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Good. I mean, I get it, I want the new asshole out as much as anyone does...but I think it's going to be hard, and we're going to have to be smart, and you know the shit is real if I'm the one saying not to go in guns blazing.

(because that tends to be wynonna's signature style.)

[Waverly nods before looking up at her with a smile.]

Look at you, thinking things through.

I've been here almost a year now, baby girl, I've had to adjust.

(and her normal methods don't often end in favorable results in hell.)

Yeah, I know. But I'm still proud of you all the same.

[You wouldn't expect character growth in Hell, so she's proud of Wynonna for finding it all the same.]

Thanks. It's nice to hear that.

(and it really is. wynonna is trying so hard. maybe not always succeeding -- but sleeping with constantine had been a rock bottom in some ways, and she's been trying to get her shit together since...as much as her shit is ever together, anyway.)

Good.

[She shifts to sit up a little bit.]

Are you okay? With all the change that's been happening lately?

(is she okay? no, not really. but what is she supposed to tell waverly? that she and doc slept together the night barbas took over and she doesn't know what it means because he's married and he turned his stupid, nice husband into a vampire. klaus is gone. jason is gone. homelander had to change rooms to be with his husband (who...she may or may not have also slept with). and she's trying to hold herself together because there's too much at stake for her to spiral out right now.)

Are any of us? No. I'm not.

[It isn't so much that Waverly expected her to be okay, but more sometimes it's good to say it, and acknowledge it. Even if it's not advice she's currently following at the moment.]

I'm here. If you want to talk about it.

After what you've been through I'm sure the last think you want to hear is my complaining.

(comparatively, her problems seem trivial.)

I don't know. Sometimes it can be nice to work on someone else's problems for a change.

[It's not trivial, in Waverly's mind. If something's bothering her sister, she wants to know. And, in a lot of ways it's a distraction. It's something she might be able to solve.]

But we don't have to if you don't want to.

I just....don't know what to say anymore. People I give a shit about keep disappearing. Or ending up in forced marriages they don't even want to be in, that they didn't consent to, and it all just sucks. And I can't do anything about it. Me and my bigass magic gun don't mean anything here.

(and as good as it had felt to let some of that out while waverly was taken...it's not like she accomplished anything beyond killing a few demons. she feels so powerless here sometimes. she hates that feeling.)

There's a lot here that we can't control.

[Waverly can acknowledge that much at least. And she knows how frustrating it can be, to feel like all your choices have been taken from you. For better or for worse.]

Maybe we can find another approach. Not with the bigass magic gun, but with something else. There has to be something that Barbas responds to.

[No one is incorruptible. Especially in Hell.]

I've been trying to make friends with the incubbi and succubi who are pissed at him -- kinda like I did with the revenants towards the end. Elena seems to think if we could get enough of them on our side when we do get Lucifer back, we could have some leverage.

(and maybe if they keep poking around and talking to the demons they can find something useful when it comes to confronting barbas.)

It sucks that even most of the places I would go to to let off some steam are gone now.

(not that she can't drink in hella shorty's but considering they're tyring to keep up appearances she has done her best not to get black out drunk there too often.)

Seriously.

[It's like Barbas is trying to whip them into a powder keg.]

You could start going to the gym. Blow off steam by getting really buff.

I do spar with Sara sometimes. That helps.

(she definitely prefers that to traditional working out.)

I did some knife throwing with Doc during that weird high school shit. Maybe I need to find some more partners.

(sparring wise, that is.)

We could start doing some sparring again.

[She probably could use the opportunity to blow off some steam herself.]

It's been a while since we've had a good sister spar. Oh! And Natalia mentioned always being willing to take on more sparring partners if you want me to connect you two.

It has been a while.

(and it'd be good for waverly to keep her skills sharp too, just in case.)

That could work. I could ask Diana too -- though I'm pretty sure she can kick my ass with her powers intact.

But, that could be good for sparring with people more powerful than you.

[Which could come in handy, given the kinds of people they might have to go up against to get out of here.]

Learn some tricks to give you an advantage.

It's true. I already know she's hella skilled -- I learned that first hand during our fight in the gladiator ring.

(where wynonna only got as far as she did because diana had been depowered at the time.)

Oh, yeah. She's from an island of badass warrior ladies. And if it exists in our world, we totally should book a vacation there someday.

[She's an angel, after all. Those have to come with some kind of "Find the Hidden Island" privileges.]

Could be fun. Gotta be better than the church for the women scorned was -- though I think they'll be much happier under Rosita's rule, at least.

(finding hidden islands could be fun though.)

[She nods with a small smile.]

I think it'll be good for Rosita too.

[Even though that isn't always the highest priority.]

[Ray swears under his breath, grumbling as he sighs.] Fuck. I was hoping since he hadn't been all braggy about it that she'd managed to sneak off somewhere.

She seemed pretty happy with her own harem of women to choose from.

(sure they can't really...leave from where they are being the only remaining revenants and all, but considering rosita never should have been a revenant to begin with....well, it's as happy of an ending as any of them could probably ask for.)

I thought I would never forgive her for what she tried to do with Alice -- and I'm not okay with it...but I get it. She just wanted to survive, same as any of us.

She did.

[She reaches over and gives her sister's hand a squeeze.]

And Alice is still safe. That's what matters too.

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