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Tweak says, "DA NA NA NA BATMAN!"

Alpha Peter (pbandparker) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2020-01-26 19:42:00

Entry tags:

dan torrance, gwen stacy, john constantine (vertigo), octavio silva, peter b parker (sv), remus lupin, richie tozier, sirius black, tony stark (mcu)

WHO: Everyone who wants to drown their sorrows or something
WHAT: Getting drunk about it
WHERE: The Spider-Web
WHEN: Today

Sure waking up to find that he was for some reason attached to a wizard nearly half his age hadn't been on the top ten best ways to start his day list that Peter most certainly did not keep somewhere in the back of his mind, it hadn't actually been on the top ten worst ways to start his day list either. So that was something to consider. Not that it made it any easier to deal with knowing that for some strange reason he found himself tethered to Sirius, things had gotten very strange very quickly, and considering his history with strange well - Peter thought he was handling the whole thing admirably.

Tonight though, well they were at the bar, because even tied together like this people still needed to eat and Peter wasn't about to just throw all of this away because he was mildly inconvenienced. So he was doing his best, passing out drinks and making food and hoping that at the very least, they could all just spend a little time there that evening and pretend like things weren't entirely fucked.

"Nothing like a couple of drinks and something good to eat to at least help make you feel like things aren't quite as bad as they might seem." And certainly he'd lucked out he thought, but like John had said, things could always be worse.

[It's another party thread people, use your headers and have fun!]

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Dan & Bill

hexes_n_hearts
2020-01-27 11:37 pm UTC (link)

Look it wasn't ideal, his little world revolving around Gwen now, or at least the eight or so feet surrounding her. But it could be much, much worse. The bed on her floor was reasonably comfortable, he could rustle up an excellent silencing charm while they each took turns to shower to give them a little more privacy. It could have been worse and Bill was happy to go about their day following her lead, as long as the garden got a visit he was happy.

In a place like this they could give each other a little space, give themselves a break and with the music and the drink in his hand he could almost pretend he wasn't stuck. It was easy to pick out a new face, especially of a guy who looked like he was attending his own funeral and as he walked in Bill noticed, he was an observant guy. He finished up his conversation before he made his way as close to Dan as he could get, which was only a few feet away.

"You made it after all, I'm flattered," Bill said with an easy smile as he leaned his hip up against the bar.

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Dan & Bill

doctoring
2020-01-28 02:26 am UTC (link)

Pale eyes flitted away for a second, looking over the faces of everyone in the bar. Dan hated crowds like this - he could reach in and take, and he knew it. He could pluck thoughts like apples. And some were louder than others anyway.

It never stopped. He had moments that were more peaceful than others, but even when he was “resting” he was seeing. Dick's teachings still rubbed off on him like a grass stain.

Then his attention snapped back like a rubber band, gaze shifting toward the man who appeared near him. "I didn't want to disappoint," he said, with a smile that didn't reach the blue jean denim shade of his eyes. It was nothing personal, it just had been a long day. Long week. Long life. That sort of thing.

"You're Bill, I'm guessing? I'm Dan. It's nice to meet you."

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Dan & Bill

hexes_n_hearts
2020-01-28 02:55 am UTC (link)

Bill watched that smile, all mouth and tilted his head a little to one side as he watched him. He'd been head boy, a member of the order and very involved in his studies so he knew about Legilimency and Occlumency and he'd practiced both. Dan was one of those pretty people who looked like their insides hadn't quite made it with him and Bill had seen enough to recognise it, he also knew what it felt like when someone was pushing to read his mind. A muscle twitched in his jaw as he closed his mind against the gentle pry of something trying to slip past.

"You? Disappoint?" Bill said as his eyes flickered down and he gave him a slow once over. "Hardly," he assured him because flirting was easy. But he was wary now, he didn't like someone (read anyone) getting too close and trying to get in his head was crossing that line whether it was intentional or not.

