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"You're not the first person to assume I'm a prostitute, kid."

Doc had made that mistake, too. In any case, she doesn't take it personally. She's been called worse.

Wynonna nods at Seth's question.

"We can go down to the basement -- there's nobody there."

Seth nods, before glancing back to Kate. "Just sit tight, alright?" Kate gives him a half-hearted thumbs up, before Seth turns and follows Wynonna downstairs. The basement itself gives off all kinds of vibes, but he trusts her, and once they're at the bottom of the stairs, moves to lean against one of the one of the boxes or barrels present.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to just show up on you like this, but the past couple days have been a shit show." He pauses. "Maybe not as bad as your shit show, but a shit show all the same."

The basement....has been a lot of things, a lot of them not great, but it at least is private. And easier for her to handle then going back to the empty Homestead right now.

"Tell me about it. Your shit show. I could use the distraction."

He takes a deep breath, and it all comes out. His brother busting him out of jail. The Texas Rangers, the Titty Twister, the Maze, Santanico Pandemonium, Richie turning. All of it just pours out in one regurgitated mess of awful, and once he reaches the end, he leans back with a sigh.

"And take it easy on the kid, okay? She just had to stake her dad because he was going to turn and he didn't want to."

He figures if anyone would sympathize with that, it's Wynonna.

"Well, who hasn't had to kill a family member or two?"

It's said in jest, but there is empathy in her voice all the same -- she wouldn't wish that on anyone. Especially another young girl.

Yeah, that comment doesn't land particularly well with Seth. Not because of what he's done, but new things that he may have been passively ignoring about Richie, and have now been shoved in front of his face.

"You might be surprised."

"Sore subject?"

Wynonna isn't dumb, she knows when she's hit a nerve

One hand scrubs at the side of his face, before he moves to slump against one of the nearby cases stacked nearby. "You know how I told you my dad died in a fire when I was a kid?" He'll wait for her to confirm before he continues. "Turns out Richie started it."

"Shit."

It's not a great response, but it's the best Wynonna has right now.

"You know, my mom was locked up because she started a fire in the barn when I was a kid. Turns out she was trying to kill a demon who was attached to Waverly"

Never mind that the fire...could have also killed Waverly.

"Why did Richie do it?"

The answer to that question is an easy one. Their dad was an asshole, and Richie wanted him to stop beating on his big brother. Saying that answer out loud is a whole other story, so it takes him a minute to actually get them out.

"He was trying to protect me. He was ... shit. Our dad was a dick, and he wanted him to stop. And he just let me think it was an accident all this time."

"Sometimes we lie to our siblings because we think it's better for them than the truth. I let Waverly think our mom left us for a long time, but she wasn't, she was locked up."

Which...is the beginning of a sort of complicated story, but there's about no part of Wynonna's family history that isn't complicated, at this point.

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"That's a little different, Earp. You didn't murder her and cover it up."

At least Waverly could confront them both about it and forgive them in time. There's still space for that. Richie took away both of those things, and watched Seth grieve him like an idiot and not realize that the reason his father was taken from him was sitting right next to him.

"Like I know he was a bad guy, but burning him alive was probably a little much."

"No, I just covered up that she tried to burn down a barn with Waverly inside of it."

So....not exactly the same thing at all, but still not great. Still, they had managed to hash some of that out before Michelle high tailed it out of there...to look for Julian....who was Charlie....who is dead now....yeah she probably needs to track down her mom again sometime soon but she needs to file that away.

"Still, it's shitty that he hid that from you for so long."

"It's shitty that your mom put all of that on you."

Because that's some kind of bullshit if Seth had ever heard it. But, he's done commiserating about their shitty families for tonight, so he decides to very brusquely change the subject.

"And I'm sorry about all of this. If there's anything we can do to help, the kid and I could use somewhere to lay low for a while."

"Nedley and I could definitely use the back up -- as you can see it's a dead zone here. I need to figure out where the hell everyone else is. And get my sister back."

And she knows she can't do that alone.

Seth nods, before looking back at her with a fairly determined expression. He can't make things right with Richie. What he agreed to, there's no taking back. But maybe he can at least do something right here.

"Then you've got us. For however long Kate's willing to stay put."

Which will likely be a while, because where else do they have to go?

"You said she was a preacher's daughter, right? That could be useful. Supposedly, the place Waverly and Doc are stuck in is the Garden of Eden. I can't say I'm well versed in that stuff."

And if that poor girl did just have to kill her father...she could probably use a way to feel useful. Wynonna can get that.

Seth turns and stares at her, because did she just say what he thinks she said?

"No shit?"

"No shit. Also? Waves is totally half-angel. Her bio-dad was an angel."

Wynonna might have banged said bio-dad but let's all move past that she didn't know okay!!!!

"Damn."

He can't help but blink a little because yes, he's just been dunked headfirst into the deep end of the supernatural, but the idea of angels is a whole other ballgame that he's not sure he's ready for.

Kate might have liked the idea, had she not just had to stake her dad.

"Alright, let me go check on the kid. There a place we can crash while we're here?"

"I mean, there's room at the homestead, if nothing else, but considering pretty much everything seems abandoned right now...."

They can definitely find some space.

Seth nods, taking all of it in. He's not sure if he likes the idea of being alone in a semi-abandoned town, but he's also not sure how much Kate wants to be around people right now. Even if she does seem to be getting along just fine with Nedley.

"I'll talk to the kid, see what she wants to do."

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