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[ladybirdcrap]

You've made it out of the prairie and underbrush, congratulations! But with the lack of supplies from the journey around Alderwood has left you beat. Your horses hate you, you've got sand up in places where it's not welcome, you're hungry, cranky, and if you've been riding you'll be walking like Dean for a little bit. Lucky enough for you, the next town isn't much of a detour, so you can restock, trade, and try not to burn anything down.

[Mission: Stock up, let the horses rest, treat your cholera, etc]

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[sawedoff]

What, digging up info on the freaky dude that's clearly not human? Nah, not how I usually spend my time at all.

[gurl. don't u dawson's creek turn away from me. watches her with a worry of his lip before he pastes on an i don't give a shit smile and moves in front of her to keep this drama train moving in the general direction of somewhere that will feed him]

You don't wanna get into it, I get it. Forget about it.

[recurred]

[watches him roll ahead before picking up her pace to keep up]

Oh, I'd get into it. But neither of us will enjoy it. [in all honesty]

So how about you keep deflecting, tell us where we're going.

[yeah that's right, ill call your bullshit shrug off and then tell you to keep going]

[sawedoff]

[glances at her with an inscrutable look, burrowing hands into jacket pockets without another mention of the adventures of her unfortunate deadness]

This place has gotta have pie. It's like a basic food group.

[get in loser we're going grubbing]

[recurred]

[yeah that's what I thought. I'm sorry I had to make it painfully obvious.]

Pie. [datasses him for a moment]

Good thing we walk a lot.

[sawedoff]

What? Pie's good for you. It has...fruit.

[kanye shrug. don't diss on pie or we're through]

[recurred]

[she's not dissing pie, she's dissing your absurd diet of pie and burgers. seriously are you so dead inside that it all goes into an empty void]

At least where I'm from, sometimes they got the decency to put meat in them.

[sawedoff]

[very likely]

The meat comes before the pie. If you do it at the same time you're just flying in the face of the natural order.

[emphatic gesture. there's a way you do things clara. you eat the burger. then you eat the pie. or you eat the meat pie. then you eat the pie. this is serious]

[recurred]

[this is serious.. he's really serious about this]

To think I've been doing it all wrong...

[tries to say that straight faced. lasts about half a second before busting up with a tiny laugh]

[sawedoff]

[u makin fun of me. just watches her looking like a cross between bewildered and offput]

Well you're about to do it the right way.

[raises eyebrows like eh? yeah? and pushes the door of the inn open as he looks around for mom and/or pop. someone hook him up with something to eat other than armadillo and rabbit. pls. pls.]

[recurred]

The American way. Got it.

[you need to chill, bro]

[passes through behind him before stepping aside to snag themselves a table, shuffling the bag off her shoulders once she gets there.]

[sawedoff]

[he'll chill. when he's not running on an empty stomach.]

[stops at the tiny little chairs at the table and sighs through his nose like he's had it up to here with this muppet fairy tale bullshit. resignedly pulls one out and perches on it like drinking out of the tiny teacups]

I hate this place.

[don't say it. don't say anything. flags them down someone]

[recurred]

[dont say your real thoughts.her face is thinking them though]

[looks up as the innkeep toddles over. she looks grumpy too, y'all need to cheer the fuck up. folds her arms along the edge of the table and smiles]

Can we get the man something meaty, preferably mooing? He's in a mood. [pause for thought] Make it two.

[sawedoff]

And you can toss a beer in there while you're at it.

[leans away a little at the Look he gets for being a rude about it and belatedly adds a harassed "please?" to which she makes her retreat]

[watches her toddle off with a what's her problem amirite gesture]

[recurred]

[that deserves a one star yelp review on customer service]

[eyebrows at her leave]

You know I'm just starting to figure everyone here's in a perpetual piss poor mood.

[some pcs included but mostly everyone else is racist and grumpy]

[sawedoff]

Yeah I seem to remember you being ready to take my head off for nothing in particular a couple days ago.

[not one to talk are you]

Guess things are looking up for you.

[leans back in tiny little chair and rests a hand at his thigh with a pointed expression. like not everyone just had their traveling buddy show up and are still stuck here sans familiar faces so cut them some slack right]

[recurred]

[she was hungover and canon updated. it was a delicate situation okay]

[opens mouth and then closes it, then gives.]

Oi, I'm not trying to be a hypocrite. Come on, that ride was ridiculous for the both of us.

[sawedoff]

[ain't no one know that but you girl]

[looks down at the table and pulls his lower lip behind his teeth to bite down on an embarrassed smile like, way to bring up his awkward boner thanks]

Yeah it was not awesome.

[in an apologetic tone. you know.]

[recurred]

[you brought it upon yourself, dean]

Well, if you weren't such a princess about it.

[these things happen. but really now she's being a hypocrite. sympathizes with a partial smile]

It could have gone better.

[sawedoff]

[did he though. did he really. looks up at her with a half-cringe half-smile like you do when you remember something really awkward you did 500 years ago and you still feel like a schmuck about it]

You know I don't get how talking about the crappy thing is supposed to make the mood less crappy?...

[in a teasing way at least, pointing at the table for emphasis before he gets distracted when there's steak. actual steak. lights up and holds hands out to receive plate like a kid on christmas morning]

This, on the other hand.

[recurred]

[its just so easy to rub it in now, but really she's sorry. a little.]

[at least he can enjoy the little things though. really it's all they have there. not even a grumpy waitress who probably dropped it on the floor somewhere could break that stride. and then her expression creaks just a little as her mirrored plate is set down]

Holy crap.

[thats a lot of steak for a tiny girl]

[sawedoff]

[can't hear you over the sound of stuffing steak in his face and making porno noises]

[recurred]

[just kind of sits there for a moment with her knife and fork in hand watching him devour his plate. don't choke there buddy]

[this is like the weirdest twilight zone date]

[slowly cuts steak]

[sawedoff]

[this is not



this is not a date]

[already has half of the steak down by the time he reaches for beer. washes delicious seasoned meat down. and points at plate with knife with an emphatic nod, mouth still half full and grinning]

I don't even care what weirdass animal had to die to make this because it's awesome.

[i mean the surroundings are suspect. where's the cattle. he's seen like a grand total of 0 cows since he's been here. fuck it though.]

[recurred]

[uhuh okay]

[cutting through daintily in comparison to his near literal inhalation. almost stopping mid chew to consider what it was, but really at this point no she wouldn't care. she's tried space fruit.]

[takes a long pause to watch him in his happy happy moment before paying attention back to her plate. sort of laughs in response instead. was going to tease, but she won't take this moment away from him]

It's almost like you can close your eyes and pretend things aren't all weird.

[sawedoff]

[pulls a bit of steak sauce off his thumb and looks up at her with raised eyebrows]

I don't know about all that. Last people thought that ended up getting too comfortable.

[with sookie and derek and jessica and cowboy guy and all them. besides, he doesn't like to think about how easy it is to fall into old habits with new clara or thinking about getting cozy anywhere that's minus a sam. he'll keep stubbornly hating everything here thanks. except the steak. for now.]