Waverly immediately worried over her currently frogged out girlfriend's safety while Doc sets himself between her, Nicole, and the thing holding Rachel hostage when it seemed the reaper that was Billy Clanton was incredibly interested in her.
"You want Wayhaught you-" the vampire warns but Billy's angry growl cuts him off but then he quiets just as quickly as he had lashed out when the noise caused another fearful whimper from the human girl he was still holding as his hostage his head seeming to tilt and nuzzle against a shaking Rachel's shoulder as if to soothe her.
"Aaww he's almost like a cute zombie puppy." The half-angel cooes at the display peering at them from around Doc's side.
"Baby girl you know what it means if you can see one of those things." Wynonna warns a new kind of panic in her voice at the thought.
"True but it also seems the beast is quite tamed for the moment." Doc points out when Rachel once again whimpers in quiet panic at the invisible fingers seeming to be petting her hair. "But is it—" she wonders causing Waverly to node in reassurance. "It's Billy." She promises. That at least seems to relax the teen a little.
Another ribbit this one sounding worried came from the frog Waverly was trying to keep hidden away in the pocket of her jacket. "Oh, sorry baby." Waverly sighs not realizing how stifled Nicole must be feeling after all the hard manhandling her new body had taken in the last hour. "Jer mind getting Nic some water? She's looking a little dehydrated."
Jeremy nodes making a mini dash toward the bar once Nedley's bandage had been properly secured.
Another warning growl comes from the reaper's lips but instead of moving to attack any of them, he drags a nervous Rachel backward a few steps away from the sudden movement.
"Aaww he's protective so cute." Waverly translates for them while the rest of them blink in surprise.
"I do not think that was so much protecting her as it is protecting himself from us." Doc jumps in noticing like Waverly how the demonized Clanton seemed determined to keep the teenager between himself and the rest of them.
"Protection from what?" Randy asks in a groan as he drags himself up into a more seated position on the edge of the bar booth.
"Let's find out." Wynonna purrs giving Rachel's arm a hard tug out of Billy's grip.
"Oh, shit tickets. Wynonna."
"Wynonna you should not have done that."
Wynonna's eyes widened in panic when she realized she'd just taken the safety off a reaper loaded gun when Waverly seemed to be franticly trying to pass a terrified croaking Nicole to a startled looking Nedley while Doc again put himself between Waverly and the oncoming danger while Wynonna tried to push a panicked Rachel back toward the no longer their reaper of her maybe-boyfriend.
"Doc you already know regular bullets won't work." Waverly reminded even more panic creeping into her voice when her vampire bodyguard raised his weapon at the oncoming reaper as the pair back away toward the back stairs leading to the upper floor.
"Baby girl, call out a warning shot." Wynonna suggested getting into a better position while trying to talk over Nicole's now terrified sounding croaks from the water glass now clutched in Randy Nedley's hand as she (Wynonna) jumps onto the tabletop raising a blue glowing Peacemaker toward the open space between her vampire baby daddy and Rachel.
"Weird eye looking floorboard." The half-angel answers her hand flashing out around Doc's arm to point toward the target as her older sister takes aim. The reaper instantly pauses hissing in frustration when the shot lands inches from his right foot making him stumble to stop.
"You have been practicing." Doc praises making Wynonna blush as she tosses her hair back over one shoulder. "While yeah. Just cause you and Wavs were gone doesn't mean this place stops being Purgatory." Wyatt's great grate granddaughter defends clicking another round into the chamber just in case.
"Okay, nerds how can we make it so the rest of us none targets can at least see part of him?" Wynonna questions trying to distract from the rush of blood still coloring her cheeks as she risks a glance between her sister and Jeremy all the while keeping a still blue glowing Peacemaker trained in what she guessed was Billy Clanton's direction.
"Well I have an idea but you're not going to like it." Jeremy pipes up his eyes now locked on a trembling looking Rachel.
"A red bandana." Doc growled when Jeremy held up the battered strip of red cloth after a quick search behind the bar.
"I know I know. Red bandana and Clanton history not a good combination, but it was the best I could do at the moment." The BBD agent defends carrying it over to the seemed to be forgotten tub of holy water and sault "Now I know Doc won't be able to so Waverly I've going to need you to tie this around our reaper friend's arm." He instructs after dousing the cloth in the mixture a few times to get it completely saturated.
"You're kidding." The Earp sisters as well as the rest of the room said at the same time. Although Nicole's sounded more like an unamused gargle due to her current position of watching the outside world from the safety of a water-filled beer glass.
Jeremy shakes his head "' Fraid not."
"I'm not going over there." Waverly refused her hands fisting at her sides as her eyes drop to the floor rather than having to look at Jeremy's current crouching stance beside the tub, he'd used to drown the love of her life.
"Hey. Nicole—well yeah she's not as okay as we'd want but at least she's still alive baby girl." Wynonna tries to console leaving the following comforting hug to Rachel rather than risking lowering Peacemaker and letting Billy the reaper back out to play.
"Ohh." Jeremy realizes stumbling back away from the 'Nicole body drowning tub' he'd been kneeling beside. "Sorry Waves." He mumbled complete guilt layering his tone.
