#damereydaily2020

[onthesandsofdreams]

Hopeful for Love

Pairing: DameRey Rating: T Summary: Poe wears his mother’s ring around his neck, both as a reminder and as constant solid hope. Hope that one day, there will be someone just for him. Someone who will mean everything, the same way his mother did his father. Someone who will see all of him and love him, someone he can love with all of his being. Words: 400 Notes: Prompt #12 of @damereydaily2020 may list. | Canon Divergence | Poe’s backstory goes better with his comics. Tagging: @mousedetective

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Poe wears his mother’s ring around his neck, both as a reminder and as constant solid hope.

Hope that one day, there will be someone just for him. Someone who will mean everything, the same way his mother did his father. Someone who will see all of him and love him, someone he can love with all of his being.

He’s never been one to do half measures, after all.

But time goes by and he remains alone. Love blooms and wilts, he falls in and out of love. There’s nothing quite yet of what he wants. He keeps going, he refuses to give into despair and think of quitting. He has time.

But then, the First Order rises. And he doesn’t hesitate for one second, he immediately follows Leia and begins flying whatever missions she requires of him. Death becomes a constant. He knows his own mortality is on the line, and while he is not upset by it, he’s only sorry that he has no one to share it with, even if a part of him is glad that if he dies, he won’t leave a grieving significant other.

Rey comes into his life thanks to Finn, and he gives himself the chance to know her. To let her know him in turn and slowly, day by day, something blooms between them. And he finds himself hopeful, because she is different and special and he finds himself gravitating towards her.

She who is so brave and bold, protective, kind and gentle too.

He knows himself well enough to know where the signs are pointing. And he allows himself to be. Because if there is one thing he has learned is this, that love should be celebrated and honored. After all, his parents did. His father still does, he’s sure that if his mother were alive, she would too. They were soulmates, after all.

They might be in danger thanks to the First Order, but now, he has another reason to fight. He comes to realize that the feeling is mutual, when Rey takes his hand and promises to fight alongside him always. It’s the way she looks at him, the way she allows herself to be soft for him even if she rages at the First Order, she allows him to see this side of her. That’s when he decides, for her, he’ll fight until his dying breath.

[elenstar]

Welp. I’m weak.

[msfangirlgonewild]

A Poe Dameron/Rey Skywalker fanmix

A playlist of songs tribute to my favorite pairings from the Galaxy far, far away...

[aimmyarrowshigh]

stay and be there (always) - Chapter 1

By: @aimmyarrowshigh, @dracosollicitus

For #damereydaily2020, 1/13/2020: Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?

The war is over. The heroes of the Resistance step out into the galaxy to find their place in peacetime.

Rey Skywalker settles on Tatooine, rescuing and rehabilitating droids. As she attempts to coax life into a barren desert, she finds herself in increasing communication with General Poe Dameron, with whom she shares custody of a certain round, mischievous droid.

Rey fully expected to be forgotten in the days after the fall of the Final Order; but it's Poe who remembers her more and more with each passing day.

[starlight-and-seafire]

As a personal challenge to myself, and because I’m pretty fond of writing about these two dorks in love, I wanted to see if I could complete all the available Damerey Daily prompts.

And, as of a few hours ago, they are all complete (and one prompt got two fics because I had two different ideas, and one prompt I did twice because I forgot I did the first one. Oops.)

All together, it’s 19,719 words over 93 separate works. Thank you to everyone who read, hit that kudos button, and commented!

The full list with links to the drabbles or ficlets, all relatively short with a few exceptions, are available below!

(Anything with three *** at the end are rated M or E)

January

Unspin the laws

No, his smile isn’t much like a skeleton at all.

Um… I’m gonna need vodka in a water glass, with ice, and I’m gonna be ordering ‘water’ from you all night long so… one… ‘water,’ please.

I write mostly on hotel paper, knowing that my thoughts will never leave this room.

You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.

Say that you’ll hold me forever; say that the wind won’t change on us.

