Tweak

InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "Eat at Joe's"

Astor Bennett wants to kill things (miami_angel97) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-01-18 03:22:00

Entry tags:

astor bennett, complete, day 29, sam winchester

Who: Astor Bennett, Sam Winchester, and OTA
When: Day 29, after the snowball fight
What: Astor needs to warm up with some hot chocolate and eat something
Rating: Probably PG at most
Status: Complete

After the snowball fight, Astor was tired, wet, cold, and hungry. And wired. She knew if she went back to her room, she could take a hot bath and ask the Planet for something to eat, but she was in a good mood. She'd all but forgotten that she was so upset about leaving Cody behind involuntarily. The people here, so far, were really nice and they knew how to have fun. Even the grown ups did!

She wandered around the resort for a little bit until she could smell the unmistakable scent of food and headed inside. It was a restaurant of some kind and there were weird stone statues standing around almost at random, but Astor ventured further in and took up a menu. A short scan of it gave her a big grin.

"Hot chocolate with lots of marshmallows. And a brownie. A big one that's really gooey and warm," she said to no one really in particular before plopping down into one of the booths and shaking the melting snow out of her hair.

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

psychic_sam
2009-01-20 04:18 am UTC (link)

Sam gave another little laugh when she parroted him. "The people here aren't so bad. I bet you wouldn't have a problem finding some new friends and I've seen a few kids around. I'm probably lucky that someone I know is here. My brother is here as well but he doesn't really know me. It's really weird."

Sam raised an eyebrow at the brownies. "That's probably one of the biggest plates of brownies I've ever seen. You sure you don't mind sharing?" he asked. "I'm Sam," he finally introduced himself. "Sam Winchester."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miami_angel97
2009-01-20 05:53 pm UTC (link)

Astor smiled. "Yeah, I saw that one girl out in the snowball fight. You mean there's more than just her?" she asked, arching a hopeful eyebrow at the man. "How does your brother not know you?" she asked, frowning. "I'd die if Cody didn't know me..." she murmured more to herself than to him.

She saw the man look at the brownies. "I know, right?! I only asked for one and this showed up!" she squealed excitedly. "I definitely don't mind sharing. I'm Astor." She paused and smirked, deciding to parrot him again just because she knew it bugged Dexter and she might as well get her giggles while she could. "Astor Bennett." She giggled and pushed the plate of brownies toward the end of the table so he could get to them as she took another bite and swallowed with a careful sip of hot chocolate.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychic_sam
2009-01-22 11:31 am UTC (link)

"I'm sure I've seen at least three kids around," Sam said honestly. "As for my brother, well, some of us show up from different points in time. We weren't really good friends earlier in my time line and that's where he's from, so he doesn't really know me because we haven't spent any time together like we have from when I came from. Does that make sense?" He wasn't sure if he was confusing the kid or not. "I mean, he knows who I am, but we're not really close."

Sam wasn't bugged at all by her parroting. He found it more amusing. Laughing, Sam held out a hand for her to shake. "It's nice to meet you, Astor Bennett." With his free hand, he reached forward to pick up one of the brownies and bite into it. Knowing he was in front of a kid, he kept his manners and swallowed first before he commented, "These are really good."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miami_angel97
2009-01-22 07:03 pm UTC (link)

"Cool," Astor said, ignoring her own manners as she spoke with her mouth full. She did, however, cover her mouth with one hand as she did so.

She listened, intrigued with the time line thing Sam was talking about and frowned slightly. "Yeah, I think I get it. That totally sucks," she said sympathetically.

Grinning widely when he laughed, seeming to catch that she was copying him, Astor took his hand. "Nice to meet you, too," she said. "You can sit down. I'm not gonna scream 'stranger danger' or anything," she added.

He had said that the brownies were really good. "I know, right?! These are even better than my Mom's and that's saying a lot!"

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychic_sam
2009-01-24 03:56 am UTC (link)

Sam slipped into the seat next to her when she told him to sit. "Thanks. Don't want to have the golems come and drag me off," he joked.

"So where are you from? And when?" he threw in, since people seemed to be from different years. "Tell me about yourself. Not that I'm trying to be creepy or anything." He held up one of his hands in defense. "Figure I should get to know some new people."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miami_angel97
2009-01-24 05:56 pm UTC (link)

"Is that what they're called? Those creepy statue things?" Astor asked.

She took another bite of her brownie and then sipped her hot chocolate, raising an eyebrow at him. "Miami, Florida. It's 2007, silly," she said with a patronizing roll of her eyes. She smiled a little, amused, when he held up a defensive hand and proclaimed he wasn't trying to be creepy. "I don't think you're creepy," she said with a shrug. "Tell you what about myself?" she asked.

