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Tweak says, "It was never that big!"

jo harvelle (reoandknives) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2009-09-15 01:54:00

Entry tags:

!@event, !closed, dean winchester

WHO: Jo & Dean.
WHAT: She needs some company.
WHEN: Not long after this.
WHERE: Her place.
RATING: TBD.
STATUS: Incomplete.

Jo had no idea what was going on. As she'd told that woman on the network, she was used to creepy and weird stuff happening, but this was just too much. For one, she hadn't thought this place had any ghosts or demons, and that was the only thing she could think of to explain what was going on, even though none of the usual signs were there. Secondly, it was her mother she was seeing, dead in different ways in different rooms, almost as if she was being followed. It was enough to make her physically sick, and she was glad Dean had offered to come stay with her for a little while.

She sat on the couch, her legs curled up underneath her, just staring off into space. If she didn't actually look around, maybe she wouldn't see the horrible vision if it popped up again. It had been a few hours since the last time she'd seen it, her mother lying on her bed with a gunshot wound in her chest, but Jo didn't want to take any chances. She just had to wait for Dean. Not that he would waltz in and everything would magically be alright, but she was sure he would provide a decent distraction.

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_waywardson
2009-09-15 07:26 pm UTC (link)

Dean wasn't exactly a pro at the whole comfort thing. In fact he usually had a knack of making things worse. But he didn't much want to leave Jo alone after what she had said. The idea of her hurting, even if it wasn't physical, brought out the protective streak (coupled with sheer anger at whatever it was doing the hurting) usually reserved for his brother. He wanted to fall into hunter mode, figure out what the hell was going on, but he manged to push past it, figuring Jo needed company more than anything.

After talking with her over his PDA he checked out of work early, bought a bottle of JD from the bar and found a couple lame comedies from the movie store (he sincerely figured Spaceballs could probably make her cheer up better than he could) and headed over. He grabbed the EMF meter from the glovebox and headed to her apartment, knocking lightly on the door.

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reoandknives
2009-09-15 08:46 pm UTC (link)

Jo had been so out of touch from reality in that moment that Dean's knock caused her to jump slightly. She took a second to tell herself it was only Dean, not Ellen's corpse for another visit. She rose up from her position on the couch, crossing the front room to answer the door. She had a roommate, but apparently he wasn't home. That was a very good thing. The only person she really wanted to see was Dean.

When she opened the door to see him standing there on the other side, she caught sight of the bottle and DVDs, and she smiled a little as she let him inside. "All the necessities for a post-freakout, very good." Jo had a habit of making light of situations that made her uncomfortable, but right now, she was failing pretty miserably.

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_waywardson
2009-09-16 03:06 am UTC (link)

He shrugged a little as he walked into the apartment. "Figured you might want something to get your mind off it," he said even though he knew there were some things nothing could make you forget. He hated the thought, but he knew the image of her Mom dead wouldn't easily leave Jo's mind.

Dean set the bottle and the DVD's down before he reached into his coat pocket for the meter. Not that it seemed like the usual spirit nonsense but he figured he should at least check. Getting nothing he offered her a small smirk and held the meter over her. "Sorry," he disclaimed. "Ran into this ghost sickness thing a few months ago that had this kind of M.O, you'd be giving off EMF if you had it."

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reoandknives
2009-09-16 03:20 am UTC (link)

Jo shrugged off the EMF meter, knowing that if it had been the other way around, she would have done the same thing. It was kind of first instinct, but since she didn't have any of her usual hunting supplies, she couldn't exactly cover every base. "It's okay, I'd want to make sure, too. It's not the same, though. I mean, not like a ghost or a demon or anything. I feel...weird when it happens, but none of the usual stuff, you know?" Jo honestly didn't know how to explain it, because it was so unlike anything she'd ever experienced. The weird feeling wasn't exactly sulphur or a cold rush passing through the room.

