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

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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.

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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."

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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?"

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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?

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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.

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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."

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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.

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