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[bro_codebreaker]

[well, Barney WAS going to survive all of this by holing up in the Nines and getting drunk, as he usually does - but he held a weak flashlight up to the bottles of booze and ... well, they all looked a lot less like booze and a lot more like blood.

smelled like it, too.

he turns off the flashlight] Okay, that's not creepy or anything. [turns it back on. nope, still gross blood bottles, no brandy. he turns away - and catches something out of the corner of his eye.

and then the whispering starts.]

Not again...!

[he whirls around to check the windows - and illuminated just behind the stained glass outside is the silhouette in profile of a slightly larger-than-normal, very curvy woman. she opens her mouth, and oh what big teeth she has.

that does it. Barney's dropping the flashlight and BOOKING IT out of the Nines]

TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!!!

[he might just be running into you, if you're on the 7th floor.]

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[onlyanapple]

[That doesn't count!]

No, Barney, that's the castle fucking you about.

Don't make me come after you, because I'll be forced to slap you across the head. It's the sort of thing I'm willing to do to you to make you see sense.

[bro_codebreaker]

You --

[threats of violence from Crowley always seem to work for some reason --

-- but not today, apparently. you may actually have to use up one of those remaining slaps, dude]

-- Dude, NO. They're HERE. And I'm going to the library whether you wanna meet me there or not.

[onlyanapple]

...

Okay, I'm going to come find you. Then I'm going to slap you.

[Because he cares. He'll be heading to the library, yup]

[bro_codebreaker]

[annnnnd he's there. huddled on one of the window seats - much the same as he was the first time they met in person, staring fixedly at the air vents and jumping at shadows]

[onlyanapple]

[Crowley comes up behind him and gently swats him on the back of the head (because he's a demon of his word, after all)]

There's nothing in the vents, Barney, save for your over-active imagination.

[bro_codebreaker]

[and miraculously, that snaps him out of it. he looks up at Crowley like he's about to hug him... then rubs the back of his head]

You've only got one slap left now.

[onlyanapple]

[Good, Crowley could really do without the hugging]

I'll be sure to save it for a really good reason.

Better now?

[bro_codebreaker]

Yeah. [he takes a deep breath, then nods] Yeah.

... [opens his mouth and closes it again. right. don't thank Crowley, he might hit you again]

[onlyanapple]

[Wise move, Crowley glances around in something akin to boredom. Once you've spent time in Hell, you kind of get used to a creepy ambiance ]

It's just fucking with us. I can't sense anything.

[bro_codebreaker]

... I always forget you can do that. [he thinks of you as a fellow human most of the time, you see]


……… so uh. Where's Faye? Haven't seen her lately. Is she doing The Faye Thing again?

[onlyanapple]

[He'd be unsure if he should be flattered or insulted by that] Do you now.

She's off, being paranoid. Being angry. Aiming guns at whatever moves.

So yeah, Faye Thing.

[bro_codebreaker]

... Sounds about right. [he shrugs. MEH, IT'S FAYE]

How long you wanna bet she's gone this time?

[onlyanapple]

I doubt it'll be long. It's too spooky for her to stay away from all us folk who can't die so easy and protect her better.

[bro_codebreaker]

[he laughs] You mean, you. ... See, this is exactly why I never bother with the Dead Zone.

[onlyanapple]

[The demon shrugs] You're not missing much.

[bro_codebreaker]

Never sounded like it. ... I'll keep indoor plumbing and mattresses, thanks.

[onlyanapple]

It's better than scrabbling around in the dirt, being attacked by things.

[bro_codebreaker]

Yeah. Also? Video games.

[onlyanapple]

...Right. Video games.

[bro_codebreaker]

Well, yeah. You can't play Super Smashed Brothers out in the middle of nowhere.

[onlyanapple]

Well, if you were smashed I'm sure you could imagine you were.

[bro_codebreaker]

Imagine I was playing, or imagine I was in the middle of nowhere?

[onlyanapple]

When it comes to you I'm going to go with 'both'.