I guess I kind of hate most things. But I never really seemed to hate you. So I want to spend the rest of my life with you, is that cool?

What’s that? In the distance? Such a ghostly glow.

I know.

Anywhere you go, let me go too. Love me: that’s all I ask of you.

“That’s right! It was a twist!” “No, it was a lie. A lie is not a twist.”

Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.

Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?

There are so many lives I want to share with you. I will never be complete until… I do.

There will be boys who will tell you you’re beautiful, but only a few will see you.

Thinking that you can’t protect the ones you love, you have to hope they’re smart enough to save themselves.

Live with me and be my love.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.

And all the constellations shine down for us to see. Fic 1  / Fic 2

They are the hunters, we are the foxes (and we run). ***

It well may be that in a difficult hour… I might be driven to sell your love for peace… or trade the memory of this night for food… It may well be – I do not think I would.

And mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you. Not even a little bit. Not even at all.

As you wish.

I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.

“Sir? I’d like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.” “Work, work, work!” ***

‘Cause we got the fire, and we’re burning one hell of a something.

Take this sinking boat and point it home.

Most of all, I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling, the rest of my whole life, the way I feel when I’m with you.

So this is how liberty dies: with thunderous applause.

I did not make it out unscathed! I am extremely scathed!

February

And this all started as your standard ‘who would survive the zombie apocalypse’ debate.

Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.

We sow our truth, wait patiently.

Sweet creature, had another talk about where it’s going wrong.

I know that a life without love is no life at all. ***

They’re fascinating. It’s like being inside a dream or something. There’s truth but no logic.

You know, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I actually checked out that snow globe museum that you recommended, and it was pretty awesome, I have to say. I mean, I did get in trouble for shaking one.

Is this horny crying?? ***

Do or do not, there is no try.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Just when I think I’m out, those cheeks pull me right back in. ***

When I was growing up I didn’t have a normal mom and dad or a regular family like everybody else, and I always knew that something was missing. But now I’m standing here today knowing that I have everything I’m ever going to need. You are my family.

Make the baby do the magic hand thing! C'mon, baby, do the magic hand thing!

I’ve been thinking. What if I decided to go flying around the galaxy with some scoundrel?

This bridge will only take you halfway there.

Great, I’d like your $8-est bottle of wine, please.

Just remember, every time you look up at the moon, I, too, will be looking at a moon. Not the same moon, obviously, That’s impossible.

I keep meeting all the right people–at all the wrong times.

I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you–especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame.

Never repent of your own goodness, child. To stay true in the face of evil is a feat of great strength. Fic 1 / Fic 2

He saved me in every way that a person can be saved.

I lost so much of the world’s beauty, as if I were watching every shining gift on its branch with one eye. Because I was hungry. Because I was waiting to eat, a self crawling about the world in search of small things.

She had fallen in love with him twice. She loved him now with both loves, so overpowering it was almost unbearable.

Make ten men feel like a hundred.

the long syntax of las montañas that lined his village, the rhyme of sol with his soul—

“You’ve got this. You could debate the entire Senate in your sleep.” “I have!” “I know you have. We share a bed. It’s been hell.”

[Kylo Ren], Good to see you. But if you’re here, who’s guarding Hades?

I cannot make speeches. If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. ***

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

March

Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.

It’s not about who you know. Enlightenment comes from within. [Luke Skywalker] texted me that.

This is not yours to fix alone. You act like you’re all alone out there in the world, but you’re not. You’re not alone.

“But what if you met the right man, who worshipped and adored you? Who’d do anything for you? Who’d be your devoted slave? Then what would you do?” “I’d pity him.”

“You Rebel scum!!” [Han]:“…Scum?”

I bet I’ll never appear in a dream or a summer dress or next door. Displaying on one hand my prowess, the other my difficultness, I bet there will be just enough pain to keep me alive, long enough for the moon to be mine.

“Hate that nickname. Addicted to lemon bars. I’m in!”

