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Tucked away off the road in Bon Temps, there's a road house. Warm light spills from its windows, and the sound of a jukebox playing drifts out into the muggy Louisiana night. The regular assortment of trucks and Hail-Mary-please-keep-this-lemon-goin'-just-a-little-longer cars sit in the dirt parking lot; what amounts to about half the town's small population... or, at least, of those of the 'drinking age and above' persuasion.

Inside, it's a bar of the type scattered all across the American South: homey, no-nonsense. Booths and tables. A man in a plaid flannel shirt wiping the bar; a crossdresser in the kitchen singing Gospel hymns and rolling his hips in time with the words just to scandalize the prep cook. A handful of waitresses, bustling about.

Sookie makes her way briskly through it all, a tray balanced on her palm and her eyes kept stubbornly front, as voices swarm around her. Aloud, and... less so.

...I’m just going to have one beer tonight Jesus one beer that’s all...

...better not gripe about me eating fries not after what I did for him last night...

...I cannot wait to get the hell out of this podunk town...
 
 "Well, make sure you do, and before it’s too late," she responds, thoughtless, to the young man. "Because every year you wait? You just get more and more stuck here. Believe me, I know."

He stares at her. So do his parents.

So does the other table. And she realizes, too little too late, that he hadn't said that out loud, not at all. She laughs, uncomfortable. "I’ll get y'all some ketchup," she says, brightly, and flees, ponytail swinging against the nape of her neck as she goes.

Stupid, Sookie, she chides herself. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
 

Date: 2022-09-22 11:19 pm (UTC)
gavemea_45: (brothers - on the road)
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"Thanks." He gets up and takes the milk from the fridge, adds a dollop to his mug, then puts it back before resuming his seat.

"I'm - um, it's only the three of us," he says. It'd be easier to just lie his way through it, but he's already told Sookie so much of the truth. "Me, my brother, and our dad."

Date: 2022-09-22 11:36 pm (UTC)
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"St. Louis is pretty nice. And Chicago." He stops to take a sip of coffee. "But I like smaller towns, too. Usually we - I - stick to the side roads and state highways rather than the interstates, or anything like that."

Date: 2022-09-22 11:48 pm (UTC)
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"I am too," Sam tells her, earnestly, as he picks up the fork. "And I'm sure I will."

He pauses to take a bite of sausage and egg together and is nearly stunned by the flavor.

"Mrs. Stackhouse, this is amazing."

Date: 2022-09-22 11:56 pm (UTC)
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"It's really good," he promises. Sam wages a short war with himself and loses. "I should tell you not to go to the trouble, but I don't know when I've last had homemade biscuits. So instead I'm just going to say thank you."

Date: 2022-09-23 12:02 am (UTC)
gavemea_45: (small wry smile)
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"Yes, ma'am, it is," Sam says. His smile is abashed, but bright. "You were right."

Date: 2022-09-23 12:08 am (UTC)
gavemea_45: (hm?)
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He doesn't waste time before starting back in on his breakfast, washing it down with small sips of coffee between bites.

"I'm working my way cross-country," he tells her. "I start college in the fall."

Date: 2022-09-23 12:17 am (UTC)
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It's hard to think about just how much happier both Adele and Sookie had been for him than his own family had. Sam takes another swallow of coffee to drive away the lump in his throat.

"Yes, ma'am. I had an English teacher who always said the same thing."

Date: 2022-09-23 12:31 am (UTC)
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"I want to be a lawyer," Sam admits, watching as she does magic things with her hands and the dough she's making. He finishes off the last bite of sausage and eggs and takes up the coffee again.

Date: 2022-09-23 12:39 am (UTC)
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He ducks his head at the compliment, a little awkward with it, then gives her a sweet answering smile. "Yes please, ma'am, thank you."

Date: 2022-09-23 12:49 am (UTC)
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"She sure has," Sam agrees, smiling warmly back at her. "Good morning, Sookie. Did you sleep okay?"

Date: 2022-09-23 12:58 am (UTC)
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"If you want to," Sam adds, hastily. "I mean, I'd like that--"

He would, he really would, and he hopes that his sincerity comes across somehow.

"--but I don't want to be any trouble."

Date: 2022-09-23 01:07 am (UTC)
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"Not at all. Maybe I can help," he offers.

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