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5 Things Dean would do if ghostbusting wasn't an option
1) After his Mom dies, all Dean can think about is that he should have been able to save her. Nevermind that the fire spread too quickly, nevermind that not even Dad could save her, Dean *knows* that he should have been able to do something. When he was younger, he'd thought about becoming a firefighter, as had every other boy his age, but he starts to seriously consider it more and more and finally one day he goes to the local department and asks about joining.
They tell him he's too young, but he signs on as a volunteer, learning what he can from the other guys, and when he graduates from high school, he enrolls into the training program at the local college. He passes at the top of his class and his department hires him a few months later as a probationary firefighter. His time as a probie lasts only four months, shorter than any other guy in the place, but Dean earns it, busting his ass to do everything he's assigned and more.
He gets teamed up with Bobby, a gruff, older guy who threatens to kick Dean's ass if he screws up, and less than a week later there's a fire at an apartment complex. Dean and Bobby get sent in to search for a missing woman and when Dean finds her, curled up on the floor, her white nightgown singed and her blond hair fanned around her head, he freezes for a moment, heart caught in his throat. Then he shakes it off and goes to her, lifting her up and carrying her outside, Bobby at his heels. He hands her off to the paramedics and they go to work on her. Just before the ambulance doors close, she opens her eyes and focuses on him, just for a moment, and for the first time since his mom died, Dean feels completely at peace.
2) When Mike's mother-in-law falls ill, his wife insists that they move to New Hampshire in order to look after her. He and John sit in the office, shades pulled down, to talk about what to do with the garage. Dean's at work on a Camry, replacing the belts, but he looks towards the office every few minutes, wondering what's going to happen. Two hours later they step out, expressions unreadable, and when Dean raises a questioning eyebrow to his dad, John just shakes his head.
The next night Dean graduates from high school. After the ceremony, all his classmates talk about their college plans, but Dean keeps quiet. He'd planned on just working at the garage for the rest of his life, but if that's not an option, then...Dean doesn't know what he's going to do.
His family comes up to him, Sam and Mom beaming, John looking proud. Mike's with them, too, and he's holding a folder full of papers. John says, "I know you haven't given any thought to college, but I think you should look into some business classes at the community." Dean makes a face and asks why, and that's when Mike hands him the folder. He opens it up and looks from his dad to Mike to his dad again. "Are you serious?" he asks and they both nod. "Wouldn't trust anyone else to put up with this jackass," Mike says with a grin.
They go to the notary the next day to officially sign everything and the next week when Mike drives past the garage for the last time, the new sign over the door reads, "Winchester and Son."
3) Dean's used to getting hit on by the moms. It's like they see a guy who's good with kids and their hormones kick into overdrive. Most of the time it's just a bit of flirting but there have been a few with grabby hands whom he won't have parent-teacher conferences with unless his aide is in the room also.
He's even gotten interested vibes from a few dads, but a policy is a policy, even if it's just a personal one: Don't get involved with students' parents.
His first year of teaching fourth grade, he'd had a student who was exceptionally quiet but brilliant. Lucas's dad had passed away the year before and Dean decided to take him under his wing. He'd called Andrea, Lucas's mom, and asked her to come in so they could talk about bringing Lucas out of his shell and how to get keep him on track. That meeting led to another, then a coffee date, dinner, and finally Dean in Andrea's bed. It had been fun, and there was a marked improvement in Lucas's personality - he smiled and laughed more, played with the other kids more. But Dean had always had a problem committing and when Andrea started to get clingy, he called it off. She'd turned psycho on him, threatening to come after him and get him fired, and every day Dean had to walk into the classroom and see Lucas stare at him with sad and confused eyes. He'd nearly asked to be transferred to another school in the district, but Andrea pulled Lucas out of school and moved and he never heard from them again.
So, no, he thinks even as he eyes up Amanda Jones's mom, dressed in the *tightest* mini-dress Dean has ever seen outside of a strip club, no dating parents.
