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Tweak says, "Jelly baby?"

Dean Winchester (hellsboy) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-03-03 17:16:00

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complete, day 34, dean winchester, shannon rutherford

Day 34: Having Fought Lizards...
Who: Dean Winchester & Shannon Rutherford
Where: Dean's Room
When: Day 34, early afternoon
What: Just saved the kitchen from lizards... for now
Status: Complete
Rating: R (language)

Dean led the way to his room, carefully peering around each corner of every building along the way before leading her around it. Last thing he wanted to do was walk her right into an ambush because he was busy grinning like an idiot at her. Which he was from time to time doing. Grinning like an idiot, that is.

"You know," he said now that it felt safe enough to be more of a smart ass without her misunderstanding his intentions. "You are actually very hot." He pursed his lips in a very amused expression and did not look at her.

Then as they walked up to his room door, he watched her profile from the corner of his eye. He pushed the door open to reveal his authentic motel-chic room complete with kitchenette of ugly green vinyl and chrome, two double beds (both of which were very obviously "Massage Hands" equipped with quarter tanks), a large flatscreen television attached to the wall and mood beads between the bed area and the bathroom beyond. He wasn't necessarily embarrassed to show her this; he figured if they were back on earth he'd probably want her on the road with him and she'd have to see this stuff anyway. But he was sort of unsure of what kind of idea she might get of who he was from it.

"Entrez-vous," he said with a chuckle. It was the only French he knew. "Make yourself at home."

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ballerinadreams
2009-03-03 11:21 pm UTC (link)

Shannon closed her eyes in a slow blink when he brushed away her tears. Hell, even Sayid and Boone had never done that. It only served further to confirm that she wasn't a bad person for feeling so drawn to him; for feeling the way she did about him. She couldn't count the men she left in her wake if she tried, but it seemed like every minute she spent with Dean, be it on paper or in person, he seemed to make himself stand out from the crowd more and more.

"Sorry," she said softly giving him a weak smile. "It's just..." she paused and laughed humorlessly at herself. "No one's wanted me around in a long time. Like actually wanted me around...not just to, like, lust after me or make himself feel like a big man for protecting me."

Licking her lips, Shannon shifted herself on the bed, turning on her side and propping herself up on her elbow. "It's nice. I missed it."

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hellsboy
2009-03-04 11:23 am UTC (link)

Dean lowered his chin to the bed and made his face look a little bit sheepish as he looked up at her. "I'm very sorry to have to tell you this, but I do want you around to lust after you. But maybe it's just the Van Halen." He tugged the edge of the sweatshirt she wore as he spoke. Then he rolled his eyes to the side with a mischievous grin.

She did look good though. Better somehow. Sure she was wet-haired and nearly makeupless but she didn't need anything extra to make her beautiful he decided. Which struck him as funny because he had always been the first to admit he liked the girls who looked like they'd spent several hours getting their hair and makeup perfect before they went anywhere. He suspected Shannon might have been a bit like that before Craphole Island but she wasn't displaying any of that now.

He would have liked to kiss her when she licked her lips but instead he teased, "Yeah, it's definitely the Van Halen." He winked and then he curled his lip the way he had when he'd played the air guitar earlier. "Girl, you really got me now. You got me so I can't sleep at night!"

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ballerinadreams
2009-03-04 11:39 am UTC (link)

Shannon rolled her eyes and smiled back at him, sniffling and finally wiping at her eyes reflexively, even though Dean had already wiped away the tears. She couldn't help laughing a little in spite of herself when he seemed to decide, albeit playfully, that it was the Van Halen sweatshirt and then he burst into song.

It was really cute that he was trying to make her feel better, she thought. Even if she did kind of hate Van Halen.

Before she could stop herself, she teased back, "well, maybe then I should just take it off..." Her amused smile turned into a sheepish grin. Yeah, she shouldn't have said that, probably... "If it's just the sweatshirt that's the problem, I mean..." she went on casually, looking up and away from him, "that's a pretty easy problem to solve." Her eyes went back to him and she grinned. "But I think you're lying when you blame it on Van Halen." She winked.

