Third Drink | Video | Day 97

[justrunsasaloon]

[Ellen doesn't look real happy. She's not, but normally she's a bit better at hiding it.]

New batch is out of the still but it's weaker than the last one. If anyone wants a bottle, stop by and pick it up.

[She sips water out of a glass. She's got other things to say.]

We're going to need things to run through the still. Rice, oats, cornmeal, frozen fruit, anything that can be run through the still.

If you find anything in the forest, dandelions can be used to make wine, too.

[She almost turns it off, but stops for a second.]

Also, got a haunch of venison, if anyone's willin' to trade for it.

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[justrunsasaloon]

It's just a bit of a devil's trap.

[And holy water.]

Doesn't matter. I promised Dean I'd stay out of their house, as long as she stayed out of mine.

[She kept to her side of the bargain.]

[hung_garian]

She looks pretty beat up for just a bit of a devil's trap.

[justrunsasaloon]

Who knew demons couldn't hold their liquor?

[The shrug is implied. You didn't heal Jo. You she won't spill to. See what special privileges Raphael gets?]

[hung_garian]

It's definitely news to me.

[Despite everything he's done, though, he's still a coward over things like this. Ellen is no threat to him, he knows that. Even Dean doesn't really worry him. But taking a side on this issue when he has nothing to gain from it - it doesn't matter whether or not he's comfortable with what certainly looks like torture. Doesn't matter that he's gotten kind of fond of Meg, in an antagonistic kind of way. Doesn't matter that she means an awful lot to Castiel. What matters is that siding with either Meg or Ellen could have further-reaching implications than he's willing to risk. Easier to just stay out of it - comme d'habitude.]

Next time I have any trouble with one, I'll make sure and take it out for shots at the local bar instead of resorting to fisticuffs straightaway.

[justrunsasaloon]

[The only person here she's a threat to is Meg, unless the vampire gets out of line. Other than that? She's content to run the still, the bar and be left alone. Anyone hurts her baby and she'll come down like Thor's hammer.

She likes Cas and loves Dean, but that doesn't negate what Meg did. There are some things that Ellen just can't forgive.]

Bring 'em here. I'll save a bottle of moonshine for 'em.

[hung_garian]

You're too kind.

[justrunsasaloon]

Always willing to help out a friend.

[Vicious woman that she is.]

[hung_garian]

Then I guess your friends must be very lucky people.

[It's a casual reminder that he's not one of them. He's certainly not one to judge her for torture, it's not that, but the friend of his enemy is - until proven otherwise - suspicious. He doesn't know what (if anyting) Meg's done to her, but he knows Ellen's a friend of Dean's. He's done enough to Dean in the past that he's a little wary of finding himself in Meg's shoes one of these days.]

What with the pest control services and the bartending and the moonshine supply and all, that is. It's very altruistic of you.

[justrunsasaloon]

Usually. Of course, it ends up with me being lucky too.

[Aaand she walks right into that one.

She doesn't consider Gabe an enemy and she's willing to keep the peace. For now. Dean's a big boy and can handle himself. Stay away from Jo, and they're fine. She draws some pretty easy boundaries. Hell, she's nice to Raphael.]

Gotta do something to pass the time.

[hung_garian]

[Oh, goodness. Tension about demons and issues of allegiance aside, he just physically can't pass that up.]

Yeah? Well, friends or not, anyone who so much as talks to me has a good chance of getting lucky... if you're interested.

[Cue eyebrow-waggling and smirking.]

And it'll help pass the time, too.

[justrunsasaloon]

[She sighs.]

Ya know, Lucifer and Raphael didn't strike me as so infantile.

[Now she's irritated. And she just doesn't have time for your shit, Gabe.]

No thanks. I got better ways of spending my time.

[hung_garian]

Lucifer and Raphael are boring.

[No offence.]

[justrunsasaloon]

They are single-minded.

[She doesn't really like either of them.]

[hung_garian]

Wouldn't be such a bad thing if the track their minds were capable of was a slightly more interesting one.

[justrunsasaloon]

Nothin' wrong with bein' focused.

[She's been focused. For a long time.]

[hung_garian]

There is if you're focused on something dumb.

[What? They're his brothers, he can be childish if he likes.]

[justrunsasaloon]

What you call dumb, another person calls their life's work. Nothin' wrong with that.

[Nope. She's in a mood.]

[hung_garian]

Lucifer's life's work revolved around eradicating mankind, last time I checked. Don't tell me you're defending that.

[justrunsasaloon]

You forget I got myself and my baby girl blown up trying to stop him?

[hung_garian]

I'm not as obsessed with the Winchesters and their motley gang of misfits as you people seem to think.

[He did know, vaguely. In all honesty, though, he hadn't been paying all that much attention - he certainly doesn't know the details, beyond that Team Free Will had made a misguided attempt to stop Lucifer, and that two of them had died doing it. He'd mostly been staying out of the way. Lucifer had taught him most of what he knew about hiding: getting too close was a risk he wasn't willing to take just for the sake of observing.]

But I didn't think you were exactly pleased with him, no. Just pointing out that there really is something wrong with him being quite so single-minded about his life's work, at least from your perspective.

[justrunsasaloon]

I may not like the focus, but I can respect the single-mindedness behind it.

[She has that amount of separation now.]

Besides, nothin' I can do about it here. Or there for that matter.

[hung_garian]

Nothing you need to do about it, sweetheart. It's all been taken care of back home, and here - well, he's not exactly a threat while he's off being experimented on and tortured by scientists.

[justrunsasaloon]

That's what Dean said.

[She sighs.]

You don't really believe that, do you?

[hung_garian]

What? That that's where he is, or that the Brothers Dim eventually shove his ass back into time-out?

[He'll assume the former, and continue on the basis of that without ... actually waiting for an answer.]

He's been MIA about a month now. If he's still around here and just... [in agonising pain and/or the kind of captivity Gabriel knows he loathes] in custody, he'll be seriously pissed when he gets back. It's best if he's gone home.

[For everyone else, ostensibly. Best for Lucifer is higher on Gabriel's list of priorities most of the time, though.]

[justrunsasaloon]

I'm guessing he went home.

[Because she can't guess any different.]

I'll send a bottle of moonshine with Balthazar when he shows up.