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[ladybirdcrap]

You finally set off from the Bed & Breakfast with full tummies and high spirits. It's well into the mid afternoon, and you have a lot of ground to cover before the next landmark. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible for you sorry sons of bitches to make it there before sundown. On your way down the beaten path, you come across a dairy farmer's caravan of cheesy goods. They seem nice and homely enough, maybe they'll be willing to help you stragglers along the way.

[Mission: Hitch a ride from the dairy farmer]

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[fairyvagina]

Yeah, that's the thing. I guess I didn't know too much about werewolf society back where I'm from, but they wouldn't be caught dead associatin' with vampires except a name few..

[oh alcide mmmm alcide]

[breaks thought and looks away]

But you're right, maybe it's different because you'd never met one before.

[and mitchell is anything but a proper threat]

[thisbites]

Maybe. I'm not a Hatfields and McCoys kind of guy, either.

[ that's more of a Hunter mentality. Argent. ]

[ can't help that kate comes to mind. ]

[fairyvagina]

[oops]

[idly scratches behind ear and just shakes her head to block it out]

Um..so.

[this is where she turns to check on nick and the group]

What in the name is goin' on now?

[thisbites]

[ watches clara straddle the wagon and hop out. ]

A troubled marriage is always tragic.

[fairyvagina]

It's more than that.

[watches them straggle]

[thisbites]

Uh-huh. You gonna enlighten me?

[ because it looks like she's trying to ditch him, but he's too pathetic to take the hint. ]

[fairyvagina]

[yeah, well there's that]

[looks back]

It's none of our business.

[thisbites]

If it's potentially dangerous to us as a unit, it'll become our business.

[ seriously is he going after her. he's going after her. oh my god that is never going to work the way you want it to, dude. ]

[fairyvagina]

[its kind of sweet. deep down inside she wanted him to be a stubborn ass about it.]

You mean aside from ditchin' us in the middle of nowhere?

[thisbites]

Considering one of them is sure to have the map, you get why I don't give a crap about their privacy?

[fairyvagina]

Yeah, but...they need it otherwise it might become a bigger problem later on.

[so it seems]

We could always go drag 'em back if they don't make it to us by night.

[thisbites]

[ purses his lips while he considers it. he's a pragmatic guy. ]

Yeah. We make camp, they don't catch up by moonrise, I'll track them down.

[fairyvagina]

You sure you wanna go alone? I mean I guess it could be faster.

[shes not worried he'll get hurt but really she just volunteers for this shit dont take that away from her]

[thisbites]

[ looks back over at the wagon and sees the awkward coat guy staring blankly back at the road. ]

You can come if you want. I might need some saving.

[fairyvagina]

[that's cute. please humor her more often]

I can't imagine what you'd need savin' from.

[thisbites]

[ eyebrows screw up a little bit.
kate's smile. kate's laugh. kate's tongue. ]

[a sword slamming through the belly of a begging man, struggling and strung up in the trees. ]

I don't have eyes in the back of my head. We need each other more than we think.

[fairyvagina]

[stop feeding the infomod]

[cuts herself off deliberatly this time. honing in on someone else. the cheese king. he's having nice thoughts, some bar shanty about milk maidens]

...Got it.

[thisbites]

[ you're just going to have to deal with gruesome PTSD imagery if you hang out with him, sookie. ]

[ watches her work to shift focus. guesses she just got wind of most of that. ]

You never ask.

[fairyvagina]

[looks back at him]

It doesn't seem like stuff proper for small talk. But you don't seem too bothered me seein' it.

[sorry, but that's not normal]

[thisbites]

What bothers me is that it happened. It's not like hiding it means it'll go away, be erased.

[ lack of witnesses doesn't mean the crime didn't occur. ]

Is there any reason I should I fight you? Shut you out?

[fairyvagina]

No....it's just I've dealt with this my whole life and frankly it's more of a burden than a blessin'. Seein' so much day in and day out, there's only so much I can handle before it gets to be too much.

[thats why vampires are kind of nice because they're dead so she has a little mystery with them]

[thisbites]

[ maybe you should just hang out with some well-adjusted people, instead. ]

I'm not going to say I'm sorry you see what you see, but I'll make an effort to go easy on you. If you want.

[fairyvagina]

[its impossible to find truly well adjusted, the world is a dark place inside people's minds]

I'm not lookin' for you to be sorry and don't stress on it on my behalf either. It's not your fault, I know when to back off.

[thisbites]

[ rolls eyes up to look at her from under his brow. ]

Obviously you don't.

[ because you're still here. ]

[fairyvagina]

I'm not gonna let it stop me from bein' around you.