Laugh it up, fuzzball.

I will love you until there is no till. / Till I die.

“The first time we met we hated each other.” “You didn’t hate me, I hated you. And the second time we met, you didn’t even remember me.” “I did too, I remembered you. The third time we met, we became friends.” “We were friends for a long time.” “And then we weren’t.” “And then we fell in love.” “Three months later we got married.” “It only took three months.” “Twelve years and three months.”

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.

If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so that I never have to live a day without you.

Just as the whale, stuck in its baleen grin, climbs up out of the depths.

This is my boyfriend [Poe], and this is [Poe’s] boyfriend [NAME]. [Poe] is gay but he’s straight for me and he’s gay for [NAME] and [NAME] really gay for [Poe]. And I [love/]hate [NAME].

“I’m still mad at you, but I need to prioritize my hate right now. It goes [him/them/]her, cooked green peppers, and then back to you.”

She’s our friend, and she’s crazy!

If you’re ever lucky enough to find true love, you fight for it every day

Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder.“

“She’s at that age where she only has one thing on her mind.” “Boys?” “Homicide.”

Does [he/]she know that you told me you’d hold me until you died–and you’re still alive?

There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he’s right.

Our fates are sealed. But I think we have one move left: We can try.

The world is too quiet without you nearby.

“Why has the car stopped?” “It’s frightened.”

I am totally butt crazy in love with [Name]!!!

Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So, today is my new favorite day.

What you did was impulsive, capricious and melodramatic, but it was also wrong.

But what was the point of living so quietly you made no noise at all? ***

I, myself, am strange and unusual.

We have no plan. No one’s coming to save us. So… I’m going to do it.

[dracosollicitus]

I Know Places (We Won’t Be Found)

(Damerey, Canon Divergence)

Rey of Jakku is just trying to survive when a new spice runner comes to Niima.

He's handsomer than the last few, that's for sure - but Rey doesn't want to trust this good-looking stranger. She knows what can happen to girls who let their guards down: death, or something worse.

But, when Unkar Plutt forces her to help him with an odd search in the desert, Rey gets to know the mysterious spice runner a little more, and when he shows her a depth of kindness and warmth she's never experienced before, Rey starts to develop feelings she's definitely never had before.

She knows his time on Jakku will be short, but there's more to the smuggler than meets the eye. And, the secrets he's hiding just might turn out to be deadly.

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[lunarischrysalis]

「 damereydaily2020 prompt: I, myself, am strange and unusual. 」

The Present is two steps back from the future and two steps forward from the past

Rey Skywalker has an unusual skill of precognition. It’s not so uncommon, but her ability to see the future in glimpses rather than mysterious hunches has made her more regarded than the average fortune tellers and palm readers. The difficult thing to navigate with her gift is when she gets the random flashes, but it’s nothing she can’t handle. But for this particular flashforward to the disastrous aftermath of the business next door to Maz’s café, the hint of the future that suddenly comes to her while she’s enjoying the warm weather and her coffee outdoors, someone—the detective in her vision—is looking straight at her…

Poe Dameron has a hidden ability: he can see memories and past events that are most strongly imprinted on objects and places. His retrocognition comes in handy in his job solving crimes at the local police department, though it’s a skillset he has never revealed to anyone. So when he sees a peculiar person staring at him, observing him when he’s down under in the past as he surveys the scene of a crime, he finds himself not only trying to solve the case, but also searching for the girl in his vision, hoping that their paths can cross.

[randomadventurousallie]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Major Character Death Relationships: Poe Dameron/Rey, Poe Dameron & Finn, Poe Dameron & Rey, Poe Dameron & Finn & Rey & Rose Tico, Chewbacca & Rey, BB-8 & Poe Dameron Characters: Poe Dameron, Rey (Star Wars), Finn (Star Wars), Rose Tico, BB-8 (Star Wars), Chewbacca (Star Wars), mentions of Sheev Palpatine | Darth Sidious - Character, mentions of Ben Solo | Kylo Ren Additional Tags: Friendship, Pre-Relationship, DamereyDaily2020, Tumblr Prompt, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Spoilers, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, everyone really cares about rey okay, Prompt Fic, Angst Series: Part 19 of (not so) daily damerey Summary:

She took a step back, observing the damage done. He was gone. Palpatine was really gone. It was over.