"I'm Bill," he agreed as he leaned forward and held out his hand, the other resting on his own lower back, fingertips on his wand just in case.

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Dan & Bill

doctoring
2020-01-28 03:34 am UTC (link)

He tried to keep to himself, but the fact of the matter was, Dan was a lot of raw power and not a ton of precision - sometimes things just floated on by, sometimes they caught his attention, sometimes he was drawn to a person who had the Shine too. He could sense it, a skittering over his skin and at the back of his skull; it wasn't exactly the Shine now, but it was something similar. Something he noticed. About Bill.

Not just anyone knew how to close their mind to the presence of a telepath, anyway. Most people were open books, but that wasn't their fault. The mind was a complicated mess - Dan's, in particular, his own was a cold, snowy hedge maze. Lockboxes, sealed shut, gathering dust. What was in them, well - he wouldn't play show and tell with that.

His hand clasped Bill's in a shake. "You don't have to," he murmured, letting go of Bill's hand and picking up his soda glass to take a sip. Obviously he made the guy uncomfortable, and was potentially about to get tossed out of here or something. "I'm not - " Dangerous? A threat? No, he wasn't either of those things right now. Mostly he just wanted to go home - back to when Billy was still alive, hadn't been killed by creepy psychic vampires, back to when he didn't have to feel crushing regret about the fact that Abra's father was dead. "I can leave."

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Dan & Bill

hexes_n_hearts
2020-01-28 03:56 am UTC (link)

To this day no one there really knew much about him, sure he'd been there a long time, but apart from that's good time Bill Weasley, he grows things there wasn't much else he'd shared and what he wanted was to keep it that way. The war back home, the guilt and shame he felt about not being there, how he knew at least one of his brothers wouldn't make it. Well sometimes his thoughts went there and he felt sick with it. But mostly he didn't think about it, refused to dwell on it and focused instead on something else. Anything else.

Dan offered to leave and Bill gave his hand a squeeze as he gently swept his thumb along the back of it before he let go. "If you want to know what I'm thinking you can ask," Bill said with a little smile as he left his wand tucked into his waistband.

It was strange how Dan looked at him, how it had felt as they got closer and still then like he was simply feeling him. "With a trick like that no wonder you don't get out much. You? In a gay bar? Pretty like that? Can you imagine?" Bill asked with a huff of a laugh.

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Dan & Bill

doctoring
2020-01-28 01:57 pm UTC (link)

"Would you be honest about it?" he asked rhetorically, since he doubted the answer would be yes - though it wasn't like Dan could blame Bill, or anyone, for lying about what they were thinking. Besides, he wasn't about to inquire anyway - or try to look. It was none of his business.

Maintaining the Shine was like a never-ending construction project; the power of the mind was infinite, and as long as Dan lived, he'd be building and creating, adding and subtracting, even if he wasn't consciously aware of it. Maybe he didn't actually mind death so much. That meant it was blissfully quiet for once - he couldn't hear anyone else, couldn't even hear his own thoughts.

Though the idea of him in a gay bar, pretty like that, had a flush blooming in prickly cheeks. "I don't...really go to gay bars. Or any bars. Not anymore," he said, looking down into his simple soda, no rum with this Coke. "I've already been down the violent drunk route, same as my old man."

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Dan & Bill

hexes_n_hearts
2020-01-29 10:17 am UTC (link)

"Maybe, what I'm thinking might get me into trouble," Bill said with a little shrug. Because flirting was easy, it was a natural state of being and it came easy to him, kept the attention right where he liked it.

It was strange, in the past when he'd practiced this sort of magic when someone had read his mind it had been more forceful. With Dan it was almost gentle and Bill resisted it easily. He wondered if he'd be able to if he was more forceful, because while Bill had practice it wasn't with someone who was exceptionally skilled with it.

