[ She'd been under the impression that she was destined for normal, or at least as close to normal as she could achieve given her lengthy arrest record and the slightly lawless habits that refuse to die. She hadn't counted on what would happen when she crossed back into town, how she'd essentially signed her own name on the dotted line of a mystical will — and inherited all the perks and pain-in-the-ass demons that came along with it.
And, now that she's here, who knows how everyone in Purgatory is handling it without her? Now it's her turn to go all contemplative, plucking up her glass again and tilting it in her fingers to watch the way the light bounces off the surface, leaving a brown kaleidoscope on the marble between them. ]
That's the hope. But other creepies have started popping up too. Vampires, right before my untimely kidnapping. Seems an heir's work is never really done.
[ In other words: she'll sleep when she's dead, literally. ]
[ that's stephen mostly musing out loud as wynonna contemplates her own glass. he lets out a low sigh and bends his head. it's a depressing thought, that someone like her has to go out and guard a place from increasingly nastier supernatural threats every day when she seems like she'd be better suited to—having fun, living out her best days normally.
he polishes off the rest of his tumbler and reaches for the bottle again. ]
Being here must feel like a dereliction of that duty. I hope it doesn't keep you up at night. [ he pours himself another couple of fingers and arches an eyebrow up at her. ] Or maybe it's your only shot at a vacation?
Until my expiration date, whenever that comes around.
[ She's never been anything less than a straight-shooter when it comes to conversations about being the heir; her actual ability to shoot straight, however, has been a work in progress. But she's not anticipating that the harsh reality of her unique circumstances will hit him too, picking up on the breath he exhales while she lifts the glass to her lips and downs the contents in one fell gulp. ]
I can think of better things to ruin my REM sleep over. [ She draws in her own breath through gritted teeth while the whiskey slides down smooth and then prods her own tumbler over to him, since he's already pouring. ]
Don't get me wrong. 'Soon as there's a way out of here I'll be on the maiden voyage. But in the meanwhile, what's a girl with a demon-killing gun supposed to do when there aren't any demons around in need of killing?
[ She points a finger in the direction of the bottle and then shrugs one shoulder. ] It's one way to pass the time.
[ he pours for them both, then, and sets down the bottle again with a heavy thud. ]
That's a good question. The problems this city has presented so far haven't exactly been suited to my skillset either. [ he flexes his hand experimentally, a long stretch of his perennially aching fingers, a slight wry smile curving his mouth. ] And I'd make a poor bartender.
[ he looks back up at wynonna, takes her in for what feels like the dozenth time and yet still the first. ]
Not to keep beating the dead and continually resurrecting horse, but ... I'm sure someone's tried breaking the curse. [ a pause. ] If there are curses, there must be people proficient in their study. Or am I thinking about this all wrong?
Well, speaking as someone who wound up slinging drinks out of a sheer lack of other marketable job skills, I’d say you’ve got the first and most important part down already. [ Her gaze does drop to his hand then, with the flexing of his fingers; she hasn’t made a point to stare at the visible scars that run along the back of each digit but his movement draws her attention for a brief moment before it returns to his face. ]
Oh, sure, they’ve tried. [ Once her glass is secured in her hand again, she doesn’t sip from it right away, instead letting it idle in favor of mulling out loud, her mouth absently twisting to one side. ]
Or so I’m guessing. We Earps are known for many things, but thorough bullet journaling isn’t one of them. [ Waves is the one who’s done most of the research pertaining to the curse, and even her studious sister had only been able to unearth some info about the curse’s origins, much of it vague and non-helpful. ] Any chance of breaking the curse probably lies with the demon who laid it down to begin with. Bulshar. Used to go by Sheriff Clootie before he went the fire and brimstone route. He’d just rolled back into town right before I left.
[ More like “was forcibly kidnapped against her will.” The thought that her friends have all been left to deal with the motherfucker who started it all, with her not there to protect them, definitely earns a couple gulps from her glass, her jaw tensing visibly. ]
[ there's a moment where he understands implicitly the danger of having been snatched up just as the harbinger of some ill came to town: stephen watches her jaw tense, the movement of whiskey down her throat, all suggestive of some immediate danger. ]
Can your people look after themselves?