4) Dean had thought he'd be hunting until the day he died, which he's come close to doing more times than he cares to remember. The last time, in New York after tracking down The Demon again, leaves him with two broken legs, a shattered hip, a near-total loss of vision in his left eye, and has him laid out in a coma for two months. After he finally gets out of the hospital, he's determined to continue hunting. Dad refuses to let him, actually *forbidding* him, but it's the look in Sam's eyes and his quiet, 'Please, Dean," that convinces him to give it up. He has no idea what else to do, so he gets a job bartending at a place close to where Sam and Dad had finally finished off the demon without him. Months pass by, roll out into years, and when the owner decides to retire, he sells the entire place to Dean, including the apartment upstairs.
Ironically enough, Sam keeps hunting. He moves into the second bedroom of the apartment and never goes any farther than a day's drive from New York. Sometimes Dean wonders if somebody up there is having a laugh at them, with Dean ending up as the somewhat respectable business and Sam being the one pulling credit card scams and fighting ghosts and demons because someone has to do it.
5) It's like when his mom died, some part of Dean's dad had died with her, the part that told him to fit in with society and raise a family and be a respectable member of the community. She dies - was murdered, Dean amends - and Dad takes him and Sam and disappears off the grid.
They live in motels and the homes of people who think like their dad, who believe that there's too much evil in the world and not enough people doing something about it. Every morning Dad reads all the local newspapers, eyes skimming over the pages until he finds an article about some unspeakable horror, usually accompanied by a grainy photo of the victim's smiling face. Whenever he finds those articles, he drops Dean and Sam at a safe place and they don't see him again for a few days.
Dean asks him once what he's doing and his dad just answers, "Righting wrongs, for your mom."
When he's ten, he and Sam get left at Caleb's place while he and their dad go on one of their hunts. In the middle of the night, Dean wakes up to a man standing over him, his smile bright in the moonlight. Dean screams and scrambles away, but the man grabs him by the ankles and flips him over on his stomach, running his hands up Dean's legs and under his t-shirt. Cold fear grips Dean by the gut when suddenly the lights come on and there's the sound of a gun firing and his dad is there, holding him and pressing Dean's face to his chest while Caleb drags the body out of the room. The next day, John teaches him how to shoot a rifle, saying he needs to know how to defend himself. Hand-to-hand combat training follows, as does pistol shooting.
Dean takes it all seriously, unable to erase the feel of the man's hands on him or the fear that he had felt, and he swears that he'll do all he can to make sure Sammy never knows what that fear feels like. At his insistence, John lets Sam join the training, although neither of them tell him why.
He turns sixteen and drops out of school, knowing that he'll never learn anything from a book that will truly be useful to him. For a week John tells him no when Dean asks if he can go with him on the next hunt. Then the morning paper arrives with a picture of a girl Dean had dated and when he asks John, please, let me do this for her, John relents. They find her killer in a luxury penthouse suite, a $10,000 leather couch in the living room that still has gouges on the right side from where her fingernails had dug in while he raped her. The guy is outraged that they're there, denying everything at first, then finally saying 'that little slut could've ruined my life!' Dean puts a bullet between the guy's eyes without even blinking.
5 best pranks Sam and Dean ever pulled on each other
1) To this day Dean has no idea how he ended up in Tijuana wearing a pink tutu and missing his eyebrows, but he had to hand it to Sam for that one.
2) Of course, that didn't mean he didn't get Sam back. Replacing someone's shampoo with Nair might seem old-school, especially if you've already done it once, but it's effective. You just have to know to put in the conditioner bottle instead (since Nair doesn't lather and might tip an observant person off). And for added fun, stick some in the fancy-schmancy facial cleanser the person uses (that's what Sam gets for a: not using a plain bar of soap like a normal person, and b: the missing eyebrows).
3) Sam retaliates a few months later by offering to do Dean's laundry and sticking pink dye into every load. The pink briefs Dean can deal with - the first girl to get a look at them had raised a perfectly plucked eyebrow and said, "I love pink," before pulling them down and giving him the best head he'd ever gotten in his life - and nobody sees his socks anyways. But when Dean notices his favorite jeans have a very distinct pink tint to them, he decides that there is nothing - NOTHING - that he can come up with that will be punishment enough for Sam.
