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[ jon lifts his glass up again to take a slow drink from it, nodding his quiet agreement. there's nothing that can be done right now. ultimately, their future plan should be more long term oriented with smaller moves that will eventually have the change they want. but they have tonight. waverly needs the chance to recover from what she went through without worrying about what to do next. ]

The bar's closed for the night. [ they can get as drunk as they'd like, and hopefully, hell will remain at its current level of fucked up in the meantime. ]

Which means we're all free to get wasted. Which I think we could all use.

(granted....that's kind of wynonna's solution to everything but you know....let's not look at her alcoholism too hard right now, okay? she's already pouring herself another glass and topping everyone else off.)

Oooh.

[Waverly knocks back her second drink and nods in agreement. She's not really one known for getting drunk, but sometimes, when the moment warrants it, it's nice to let go.]

That actually sounds really nice right about now.

[ this is usually the part where elena does her elena thing and at least tries to posit a sensible and responsible alternative, isn't it?

but even she's not feeling up to being a buzzkill. maybe she'll drink a bit less, if only to keep an eye on those who need this most. ]

Then let's do it.

[ the four of them will end up sitting on the floor of the back bar, as it gives them ready access to the alcohol. it certainly makes elvis happy, as he can just hop from one person to another. she braces her bottle against her knee. she smiles, just a bit, as she gives elvis another scritch behind his ear. ] I've never had a pet before.

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[ jon rests his back against the wall of the bar itself beside some of the bottles with his leg pressed up against elena's. he has not been drunk in-- he does not remember the last time he was drunk at all, and he's not quite drunk yet (doesn't know if he will be as that requires letting his guard down), but he is definitely affected by the alcohol.

elvis paws at jon's knee, and he's quick to reach over to pet him with a quiet thoughtful expression. ]

I've never had a pet, but I had... an animal companion. [ it's been some time since jon's thought of him if only because it's hard like a piece of him left behind. he can only hope ghost never goes to king's landing, hope ghost remains free and alive for all he's done for him- that can be the part of jon to live on. ] Ghost. He was a direwolf.

I never had a pet either. Waverly had a hamster though Pikachu was not long for the world.

(probably for the best, all things considered about their childhood that they didn't have pets but it's ben nice to have elvis. it's like having a little part of jason still with her.)

Ghost sounds badass.

Poor Pikachu.

[Waverly reaches over to scritch Elvis as she takes another swig from her drink.]

He was a good hamster. And then I had to desecrate his grave to save us from an evil shadow revenant that took the sun away.

[Yep, Waverly's ... pretty drunk.]

[ her lips curve into something bittersweet, and she gives jon's hand a brief and subtle squeeze. she knows how much he misses ghost, and she also knows he would rather never see his direwolf again than subject him to the heat and the horrors of hell. if he didn't belong in the south, he definitely doesn't belong here.

she's about to inquire more about this adorable hamster when — ]

Like... he literally took the sun away? [ they all really come from wild worlds, don't they? ]

[ jon squeezes her hand back, appreciating she thought even to reach out since she knows what ghost does mean to him. he takes another drink from the glass, swallowing through the burn, even as he makes a face of both surprise and-

the gods in his world were not thought to be so powerful as to be able to take a sun away, and yet this revenant did? and they dealt with them regularly? their worlds are truly dangerous. ........also: ]

...and what's a hamster?

It was a shadow assassin and he technically just blocked out the sun like Mr. Burns in the Simpsons, but with less flare.

(yeah drunk wynonna, because jon is going to understand....any of that.)

A hamster is like a tiny rodent you keep as a pet.

They have these cute chubby little cheeks and are honestly the superior rodent.

[Just in Waverly's totally biased opinion. And then, almost as though she's anticipating the question.]

The Simpsons is a television show. Like a bunch of plays all put together to tell a story.

[Then another beat.]

Do you have plays in Westeros?

[ elena bites back a smile at the range of expressions that play out on jon snow's otherwise stoic face, and takes a sip of her drink as she awaits this answer.

she's curious, too. ]

[ jon is absolutely confident the visual that appears in his head when she describes a hamster is not accurate, but rats are the main rodent in westeros. rats with chubby cheeks are not... cute though. hrm.

the explanation for the television show makes sense. there are tvs around, but they don't play television shows only messages from lucifer usually. this explains why those black boxes would exist in modern worlds at all. just gonna drink more from his glass now. ]

No, not in Westeros. They do in the Free Cities. My friend, Sam, told me about how the mummers there would act out fully written stories. [ there's even a full play written about his family performed in bravos that he thankfully has never seen or heard about. ...though he did hear about joffreys group of 'entertainers' at the wedding, and how they treated robb's death. ] In Westeros, mummers juggle, breathe fire, walk on stilts, or they tell ridiculous jokes, exaggerate for laughs.

Sounds like clowns.

(or circus performers in general, anyway. wynonna takes another long swig of her drink.)

Did they have really dramatic makeup?

[Because Wynonna is not wrong, that does sound like clowns.]

I bet they did, though probably no big red noses...

[ though now she's thinking about introducing jon to television, and wondering what might be a good place to start. ]

[ big red noses? clowns? the modern world is a strange one, but he would definitely not know what to make of tv or movies in the slightest. the realism would be difficult to wrap his head around. ]

Aye. Exaggerated makeup. It's generally all a big joke to make people laugh.

Are they actually funny or do they tend to make more people creeped out than amused?

(the real clown test, in wynonna's opinion.)

Clowns for us tend to skew more towards creepy.

[As though for clarification.]

They might have been funny once, but their time has passed.

[ elena tips her head to the side. ]

It has. If someone calls you a clown nowadays, they mostly mean you're either being a fool or you're fooling yourself.

[ welcome to the modern world. ]

[ the modern world is so strange, but there's some things he finds familiar and recognizes. ]

...most people find them funny or annoying, but we call them fools too. Some kings have their own jester or fool to entertain them and their court.

Not me. [ yes, he's had enough to drink to casually speak about being a king, pfft. ]

(wynonna chokes on her whiskey a little at that.)

Wait? You're a king?????

(way to bury the lead, snow.)

Did we know that?

[Waverly tries to think back on if Jon had mentioned that he was king of anything in their various conversations.]

My drunk brain can't remember if we knew that.

I knew that! I thought we all knew that?

[ but then, she and jon have been fucking. she takes a dignified sip of her own drink. ]

[oh fuck, right. that's a thing that he doesn't like advertised. well, least this is team human so he can count on them, and elena does know already and doesn't tell anybody about it. and he loves her for this (and many, many other things). ]

Only recently. People in the North chose me as their king, which is weird cause I'm a bastard. [ but yes, he's a king at least for a short while, and he downs more of his drink. ] ...don't tell anyone. The demons are asses about it already.

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