Huh?

[a_gentle_boy]

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[Oh OK so.  That just happened.  ...Lucas listens a little blankly to the announcement before blinking a few times to himself.]

So, um.  I'm... kind of... still here... So don't worry!  ...I mean, not that it's really that important, and there are probably a lot of other people who are really gone, but.  ...Is there someone else named Lucas here?

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[Today is a normal day.  Lucas delivers the mail, takes his rounds making sure his friends are alright, stops by at the malt shop... And yet, everywhere he goes, he gets nothing but dirty glances.  It's more than mildly confusing, and so it is that he ends up sitting on his front porch frowning to himself.  It's been a long time since he's done so, but eventually, he'll get out the yo-yo and begin to quietly practice some tricks by himself.

The rhythmicity of the movements makes him feel a bit better.]

((Lucas was wiped, so please respond as if he were fake!))

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[imjustpicky]

[Picky really needed to go and see for himself that the other disappeared people really were disappeared... and although he hadn't liked what he first saw, he had to keep seeing. Had to. Just to be sure.

So he was standing a distance away from not-Lucas-but-maybe-Lucas-but-not, watching with wide eyes as he did awesome things with his yo-yo.]

...I didn't know Lucas knew yo-yo tricks.

[Because that wasn't Lucas up there. And that was sad. But yo-yo tricks were cool, no matter who was doing them.]

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[...Sigh. Third person it is.]

Lucas doesn't know yo-yo tricks more than he knows yo-yo fighting moves... The tricks just came on their own later with some practice.

[He'll glance up at Picky quietly for a few moments.]

You, too, Finch...?

[imjustpicky]

You can fight with a yo-yo? Really? [Well there was that game he and Pokey had for the Nintendo, with that kid with a yo-yo and it was really hard to make him move and he kept falling in water and dying... what was that, again?

Focus.]

...yeah. Me too. B-but, I'm not GONE, I'm really ME! It's... it's some sort of trick!

[There's a pause. He tilts his head and looks Lucas up and down.]

...I... can't be the only one that's real. Can I? [He looks very unsure.]

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

Well. Everyone's been saying that. [Lucas smiles wanly before he turns back down towards his yo-yo.]

The question is... If it's not that everyone's lying except you, then. Everyone's real or everyone's really fake.

Even you. Even if you don't think so.

[imjustpicky]

I don't think I'm fake!

[His answer is immediate. He's really, really sure.]

...then... you're really Lucas, too!

[He's mostly sure about that.]

Then... was that really...

[And he trails off, now not sure of anything at all.]