Grief, revenge and alcoholism is the usual hunter package. After that comes family legacies - that would be me and the boys - and then there's people who accidentally stumble into it and can't look away. Though that's a pretty small percentage.
[Mostly Jody and Donna, from what she understands, though she hasn't met them yet.]
( He tips his beer pointing at her and then back at him. )
Though, it's giving car crash or train accident. In this case, I can't shake it. I don't know how much you ... know about Ben's involvement or how he found out about everything.
Just bits and pieces. I know Dean made a fucked up decision, as Dean is prone to do, but he thought it was the least fucked up of all the fucked up options. But I never knew Ben.
[She died before he really came into the picture.]
Good. That's the best place to start. I'd offer some more contacts but ... a lot of them, if they're still alive, probably think I'm dead so ... that won't end well.
( And maybe use it to your advantage. He doesn't say he sees where Ben gets his stubborn streak and that strength within. He doesn't suffer fools. Not the time or place, though. )
Well, the witches have deemed whatever it is complete, but it's not any kind of spell they've seen before. They also didn't recognize the witch that did it.
[So that's a whole lot of dead ends.]
But they have a guy coming over the weekend who knows other things, so maybe he'll drum up something.
[Which Jo isn't sure she believes will tell them anything because the scientific and the supernatural don't always coincide.]
But I'll take what I can get at this point. And witches don't have markers so much as ... if witches are familiar with other witches they can pick up on their style?
Yeah, that'll do. You'll probably hear about it before we do then. And you've probably seen enough bodies to know the difference between weird and not. After that it's pretty much a matter of figuring out what did the deed.
Oh, I'm the wrong person to ask. I've never really had a real job.
[Sure, she worked for her mom, but that wasn't a real job. That was a fleecing hunters for pocket money job.]
But we do have a network. So if you find something and you're not available to go, you could probably call Sam and Dean and they can farm it out to someone nearby. If not take it themselves.
For him and Dean it was. Their lives didn't have room for anything else. Heaven and Hell was moving them around like pawns on a chessboard.
[But at the same time, she knows he's not wrong in a smaller way.]
But once you learn, it's hard to unsee. You're putting salt lines and mountain ash across your doors to keep things out. You stop inviting people in verbally just in case they might be a vampire. Someone starts acting weird, you slip holy water in their drink or break out the silverware plated with actual silver. It completely changes how you interact with the world.
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( Maybe his reason falls under the usual column. )
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[Mostly Jody and Donna, from what she understands, though she hasn't met them yet.]
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( He tips his beer pointing at her and then back at him. )
Though, it's giving car crash or train accident. In this case, I can't shake it. I don't know how much you ... know about Ben's involvement or how he found out about everything.
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[She died before he really came into the picture.]
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( He even had an interesting conversation with Elena. )
Can't unknow it all, you know? World feels bigger than it did.
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Honestly, I think it's better that way. The more people that know how to keep themselves safe, the less deaths wind up on our plate.
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( He considers what Sam did. )
Dean's brother got me in touch with two hunters. Started me a network.
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Good. That's the best place to start. I'd offer some more contacts but ... a lot of them, if they're still alive, probably think I'm dead so ... that won't end well.
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( And maybe use it to your advantage. He doesn't say he sees where Ben gets his stubborn streak and that strength within. He doesn't suffer fools. Not the time or place, though. )
So, you're one of the lucky?
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[She takes another long pull from her beer.]
Grateful to be breathing, but still don't love the whole lack of answers we have at the moment.
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( Now he's being nosy, but maybe it's that natural hunter instinct kicking in. )
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[So that's a whole lot of dead ends.]
But they have a guy coming over the weekend who knows other things, so maybe he'll drum up something.
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( Noting this. )
Other things like witch things? Yeah, I heard a rumor this is the part before the real show.
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[Which Jo isn't sure she believes will tell them anything because the scientific and the supernatural don't always coincide.]
But I'll take what I can get at this point. And witches don't have markers so much as ... if witches are familiar with other witches they can pick up on their style?
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( More like signatures, but he thinks he gets it. )
Good luck with those answers, hope it doesn't open up a whole can of worms.
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[And once you get to the bottom of it, things are usually better. Or you know what to shoot.]
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( If he makes it that far? )
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Get really familiar with your local news. Any weird bodies turn up, that's usually where you'll see them first, unless you have another in.
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( Actual. )
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[Which is the fun part, in her opinion.]
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( It's definitely kept his mind occupied. )
What do you do when the two overlap? Need to keep the day job, but I wouldn't want to leave too many cases open-ended.
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[Sure, she worked for her mom, but that wasn't a real job. That was a fleecing hunters for pocket money job.]
But we do have a network. So if you find something and you're not available to go, you could probably call Sam and Dean and they can farm it out to someone nearby. If not take it themselves.
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( It's good to know. )
The way Sam talks about it, hunting's life, not work.
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[But at the same time, she knows he's not wrong in a smaller way.]
But once you learn, it's hard to unsee. You're putting salt lines and mountain ash across your doors to keep things out. You stop inviting people in verbally just in case they might be a vampire. Someone starts acting weird, you slip holy water in their drink or break out the silverware plated with actual silver. It completely changes how you interact with the world.
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( Maybe not Sam. )
Explain to me the silver and holy water?
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