“Cocksucker,” Jo growls at the garbage bag at her feet, “complete motherfucker.” The trash bag, remains of the preparation of the burgers she and the Winchesters had eaten that morning, remains sitting impassively on her left shoe where it had slipped from the tenuous grasp she'd managed to keep on it by pinning it between the palm of her hand and her shoulder all the way from the Roadhouse till right here, a few inches in front of the dumpster. Stupid, she thinks, should have let someone help me, they offered didn't they? Never like doing this when I actually can do I? There's nothing for it though, she's tried kicking it into the air, nudging it up the side of the dumpster with her foot and, just now, cursing it into submission. She'll have to go back and ask someone to lift it for her after all. That's frustrating enough (because she already hates being so helpless, wants to get up and get out and be doing something, going somewhere, acting out any role other than victim) that she's more concentrated on sulking and feeling dumb than looking around her for once in the past twenty-four hours as she comes out from the alcove of the driveway the dumpsters are in.
...which is, of course, why the universe chooses this moment to spring a strange car pulling up alongside her as she trudges back to the Roadhouse. Jo's feeling a sour-bile spike of adrenaline before she's even processed the sound of tires spitting gravel and she's scrambling backwards a few paces, eyes darting wildly. Shitshitshit they're between me and home, she thinks, forgetting in a moment of panic that this could be someone who doesn't know the bar is closed or John or Bobby or anything but Gordon coming back for Sam and finding her in the way again. She's had a night of sleep and some food but she still can't think of herself as anything but useless and all she can really do as the car door swings open is raise her hands defensively in front of her and start edging around the car and towards the Roadhouse, hoping she can get in a position to make a break for home before trouble starts.