http://not-scully.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] not-scully.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] shatterverse2009-09-22 07:24 am

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Dean is apparently living at Jo's. Leah is working and while she usually has time for a drink, Sam doesn't want to interrupt her, or hang around too much. No jobs to do, that he knows of. No real desire to go out by himself to do them, either. There's nothing wrong with his car and he's not Dean - meaningless tune-ups don't interest him. His guns and knives have been cleaned and polished, he's stocked up on bullets, salt, holy water. Ransacked more than a few bookstores and churches. Sat around the apartment he usually shares with his brother and stared at blank walls.

Sam is bored. Very, very bored.

And in Kansas.



Metropolis is a few hours from Lawrence. What's in Lawrence is... complicated. But maybe it's time he finally checked it out. Looked it in the eye and addressed it's existence.

(the "it" in question is debatable)



For now, Sam Winchester is sitting on the front step of the apartment building he sleeps in, frowning to the north.
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-22 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Her shoulders settle, watching him stand, watching him become the tower that bores over her in the still present light. She wonders if she'll ever not stop a second in her head to notice it, even if it doesn't cross her face.




Which thinking that, makes it even odder.

"You don't have to go alone."

And maybe somewhere she's thinking Dean left her with Rachel in tow to go with Jack to her trashed home, and he left her in a bar in a home she can't reach, and in a bar at the end of the universe.....and that he's stayed, he's stayed now....but that doesn't mean she has to leave Sam just this second.

She gets that some things are bigger than your past and your debts.
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-22 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Jo stood there--

For a second, a second here and then gone, lost in the autumn wind that ruffles her blonde curls against her cheeks, because like she had she meant to offer herself? and she wasn't about to leave them yet before it was all only the chill on her skin.

--and then she walked to the car.
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-22 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Getting out of the city is easy, even if being in a car is strange. The last car she was in, she can vividly remember. She spent the entire ride trying to both convince herself to and not to kill an incredibly broken, battered child.

She doesn't even know what happened to the girl.
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-23 09:29 am (UTC)(link)
There are definitely worse silences.

They both know that intimately.





And still, Jo, picked that second to drum her fingers on her jeans, and break it with her voice. "Do you have a plan for once you get there?"
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-23 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
It says something that he might be able to forget she's there. Even quite, even between cars and memories, she hasn't quite forgotten who she's in a very small, enclosed space with.



"You mind a stop by my old place?"
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-23 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
She's quieter than anyone would believe Jo Harvelle could be, too. At least those who haven't dealt with the treatment of it for so many weeks the shock is gone.



"Halfway down the same street. Being underfoot blew."

Even if Mary had been kind about the tea and invitation.
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-23 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
He rarely did.

And never of her, really.



She made a quiet, affirmative noise, and studied the debris of a billboard sign, broken and burned up, as they passed it.
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-23 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Jo's eyes narrowed, eying the lack of an impala on the street. "Deana's not here."

She says, with the same even tone. The same way she would if she walked out and Dean's impala wasn't anywhere near her house. The two are tied.
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-23 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
The lights are out.
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-23 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
Jo opened her car door, not waiting for it, shaking her head.

Feeling the inside of her chest swell at there being more space.



"It can wait."
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-23 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
Jo's steps are quiet and even behind him, rather like most things she does. Even though she does stop, tugging the sleeve of her hoodie over her wrist again.

She's not going to sugar coat it, because he knows why he's here even if its not being shared. "Mary, Deana, the other Sam, Jess." Erm. She's looking a little to the side, before at his back. "It was six at the height, and always the Winchester place."

All of them except Jo.
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[personal profile] tobeclosetohim 2009-09-23 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Dean n' me." And didn't that sound weird.

In a way that creaked, was comforting and complicated.

"Back way at the beginning. Before I moved down the street."

She's taking the stairs, and stopped to lean on the porch, thinking oddly enough of the crass teasing she'd given Dean right here on these steps. A girl who was still outrunning her shadow, clueless about her mother.

"He stayed longer, but things got weird when Sam returned with Jess all--" Married is a mutter. And there was Rachel then and Jack's promise to take her away. And the Farm happened, the splitting up. All of it. An endless roll.
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