The Moosehead Tavern [1]

Jace smiles back at the girl, taking a sip of his drink.
"I'm from the next town over." He says. "How about you?"
He starts to calm down, his nerves numb by the liquid in front of him. His thinking is slow and he wonders when the full effects of drunkenness would set in.

"Im not really from anywhere." I said grinning. "I'm always moving around." I take another sip of my drink. "Its overhelming having everyone after me."

"I know what you mean," He chuckles, "about the having people after you. It was hell for me after what I did. I can't imagine what it would be like to have people chasing me everywhere."

A guy walked into the tavern... "oh shit." I put my hood over my head. "Speaking of people who want to kill me.." I got up to him. "what're you doing here? Get out." I said furiously. He shook his head crossing his arms. I punched him in the face then put him in and arm lock. "GET OUT."

Jace stands as the girl puts the man in the arm lock. He watches, thinking of what he could do.

He shook his head, so I did what I had to. I brought him to the counter, bent him over and put the gun to his neck, "Are you going to leave me alone or not? because I have alot of things I could do to make you say yes."

She brings the man over to the counter and pulls out the gun. Jace's mind races and he steps back, swallowing again. The fear is back, coursing through his veins thick as blood.
"What's going on here?" He stammers.

"This, is my brother..." I said trying to hold him back. He got out of it. I grabbed his arm and flipped him, then I pinned him on the ground.

"O-oh," Jace stutters, watching her pin her brother down.
He doesn't know what to do, sitting down and standing again.

I tied both his hand and feet. " Im going to keep you there until you say you will leave me alone." I walked back over to Jace and looked at him while taking a drink. "I thought you were a bad boy, you looked scared."

"I never said I was a bad boy," Jace smiles, "I just said I wasn't a good one anymore."

"Yeah... BIG difference." I smiled. I took a glance at my brother, he was still there. Good.

Jace sits back down, trying to regain the calm he had moments ago. He looks away from the man on the floor, forcing him out of his thoughts.
"And I wasn't scared." He tries to reclaim his dignity too before it's swept away completely. "I just haven't ever seen or been near a situation like that before....ever."

"i've been near MILLIONS." I said laughing. "What did you do wrong... To make you not good anymore?"

Jace fully relaxes at the sound of the girl's full laugh. He loses his smile and looks away after she asks what he did though. Grasping his glass again, he absent-minded begins to rotate it, watching as the moisture from below spun with it.
"I-I hurt someone." He says. "It was bad...But I didn't want to. It just happened."