Go Between... Again

[Coraline "Coal" Johnson]

You know, it’s funny how I somehow keep finding myself in the middle of these two. Never met the vampire and Doc was always a very messed up person to talk with. Too paranoid for his own good but given his choice in love interests he seemed to have fucked up to a capital T.

Once again here I am knocking on his door dressed in my usual gothic attire, waiting for him to answer the door like every time I came over. Why Matt couldn’t just leave them alone was beyond me. Not like it was hard. Why I let him convince me to get into these things was another thing I had to figure out.

Yeah, I’m a bartender, I’m used to all SORTS of weird stories but the way these two carried on… it was pathetic. Okay, I get that she was a slayer at one point, now a vampire and fights on our side, ok… whatever. Him, the whole tramatic childhood. But come on! It’s not that hard to put two and two together. Saying they were a fucked up couple was an understatement.

Though, Doc might not be pleased to see me. Last time I saw him I had planted doubt in his head about her intentions. So sue me though, vampires gave me the creeps. Weither they fought on our side or not. They weren’t good company and the fact that Matt was willing to work with one so closely kinda disturbed me. He seemed convinced she wouldn’t harm him but part of me feared he would come home a vampire one night. Silly, no? But maybe not so much… Not after everything from years ago…

Frowning I tilted my head, sniffing the air to see if he was home. Yep, home. Reluctantly I knocked on the door.

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

The door answered slowly, chained so that it would only open a crack as usual ."Ah. Coal, right?" He asked, remembering her from the Raven fiasco. The moment my life started careening downhill and out of control. "Anything i can do for you, or is this a social call?"

[Coraline "Coal" Johnson]

"I'm here to chat. Apparently you need some sense knocked into you," I gave him an innocent smile almost charming smile at that.

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"Geeeeeaaaaat," he muttered, closing and unlatching the door before opening it and standing to ne side. "Why do you get stuck with dealing with my screwed up self. You'd think they'd send a shrink."

[Coraline "Coal" Johnson]

"Well I am a bartender."

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"Yes, and the only thing i usually take from a bartender is a scotch and coke," he said glibly. "A double on a bad day. I don't usually give them my life story."

[Coraline "Coal" Johnson]

"Eh, most people give me their troubles and funny enough it makes them feel better. Humans, vampires, demons. I've heard a lot of very weird things."

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"But nothing tops the weirdness that is my life, huh?" He asked wryly. "I mean there must be something interesting for you to keep coming back."

[Coraline "Coal" Johnson]

"Matt has this weird urge to help you both, me I think it's bizarre and if you two can't put two and two together than you both need some help or need to just duke it out but he's very persuasive. Plus I suppose he likes that he has a very powerful vampire as a contact. Seems to think you two make a good team." Entering the apartment I looked back at him.

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

Doc shook his head. "Hardly. She does all hte work, i do all the quips. Which are usually wasted on her."

[Coraline "Coal" Johnson]

"Oh? Cause Matt seems to think you two are a force to be wreckened with, should you both get your act together. Was he wrong?"

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"You ever heard of the immovable object meeting the irresistable force?" he asked. "That's us. We butt heads too often, we're both to stubborn and... i guess... I'm too scared."

[Coraline "Coal" Johnson]

"Of what? Losing yourself? Harming her? Yourself?"

[Jackson ''Doc'' Ellison]

"Caring," he said. "Opening myself to the same pain I felt when my sister was taken. To the same pain i felt when people i thought might hae been friends were killed for failing," he shook his head. "My life is one long list of loss that never seems to end and here i was considering going through it all again."

[Coraline "Coal" Johnson]

"But what fun is life without filling it with people you love? I'm not saying that things well all work out cause I obvious have to ability to see that but isn't it better to have loved even if things didn't work out? I certainly think so."