Tenth PSI

May. 23rd, 2010 11:16 pm
a_gentle_boy: (Sorrow)
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[open call]
 . . . Hello?  Um.  Is this . . . Is this the right number?  This is Mayfield Elementary . . . ?

I'd, um.  I'd like to call in sick.  Lucas . . . Last name?  Ushiromiya.  . . . . . . . .  There isn't any -- A-Ah.  Lucas . . . Lucas Fawlin . . . Grade 7.  No, I just haven't been feeling well . . . Ah.  Mostly fever . . . . . . . . A hundred and um.  Three or four.  U-Up my . . . No.  No.  My mouth . . . A few days.  No.  I haven't seen the nurse . . . Um.  Not yet . . .  My parents . . . ?  They're not home.  And I . . . I don't want to bother them . . . I don't know.  I . . . I really don't think I can.  I don't . . . But I -- I know, but.  It's just . . .  I'm really not . . .

. . .

O-OK.  OK.  I'll try . . . I'm sorry for the trouble . . .


[Ten minutes after this call is made, an unsteady figure walks out the steps of 846 Goldberg, his face flushed and his eyes glossy.  Twenty minutes after that, the boy slowly begins to kneel to the sidewalk somewhere on the route to school, but fails to make it all the way before collapsing forward.  He does not get back up.]

((Feel free to make responses to the phone call or anytime that Lucas is spotted on the street, either after he faints or before.
EDIT: For continuity's sake, I'm going to refer to Margot as finding Lucas first if I make any reference to this simply because she had the first thread.  I wasn't expecting so many replies; thanks everyone!  He'll still remember everyone's kindness to him, though.))

Date: 2010-05-25 01:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com
... Let's... get you inside, shall we?

Date: 2010-05-25 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
. . . . . k.

[Lucas doesn't protest. With an adult witness, he had a decent enough alibi now to avoid any sort of droning as punishment.]

Date: 2010-05-25 02:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com
[He'll just... do his best to help the kid inside. And onto the couch.]

Date: 2010-05-25 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
[He settles onto the couch. Then lies there like a lump, blinking at Sideswipe.]

Thanks.

Date: 2010-05-25 02:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com
[Lucas, this is the absolute last person you want to take care of you.]

Sure... ah... just... recharge, I guess?

Date: 2010-05-25 02:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
[That's alright, there are about 10 others doing the same in alternate realities presently. In this one, Lucas continues staring for a few more moments before closing his eyes and nodding. He goes to sleep.]

Date: 2010-05-25 02:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaponsparked.livejournal.com
[He'll just... duck out then. Quietly.]

Date: 2010-05-25 02:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com
[About ten minutes after Sideswipe has left him, there is a thumping sound as he rolls off the couch and hits his head.]

Ow.

[Lucas goes back to sleep on the floor.]

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