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[ximilian]

● ● ● REACH THE RESIDENTS

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// VIVECA

Hi, what can I help you with?

// DEGAR

Today was gonna be the day, but they'll never throw it back to you. And by now, you should've somehow realized what you're not to do.

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Comments

[vivecai]

Yes... and no.

[ "the last set of people", dean says, and viveca privately closes her eyes; her people. she was there for all of it. she wonders if he remembers that.

then she says, more briskly, ]

She's not to be trusted. As for whether she's going to come back... that's another reason I'm not going to even try to send you anywhere. Until I can erase every last trace of her from the system, no one is going anywhere.

[ruinously]

Might...need a little more than that, Viv.

[ And...yeah, he knows. He just -- wasn't sure if saying something along those lines would make unhealed wounds raw. He's not got a ton of tact. ]

Don't trust Hal - got it. Is there any way any of us can help?

[vivecai]

She was corrupted by the orbs. We trusted her to be on our side, to help us with the orbs... turns out she had her own agenda.

[ she says no more of that; whatever happened, did happen at least partly because of olivia, and viveca has no kind words about her... nor a will to discuss it all in more detail. ]

I don't know. But if I can't deal with her myself... it may be something we have to try.

[ruinously]

[ Oh, he wants to push. How he so desperately wants to push.

He doesn't, though - because he can recognize a closed topic when he sees one, but Lord knows it's Winchester instinct to keep it up until someone either smacks him, tells him to go to hell, or just. Throws him in hell. ]

I mean, we're here for a reason. Don't be afraid to ask us.

[vivecai]

Thank you, Dean.

[ instead of the dismissal it might be, it is genuine; her tone is tired but soft, grateful. ]

I... I sometimes forget about that. I want to make sure we do everything to make this as easy for you as possible. Burdening you more with something that I should be able to do... [ well. it feels dangerously much like failure, and she's never dealt well with that. ]

[ruinously]

You know, when you start to sound like me, you might wanna take a second to reevaluate your life.

[ It's said with a smile in his voice, but he's also deadass serious. He knows precisely what it's like, feeling like you're burdening others with shit YOU should be able to do. It's something he struggles with constantly - he should've protected Sam more, should've been able to get him out of hell without making more deals, because deals never end well. Not with demons, not with orbs, not with anything. ]

Nothing's ever easy. Just remember we're all in this together.