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Crash courses

Dean must have been seating for hours because when he decided to stand , his legs had fallen deeply asleep .

He had to massage them for a long while before they decided to work again.

While he had been studying and drawing more pictures , Blade had first come in .

He had peeked around the room before Dean had rolled his eyes and told him that he did remember him and he ought to leave .

Blade had offered his help to draw the parts of the golem and Dean had chased him away before he made another ridiculous offer to help .

Not so long after he had left , Jade had come in looking overworked and stressed.

He had proceeded to give a monologue on how he had decided to give his best and his all after being inspired by Dean's ' flight and fight spirit ' as he had put It .

Dean had expressed his gratitude and asked him to leave but he had then decided to ask Dean for pointers on how to live the ' Fight and Flight ' lifestyle .

Dean had told him that all he needed was enough reason to not want to die .

He had just said it in passing to kick Jade out but Jade had acted like it was a piece of the holy Grail that he had just received .

Dean had eventually had to resort to violence to chase Jade away and had used his gun to send Jade out .

He had gone back to reading and illustrating but then Jade had peeked in a couple of minutes later and mentioned that he was done with all of the theoretical reactions he thought they needed to give them Nitroglycerin .

Dean had paused what he was doing and begged Jade to focus on a theoretical approach for the Calcium hypochlorite and Polyethylene glycol idea he had told him of and forget anything that had to do with Nitroglycerin .

Jade had agreed reluctantly and left .

He had not come back since and Dean would have continued to work if his leg had not suddenly cramped .

He decided to take a short walk and come back to his reading maybe that would help him .

Dean caught sight of the heavy monstrosity that was around his arm and decided to do away with that one first before anything , he sat back on the bed .

He got out the emergency kit and searched for a scissors , found it and used it to cut out the bandage which was harder than he had anticipated .

When he pulled off the last of the bandages , he recoiled .

His hand had really suffered some damages .

If he had lesser than a hundred problems , he might have been worrying over getting skin graft .

But it appeared that he had a hundred and one problem , so there was no time to worry over skin graft or scaring .

Dean looked around searching for something to bite on and the first thing that caught his eye was the gun facing away from him .

He told himself it was a no but that was not enough , he slouched forward to pick the gun and put the handle in his mouth .

The disinfectant was ready to use so he just doused his hand with it , the pain shot over him like fire and he ended up spilling the rest of the disinfectant as he hollered cuss words Into the butt of the gun .

He was still whimpering as he wrapped his arms back , this was the most attention the arm could get now .

Dean got off the bed and picked the bottle of disinfectant that was almost empty now , he covered it up and tossed it aside before leaving the room .

He almost passed out when he turned around .

Jade had cleared off the things that had been on the wooden table , he had then laid face down before using the white table cloth to cover himself , he looked like a human sacrifice .

Just as Dean was passing , he stretched out his hand and grabbed Dean , earning a loud yelp from Dean who hurriedly pushed him off .

" What the actual f**k ? "

Jade groaned as he pushed away the white cloth from over him and sat up , he looked like he needed to lay back down .

" You know , I have been thinking of how to domesticate Nitroglycerin ".

Dean rolled his eyes , the kid was obsessed with this , if he was this obsessed , it would be better to keep him very far from it .

" You know how old soaps used to be made from pure glycerin ? We could find a soap that is mostly still made of glycerin or even partial glycerin and then add it to any cleaning solution that is made of essentially nitric acid and just wait for it to kaboomm ".

He ended his overenthusiastic speech with an imitation of a large explosion .

Dean shook his head and turned to head to the other staircase so he could avoid Jade .

" Nitroglycerin is still a no . I do not intend to run around with soap and nitric acid in my backpack ".

Dean ended the speech with an imitation of deflation and Jade's eyes widened angrily .

" But you do not have a problem with carrying around something as crude as brake fluid and bleach ? "

Dean ignored Jade and moved, he avoided that part of the altar and instead headed up the stairs , following a grunting sound that was coming from up there .

This side up the stairs was exactly the same as Blade's side too , so Dean knew exactly where the room was located .

The door was not properly closed , leaving a sliver of an opening into the room .

Dean did not have to peer in before he saw May in a plank position .

She was sweating profusely and looked like she had been at it for a while now , she slowly moved from the plank position and began a series of press ups .

" Seventy - five , Seventy - six , Seventy - seven ...."

The plank position had been a break , she seemed to be counting In multiples of twenty-five.

Dean shuddered , Exercise , especially constricted and Indoor variations of it had never appealed to him .

He pushed the door slightly and went into the room , there was no inclination that she had noticed him walk in .

He walked into the room and sat on one of the chairs that had been made for visitors .

She did not let his presence interrupt her and kept counting till she was at one hundred. She ended the plank and stretched shortly before she got on her feet and looked over at Dean .

" What do you want ? "

She did not wait for him to answer as she went to her backpack and pulled out a bottle of water , she began to gulp it slowly , almost too slowly .

" First , what are you doing ? Why are you drinking like that ".

Dean usually was not curious about what other people did but he just had to know what she was doing .

She turned to him and smiled .

" Runway, don't I look like I am in one of those stay fit ads ? "

Dean nodded .

" You could pass for one of them when three quarters of the population is dead and the last quarter is in extinction ".

She threw the bottle at him and Dean caught it with his injured hand before yelping loudly when he remembered the state of the hand .

May smiled widely and bowed halfway .

" Really what are you doing here ? Do you need help with something? "

She wiped the sweat off her face and turned away from him .

Dean stood up and pointed at her feet , she looked down at them .

" You do not know the basics of hand to hand fighting ".

May scoffed at him , scowling as she visibly expressed her disinterest , Dean continued though.

" You don't know how to properly fall to minimize time that you spend hurt on the ground which is more than enough time for your opponent to get a lot of things done ".

May rolled her eyes and folded her arms , Dean unfolded them .

" You are always on the offensive which is good but then you leave yourself so open that if your opponent is strong and fast enough ,they will make quick work of you . And most of all , the way you fight is only advantageous when you fight on the streets not in a cage or surrounded by people that will not let you take a step back ".

May pushed him , narrowing her eyes at him .

" All you did was work part-time at a Judo studio, do you think that is really enough to profile or categorize how I fight ? "

Dean grinned at her .

" Yes, I worked part-time, as the instructor ".

May's eyes widened before she quickly masked it .

Dean took her hands and made a fist out of them and then kicked at her legs till she had assumed a defensive position .

" Let me give you a crash course on approaching varying opponents ".

May grunted and begrudgingly let him do what he was so intent on doing .

She figured learning more could not possibly harm her and she needed all of the learning she could get to face this woman whose name was scary enough as it was .