Trucker's pad, Saturday night

The good thing about Trucker was, when Priestly decided at closing time that he didn't really want to go home to his place knowing that Jen and the girls were off meeting Fuzzy and he would just be sitting on his ass, he didn't even have to ask. Trucker hitched a ride in Priestly's crappy jeep and invited him in for a beer.

"You're old enough to drink, right?" Trucker asked.

"Legally?"

Trucker snorted, then gave Priestly the beer bottle, then flopped down into the other beanbag chair. ( And then it was time to share their feelings )

"When did we get so emotionally mature?" Priestly wondered. "We're dudes, aren't we supposed to, like, bottle our shit up and grunt a lot?"

"Please, that's just what the Man wants you to think."

Priestly nodded again. "Right on, man, right on."

[ooc: missing scene, if you will, of canon. What Trucker and Priestly get up to while Jen has her big speech in Moral Bay. Open for phone calls, so long as you're down with the SP shuffle.]

Beach City Grill, Santa Cruz, Sunday afternoon

Priestly habitually slammed his way in and out of the sandwich shop, so it wasn't a surprise when he did so, today.

The vengeance with which he slammed his way in was. He couldn't help it, not when he saw that Piper, Tish, and Jen were all already there, and yet he hadn't heard word one about how last night had gone.

"Alright!" He tried to ignore how Jen flinched. "I've been sitting by the phone, waiting, wondering, I demand a full report. I want all the details. What happened?"

( Weirdly, it was Tish who came over. )

And he turned and walked away again, hands shoved deep down in his pockets. He'd have to make his way back to the grill eventually -- he was scheduled to work closing with Jen even -- but for now, he just . . . couldn't.

He'd really thought Jen understood. What hope was there for any of them if she didn't?

[ooc: melodramatic Priestly is melodramatic. Scene riffed completely from canon. Open for phone calls on SP, as I'm about to run out the door for the evening.]