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Date: 2018-01-16 10:36 pm (UTC)
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[ Poe tells him. It’s a dive bar, or as close to a dive as one can find in Riverview. Not Poe’s usual place. At Poe’s usual place, he never would have been allowed to drink himself this deep. They know him. They know his habits. And they don’t encourage mild drinkers into excess. ]

Table in the back.

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Date: 2018-01-16 11:06 pm (UTC)
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[ Poe has to get to his feet in steps. Ease the chair back, watch the world sway. Get his feet under him, look down to make sure they're where they need to be, pause again while his balance sloshes. Lever himself upright and try not to puke.

There's mercy in inertia, when you're as drunk as Poe is. Sit still, stay put, and you can pour drink over drink without feeling the consequences until you let the world back in. If you're lucky, you won't let it in much longer than it takes to black out.

Poe grips the edge of the table hard, staring at a single point on it until he can say with absolute certainty that the bar isn't doing pirouettes around him. ]


Yeah.

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Date: 2018-01-16 11:30 pm (UTC)
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[ For a second, Poe hangs on to John like the other man is the only thing keeping the ground from opening under him and eating him whole. For a second it feels like that could happen. ]

Always scared me. When I’s a kid. [ He eases one foot in front of the other until they have their own kind of momentum. ] Lots of vets, Yavin 4. Dad knew them all. Dragged them back to the ranch sometimes. Lots of vets.
Edited Date: 2018-01-16 11:55 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2018-01-17 12:52 am (UTC)
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[ A huff. ] Not smart enough.

[ Look where he is now. He's the drunk being carried home, to someone else's home. He's far gone enough that he doesn't notice John paying his bill--he's focused on the floor, on trying to keep the world as still and his nausea as controlled as possible. ]

Like fathiers. Racing? [ Poe starts to shake his head and stops just as quickly. ] We had banthas, runyips, nerfs. Milk and fur and meat. Mostly for the colony. Some exports--koyo melons, Yavin exported a lot of koyo melons. I miss those.

[ They're to the curb, at least, and Poe has to stop for a second. His grip on John tightens again. He's flicked back to the veterans Kes Dameron brought home when he thought his son was already asleep, safe and unaware. ] Hated it when they used to say they were sorry. But I know why they did, now.
Edited Date: 2018-01-17 12:53 am (UTC)

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Date: 2018-01-17 01:09 am (UTC)
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Fast was always flying. [ He looks up, at the luminous planet overhead. It's a little bleary. The stars around it a little blurred. He feels an ache so fierce it's almost physical. ] Started when I was three. Parents got back from the war, mom....

[ He closes his eyes, swallows, feels another hot twist of self-loathing. This is not the legacy of Shara Bey. Not him getting drunk, not him losing that fleet. This is not the son he should be for her.

He lowers his head and almost, almost throws up. Starts to push John away just in case, but then he's got it under control, for the most part, except where he's tilting sideways, one leg giving out underneath him. ]

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Date: 2018-01-17 01:34 am (UTC)
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[ The second suppressed heave is answer enough to John's question. He hangs on to John's jacket, wordless in his focus on not vomiting all over his rescuer.

I'm sorry, he thinks, hating the words.

Poe presses his forehead against John's shoulder and shudders. ]

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Date: 2018-01-17 01:52 am (UTC)
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[ For a second Poe thinks maybe he won’t throw up after all. Then his stomach muscles wrench and he’s bent half over, puking a cascade of liquid that’s more alcohol than bile. He hasn’t eaten in hours, not since before he settled in to baptize himself in shame. Another gag, another heave, another rush of lightheadedness and vomit. For a second Poe teeters on the edge of passing out, the world a seesawing haze, but then it steadies and Poe feels John standing there, hanging on to him, and he could cry from gratitude.

His bodies tries for round three, but there’s not much left to wring out. Poe breathes, slowly, deeply, and tells himself he’s not allowed to lay down on the alley floor and go to sleep. For one thing, John won’t let him. Breathlessly: ]
Thank... thank you. Thank you.

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Date: 2018-01-17 03:29 am (UTC)
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[ Poe would be embarrassed if he weren't so far past the territory covered by the word. If John weren't there he really would just find the cleanest corner of the alley and sleep out the night.

Poe doesn't know how to say as much, doesn't know how far he can fall before he stops being worth catching. He just leans away from the wall and into Sheppard's arms, pressing his face against John's shoulder again, waiting to be guided out. ]

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Date: 2018-01-17 04:24 am (UTC)
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[ Poe fades in and out on the way to the tower. It's a boon, really. He's got just enough consciousness in him to keep upright and keep moving, though the rain brings him around a little. As does John slinging his jacket around Poe's shoulders.

He doesn't even have a comeback or a jibe to toss at John at the mention of a green chick, though his instincts tell him there's plenty there to work with.

As soon as the door closes behind them, Poe lets himself sag a little. ]


You really think Rodney won't be back tonight?

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Date: 2018-01-17 05:00 am (UTC)
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[ The truth is he feels odd, being undressed. Even if it's just John taking off a boot, which Poe is pretty sure he couldn't manage on his own right now anyway. Not if he doesn't want to fall on his head. There's an intimacy in it that makes his stomach buzz, the first pleasant sensation he's had all evening.

What he says is: ]
Mouthwash?

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Date: 2018-01-17 05:24 am (UTC)
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[ Poe winces. ] No vodka.

[ He's pretty sure a good chunk of what he threw up was vodka. Not all of it. There was other stuff in there too, but y'know.

He has a nice smile. Stupidly, impulsively, Poe runs a hand through John's short hair, leaving his fingers there to trace along John's scalp. There are scars, even there. Poe imagines (with rather more creativity than the situation requires) that John probably has a lot of scars in a lot of places. ]

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Date: 2018-01-17 06:00 am (UTC)
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[ He's still looking, eyes lazy with consideration. He draws his hand back through John hair slowly, lets his fingertips slide down from the point of John's ear to his jawline, rotating his hand just enough that he's ghosting his knuckles along John's jaw and letting them rest under the point of John's chin, lifting his head just a fraction.

He's not thinking about the consequences. He's not thinking about much of anything, except how he would probably kiss John if his mouth didn't taste the way it does. It isn't fair to inflict that on anyone else.

Poe lets his hand drop. ]


Mmhm.
Edited Date: 2018-01-17 06:02 am (UTC)

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Date: 2018-01-17 06:40 am (UTC)
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[ With any luck, Poe will remember and be able to tease him about it.

As it is, Poe takes a deep breath, closing his eyes and ordering the world to stay steady in three different languages. Then he grabs on to John. His whole self is pretty well focused on the immediate next steps, that bit of contact, that long study of John's face already slipping into the gray behind him. The present is where his attention stays for as long as the tour lasts. Bathroom, sink, mouthwash.

Poe is starting to feel a little more human, even if the galaxy outside of the small sphere of him and John stays distant and blurred.

By the time they get back to John's room, Poe is conscious of the way his clothes smell. He's also drunk enough that he doesn't think twice about peeling off a shirt stained with booze and speckled with vomit before the door is even closed. It comes off; he drops it on the floor. The chain he always wears swings free, the little steel-brushed washer at the end dropping into view.

Along with, y'know, the rest of him. ]
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