The Monsters In Our Heads (Book 7 Arrow/SPN Crossovers)

The Morning After

We'd stayed up way too late but it was worth it. They got themselves all sorted out sleeping arrangement wise and Coyote and I were too tired to go for round two. Along with the car Sam had scored some pretty cool presents from the others. Felicity and Oliver, well mainly Felicity, had given him a top of the line, custom designed laptop with fingerprint locks and all of her latest hacker tricks loaded up. I was starting to wonder if he was planning to take down governments when she listed off everything she had on it. That wasn't all though. She'd taken all the scanned books and documents from the Men of Letters files he'd scanned in and put them on all some super secure server so he and I could access them from anywhere. He could also upload them to the server as he went along. Eventually the entire Men of Letters library would be on two servers, one that was hooked up to the internet and one that was in storage off site. There was no way any of that knowledge would be lost now.

"I know you're not hunting anymore Dean," she'd said, "But you are a Legacy after all and if for some reason Sam loses that laptop or it gets damaged while he's on the road you can help him until he gets a new one."

Both of us were pretty happy about that. Roy wasn't that interested in delving into the lore and I had kind of missed research, not that I'd ever say that out loud. There's always been this deep sense of satisfaction that comes with cracking a mystery using ancient lore.

Thea and Roy had got him a bunch of new clothes. I hadn't realized how much stuff you could pack into a few boxes until he started working his way through them. Coyote had said she'd have to take folding lessons from Thea for the next time we went on a trip.

I thought Dig and Lyla's gift was the coolest though. When Sam goes to Starling he stays with them and I guess Lyla's cooked a lot of awesome meals for him. She'd written out all her recipes that she'd cooked so far and given him two versions, one for three or four people and one for just one serving so he could make enough just for a meal when he was at home. The book she'd put them all in had plenty of room to add more so he could keep collecting hers or add his own when he wanted to. When he'd realized what it was he was so touched by it he called Lyla to thank her.

Coyote took on making breakfast for everyone, told me I could sleep in since I'd been busting ass for the last month with the car. I tried but once I heard people start talking and smelled food I couldn't get back to sleep. I did take my time getting out of bed though. The way the acoustics of that house work I didn't have to be in the same room to hear the conversations. Roy and Thea were chatting about what they wanted to do when they got back home. Sounded like they were going to be heading out of state for some couples R and R time. That was one thing that never failed to impress me with Roy, how he could separate out what he did from who he was. He hadn't let hunting or the vigilante gig warp him like it had Oliver and I. Maybe it's because we were warped before we started and the gigs were our way of dealing with it. Course Sam had been like that too, but not as much as Roy was. Probably helped that Thea was in on the life and it's secrets, he didn't have to hide what he did. It wasn't just that though, I hadn't seen any sign of that darkness that even Sam had in Roy. From what Sam said, Roy stayed objective about the job, monsters had to be stopped. He didn't get emotional about it, didn't get pulled down by what he did. He was proud of what they were doing and it didn't weigh on him. I don't think I'd ever been able to pull that off. Dig's voice joined in and a few minutes later I heard Oliver and Felicity say something, since everyone else was up and about I figured it was about time for me to get off my lazy ass and get moving.

After I got all cleaned up and back in my comfy jeans and flannel, just to mess with Thea, I headed down to grab some grub and coffee.

As soon as Thea saw me she sighed, "Couldn't last forever I guess. I think I'm going to start sending clothing care packages to you Dean. Your wardrobe needs a serious overhaul."