Dean Winchester | 008 | Video

[venatical]

Well, welcome to the other side.

[ Dean's been laying low since this place decided to turn into an episode of This Is Your Life, featuring some of his least favorite angels of all time, but after their stint in the tunnel, it seems kind of dumb. They know he's here, even if they didn't talk, and Dean knows they're here, and what the hell ever.

He's got stuff to say, anyway. He spins around in his chair, revealing the wall of monitors behind him, some of them showing feed from the Cape. ]

Now we get to see what life's like over here. Ever wonder what those cameras were hooked up to? [ He grins tightly. ] Found it. Lots of seats up here too to make it nice and cozy.

[ Dean's pissed, and it's thinly veiled, but he breaks off from that to look away and then back again. ]

Has anyone seen Charlie? Redhead, big nerd, game for miles. Tell her to call me.

[ She probably just got lost in the shuffle, right? (He can't even fool himself that much.) ]

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[blackmagus]

[She grimaces at the question. And, well, at the thought of something with that much power and no sense of humor. Frightening. Fortescue thought the militant Nazis were bad enough!]

Yes. ...if you can call them kitchens. I suppose they technically fulfill all of the requirements.

[venatical]

Hey. [ He starts holding up fingers. ] Food? Check. Sure, I don't know what some of it is, but it's more food in one place than I've seen in a while. Place to cook? Check.

I saw some Hungry Mans in the freezer. I'm happy.

[blackmagus]

You've a point.

[She can... boil water. That's pretty much it. And make toast.

But all thought pauses on that last part — Fortescue blinks, startled.]

You found men in the freezer?

[venatical]

[ Dean freezes for a second, and then starts to laugh, good and hard, dipping his head even. ]

Yeah, in a little plastic tray. They come with apple cobbler too. Just pop 'em in the microwave and they're good to go.

[ Will he explain for real? Yes, he'll get there, probably. In the meantime... ]

[blackmagus]

[Dean gets just about the wariest stare in the book. Microwave dinners exist back home, but Fortescue's never had one. Or gone to a market. Maybe she should.

Of course, he's laughing.

And she really can't see you as a cannibal, Dean, though you never know...]

I hope I'm missing something big here. [She smirks.] Unless you like men with cobber on top.

[venatical]

[ There's a minor hiccup in his expression. Where before he might've been able to joke about that along with her, now it's uncomfortably close to the truth. And now he's thinking about Cas and American Pie, and his mind briefly derails for about five seconds. Only five seconds! ]

TV dinners. The brand's Hungry Man.

[blackmagus]

[Well. Isn't that interesting?]

I see. And it's exactly the same brand here?

[Now she's distracted, wondering about similarities between worlds and if these people originally came from Earth. Or maybe they are on an Earth, in the middle of nowhere.]

I suppose it's an apt name.

[venatical]

Yeah. There's some other stuff in there I can't even recognize. There's something I thought was some kind of fruit, but then I smelled it, and it definitely smelled like meat.

[ Which was a weird moment for him. Fruit meat? Meat fruit? He can't decide if that's ingenious or evil. ]

Never seen anything like that before in my life. There's some other stuff like that too.

[blackmagus]

Yes... When I was in there earlier, there were some... ominous bottles. [She's half tempted to test them for alcoholic content. This alcoholic's been dry for a while.] It begs the question of whether our captors were even from the same world or not.

[venatical]

Hard to say. They're pulling in a lot of stuff from Earth, and those houses, the stuff in them, weren't really alien. But, well. [ He gestures at her. ] We're not from the same place.

They didn't know what to do with some of us; I remember in that thing that Stane found.

[blackmagus]

[Stane. Another on the missing persons list.]

So another Earth, then? Which ones of us did they have problems with?

[venatical]

People with powers. They were talking about using them maybe in some sort of army.

[ And Dean was not amused by that. Too many people have wanted to use him and his brother to fight their wars for them in the past. ]

[blackmagus]

[Imperium's forces have its magic users, but those are voluntary. For the most part. Fortescue's mouth becomes a thin line, for a moment, as she imagines being forcibly drafted to fight someone else's fight. No thank you.

She doesn't even like fighting. She only does her job to ensure the safety of someone else.]

They didn't expect us to come through at all, and then they decided to make use of us. Typical. I wonder where abandoning their own facility comes into play?

[venatical]

That's what I want to know. Something's up here. Maybe this really is an evac plan, the town was going to cave in, but where did they go? If we can figure that out, maybe we can join them.

[ As much as he'd like to believe there's another secret tunnel out of here, he's less inclined to believe it. There might be, yeah, but now they're surrounded by so much weird shit that they could have portaled their way out or something. ]

[blackmagus]

That's the big question, love. Too bad there's no big button labeled 'escape hatch' — that I've been able to find. [She smiles.] But I'll be sure to let you know, if I do.