Crossing her arms over her chest, she moved back towards the sofa and lowered herself down onto it. "Sorry to freak you out. But...thanks for doing this. I usually don't get all bent outta shape over stuff like this, but...well, it's different. So I don't really know what to do." She knew others were experiencing the same kind of thing, but it didn't do much to make her feel better.

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_waywardson
2009-09-16 03:55 am UTC (link)

He set the meter down and shrugged out of his jacket, laying it across the arm of the couch, before moving to sit beside her. He shook his head a little at her thank you, it had never crossed his mind to not make sure she was okay. "I don't mind Jo, really," he assured her. "And hey, it got me out of work early," he added on, trying to crack some semblance of a joke to hide that he really had no clue how to make this better for her.

Dean lifted the bottle but then realized they had nothing to drink from and set it back down. "I'll uh, get us some glasses," he said and headed into the kitchen to hunt them down. If it had been any other girl freaked out about something he'd probably just sleep with her to "distract" her and then never call again but that definitely wouldn't work here and he stalled a little finding two highball glasses, reminding himself, again, that sleeping with Jo would be a very, very bad idea.

Glasses in hand Dean wandered back into the living room and set them down. He busied himself pouring them each a drink and finally looked at her when he handed her one. "Maybe it was just a fluke thing," he offered, "some freaky side effect of this place, and now it's done."

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reoandknives
2009-09-16 04:03 am UTC (link)

Jo could tell Dean felt way out of his element here. She wasn't much better at making someone else feel better, but she would have rathered to not be the one that needed comforting. She was even worse at that. He was here, though, and he was making an attempt. That actually meant more to her than anything else.

"Like an initiation or something?" she asked, taking the offered glass from him and immediately taking a large drink from it. The alcohol burned it's way down her throat, but it was incredibly needed just then. "I never wanted to join a sorority, and shitty initiations was one of the reasons." Again with the joking, but she didn't know what else to do.

"I'm not the only one, so that makes sense," she added thoughtfully. "I wonder if it's gonna hit everybody, then." She looked over at Dean with a bit of concern flashing through her face. She didn't want something like this happening to him, not at all.

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_waywardson
2009-09-16 04:33 am UTC (link)

He smirked a little and took a good long drink from his own glass. "I'm only down with initiations that involve little clothing," he commented offhandedly.

When she mentioned her wondering it it was working its way through all of them Dean finished the whiskey in his glass and poured another. It seemed to be showing people something they feared and the last thing Dean wanted to think about was things he feared showing up here, even in hallucination form.

"Let's hope not, otherwise Sammy's gonna be freaking out over clowns for god knows how long," he joked instead of owning up to his worry.

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reoandknives
2009-09-16 04:39 am UTC (link)

"Figures," she responded with a half-smirk. Even his lewd commentary was beginning to make her feel a little better. She would take anything over sitting by herself in the room, just waiting for another vision to pop up.

Before she could comment on anything regarding Sam and his fear of clowns, another vision did pop up. It was across the room, Ellen slumped on the floor against the door with scratches and gouges all over her face and arms. One of her eyes was missing, and she was bleeding profusely from a large wound along her neck. If the whole thing didn't just happen out of nowhere, she might not have been so startled to see it by now, but as it was, there was no time for preparation.

"Fuck!" She shot up from the sofa, the glass flying out of her hand as her eyes went wide, just staring across the room as the disgusting sight before her. "Do you...do you see it?" she asked, blinking a few times to see if it worked to get rid of it, but it didn't work.

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_waywardson
2009-09-16 05:14 am UTC (link)

He jumped up after her, reaching vainly for the glass well on its way across the room. Dean wasn't quite prepared for how seeing it first hand tugged at him and he swallowed hard against the anger directed at whatever sick bastard was responsible for this. He forced himself to focus on the part he could control, on her standing beside him and not the mystery of what was causing all of this.

