@hearthandhallows (felix)
Go on, Jesse. Walk it off. Hands pushed at the man's back, shoving him off — gentle, but firm — away from the bar. Jesse tripped forward a couple unsteady steps, an arm coming up to rub over his face as he sniffed, the sound loud in an uncommonly quiet night. "Yeah, yeah, I'm walkin'... I'm walkin'," he muttered, waving a hand back behind him to shoo them away from him.
Despite his slow gait, it was clear the man was certainly inebriated. Jesse could hardly walk a straight line and every now and then, had to reach out to steady himself using the shop fronts that he passed by. Slowly and surely, heading in the direction of the cheap motel nearby because he had overdone it tonight. The ranch was too far to walk it — honestly, he wasn't even sure its direction at the moment — and sure, he might drive home after a few beers all the time but drunk? Several bottles deep in hard liquor?
Nah, even Jesse knew that'd be a really fucking stupid idea. He needed that piece of shit truck.
As he stumbled on, pushing messy curls from his eyes, Jesse looked about the eerily quiet streets with that customary frown. For some reason, the heebie jeebies had settled over him and there didn't seem to be a cause for it. Things were just too quiet and dark and... strange. The man was willing to believe it was probably the liquor's doing, that it preyed on his paranoias at whatever damn hour this was... But then he stopped, because up ahead there was a body laying by the curb.
"The fuck?" He squinted, inching closer cautiously. "Hey," he barked at them, assuming it was someone else in worser shape than he was. A couple more feet forward, however, Jesse started recognizing features. And blood.
"Oh shit," Jesse staggered forward quickly, dropping to a knee besides the other man, feeling as if a bucket of ice had just dropped over him. He could see the other was breathing. "Felix? Hey, hey— c'mon, Felix," he was patting Felix's cheek, not roughly (it was bruised and bloody, like someone beat the crap out of him), but enough to try jolting the guy awake, "open those baby blues of yours, huh?" His other hand gave a jerk on the front of Felix's shirt, anything to rouse him.












