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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[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.

[hung_garian]

Yeah. Here's hoping.

[He stops, tilts his head. It's Castiel-esque.]

Moonshine shouldn't have much effect on Balthazar. Not if it's the kind that's actually non-fatal to humans.

[justrunsasaloon]

[She shrugs.]

He says he likes it, and tried out the first batch to make sure none of the humans would go blind, so I set some aside for him.

[And Chuck.]

[hung_garian]

How generous of you.

[A pause and then, because he doesn't think she has any reason to harm Balthazar but he can't be sure:]

You slip anything in his drink like you did to Meg, and I'll make the Saw movies look like a walk in the park, alright?

[justrunsasaloon]

[A muscle clenches in her jaw and she narrows her eyes.]

He didn't kill my baby girl.

[Click.]