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jo harvelle (reoandknives) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2009-08-18 18:52:00

WHO: Jo Harvelle & [OPEN]
WHAT: Bartending.
WHEN: Tonight.
WHERE: The Barking Spider.
RATING: TBD.
STATUS: Incomplete.

Jo had figured that working at the bar would have taken her mind off of the little embarrassment she'd caused herself on the boards, but all it did was cause her to want to drink. Not that what she'd done was anything to drown her sorrows in or anything, but it had been something she'd brought upon herself, and she felt pretty stupid for it. She should have just kept her mouth shut and let Dean and Veronica talk amongst themselves. It was all innocent, and even if it wasn't, what business of Jo's was it? None. It wasn't like she and Dean were dating, and as far as she could tell, that wasn't really something that would be happening anytime soon. She just hated the fact that she'd felt little twinges of jealousy. She hated the fact that Dean got under her skin that way and he didn't even know it.

As the night wore on, more and more people began to mill into the bar. It was a pretty popular place, and even though it was no Roadhouse, Jo felt pretty at home in the Barking Spider. Sometimes Jo would half-expect her mother to pop out from around back, giving her orders, but of course, it never happened. She didn't know if that was good or bad. She missed her mother, definitely, but things had ended up souring so badly between them, Jo was actually afraid to see the woman again.

Placing a shot of whiskey down in front of a man who was sitting with a rather scantily-clad woman next to him, Jo turned to the newest customer that had just seated themself down nearby. "What can I get for ya?" she asked, without even turning all the way as she grabbed a glass.

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notaronnie
2009-08-19 04:24 am UTC (link)

Maybe it was because she was a spitting image of Meg, and Veronica had carried so much guilt when Meg had died for such a long time. Veronica wasn't sure if it was that or Jo's sassy wit, but she liked her. And Lord only knew she really needed to add some girl-friends to her fold. Or just some friends in general so when the whole fiasco with Dean had happened she'd panicked a little. Felt like she was stepping on Jo's toes and she definitely hadn't even considered a roll in the hay with the guy. Now she just wanted to make sure Jo didn't feel too much like an ass about it, because it was an easy mistake to make.

So after some board research (to find the name of the bar) and a sad smile as she remembered Keith's claim that that noise was not him, it was barking spiders, she let Cassidy know she'd be back in a while and walked the short distance from her building to the tavern. She hadn't spent a ton of time in bars, drinking had never been a good thing with her but her handy dandy fake I.D. making skills served her well once again. She sat at the bar, and waited for Jo to come to her.

"Oh, I'm kind of a lightweight. Whatever is on tap tonight. We'll see if I can throw a glass down and still stumble to the right building." It was meant entirely in jest and her voice made that plain, she smiled up at Jo with her arms crossed on the bar-top in front of her, trying to look a little taller. "So how's business tonight?"

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reoandknives
2009-08-19 04:37 am UTC (link)

Truth be told, Jo was pretty surprised to see Veronica sitting there. If anything, she figured the other girl probably wanted to steer clear of her. She'd come across as sort of...possessive and rude and all kinds of other things that Jo really didn't want to even think about, but the fact that the other girl had sought her out said a lot about her.

She had to force her smile to look friendly, rather than awkward, but felt she was doing a pretty good job as she filled up the empty glass she'd been holding with the house beer she'd been pouring pretty much all night so far. "Eh, it's going," she replied with a shrug of her thin shoulders, placing the beer down in front of Veronica without even bothering to ask for ID. She had to figure that if Veronica was even inside the bar, she had to either be legal or have a good fake ID. Either way, Jo was in no mood to argue the point. "Things are just starting to pick up now. It's getting later, more people wanna get drunk." She chuckled quietly and glanced around. She was definitely making a point not to bring up anything that had happened over the boards.

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notaronnie
2009-08-19 04:52 am UTC (link)

Yeah, Jo wasn't bad at all and Veronica took a sip off of the beer before really saying anything. She didn't want to make it any more awkward than Jo did, but she wanted to ease a little of the tension too. "Listen I just. . .I mean I wanted to make sure you were. . .not feeling weird or anything." And she laughed at her own indecision in word choice. "I could have handled that thing with Dean a lot better than I did and honestly I was only really screwing around with him. I could have gone about being less of an ass and just saying that right off the bat so I'm sorry I confused you."

Okay, Veronica. You can stop making this awkward-city now. She looked away and laughed softly at herself. "That said, glad the night isn't going too badly. I really need to suck it up and see if any of the coffee places around here will take me in. Just to do something other than sit around and mope all the time." She smiled at her again, another drink of the beer, heavier this time before she released the glass. "I really just should have mentally put that thought into your head and kept my mouth shut, huh?"

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reoandknives
2009-08-19 05:02 am UTC (link)

Jo wasn't good at the whole talking-about-your-feelings thing. She was the type of person who just pushed that all aside and ignored it, crossing her fingers and hoping it would go away on it's own. Half the time it was only wishful thinking, and now was no exception.

Immediately shaking her head, she waved off the explanation and the apology, even adding a soft chuckle for good measure. "It's fine, really. Me and Dean aren't together or anything, he can do what he wants as far as that goes. I was just, you know, being stupid about the whole thing." She shrugged her shoulders and laughed again, though by now it was looking a little bit pathetic. That was her cue to shut up.

Jo glanced around again, making sure there was no one not being tended to before she turned her attention back to Veronica. "Bars are supposed to be places where you can go to mope. Hell, why do you think I work in one?" That statement carried more truth to it than she would have liked, but she hoped maybe Veronica wouldn't notice.

