[ Claire's disposition visibly shifts, the casual friendliness hardening as she looks at Dean more closely, looks him up and down much more as if she's assessing a threat - or a stranger. Yeah, she sees that difference now that she's letting go of the immediate relief. Shit, it was careless. Nothing to be done for it now but steel herself, though. It's not like this is the first time she's lost someone she ca---
Someone she kinda knew. Not like it matters. This Dean isn't the one she saved from the Bad Place. He's not even the one who played minigolf with her. Or the one who murdered R---
Claire's jaw clenches, and she crosses her arm. Trying to feign something casual, even though way her chin juts suggests anything but. She already tipped her hand, can't well pretend she doesn't know him when she referenced Sam, too. She would have otherwise. Refused to name herself and treated him like the stranger he is now, to her.
It's what she does. Hardens herself from a world that only ever takes everything away from her that she holds dear. And right after Kaia, this feels like someone's taken a blunt spoon to her chest to carve out what little she had left. And there's nothing to be done about it. Nothing but... ]
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Someone she kinda knew. Not like it matters. This Dean isn't the one she saved from the Bad Place. He's not even the one who played minigolf with her. Or the one who murdered R---
Claire's jaw clenches, and she crosses her arm. Trying to feign something casual, even though way her chin juts suggests anything but. She already tipped her hand, can't well pretend she doesn't know him when she referenced Sam, too. She would have otherwise. Refused to name herself and treated him like the stranger he is now, to her.
It's what she does. Hardens herself from a world that only ever takes everything away from her that she holds dear. And right after Kaia, this feels like someone's taken a blunt spoon to her chest to carve out what little she had left. And there's nothing to be done about it. Nothing but... ]
A hunter. Name's Claire.