Waverly sniffs in answer trying in vain to fight back the tears stinging her eyes as Rachel's grip around her waist grew tighter. "We didn't lose her completely." The teenager reminded not seeming to mind at all at Waverly's clawing grip against the back of her jacket if anything that only made her hug even tighter.
"I know." Waverly whispers her voice cracking as she looks over to the guilty-looking frog that was now her girlfriend.
"Ladies may I suggest vamoosing," Doc interjects noticing how the reaper between them had turned his full attention back to Rachel and was starting to make his way over to them.
"Shit tickets." Waverly cursed making Rachel giggle as she was tugged over toward Jeremy. Mercifully for Waverly's too raw feelings over the glaring metal tub, he met the pair halfway already holding out the water-soaked cloth to the angel's reaching hand.
"Hold out your hand."
Rachel blinked in surprise at Waverly's hurried request but did as she was asked reaching out her hand palm out into what for her was still open space between her and 'Daddy mustache' Holiday.
As predicted Billy stopped just out of reach of Rachel's hand.
Waverly grinned her first real smile since first stepping into the bar to find her best friend and the man she'd come to see as her second kind of father figure after her uncle Curtis and Shorty drowning the woman she loved. "Good Billy." She praised but ignoring the growl it earned from the reaper. "Oh, shut up at least your girlfriend's not been turned into a frog." The half-angel snapped back
"You know I'm really starting to hate this Harry Potter thesaural crap." Rachel huffed breaking up any more of their back and forth with the groaned comment when her searching fingers came up empty. Neither Waverly nor Doc had the heart yet to suggest moving just four steps forward.
"Oh my god yes." Jeremy agrees with a giddy nerdy grin "I was just thinking the same thing."
"Not entirely accurate seeing as unlike actual thesaural's these invisible creatures do not possess wings nor would they want to kill our friends and also the thesaural can been seen by everyone who seems death which if it worked, in this case, would already include everyone in this room."
Everyone's eyes turned toward Doc each set (apart from Billy's that is) holding an amused if not surprised note in them while the vampire fumbles under the attention. "What?" he asks fidgeting with one of the gun hilts at his belt. "Since I no longer need sleep, I have filled my nights catching up on reading this time's literature offerings
"Ooo what book are you up to now?" Rachel asks already guessing the answer.
"Really? I would have thought you'd go more for Twilight." Nedley joined in earning an unamused half glare from Doc at the idea.
"Come on Smalldez focus." Wynonna insists her impatience seems to be backed by a disgruntled noise from Nicole who now had a perfect view of the unfolding events from her place on Wynonna's shoulder.
"Right, right sorry." Rachel back petals taking the offered red cloth from Waverly's shaking hand. "But how are we doing to do this if I can't see him?"
"By playing a little game of Billy see," Waverly says carefully grabbing onto Rachel's other arm raising it up to the height they'd need then pausing. "Billy copy." She smiles again when just as she'd hoped the reaper mirrored the movement.
"Wait this won't hurt him will it?" Rachel worried-looking back over her shoulder to meet the older woman's eyes.
Waverly shook her head in denial. "He's still wearing his long coat which is good for us seeing as neither the water nor the sault should touch his actual skin so the burn will be contained to just his coat."
"Wait burn? I'm not burning Billy."
"Sweetie you won't be." Waverly calms resting a reassuring hand against the upset teen's shoulder "Like I said whatever damage this trick might cause will only affect his coat not him." She promises her eyes flickering between Rachel and Billy's faces when the human girl's upset immediately began triggering the reaper's more aggressive side.
"They got this." Wynonna soothes feeling more than seeing Nicole hiding against the collar of her jacket at the angry sounds starting to fill the empty bar when Waverly steps out front behind Rachel and toward Billy.
"Hey Billy," Rachel says thinking that a distraction might be in order given how loudly her kind of boyfriend's growls were becoming. At once the growls dropped in volume but didn't stop completely. "I missed you while you were gone." The teenager continues after an encouraging node from Waverly. "But then you came back to me." A much softer sound slips out then. Much softer and warmer than anything the watching band would have thought a demon could possibly make.
"You know in a weird way this is actually adorable." Wynonna comments Nicole still perched on her shoulder as the Earp heir drains another swallow of beer. "Don't you think?" she asks tilting her head to glance at her frog of a best friend.
Nicole didn't answer her eyes locked on the pair still dealing with a loose cannon of a demon the frog of a woman only suspects she was able to see herself because of her own curly cursed status.
Waverly had managed to secure the red colored cloth around what those that couldn't see the second teenager guessed was his upper arm causing what for them was an odd smokey appearance to the floating red band seeming to be hovering in midair. For Nicole, Waverly, and Doc they saw a puzzled Billy Clanton staring with a surprisingly curious look for a demon at the cloth around his arm.
"Alright, now that that's settled everyone into the car." Wynonna decides polishing off the last few sips of her drink after slipping Nicole back into her water mug that was quickly passed back to her sister. "I don't want to leave the homestead unguarded too long with the rest of the Clanton hoard lurking about."