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Date: 2013-08-16 03:34 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (Curious.)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
Gospel truth.

[She wouldn't kid about something like this. Okay, maybe she would, but seriously. Dragon.]

I can take you to meet him sometime, if you want. He's usually poking around outside somewhere. Likes fish, I think. Really friendly.

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Date: 2013-08-16 03:57 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (038)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
[She grins. She thought he might say that.]

I'll see what I can do. Not like I can call him up and ask him to meet me somewhere, but if I run into him, I'll give you a shout.

[She pauses for a moment to consider that.]

I'm pretty sure he's like us. He lives in the mansion and has a Mirror self and everything. Sadly, he doesn't talk much, but he's good at getting his point across.

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Date: 2013-08-17 09:01 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (031)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
Maybe? He had a rider here for awhile, think they were from the same place. I don't know if he'd take anyone else up. Seems like they probably had to work at it for awhile, but maybe he'd be willing.

[She grins a bit wider, curious.]

You looking to hitch a ride on a dragon, Tom?

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Date: 2013-08-17 09:13 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (015)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
It would be kind of awesome, wouldn't it.

[She squints one eye at him, smirking.]

You know that from experience?

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Date: 2013-08-17 09:33 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (076)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
Hey, I'm only teasing. Don't sweat it, okay?

[She's pretty sure he knows better than to take her seriously on this point, but just in case.]

You don't strike me as that kind of a guy.

[He's too nice for that.]

You can't even hold that much liquor.

[More teasing. Deal with it.]

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Date: 2013-08-17 09:49 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (035)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
Honestly? I tease, but that's probably for the best. It's not for everyone.

[Some people handle it just fine, but she's seen plenty of people go overboard.]

It's called Hunter's Helper for a reason, but I still hate to see anyone use it as a crutch as opposed to an indulgence.

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Date: 2013-08-17 10:46 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (078)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
Some of the things you see in our line of work, you just can't talk about.

[She smiles thinly. She knows it sounds like a cop-out, but if you let yourself think about things too much? God. You'd go crazy.]

You can share stories with other hunters, but... it gets violent. The stuff we deal with, most people only see in their worst nightmares, you know? So a lot of the older guys especially turn to the bottle.

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Date: 2013-08-19 02:07 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (089)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
[That smile fades, however forced it was to begin with, and she looks troubled as she leans back in her seat, watching him across the table as realization begins to set in.]

You -- I'm sorry.

[She can't say how, exactly, but it's clear he's got some experience with alcohol abuse in his history somewhere.]

I didn't realize it was a sore subject.

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Date: 2013-08-19 03:05 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (163)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
I'm sorry.

[She might be repeating herself, but there's more purpose to it now. Sympathy. Some degree of understanding. She can fill in those blanks well enough. She's seen it happen before.]

I'm no stranger to that kind of thing. Occupational hazard, I guess.

[Should she not have invited him down to the bar to play darts? She wouldn't be surprised if he had a natural aversion to that kind of place.]

You're smart, you know that?

[To know better than to follow in his father's footsteps, but she's not going to say that part out loud.]

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Date: 2013-08-19 04:01 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (Considering.)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
You didn't do what he did.

[She pauses to help herself to another french fry. Should she be eating during this conversation? Is it rude? Maybe it will help keep things from going too dark.]

It would have been easy, right? I don't know the details, but I know you've got a lot to deal with. Anxiety and everything else. Some people would lean really hard on whatever vice they could find.

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Date: 2013-08-19 05:10 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (158)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
[Something about casting blame like that strikes her. She'd done something similar in a moment she sometimes wishes she could take back, approach more rationally. Learning the truth about her own father's death had been hard, especially after so many years of believing things had gone differently, and she'd turned her anger on Sam and Dean, despite the fact that they'd had nothing to do with it.

She exhales slowly, nodding.]


Accidents happen. [Her voice carries some weight to it, like she knows all too well from experience.] I'm sorry people blamed you. People say a lot of things they don't mean when they're angry. It's even worse if the real target of that anger isn't around to be blamed, or there's some other reason they can't confront it.

[No wonder he'd left home.]

That's on them, trying to make you a pariah. Not you. But I'm sorry you had to go through it at all.

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Date: 2013-08-19 07:02 pm (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (083)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
[She has to smile at that particular echo. He's right, it hasn't been long at all since he gave her that advice, to remind herself that her life now is the one she should be focusing on, not her history. There's nothing that can change it, after all.]

So with that mantra in mind... how do you feel about your life now?

[Captivity aside.]

I know this place isn't ideal for most people, but it's not all bad, right?

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Date: 2013-08-20 01:37 am (UTC)
lightgunhustler: (088)
From: [personal profile] lightgunhustler
Maybe. Seems to fit the profile for a lot of people who've found themselves here.

[Her smile turns a little wry, bitterness creeping into her tone.]

If that's the case, I think they were a few minutes late in snatching me.

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