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John Henry "Doc" Holliday ([personal profile] thering) wrote in [community profile] villagelogs2021-01-07 08:38 am

026 》sweet troubled man are you giving or taking?

characters: Malcolm, Neal, Negan, Raylan, Doc
location: 1306 Phillips Dr
date/time: day 26 morning
content: the reset Playstation button was pressed
warnings: tbd



After the strangeness of the past two nights they were likely fully expecting to awaken in the same strange, different, not-so-new anymore places they found themselves in in the past two days.

Instead everything seems to have reset, again. The three permanent residents and two guests are back in 1306, exactly where they had been two nights ago. Malcolm was in his own room, Neal was in Doc's and Negan in Raylan's master bedroom. The two displaced cowboys are downstairs sharing one too-small couch, a night of drinking culminating in fighting over couch space and who gets to be the bigger spoon.

The fire in the fireplace had gone out and their Winter 2020 Collection of bespoke lanterns have vanished, but nothing else seems to be awry.
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[personal profile] conning 2021-01-11 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
"There's always a way." Always. He may not know what it is yet, but he knows they'll find it.

"Eventually whoever or whatever's behind this will make a mistake. We just need to catch it when it happens. And stay alive in the mean time."
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[personal profile] conning 2021-01-11 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Neal really doesn't know what to do with the fact that these near-strangers seem to care as much as they do. He's had time to build that kind of relationship with Peter and his family in New York. He knows what they would do for him and what he would do for them. There's a track record there.

But here, he's no one. The con man who passed out on their couch. Never, never has he gotten this kind of consideration from strangers. They know what he is. Raylan and Malcolm do, at least, but that hasn't seemed to have changed anything.

"I'm an ex-con," Neal says abruptly. "I'm a thief. If we met a hundred and fifty years ago, I'd be in your crosshairs, not on your couch."
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[personal profile] conning 2021-01-11 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
Neal has absolutely nothing to say.

It's a first. He's not sure how Peter would react to it. Probably give Doc some kind of award.

Peter, who hasn't decided yet whether he's testifying for or against Neal at his commutation hearing. Neal fumbles for a moment, trying to find a way to break the silence.

"You can't mean that." He doesn't know how to handle this. "I've robbed palaces. Broken into embassies. I've been on crews with murderers, had a partner execute our third man right in front of me. I lie, all the time. All the time. Even when I tell the truth. I counterfeited ancient Egyptian manuscripts just because I felt like confusing some historians. I replaced the Mona Lisa with a fake. They still haven't noticed that one. You don't know me. I don't even know me any more."
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[personal profile] conning 2021-01-11 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
The look Neal gives Doc is a little lost, still. He clears his throat, and suddenly anywhere in the room but the cowboy seems downright fascinating.

"Sorry. It's been. A long couple of days."

As though that explains anything at all.
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[personal profile] conning 2021-01-16 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Neal squirms very slightly, clearing his throat. "Actually, uh. There's someone I wanted to check in with first. A woman I was with at the Gull, Daisy Johnson. She had a rougher time than me, and I want to make sure she's okay."
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[personal profile] conning 2021-01-19 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, definitely. She... had it rougher than I did, while we were stuck. Didn't help her arms, that's for sure." Neal isn't sure how much Doc knows, either, and well. After Daisy told him about her own experiences with being called a monster, he's not about to let that slip. "I'm sure she'll appreciate it."
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[personal profile] conning 2021-01-20 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
It takes him off-guard. The thought of someone else cooking. Even though Raylan did it this morning, too. That was different. This morning he was a guest.

"Yeah... yeah. I'll be back one way or another." Neal shakes his head.