16: [Action] Separate Ways

[dashboardlite]

An extremely heavy, loud bass-beat is thumping down the hallways and spewing out of the library.

Dean has acquired a boombox.

He's also legitimately doing research, for once in his life, plucking books here and there and stacking them in a rather haphazard fashion on the nearest table, all the while singing along to Separate Ways by one of the

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[mississippikiss]

[ Well, she was singing with you until you stopped, you killjoy. ]

Hey, that's a good song.

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[dashboardlite]

You're damn straight it's a good song!

[Dean shouts over the music, leaning to one side to turn it down just a tiny bit, grinning at her.] How you doin', sweetheart?

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[mississippikiss]

Better, now that space nonsense's over.

[ Picking nonchalantly at her fingernails, 'kay? ] You?

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[dashboardlite]

...yeah, let's not talk about aircraft, huh?

[Mostly because Dean is terrified of being in airplanes, and being in a spaceship was infinitely worse.]

[timisnotme]

What is... what are.. That is the loudest library ever.

[dashboardlite]

[Flashing a broad grin, he turns it up even louder, bobbing his head along with the beat.]

[timisnotme]

*Tim grins back and shakes his head. Then heads off into the library to find a book about crocodiles. Gotta keep his new pet fit and healthy.*

[airplanecups]

Finn still doesn't really know his way around Wonderland -- he only sort of knew his way around Lima and he'd lived there his entire life and they're kind of in outer space right now so it's not like he can be blamed for getting lost at every other corner and almost eating the banister he just passed. And it's not like it can hurt to familiarise himself with the place he's going to be living in for an undetermined but probably huge chunk of his teenage life.

Plus, there's some pretty cool music coming from somewhere that he'd maybe like to check out.

Finn turns a corner, unpeeling the banana from his closet and taking a bite.

"Oh, hell yes," he says thickly, wads of banana spitting from between his teeth. "SOMEDAY LOVE WILL FIND YOU, BEAK THOSE CHAINS THAT BIND YOU," he wails, dodging a weird crack in the floor and what looks like a stripper pole from the seventies, shoes scuffing the floor. He almost chokes on the next line, beating a fist on his chest and wheezing, but the music's getting louder and Finn wishes he'd just get to

[dashboardlite]

Dean is starting to become fairly decently-acquainted with the majority of the teenagers here. They all usually seem to end up going to the same school - named after some president he can't remember - and the encounters he's has thus far haven't been all bad.

Unless you include Santana storming out of his room because he wouldn't have sex with her.

And Kurt storming out of the living room after Dean told him he wasn't gay.

...teenagers sure do get wound up.

But this guy is new, and possesses a hulking tallness that rivals Sam's, and a taste in music that is obviously killer-awesome. Dean has no idea if the kid has any relation whatsoever to the cheerleaders, fashion diva, and homophobic meathead, but if he likes Journey, he's in Dean's good books. Figuratively, of course. Dean doesn't have any books except dad's journal. He grins broadly

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[airplanecups]

Finn Hudson.

[bounces banana peel, coming up behind Dean's armchair]

ASIA's cool. I don't know a lot of their stuff, but 'Heat of the Moment' beats out, like, 'Wannabe'.

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[dashboardlite]

...Finn Hudson?

[The stuff of actual relevance, relating to music, is sort of lost for a moment as Dean recognizes the name.]

Yeah, uh...'Finger On the Trigger' ain't so bad, if you wanna listen to it, but...you wouldn't happen to know a kid named Kurt, would you?

[paper_knight]

Mark goes to the library when he needs silence and space. Guess who's ruining that? Yeah Dean. Yeah. Thanks.

With a wince--his leg's been bothering him after all the running and sneaking he did during the event, and don't get him started on the number recoil did on his shoulder--he stands and heads over, all disapproval.

"Dean."

[dashboardlite]

Dean glances casually up from his most current book - something or other about hallucinatory fungi that isn't getting him anywhere - and smiles harmlessly at a very grumpy-looking Mark Meltzer.

"'Sup, Mark?"

pfhahaha that ICON

[paper_knight]

With an effort, he resists the urge to smack the smile off Dean's face.

"Dean. This a library.

It's the face of an ANGEL.

[dashboardlite]

Dean looks around speculatively, pursing his lips. "Yes, it is. Thank you, Captain Obvious," He replies, giving Mark an appreciative nod.

Dean's been in libraries before. And, secretly, he really does know that there's a certain etiquette to be followed. On the other hand, no one else is ever in the goddamn place except for Mark, and he can live with the music for an hour or two.

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[detectiveace]

Suddenly, another pissed library denizen to add to the list.

"Please turn that down."

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[dashboardlite]

"Well hello there," Dean says smoothly, raising an eyebrow. "This is Journey, sweetheart. You don't turn down Journey unless it's for a good reason."

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[detectiveace]

Did you just call her sweetheart? Honestly? Give her a moment. She's sputtering in response.

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[detectiveace]

"Your obscenely belittling remarks aside, I suggest you turn it down before I'm forced to do it for you." There is great displeasure here. Your smooth talking, charming eyebrow raises have no impact.