4) A year later, he finally comes up with an idea. It takes some work, but all the great pranks do, and even though Dean ends up paying a guy $100 for the stuff, he knows it's well worth it. Fucking brilliant, he thinks, misting the spray over Sam's clothes.
The next day, they're walking down the street and a grey tabby bounds over, butting its head against Sam's leg. "Hey," he says, looking down at the cat. "Sorrry I don't have anything for you." The cat just keeps rubbing its head against Sam and he takes a step back, frowning. "Friendly cat," he says, and Dean just nods, looking away so he doesn't laugh.
They don't go more than fifteen steps when another cat comes over, curling around Sam's leg, then another and another. "What the hell?" Sam says.
"Guess cats love you. Too bad you're allergic."
Sam gives Dean a sharp look but says nothing.
All day cats come up to Sam, rubbing all over him until he runs away. His eyes are completely bloodshot and teary, and he can't stop sneezing, and Dean finally gives up and falls to the ground laughing.
"Asshole!" Sam yells, although it comes out more like 'athole!'. "What did you do?"
Dean picks up one of the cats and scratches between its ears; the cat closes its eyes and purrs happily, rubbing its face into Dean's shoulder. "What are you complaing for?" he says, grinning. "You're a fucking pussy magnet."
5) Dean wakes up to find that Sam is gone. There's a note on the table that reads, 'Gone for coffee,' so he doesn't worry about it. He goes to take a shower, then realizes he must have left his bag in the car. He steps outside of the motel room and blinks. And blinks again. Then he whips his head left and right before staring straight ahead. The Impala is right where he'd parked it last night, only it's now covered in bubble wrap. Completely covered in bubble wrap. "Fuckin' hell," he mutters, even though he has to grin because that? Is kind of genius.
Of course, when he's still unwrapping the Impala an hour later, swearing loudly as he tromps through the huge pile of bubble wrap and tape, he's much less amused but, fine. Sam wins.
For now.
forglockgal:
Five TV shows you MUST WATCH, OR ELSE
1) Supernatural. How any of you who don't watch it manage to put up with me, I do not know. And, okay, yeah, I'm all into the Sam/Dean thing which might squick a lot of people out, but the show is so not about that at all. I know plenty of people who watch it without thinking Sam and Dean are two steps away from humping each other. Is it a brilliant show? No, but it's entertaining and the boys are pretty and, GOD. That family KILLS me. I love them all so much.
2) Due South. It has mounties! And half-deaf half-wolves! And CKR! And the gayest ending of any TV show EVER, even Queer As Folk. No, really. REALLY. I mean, okay, I never actually saw the ending of QAF, but I'm sure Due South is right up there. Plus it's funny and quirky and did I mention the Callum Keith Rennie factor? Because RayK is totally hot like fire and the woman I marry is basically going to be him, but with tits and a vagina.
3) Arrested Development. aldks;lkas;jagkjkadjdsdlkf I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH. Its cancellation baffles and angers me. Why didn't more people love this show like I do? It's so crazy and absurd and ridiculous. The third (and final! *sob*) season just came out on dvd, so go and buy or Netflix or whatever and watch it!!!
4) The Adventures of Pete and Pete. omigod, speaking of frustration, WHY WON'T YOU RELEASE THE THIRD SEASON ON DVD, YOU BASTARDS?!?! *cries*
Anyways, Pete and Pete. I feel that to truly understand me, you need to watch this show. This show came from a time when Nickelodeon was putting out truly high-quality programming and it was one of the best. Its genius and humor were sublime.
5) ACE OF CAKES!!! If you're not watching this, then you are dead to me. Unless, y'know, you don't have cable or the Food Network or whatever. Other than that, though, NO EXCUSES!!! If you don't watch it, then my baby sister will cry and I am contractually obligated to beat the crap out of anyone who makes my sister cry (other than me, of course). SO WATCH IT.
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but other than that I completely in love with my laptop. <333
balefully linked to a video that is apparently Jared doing an intro to memorable moments from America's Next Top Model. I say apparently because for some reason it won't play for me. BOO.More five things memeness! I've been doing these a bit sporadically, so do not fret if one of your requests is missing! It'll go up soon.
