[31] - [Voice]

[sharpememory]

[Private - Prefect]

You gotta say the code word, then I've got something to confirm with you.

[Eddie, you have made Barron the most paranoid. c:]


[Private - Dean]

Have I got news for you. Also, I need to talk to you in person about a thing.


[Private - Duo]

You made up a punishment for your inmate yet? I'm expecting something brutal, considering how long Prefect was laid up in the infirmary.


[Public]

Can we make people with the same face wear different colors or something? Maybe different hats? It's really awkward to start talking to someone and then realize that they're someone else.

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[ Private : Voice ]

[sharpememory]

Cool. You know that I can do magic, right? Because I can. Not that I'm gonna use it or anything, it's just exciting that I've got it back.

Common room on the third floor?

[ Private : Voice ] lawl I fail so hardcore - I forgot Dean would've seen Prefect's post before now

[surfaceshine]

[The reminder - Dean is operating on autopilot these days and sometimes forgets to update his information before responding - draws the hunter up short, so to speak; there's a noticeable shift in his voice, tighter, and all he says to the first is a short] Yeah. [and then again a moment later, agreeing to the common room meeting.] Yeah. Be there in five, okay?

[And he will be, albeit a bit more wary than Barron has seen him in the past; just a bit more tense, somehow, not as cavalier.]

[ Spam ] cccc:

[sharpememory]

[Barron rocks up, looking a bit more cheerful than usual. He's wearing gloves, of course. He grins when he sees Dean, but does notice that something seems off.]

Hey. [He pauses, then continues.] I was gonna say that we need code words for over the journals, but I guess we might need them for in person too now that there's another you running around.

[ Spam ] >=|

[surfaceshine]

[Well, Dean isn't particularly surprised by that; he's seen how people around here react with their light switch powers thank you Admiral. Buffy always seems like she might die, and then she gets them back and it's rainbows and daisies; that's to say nothing of the mutant contingent. The hunter does note the gloves first thing, and then he's smiling easily for Barron, turning so the other man stays in front of him.]

Yeah, why? We... what? [And then Barron has his instant attention and the whole powers and codeword thing is forgotten.]

[ Spam ] :D

[sharpememory]

[Barron shrugs.] Didn't you see his post? He looks like you, if you weren't an old man. I think he might be a robot.

[ Spam ]

[surfaceshine]

[Dean's eyebrows pull together in his characteristic frown. He's immediately fishing out his communicator from his pocket.]

No, I hadn't - I been busy. First of all, call me an old man again and you're on your own for beer and recreation for the rest of the week - second of all, seriously, what the hell.

[First the Comedian, now this crap. Christ.]

[ Spam ]

[sharpememory]

[Barron laughs, unconcerned.]

Sorry, sorry. You're not an old man. He's just really, really young. [Barron shrugs.] Yeah, seriously. Have game his name as a number and everything.

[ Spam ]

[surfaceshine]

[Finding the entry, Dean just stares for a moment - and then completely rejects his new reality, dropping the communicator back in his pocket.]

That's fucked up. Good thing I'm better looking.

[ Spam ]

[sharpememory]

Yeah, you are. [Barron pauses, realizing how that could come off.] Just speaking objectively, of course. Not meaning to come onto you or anything.

[ Spam ]

[surfaceshine]

[Dean raises an eyebrow into that pause, then a grin breaks at the quick backpedaling.] Uh huh.

What'd you need, dude? Before this gets anymore awkward.

[ Spam ]

[sharpememory]

I'm cool for the moment. I'll just message you if Dawsey or Arthas decides to punch my face in. They're not big fans of my power.

[ Spam ]

[surfaceshine]

[Oh, hey, this is something he's been looking for a way to bring up for a while now. He raises an eyebrow.]

Yeah? What happened?

[ Spam ]

[sharpememory]

[Barron shrugs, but replies.]

They're crazy. They hate people with magical powers. Like having those powers is a crime or something.

[ Spam ]

[surfaceshine]

Pretty sure there's a lotta people around here without much room to talk about what is and isn't a crime. [Dean is including himself in that, for the record, but then he's accustomed to that shit.]

[ Spam ]

[sharpememory]

[Barron actually looks pleased by Dean's response. He's run into too many people who think in black and white on the barge.]

I couldn't agree more. Sometimes good people have gotta do bad stuff for good reasons.

[ Spam ]

[surfaceshine]

[Dean himself is a black and white thinker, but his rules run along a different guideline than most people's, it seems. Society doesn't mean a whole lot to him, not the way it does to others.]

And sometimes bad people do good stuff for bad reasons. It goes both ways.

[ Spam ]

[sharpememory]

It's still good stuff. So maybe that kind of makes them good people.

[Barron has an interesting take on morality sometimes.]

[ Spam ]

[surfaceshine]

[Dean frowns, an expression produced mainly by his eyebrows and eyes, actually, shaking his head.]

No, it makes them self-serving douchebags.

[ Spam ]

[sharpememory]

[Barron laughs, shaking his head.]

Wow, man. Harsh.

[ Spam ]

[surfaceshine]

[Dean smirks, shrugging.]

It's been said.