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notaronnie
2009-08-19 07:33 pm UTC (link)

Veronica had to smile to herself and she toyed with Lilly's necklace a moment in thought. Thought about all of Logan's time drinking and it had never really occurred to her that that might be his silent form of moping. She sighed and took another good drink of the beer. "Well I guess if you put it that way there's a little raging alcoholic inside of us all." She said quietly, that statement making her think of her mom and her previous insecurities that she'd be just like her. Veronica forcefully shoved that all aside with a sigh and she looked at Jo.

"I think, I'm positive I mentioned before I had a friend, she looked exactly like you." She said, changing the subject. And then she had to laugh. "You guys are so different though, Meg. . .I'm not sure you'd ever catch Meg in a bar." Ran her finger through some condensation on the bar. "She died back in high school, she had a blood clot in the hospital." She sized Jo up briefly. "This place is scary in that sense. I got some chick who looks like me, there's you, that vampire that looks like. .Logan."

Another drink to shut her up some. She didn't know why she kept rambling on. "All right. Enough of that crap, I didn't come here to depress us both. Tell me something completely random and possibly cool, about you or anyone."

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reoandknives
2009-08-19 07:42 pm UTC (link)

Jo was glad for the change of subject. She wasn't good at talking about her feelings, and Dean stirred up feelings that Jo just didn't want to deal with. It was probably her whole problem, the fact that she would much rather ignore her issues and hang-ups rather than dealing with them, but so far, it had been working. Kind of. A little.

"Yeah, I've noticed that there are a lot of look-alikes in this place. There's a zombie who looks like a friend of mine, and then there's someone who looks like Dean, but he's got piercings and tattoos and all that." There she went, bringing up Dean again. She shook her head and pretended like she never had. "It's weird, and I'm even used to weird. Or I thought I was. This place kind of brings a whole new definition to the word."

Jo excused herself for a moment so that she could refill a guy's shot glass with scotch, then returned to stand across the bar in front of Veronica. "Random and cool?" she echoed, her brows lifting. "I don't... Well." She paused for a moment, then wondered if she could kill two birds with one stone, socialize and investigate the local demon population, if there even was one. "I hunt."

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notaronnie
2009-08-19 09:10 pm UTC (link)

"You. .hunt." Veronica considered that a moment. Like, deer and bears? She looked at Jo with a surprised expression, brows quirked oddly. "Well that is. .random. Kind of unusual but hey, all the more power to you. I'm not much a a venison or like, pheasant person myself. But I will say, buffalo burgers are pretty darn tasty." Because that isn't weird and random too, Veronica. She laughed at herself, the warmth of drunkenness finally wrapping around her joints. "Oh God, you must think I'm the biggest weirdo on the planet."

She laughed all through a sip of beer and waved off her giggles. "God, hunting though. That must be cool. I kind of hunt, cheating spouses and embezzlers, child molesting mayors that cause psychotic kids to blow up busloads of their classmates. But I gotta say, you win the badass award of this conversation. So do you just do the shooting or do you. .skin them and everything? You might win the stronger stomach award if you do."

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reoandknives
2009-08-19 10:05 pm UTC (link)

At Veronica's reaction, Jo had to laugh. She figured that was the kind of hunting she thought she was talking about, but in a place like this, one couldn't be too sure. Maybe Veronica already knew about demon hunting somehow. Apparently not, though, and Jo figured she'd better straighten the other girl out before she got too skeeved.

"No, I don't mean that kind of hunting," she said with a small smirk and a shake of her head. "Back home, me, Dean, his brother Sam, it's what we do." She wondered what kind of reaction she would get now, but really, Jo wasn't used to being in a place where she could say such a thing and not be called a freak or something.

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notaronnie
2009-08-21 10:40 pm UTC (link)

Ohhh. Along with her drunken amusement Veronica suddenly felt a little blonder and she might have even blushed with embarrassment. "I totally knew you meant that the whole time." She said with a little laugh. Wow, that took on a whole new meaning to tough. And Veronica had had her share of big girl moments. She didn't ask anything, didn't comment on it further. Just immediately marked up 'badass' next to Jo's name on her mental list. This was definitely not someone she wanted to make an enemy with, so she was glad she was taking the steps to do the opposite.

"Well, you are cool, Jo." Nodded at her own statement and finished off the beer. "A lot cooler than I expected so I'm glad I came down here to get mildly drunk and embarrass myself." She watched some local men burst in laughing, had to smile a little, immediately reminded of Dick. "I don't know how you handle these people every night. I'd probably lose my mind. Hanging around people on caffeine can be bad enough some of the time."

[OOC: Sorry for the wait, work and kid have kicked my ass the last couple of days!]

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reoandknives
2009-08-21 11:07 pm UTC (link)

Jo had to laugh at Veronica's words, as well as the fact that she was already getting a bit tipsy. "It's okay. I should've told you that it was demon hunting right from the start, easy mistake to make. And don't worry, you're not embarrassing yourself any worse than some of the people that come in here." And that was really all she said. She couldn't respond to the fact that she'd just been called cool, because Jo didn't necessarily feel that she was, but it was pretty nice to hear all the same.

Jo glanced around and smiled a little, crossing her arms over her chest as she looked back at Veronica. "I guess I'm used to it by now. Back home, my mom had a bar, and I helped her with it when I got older. Believe it or not, it's not so bad." She had a bit of a hard time stumbling over the word 'mom,' but she felt she did an okay job with not letting on to how awkward that whole situation was.

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