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[namisan]

Who: Nami and anyone
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Bloodsport
When: 16th April

[The broadcast doesn't switch on while Nami is still sleeping, but it does decide to catch the moment when she practically launches off the bed with a banshee screech and then tumbles to the floor blankets and all, a tangle of material and bare limbs flailing in a pathetic heap.]

Luffy, you ass-- I'm the only one who can--

[The only one who can inhale a blanket corner, apparently. 8| Please hold, spluttering. She eventually flips the blanket back to show a mess of orange hair, smoothing it dazedly behind one ear-- and then freezing as she swipes at thin air beneath that.]

Wha hap'-- where's my--

[....]

.....huh?

[Memory might be taking a bit.]

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[Some hours later she'll be back and fully coherent and annoyed.]

I go to sleep for two weeks and we're still in this crappy place? Tell me there's a bright side somewhere. And I guess I owe a bunch of shifts at the bar or something.

Aha. Tell me I still have a job.

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[namisan]

...oh. And Sanji-kun is getting married.

[Yup.]

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[collegedropout]

...................................... Excuse me?

[NAMI THAT'S RUDE AND YOU KNOW IT]

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[namisan]

[Very. But after a snort of amusement, she hesitates.]

Well. I could give you the longer version. And I could use a drink. You busy?

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[collegedropout]

Not busy at all; there's no way I'm skipping out on that story.

Besides, I've got, um, to catch you up. On something. Usual bar?

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[namisan]

[.....squint.]

Yeah. Space Bar.

Please tell me your life didn't somehow get worse while I was sleeping.

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[collegedropout]

............

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[collegedropout]

Alright, then I won't tell you that.

... I'll be there.

[3:D]

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[namisan]

[saaaaaAAAmMMMm]

Thirty minutes.

[She totally doesn't say that like she's your mother about to lecture you for stealing her cigarettes or something. Nope.

See you there, Sam. >:| She'll even get the first drinks ready on the table here.]

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[collegedropout]

[HE'S HERE, MY DEAR SWEET PATIENT WONDERFUL FRIEND??

... And then he slides into his seat with a charming little grin, like everything is totally fine. Because that's how Sam Winchester's rolling with this mess today. :D]

Hey there. Nice nap?

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[namisan]

[You must be thinking of some other Nami. She raises her eyebrows as he sits down, fingers tapping at the base of her glass in impatience. If it was something terrible, she's pretty sure he wouldn't act this way, so. It's something complicated. Hooray.

... stop being a charming little shit about it, Sam Winchester.]

Nicer than some, I'd imagine. [She certainly didn't wake up just as the devil was about to explode her soul or something.] That first step after you come back is kind of a big one.

How've you been, Sam?

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[collegedropout]

[He smiles, but his brow is wrinkled a bit.]

You first?

You're the one who went somewhere, aren't you?

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[namisan]

I guess. [Snrk. Fine. She pushes a glass toward him and raises her own for a drink.] Just reassure me first whatever you have to say isn't going to be something supremely horrible.

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[collegedropout]

No, no, nothing... uh... too horrible. Really. I mean, it's not horrible by what I consider your standards... Maybe...? [He hesitates, and then sighs.] Dean's here. Um. Showed up while you were asleep.

[Be cool Sam, just drink ur drink.]

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[namisan]

Dean's back? [She's surprised. Not exactly by the idea of Dean returning, but Sam's response--?? either way look at that dawning smile.] But-- that's good news! You guys can--

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[namisan]

[--tickticktickding.]

What's wrong with him.

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[collegedropout]

Uh, well... he, um.

[AWKWARD TRIPPING OVER WORDS, COOL.]

He's from Cas' world. The one that's still here, I mean. Stoner Cas.

From... that world.

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[namisan]

[...

Oh okay, so there's that whole timeline split. Nami winces. Awkward. But it isn't for a few seconds until she remembers just precisely what's different about that other world that she blinks, pulling back from the table with her expression kind of just... darkening.

Yeah. Great.]

He hasn't tried to shoot you, has he.

[Look at that Sam, you went first anyway :')]

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[collegedropout]

[SPUTTER]

No, no, it's - no, it's nothing like that.

I mean, he doesn't like me. At all. But he knows I'm not Lucifer now.

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[namisan]

Well, that's something at least.

[She bristles a little at the idea of Dean not liking his own brother but let's be real here-- Sam's long gone in the guy's universe. Whatever the reason it happened, there's a lot of justification for bitterness right there.

She tosses her drink back.] So basically you're dealing with a sort-of brother that's more of a dick than usual.

Must be fun.

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[collegedropout]

[He shrugs, looking... well, not thrilled, but not miserable.

That's good, right?]

He's way worse as a demon, so I think I can deal.

[... Did he ever tell you Dean was a demon at one point?

Christ, he can't remember. He has terrible priorities.]

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[namisan]

[It's cool, you covered this recently. When the real Dean showed up, ironically enough. Her mouth twists a little but it's not exactly with amusement.]

You guys on speaking terms or is it kind of "you stay in your corner of the fleet and I'll stay in mine?"

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[collegedropout]

[.........]

He hung up on me, so. Yeah, pretty much.

[3:^D;;;]

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[namisan]

Fun.

[She'd like to be irritated at Dean, but tbh she can understand. It's just hard for everyone. If Dean is just set on avoiding Sam, then there's not much she can say to protest that.]

...difficult. I guess it's not the worst that can happen, but it sucks anyway. Sorry, Sam.

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[collegedropout]

[Yeah, Sam doesn't exactly blame Dean, either.

But, you know. Him and his self-worth and self-dislike. Makes it easy not to regardless.]

It's fine. I've dealt with worse, right?

Besides... this could be good. For Cas and Dean. This place, it could be a better life, while they're able to have it.

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[namisan]

...that's right. [Leaving aside Sam's attitude in that first part, the Fleet is so much better a place for the both of them. They've got nothing to go back to, do they? Nothing good, anyway. And--

--no. She leaves off the other thought she had. It's grounded in too much wishful thinking.]

Cas took to this place really well. How's Dean taking it? [She'd have said Cas was the more uptight one based on what she knows of Sam's Cas, but Dean has his own brand of intensity and this one's brother is the literal devil.]