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[Mary looks... well, alive, which is a bonus, but also frazzled and exhausted, with pale skin, dark circles under her eyes, lips chapped, hair falling out of her ponytail.

But more than that, she looks haunted.]

I'm back. I'm alive. [Her lips press together in a thin line. She bows her head and talks to her knees.] No thanks to those monsters.

I don't know if anyone else made it out... there were no- [sniffing hard to avoid tearing up.] -shelters. Nothing Darkness proofed. [Head still bowed tightly.] I don't know if any of those people I fought with made it out alive, but if they didn't, I'm going to tell you all right now.

[She finally looks up, eyes welling now with tears she refuses to cry.]

They hunted us. They bound us, put collars on us, they put us in cages. They chased us and hunted us down like we were fucking dogs and we couldn't-

[she claps a hand over her mouth, breathing hard to rein in her emotions. When she opens her eyes again, there's something chilling and deadened in her eyes.]

When I died at home- the first time, before I came here... it was a demon. A demon pinned me to the ceiling and burned me alive in my baby's nursery, and I didn't feel as violated as I did those two days. In that cage. [She shakes her head intently, looking away.] Those monsters kidnapped children. They wanted to see every one of us die like dumb fucking animals.

I wonder what would happen if I prayed for them. [There's a weird look in her eyes. Something you wouldn't leave your children alone with.] It's the Christian thing to do.

Would I get their souls into Heaven, or their heads on a plate?

[With a last ugly look at the NV, she turns the ~~public~~ feed off.]

[Private to Jinx]

I found a plus one.

[Private to the angels]

Did you hear my prayer? [The one she whispered as she lay dying.] Please, tell me none of you- tell me you didn't go there. Please.

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[He's taking a cigarette break, just checking his NV in a quiet spot some distance from the noise of the party. His cigarette falls into the sand when he sees her message, though.]

Thank god...

Edited (oh yeah I pay attention to timestamps and stuff sure) 2012-07-04 10:58 (UTC)

[Oh wow hawkward, is she glad she sent John away for this.]

Hi.

[Taking a shaky breath in.]

Are you okay? Do you need anything? I mean - I'm out by the beach right now, but I can be there in like a half hour if you need me, or...

No, I have Dean and John on their way. Thanks.

Okay, yeah.

[Family time. He gets it.]

[And John time. She hitches a filter up, though.]

How's Lisbeth?

She made it home after... You know. She don't wanna talk about it much, but I got some people to take care of her. Healed her up.

[He nods in the direction of the music.]

She's around here somewhere.

That's good. I'm glad she's doing okay.

[She runs a hand over her face slowly.]

She was with me. In there. It feels like it was just a few hours ago.

[His voice is wavering:]

Yeah, uh... You should take it easy. Don't think about it now.

She was the one there... at. [quick breath.] At the end.

Be, um. Gentle with her. It's awful, to watch someone die.

I know. Yeah. I, uh... Don't worry. I'm here for her.

And you, too. I know you got your family and all, but you can come to me, too.

For anything.

[There's something dark in the way he says that.]

[There is, and Mary can pick it up a little even though her intense funk. It scares her slightly. She has so many hardened defenders, so many terrifying protectors, that sometimes she wishes she could just breathe. Be around someone who isn't trying to puff up and be bigger than her and just be a person on her own.

Still, she nods and tries to arrange her face to look grateful, because that's what you do.]

I know. Thank you.

[He knows he said the wrong thing. He's confused when he realizes that, because mostly it's the other way around. Mostly it's someone else ordering him to kill people. Once upon a time, he recoiled at that.

That's right, that's right. That's how normal people react to murderers.]

I'll, uh... I'll catch you later.

[It's not even that he's a murderer. Well, not completely, not even if she knew that about him. It's the suffocation she feels.]

Jesse.

[Before you go.]

Are you okay?

Hey, you know me. I'm always okay.

...Yeah. I know.

You know, uh, Sam had some... pharmaceutical issues. A long, long time ago. It got worse every time something bad happened to Dean. Family, you know?

[That was roughly 10% true things she knows, 40% bending the truth, and 50% pulling things out of her ass to see what he does.]

Yeah, that happens.

Okay, just... making sure. I mean, you know you can talk to me, right? I mean, not- not today. [She's a little um. fried.] But in general. I'll understand.

I'm like seriously the last thing you gotta worry about right now.

Yeah, I know.

But at some point I'll be able to think about that, and when that happens, just... don't forget, okay?

Yeah. I won't forget.

Good.

Go chill with your family. Everything's okay now.

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