This Old House, Winchester Style [Open]

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

The way things kept going with frequent visitors, and how their little family was increasing all the time now... Well the place was just getting too small. So Dean had started working on expanding out some rooms. He went over some plans with Xander recently. (Following a stern talking to about his brother, and how weird the idea of having a possible brother in law now was to all parties. A few threats were made and noted before he finally tabled the topic for the time being.)

The sound of hammering could easily be heard in their part of the city. Furthermore, between the humid temperature of the ship, and exertion from the construction project, Dean was now working shirtless with jeans and boots.

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[governorkang]

So that was where the noise was coming from. Kang had been on his way to the Winchester house to talk to Dean anyways; this was like killing two birds with one stone. He watched silently for a minute or two, taking a look at the materials, and what was already done.

"Didn't know you knew anything about construction. Need a hand?"

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

"Hunting doesn't pay so had to find other ways to get money. Sometimes it's been odd jobs. Plus that Xander guy gave me a few tips to speed it up," Dean glanced back, and then beckoned to him.

"Yeah, grab a hammer, and you shore that support over there," he pointed to another corner where there were a few nails already placed in a support beam, but it needed more anchoring.

[governorkang]

"Makes sense. It isn't all that difficult to do," Kang shrugged, taking the other hammer and getting to work. It felt good to do some physical labor, burn off excess energy. He didn't know if Dean had heard about who his brother had married on the previous mission, or how he'd react if he didn't, so he decided not to comment about Xander. "Looks like you're adding a room. What for?"

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Dean paused in his hammering to remark, "At the rate we're going with people either staying over or moving in? Starting to be a tight fit around here."

Plus it gave him something else to focus on.

[governorkang]

Kang grinned, "Might as well make the place an inn and charge, huh? Except for the pesky problem of there being no currency here."

He looked around for blueprints out of habit to see what the next step was. "I heard about you and Kaylee getting married down on that planet. I kept an eye out for you inside the city, but I suppose we must not have been in the same area at the same time. I wanted to say congratulations."

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Xander had actually helped on the blueprints end. They were lying off to the side on a small stack of lumber.

Dean grinned, "Uh yeah we were in the hut for a lot of it, but thanks. Heard you got hitched with somebody too." Brief sympathetic smirk at who he heard through the grapevine that Kang got stuck with.

[governorkang]

Kang quirked an eyebrow ridge and snorted, looking over the blueprints, "Can't say I'm surprised, knowing you two. I'm glad somebody had a good night, at least." They weren't the only ones, he knew. He'd already messed with Hiccup and Astrid.

"...we're not counting ours off-planet. It was a way to get into the city, nothing else."

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Dean nodded and then commented, "Yeah heard that. Heard something else from talking to Wash recently. He said those kind of things actually do count."

He rubbed a hand over the top of his head.

"The thing is? Yeah it was just a freaking light show and chanting and shit. But wouldn't mind the real deal now."

[governorkang]

"Still not counting it. I don't care if others do, but there's no way I'm going to call her my wife," Kang's wings rustled. He really didn't look forward to telling Fonrar about Karis, harmless as it was, or what had happened in Fairplay. It wouldn't be right not to tell her, though.

He shook his head and began gathering supplies for the next step. "Are you thinking about proposing to her?"

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Marco had just been wondering around the city in Irish Setter morph, minding his own business, sniffing out some random smells...okay, so maybe he was really trying to take a look at what was up with Tom (and Iniss) lately. Hey, even if Marco was keeping his own distance from Tom until that slug was out of his head, that didn't mean he couldn't keep an eye on him.

Jake wouldn't want him to do otherwise.

And that hammering definitely pricked Marco's attention. He trotted closer, trying to get a better look. The fact that Dean seemed to be building extra rooms made Marco suspicious - why would they need more? Who else was going to be moving in with them?

Eventually, after watching for a few minutes and coming no closer to figuring out what the hell Dean was building, Marco gave up and decided to ask directly. Hey, with Iniss now knowing that he could morph (Marco took a moment to snicker mentally to himself about how long that had taken), Marco was pretty sure that Dean and Sam would know too.

<Dude, what the hell are you doing building extra rooms when you could just wonder around for a while and find a free mansion?> he asked eventually.

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Dean faintly caught the steps, but he still almost dropped the hammer with surprise.

He then turned around, and blinked at the dog. Yeah, he heard Marco can morph. Still hard not to think of him as a shapeshifter. Though at least he's nothing like the ones from his world.

"Because this is our home, and we moved too many times as kids." So partly he's staying here since it's the first real home he and Sam have had since Lawrence, Kansas. That and he remembered how upset Sam got in his younger years of always being on the road. Dad's hunting prevented them from settling in any town too long.

