Fourth floor common room, Thursday evening

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"So," Dean began, grinning at his double, settling on the couch with the remote, popcorn and a mlkshake, "how many zombie flicks do you think we can get through tonight?"

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"And they might go all zombie and start trying to eat others' brains," Dean quipped.

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She laughed. "Well as long as they were only trying to eat one another's brains..."

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"Smart, prepared people will survive the zombie apocalypse," Dean told her. "Smart unprepared people... will at least see being killed and eaten for their brains coming."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"And how does one prepare for a zombie apocalypse?" she asked. "And is this something that happens often in this world?"

She wondered if she could make a weapon of her arm that would stop them. Then thought if they were like these strange creatures on the box she wouldn't want to have to get that close to them.

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"Fandom being Fandom, nothing is completely impossible," Dean said. "Though I think they already did the zombie thing back before I got here."

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She raised her eyebrows at him. "Should I prepare for the worst?"

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"Doesn't hurt to be ready for anything," Dean said, "but you don't need to be looking over your shoulder all the time. Awareness without paranoia, y'know?"

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"Quite true," Helen agreed. "When we were Walking the Bounds you learned that. It's just too exhausting."

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"Walking the bounds?" Dean asked curiously.

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"When I was exiled from my world originally," Helen explained, feeling her fists clench again. "One is forced from world to world, pulled to the boundaries when it is time to move on and thrown to some random world, never knowing where you might end up."

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"Sucks," Dean commiserated. "Sammy and I didn't really have a homebase either before we came here. I mean we just wandered around the country, not various dimensions, but still..."

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Helen nodded. "It does. It is hard not to have any control over where you go."

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"Yeah. I didn't even realize how much I missed having a place until we got one here."

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"I miss my home," she said quietly. "It's a terrible world after what They did to it, but it's mine."

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"Yeah," Dean said softly. "I get that."

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She sighed and wrapped her arms around herself. "I should go and leave you to your... zombie brain eating thing."

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"Nah," Dean said, giving her a warm smile. "May not be home, but... an evening with friends can be pretty good too, y'know?"

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"I haven't had many friends," she admitted. "Not for long anyway. Except Jamie and he cannot stay in one world for any length of time. It would be nice to have more."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Well, you have one more now," Dean told her with a smile. "Two, if I'm reading Alec right and I'm pretty good at reading him."

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Helen glanced over at Alec with a smile. "I think you are right."

"You realize," she said, "that between the two of you, you are completely ruining my grouchiness?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Well... sorry?" Dean gave her a cute look.

[elephantgadget.livejournal.com]

"You are not," she said with a grin. "Not in the slightest."

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"You're right, I'm not," Dean agreed easily. "You've got a pretty smile. I like seeing it."

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"Just do not be surprised when people want to know what you see in the unpleasant girl," she said, half-joking and half-serious.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"No one chooses my friends but me," Dean said seriously. "And I don't think you're half as unpleasant as you imagine yourself to be."