BAD THINGS, True blood x Buffy

~ Merlotte's

THE FIRST THING DESTINY DID WHEN SHE GOT BACK TO BON TEMPS WAS GO TO MERLOTTE'S, she had heard that it was where Lafayette was working at nowadays and from the day that she had had she just needed to cool off before she went back to shreveport later.

She had gotten her car that was transported in that day from the garage and made rapped in the coordinates into her GPS and following down dirt path roads until she reached her destination. As she had reached her end point , she looked out of the dashboard and noticed the rustic little bar with a trailer parked on its side.

she had parked her car a few paces in front of Merlotte's . She climbed out, swinging her green canvas tote bag over her shoulder as she made her way towards the bar and grill, bumping into a brown and white dog that peacefully sat at the entrance. The second she entered she was welcomed by a gaggle of southern accents, rednecks and waitresses in uniforms that you could tell were purposefully cut off too short in order to get more tips.

She moved her way through the crowd of unfamiliar faces, making her way towards the bar. Before destiny could even open her mouth , a deep voice interrupted her . "I am sorry but we don't serve minors here" a man with shaggy dark blonde hair said from behind the counter as he walked closer to her.

" I'm not looking for a drink, I'm looking for someone, my cousin ...Lafayette Reynolds"

"He's in the kitchen" he moving the rag in his hand over his shoulder and signalled towards where he was. Walking behind the bar and into the rustic silver serving counter destiny saw her cousin over the counter as he hummed swaying his hips in rhythm to the music. Lafayette was always like that; fun ,vibrant , full of life, ever since they were younger. He was the life of the party , Destiny had always admired that about him and frankly was a little bit jealous of that quality too, Destiny had  always thought that she had brought everything down just through her merely being within the vicinity, even with her friends back in the city, she always felt like that her entire life.

"Can i get extra fries with that Lafayette?" Destiny said trying to imitate the best southern bell accent that she could. Lafayette turned around at the botched accent confused why one of the waitresses would try to imitate... well themselves. He turned around, hand on his hip in annoyance dropping the frying pan down as he did so. Destiny watched amusedly as his expression changing as he dawned who was standing right in front of him.

"Hookah , is that you?!" He exclaimed causing Destiny to laugh as Lafayette moved out of the kitchen out into the hall where she was standing. Soon destiny felt her body crash into her older cousin in a soul crushing hug practically taking all of the air out of her. She had honesty felt bad about not being able to visit sooner and frankly thought that Lafayette would be pissed at her too from her lack of effort, but she was pleasantly surprised when she hadn't gotten the yelling from hell.

"I missed you" she spoke as she slowly got out of Lafayette's grip.

"Come on go sit down , I'll cook you some fries" he said as he pushed her along into one of the seats that were in front of the bar. As she sat down by the bar she felt all eyes look at her, they mustn't have gotten new people in town very often, it was like she was a treasured artefact or a shitty piece of art that people talk about behind the artists back. Destiny sat there looking around boredly trying to distract herself whilst she was waiting for her food. As she began to soak into her thoughts, she noticed form the corner of her eye a blonde figure moved towards where she was seated , with a tray filled with fries in her left hand that was positioned in the air.

" you're not from around the parts are you?" She questioned taking into account the difference in the girls accent from all the hillbillies that she had probably been accustomed to. She placed the tray of fries down onto the table and waited for the girls response.

"What gave it away?" destiny said sarcastically, earning a strange stare from the blonde girl as she gazed at her with intense curiosity.

"You know , that's the strangest thing..." the blonde said whilst smiling before continuing her sentence, "you're so quiet..." she trailed off again eyes intensely staring into destiny's as if desperately trying to reach for something , anything.

Suddenly A loud voice interrupted from the entrance of Merlotte's. " I am sorry I'm late Sam" Tara said looking down as she quickly tied her maids apron around her waist. As she looked up she noticed the familiar straightened dark hair releasing a gasp out of her mouth as she ran up to her.

"Bitch , you is here?!" Tara exclaimed , opening her arms and embracing her in a hug , happy to be reunited again. Destiny returned the hug equally excited to see her as well.

"So , why are you here?" Tara said smiling at the girl as they pulled away. Her previous 'acquaintance' if you could even call her that, now gone. As if she wasn't even there in the first place.

"We just moved" she spoke carrying on the conversation

"Where?"

"It's by the cemetery, opposite this yellow house"

"Ohh , that's opposite to the Stackhouses."

"Like... Adele Stackhouse?" She said remembering briefly about the stories her mother told her from her childhood of the women, and how she used to take care of her before she decided to leave Bon temps.

"Yeah. Have you met them yet?" Tara questioned

"No , I just heard stories from my mum about her"

Tara walked over the counter continuing there conversation, catching up on all of the important things that they had missed from being so distant in each others lives before realising how she had to go get ready for the bronze.

Quickly she said goodbye to Lafayette and Tara quickly making eye contact with the blonde women from before that had a confused expression on her face, as she left the bar and grill. She made her way back to her car and started it, making her route back through the rocky , dirt filled roads of Bon Temps.

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Authors note - I audibly laughed when was writing Lafayette trademarks , like I could her him in my head every time i wrote 'Hookah'.