[ her friends, her family. wynonna can, certainly, at least by most superficially observable metrics; that might is obvious just by looking at her, speaking with her for more than five minutes. but that protective streak in her runs deep and wide, and didn't just spring up fully formed from the earth. ]
[ She cuts herself off, realizing that her tone's a little harsher than she intended — not directed at him, of course, but more towards the situation and the relative helplessness it conjures up for her whenever she stops to dwell on it. A sigh drops into the silence that follows, and her mouth twists. ]
They don't have this, for starters. [ She stretches out her other hand toward the gun that still sits on the counter between them, close enough to let her fingertips touch the long barrel and feeling that small rush of its power that comes whenever she's in direct contact. ]
So it's hard, knowing they're there without the one thing that could seriously tip the scales, give them a W. [ Knowing they're without her is what she won't say, because as the heir, she's pretty replaceable, if not expendable. ]
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And, now that she's here, who knows how everyone in Purgatory is handling it without her? Now it's her turn to go all contemplative, plucking up her glass again and tilting it in her fingers to watch the way the light bounces off the surface, leaving a brown kaleidoscope on the marble between them. ]
That's the hope. But other creepies have started popping up too. Vampires, right before my untimely kidnapping. Seems an heir's work is never really done.
[ In other words: she'll sleep when she's dead, literally. ]
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[ that's stephen mostly musing out loud as wynonna contemplates her own glass. he lets out a low sigh and bends his head. it's a depressing thought, that someone like her has to go out and guard a place from increasingly nastier supernatural threats every day when she seems like she'd be better suited to—having fun, living out her best days normally.
he polishes off the rest of his tumbler and reaches for the bottle again. ]
Being here must feel like a dereliction of that duty. I hope it doesn't keep you up at night. [ he pours himself another couple of fingers and arches an eyebrow up at her. ] Or maybe it's your only shot at a vacation?
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[ She's never been anything less than a straight-shooter when it comes to conversations about being the heir; her actual ability to shoot straight, however, has been a work in progress. But she's not anticipating that the harsh reality of her unique circumstances will hit him too, picking up on the breath he exhales while she lifts the glass to her lips and downs the contents in one fell gulp. ]
I can think of better things to ruin my REM sleep over. [ She draws in her own breath through gritted teeth while the whiskey slides down smooth and then prods her own tumbler over to him, since he's already pouring. ]
Don't get me wrong. 'Soon as there's a way out of here I'll be on the maiden voyage. But in the meanwhile, what's a girl with a demon-killing gun supposed to do when there aren't any demons around in need of killing?
[ She points a finger in the direction of the bottle and then shrugs one shoulder. ] It's one way to pass the time.
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That's a good question. The problems this city has presented so far haven't exactly been suited to my skillset either. [ he flexes his hand experimentally, a long stretch of his perennially aching fingers, a slight wry smile curving his mouth. ] And I'd make a poor bartender.
[ he looks back up at wynonna, takes her in for what feels like the dozenth time and yet still the first. ]
Not to keep beating the dead and continually resurrecting horse, but ... I'm sure someone's tried breaking the curse. [ a pause. ] If there are curses, there must be people proficient in their study. Or am I thinking about this all wrong?
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Oh, sure, they’ve tried. [ Once her glass is secured in her hand again, she doesn’t sip from it right away, instead letting it idle in favor of mulling out loud, her mouth absently twisting to one side. ]
Or so I’m guessing. We Earps are known for many things, but thorough bullet journaling isn’t one of them. [ Waves is the one who’s done most of the research pertaining to the curse, and even her studious sister had only been able to unearth some info about the curse’s origins, much of it vague and non-helpful. ] Any chance of breaking the curse probably lies with the demon who laid it down to begin with. Bulshar. Used to go by Sheriff Clootie before he went the fire and brimstone route. He’d just rolled back into town right before I left.
[ More like “was forcibly kidnapped against her will.” The thought that her friends have all been left to deal with the motherfucker who started it all, with her not there to protect them, definitely earns a couple gulps from her glass, her jaw tensing visibly. ]
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Can your people look after themselves?
[ her friends, her family. wynonna can, certainly, at least by most superficially observable metrics; that might is obvious just by looking at her, speaking with her for more than five minutes. but that protective streak in her runs deep and wide, and didn't just spring up fully formed from the earth. ]
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[ She cuts herself off, realizing that her tone's a little harsher than she intended — not directed at him, of course, but more towards the situation and the relative helplessness it conjures up for her whenever she stops to dwell on it. A sigh drops into the silence that follows, and her mouth twists. ]
They don't have this, for starters. [ She stretches out her other hand toward the gun that still sits on the counter between them, close enough to let her fingertips touch the long barrel and feeling that small rush of its power that comes whenever she's in direct contact. ]
So it's hard, knowing they're there without the one thing that could seriously tip the scales, give them a W. [ Knowing they're without her is what she won't say, because as the heir, she's pretty replaceable, if not expendable. ]