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Sam Winchester ([personal profile] gavemea_45) wrote2023-01-05 07:38 pm
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[AU] two worlds, a lot of demons, and a new set of problems

It's still hard to believe it's over; that the yellow-eyed demonic bastard they'd spent their whole lives hunting is finally dead.

Sam figures it'll sink in eventually. Given everything else -- right now he's still pretty numb.

He's also desperately tired, but that doesn't matter. There's something he needs to do, and he can't afford to delay.

He waits until they've settled in for the night, and then waits still longer. Once Dean's been asleep for half an hour, Sam picks up his messenger bag -- already stuffed with books and his computer -- and heads straight for the bar.

He orders black coffee and snags a table with a good view of both doors and the stairs, then pulls out the first of the old texts and starts to search through it.

There's work to do.
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She gives Dean a wary glance and reaches out for the skull, opting to keep it in her hand and away from him. "Well, you can check the piano," she tells him. "But I'm pretty sure it's just a piano."
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She looks around the saloon and shrugs. "Maybe in the basement?" she hazards.

"If not here... they could be at the homestead. Although that wasn't the safest place to be for a long time."
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"It is now. From revenants, anyway."

She thinks of digging up the talisman; of being convinced to bury it in the first place. "The homestead's built on ammolite. The revenants can't come onto it."
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"Oh, it's really cool."

Waverly gestures out the window, inviting them to look out over the plains that lead to the jagged lines of the Rocky Mountains. "It's a biogenic gemstone. Meaning it's created from a life form," she explains, when Dean looks blank. "Like amber or pearls. Only this is made from ammonite shells."

She glances from one to the other of them, beaming. "You know, fossilized cephalopods. Well, mostly Placenticeras meeki. But this is one of the only places in the world where you find deposits of it this large."

Waverly grins, delighted. "Pretty cool, huh? Anyway, some Indigenous legends say it has supernatural properties."
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"Well, it varies," she says, addressing Sam after giving Dean a small, bemused frown. "Protection, yeah, but supposedly it also strengthens your connections to ancestors and helps provide spiritual clarity and good luck. There are some accounts of people using ammolite to connect with past lives, through meditation."
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"They literally can't even step on the land," she says. "It's like there's an invisible wall. When we got rid of the talisman that had let them onto the land before, one of them just got flung off the property like someone had him in a slingshot."
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"Yeah," Waverly says, a laugh in her voice. "It was hilarious."

She shakes her head at Sam. "That, I don't know. I only know for sure about the revenants."
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Waverly crosses her arms and gestures with one hand. "It's fine, but I don't see what it has to do with the problem at hand," she points out, tipping her head toward the skull. "Can we maybe focus on my dead friend, first?"
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"Hilarious as that would be, why don't we try asking the only other person who might know?"

She goes back to the table and lifts the note from Uncle Curtis, then waves it at them. "The Blacksmith?"
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"Well, you can come," she points out, then gives them both a considering glance. "But you might need coats."

In the weeks since Wynonna returned, the tail end of summer had given way to winter, and there's snow on the ground and frost on the windows. "It's pretty cold out there."
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"Too far to walk."

She glances at the stairs that lead up to the second floor, thoughtful. "But if you don't want to go back for coats, I might be able to scrounge something up for you."
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"Just give me one minute," Waverly says, holding up a finger, before she turns and scurries up the stairs towards the second floor.

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