When the other man blushed Bill couldn't help feel like he was reasonably harmless. Because really, could someone who wasn't have such pink cheeks over being called pretty? Dan wasn't the only sober person Bill knew, he had hidden away a great deal of Klause's cocaine after all and Bill was familiar with the type. "First step is admitting you have a problem, looks like you've got that one covered," Bill said gently.

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Dan & Bill

doctoring
2020-01-29 01:25 pm UTC (link)

The ice sloshed in Dan's glass, and he kept a firm grip on it - he could practically smell the booze, mixed and poured and even wafting from the pores of drunk patrons, or at least, patrons who were well on their way there. His stomach churned, the headache throbbed violently against his skull - he was tempted, always tempted. And he didn't have the AA chip in his pocket, to touch with his fingers reminding him who he was. It must have gotten lost in the shuffle, between luring Rose to the Overlook and then...dying.

"I had a good sponsor," he said, with a small little smile. He missed Billy. Probably always would. A friend whose response was 'okay, sure' when you told him you needed to drive miles and miles to dig up a dead body and then go attack a cult of psychic vampires was a friend to keep. And yet he was dead now, like Dan was supposed to be.

But anyway. Glacial eyes shifted toward this Bill, fingers tapping against the side of that half-drunk soda. "So are you going to tell me about yourself?" he asked. The flirty stuff was...nice, he guessed (and Bill probably got a lot of response to it, looking the way he did) but Dan was more interested in the cupcake filling rather than merely the frosting. "Since you don't want me to look."

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Dan & Bill

hexes_n_hearts
2020-01-29 08:44 pm UTC (link)

Dan didn't look like he was having the best time, actually he reminded Bill a little of Richie when he'd arrived. A live wire crossed with a wounded animal. Bill could see pain there and whether it was physical or mental, well it was probably a little of both.

Now honestly Bill would have been quick to tell Dan and anyone who might listen that he was all frosting, from here to wherever they might want he was frosting. But they were playing introductions and Bill had clearly stopped Dan's usual get to know you technique. "I'm a wizard from Surrey, been here longer than some, not as long as others," he explained. "I tend to the gardens here, both food and the magical variety, so if you need a tomato or a dreamless sleep potion, then I'm your man."

Dan was holding that glass like it held all the secrets of the world and yeah a bar probably wasn't a great place for a former drunk. But that's where everyone was tonight.

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Dan & Bill

doctoring
2020-01-29 09:13 pm UTC (link)

"Interesting," Dan remarked. He hadn't known there were gardens here - but then again, he hadn't really found a chance to explore much. Mostly he was just trying to wrap his mind around this whole thing, knowing that he was literally a dimension apart from Abra.

He couldn't contact her. He'd already tried - she had some Shine even more powerful than his, but when he reached out, he only heard silence where she would normally be. And he hadn't wanted to push too hard, because if he did the dam would burst and all the thoughts of everyone in town would rush in, a droning buzz of bees and whiplashes of actual pain; at that point, it would be just noise and he wasn't equipped to deal with it right now.

But, welp. Sorry your new guy date was a real fuckin' downer, Bill. "I might need a tomato, I guess you never know when you need it to throw at someone making a bad joke," he teased, and did he mention he also wasn't funny? "...wizard though?"

Guess that was what he sensed. Magic and the Shine, they were probably distant cousins anyway.

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Dan & Bill

hexes_n_hearts
2020-01-31 09:27 pm UTC (link)

Bill had a habit of that here, picking dates who were so far from wanting to be on a date that crying was a real possibility. But after their terrible not-date he and Richie had ended up friends so he wasn't about to question his methods yet, seeing as they seemed to be working just fine.

"I'll show you where I keep the ones past their prime," Bill said and he even smiled because he was nice even if Dan's joke hardly even qualified. "Wand carrying, potion brewing, spell casting wizard." Maybe he should have kept it to himself like they did back home, keeping muggles from finding out about them. But there was so many people here who were different there didn't seem to be a point.

