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[This week on the Barge, an older, somewhat new face is lurking about, obsessively checking a fob watch chained to his pocket and walking awkwardly through the halls. Those who were here in October during the mirror Barge may recognize the man as a disguised Davy Jones, struggling to grow comfortable in his human skin. He still limps carefully, but seems to be enjoying his relative anonymity]
[Private to Sylvanas; Voice]
D'yeh have a moment to spare for an old sailor, m'lady?
[This week on the Barge, an older, somewhat new face is lurking about, obsessively checking a fob watch chained to his pocket and walking awkwardly through the halls. Those who were here in October during the mirror Barge may recognize the man as a disguised Davy Jones, struggling to grow comfortable in his human skin. He still limps carefully, but seems to be enjoying his relative anonymity]
[Private to Sylvanas; Voice]
D'yeh have a moment to spare for an old sailor, m'lady?
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Date: 2014-02-07 04:44 pm (UTC)He's still just enough off balance, though, that he does not respond with his usual obnoxiously bright cheerfulness.]
Hey. You're uh... what's going on? [Awkward at best, lame at worst; Dean instinctively knows this isn't, necessarily, a bad thing. But he remembers when Sylvanas had so much trouble when she was suddenly alive, and he remembers how much Jones said he hated being who he'd been; he's still unsure of his footing.]
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Date: 2014-02-07 05:00 pm (UTC)Warden's given me a device t'make me look human. Giving it a try before I decide I don't like it and throw it back t'him.
...Don't yeh go looking pale like that, Winchester. This is how I was before I was cursed. It's got nothing to do with that other Barge.
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Date: 2014-02-07 09:37 pm (UTC)[There is a somewhat surprising part of Dean that will always respond best to commands; even though there's a part of him that also instantly thinks If I could, don't you think I would?, it matters less than the drive to obey. He's been living up to impossible expectations all his life as a common standard, and now he swallows and shakes his head.]
I know. I just... [Then the rest of it registers, his eyes narrowing on the watch, and both eyebrows go up. He changes gears, but not to fake cheer; now he's thinking, remembering another conversation they had.]
What makes you think you won't like it?
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Date: 2014-02-07 11:50 pm (UTC)Yeh don't go around circumnavigating what you steered yerself into in the first place. If I'm going to break the curse, I'd rather do it properly than cheating. This is cheating.
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Date: 2014-02-16 04:28 am (UTC)And that's the only reason why? Because anything worth doing is worth doing right?
[No mockery - the hunter agrees wholeheartedly.]
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Date: 2014-02-16 04:41 am (UTC)I've only allowed this disguise because I don't have the patience nor the temperament to refrain from beating on those who go around making fun of my face.
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Date: 2014-02-16 04:47 am (UTC)[Dean does not believe this; he doesn't bother hiding it. Instead he bends down to scoop up the wrench, glancing down at his scraped knuckle. He continues deceptively lightly, lacking his own customary harsh flippancy:]
So apparently, you get to be your age and kids are still obnoxious, huh? Even without a lawn?
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Date: 2014-02-16 04:55 am (UTC)I find most people obnoxious. Children no more'n anyone else.
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:26 am (UTC)[But he's quick to change the subject, squinting at the older man speculatively.]
You any good with tools?
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:28 am (UTC)I can keep a ship afloat.
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:30 am (UTC)Peter's not around, and my woodworker ran off to have a baby.
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:33 am (UTC)What could I possibly know that you and your future knowledge and hands can't accomplish?
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:37 am (UTC)[Dean's reply is immediate and flat. He lets Davy look for whatever he wants because he knows from experience that the kinds of things that people look at him like that in search of? He simply doesn't have in him.
The hunter is dishonest, but not in the ways most people are.]
Cars are my thing. You hand me a wrench and fifteen minutes and I'll name you the cause of every sound any vehicle you put me to is making, but this place? Mostly I'm just stubborn and I been here too long.
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:40 am (UTC)The Admiral keeps this ship up. He wouldnae let us drown.
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:42 am (UTC)You know something about him that I don't? Because he's allowed pretty much everything else under the damn sun to happen - I figure that's somewhere on the list of what's left.
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:44 am (UTC)What needs t'be done?
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:49 am (UTC)Instead, back and shoulders straightening somewhat unconsciously under the scrutiny but still calm:] I got some tables from the dining hall up in the office, need their legs bent back straight. I'm not sure who bent 'em or how, but no one else needs any ideas.
You up for it?
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:52 am (UTC)I've no dignity left t'surrender and all the bloody boredom in the world. It ain't hard work, your carpentry.
If the bilge rats do it again, let 'em eat off the floor.
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Date: 2014-02-16 05:59 am (UTC)It ain't hard work if you know how to do it.
[Which Dean does, but maybe it's still the Winchester and Jones from that other Barge, maybe it's the kind of social skills he's learning here, but he's content to give back what dignity he can with the comment. He collects his step ladder before indicating the stairwell with his chin.]
Yeah, I'd love to do that? But I eat at the same goddamn tables. Office is this way.
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