Fourth floor common room, Saturday afternoon

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Dean had handwavily promised Zoe that he'd provide the cake for the party tomorrow so he was camped out in the common room kitchen, baking a couple of cakes -- a large one to be decorated and all that and a smaller Gracie sized one for her to really dig into. The extra batter left over, he was carefully pouring into a cupcake pan.

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Alex came into the common room in search of human companionship and/or entertainment, and paused to study what Dean was doing for a moment. "Are you making something?" he asked.

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"Yep," Dean replied, finishing pouring the batter and moving to put the various pans in the oven. "Cake for my sister's birthday."

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"Cake is one of those junk food things, isn't it?" Alex asked. "Happy birthday to your sister, I guess." Woo basic social skills.

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"Yeah, pretty much," Dean said. "And thanks. It's her first. Can hardly believe it's been a year since she was born."

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"Time flies," Alex said wryly. "Congratulations. So, it's her birthday, so you're giving her cake? I've read about that, but...I don't get it."

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"It's tradition," Dean explained. "For birthdays you get cake. Don't know why."

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"But what if you don't like cake?" Alex wanted to know.

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"Who doesn't like cake?"

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"Well, I've never had it," Alex said, "but I didn't like the chocolate and apparently everyone's supposed to like that, too. So you never know."

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"You don't like chocolate," Dean repeated. He paused. "You an alien?"

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"No," Alex said. "I'm human. I am from the future, though." He was finally getting comfortable with mentioning that little fact.

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"I don't think I'd want to visit a future where people didn't like chocolate," Dean said seriously.

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"Jen likes it?" Alex offered. "So it's not like it's everybody."

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Peter couldn't help but notice the scent of baking. "Those for sharing?"

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"Cupcakes are," Dean said. "The rest is for Gracie's birthday party tomorrow."

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"Her birthday already? Wow that was fast." Peter motioned to a cupcake. "May I?"

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"Help yourself. And yeah, hard to believe it's been a year already."

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Peter helped himself to the cupcake and started to nibble on it. "Before you know it she'll be going here."

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"Breaking hearts and heads in equal measure I bet," Dean said with a fond smile.

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"Think Zoe would still be principal?" Peter asked.

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"Hope so," Dean said, not sure what Zoe stepping down would mean for his family, if she'd want to go back to space where she was from and if Dad would go with her if she did. "I mean look what happened last time she wasn't in charge for a while."

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"Plus I'm thinking she'd be the only one who could handle Grace as a student," Peter said.

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Dean grinned. "She's a Winchester. Course she's going to be a handful."

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Now Dean was Dean, so Peter wasn't expecting to get far with this. But Peter was also Peter so he had to ask, "So how are you doing with everything?"

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Dean cocked his head. "Everything being....?"