Slow burn is best

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GROWING CLOSER On occasion, the fun in playing a romantic relationship is not actually playing the relationship proper, but the build up. The characters grow closer, frozen hearts can thaw, emotional barriers may fall, and insight is gained, both about self and potential partners... ...plus, it can be entertaining as all heck to play either a. awkward dancing around the subject, if your character is that type, or b. embracing all that warming up. A little of column A, a little of column B may scratch an itch you never knew you had. Play one little vignette in time. You may find yourself craving some more. Comment with your character, preferences, info, etc. Reply to others & thread it alll out. Have fun, guys!

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Dean Winchester | Supernatural | slight post-s5 AU | closed

[nothellsbitch]

[closed to izzy2425]

Dean was still researching things, trying to find a way to get his brother out of Lucifer's HellCage. But research had never been his strong suit. That was Sammy's area of expertise. Dean was better with the physical, hands-on side of things.

Which is why he'd put in a call to a friend. She was better at the books than he was and maybe she'd be able to find something he missed.

The pair of them had been at the same task for weeks now, but nothing lead them anywhere useful. She had unintentionally become his temporary, semi-permanent hunting partner, tagged along on cases and filled a bit of a hole in his life, even if it wasn't enough. Nothing would be until he got his brother back, but the distraction was nice in the meantime, at least.

They're on the road again, headed to some small Ohio town to investigate some weird. Dean's driving, as usual, and has the radio blasting some AC/DC. "Any theories on what we're walking into yet?"

Re: Dean Winchester | Supernatural | slight post-s5 AU | closed

[izzy2425]

As soon as Izzy had gotten the call about dean needed help she stopped everything to be with him she knew sam being taken wasn't a joke, and more then likely Dean would lose sam if she wasn't to hurry.

She wasn't much to look things over and find what they needed but sam did teach her well and she knew what she was doing. She scattered her brain looking for anything and everything she could find. Weeks had past but she couldn't give up, she knew if she did they would lose sam for good.

As she sat next to dean in the car she pointed " take a left, its up here. " the place they we're staying at."hell.. We're going to hell.." she knew they'd been there to many times but this time was different. Lucifer would kill sam not caring.

She tied her hair up " you ready?"

[nothellsbitch]

Dean nods and makes the turn when he comes to it. They'll be at the hotel soon to set up a place to crash before they make a stop by the local sheriff station to get more details on the case. "Not cute, Iz." Dean gives her a glance. It still wasn't all that long ago he had actually been in hell.

He pulls into a parking spot. "I was born ready." he throws her a grin before going to the clerk and getting a room. He grabs a duffel bag out of the trunk and leads the way into the room. Time to dress the part.

[izzy2425]

Izzy grinned at dean when she made the comment with his response " i wasn't being cute, well not trying to be." she smriked back towards him. She knew Dean had been to hell and he wasn't planning on going back, but to save sammy he wasn't going to have a choice.

She made her way into the room undressing she put the clothes on he got her a tight little black dresd with heels and a jacket, putting the books and paper on the desk she flipped therw all the way to lusicr. " we're going for him.... We're going for sammy" as she tilted her head looking at him.

[nothellsbitch]

He was in the bathroom changing. She wasn't Sammy and she deserved that much privacy at least. He's buttoning the last few buttons on his shit as he walks back out. "Yeah, I know."

[izzy2425]

She smiled at him when he came back out, brushing his shoulders " you clean up nice" she scratched her head and looked at him. " only problem is i'm not sure how we're gonna save sam, and not have Lucifer get to us.

She sat at the end of the bed running her hand over her face with a sigh. Iz felt bad she couldn't figure this case out amd she knew Sam's life was at risk. " Sammy, taught me well Dean, but this... This is.different." she shook her head

[nothellsbitch]

"I have my moments," he shrugs a little, nonchalant. He sighs at the comment and nods, "I know. We'll figure it out. For now, we handle this case, because this we can do." He pats her on the shoulder as he walks back out to the car.

[izzy2425]

Iz shrugged and sighed, following him out " i don't think you do know" she grabbed his arm she knew Dean he didn't want to deal with this so he'd hide things from her.

Moving closer to him. " i know you wont talk to me, but for Sammy's sake take that anger and save him" she smiled softly "pie?"

[nothellsbitch]

He pauses when she grabs his arm, eyes on her hand on his arm and slowly raising to her face. "I do. And I will. But we still have a job to do between looking into things for Sam."

He smirks at the last bit though. "Pie after we go to the station and get what details we can." he pulls out of her grip and gets back in the car.

[izzy2425]

She smiles at him and gets in the car looking out the window "what's this case about again?" she asked the sight of her being dean's partner made her all warm inside.

She titled her head at him giving a pouting look " pie, and cheese burgers." with a small grin

[nothellsbitch]

"Clues point to a Wendigo, we'll know more soon enough." Dean never really allowed himself to think much outside of the job. The job was all he had, the none constant in his crazy, screwed up life. And the job didn't exactly allow for much.

