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Jess is with Rachel and Raylan takes a chance to go wandering. He takes his rifle, on its strap over his shoulder, his hat on the back of his head. He doesn't know if he'll actually bother hunting and, honestly, what he's looking for isn't prey. He knows her well enough to figure out where she might be.

And he's got a question that needs asking. He's been giving it some thought.
He can't actually remember the last time that he made a friend he doesn't work with.

Which matters, somehow.
It really does.

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"Oh, come on," Andrea says with a laugh, throwing both arms around Raylan in a real hug. She's never had much of a problem with physical affection and she grins before she releases him again, stepping back to really look at him for a second. It's nice to see him happy.

"So, do I get to bring a date?" she asks casually, though her smile is anything but.

It's a moment before he relaxes and then he wraps his arms around her and pulls her in against his chest.

"Of course you can bring a date," he says, after he lets her go. "There someone special?"

"There's... someone," she answers, her mouth hitching up in another grin. Sam's a great guy and she really likes spending time with him, but she isn't sure they're serious enough -- or exclusive enough -- for her to refer to him as someone special. "Sam Flynn," she says, wondering if Raylan knows him, if he'll have an opinion about him. She likes to make up her mind about people on her own, but sometimes it doesn't hurt to hear what someone outside the situation thinks.

"Don't know him," he says and then he steels himself, automatically turning them in the direction of the bar. Maybe the pretty red-head's serving; Rachel'd totally understand. He sighs.

"Well? What's he like?"

"Sam?" she asks, even though that much as obvious and she pauses, thinking as she lets Raylan change direction. It's sort of a tough question to answer, especially given how closed mouth she tends to be about things like this. It used to drive Amy nuts whenever she'd try to get details out of her about a date.

"He's nice," she settles on saying. "Being around him is easy." That counts for a hell of a lot.

"That's not nothing," says Raylan, head bowed as they walk - he's unconsciously turned them in the direction of the Hub. "I mean - I love Rachel with all my heart but nobody could ever accuse her of being easy."

Andrea laughs, unable to help herself and she lifts her shoulders in a shrug. "I bet everyone's not easy at least some of the time." She thinks of all the times Dale drove her nuts or the times Rick pissed her off, but he's right. Easy counts for a lot. Especially with her. She doesn't have much of a taste for difficulties.

"Back home, not long before I came here, I... sort of dated someone," she says. "But it just never felt right. I don't get that feeling here."

"Yeah?" he says, glancing across at her. "Man. You'd better bring this guy to the wedding so I can get a look at him."

She laughs at that, head tipped slightly as she looks over at Raylan. "So you can let me know if he's good enough?" she asks and although she's teasing, it's sort of a nice thought, too. That someone might still be looking out for her a little bit.

"Now I just feel like your daddy," says Raylan, nose wrinkling. "I haven't got that figured out for one person and there's very little that he can do to test me, yet."

"He'll find a way soon enough," Andrea says. "And between you and me, I'm sure you'll do just fine." Some people just know how to do it, she thinks, even if they're scared or think they don't. Raylan's one of them, just like Rick. She had tried once, done her best, but her best hadn't been good enough for those boys.

"C'mon," he says, nodding his head towards the Hub. "Let's go get a drink and you can convince me that everything's gonna turn out okay."

"Yeah, alright," Andrea agrees easily, another grin crossing her face. "I'm pretty good at that, actually." She suspects it's her conviction that everything really will be alright in the end, although sometimes she isn't sure how she's managed to hold onto that for so long.

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