and without further ado, for @spnwomenweek day five (relationships), here she is: my mary/lisa fic. i have a lot i could say about it, but i’ll just let it speak for itself. excerpt below!
Mary walks into the bar, and immediately feels some of the tension drain from her shoulders. Maybe it’s a little twisted, but she was raised by hunters—there’s pretty much nowhere she feels more at home than in a shitty little dive like this, all sticky floors and wood paneling and smoke hanging heavy in the air.
It’s been a long few days. She took care of two hauntings a few towns over, completely separate but only a couple miles apart. Her shoulders ache from digging up graves, and she’s got a brand new set of calluses on her hands from the repeated movements of the shovel. She’s still getting used to hunting again; she’d imagined it would’ve been more of a difficult transition, but considering how much everything else around her has changed, hunting is just as comfortably familiar as a roadside bar like this one.
Mary heads straight for the bar, boots thumping on the wooden floors. A few people glance up at her entrance. She resolutely stares each one of them down—this place isn’t quite seedy enough to be dangerous, but she likes to make it clear when she walks in a room that she isn’t putting up with any shit.
Mary drops down on a barstool with a wince. Dammit. She’s going to have to take it easy on her left leg for the next few days.
Mary glances over. A woman sitting two seats over is looking at her with concern—apparently, Mary winced a little louder than she thought.
“Oh, I’m fine.” She flashes a smile. “Just had a long day. I’ve been on my feet a lot.”
“I hear you,” The woman says, tucking a strand of brown hair behind her ear. She leans toward Mary as she speaks, like they’re old friends. “I’m a yoga instructor, and after a week of classes, I’m always beat.”
“You teach yoga?” Mary asks incredulously before she can think better of it. It’s just that in 1983, people who did yoga were long-haired hippies who hadn’t yet gotten the message that the seventies were long gone. This woman doesn’t look like that at all. She’s pretty, with short brown hair and a nice leather jacket and a kind smile. Almost disarmingly normal.