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[rightchoices]

Who: Tess & Lee
What: People leave and it sucks plus alcohol.
When: After Tess's post.
Where: Lee's apartment.
Rating: PG-13 for language, alcohol use?

It was a bunch of bullshit, but what was there to be done about it? Lee had let himself fall into a false sense of security - but nothing was stable, nothing was certain, and it didn't matter how much he had told himself he'd prepared for it: finding Carley's name gone from her bedroom door had been cut more than he wanted to let himself acknowledge.

It was that and so many other things, just a general growing sense of frustration at the castle itself. He was starting to feel trapped instead of free, cynically starting to wonder why he'd ever thought this place was a blessing at all.

So he waits for Tess's knock and calls out a curt: "It's unlocked."

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[dog_eat_dog]

"Please, I'm drinking because I'm old enough to say a phrase like 'the kids are settled with a movie'," Tess replies, and she dusts her boots off on the doormat before joining him, dropping into the chair opposite like she owns it. She cranks the top of the bottle to break the seal on the cap.

She's classy, that's for sure.

"Besides, you drink until everything feels good or careless, or you don't drink at all. Drinking responsibly just makes people sad."

[rightchoices]

"There anything that doesn't make people sad in this place these days?" It's a little (a lot) more bitter than he means to sound, especially considering that it doesn't really make a lot of sense. He leans back in his seat to watch her open the bottle, eyes quietly approving.

"Some people here whine about the pettiest shit. All I mean by that."

im a loser sorry

[dog_eat_dog]

"No, I won't argue," she replies. That bitterness resonates with her, slips under her skin real easy. She wishes up a couple of tumblers and fills them generously, passing one to Lee across the gulf between their seats. "Jesus christ, these people have never gone four hours without a meal, without a drink. These people have nothing to really complain about. It pisses me off."