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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part II

Behold! More tables and chairs, away from all the informational stuff! Enjoy the food!

[OCD is up! This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here and there is more room for mingling here.]

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"Well, I think it would be more than just a job to them." A beat. He needed to be a bit more careful here. "If they were real. So how do you hunt them?"

He vaguely wondered if Dean was like a Quincy and if he'd managed to pick up on Ichigo's spiritual pressure.

"Pretty much with whatever works," Dean explained. "We use a lot of salt and holy water, some silver rounds, consecrated iron, throw in some fire and a few exorcisms..."

It was rude to laugh. It was really rude to laugh. He knew he shouldn't.

A snort. Come on, no way was the kid being serious. "That's funny."

"What's funny?"

"They're ghosts, why would salt and water work on them? It's not like they have a body." He was still very, very amused. It wasn't anything personal, it was just a ghost-culture-clash.

"Water doesn't work on ghosts," Dean explained. "That's for demons. But salt and iron can hurt a ghost or keep it out of somewhere. But it generally doesn't get rid of them. Usually you have to find the body and salt and burn the bones. Or, if it's an object they're attached to, salt and burn that."

"I don't know about demons," he admitted, the occasional snicker escaping because... Come on! And it sounded like a very bad idea to detach a spirit from anything he was bound to, unless you felt like turning him into a hollow faster. "Sorry. That's just the first time I heard anyone say that."

"No worries," Dean said. "A lot of people have problems believing ghosts are real."

"I have trouble believing a lot of things today," Ichigo said easily, glad to take an out. "So demons too?"

"Yeah." Dean sobered. "They're generally meaner and harder to take out than your average ghost."

And now he was wondering... "What are they like?"

"Demons?" Dean asked. "Well, they're non corporeal in their natural form -- kinda like an evil black smoke. And they possess people. Which kinda goes along with the whole like to torture people for kicks thing they've got going."

That didn't sound like anything Ichigo had run into before and maybe he should ask Rukia or whatever shinigami he met next. "Sound like fun," he said wryly. Possessing someone would make it harder to get the out of someone.

"In the way that is not, yeah," Dean said. "Demons are nasty business."

"Does this island get a lot of them?" Ichigo asked. "Demons and ghosts, that is?" He'd yet to be bothered by one.

"Not more than other places," Dean said. "And some of the ones here have been because, well, a few of them seem to have it in for my family."

Ichigo raised an eyebrow. "Pissed them off, huh?"

"A demon killed my mom when I was a kid," Dean said seriously. "So pretty much they pissed us off first."

If Ichigo had been joking earlier, he was completely serious now. He glanced down at the little girl in Dean's arms and this was something he did understand. "I'm sorry."

Dean nodded his acceptance. "Thanks." He shook himself. "And wow, way for me to be a downer on your first day here."

Ichigo shrugged his shoulders. "I'll live. It's best to know what's coming."

"Yeah. Though 'round here, there's always going to be something no one's ever heard of before."

"I think that's a pretty universal theme," Ichigo mused.

"True," Dean said. "But it's just... more here. I mean I woke up one morning as a twelve inch high plastic doll. Not sure that would've happened anywhere else."

Ichigo paused. "I'm hoping not." Maybe he really should reconsider staying here.

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