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hellsboy
2009-03-04 11:56 am UTC (link)

"Girl, you really-" he choked on the last half of the words in the line of the song and couldn't help but laugh at himself. He shook his finger at her and his voice was full of amusement as he answered her. "Ohhhh no. No way, you vixen. No taking your shirt off. Neither one of us would get any rest if you did that."

He scooted back a bit and stood up to sit on the edge of her bed. He toyed with the edge of the sweatshirt with one finger and looked at her a bit more seriously. "I'm glad you came out for lunch today. Trusted me not to be a crazy psycho serial killer or internet pedophile or whatever. You're really not like any girl I've ever met. With or without my Van Halen shirt." He smiled then and leaned down to lightly kiss her cheek before getting up again, ready to go back to his bed and behave himself.

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ballerinadreams
2009-03-04 12:05 pm UTC (link)

"Ah ha," Shannon laughed. "So that's how one turns you off. Threatens to take off their clothes..." she joked, winking at him.

As Dean moved, she watched him and blushed at his words and the kiss on the cheek. "I'm glad I came out, too," she admitted. "And I'm glad you decided to trust that I wasn't a cougar trying to get her rocks off with a young guy," she teased. When he stood up again, though, Shannon grabbed his hand. "Stay with me?"

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hellsboy
2009-03-04 12:15 pm UTC (link)

He grinned, "Yes, it's a huge turn off. Something most men will never tell you. Topless women? Turn off. Yep."

He stopped when she grabbed his hand and he raised a brow at her. He kept her hand, giving it a gentle squeeze and sat back down beside her. Ultimately he would have liked to have gotten in with her and just held her if that was what it would take for her to feel safe. That was something he could fix if she wanted him to.

Rubbing her hand lightly with his thumb as he looked down at it instead of her, he said, "Alright. I can do that. I promise to stop singing so you can get some rest too."

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ballerinadreams
2009-03-04 02:05 pm UTC (link)

Arching her brows and widening her eyes with mock surprise and dawned understanding, Shannon tilted her chin up. "Is that so? Did you just break the Man Constitution by sharing said information?" she teased.

She smiled at him when he gave her hand a gentle squeeze and sat back down, rubbing her hand with his thumb. "You're not going to rest up, too? Before you go back out?" she asked, looking up at him. "Don't you think maybe you should? I mean...you've gotta be as tired as I am..." Shannon raised her eyebrows at him again and waited. Either he was going to take the hint or he wasn't and if he wasn't, she hoped, at least, it was because he just didn't want to take a nap and not because he didn't want to take one with her.

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hellsboy
2009-03-04 02:14 pm UTC (link)

He laughed and shook his head at her referencing the Man Constitution. She knew exactly how to push his buttons - well the ones that got him laughing like a fool. He didn't mind at all. She was more than welcome to have that power over him.

She looked incredibly kissable just then with her brows raised. As a compromise he lifted her hand to his lips and kissed it. "Are you asking me to sleep on the foot of your bed like a big guard dog?" Softly he growled and smiled at her a bit self-consciously. He was half teasing and half fishing for her to say plainly what she wanted. He didn't want to assume or give her the wrong impression.

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ballerinadreams
2009-03-04 02:30 pm UTC (link)

Another blush crept into Shannon's cheeks when Dean kissed her hand. Boy, he was just full of surprises and new experiences for her, wasn't he?

Rolling her eyes playfully, Shannon shook her head. "Yeah, Dean, could you? That'd be great." she said with amiable sarcasm before laughing. "No, I'm just saying...I think you should rest and if you wanted to share..." she let her voice trail off and shrugged, taking her hand away from his and reaching back to pat the bed behind herself. She then gave him a tentative smile.

