[Friday Afternoon: Fourth floor Common Room]

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Claire had acquired a knight. She hadn't meant to, but she'd been sitting on the couch watching TV and he had ventured into her hair, apparently deciding it looked like a likely place to find a Grail.

Now she was trying to untangle a tiny panicking horse from of her ponytail while its rider kept trying to cut her fingers off. It was annoying.

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Claire looked up at the entrance, just in time to be stabbed deeply in the palm of her hand.

"Ow," she said, shaking the hand as it healed. "What the hell is with these things?"

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"Fandom weirdness," Dean said, watching as the knight he'd followed in suddenly turned and charged Hunter who danced aside and then tried to pounce on it. "Stuff like this happens every now and then. Like the time my rock 'em sock 'em robot game came to life. Hunter had a ball. Usually only lasts a day, week at most."

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Claire winced as she pulled the knight off its horse by grabbing its shoulders between her finger and thumb. It writhed and slashed at her fingers, leaving little red lines for a second at a time.

"Your dad's class hasn't covered little tiny crusaders yet," she remarked, putting it down carefully on the arm of the couach so she could focus on the horse in her hair.

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"I'm not sure I'd classify these guys as an invasion," Dean said thoughtfully. "Though I suppose they could be."

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It was a lot easier to get the horse out without the knight interfering, though it did start scaling down again to try and get its horseback.

"Guess it depends if they think this place is the Holy Land?" Claire offered, with a grin.

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Dean snickered. "Suppose that makes Hunter the equivalent of the dragon?"

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Snickering herself, Claire finally managed to get the horse out of her hair, and set it down on the couch, where its rider started to chase it around in circles in order to remount.

"He doesn't breathe fire, does he?"

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Dean's eyes lit up. "Wouldn't it be cool if he did?"

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"Right up until he got a cold," Claire pointed out. "And you could forget sleeping in when he wanted breakfast."

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"He's got a dish of food out all the time," Dean said absently. "I could totally train him to breathe fire on command and take him with me to salt and burns. My own little furry flamethrower."

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"Because cats are so easy to train," Claire said dryly. "What's salt and burns?"

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"Way you lay a ghost to rest," Dean explained. "You salt and burn the earthly remains."

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Claire blinked at him.

"Oh, of course," she said. She totally knew that.

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"Kinda part of the family business."

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"Yeah, I know," she replied. "You hunt ghosts and stuff, you told me."

Or one of them did anyway.

"And I've got this superpower and I have to pretend I don't."

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"Not around here," Dean told her earnestly.

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"That's what everyone says," she agreed.

"Except for parents' weekend."

At that she turned to him suddenly. "Hey, will you do be a favour and give my Dad a wide berth when he comes? Sam too."

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Dean blinked. "Okay, way to make a guy feel unwelcome."

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Claire winced.

"If he thinks you guys know about me, he'll have your memories wiped."

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"Okay, number one," Dean said seriously, "I do have some experience keeping secrets. Just because I don't hide what our family is and does here doesn't mean I haven't been doing it all my life."

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"Yeah, and my Dad finds out people's secrets professionally," Claire returns.

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"And my secrets all have to do with demon hunting," Dean said smoothly. "I've also done some work in making sure people aren't going to get my secrets without my permission."

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Claire shrugged, not wanted to get into an argument about it.

"And number two?"

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"He'd have to go after everyone on the island if he started doing that, and if he's a smart man, he wouldn't even start," Dean said. "And you've never said he was stupid."

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"No one else knows," Claire pointed out. "Just you and Peter, and Sam if he's guessed. He'd take me out of school at the least."