"I think you'd look very nice," Coraline said reassuringly to the giant Sam Winchester. Coraline liked Sam's girlfriend, she was very nice and didn't mind helping her with baseball practise even if she was the competition. "I think it'd look nicer on Jess though, it would suit her better. Maybe if there was a blue one for you and a cream one for her."
Coraline looked at the bookshelf, moving past the magazine and finally got to a book. Sniffing and wiping her nose on her sleeve she pulled it out and looked at the title. Frowning she pulled another one off she stared at it and put it down and another and another. Beside Coraline there was a growing collection on the Beldam (and boy did she know that word), how to kill ghosts and how to capture souls. "That's not very nice," Coraline said to the shelf, making a face at it. "It wasn't their fault. Mister Winchester can I have a wedding magazine please?"
Sam turned to look at Coraline as he picked up one of the fifty or so magazines in his growing pile, offering it out to her. "Planning something?" he couldn't help asking with a mischievous little grin on his face. "I think maybe you're a little young yet to be worrying about matrimony."
"Oh, I'm not worried about that. I'm going to marry Bill Weasley, when I'm much older of course." Coraline said simply as she took the magazine. There was a rather pretty waistcoat in the magazine that would make Cain look very handsome. She was sure if she asked Angie very nicely she'd help her make them both a present, she was good at weirdly shaped stuffed toys and clothes for dolls but not proper clothes. "I'm looking for something for Cain and Glitch. Cain's my daddy, well my island daddy-my real dad is back at home probably working in his study as usual."
Coraline pulled off another book on magic and another one on killing ghosts.
Sam glanced at the book with a good deal of curiosity and he leaned over to read the title. "Hold on," he said, reaching out for the book. "Can I see that?" It was finally giving what he wanted, just not to him. "That's pretty much in the vein of what I really wanted instead of wedding stuff, which...you can use for your Island Dad person or whatever."
"Okay but it's a bad book, you shouldn't go around killing ghosts. It's not their fault if someone did bad things to them, you should help them by saving their souls not by killing them." Coraline said sternly before handing the book over. Coraline missed the ghostly children, they had been her first friend. "I've got other ones here, it doesn't like me much today. I think it thinks it is being funny but it's not. It's being mean."
Coraline much preferred the wedding magazines even if she did want to look at the book that was possibly about the Other Mother.
Sam narrowed her eyes at her curiously, taking the book from her carefully and worrying that maybe she had been befriending spirits that wanted to harm her. Or maybe not. Maybe they were ghosts who just were stuck in their own loop. "Some ghosts aren't so nice, though, and we have to make sure they don't get to hurt other people."
"How do you know they're not nice? Did you ask them?" Coraline asked seriously. Coraline crossed her arms and looked at Sam as if he was several feet smaller and several years younger then her. If she'd had a chair she would have stood on it to lecture him properly. "You shouldn't just assume they're bad, what if they were being controlled by someone else? What if someone stole their souls? You should hurt the real bad guys not poor defenceless ghosts."
"They tried to kill me. A lot," Sam said, tugging his shirt to the side to show her the scars he had from Constance Welch. "There are a lot of reasons that people become spirits and some are good, but some aren't and their remains need to be salted and burned so they can move on. We're not hurting them, not when they've already passed onto the other side."
"Then that wasn't very nice of them," Coraline said gravely. Coraline secretly thought the scars were pretty cool. The only scars Coraline had were on her fingers and they were from when she'd tried to claw her way out of the Mirror Room. And those weren't cool at all. "Are you sure you're not hurting them? The children didn't hurt me, I rescued their souls from the Other Mother and helped them move on. I didn't need to salt and burn them that would've been horrible."
"Some can be saved," Sam clarified, giving Coraline a worried and upset look. "But there are some that are just not that nice and as much as I want to save them, the only way to help them move on is salt and fire and holy water to purify," he insisted, forehead wrinkled as he was more troubled than anything about what he did.
"Well I guess if they're the not nice sort then it might be okay but you have to make sure," Coraline said firmly. Though it was interesting to know that bad things didn't like salt or fire or holy water. "Does holy water work on Other Mothers too? Or is it only on ghosts and vampires?"
"I dunno, what's an Other Mother?" Sam said, deciding he might as well play to his strengths and just keep answering her questions while he knew what to talk about. "And holy water doesn't really work on vampires where I come from," he said apologetically. "Neither do stakes or most of the other lore."
"She's a creature who takes on the shape of well, she looked like my mother but she has buttons for eyes and long red claws. And she makes things look like home but it's not really home, it's a trap and then she kills you and eats your soul." Coraline said simply, her face very serious as she explained about the Other Mother. If Sam killed ghosts then he'd perhaps know something to hurt her. "It's okay though she only goes after children and you're too tall to be mistaken for a child."
Coraline flicked through the magazine, ripping out a page she liked to show to Angie. "What does work on vampires? Apart from going and getting a grown up to kill it."
"If she eats souls, then yeah. That's definitely the sort of area a hunter might try and fix," Sam assured, because he didn't exactly think any society was okay with some creature just wandering around and munching on souls. "You kinda have to decapitate them, mostly. I think." Because as far as Sam was concerned, they were still extinct.
Coraline looked at the bookshelf, moving past the magazine and finally got to a book. Sniffing and wiping her nose on her sleeve she pulled it out and looked at the title. Frowning she pulled another one off she stared at it and put it down and another and another. Beside Coraline there was a growing collection on the Beldam (and boy did she know that word), how to kill ghosts and how to capture souls. "That's not very nice," Coraline said to the shelf, making a face at it. "It wasn't their fault. Mister Winchester can I have a wedding magazine please?"
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Coraline pulled off another book on magic and another one on killing ghosts.
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Coraline much preferred the wedding magazines even if she did want to look at the book that was possibly about the Other Mother.
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Coraline flicked through the magazine, ripping out a page she liked to show to Angie. "What does work on vampires? Apart from going and getting a grown up to kill it."
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