Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

[oversight]

Who: Darcy Lewis (sorryitasedyou) and John Blake (oversight)
Where: Darcy's Room
When: Immediately following this conversation.
Rating: PG-13
Summary: After intercepting a message from Darcy in response to demon!Dean Winchester's post to the network, John decides to offer his $0.02.
The Story:

[ Having just finished a short conversation with Darcy, John takes it upon himself to seek her out. He doesn't like the idea of Dean roaming, especially not of the idea that he might run into the demon on his way across the mansion, but as it stands (and probably how it'll always will stand), Darcy's well worth the risk.

Arriving at her door, he adjusts the sling on his left arm and then knocks with his right. In two weeks the head wound's healed, but it's going to take a hell of a lot longer for his shoulder to heal, otherwise he'd be out there tracking Dean down at this very moment, probably with a group of at least a dozen others, all victimized by Winchester himself. ]

Darcy, it's Blake.

[ He might as well announce himself since he can't imagine she's not jumpy by now. ]

Comments

[oversight]

Yeah, tell me 'bout it...

[ Blake should have come to grow used to these types of occurrences, but as it stands, when it's someone that means something, things get decidedly more complicated. ]

Don't wanna keep you from doin' what you gotta do, but if you need me to stay, I will.

[ He'll fight Dean to the death if need be, because Darcy holds such a large portion of his heart by default, all thanks to Wonderland. ]

[sorryitasedyou]

C-cou -

[Dear god, she shouldn't ask this. Shouldn't get into the habit of having to ask this when shit started hitting the fan. First Bucky, then Natasha, then Steve, and now Blake? The pattern was becoming transparent and she wasn't sure if she was a fan.

The rest of her request dies off with a soft sigh, eyes closing for a moment. It was just unnerving with Dean's door being across the hall and down two rooms. If only she'd thought to ask him to stay over two nights from now.]

I wouldn't want to keep you tied up for the rest of the night if you have other plans.

[Her way of saying yes without actually saying the words.]

[oversight]

Nono, I— I don't. Rather stay here if that's what's gonna make you feel better.

[ Which, in reality, is what it's going to take to make him feel better, in all honesty. But he's not about to leave Darcy to fend for herself, even if she's pretty damn tough and not known for being an easy target. ]

Can help you do whatever. Anything. Whatever I gotta.

[ John takes a deep breath. ]

[sorryitasedyou]

Ok.

[And it is, really. Granted the only time she really ever asked people stay over was in times of danger... Why break the trend now? Of course, Dean would break that streak, but she didn't know that yet.]

Just stay. Keep me company in case he thinks about dropping by tonight. [Since she probably won't be sleeping... At least not in here alone.]

[oversight]

Yeah, yeah, of course. [ He nods. ] Definitely. We'll— we'll make a night of it, you an' me.

[ Not to say he's all that entertaining under most circumstances, but then again, Darcy knows him well enough to see through all of that anyway. She really does bring out the best in him more than most people. ]

[sorryitasedyou]

Thank you.

[She gives a little laugh, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.]

The room next to me is still open, we could make a little theatre. Have our movie night?

[And it'd be someplace that isn't her room in case Dean did decide to stop by, give them enough time to peace out before he could do any serious damage.] I'm sure the closet has something ball-related to offer.

[A gentle attempt at humor.]

[oversight]

Sure. When doesn't it?

[ Honestly, any distraction they can maintain between then two of them is a good distraction at this point. It'll keep them both from being jumpy as hell. ]