Infinite Consortium - Tuesday

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Another day at the Infinite Consortium, and another day of…. Well to be honest it was mostly Dean barely paying attention to the shop and spending all his time on his phone.

“Yeah, you’ll need a silver dagger but you need to anoint in a mixture of holy oil, sage, myrrh and salt. Where do you find that? None of that? Really? What do you have?…. Yeah, you’ll need a really need to hit the church and Penzey’s. It’s a spice store. What do you think sage is?”

It was going to be a long day.

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It wasn't pie that Jane brought, but it was still sweet! Clearly after yesterday, a big coffee from The Perk and a whole coffee cake was necessary.

"You busy?" Jane asked, stepping into the shop.

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As soon as Dean looked up and saw who it was coming into the shop, he turned off the ringer and tossed it over his shoulder without a second thought.

“For you?” He said, walking out to greet her with a kiss. “I’m always willing to take a break.”

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"Good," Jane said, smiling into that kiss. "I brought you a pick-me-up after yesterday."

And the cape drooling.

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Dean will totally dry clean the cape to get the drool stains out!

“Yeah, sorry about that,” he said taking the coffee and the cake. “I promise not to show up hung over next week. Everything okay? Looked like you guys were a little frazzled yesterday.”

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"Don had to go off island last minute," Jane said with a sigh. "So lesson planning didn't happen."

For the very important lessons about Thor in drag, sure.

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“Ahh. Well hopefully it’s all okay then,” Dean said with a little nod.

And hopefully Thor looks fabulous in those lessons.

He held up the coffee cake. “Want a slice?”

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"Yes, please," Jane replied. "I couldn't come up with a breakfast pie that wasn't just a quiche, so... cake."

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“Heh. As far as I’m concerned any pie is breakfast pie depending on when you eat it,” Dean half-joked as he pulled out the stash of paper plates and utensils. “But that might just be a Winchester thing.”

Actually it was just a Dean thing.

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"Oh, is that how it is?" Jane asked, laughing. "I can manage that."

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“I also spent my formative years in the back seat of the Impala so my idea of breakfast food could be skewed,” Dean admitted.

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Jane considered that as she took a bite of the coffee cake. "Even as a hangover fix?"

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"My hangover fix usually involved a hair of the dog," Dean said, slicing his portion of coffee cake. "Or whatever I could find at a roadside gas station."

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"Everything okay?" she asked, considering it was a Monday morning that he'd rolled in like that.

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"Let's just say I went out for a drink and should not have trusted a raccoon bartender," Dean said with a small frown. "One drink led to another and somehow I ended up at the radio station."

If Dean had understood anything about the raccoon language he might have chosen his drinks differently.

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"Ohhh nooo," Jane said, wincing. "Did they give you the stuff they brew?"

Because that stuff hit.

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"That probably would explain how my high tolerance for alcohol was overwhelmed," Dean admitted.

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"Yeah," Jane said, putting him on the arm. "Yeah, they do that. When they're not trying to kidnap people."

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"There's a raccoon kidnapping ring?" Dean asked in disbelief.

And now he was wondering why they didn't try to kidnap him.

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Clearly he wasn't shiny enough.

"So I've heard at least."

Then again, this was Fandom. Everything was perfectly normal here.

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"And all this time I thought Stark was pulling my leg that the local cops liked chasing raccoons in exploding rickshaws," Dean said, finally putting the pieces together.

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"Well, I think they do like that too."

Somewhere... Danny was so annoyed he was getting lumped into this.

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Danny was lumped in because he was involved!

"I just don't understand why the rickshaws have to explode," Dean said looking puzzled. "I'm assuming the raccoons have something to do with it?"

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"You know, I've never really thought about it too much, but it's concerning, right?" The exploding rickshaws were for sure concerning. "Do you think that would happen if we took one?"

Only if it was a dramatic chase, Jane. Those were just the rules of the narrative.

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"We could give it a try, I guess," Dean suggested. "Have a mad dash around the island and we jump off if it looks sketchy."

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"For science," Jane suggested. And not just for the adrenaline rush.

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"Is that just a justification or do you have an actual hypothesis to test?" Dean teased.

And also proud of himself for using the word "hypothesis" correctly.

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Jane grinned at it, so clearly he should be proud!

"Well, we have an excuse this way."

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"Sounds to me like we have our next date," Dean said raising an eyebrow. "Late night rickshaw race through the streets?"

It would be like Fast and the Furious but probably lamer.

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But family, Dean. Family.

"Oooo, I think that'll be fun. We could do burgers and see if there's a make out point here," Jane suggested. "It's a small town, there has to be, right?"

No, no. It was for brooding. Not kissing.

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Maybe broody kissing?

"Burgers shouldn't be a problem," Dean said with a chuckle. "And I'm sure there's a secluded point some place for this making out. Do teenagers even do that anymore?"

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"You know more of them than I do," Jane admitted. Mostly because she wanted to talk about wormholes and weirdly enough, most kids? Not into that.

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"Pfft. Kids these days with their smartphones and TikToks. We used to get by with a flip phone and some good old-fashioned common sense," Dean said rolling his eyes. "And I may talk to teenagers it doesn't mean I know anything they do."

Let's face it, most teenagers know more things than Dean.

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It didn't help when it came to kids here either.

"We can figure it out on our own," Jane agreed. "We're intelligent people."

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…

“So I should ask one of the kids?”

Not Arden or Cal though. Those two were clueless.

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"Would it be weird?" Jane asked, biting her bottom lip.

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“Nah. I’m sure it would be fine,” Dean said with a shrug.

It would be totally weird.

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Super weird.

"It's a plan then." To find the most cliche spot for a date. They were just so lucky it wasn't Halloween season yet.