Ben was gone too, having been killed off by Palpatine minutes before she combined all of her energy with the Jedi before her. He didn’t join the Force; she couldn’t feel him.

Suddenly she felt so very weak, not to mention tired, and the two lightsabers in her hand dropped to the ground right before she fell onto her knees.

Goodbye, she thought dimly even though she had no understanding of why she was saying goodbye; no one would hear her anyways.

---

Little did she know before passing her last breath, her last thoughts reached every being on the planet of Exegol, including the four beings in the universe who were the closest to her.

Goodbye, Poe heard Rey say throughout the Force. He frowned for a brief moment, not understanding how he could hear her and why she would be saying goodbye, before he felt his heart drop to his stomach. Instinctively he turned his head to the Sith temple down below.

“No,” he said shaking his head, each passing moment feeling longer and longer than it should’ve been.

[rinskiroo]

Rey hates sand. She hates rusted old ship parts and hates scrubbing them clean. She hates the gummy texture of portion bread. She hates every hash mark etched into the wall of her walker.

Rey hates most things.

Poe hates the cold. He hates snow and ice and the runny noses that come with it. He hates losing—at races, at cards, in fights, anything. He hates bones and he hates whisperbirds.

They’ve both discovered they hate sleeping alone.

“Poe,” she mumbles as she curls up close to him.

“Yeah?”

“I don’t hate you.”

“Give it time,” he says.

“Okay.”

AO3

[x-wings-and-lightsabers]

Just Remember

Pairing: Poe Dameron x Rey

Word Count: 272

Summary: Poe goes on a mission to destroy one of the largest pods of Final Order fighters, one of the most dangerous. Rey, pregnant with their first child, stays behind.

Written for DamereyDaily2020 prompt, “Just remember, every time you look up at the moon, I too, will be looking at a moon.”

“Hey, Sunshine.” Poe had seen Rey looking off into the distance, an anxious look on her face when she turned away from him. He was expecting a smile or at least some form of joy on her face.

Not tears running down her face.

“Are you okay?” Rey turned around and looked at him as he walked up. She was about two months along with their first child. Although she was excited, she was afraid of the mission Poe was going on that could easily get him killed if he wasn’t careful.

“Yes.” Poe saw a tear go down her cheek and gently pulled her in for a hug.

“Oh, I’ll be okay.” She wrapped her arms around him and cried into his chest, Poe nuzzling into the hair on the top of her head.

“Promise me you won’t die? We need you.” She laid a hand on her belly, which was just starting to show the first signs of pregnancy. Poe pulled away and kissed her sweetly.

“I won’t, Sunshine. No matter what. Just remember, every time you look up t the moon, I too, will be looking at a moon. Not the same moon, obviously. That’s impossible. Sadly.” He laid a hand over hers and knelt in front of her, laying his forehead on her belly.

“And as for you, Del? I’ll make sure you have your father to grow up with.” He stood back up and inhaled deeply, giving Rey one last kiss before turning away with a sad smile on his face.

They looked at their moons for six months. 

And the moons brought them all back together.

[damereydaily2020]

FULL JANUARY 2020 PROMPT LIST

Unspin the laws

No, his smile isn’t much like a skeleton at all.

Um… I’m gonna need vodka in a water glass, with ice, and I’m gonna be ordering ‘water’ from you all night long so… one… ‘water,’ please.

I write mostly on hotel paper, knowing that my thoughts will never leave this room.

You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.

Say that you’ll hold me forever; say that the wind won’t change on us.

