of why me, my wife and their dead son are suddenly alive again.

( And what comes next. )

[imnot_likeyou]

That's the plan.

[He pauses as he tries to work through how to be reassuring when he doesn't have any answers.]

Look, the concoction they had you drink? Holy water and vervain in a silver flask. So as far as we can tell, you're human. Everything else, we can figure out.

[founderscouncil]

( While Sam and Grayson, and Miranda step away, Dean pays for their spoils. )

As far as you can tell better take us as far as we need it to.

( Namely, with answers, and time with his daughter. And maybe - it's too soon to say - but, whatever comes next. Even though it feels more like vampire business.

He already has a network of contacts he wants to get in touch with. Sheila. Abby, if he can track her down. Wes Maxwell, who is probably running the place by now.

"Let's load out," Dean says, bags in hand. )

[imnot_likeyou]

[Vampire business, witch business, it's all supernatural business in the end. But Sam nods to his brother and off they go to meet Elena back at the car.]

I can't make any promises, but we'll do our best.

[After all this time, Sam isn't one to give hope where there isn't any. He will try but he won't make any promises he can't keep, given there is a twist coming.]

[founderscouncil]

( Grayson tears open his trail mix, takes a handful and offers it to his wife. If he thinks about it, he's actually starving. )