"Of course." He smirks.

[izzy2425]

Izzy looked at Him thinking to herself why am i helping him, " well.this.case shouldn't be hard." as they pulled up she got out of tge.car and walked in with him.

"Why did you give me this tiny little dress?" she mumbled "jeans and boots next time, Dean." she grinned

[nothellsbitch]

"Pretty open-and-shut." He nods. And the routine of it is what keeps him going.

He shrugs slightly, "Well, you've got the legs, flaunt 'em." he winks and leads the way into the station. A couple brushed over comments and badge flashes later, they're in the back, talking details with the M.E

[izzy2425]

She looked down and back up pointing at him "Dean.... Don't " she smiled

Asking the M.E questions and listening to him. " SO the real question is why are all these women disappearing all of the sudden?" she paused and waited for his reply with paper work and pictures she grabbed it and followed Dean. " lets get to hunting."

[nothellsbitch]

He doesn't say anything, just keeps the smirk firmly in place as they head inside.

He listens to the M.E.'s information and nods, "We'll see what we can find, thanks for your time." he walks out with Izzy and nods once. "We start down in the woods where these people keep disappearing. This thing's got some kind of lair nearby and seems to be stocking up on it's food supply." And if they were lucky, some of the victims might still be alive.

[izzy2425]

As they entered the woods, iz Got quite wondering what was to happen next she moved threw the woods with Dean. " maybe we need to split up?" she sighed." we're never gonna find this thing like this."

As something big and black flew over them screaming like a mother.

[nothellsbitch]

Dean moves through the woods with her, keeping an eye out for any modicum of movement. At her comment about splitting up, he immediately says, "No," and shakes his head. "It'll be too easy for it to trick us if we're alone." They mimick human voices, afterall, and usually ones that their prey knows. If they split up, he has a feeling it will take on one of their voices to lure them closer.

[izzy2425]

Izzy moved closer to dean grabbing the back of his jacket. "There's no way im that stupid," she said with a smirk. as they got closer to the woods she looked to her left hearing a girl scream for help "Dean! There" she pointed gun in hand walking towards to cave. Knowing no matter what dean had her back. As she entered she fled to the women unlocking the chains knowing something shitty was about to happen.

[nothellsbitch]

He's about to say something snarky when the woman's scream pierces the silence of the woods. He follows Izzy inside and keeps guard as she works on getting the restraints away. "Doesn't seem like it's here. Let's get her the hell outta here. We'll come back and gank this sucker when she's safe."

[izzy2425]

As Izzy pushed the girl out the open cave, she glanced at Dean and took a step back hearing the mother scream again. she pushed dean out of the way as the windigo in the dark black cape grabbed her pushing her back against the cave, chocking the shit out of izzy she moaned and grabbed her throat as it suffocated her.

Moving around kicking and screaming as the windigo chocked harder and harder trying to kill izzy.

[nothellsbitch]

Dean takes aim and shoots the Wendigo in the arm, just a distraction to turn it's attention away from Izzy. He quickly slings the pack of supplies he was carrying around and grabs a flare gun and shoots at the monster, sending it bursting into flames moments later.

[izzy2425]

Izzy fell to her knees once she was released from the monsters grip holding her neck she let out a cough. When the monster blew into flames she stood there with a cut on her face. "Thanks, dean" she moaned walking to the girl who was captured walking her out of the woods " let's get you home."

[ooc: feel free to time skip to later]

[nothellsbitch]

"The good of working as a team." he nods and lets her lead the other woman with them out of the woods.

Re: [ooc: feel free to time skip to later]

[izzy2425]

Well after finishing their latest mission together izzy turned the next page into looking for what was next to find out how to get Sam out of Hell. she tilted her head and looked over at Dean. "I found something, for us to use to get sammy." She made a sigh

" The only way we can get to him is if we go to hell." she paused knowing dean wasnt ready for that but she was willing to do it if she had to. Iz knew though it would take both of them to get to him.

[nothellsbitch]

They're holed up in the motel room they grabbed earlier and Dean is flipping through THR limited tv choices for something halfway descent to watch when Izzy pipes up.

He shakes his head. "We need to talk to Cas. He might have more insight." He glances over at her, "put the books away for a night, Iz."

[izzy2425]

She shook her head at Dean and closed the books for the night. Sitting at the end of the bed she looked at the t.v. " You cant keep avoiding this dean..." she sighed at him.

looking around for a min she crawled next to dean laying her head on his arm, "I am pretty tired though."

[nothellsbitch]

"I'm not. But you've been pouring over that same damn book for days now and it hasn't had anything halfway useful yet." He shrugs and takes a swig of the beer in his hand. "You gotta know when to take a break, Iz."

[izzy2425]

She smiled at him and took his beer taking a drink for herself. " brake or not we still have to try and find Sammy." She knew somewhere deep and inside dean needed Sam more then he needed her.