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bludrummergrl:5 Things Dean would do if ghostbusting wasn't an option
1) After his Mom dies, all Dean can think about is that he should have been able to save her. Nevermind that the fire spread too quickly, nevermind that not even Dad could save her, Dean *knows* that he should have been able to do something. When he was younger, he'd thought about becoming a firefighter, as had every other boy his age, but he starts to seriously consider it more and more and finally one day he goes to the local department and asks about joining.
They tell him he's too young, but he signs on as a volunteer, learning what he can from the other guys, and when he graduates from high school, he enrolls into the training program at the local college. He passes at the top of his class and his department hires him a few months later as a probationary firefighter. His time as a probie lasts only four months, shorter than any other guy in the place, but Dean earns it, busting his ass to do everything he's assigned and more.
He gets teamed up with Bobby, a gruff, older guy who threatens to kick Dean's ass if he screws up, and less than a week later there's a fire at an apartment complex. Dean and Bobby get sent in to search for a missing woman and when Dean finds her, curled up on the floor, her white nightgown singed and her blond hair fanned around her head, he freezes for a moment, heart caught in his throat. Then he shakes it off and goes to her, lifting her up and carrying her outside, Bobby at his heels. He hands her off to the paramedics and they go to work on her. Just before the ambulance doors close, she opens her eyes and focuses on him, just for a moment, and for the first time since his mom died, Dean feels completely at peace.
2) When Mike's mother-in-law falls ill, his wife insists that they move to New Hampshire in order to look after her. He and John sit in the office, shades pulled down, to talk about what to do with the garage. Dean's at work on a Camry, replacing the belts, but he looks towards the office every few minutes, wondering what's going to happen. Two hours later they step out, expressions unreadable, and when Dean raises a questioning eyebrow to his dad, John just shakes his head.
The next night Dean graduates from high school. After the ceremony, all his classmates talk about their college plans, but Dean keeps quiet. He'd planned on just working at the garage for the rest of his life, but if that's not an option, then...Dean doesn't know what he's going to do.
His family comes up to him, Sam and Mom beaming, John looking proud. Mike's with them, too, and he's holding a folder full of papers. John says, "I know you haven't given any thought to college, but I think you should look into some business classes at the community." Dean makes a face and asks why, and that's when Mike hands him the folder. He opens it up and looks from his dad to Mike to his dad again. "Are you serious?" he asks and they both nod. "Wouldn't trust anyone else to put up with this jackass," Mike says with a grin.
They go to the notary the next day to officially sign everything and the next week when Mike drives past the garage for the last time, the new sign over the door reads, "Winchester and Son."
3) Dean's used to getting hit on by the moms. It's like they see a guy who's good with kids and their hormones kick into overdrive. Most of the time it's just a bit of flirting but there have been a few with grabby hands whom he won't have parent-teacher conferences with unless his aide is in the room also.
He's even gotten interested vibes from a few dads, but a policy is a policy, even if it's just a personal one: Don't get involved with students' parents.
His first year of teaching fourth grade, he'd had a student who was exceptionally quiet but brilliant. Lucas's dad had passed away the year before and Dean decided to take him under his wing. He'd called Andrea, Lucas's mom, and asked her to come in so they could talk about bringing Lucas out of his shell and how to get keep him on track. That meeting led to another, then a coffee date, dinner, and finally Dean in Andrea's bed. It had been fun, and there was a marked improvement in Lucas's personality - he smiled and laughed more, played with the other kids more. But Dean had always had a problem committing and when Andrea started to get clingy, he called it off. She'd turned psycho on him, threatening to come after him and get him fired, and every day Dean had to walk into the classroom and see Lucas stare at him with sad and confused eyes. He'd nearly asked to be transferred to another school in the district, but Andrea pulled Lucas out of school and moved and he never heard from them again.
So, no, he thinks even as he eyes up Amanda Jones's mom, dressed in the *tightest* mini-dress Dean has ever seen outside of a strip club, no dating parents.
