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[cholesterol]

Something coming together?

[holyposition]

I don't know if Set's serious or if he's just causing trouble for fun, but Embry believes it.

Or he wants to, just so he can get an answer as quickly as possible. He's fickle and quick to anger. He could run half-cocked with it and charge the 10th person in a row for Castiel's death just to watch things burn.

I'm sorry, by the way. It must be hard on you, with half the commune having their own theory.

[cholesterol]

Embry's trying to nail Hawk for Cas' death now?

( What's he missing. )

Meet me out front. Not doing this like this.

( He leaves Hawk inside, sweating and retching, but still better than he was on Saturday night. He has a bucket of water, a cold compress. He'll be okay.

Dean sits on the same rocking bench he's invited the OA, Set, and Misty to. He closes the front door behind him, but the window could make their voices travel. Either way. He needs to know what Hawk's dealing with it. )

[holyposition]

[ This whole thing is so stupid that he feels stupid for having to devote the time to it. Cutting off Hawk was supposed to be just that, but as it turns out, in the middle of a game of life or death is a bad time to start pretending he doesn’t care. So he goes to Dean, eyes more focused on the window and who likely lays inside than on the man in front of him.

Eventually, he sits and speaks, his voice hushed. ]

Hey. Um, honestly, that’s about it. Set, supposedly, thinks Danny is innocent. And because Hawk is a diamond and a nonbeliever, he’s putting Castiel’s murder on him. Gale and I have been sharing information, so he tipped me off.

[ Tim’s thumb and forefinger close hard around his earlobe, giving it a stretch while he thinks. ]

He doesn’t actually have anything. But you saw how fired up he got about the last one. He needs to focus on getting better.

[cholesterol]

Set's a handful, but I didn't think he jumped to conclusions without having anything. What's got his eye on Hawk? I thought Danny confessed.

( He's been told multiple times Danny claimed for Ash and Cas. )

You go to Danny yourself?

[holyposition]

Danny confessed to Ash. He can't confess to one that he doesn't remember. Embry’s theory is that he was copycatting - for what reason, I don't know, and Embry doesn't seem to, either.

[cholesterol]

Everyone keeps "finding" Cas' culprit, now it's copycatting. Hawk mentioned something about Cas' murder pointing to em, but mostly he's kept to himself. Does Embry have any real anything besides all this conjecture?

( Seriously, this is not the time. Give him hard facts, fine, he will consider them, but mostly continue to try to help the guy. )

He misses you, you know.

[holyposition]

No. That's all.

[ With a long sigh. If he was frustrated last round, it's even worse now, with the clock ticking and the threat of the dolls, and the drastic measures that might occur to finish this. ]

I know. That's not why I'm here. Do you have a theory about the scarecrows?

[cholesterol]

Yeah, I think, we're playing the game hard. Not right, not wrong. Just hard. Misty fights for her girls. Everyone came to me about Cas and I pushed hard round 1. Got turned around in round 2, but everyone knew who I was connected to. Feel like Harry's everywhere, but behind the scenes, except for all his findings, and Wei's a dark horse. Came up from behind and made a big accusation. We also all believed or accused someone it... probably isn't. Devon. Armand. Faith. ... Harry's like you, who knows who he's after.

[holyposition]

I was close to an accusation last round. Harry was going to do it, though. He insisted. To protect me.

[ He didn't need it, and he didn't know why, then, Harry, like Tim, wanted to be useful more than anything. They're after nothing more than an end to the violence. ]

The person he was going to accuse said he had an alibi, so we dropped it. But only a few people know he was getting ready at all. If it was a taunt for false claims, they'd have to know what he was about to do.

[cholesterol]

Was Wei defending someone from something?

( He chews the inside of his cheek. )

My claim for Armand wasn't false in my eyes. My vote for Devon was based on a lie. Misty's. And we all know who Misty was gunning for and who she was protecting.

[holyposition]

[ He shakes his head, at a loss. ]

I have no idea. I know he's new, like your friend. I don't know who he'd be protecting.

Maybe you're all being taunted because you're close. Not Armand, but one of his friends. One of Devon's friends. Faith's.

[cholesterol]

That would be Buffy, one of the teens. Any of the other vampires.

( He narrows his eyes. )

People didn't take Buffy seriously because she and August accused one another one after the other. But, Buffy does have the strength to lob a head right off, or bisect Homelander. Any of the other magic teens could conjure fire. ... And we all know what the vampires can do.

[holyposition]

I'd say she's worth revisiting, but she pissed off the alpha and she's still alive. He could have thinned the herd then, if he wanted to.

[cholesterol]

She also doesn't know she's a wolf and still could have pissed off the alpha or whatever wolf spirit possessed her feed.

( So, that's irrelevant. )