Hoyt sets to moaning about Jessica's absence, the smells and memories and the peripheral startlements and the good-grief relief that it's over, all mixed up together. Jason can barely hear it, it's too much information and it's too much Bubba. Hoyt asking for a minute of Jason's day, Hoyt asking if he can stay there with his Bubba, so he doesn't have to face their haunted house by himself.

Hoyt: "Like, I don't want her back, she...? It's just, but I keep waitin' to see her walk through the door, or like... Crawl up out of her cubby hole, you know, and... All kind of cute and kind of sleepy? You know?"

Jason begs his Bubba not to cry; it is out of their hands now. Hoyt crying is so much more than just crying, like how Alcide is so very naked. The awful Cubism of boys with no clothes on.

BELLEFLEUR

Andy wakes up to Terry shaking his V vial in his face and Arlene shitting a brick and yelling -- a great performance, really -- about their kids and drugs and whatever. Arlene eventually stalks off, more sympathetic and funny and the things she's supposed to be than she has been in a while unless that's my confirmation bias talking -- and Terry says it's time to go: Time to head for Fort Bellefleur.

SOOKIE'S

Jason: "Sookie, don't stop making me breakfast but you gotta stop looking at me funny, it makes me feel like you're acting psychic."
Sookie: "It's just weird because of how you are fleeing from Hoyt. Not very sympathetic."
Jason: "I can't tell you the real reasons, so I will just complain about his cryin' and rantin' and ravin' and repeatin' things over and over and drinkin' all my beers and continuously fartin' when he passes out."
Sookie, kind of loving it: "Jason! I don't need to know this."

Jason: "So can I stay here? People constantly stay here."
Sookie: "Yeah, but I need a favor. I constantly need favors."
Jason: "If it's vampire shit, count me out."
Sookie: "Tangentially? Bill's going to blow up Holly and Tara with a rocket launcher."
Jason: "-- The fuck?"
Sookie: "... Yeah, because of the Tolerance Thing, and the necromancy and Eric and..."
Jason: "Nope, I was totally getting raped by panther people while this was developing."
Sookie: Hilariously rolls out her eyes and puffs out her cheeks and sits down, because yeah, at this point it's kind of a tale.