4) Dean had thought he'd be hunting until the day he died, which he's come close to doing more times than he cares to remember. The last time, in New York after tracking down The Demon again, leaves him with two broken legs, a shattered hip, a near-total loss of vision in his left eye, and has him laid out in a coma for two months. After he finally gets out of the hospital, he's determined to continue hunting. Dad refuses to let him, actually *forbidding* him, but it's the look in Sam's eyes and his quiet, 'Please, Dean," that convinces him to give it up. He has no idea what else to do, so he gets a job bartending at a place close to where Sam and Dad had finally finished off the demon without him. Months pass by, roll out into years, and when the owner decides to retire, he sells the entire place to Dean, including the apartment upstairs.
Ironically enough, Sam keeps hunting. He moves into the second bedroom of the apartment and never goes any farther than a day's drive from New York. Sometimes Dean wonders if somebody up there is having a laugh at them, with Dean ending up as the somewhat respectable business and Sam being the one pulling credit card scams and fighting ghosts and demons because someone has to do it.
5) It's like when his mom died, some part of Dean's dad had died with her, the part that told him to fit in with society and raise a family and be a respectable member of the community. She dies - was murdered, Dean amends - and Dad takes him and Sam and disappears off the grid.
They live in motels and the homes of people who think like their dad, who believe that there's too much evil in the world and not enough people doing something about it. Every morning Dad reads all the local newspapers, eyes skimming over the pages until he finds an article about some unspeakable horror, usually accompanied by a grainy photo of the victim's smiling face. Whenever he finds those articles, he drops Dean and Sam at a safe place and they don't see him again for a few days.
Dean asks him once what he's doing and his dad just answers, "Righting wrongs, for your mom."
When he's ten, he and Sam get left at Caleb's place while he and their dad go on one of their hunts. In the middle of the night, Dean wakes up to a man standing over him, his smile bright in the moonlight. Dean screams and scrambles away, but the man grabs him by the ankles and flips him over on his stomach, running his hands up Dean's legs and under his t-shirt. Cold fear grips Dean by the gut when suddenly the lights come on and there's the sound of a gun firing and his dad is there, holding him and pressing Dean's face to his chest while Caleb drags the body out of the room. The next day, John teaches him how to shoot a rifle, saying he needs to know how to defend himself. Hand-to-hand combat training follows, as does pistol shooting.
Dean takes it all seriously, unable to erase the feel of the man's hands on him or the fear that he had felt, and he swears that he'll do all he can to make sure Sammy never knows what that fear feels like. At his insistence, John lets Sam join the training, although neither of them tell him why.
He turns sixteen and drops out of school, knowing that he'll never learn anything from a book that will truly be useful to him. For a week John tells him no when Dean asks if he can go with him on the next hunt. Then the morning paper arrives with a picture of a girl Dean had dated and when he asks John, please, let me do this for her, John relents. They find her killer in a luxury penthouse suite, a $10,000 leather couch in the living room that still has gouges on the right side from where her fingernails had dug in while he raped her. The guy is outraged that they're there, denying everything at first, then finally saying 'that little slut could've ruined my life!' Dean puts a bullet between the guy's eyes without even blinking.
5 best pranks Sam and Dean ever pulled on each other
1) To this day Dean has no idea how he ended up in Tijuana wearing a pink tutu and missing his eyebrows, but he had to hand it to Sam for that one.
2) Of course, that didn't mean he didn't get Sam back. Replacing someone's shampoo with Nair might seem old-school, especially if you've already done it once, but it's effective. You just have to know to put in the conditioner bottle instead (since Nair doesn't lather and might tip an observant person off). And for added fun, stick some in the fancy-schmancy facial cleanser the person uses (that's what Sam gets for a: not using a plain bar of soap like a normal person, and b: the missing eyebrows).
3) Sam retaliates a few months later by offering to do Dean's laundry and sticking pink dye into every load. The pink briefs Dean can deal with - the first girl to get a look at them had raised a perfectly plucked eyebrow and said, "I love pink," before pulling them down and giving him the best head he'd ever gotten in his life - and nobody sees his socks anyways. But when Dean notices his favorite jeans have a very distinct pink tint to them, he decides that there is nothing - NOTHING - that he can come up with that will be punishment enough for Sam.
