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[stupetballs]

[She takes a deep breath, because it's still a betrayal she's dealing with, but at the same time, Wynonna needs to know.]

He asked Kate to turn him.

[middlefinger]

[wynonna feels like she's been punched in the stomach. and maybe it's hypocritical because...she's been sleeping with klaus and she knows exactly what he is, but he was also that long before he met her. he didn't choose to become it after his daughter was born, ensuring he would outlive her and alice both. him sleeping with kate had felt bad enough but this....this was way, way worse.

she grabs the bottle of whiskey she had been nursing before, taking a long swig from it before speaking.]

Did he really hate being mortal like the rest of us so much?

[stupetballs]

I don't know.

[She doesn't understand the decision any more than Wynonna does. But also trying to equate something like that to it, would mean that Doc thought about it long enough to make a non-emotional decision about it.]

I think he was feeling ... really powerless.

[middlefinger]

I knew he felt...less then after losing his ring but I never thought he would choose to outlive our daughter.

[or that he would choose to outlive her. that part goes unsaid, but hangs in the air all the same.]

Why would he choose her? She left him when he was dying. Whatever I did, it can't be worse than that.

[wynonna assumes the decision involved her somehow...and not just because she's a little self involved but she also knows how she and doc get in their fights.

not that she's been chaste or waiting around for doc, far from it, if anything she's been making a grand mess of her love life here just as much as she did back home but that's so not the point right now]

[stupetballs]

[Waverly takes a deep breath as she sits up more, moving to rest her back against the headboard. She could say that Wynonna pushes him away just as easily as she draws him in. She could mention that she sent Alice away without truly consulting him - even if it was the right thing to do, it was a rough way to do it. But she doesn't think piling on Wynonna will help in this moment.]

I don't think it was just you. I think it was also wanting to protect Alice, and losing Dolls and ... I think dying in that wish world really got to him. But that doesn't make it right.

[She rubs her hands against her legs as she watches her sister.]

He made his choice, Wynonna. I'm not telling you this to try and defend it. I just don't want you to get caught off-guard in case he shows up here and isn't the Doc you remember.

[middlefinger]

[she knows he had been upset about alice, but it had seemed like they had worked past that -- as much as people could. she'll never forget the sight of that little cradle in the basement, the one he made himself and couldn't bear to throw away.

at the mention of dolls wynonna takes another drink. another one of the things she doesn't talk about but hangs around her neck like a noose. the photo he left for her of the gang is hanging up on the wall next to the one of her, willa and waverly as kids, a reminder to keep fighting, but sometimes she wonders if he bet on the right horse.]

If he comes here...is he dangerous? [she and doc might not have always gotten along, and they fight as well as they flirt, but the idea of him being an enemy....]

I have friends here. People I care about.

[stupetballs]

[Waverly doesn't know what to say, at first. The last she remembers, Doc seemed like the Doc she knew, but she also remembers watching him as he tried to drain her father, possessed by the power of his blood.]

He can be. Not all the time, but ... sometimes he can be really dangerous. He doesn't always handle his ... cravings well.

[middlefinger]

That's good to know. Just in case. I know vampires here, people who might be able to help him.

[or could help stop him, if it came to it, she doesn't say.]

Klaus, one of my roommates, is a vampire and werewolf hybrid -- which you know, weird, but handy, and super old.

[stupetballs]

Oh. That's very good to know.

[There's a beat.]

Especially since angel blood kind of makes vampires go a little ... feral.

[Another beat.]

Wait, did you say hybrid?

[middlefinger]

Yeah. That's a thing, at least here.

[wynonna has not asked the details -- she and klaus don't often do a lot of talking....]

My other roomates are like...legit comic books-esque superheroes. You see some weird shit here. I thought Homelander was some sorta weird cosplayer when we met.

[stupetballs]

I met him too. He's ... a lot.

[In presentation, at least, they didn't talk very long and he's depowered at the moment. But Waverly will reach for the bag of chips before following up with:]

I'm pretty sure the ladies I'm rooming with are secret agents.

[middlefinger]

He can be. But he's not that bad when you get to know him.

[or wynonna just hasn't seen him at his full psychotic yet. honestly, doc looks like a saint compared to people like homelander and klaus, wynonna's questionable taste continues to be in true form in hell.

not that she mentions that]

Good. Sounds like they'll be able to keep you safe. [since wynonna can't hover around waverly 24/7, much as she might want to.]

[stupetballs]

That's the plan. We've got a whole system and everything.

[She pauses for a moment, before looking up at her again.]

Are you okay? I know I just dumped a lot on you.

[middlefinger]

[wynonna snorts a little.]

I'm fine.

[she's not, but that was true even before waverly told her about the doc of it all. it's been a rough few weeks.]

[stupetballs]

[She nods because yeah, Wynonna is not fine, but that's okay. She wasn't expecting her to be.]

Want me to crash here tonight? I told the roomies not to wait up.

[middlefinger]

I did say this was a sleepover, didn't I? [and maybe she'll actually be able to sleep with waverly around.]

[stupetballs]

You're right. I forgot.

[She pats the spot next to her.]

Now get over here, or I'm going to eat this chips all by myself.

[middlefinger]

Don't you dare!!

[and with that they will continue bonding and chip eating until they eventually fall asleep in sister cuddles.

/end]

action;

[middlefinger]

(after the cult stuff and going back to her own suite wynonna is overdue for some good sisterly bonding time. plus if anything she's figured out in the aftermath is she needs to be actively investigating hell and it's history more, and waverly is the history girl.

so today is explore hellburbia day. she knows there's a lot of abandoned houses, but she doesn't know there's abandoned buildings and businesses too.)

Gotta say baby girl, we were overdue for a one-on-one mission.

[stupetballs]

Yes, indeed-y.

[She falls in step next to her sister, trying to take the opportunity to not focus too hard on what she may have been marked for and instead focus on trying to figure out what's going on in Hell.

And who better to do it with than her favorite co-pilot.]

Time to go hunting for information, Earp-style.

[middlefinger]

[wynonna doesn't want to think about why they're marked either. or that vision. or her talk with fitz. her fight with tim. there's a lot she's trying to distract herself with and a mission with her favorite person is the best distraction.]

I don't know how much we'll find, but there has to be more than creepy houses out here.

[stupetballs]

[There really is so much happening all the time right now, Waverly doesn't blame her.]

Did anyone ever live out here? It seems so ... empty.

[middlefinger]

I think some people live out here now, crazily enough. Klaus took Jason out here while the other Klaus detoxed in my room....and I holed up in one of the houses with Homelander during my first event here.

(she hopes....waverly doesn't ask follow up questions there.)

[stupetballs]

[She won't, because that invites the possibility that they will head into the realm of too much information.]

Do you know if the demons live out here too?

[middlefinger]

(hey she didn't have sex with him then! just....later on. don't judge her and her extremely questionable choices.)

Not as far as I know? But I haven't really looked into it either.