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Elizabeth C. Ashe ([personal profile] cashe) wrote2019-04-10 12:57 am
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Ashe here. These things been 'round long enough. Y'know what to do.

D E E R L Y B E L O V E D
almightythirst: (Huh)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-26 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jesse blinks, eyes widening before narrowing as he frowns. ] That’s not what I meant. I just figured this place would stick to tryin’ to make you miserable as possible.

[ He can’t imagine Deerington showing anyone their happier memories, unless there was some ulterior motive. The whole point was to torture them all, wasn’t it? Jesse rifles through one of his drawers and pulls out one of the less winkled t-shirts. The Fluid gets switched to speaker and set on the dresser as he changes, pulling on a pair of jeans while he’s at it. ]
almightythirst: (Light Up)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-26 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
What, you think I forgot all those good times already? I’m not senile yet.

[ Jesse picks up the Fluid again and moves back into the living room. He’s almost at the door when it hits him, his hand going to his hip. He’d just kind of assumed it’d be around somewhere. By the door where he always put his utility belt, or on the kitchen table. ]

You home now?

[ He answers by avoiding the answer in true Jesse McCree fashion, and leans a hand on the wall to steady himself as he rifles through the umbrella stand, looking for- ah, there it is. The crowbar had actually come with a tool kit, but he kept it here just in case. Better than going out unarmed, or with the flamethrower. Probably couldn’t carry it in the state he’s in. ]
almightythirst: (Smirk)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-26 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It’s not contagious, [ He offers helpfully, testing the weight of the metal in his hand. It’s not as reassuring as his six-shooter, but it’ll do. Getting the boots on is a whole other thing, one that has him cursing and almost dropping the Fluid as he tries to do it one-handed. There’s a thump as he tilts sideways into the wall. ]

I’m just in the mood for a walk. Been cooped up inside all day, hear there’s nuns out in town, so I might as well stick around Clarke Acres. Could end up near your place.

[ As if he’s not planning on headed straight there. ]
almightythirst: (Laugh)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-26 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
That so? Didn’t know B.O.B. likes long walks out under the moonlight.

[ Jesse is smiling to himself as he fumbles his keys off the hook by the door and makes his way outside. It’s dark, but he knows the route to the road by heart. It’s not like he’ll be braving the night on his own for long anyhow, by the sound of it. ]

I’ll keep an eye out for him.
almightythirst: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-27 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jesse stops at the end of the dirt drive leading up to his house. It’s not smart to linger in one place when there’s something afoot in the night around Deerington, but he just. He needs a minute, is all.

It’s all Chloe’s fault. She’s gone and put some pretty absurd ideas in his head, and it has him reading way too deep into things. Or it might be the fever helping with that. ]


Got no plans to start trouble, unless it goes and finds me.

[ He’s strangely serious when he says that. And he means it. ]

But I better hang up. Walkin’ around talkin’ up a storm is a good way to attract the wrong kind of attention.
almightythirst: (Huh)

voice -> action

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-28 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jesse takes the Fluid from his ear and stares down at it for a few seconds after Ashe has hung up. Even feeling cheated out of a chance to get the last word, he has no idea what he would have said to that.

Jesse mulls over it as he wanders out down the road toward her house with his hands in his pockets, the crowbar in his boot. Occasionally he stops, makes sure he isn’t being followed, and takes a deep breath of night air to clear his head.

It’s not long before he spots a flash of silver and gives a quick, good-natured salute to B.O.B.; and a short time after that, they’re walking together up to Ashe’s house. His eyes are drawn to the faint, burning ember of her cigarette in the dark. ]


Fancy meetin’ you here.

[ He stops well before the steps, not able to see much of her in the dark; but he can see enough to know she’s dressed casually. And why wouldn’t she be, being at home? It’s the first time he’s seen that in years though. Since they were kids. ]
almightythirst: (Smirk)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-28 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Must’ve been a miscommunication. Ain’t that right, B.O.B.?

[ He pats the omnic on the arm, flashing him a grin before walking up to where Ashe is sitting, steps wobbling just a little. In the dark, he could nearly pass for someone completely healthy. The flush on his face from the flu and the walk over is much less obvious, the bruises under his own eyes less visible. ]

Mighty kind of you to invite me in.
almightythirst: (Smirk)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-29 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And Jesse has always had a soft spot for B.O.B., even when they did end up tossing bullets at each other. There were few others he’d have trusted to walk alongside him in the dark, unarmed and compromised as his skills are. ]

I’ll bet. Don’t worry, I won’t tell a soul.

[ He mimics zipping his lips shut with a smirk. ]

On my honor.

[ As if he had any of that to spare. ]
almightythirst: (Just Smile)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-29 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It’s familiar enough that Jesse stops momentarily in the entryway, eyes drifting from detail to detail, as if uncertain if he was seeing it truly or hallucinating a bit. But a few hard blinks confirm it’s a completely new house. The things it has in common with Ashe’s childhood home are more in spirit than design.

After following her in, he sinks gratefully down onto the couch, gaze catching on the bottle nearby for just a second or two. ]


It’ll take more than a walk like that to get me winded.

[ As if his being a little out of breath were the worst of it. ]

Nice place. Didn’t really see the inside, the last time.

[ Back when they’d been de-aged, and he’d come to watch the fields burn with her. Might as well have been a lifetime ago, and not the mere few months it had actually been. ]
almightythirst: (Laugh)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-30 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
Naw, B.O.B. would never do somethin’ that mean-spirited. Would ya, B.O.B.?

[ He calls out the last part to wherever the omnic might be standing, the rest of his attention fixed on Ashe. She looks good, but maybe too good considering the circumstances. Like someone trying real hard to look more fine than they feel. ]

Sure would. No better cure for the flu than a shot or two of whiskey.
almightythirst: (Smirk)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-30 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jesse ignores the way his hand shakes when he takes the offered glass, and can only hope Ashe hadn’t given it any more notice. ]

Sure, until you wake up the next day wishin’ you’d never seen a bottle in your life.

[ Far be it from him to preach sobriety- but at the very least, he can keep her from finishing the entire bottle alone. Just for one night. And if any remaining ghosts decided to rear their ugly heads, then there’s an extra set of hands on-site to fend them off. With that in mind, he flashes one of his crooked smiles as he holds up his drink. ]

Cheers.
almightythirst: (Drankin' on the Train)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-07-31 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Might be the only thing this place has goin’ for it.

[ He knocks the liquor back with ease, his condition apparently not being an impediment to his ability to drink. It’s no impediment either to his ability to think, albeit about things he should probably leave alone. ]

You really got thrown into the deep end, endin’ up here.

[ He looks down at his glass, swirling what little is left at the bottom around. ]

Not where I would’ve seen us meetin' up again.

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