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Who: Sam Winchester and ... Someone.
What: Sam getting his soul back, and the end of his loss.
When: Wednesday, November 2nd.
Where: Back in the woods where Mindy ditched the Impala.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: First person to tag in gets the dubious honor of waking Sam up. Anyone after that can help him dig the Impala out of the leaves and get it back to the garage, but he's only unconscious for the first thread.

November second is a big day for Winchesters.

If Sam were giving it any thought, the fact that two of the most important people in his life died on All Souls Day might mean something to him, but as of right now, he isn't giving it that much thought. He's just making sure the dogs do their business so he can get back inside and go to work.

He's settled into a schedule, which could either be a good or bad thing, but at the moment, he didn't care.

The leaves make it hard to see anything a lot of the time, but even they can't completely bury something like the Impala. There's too much of it, and the leaves run off the black gloss paint to just pile everywhere around it, but the sun still glints off the finish the same way. Normally, Sam would have never given it a second glance, but today it held his gaze for longer than a moment, and right after that, it all came rushing back.

The pain, the guilt, the love and the trust, all of it flooded back into his system like a shot of adrenaline, and he doesn't know what it was that did this to him, but it hits him like a freight train -- everything he's done in the last two months. Everyone he's ignored. Everyone he's used.

It's all too much to take in at once, and it's not long before his eyes roll to the back of his head and he collapses onto the ground. Alice and Cooper will wander over to find him and stand guard, but for right now, he's catching up on some much needed sleep.

You can't go without it for two months and not expect any consequences, after all.

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Alice and Copper are not very happy campers right now. Alice is crouching in the leaves, with her head on Sam's chest, while Cooper keeps nudging him with his nose. They're pretty sure he's just sleeping, and can communicate as much, but sudden sleeping out of nowhere is not a good sign.

"... Asleep?" Duke personally thinks this is a really odd place to take a sudden nap, but he heads carefully closer, using the locations of the dogs as a guide.

"I can attempt to aid, if you wish it." Not.. that he's saying that the dogs need to wish for him to aid, but if they don't mind, he would try. Not that he cares about the random human, but because he'd rather the dogs were happy.

They would take anything at this point, and they'll communicate as much. Such a nice guy. There should be more people like that around here.

"..." Duke doesn't exactly have anything to say to that nice guy comment, but does his best to get so he can crouch next to the suddenly sleeping human, and double check for anything wrong. Being blind, there's some things he can't check, but he ends up searching his pockets for a container of water. He spends a moment debating - try to give the human some, or just splash a bit in his face first - and ends up trying to as gently-manhandle the sleeping human into a position to drink.

Sam stirs a bit as he's moved, and when he starts drinking he sputters a bit and pushes it away. "Stop."

Duke keeps his grip on the water, but blinks, slightly startled. ".. Roused quicker than anticipated."

"Sorry," he sighed, running a hand against his face to get the stray water away. "Didn't mean to startle you."

Duke leans a little tiny bit back. "No ... problem." He shifts, looking vaguely in the direction of the dogs. "They were worried."

Sam glanced over and saw Alice and Cooper, before reaching over and ruffling Alice behind the ears. "Yeah, I bet they were."

And probably about more than Sam just spontaneously sleeping.

Duke is slightly inclined to just leave now, but if the human had suddenly taken a nap in the middle of the woods, who is to say it isn't going to happen again.

"Do you believe you would require aid in returning to the castle? ... Or where ever it is you dwell."

He shook his head. "No, I'm okay. Really. I have to get the car back to the garage anyway."

"... Ah." Duke puts away his water, but sits where he is still. ".... Car...?" He's from a monster infested world, shh.

"Yeah, the car." He pointed back to the Impala over his shoulder. "It's my brother's, and he'd kill me if I left it out here."

".... Ah." Duke says it like he completely understands what Sam's talking about. Only he's not even looking in the right direction to be able to see the car.

It's that moment that Sam realizes that something might be a little off. "The car is this way. Over my shoulder?"

... It's an awkward question, but he figures it's better than 'can you see?'

Just a little off. A blank blink, and Duke stares more or less at Sam.

"...." Okay, so he's done pretending he can see the car. "... Not a word familiar to me."

Sam's confused, to say the least, but he's at least trying not to be rude to the guy.

"A car is a mode of transportation where I'm from."

".... Similar to carriage then." Car, carriage, it makes sense to him.

"... propelled in another manner than drawn, assume."

"Yeah. There's an engine -- it runs on fossil fuels." He has no idea if the guy knows what fossil fuels are, but he figures it's worth a shot. "Gasoline."

"....New." A slight shrug. Duke will be carefully getting to his feet now, and the way he dusts himself off says it was because he was fairly sure there was leaves there, even if they weren't where he was dusting.

"Such things were not a subject of interest, alternative forms of power."

"In my world, they're always pushing towards the bigger and better," he said with a shrug. "That's sort of how we roll."

"Very similar. 'Bigger and better' weapons, Barriers. Destruction." Duke stands there after mumbling that last word, and starts to turn away.

"Transportation was not a subject of interest."

"To each their own, I guess," Sam nodded, before turning back to the car. "Thanks again, for waking me up."

".... They were worried. It was nothing.." And Duke turns to carefully make his way out of the forest.

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... that works!

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I have no idea how that happened. /wrong thread. :X

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