Drown Your Troubles

[daniel_stacy]

The sharp end of a dart whizzed through the air until it sunk solidly into cork. The quill vibrated in place. "Bullseye!" proclaimed its drunken thrower as he threw his hands in the air. Victory was his, assuming that darts were meant to hit a 'For Sale or Rent' board posted two feet from the game board. Daniel lumbered over and pulled the point from an ad for a 1976 Chevrolet with 40,000 miles on the odometer.

Hey... not a bad looking car.

Blindly, he moved to stab it into the correct spot. The air alongside his ear whistled. Thud. There was stinging pain in his right hand. "Ah! Son of a bitch!" He pulled the dart from the soft flesh between his knuckles. "You meant ta do that!" he accused an unknown assailant.


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[whistlersmum]

"Shit, I really didn't!"

Whistler was panicked. It wasn't his best day, not by a long shot. He'd doled out the last of his cash-on-hand to get new tires for his Impala (apparently Searchlight's idea of a good time was to slash the tires of the old guy living on the outskirts of town in a ramshackle double-wide). Which meant a run into Vegas to stand in a ridiculously long line to withdraw more. At the end of it, a drink was in order.

Or eight.

And now he'd probably have to pay this guy's medical bills too.

[daniel_stacy]

For all Daniel knew, it was a map to the closest McDonald's. But he nodded. It felt good to know something for a change, to not be a vampire perpetually caught with his pants around his ankles or his shoes on the wrong feet. Daniel finished his pint. "Her name was Katherine," he said. "Brunette with a painfully hot ass. I tried not to notice. If I wasn't seeing Holly, I probably would've..." He drifted into consideration. "Gotten my balls handed to me on a fork."

[daniel_stacy]

Daniel shrugged.

"Nuthin," he said. Change wasn't the problem. It was determining what came next that baffled him. "If you're old, you ought to be ready for somethin' new anyway. Every job I had, I got bored after a week."

He fished for his wallet and started to dole out cash.