Better to use his magic and keep the garden producing and risk getting burned at the stake. "So you aren't one?"

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Dan & Bill

doctoring
2020-01-31 09:38 pm UTC (link)

Dan's jokes never qualified, but Bill was sweet. Real sweet - to humor a washed up hermit whose only company the past eight years had been a cat, sitting in his lap, darting off occasionally to perch upon the bed of the person who would be next to walk into the light. Azzie was good company however, while Dan worked and heard thoughts that filtered in and out, like his mind was a sieve - homes he'd never lived in, grandchildren he'd never have, vacations he never took.

"No. We call it the Shining, where I'm from," he said, folding his arms on the bartop and leaning in more so whomever the person Bill was tethered to didn't have to strain on their end. Kind of weird to picture, two people inching along, connected by an invisible rubber band that could snap back. "It's - something you're born with. I didn't know what it was at first though, when I was a kid. No one believed me about it. You're born with magic?"

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Dan & Bill

hexes_n_hearts
2020-01-31 09:46 pm UTC (link)

He and Gwen were doing pretty well trying not to drive each other crazy. Bill didn't want to get too far from her and risk her hurting herself if she took a step, which was probably for the best because if he'd been free to get into Dan's personal space things might have gone from tense to awkward in three seconds flat. Not that Bill disregarded social ques or would have made him uncomfortable on purpose but he probably would have tried his luck.

"We're born with magic, although when you're young it just kind of comes out when you're feeling something extreme. Then you have to learn to control it," Bill explained as he slid his wand free, spinning it easily in his fingers. "This helps, a wand chooses a wizard and then your magic is easier to channel," he said.

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Dan & Bill

doctoring
2020-01-31 11:16 pm UTC (link)

An actual magic wand, that was something else. Dan had never really seen anything like that before - oh sure, maybe with magicians and their stage shows. Silk scarves and slight of hand tricks, rabbits from the hat, and a disappearing act using old, tattered, antique-looking cabinets - when he was a kid, he may have had a magic wand too, but it was something ordered from a catalogue. Clearly nothing real.

"So it must be very personal to you - if the wand chooses the wizard," he surmised, pale blue eyes falling to take in the shape and look of what Bill held in his hands. "Here - is it dangerous? Have you had to fight using it?"

He kind of wanted to know what he'd been dropped into. If he needed to be wary.

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Dan & Bill

hexes_n_hearts
2020-02-03 06:41 am UTC (link)

Bill had seen some of the muggle charlatans, some pretending they had some kind of magic, others just using it as a stage show. It wasn't like the real thing but it wasn't like he took any offence. It was still strange explaining magic to muggles but Dan seemed to know a little more than some.

"It is, but I don't mind sharing with the right person," Bill told him with a little smile. Klaus had his own wand now, but before that Bill had been happy to let him practice with his. "Here? No, not in the town. Through the doors yes, back home yes, but here things are peaceful mostly." Sure there was Richie and that weird gent but that wasn't a regular occurrence.

"I promise to keep an eye on you," he said as he leaned a little closer.

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Dan & Bill

doctoring
2020-02-03 02:18 pm UTC (link)

Dan wasn't even sure he knew what peaceful was. It was a nice thought, however. Despite that, he knew that no matter where he was, where anyone was, demons and monsters - inner or otherwise - they always came back for you. "Back home for me too," he said. "Well - it was pretty messy, anyway. Still, I'll take this. It's better than being dead."

Even if he was currently sitting in a bar and there were lots of canoodling couples around, people knocking back beverages that once would have made his mouth water in craving. Now, his stomach just churned.

"An eye on me? Guess I'm going to have to keep an eye on you too," he smirked lightly. "I should...go. For now though." He'd exceeded his fifteen minute limit in the bar, and more would be pushing it. "But I'm sure I'll see you around. You can show off what your wand can do."

That sounded bad.

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