His eyes followed hers across the room and he shook his head slowly. He didn't see anything. But that didn't mean it was any less real to her. Dean wrapped his hand around her wrist and tugged her to sit back down on the couch with him. "Jo..." he said and reached his hand to pull her face gently to look at him. He just had to keep her focused on something other than the mirage across the room. "Just try to ignore it, maybe it will go away if you don't pay attention to it."

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reoandknives
2009-09-16 05:22 am UTC (link)

Jo's heart was pounding so hard in her chest that she was sure Dean could hear it. She didn't want to do this in front of him. She didn't want him to see what it was like when she saw...whatever that was. It sure as hell wasn't her mother, not for real, anyway. But Jo had no idea what was causing it all.

Her eyes, which were just beginning to well up from fear and frustration and confusion, remained locked on Ellen's body until Dean actually turned her face toward him. She couldn't tear her gaze away from it on her own, and if it wasn't for him, she still would have been staring off at it like she usually did, until something happened and it was gone.

"Don't think it works like that," she replied, laughing without any real humor in her voice.

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_waywardson
2009-09-16 05:41 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, probably not but it was worth a try," he said with a small smirk. Dean knew better than most how much it sucked to have horrible things follow you around. And seeing what Jo was, that couldn't be pretty. He was quiet for a moment watching to see if she was relatively alright for the moment before realizing he still had his hand against the side of her face.

He dropped his hand and filled his glass back up with whiskey. He wished he knew how to make it better for her, to stop it from happening, but he had no clue how to even start looking. And more than that, he refused to leave her alone to go just that. He handed her the glass and figured he could at least get her sauced up and maybe she'd pass out for a few hours and at least get a bit of a break from it all.

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reoandknives
2009-09-16 05:51 am UTC (link)

With a murmur of thanks, Jo took the glass from him and downed the whole thing at once, wincing just a little as she swallowed the last bit of it. Her plan was similar to Dean's. Maybe if she passed out, she could wake up and find out the whole thing was over, and she'd been unconscious right through the end of it. In a perfect world, maybe, but all of a sudden Colligo didn't seem like a perfect world anymore. Somehow, she doubted getting wasted would help much.

Truth be told, the thing that had helped ease her the most so far was Dean's touch. His presence was one thing, of course, but when he actually touched her, it was like a warmth had passed right through her, rather than that awful chill she felt whenever she happened to glance off towards the door. She figured that might freak him out more than the situation at hand even did, so she kept quiet about it.

Placing her empty glass back down on the coffee table, she nodded off towards the DVDs resting there as well. "What movies did you bring? Porn, porn, and more porn?" She smiled ever so slightly as she drew her knees up to her chest and leaned back into the cushions of the sofa.

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_waywardson
2009-09-17 03:21 am UTC (link)

He watched her drink the alcohol, worried that the vision would re-appear at anytime. It would be a lie to say there wasn't the fear that what was affecting Jo and the others would work it's way to him, but for the moment he could quiet it by focusing on her. When she leaned back and made her jab at the movies he shook his head a little and offered her the pile.

"All they had was Throbbing Hood and I've seen it way too many times so you're stuck with those," he joked back. In addition to Spaceballs there was also Airplane and Bullitt, a weird trio but they were the first to catch his eye on the quick trip into the store.

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reoandknives
2009-09-17 03:28 am UTC (link)

As long as she wasn't sitting there waiting for it to happen, as long as she had something else to think about, maybe the visions would stop. At least briefly, anyway. She'd been alone the rest of the time, so she really wasn't sure how it worked, if it played off of a person's thoughts or if it just happened no matter what. Still, she was going to do her best to ignore it for now and just concentrate on Dean.

"I love this one," she said, picking up the Airplane DVD while the others went back on the coffee table. "And I'm not even gonna ask about Throbbing Hood, ugh."

Getting up from the couch, she placed the movie into the player and started it up. A moment later, she was moving back to sit down beside Dean, though this time, she made sure to move in closer to him. It wasn't really a conscious thing, though, just something she did without thinking. He made her feel safe, and she wanted to be near him.

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