I guess I kind of hate most things. But I never really seemed to hate you. So I want to spend the rest of my life with you, is that cool?

What’s that? In the distance? Such a ghostly glow.

I know.

Anywhere you go, let me go too. Love me: that’s all I ask of you.

“That’s right! It was a twist!” “No, it was a lie. A lie is not a twist.”

Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.

Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?

There are so many lives I want to share with you. I will never be complete until… I do.

There will be boys who will tell you you’re beautiful, but only a few will see you.

Thinking that you can’t protect the ones you love, you have to hope they’re smart enough to save themselves.

Live with me and be my love.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

He looked at you like you were the brightest planet in the galaxy.

And all the constellations shine down for us to see.

They are the hunters, we are the foxes (and we run).

It well may be that in a difficult hour… I might be driven to sell your love for peace… or trade the memory of this night for food… It may well be – I do not think I would.

And mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you. Not even a little bit. Not even at all.

As you wish.

I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday.

“Sir? I’d like you to take the helm, please. I need this man to tear all my clothes off.” “Work, work, work!”

'Cause we got the fire, and we’re burning one hell of a something.

Take this sinking boat and point it home.

Most of all, I’m scared of walking out of this room and never feeling, the rest of my whole life, the way I feel when I’m with you.

So this is how liberty dies: with thunderous applause.

I did not make it out unscathed! I am extremely scathed!

Source Material (below)

“The Universe,” May Swenson

“There Are Birds Here,” Jamaal May

Happy Endings 1x01

“Hotel Paper,” Michelle Branch

“Mine,” Taylor Swift

“All I’ve Ever Known” Hadestown

Parks and Recreation 3x09

“Journey On,” Ragtime

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back + Star Wars: The Last Jedi

“All I Ask of You,” Phantom of the Opera

Bob’s Burgers 1x05

Star Trek: TOS 1x23

The Time-Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger

“For the Next Ten Minutes,” The Last Five Years

Bone Gap, Laura Ruby

Bone Gap, Laura Ruby

“Passionate Shepherd,” Marlowe

We Were Liars, e.lockhart

We Were Liars, e.lockhart

“Hands On Me,” Vanessa Carlton

“I Know Places,” Taylor Swift

“Sonnet XXX,” Edna St. Vincent Millay

Ten Things I Hate About You

The Princess Bride

The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket

Firefly 1x01

“Burn,” Ellie Goulding

“Falling Slowly,” Once

Dirty Dancing

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Happy Endings 3x01

[onthesandsofdreams]

Intoxicating

Pairing: DameRey Rating: T Summary: The first time they kiss, fireworks go off in his head. Words:150 Notes: Prompt #6 of the May list of @damereydaily2020  Tagging: @mousedetective

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The first time they kiss, fireworks go off in his head.

And Poe knows that this love is different. Others call it the honeymoon period, but there is something about being with Rey that makes everything seem right.

Rey is special. The love they had found had gotten under his skin, he would swear that even after they had separated, he would still smell her perfume. Could still feel the kisses they shared lingering on his lips, her hands exploring his skin, her laughter echo in his ears.

And he finds himself longing for her, to see her again. It almost becomes a need. An intoxicating need he’s not quite sure he wants to be rid of. He knows very well that he has lost both head and heart to Rey and he doesn’t mind.

If he were that sort of man, he’d likely bear her name in a tattoo.

[manonsoubeyran]

One Thing On Her Mind

Poe has been called many things over the years – some flattering, others insulting. For the most part, he lets the words slide off him, not putting too much stock in other people's opinions.

But one thing he has never been accused of is being a subtle flirt.

Prompt: 'She's at that age where she only has one thing on her mind.' 'Boys?' 'Homicide.'

FFN, AO3

[msfangirlgonewild]

BB-8: Look what I’ve found (my mom and dad) at the starfighter hangar! LOL!

Happy Friday!

