It seemed to take forever for Dean to remember that he’d pocketed a couple of the gemstones from Aza’s collar. Why he couldn’t recall was beyond him, but by the time he’d remembered, Donovan was there with the female knight. And they were….kissing? Do what? That was patently unfair. All logic aside, Donovan was quite literally getting *all* the action. So much for being Mr. Mysterious-Handsome-Rapey-Shadow-Dude.<br/><br/>*I can give you enough power to elevate you above this concern. Give you enough power to take over cities filled with nubile women. Remake the old into young – yet experienced – virgins for your pleasure.*<br/><br/>Yeah right. If there was one thing Dean knew, it was the temptation game. He played that often enough – it was one of the more prominent tricks in his oft-shuffled deck of abilities.<br/><br/>“You don’t fuck with the dude who becomes other dude’s worst nightmares,” Dean growled out, even as Donovan poured himself into his Glory-fueled life pulse. “Ah, fuck you Knight,” he added at the end, feeling vaguely disappointed. “You don’t get to screw and kiss all the girls, then go unconscious like some sort of martyr. That’s just not fair!”<br/><br/>Then Dean, using the momentary reprieve his Knight had given him, and pulling on the gemstones his searching fingers had just stumbled across, simultaneously peeled the Greater Shadow away from his psyche and poured all of the excess energy, all darkness and sensuousness and tainted with Dean’s sexual urges, into the only receptacle he could think of.<br/><br/>Aza’s collar.<br/><br/>And then he, too, fell onto the deck, leaving the massive ship sitting in a rapidly dwindling maelstrom of lights, colors, and monsters – the latter of which were fleeing the scene, presumably to go do what evil monsters do. Cavort and wreak havoc. Which, under normal circumstances, Dean would probably have been okay with. If they all hadn’t been, in some way, his children. That realization was the last he had as the fading Shadow fell blissfully into silence and slumber.<br/>