4) A year later, he finally comes up with an idea. It takes some work, but all the great pranks do, and even though Dean ends up paying a guy $100 for the stuff, he knows it's well worth it. Fucking brilliant, he thinks, misting the spray over Sam's clothes.
The next day, they're walking down the street and a grey tabby bounds over, butting its head against Sam's leg. "Hey," he says, looking down at the cat. "Sorrry I don't have anything for you." The cat just keeps rubbing its head against Sam and he takes a step back, frowning. "Friendly cat," he says, and Dean just nods, looking away so he doesn't laugh.
They don't go more than fifteen steps when another cat comes over, curling around Sam's leg, then another and another. "What the hell?" Sam says.
"Guess cats love you. Too bad you're allergic."
Sam gives Dean a sharp look but says nothing.
All day cats come up to Sam, rubbing all over him until he runs away. His eyes are completely bloodshot and teary, and he can't stop sneezing, and Dean finally gives up and falls to the ground laughing.
"Asshole!" Sam yells, although it comes out more like 'athole!'. "What did you do?"
Dean picks up one of the cats and scratches between its ears; the cat closes its eyes and purrs happily, rubbing its face into Dean's shoulder. "What are you complaing for?" he says, grinning. "You're a fucking pussy magnet."
5) Dean wakes up to find that Sam is gone. There's a note on the table that reads, 'Gone for coffee,' so he doesn't worry about it. He goes to take a shower, then realizes he must have left his bag in the car. He steps outside of the motel room and blinks. And blinks again. Then he whips his head left and right before staring straight ahead. The Impala is right where he'd parked it last night, only it's now covered in bubble wrap. Completely covered in bubble wrap. "Fuckin' hell," he mutters, even though he has to grin because that? Is kind of genius.
Of course, when he's still unwrapping the Impala an hour later, swearing loudly as he tromps through the huge pile of bubble wrap and tape, he's much less amused but, fine. Sam wins.
For now.
for
glockgal:Five TV shows you MUST WATCH, OR ELSE
1) Supernatural. How any of you who don't watch it manage to put up with me, I do not know. And, okay, yeah, I'm all into the Sam/Dean thing which might squick a lot of people out, but the show is so not about that at all. I know plenty of people who watch it without thinking Sam and Dean are two steps away from humping each other. Is it a brilliant show? No, but it's entertaining and the boys are pretty and, GOD. That family KILLS me. I love them all so much.
2) Due South. It has mounties! And half-deaf half-wolves! And CKR! And the gayest ending of any TV show EVER, even Queer As Folk. No, really. REALLY. I mean, okay, I never actually saw the ending of QAF, but I'm sure Due South is right up there. Plus it's funny and quirky and did I mention the Callum Keith Rennie factor? Because RayK is totally hot like fire and the woman I marry is basically going to be him, but with tits and a vagina.
3) Arrested Development. aldks;lkas;jagkjkadjdsdlkf I LOVE THIS SHOW SO MUCH. Its cancellation baffles and angers me. Why didn't more people love this show like I do? It's so crazy and absurd and ridiculous. The third (and final! *sob*) season just came out on dvd, so go and buy or Netflix or whatever and watch it!!!
4) The Adventures of Pete and Pete. omigod, speaking of frustration, WHY WON'T YOU RELEASE THE THIRD SEASON ON DVD, YOU BASTARDS?!?! *cries*
Anyways, Pete and Pete. I feel that to truly understand me, you need to watch this show. This show came from a time when Nickelodeon was putting out truly high-quality programming and it was one of the best. Its genius and humor were sublime.
5) ACE OF CAKES!!! If you're not watching this, then you are dead to me. Unless, y'know, you don't have cable or the Food Network or whatever. Other than that, though, NO EXCUSES!!! If you don't watch it, then my baby sister will cry and I am contractually obligated to beat the crap out of anyone who makes my sister cry (other than me, of course). SO WATCH IT.
also, today is
estrella30's birthday. If you want to wish her a happy birthday or just check out the gifts that people have been leaving her (including a drawing of Sam and Dean in the backseat of the Impala *AHEM*), then head on over to flipfloptwurl
