Pies and Prejudice: In search of the North

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She gestured wildly with her hands as she talked, used a frankly alarming amount of “air quotes,” and had an unnerving ability to work out just what you were thinking. It tickles Dean’s nose and catches at the back of his throat but soon it will be joined by a better scent, the sweet tangy fragrance of cooked fruits and warm bubbling syrups. In the intro to their Greggs piece, they opine, “They talk funny in Birmingham, so they must be northern, right?

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Its humiliation piled on humiliation, and to make matters worse Dean has to play nice with all the other suckers involved, like that rich dick-bag Castiel Novak.It was good to know Dean wasn’t the only one with doubts about the travelling involved – surely it would be easier for everyone to just stay put for the duration; the closer to Kansas the better as far as he was concerned. His voice sounded so annoyed it was funny, like he was an eighty-year-old guy pissed off at the world at large. All he knew of money was his own debts, and the way they hung over his head like a boiling cloud, threatening to break and ruin everything at any moment. She put a hand on her hip and tapped her foot, looking like a teacher telling off a classroom of disruptive students. A helpful Castiel would just be weird, and incompatible with Dean’s already fixed opinion of him – one formed, in no small part, by the lingering singe of rejection, and the crash-and-burn failure of the night they first met.

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She was no push-over, but her comments were constructive, not cruel, and she gave praise where it was due. The paper started to crumple in his hand, and he had the mad thought that if he destroyed the evidence he could forget about the whole thing. Dean grumbled a quiet, “fine,” and fastened the top button on the tight-fitting shirt Sam had handed him, “but no ties. There’s an answering chorus of gasps and hissing intakes of breath from among the other contestants. It wasn’t like he’d snuck up to listen on purpose though was it, and to stand up and make his presence known now, well that was just going to be all kinds of awkward.How many times did they have to be introduced before he remembered Dean’s name – it wasn’t even a hard name and he’d managed to remember Sam’s.