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Well, technically shapeshifting is what Marco does. He just doesn't do the freaky skin shedding thing. Or the whole being a creature of evil thing.

He trotted closer, coming to see down in front of Dean's feet and look up at him. <you have fun with that then. Maybe sometime in the next decade or so, you'll actually finish it,> Marco scoffed. <Why the hell do you even need more rooms anyway?>

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Which is much much better really. Hence why Dean wouldn't have an urge to gank him or the other Animorphs.

"Because Tom's got a room here now too. Kaylee and I are together. Kang and Rhiow often stop by. Only a matter of time before more of Kaylee's shipmate friends come for visit. We're going to need the extra space."

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

<Dude what are you, a motel?> Marco paused for a moment. Tom with other people wasn't so bad - but the parasite in his head wasn't. And Marco had been plenty suspicious of both Kang and Rhiow's actions regarding the Yeerks lately. <You sure you want so many people around with Iniss living in your house?>

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

"No, but more people from home might wake up too. And some of them got a room reserved already." Like there was no question that Bobby wouldn't move in with them if he woke up.

"Look I hate Iniss, same as you. But I'm not turning Tom away. Better to keep an eye on the asshole, and he doesn't bother Tom as much with us around."

[lives2annoy.livejournal.com]

Marco looked at Dean intently for a moment - an odd look, on a dog - before nodding. <Fine. Just as long as you know what you're in for - whatever Tom knows, Iniss does. Including whatever Tom finds out about your friends.>

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Dean just smiled a not so nice smile as he calmly said, "Yeah I got that. Iniss should know if I ever figure out a way to rip him out without hurting Tom." Or even if Tom gets hurt, as long as he can recover from it.

"That'll be one dead slug, and we got plenty of salt."

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

Where there was a man working, Kaylee probably wasn't far behind. Dean hadn't answered her message over the comms, which didn't necessarily mean anything. The gorram things could be a pain in the ass, and that was that. But there was some talking to be done, and if Kaylee had to step in sweaty, shirtless Dean's way to get it done, she would do exactly that.

Bottle of water in her hand, Kaylee slid carefully up between Dean and the boards he was working on ripping out. "Gonna keel over if you don't get some water in you 'stead of on."

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

Especially if the dog somehow slobbered over said commlink and it took a bit to get it to work again.

He turned around, and grinned at Kaylee's arrival. Dean wiped his arm over his forehead, and set his work aside for the moment. Probably about time for a break anyway.

"Hey baby, thanks." He reached out for the offered drink.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well. Maybe they needed to do some dogproofing to go along with this expansion.

Kaylee handed the bottle over with a grin, and stepped over to see how the remodel was going. "How's it been? Seems like she's comin' along pretty nice. Quicker than thought, too."

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

He opened the bottle, and took a long pull of the water. He could go for a cold beer too, but this was a good start.

"Just getting started, trying to set up the framework to get another bedroom or two. Probably another bathroom too."

"How's your girl? Figured you'd been pretty busy looking her over, or in Engineering." He did miss hearing from her.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"Considerin' the walking distance to anythin' around here, an extra bathroom don't sound like so much of a bad idea."

Running a hand over part of the wall, Kaylee smiled at Dean over her shoulder. "She's shiny. Got a lot of work done on her since we got back. She's had a good tune-up, just needs a bit of time 'n room to run one of these days." Hopefully, it would be some day soon. Serenity and Kaylee had been cooped up on Stacy a lot longer than she liked without a good fly around.

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

"Yeah and it'll keep Sam from hogging the hot water." It's less a factor here than it was in the run down motels they used to stay in.

"Good, checked on the Impala and she's purring like a kitten." He then set down the bottle of water, and came closer to her from behind to kiss her shoulder.

"How's my girl?" Of course meaning Kaylee this time, as opposed to his first girl, the car.

[voiceofserenity.livejournal.com]

"Likes his hot showers, huh?" Kaylee laughed. "Don't ever let him near the ones on Serenity, they don't put out much." Trying to get a proper shower in there after Jayne had his was like jumping straight into a pond in winter. Not fun.

"Wouldn't expect any less, the way you take care of her." It didn't take much more than that kiss to get Kaylee to settle back against Dean, hands reaching for his. "And 'M alright, I think. Workin' more and more, it seems, but it's all worth it if we're actually gettin' to a place where we'll have half a fightin' chance."

[notadamnangel.livejournal.com]

"Well he ain't the only one," Sometimes it was Dean that was hogging all the hot water when he pulled big brother rank and got first dibs. Another thing the guy had in common with Jayne there.

"Sounds like most of the hotel rooms we stayed in though."

He leaned down to nuzzle her ear, and kiss the lobe, his fingers lacing with hers.

"We got a good crew, we'll get there. And just all right?"