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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-22 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
The hell it is.

[ of course he can't get a straight answer out of david. evan turns his glare to his drink but doesn't start in on it quite yet. why is he even here? because they're both about to collapse and can't go back home to deal with even more bullshit yet. right. he has to remember that. ]

Everybody else tell you what a great job you did kickin' my shit in?

[ as in, everybody who wasn't his father. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-22 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ normally evan would be slightly mollified learning that. a little smug. right now, it barely even registers. nobody said anything to him about david doing better. they didn't have to. they went over his head. ]

Maybe one of us should've taken it too far. Solved a lot of problems for everyone.

[ he takes a drink. the taste doesn't help things at all, but it does wake him up from his pit a little. ]

Woulda caused a lot more, I guess.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-23 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ definitely more problems. evan makes a discontented noise into his beer and tries to pretend he never said that. ]

What's the fucking point, then? All they ever told us to do was fight. Now that was the wrong idea?

[ maybe it wasn't, and they just fucked it up. it's awkward and offensive finding common ground with david, but david might be literally the only person alive who can grasp this. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-24 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan snorts. not significantly or in any way to mock david - it's almost a laugh. the closest he can get right now as the alcohol slowly drags the grimness in him deeper. ]

Just the way shit is. Higher standards for us.

[ standards that nobody ever explained.

abruptly he takes one long swig of the beer - doesn't finish it but almost goes half. being depressed about this is pathetic. if he's going to be anything, he should be angry. too bad their failure of a fight killed most of that. ]


Maybe we shoulda robbed a goddamned bank.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-24 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he can't imagine, really, but at least it shifts the mood. evan doesn't smile, but he does raise his eyebrows a little at david's explosion of laughter. ]

Coupla new felony charges, too. Doubt anybody'd buy our way out of that.

[ still ... the money would be nice. his own, if admittedly stolen, money. it's not that he struggles, but he makes less than someone might assume working for his father. ]

Make life a bigger problem for everybody, honestly.

[ but he doesn't say it with any particular irritation in his voice. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-25 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan almost laughs again at that. his relationship with cops might be slightly better than david's, but that's only because of how he was raised. archie despises the police primarily on the grounds that he's better than them, not because they get in his way (which they don't). so it's bled down to his son. ]

Guess that's the benefit of gettin' talked down to all the time. Thrown the scraps. Might be insulting, but nobody can touch us.

[ he debates that, weighs whether it's worth it or not, and takes another drinks. ]

Except us, I guess.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-26 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan doesn't match the raised glass, but he does nod, a little more lifelike than he has been. ]

Yeah. Suppose so.

[ not that he can think of how, really. even in jail, he might get more respect than he does now. real respect. not just people backing off because he might kill them, or because his father might do that for him. ]

Someone might figure out where we are right now.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-27 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ evan glances at david. not that he expects david to be delighted with his presence, but the casual dismissal, instead of an insult or flying punch, is almost a surprise. mostly he was bringing it up as a fate worse than what they're dealing with, because he's sure that his father won't be happy that they're playing nice independently. not under threat.

but maybe he won't care that much. better than starting another massive fight. ]


Finish this first.

[ he tilts his glass, maybe a third empty. sure. he'll go after that. try and recover. try and figure out what the hell this night was all about. ]

Figure we're bad enough off it can't do much worse.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-27 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan snorts again. ]

Ain't that your whole life?

[ isn't that most of his own life? isn't that what this is? he takes another long drink, doesn't quite finish it, reconsiders going back home, drunk, to sulk and get yelled at. because of the state of him, he's temporarily off any kind of real jobs or duties. nobody's going to be looking for him. ]

Get me a second while you're up there.

[ he'll get the third round. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-27 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ while david's gone, evan finishes his drink, then glances at his phone. no messages. no missed calls. nothing. nobody even noticed he left, probably. or just assumed he went out to get drunk. at least this way he's making that more plausible. staggering back smashed as hell won't do him any favors, but nobody's going to guess who he was doing it with.

he grabs the new drink and then david speaks, making him look down into the glass and then almost actually laugh. when did he start trusting this asshole? ]


You're too fucked up to pull it off.

[ so's he. at least that's off the table. he's not sure david would have ever tried that, but on someone else's orders ... maybe. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-27 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ david's abrupt serious intensity makes evan scowl, surprised by it after everything was so ... normal, for lack of a better word. and on top of that, they've never been that serious before. about anything other than how much they hate each other.

he looks david in the eyes, fingers wrapped around the beer glass, and gives him a flat look. ]


Thought that was obvious.

[ in truth he might shoot david, but only to put him out of his misery after beating him into a pulp - leaving him to try and crawl back home means he might actually do it. but everything else, right up to that provided he doesn't feel david go still under his own hands, is going to be directly by his own fists.

he tilts the glass toward david in the same half-salute david gave him earlier. ]


Woulda shot you years ago otherwise.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-27 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan doesn't laugh this time, but he does smirk. ]

As if you wouldn't get shot thirty seconds in.

[ he downs half his drink in one go. a light buzz is settling in, probably from all the injuries and blood loss; he's not enough of a lightweight for two beers to get him even slightly drunk under normal circumstances. maybe this should be the last one?

but then he owes david for another. that'll be it, then. he can still get back home on that, he's sure. ]


Cops aim for the flashiest target.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-28 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ he's laughed more in this conversation than he has in probably years, and that's saying something given how short and abrupt all of it is. it's a bad sign, but he's not focused enough to realize it. ]

Even with a vest, they'll take you out. Leave me to haul ass outta there with my half of the cash.

[ he doesn't finish his drink off quite yet, but opts to test his weight and stand. ]

Same thing again?

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