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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)

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[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.
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[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. ]
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[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. ]
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
almightythirst: (Thoughtful)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-08-05 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
That was one time, and it was important.

[ He'll not budge on that. He gave them a chance to profit without a fight after all, and they'd chosen a shootout. He refills his glass, chuckling at the memory. Not the scuffle, but after. ]

Rides real nice. Wouldn't expect anything less, with your taste.

[ But thinking about the bike makes him think about the picture, which goes back to Chloe mentioning it, which brings it all back full-circle. The past is always at its peskiest when it won't stay back where it belongs. Popping up in the present, causing trouble for everybody... real inconvenient. ]

... You had an old picture taped onto it. Afraid you'd forget what I looked like and miss out on the bounty?
almightythirst: (Drankin' on the Train)

[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-08-05 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Huh. Well, that was a surprise. The way she explains it all makes sense though. No sentimentality to it, just a personal vendetta years in the making. It’s even a bit of a relief. This is familiar territory. ]

Could make you all a pretty penny though, if you change your mind.

[ He says it with a brief flash of a smile, but his demeanor shifts quickly as he considers what else he came here to say. ]

Given, y’know. This whole thing. [ He makes a similar gesture with his free hand. ] I wouldn’t have expected you to stay, when I…

[ While he died. And he’s not really stopped to think about it and process what happened, the fear and the pain and the last words he’d heard her say before-

Jesse takes a drink, knocking back far too much. He hasn’t dealt with it yet, and he doesn’t intend to now. ]


Y’know what I mean. You had no reason to, but you were there.
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[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-08-05 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jesse rolls his glass between his palms and looks down at it like it’s the most interesting thing in the world. He should have anticipated that question and had something pithy ready to say. Should have being the key part. ]

Not givin’ me enough credit there. You don’t think I keep up with the gang? [ With her, in particular? Though he’s not drunk enough to put it that way. ] I knew enough about your goings-on to catfish you into a train robbery. I stay up-to-date.

[ Now, as for the rest of it… he’ll need more whiskey for that, which he readily pours for himself. ]

Sure, we haven’t been on anythin’ close to friendly terms for years. But that doesn’t mean I want you dead, Ashe.
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[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-08-05 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Didn’t much think about it. Happened fast.

[ He doesn’t drink right away this time. He just lets the glass sit in his hands and watches his own reflection ripple in the alcohol. ]

I don’t want your bounty, and I don’t want you dyin’ a pointless death in the middle of someplace like this. We’ve got history, and that counts for somethin’. Not that I won’t fight like hell when you do decide to come get your due.
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[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-08-05 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ While she’d been turned away, Jesse had looked up. He’d been in the middle of studying her profile, puzzling over the strangeness of the moment and wondering at the deceptively simple act of her thanking him. Then she turns back, and he expects… something that isn’t this. Maybe something sarcastic, or sharp, and certainly not her checking his temperature. Her wrist is cool against the veritable furnace of his fever-heated skin. ]

It’s fine, I’m fine-

[ He reaches up to nudge her hand away, only then noting how dry his mouth feels. He clears his throat and blinks away the fuzziness of his vision. The flu is to blame for all of this, of course. Nothing else. Certainly not the alcohol, or anything else in the room. ]

It’ll burn itself out in a week, so I hear.
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[personal profile] almightythirst 2019-08-05 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Will wonders never cease? Jesse takes the pills first, then water, half wondering if he should have checked to make sure they weren’t poison first. But really, given the way everything has gone, he doesn’t think she has it out for him. Not right this second. He’s not convinced Chloe had it all right either, but… there might have been some truth to it, maybe. ]

Damn, well I try not to because that’s the sickest I’d been, before comin’ here. Swear you had it worse off than me though.

[ He’s grinning when he says it though, despite how terrible the memory supposedly is. ]

B.O.B. had his hands full between the two of us, still tryin’ to run things outta our sickbeds.

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