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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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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-28 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ evan heads to the bar and gets two more. the bartender eyes him, but because his attitude is less of a problem than before, because drinking has put him in a better mood, he gets the drinks without a problem. leaves the bill without taking the change, either, which he's long since learned gets him leeway at any bar, although in this case it's mostly because he doesn't remember to stick around.

he slides one drink in front of david and finishes off his own second before starting on the third. ]


This shit ain't very good.

[ he says, as he continues to drink it. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-28 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ if evan was ever honest with anyone, or even himself, he'd admit he doesn't like most beer at all. liquor is more the usual choice at home, the harder the better, but he doesn't like that either. he's not sure what he does like, other than being just drunk enough to take the doubt and anxiety off his brain.

not that he'd ever admit that's the reason he drinks. ]


Got better stuff back home, but like hell I can get you there.

[ even the idea of it makes a part of him go cold and sober. he shakes it off. it's just a joke. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-28 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ drink #3 goes down as easily as the first two. it makes it easier to listen to david jokingly suggest they figure out how to get him back to the macmillan estate. ]

I'd be dead before you.

[ he pauses, stares into his drink with a frown. ]

Or I'd just be dead and your ass'd be in a closet somewhere, waiting for a ransom payment. You'd come out better'n me, probably.
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-28 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan almost argues. his father might hate david, but he'd see the value in a ransom, or a trade, or just a general hostage situation. why start a war so quickly over his own idiot son's actions? but there's other people there who don't have that foresight or self-control. they'd kill david first, even if it got them killed.

stupid idea anyway. evan looks down at the last inch or two of beer in his glass. ]


Get us both killed that way. Someone'll rob us. Don't think we're in great condition to fight that off.

[ or they'll end up at the police station. drunk and disorderly and beat to all hell. no, he's not interested in that right now, either. ]

Got a place about three blocks from here. Not much in it, but.

[ he doesn't think about the same thing david does - that he's letting david in on a secret, a place he hides out in, a place to take back home to raid later. partly because he's lightheaded enough not to realize it, but also because he hasn't used it in three years. it's got nothing valuable in it. just a bed, a kitchen - it was supposed to be an outpost, but they changed tactics. he just never stopped paying the rent. ]
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[personal profile] bloodandbrass 2024-07-28 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ evan follows suit, then stands, tests his balance again, and heads out.

it occurs to him about one block out that this might be a mistake, but he brushes it off. about two blocks in he wonders if he's being followed. surely someone saw them both. and is now seeing them both again, leaving. but when he checks his phone there's still nothing there. he doesn't get a lot of messages because he rarely responds to them, but now it strikes him as suspicious.

but ... whatever. better than fighting in the streets, he'll argue. keeping up appearances. maybe the remnants of the encroaching group will think the alliance was real and long-term, and back off.

the building is old, but it doesn't look like it's about to collapse. at this time of night, there's nobody outside their rooms. he takes the stairs in an attempt to clear his head. it doesn't work.

fortunately his place is still unoccupied. it's stuffy, smells like dust and mildew, but nobody else has been there. he fights a window open as david follows him inside. ]


Think there's something in the kitchen.

[ the fridge is empty, but there's an unopened bottle of gin in an upper cabinet. housewarming gift, someone told him sarcastically. ]

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