Mobei Jun is aware that humans aren’t as adept to the cold as demons, especially ice demons. What he didn’t realize is just how susceptible Shang Qinghua is to the cold.

thefourthvine wrote, "I want the story where someone sits down and thinks that, and lists every single person in the canon (probably in some kind of database, with numerical codes and assigned weights for each category and stuff) and weighs all the pros and cons and finally, after a lot of careful deliberation, selects a candidate for the position of Significant Other."

This is the first step in that process.

"It's not a competition, guys," Zizhen says. "Surely we can think of better things to do while we wait for peak meteor visibility hours."

The first time, though of course he doesn't know it's the first time, everything went exactly according to plan. Crowley got the baby, right on time. He took it to the nunnery, and didn't stop to talk to the man waiting outside. He observed the whole thing, and made sure no funny business happened. At the end of the night, the Antichrist went home with the Dowlings.

It takes 600 more tries to get it going exactly according to the right plan.

This time, Hannibal picks the venue, and Will hunts him down gladly.

Paul and Julian fake a breakup, take their payoff money, and run. The problem with running is that you're there wherever you go.

“Now, I know you don’t like it when I lie to you, Marty, and as I’ve been thinking it occurs to me I’ve said some shit that wasn’t exactly true.”

Aaron Stampler gets a visit.

Will Graham is very, very tired.

Visiting hours: Aaron slips forward to the edge of his chair, and Martin puts out a hand to steady him, like he’s gentling an unpredictable animal.

Cornelius Hickey has no respect for God nor man nor the poor dude who has to run the Taco Bell drive-through.

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