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fast-forwarded a bit to the holidays.

[buried]

Am I bad at taking care of myself?

[stupetballs]

[Can Waverly make a judgement on this? She doesn't think either of them have been great at it honestly but:]

I don't think Hell is really a place that lends itself to self care.

[buried]

[ she feels better about her less-than-stellar coping mechanisms. thank you, waves. ]

Good point. But I am now the owner of a self-care kit. I think my nieces are trying to tell me something.
Would you care for a facial?

[ with waverly spending most of last month at lucifer's island, elena thinks she could definitely use some pampering. ]

[stupetballs]

God that sounds amazing. Let me know where and I will be there.

[It's been so long since she's had some pampering. And she still has to fill Elena in on the crazy time skip she went through in her own life.]

[buried]

[ yes, please fill her in on that, waverly earp. ]

How does later tonight sound? It can be in my suite.

[ doc... has yet to return, and her roommates graciously gave her the room with the private bathroom. ]

[stupetballs]

Sounds perfect. Want me to bring some wine?

[Waverly is not always a wine girl, but this feels like a wine event.]

[buried]

I won't say no to wine.
Feel free to come by when you're ready.

[stupetballs]

See you in a bit!

[And soon enough, Waverly will make her way over with a bottle of wine and knock lightly on the door of 225.]

[buried]

Hey.

[ elena opens the door to the suite and steps back to make room for waverly. closing the door behind her, she starts to lead waverly into the "master" bedroom. ] Make yourself at home. I'll get us some glasses for the wine. [ might as well start their pampering session right. ]

[stupetballs]

Sounds good.

[And she will head in to settle, while pulling out the wine and the corkscrew to get it open.]

You know, I was thinking about it and the last time I had a spa day, I was kidnapped by a incel and found out my new friend was a revenant. So ... hopefully this one will go better.

[buried]

[ elena nods her sympathy.

incels suck. so does being kidnapped, and she knows a thing or two about that. ] Hopefully. There's never a boring day in Purgatory, is there? [ it sounds not unlike mystic falls in terms of the chaos meter. ]

[stupetballs]

Nope. I think it lives for defying expectations.

[Because most people would probably think a backwater town in the middle of nowhere is primed for boredom.]

But entitled douchebags exist everywhere.

[buried]

They do seem to speak a universal language.

[ her tone is wry as she returns and hands waverly not just a glass for the wine but a sheet mask for her face, as well. ]

I'd ask why he kidnapped you, but ... [ the incel part kind of speaks for itself. gross. ]

[stupetballs]

Yeah, he was very upset that I didn't return his love and was convinced that he could cure me of my bisexuality and make me fall in love with him.

[She makes a face.]

[buried]

You don't need to be cured of anything.

[ waverly probably already knows it. this isn't news of some kind. but this kind of stuff gets elena heated, and so the reaction is helpless.

dishonor on you, tucker gardner. ]

[stupetballs]

Oh, I was never under the impression that I did. But thank you for the affirmation.

[It's good to know that she has support from the people she cares about.]

Also, he got eaten by a demon, so I think in the end he got at least some of what he deserved.

[buried]

[ ... oh.

well. radical compassion powers aside, elena's not exactly shedding too many tears over here. but it does beg the question -- ]

Is a demon in your world the same thing as a revenant? [ are they a special kind of demon? ]

[stupetballs]

Sort of?

[They tend to use the words interchangeably, but if they really want to be technical, that's not one hundred percent true.]

Okay, so revenants are pretty exclusively the victims of the Earp Curse. They're people that Wyatt killed while he was wielding Peacemaker. There's a finite number and they're not all good, not all bad but all are basically condemned to Hell.

Demons, though ... demons are the ones who cast the curses. We don't know how many of them there are, but there was one in Purgatory who happened to have two wives. One of the wives was the one that did the eating.

[buried]

[ as wavery explains, elena pours her (and herself) a generous amount of wine. she gestures to the bed to show waverly is free to get as comfortable as she'd like.

elena takes a sip of her own wine before she sets it down and lowers to one side of the bed, gently placing the sheet mask on her face. ]

So... when Wynonna sends the revenants back with Peacemaker, do they stay there for good?

[ if wyatt himself wielded peacemaker with them, how did they get out? so many questions! ]

[stupetballs]

Until the next heir turns twenty-seven.

[Because curses and cycles.]

That was the curse. Every time the Earp heir turned twenty-seven, all the revenants would rise. The heir would take out as many as they could, and they would die, usually young, and then the next heir would turn twenty-seven and the cycle would start all over again.

[But Wynonna broke the curse. Or Bulsharr lifted it. Either way, Alice won't have to live the life of horrors that the other Earps did, and that's good enough.]

[buried]

[ elena is familiar with curses, though admittedly it's felt like she is the curse more often than not.

she wonders why it's twenty-seven out of every other number. but not more than she wonders this next question. ]

How... do you fit into all of this?

[ angel in a demon-infested town called purgatory — it's not nothing. ]

[stupetballs]

Well.

[She makes a triangle with her hands.]

Purgatory is in this geographic region called the Ghost River Triangle, thus named for the way the Ghost River splits in two and rejoins at a point somewhere in Montana. What we eventually learned is that the revenants can't leave the Triangle, because there's some kind of metaphysical barrier that essentially cooks them if they cross it. It's ... terrible.

[She then hold up a finger.]

But the revenants being stuck there just happened to be happenstance. Because the triangle wasn't created to keep the bad things in, necessarily. It was created to keep bad things out and protect the entrance to a very special place. And that place is - drum roll please -

[She pauses long enough to briefly drum against her legs.]

The Garden of Eden.

[buried]

I've heard Doc mention it before.

[ the ghost river triangle. but it's nice to have more in-depth information on it, along with the proper context.

with a small laugh, she joins waverly on the drumroll before that lightbulb goes off. ]

That's how your mom was able to meet your biological dad. He was a part of protecting the Garden of Eden.

[stupetballs]

Yep. He abandoned his post for her.

[Just like she abandoned hers for Nicole. She's starting to wonder if it really was the romantic notion she thought it was.]

I recently learned that it's more of a prison than it is a paradise. And those twenty-four years he was gone made things ... really fragile.

[buried]

Fragile how?

[ the curiosity (the concern) in her tone of voice is so earnest before she stops herself with a short and abrupt laugh. ]

I'm sorry. You don't have to answer that if you don't want to. This can't be relaxing for you and I swear I can turn the research button off. [ it wasn't that long ago waverly was trapped in lucifer's island, and elena doesn't want to overstep. ]