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[element_wizard]

Despite working in a bar, Alec's never really been much of the drinking sort. He'll drink, of course, but never really into horrid excess. It's more of a 'if I get drunk then I might do something that will get me hurt/arrested/sent back to my family' sort of thing. Which is why it was more than unusual for him to be humming some what drunkenly in the bar before opening as he's trying to clean glasses.

He drops one.

Stares at it.

And then proceeds to laugh hysterically.

Because that's clearly the funniest thing ever.

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[element_wizard]

"And she wouldn't get hurt?" he asks. "I mean, like... it wouldn't be like he gets ... convinced... and then later takes it out on her because someone did that to him?"

[gatorfights]

"Not if we put a stop to him being able to hurt anyone ever again. I can't stand the kind of guy that'd hurt a defenseless person."

[element_wizard]

"Neither can I! Which was sort of one of the reasons I was maybe going to marry her until I decided to run away..."

He kinda misses the whole permanent sounding bit there.

[gatorfights]

"Well, that was nice of you."

She pours herself more liquor. She's pretty sure she needs it. This conversation has unexpectedly taken a turn for the darker.

"Still, she'd be better off not married to anyone at all."

[element_wizard]

"I try to be nice. Really, I do. I mean, I'm a total screw up in a lot of things... but I do try to do the right thing and be nice and everything."

He finishes his drink and then pours himself some more.

"Well, given the choice between me and him, definitely. Peersonally I thinks she'd like Dorthy."

[gatorfights]

"I know you try, kiddo."

She sighs, shakes her head, takes a long drink from her glass, then moving the bottle away from him.

"Look. I'm cutting you off. You've had enough, and you're just going to start pitying yourself."

[element_wizard]

"Start?" He laughs a bit. "Fine. Fine. All right. You... talk to your friends about William and I will stop pitying myself."

[gatorfights]

"I'll do that, you can count on it."

And she will. That's why she's going to be taking this newspaper now, so that she has as much vital information about William as she can. And before she gets up from the bar, she's patting him on the back comfortingly.