At least it wasn't an outright rejection on his part. She had to give him credit there. She paused. "You're going to make me just come out and say it, aren't you?" she asked only just now realizing again that he'd promised not to hit on her and even after she'd kissed him, she wondered if maybe he was just trying to hold to it until he knew for sure that it was okay to relax in that sense.

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hellsboy
2009-03-04 03:43 pm UTC (link)

"You want to share? Well I guess the bed's big enough but I'm a restless sleeper and I tend to end up with my arms around anything that happens to be within reach. You know, like, pillows and that sort of thing," he said in a very casual tone of sarcasm to match the one she'd used a moment ago. "I wouldn't want to, you know..." He mimed his arm flopping onto her waist and then he couldn't hold in the laughter.

"Ok, I think I understand what you're trying to say." He stood up slowly, letting go of her hand a little reluctantly. He didn't bother to walk all the way around to the other side, opting to crawl up from the bottom and lie down on the bed where she had patted. He made a big to do of making sure they were not in the least bit touching and winked at her to let her know he was messing around.

"Alrighty. Now we're sharing."

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ballerinadreams
2009-03-04 05:31 pm UTC (link)

Shannon put on a very serious and sympathetic face, nodding. "That...that must be horrible for you. Waking up with your arms around things, you know, like, pillows all the time..." she replied, smirking when he started to laugh and then joining in with her own giggles.

"Oh, good, yeah, don't touch me," she said as seriously as she could manage before starting to laugh again. When he was settled, she scooted back so that she was pressed against him although her back was still to him. "I think we should just drop the whole 'no hitting on each other' thing," she announced as she did so, grinning even though Dean couldn't see it.

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hellsboy
2009-03-05 08:19 am UTC (link)

"Oh it's terrible, yes. Especially when I'm sharing with another, you know, person." He laughed lightly and shook his head.

He smiled at her announcement and her little scooting move. She was warm against his side but she had managed to bump the bandaged scratch across his ribs. He sucked in a breath as quietly as he could, wincing and hoping she hadn't noticed. The last thing he wanted was for her to be more worried about him leaving than she already was.

He recovered quickly by shifting himself slowly onto his side. He turned toward her so that his chin was resting on her shoulder and slid an arm around her waist. He liked the way it seemed to fit there naturally; she felt so good so close.

"Is that better?" he whispered.

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ballerinadreams
2009-03-05 11:02 am UTC (link)

When she moved against him, she heard him take in a breath and her first instinct was to apologize; she must've bumped the cut on his side. But, he was trying to be quiet, she could tell, so she thought maybe he hadn't wanted her to hear for whatever reason. Maybe he didn't want her to feel badly about hurting him. So, she said nothing.

A second later, she wasn't thinking about it anymore. Dean had moved against her so that his chin was on her shoulder and he had an arm draped around her middle.

Somehow it was perfect. He fit her like a glove. Even more now than before, Shannon hated the idea that he was going to leave her to go back out and fight. She'd just have to hold to hope that he meant it when he said he'd be back.

She wondered if he felt the same way that she did right now. Like everything was right with the world and the only thing that mattered were his arms around her. She hoped so.

"Much," she whispered back, closing her eyes. Shannon yawned again and relaxed against him. "Have a nice nap," she added softly.

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hellsboy
2009-03-05 12:01 pm UTC (link)

It was the perfect end to a less than (and yet very much so) perfect afternoon. He half wondered what would be next, after he came back. Would she be here still, waiting for him? Or back in her room. He didn't want to think too much about it because here in this moment, everything was as it should be. He'd known it would be when she'd kissed him.

He chuckled softly near her ear and said sleepily, "I think that's a point for me." Then he kissed her neck once softly, just below her ear and closed his eyes to settle in for a well-deserved rest.

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	ballerinadreams 2009-03-05 12:05 pm UTC (link)
	"Mmhmm, point for you," Shannon agreed sleepily. A small, tired smile crossed her lips briefly when he kissed her neck and with that, she let herself drift off. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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