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Who: Doc Holliday, Nitrous Oxide
Where: Nitrous' house
When: Monday night
What: "You seem to be making bad choices :|"

At first, Nitrous hadn't noticed that Doc's attention seemed to be elsewhere. This was partially because she was busy and partially because she had little to no attention span. But she had eventually noticed that she and Doc seemed to be spending slightly less time together, and that he was spending that time with other people.

Nitrous wasn't naturally jealous. She couldn't really afford to be. She generally wasn't anyone's main drug of choice, and she didn't have the personality to be violently possessive like some of her siblings. But she could be in a bad mood, and it only took a closer examination of some of the blogs to put her in one.

Doc's ex-girlfriend was here, from when he was human.  So after giving herself a motivational pep talk, Nitrous hunted through the house until she found Doc in the living room.

"Doc? Can we talk?"

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Since Kate had rolled in like a tiger on a fast moving train, Doc had felt his past flip him upside down. He hadn't yet really told Nitrous that he lost his home out to Kate in a gambling match. He had spent the last few weeks or so in a hotel with none of his possessions other than the empty bottle of whiskey he'd had in his hand the night before.

So, his avoidance of Nicole had been more or less too prideful to admit he had lost everything he had in a match with his ex-girlfriend.

After Nicole had invited him over he figured no time was better than now to have a good sit down. "Yes, I think it's 'bout time we do." He pulled his hair back with his hands. This was going to be a hard conversation he was sure. Nothing good came out of a woman more than a jealous one. He didn't know how Nicole was going to act, he'd never seen her upset other than the time she fished him out of jail.

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"You're keeping secrets," Nitrous said. Her smile was a little brittle. "And, I mean, I don't mind if you have secrets. Everyone has secrets. But I mind if you're keeping them from me."

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Doc flopped his head back on the couch. "I'm sorry Moviles. My world jus' kinda hit rewind a few days ago." He took hold of her hand. "I lost my house in a poker game. Not ky best moment."

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"You..." Nitrous trailed off, trying to process that. "You lost your HOUSE in a poker game. What. What? Doc, what were you thinking?!"

She smacked him on the shoulder to emphasize her point.

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"That's jus' it I wasn't thinkin'. I was a lil' too drunk to realize my ex was trying to up me." It was the first time he'd really mentioned Kate. He wasn't sure what that relationship really was, it had always been a train wreck from the get go. It hadn't changed much.

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"Why would you gamble your house? Why not your car or your watch or something a little easier to replace, if you have to gamble something big?" Nitrous asked, putting her head in her hands with a groan. Stupid, stupid cowboy men and their poker games. "Where the heck have you been living all this time?"

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"It seemed big enough to strike a deal, an' I thought I had the winnin' hand." Clearly he had been pumped with entirely too much whiskey. Kate always did know when to keep him lathered in alcohol and slurs. The woman was a hellcat and she was pissed. He didn't meet her eyes just kind of groaned in it. "A hotel." He was a man that was more prideful than saying I lost my house, take me in. Doc took care of himself.

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"Aaaagh!" Nitrous slapped his shoulder a few more times just to express her frustration. There was no force behind the hits (sort of like being attacked by a kitten), but it made her feel better.

"Well you are moving in with me until you get a new place! So there!"

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"No darlin', I can't do that. I'm fine stayin' at the hotel." When he moved in with women (though Nitrous was far more tame than Kate), things usually ended up on the high road.

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"You are staying with me!" Nitrous repeated, with more force than she usually showed. "I'm not going to have you living out of some hotel when you could be here, with someone who cares about you!" She took a few deep breaths to calm down and then offered Doc a bright smile. "Besides, it'll be just like you stayed the night."

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"Nicole," he said with some desperation in his voice. She was being unusually forceful, and in all his time with Nic he hadn't seen that part of her. "This doesn't have anythin' to do with my ex jumpin' on the bandwagon here does it?" He wondered how worried she was about that. Hell, he worried how he felt about that. He hadn't seen Kate since his deathbed. Maybe when he'd been alone and a sucker for company he would have thought about her, but this wasn't the time. She was bound to let loose like a bag of cats in the alley.

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"No!"

A pause. "Maybe! But that isn't the point! Doc, I don't want you to be alone and sad and sleeping on weird gross hotel sheets."

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"I've slept on a lot worse in my time, I don't think I'm too worried 'bout a few roach infested sheets. Nothin' I can get now that'll hurt me." She knew he didn't like being alone, not really when he got down to it, though he was used to blank stares and people thinkin' more of him than what was really there.

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She took his hands and squeezed gently, making her biggest, most pleading eyes. "But I want you to stay. It would make me feel so much better!"

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"I live with ya you're gonna start to want to kick me out in a week." He didn't really do well in living with people, especially women. It had a bad taste in his mouth already. He didn't really care to ruin things with Nicole, not when he actually cared about her and that bubbly disposition. He didn't really want to always be that guy that she had to pick up the pieces for. He took care of himself his way.

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"Then I'll kick your cowboy butt out," Nitrous said, pressing a hand against his cheek. "But until then, I really want you here, Doc. If you're that sure that you're a terrible housemate, then you can start looking for a new place. But until then, stay with me."

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Sometimes it was really hard throwing reason at a woman. When they made up their mind it was stick to your guns or go down blazing. He honestly didn't want to fight it out with Nicole. He liked that she was soft, sweet and sugary most times. He would rather keep it that way, it's why he liked being around her.

"Alright. You've persuaded me, darlin'."