She sighed at him and moved closer closing her eyes from drifting off to the show they were watching.

[nothellsbitch]

He gives her a look at ganking his beer, but he doesn't say anything, just lets her have what she wants out of it before taking it back. "I know." he mutters quietly. She's right, but...he wants to have a couple of hours of just not thinking.

He slides an arm around her shoulders and lets her lean against him. He isn't sure when he started letting her invade his personal space like this, but...it isn't the worst thing in the world. He keeps his eyes on the tv. He's not sure he'll be sleeping any time soon.

[izzy2425]

Iz smiled at dean as she handed the beer back she slide her hand down his chest and back up falling asleep.

The next day as Izzy had gotten out of the shower, she changed and looked at the new file. Putting coffee on the table next to the bed for dean. " hey wake up, what is the case about?" She asked looking down at him smiling

[nothellsbitch]

Dean's not even awake yet when he hears someone trying to speak to him. Female. A voice he recognizes. Izzy, yeah okay. Izzy is talking to him. He blinks blurry eyes at her and waves a dismissive hand in her direction, grumbling something incoherent, but with a definite "five more minutes, Mom." tone to it before rolling over on his side to try and catch those last moments of sleep before she forced him to actually be a functional person.

[izzy2425]

Izzy grinned a little shoving him out of the bed. " common sleepy head we have to g... I don't know ? Save the world" she said with a slight sigh grabbing their bags and heading for his car. She put the stuff in the trunk and got into the passenger seat.

Taking a sip of her coffee she yawned " this case is about these kids keep disappearing.... This is the 3rd one this month..." She sighed closing the file looking at dean... With a sad look on her face she then looked down again... This reminded izzy of the little boy In Her town that no one could find 10 years ago that was her older brother... Dean didn't have a clue about her past.

[nothellsbitch]

Dean groans again when she shoves him, but manages not to actually crash to the floor. He rubs at his eyes and after a few minutes of really waking up, he pulls on his boots, grabs the keys and plops down in the driver's seat.

Without a word, he jacks her coffee and takes a few drinks from it. He's driving, he needs to be awake, okay? He hands it back and starts the car, pulling out of the parking lot. "Where're we goin'?"

[izzy2425]

Iz glanced over at him when he took her coffee. She groaned and shifted her body.

Looking at him holding the paper in her hand. " we need to go to this town." She smiled a little " this thing has been taking small children into the woods And killing them." She shrugged

[nothellsbitch]

"What? I'm driving." He says as he hands her coffee back to her. He glances at the paper she's holding out and skims the story she's found. "All right, sounds good." He puts the car in gear and starts driving.

[izzy2425]

Iz lengers her fingers through the papers. She had found something new on Sam's case but wasn't sure how to tell dean she was going to do it alone. She knew he wasn't ready nor could he be the one to give his soul for sammys. She wouldn't let that happen even if he wanted to she took a long sigh and smiled up at him.

"Dean.... I need you to listen to me... Okay?" She spoke gently

[nothellsbitch]

"Yeah, what is it?" He asks, glancing over at her. He assumes it's something about the case and doesn't realize the more serious tone that's suddenly slipped into her voice.

[izzy2425]

She took a deep breath in letting it slowly out looking towards him very seriously, " this is what is best for me you and Sam..."

"This thing between us.. Has to come to an end... I found out what happenes next and your not in this chapter." Her lip shivered when she had finally told dean he wasn't going with her and this was their last case together. Izzy was willing to give her life to make sure dean was happy and she wasn't quite sure why.

[nothellsbitch]

Dewn perks a brow at the serious tone. Izzy is never this serious unless it's bad. Which is definitely not good.

"What?" He asks sharply, turning to glance at her for a moment, "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" He cuts his eyes back to the road. "Cut the cryptic bullshit, Is! What's goin' on?"

[izzy2425]

She looked up and mumble towads him. " luthufer is going to take Sammy's soul" she shook her head.

"I'm going to hell to give him mine instead of Sam's" she looked at him grabbing his hand "and you're not coming, or talking me out of this. There is no other choice." She frowned at him

[nothellsbitch]

"You can't." He shakes his head furiously, "And I don't mean because I don't want you to. You can't because you aren't what he wants, Izzy."

He runs a hand down his face, obviously frustrated. "Sam is the perfect vessel, Lucked won't take anyone else."

[izzy2425]

Izzy ran a finger back through her hair and tried to smile. "Next left" she said pointing to their next place they had to go.

She knew dean needed Sam more then he did her and when he kept pushing her away every time Sammy's name came up she would get more and more frustrated with dean

[nothellsbitch]

He takes the turn she gives in her directions, but he's barely even thinking about the job they're headed into right now because she's talking crazy. Yes, he needs to find a way to save Sam, but this isn't it. She wouldn't last a day with an Archangel taking residency in her body.

He doesn't speak the rest of the way, besides a handful of questions about where they're going, a review of the case they're going to be working before they get there.