Astor's social skills were lame and under-developed at best; non-existance at worst. She didn't have many friends back home because she and Cody spent so much time isolating themselves - together - that neither of them had bothered meeting other people. She hadn't ever really connected with any of the kids at school. So, needless to say, Astor had no idea what Sam would want to know. The most interesting thing about her was the one thing she couldn't talk about.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychic_sam
2009-01-25 09:53 am UTC (link)

"Yep, they're golems. I've seen some weird stuff before in my life but never something like them. I'm from 2006. Sort of a drifter. I don't really have a place called home. If I do, it's my brother's car," he admitted with a slight chuckle. "We mostly stay in hotels, traveling around the States to do our job."

When Astor didn't seem to be sure what Sam wanted to know, he threw a few questions out there. "Like how old are you? I'm 23. What did you do back home besides go to school, I assume. What was your life like?" Sam crammed the rest of the brownie into his mouth and finished eating it while he listened to her reply.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miami_angel97
2009-01-25 10:16 am UTC (link)

"You're from last year?" Astor asked, raising her eyebrows with curiosity. "That's so weird. What kinda job makes you have to travel all the time? That must be sad, not getting to be with your family all the time, 'cept your brother, that is," she said. She picked up another brownie but before she could take a bite of it, her stomach protested. They were too rich. "Ugh, I want another one but I can't eat anymore," she laughed, putting the brownie back on the plate.

"You're twenty-three? Oh, my God, that's like twice my age! You're almost as old as my mom!" she gasped. Why was he even talking to her if he was so old? "I'm eleven," she added. "And...normal, I guess. I played Kick the Can a lot with Cody and Dexter or helped my mom in the garden. Sometimes on really hot days, Cody and I would sell lemonade for fifty cents or Mom and Dex would take us to the beach," she replied with a shrug. Didn't everybody go the beach on weekends?

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychic_sam
2009-01-25 10:49 am UTC (link)

Sam shrugged. "Not really. Dean's the only family I have left. Everyone else is dead." He smirked a little, wondering if she would believe him when he told her what he did for a living. "I hunt down supernatural things, like demons and spirits and such. Help them to move on or destroy them if they're hurting people."

"That's probably for the best," he admitted when she put the brownie back. "Don't want to make yourself sick."

When she mentioned going to the beach, for a moment he was reminded of when he was going to college. "I used to live in California for a bit while I went to college. Went to the beach a few times." He didn't mention that he'd gone with Jess or his old friends.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miami_angel97
2009-01-25 12:14 pm UTC (link)

"Oh..." Astor said softly, feeling badly for bringing it up. She didn't know what she'd do if her mom was dead. Her father might as well be, for all she cared or knew, but that was an entirely different story.

"Like ghosts?" Astor asked, interested. "Have you ever seen one? I've always wanted to see a ghost because I think they're real but my mom says they're just figments of people's imagination," she went on. She didn't know what a demon was, but it was probably the same thing; she didn't bother asking to clarify.

Nodding, Astor finished her hot chocolate. "Yeah, it sucks being sick but it sucks more being sick when you're not home," she said with a tone of voice that suggested she knew just how unpleasant it was.

"California? That's way across the country!" she said in awe. "I've never been there... Is that where you came from? Do you miss it?"

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychic_sam
2009-01-26 10:02 am UTC (link)

"Oh, I've seen plenty of ghosts. I think about half the stuff we deal with are spirits," he admitted, thinking about things they had done. "Vengeful spirits out to get the person who murdered them, people who have died and are lonely and want someone to stay with them... Some cause harm, some don't." He chuckled. "There's a lot of stuff I've seen that your mom would say is just a figment of someone's imagination. We like to keep it that way most of the time, keep people thinking that. Sometimes it's better to not know things."

When Astor asked about California, Sam held his hand up flat horizontally and tilted it back and forth a little bit. "Eeeh, a little. I went to college there. I was born in Kansas. We left there when I was a baby though. We moved around a lot, never stayed in one place for long. I grew up living in motels."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miami_angel97
2009-01-26 12:08 pm UTC (link)

Astor listened intently as Sam explained, but her eyes darkened a bit at the explanation of the vengeful spirits. She wondered if any spirits were out to get Dexter; if they would be out to get her and Cody, someday...if she ever got off this place and got to go home so Dexter could teach her how to do it right.

"My mom says that stuff's all just in the movies, but I don't believe her," she stated simply. "I wanna see sometime," she added. Although, only on her terms, went unsaid.

"I know where Kansas is!" Astor interjected proudly. "That's down south." She listened to the rest of what Sam had to say and tilted her head slightly to the side. "Did that suck? Always moving? I had a hard enough time making friends staying in one place..." she said softly.

