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It's still hard to believe it's over; that the yellow-eyed demonic bastard they'd spent their whole lives hunting is finally dead.

Sam figures it'll sink in eventually. Given everything else -- right now he's still pretty numb.

He's also desperately tired, but that doesn't matter. There's something he needs to do, and he can't afford to delay.

He waits until they've settled in for the night, and then waits still longer. Once Dean's been asleep for half an hour, Sam picks up his messenger bag -- already stuffed with books and his computer -- and heads straight for the bar.

He orders black coffee and snags a table with a good view of both doors and the stairs, then pulls out the first of the old texts and starts to search through it.

There's work to do.

Date: 2023-01-31 08:21 pm (UTC)
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She makes a face at the endearment, then goes through the door once Sam opens it. Waverly waits until both brothers are through and the door is closed, then reaches for the handle once more.

It opens onto another bar, this one closed for the daytime, stools stacked upside down on the counter, pool table empty. The large room is warm with dark wood and old glass; a cattle skull hangs about the register. On the wall is a carved wooden sign proclaiming: "Drink where Wyatt Earp did!"

Waverly holds the door open for the brothers, gesturing them inside. "Gentlemen, welcome to Purgatory."

Date: 2023-02-01 02:29 am (UTC)
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Waverly gives him a flat glance, then leads the way into Shorty's. "So this..."

She heads over to the old piano and plays a few notes before turning back to Sam. "Is where I found our friend, here."

Date: 2023-02-01 01:55 pm (UTC)
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"That's one word for it," Waverly agrees, though a loyal streak in her wants to argue the way he says it, like interesting is just another word for screwed.

Which might be what Wynonna thinks, but she knows they're so much more.

She heads to the table where she'd worked out the poem earlier and picks up the note that had been left in the skull, then returns to hand it to Sam. Waverly, darling, it begins:

You are now the Keeper of the Bones.
Guard this and tell no one but the Blacksmith.
You're the only one I can trust.
Love, Uncle Curtis.

Date: 2023-02-01 02:01 pm (UTC)
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She shakes her head. "He was getting worried, a few weeks before he was killed," she tells them. "It was getting closer to Wynonna's birthday. He knew it was all going to start happening again. So, maybe then?"
Edited Date: 2023-02-01 02:01 pm (UTC)

Date: 2023-02-01 02:06 pm (UTC)
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She gazes at the note, the familiar writing. "Uncle Curtis was the only one who believed in the curse," she murmurs, almost more to herself than to them.

"He was the one who encouraged me to research, he paid for all of my online classes to learn dead languages. He knew as much about the curse as anyone, but even he didn't know who might be a revenant and who wasn't."

Date: 2023-02-01 02:47 pm (UTC)
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"Daddy didn't kill many when he was the heir," Waverly says, a little defensive and a lot wry. "Most of the seventy-seven were still here, even before Wynonna came of age."

She sets the skull on top of the piano as requested and turns back to Dean. "Do you know anything about the Earp curse?"

Date: 2023-02-01 03:16 pm (UTC)
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"It's the curse," she explains. "The seventy-seven revenants were outlaws killed by Wyatt Earp. The curse brings them back as revenants. If an heir doesn't manage to kill all seventy-seven again with Peacemaker before they die, then when the next heir comes of age all the previous revenants that were killed resurrect again. And again, until the curse is broken."

Date: 2023-02-01 03:33 pm (UTC)
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"Wynonna's the fifth heir," Waverly tells them, before her mouth presses. "Sixth, I guess. If you count Willa."

Date: 2023-02-01 03:39 pm (UTC)
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Waverly's head turns, and she comes over to peer at the skull, the EMF shrieking nearby.

"I knew there was something fishy about that skull!"

Date: 2023-02-01 03:44 pm (UTC)
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Waverly turns a disbelieving stare on him. "You're not burning this skull. Or the piano!"

Date: 2023-02-01 04:16 pm (UTC)
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She gives Dean a wary glance and reaches out for the skull, opting to keep it in her hand and away from him. "Well, you can check the piano," she tells him. "But I'm pretty sure it's just a piano."

Date: 2023-02-01 04:26 pm (UTC)
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She looks around the saloon and shrugs. "Maybe in the basement?" she hazards.

"If not here... they could be at the homestead. Although that wasn't the safest place to be for a long time."

Date: 2023-02-01 04:35 pm (UTC)
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"It is now. From revenants, anyway."

She thinks of digging up the talisman; of being convinced to bury it in the first place. "The homestead's built on ammolite. The revenants can't come onto it."

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