war, war, war, war

[hejhej]

Who: Lisbeth Salander and John Winchester
When: After sirens on September 8th
Where: Some random bar in Sector 4
Summary: Lisbeth is minding her own business until John starts talking shit. Trouble ensues.
Warnings: Cursing and violence

[Lisbeth usually found herself in a club, but because of the things happening at home, she doesn't think she could handle a night of listening to blaring music. Instead, she finds a bar to just sit and not think. She feels bad that she crushed Ambien into Jesse's soda about an hour ago, but she wanted to get out. However, when he was tweaked out, she couldn't leave him alone. The last time she did that, she had to go on a manhunt before finding him in the Underground Mall.

So Lisbeth sits in a corner of the bar, smoking a cigarette and a beer in front of her. However, she keeps checking her NV guiltily. Just one more beer and then maybe she'll go home.]

Comments

[failedparenting]

Hey.

[He kind of hovers at the end of her table. It'd be creepy to sit down (and it's not like he wants to anyway), so he has to go with the next best option.]

You were with my wife when she was...hurt in the hunt.

[He takes a drink to steady himself. The memory still makes him sick.]

Thank you, for that. So she wasn't alone.

[hejhej]

[oh he was thanking her. okay, this was going to be easy albeit awkward. she just shrugs.]

No big deal.

[failedparenting]

No, no. It is.

[He leans against the table, knuckles pressed against the wood. He's trying desperately to figure out how to articulate what he wants to say.]

That someone like you would be with her to the end, especially after what she's gone through before. It's a big deal.

[hejhej]

[She's about to take another sip of her beer when she catches onto his words. Her eyes widen.]

What do you mean 'someone like you'?

[Please. Enlighten her.]

[failedparenting]

[Well, he was going to continue thanking her and maybe even pay for her tab, but that comes to a screeching halt.]

Did you not hear the part where I was trying to thank you?

[You and your ungrateful ass, clearly.]

[hejhej]

[She bristles.]

I was, but what you added about a 'person like me' has nothing to do with me helping Mary.

[failedparenting]

[John straightens himself and crosses his arms. What the fuck is this girl's problem, anyway?]

Just take the fucking compliment.

[hejhej]

[She couldn't believe the things he was saying. Coupled with the stress, she's getting really angry and is jumpy for a fight.]

So now it's a compliment.

[failedparenting]

What the hell is your problem? I'm trying to be nice.

[hejhej]

[Lisbeth breathes hard through her nose which causes smoke to come out and not because of her cigarette - her power tended to appear when she got angry. But she decides to let it pass.]

Problems at home.

[failedparenting]

[He sees the smoke and the cigarette, but hell, that doesn't smell like any cigarette smoke he's ever seen. John backs up a little, just in case.]

What? With that jackass you're dating? Hey, that ain't my problem, you get what you pay for.

[hejhej]

[And yet she got defensive of Jesse. She bristles.]

I just thought you'd be the expert concerning problems at home.

:D

[failedparenting]

I'm not the one fucking some cheating, white trash junkie.

ur a ded man

[hejhej]

[His words make her stand abruptly from her seat and slam her hands on the table, closing the gap between them. She isn't going to explain the 'cheating' thing - she didn't have to justify the nature of she and Jesse's relationship.

What she had to defend against was all the other terminology.]

He's a good man.

#yolo

[failedparenting]

[John stands his ground, but he tenses for a fight. She's smaller than him, yeah, but he's gotten his ass kicked by girls her size before. Can't be too careful.]

You got some fucked up sense of good and bad, then.

[hejhej]

I think I'm pretty good at telling the difference between good and bad.

[failedparenting]

Really?

[He snorts.]

Whatever helps you sleep at night.

[hejhej]

It's the same thing that helps your wife at night.