[starlight-and-seafire]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Poe Dameron/Rey Characters: Rey (Star Wars), Poe Dameron Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Family, Love, Friends to Lovers, Fluff, Ficlet Series: Part 81 of Damerey Daily 2020 Summary:

Love comes in different flavors.

[dracosollicitus]

The Same Moon

(Damerey, Rated G; Alcohol TW)

Poe walked around the party, drink in hand. He was excited for his upcoming deployment if only because it was his last one. A few more months, and he’d be able to transition out of his time as an active duty member.

He turned the corner and saw his two close friends, Finn and Rey; they looked like they were having a serious argument. Finn was whispering something to Rey, whose eyes were suspiciously red as she hiccuped and glared into her red Solo cup.

They both spotted him at the same time and straightened up like they’d been caught with their hands in the cookie jar. “Hey,” Finn greeted him with a small smile.

“Hi,” Rey muttered, her cheeks bright red.

“I think Jannah’s calling me,” Finn said before Poe could even say hi. He elbowed Rey with a particular viciousness before walking away and clapped Poe on shoulder as he passed him.

Poe took Finn’s spot against the wall, trying to smile at Rey around her protective curtain of hair; gone were her typical buns, and instead her hair floated around her face, even lovelier than normal — her cheeks flushed, eyes bright, freckles dusting her skin like constellations or snowfall.

Maybe Poe was just feeling preemptively homesick. He was going to miss Rey, probably worse than anyone else. There was the uncomfortable fact that he was in love with her — a stupid choice (not-choice) on his part considering she was ten years younger than him, Finn’s best friend, and altogether too cool to date someone like him.

“I—“ Poe prepared to confess, to tell her how badly he was going to miss her, how his heart felt like a bruise around her, but Rey tilted her head back and smiled at him, dreamy if a little sad.

“You’re gonna be real far away soon, huh?”

“Uh, yeah?”

“Yep.. Far, far away.” Rey hiccuped again, and Poe’s eyebrows lifted as he realized how tipsy she was. Rey took another sip of her drink — and, nope, she was draining it — and then set the cup down on the nearby windowsill before mirroring his posture, down to her hands shoved in her pockets.

“Will you remember me?” Rey asked softly, sounding vulnerable suddenly. Poe’s heart twinged horribly.

“How could I ever forget you?”

“Plenty of people do,” Rey whispered, and Poe wanted to stop her from ever sounding that sad again, from ever believing that about herself, but she kept going. “Jus’ .. just remember something, okay?”

“Anything,” he promised.

“Every time you look up at the moon, I too, will be looking at a moon.” Rey’s hazel eyes were fixed on his, and Poe’s heart skipped a beat because — God, she couldn’t be saying —

Rey hiccuped again. “Not the same moon, obviously.” She wiped her nose, breaking the eye contact. “Tha’s impossible.”

“Yeah, it is,” Poe laughed, his stomach aching from how badly he wanted to kiss her. But she hiccuped again, swaying slightly, and he sighed, setting his own drink down and holding out his hand.

Rey took it with a shy smile; he pulled her away from the wall not for a kiss but to walk with her to the fridge. He rummaged around until he found her water bottle and handed it to her. “Hydrate,” he said firmly. “No alcohol ‘til that’s gone.”

“Aye, aye, Captain,” Rey grumbled, giving him a fake salute that was terribly charming as she popped the lid and took a sip.

“More.”

“Ugh.” She wrinkled her nose but complied. “You are so bossy!”

“You bet,” Poe agreed cheerfully, grinning at her ferocious scowl.

Rey sighed, shook her head, and took another sip. “You are soooo lucky I’m in love with you.”

“You be—“ Poe froze. “Uh, wait. What?”

“Peanut! Come finish up this round!” Finn called from the beer pong table.

“See ya,” Rey said serenely, clearly unaware that she’d stopped Poe’s heart.

Poe watched her disappear through the crowd, the idea of four and a half months away from her looming over him suddenly, as well as the knowledge that he wouldn’t have a chance to talk to her sober until he got back.

Crap.