Her Inside Shadow stirred a little. "Wait, did you say you kill them? The spirits and things?" she asked, intrigued. "How can you kill something that's already dead?" Astor thought maybe, just maybe...she'd just found a loophole to the Planet's last rule.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychic_sam
2009-01-26 03:39 pm UTC (link)

"Hopefully you won't have to," Sam said, his tone still casual but gaining some sincerity to it for a moment. "Some of it can be pretty bad stuff." When asked about moving, Sam shrugged. "Yeah. Didn't really have a chance to make any friends. But I was with my family all the time, and I had my brother looking out for me, so it wasn't so bad. Meet a lot of interesting people that my dad worked with." That was an understatement, Sam thought to himself in amusement.

Sam raised an eyebrow, wondering why she looked so interested in how to kill ghosts. "Well, yeah they're already dead but humans aren't just bodies. We've got out souls and minds inside us too, you know? And sometimes, after you die, your body and soul split. Your soul might stick around instead of going on to the afterlife, whatever that is, if you have unfinished business. Some souls get corrupted, so they only have one thing on their mind, like hurting people or getting revenge. That's where my brother and I come in. We stop them. To get rid of a spirit you have to salt and burn the remains of the body the spirit once lived in."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miami_angel97
2009-01-26 04:09 pm UTC (link)

"Well, I want to," she repeated matter-of-factly, sitting back against the booth's seat. She listened further and smiled slightly. At least he'd had his brother.

When he started to talk about killing the spirits, Astor sat forward again, listening raptly, nodding when appropriate. "What about zombies?" she asked. "Are those real, too? Living dead? Is it the same as killing living people?" she asked.

The Inside Shadow was positively writhing with excitement, now. And, because of it, Astor was getting antsy. Now, she could ask him a more important question.

Licking her lips, she tried every hard to grin evilly. "Can you do it here? I mean with the no killing rule, if there was a spirit, could you still kill it here? Since it's already dead?"

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychic_sam
2009-01-26 04:46 pm UTC (link)

"Zombies? Not the kind that stumble around and go 'Braaaaaaains'," Sam said, putting on his best zombie face, which wasn't much. "There was one case where we did have to deal with a... reanimated person," he said carefully, not sure he should use the word 'corpse' around a kid.

The more Astor asked about killing things, the more Sam started to get weirded out. "Uuuuh. No, it's not the same as killing a human because these are things that have been hurting other people and need to be put to rest. But not all supernatural things are evil. Like vampires. I've come across a few vampires who refuse to eat human blood. They drink animal blood instead. If there was a spirit here, I imagine it wouldn't be a problem if I got rid of it, because it's not really killing it. It's already dead. It's just... sending it on, I guess you could say."

Seeing her weird grin disturbed Sam even more. He gave her a really odd look. Was this girl like a serial killer in training or what?

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miami_angel97
2009-01-26 05:00 pm UTC (link)

Astor blinked when Sam explained how it was different. "But some living people hurt people and the police don't always catch them," she pointed out. "So isn't it kind of a little bit the same?" Surely, he had to see the point she was trying to make.

She paused. "Vampires are real, too?! Like Dracula?!" she asked, wide-eyed with fascination. "They're alive...do you kill them?" she asked, ignoring the fact that he'd said the ones he'd come across hadn't been hurting human beings.

Killers were killers, the way Astor saw it. Dexter was different. He was special; he was careful to only pick the ones who were hurting people, which, as far as Astor could see, was exactly what Sam was doing...except not humans.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychic_sam
2009-01-26 05:10 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, a little bit, but that's not for us to judge," Sam said carefully. "That's what we have lawyers for and hopefully they're good enough that they send the right people to jail to be punished. I was going to be a lawyer before I took up this hunting job," he admitted. "Some things are just evil. And some people are just crazy. But they shouldn't be killed, they should be taken somewhere where they can get help. They're human. There's a difference. Yeah, vampires are real and I only kill the ones that won't stop killing other people even after I try and get them to stop. If I can reason with something, I always try that first. Just going in and killing something isn't the way things should be done."

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

miami_angel97
2009-01-26 05:17 pm UTC (link)

Astor gave a sigh of frustration. "But Dexter says, 'the system is flawed' and that sometimes bad guys...really, really bad guys don't get caught. And that they just keep on hurting people until somebody stops them," she explained with as much patience as she could muster.

Sam had said he was going to be a lawyer, so Astor bit her tongue against going on about overhearing Dexter and Sergent Debbie talking about corrupt judges and lawyers making lives for good cops harder. She probably wasn't supposed to hear that conversation anyway, so no point bringing it up to Sam.

"Some people are crazy, but aren't there also some people who are just evil? Like...Charles Manson, he was a really, really bad man," she said knowingly. "He made people kill other people. That's not just crazy, that's evil. Right? So it's like that, right?" she tried to appeal her case to him.

For a few moments, Astor had been really excited. Maybe she'd found somebody with an Inside Shadow or Dark Passenger who just harnessed it differently than Dexter did; differently than she and Cody were going to. Now, she wasn't so sure.

(Reply to this) (Parent)

(Read comments) -