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Lucas ([personal profile] a_gentle_boy) wrote2010-08-26 03:59 pm

Sixteenth PSI

[For most of the summer, torturous sounds have been coming from the music room of the school during the late afternoons.  After deciding the recorder was a bust, Lucas had moved on to the violin, the trumpet, and the flute, passing through each one and deciding in short order that he had better stop for the good of humanity.  It was only about about three weeks ago that he had decided to try his hand at the piano sitting dusty and forgotten in the corner.

He had seen something like it before, with the DCMC.  Duster had taught him a little about instruments while they'd been traveling -- He'd even been allowed to pluck a little at Duster's bass.  And, of course, there'd been that whole business with feeling the beat of the enemy's life force.  This didn't mean that he knew anything about playing instruments.  The futility of the summer had proved that.  Yet . . . when he'd begun to plonk away at the keys . . . something just clicked.  Sure, the torturous sounds continued.  But after a little while . . . they at least began to resolve themselves into something vaguely resembling a song.

It was a song he wouldn't forget soon.  The song that had played in that room . . . The song that meant . . .   And with his last meeting with Vince still fresh in his mind, Lucas somehow thought he knew what the song was trying to say.]


Do you hear me call to you?  Can you even hear my heart's cry?
Still I call out to the wind . . . Even as it flows on by, for
I believe our dreams can still come true.  I'll always keep my faith and trust in you

Even if I'm a fool, I'll always feel the same about you.  I believe in friends and laughter and the wonders love can do; I believe in second chances and that's why I still believe in you.


 . . . . . . i . . . believe in second chances . . . . . . .

[Later that night, he returns to the park and sings his song quietly with a good sense of pitch.  He is wearing his school clothes from last year.  They are too small for him.
Time moves on.]

((Feel free to comment while Lucas is practicing on the piano as well. He will sound pretty awful unless he's playing this song.))

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucas scootches off the bench.]

. . . Do you mind if I watch you play? I could probably learn a lot if I watched someone who was really good.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Those're animals with other animal parts sewn on. Or animals with iron and steel machine parts sewn on.

[identity profile] dodo-master.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, piano is an excellent choice! Very good for voice accompaniment. And yes, to be a good singer you have to do a lot of work. But it's fun, it's definitely worth it.

Wrong icon last post =(

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Does that mean you're a singer?

[identity profile] kimitoaruiteku.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sheepish grin.] I kind of skipped a lot of school myself. My family traveled a lot. But I understand most of it.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's math I have the most trouble with. I can do sums and things like that, but I don't see why x or y are actually numbers in disguise.

[identity profile] wolf-faerie.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Frequents the park often, so she'll hear him singing. Of coure,she won't wait until he's done, because what are manners.]

I like your singing!

[identity profile] kimitoaruiteku.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! I can help you with that, no problem! I'm best at math and science.

[identity profile] wolf-wolves.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess I have, haven't I?

[identity profile] resurrectinto.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Margot can't help but laugh.] You're kind of ridiculous, you know?

You're going to grow up to be a handsome young man and if people won't talk to you just because you've gotten old, send 'em my way and I'll set them straight, okay?

And school will be good for you to make friends your age! There are all sorts of clubs and dances and stuff. I mean, just because we're stuck here doesn't mean you can't have a good time or anything like that.

[identity profile] kurasuprincessu.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course. Now, to think of something...

[She sits down and thinks for a moment. Then, she plays Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQVeaIHWWck).]

[identity profile] an-zero.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Cyborgs. At least, that's what a biological creature with robotic attachments are known as in my world.

[. . .]

I'm built with nothing but machinery. There are parts of me that imitate biological functions, but that's all they are: imitations.

i do that all the time D;

[identity profile] dodo-master.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed it does! Been singing for a very, very, very long time, you see. It's the thing I'm best at, besides magic of course.

[identity profile] numanstan.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh hey, guess who feels like the world's biggest asshole right now?

This guy.

He's standing off to the side, looking so very uncharacteristically nervous and uncertain. He's not good at apologizing. He's going to fuck it up. He just knows it.]

[identity profile] windmill.livejournal.com 2010-08-26 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[coming across him in the park, listening quietly.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
. . . I really can't see myself grown up, anyway. You and Mr. Netherlands are much better at it.

Do you think so . . . ? I'm not sure about dancing, but I'll see if I can join more clubs. It's probably my own fault if I don't have many friends.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Would you really? I don't want to be a bother . . .

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas watches and listens in rapt attention. When she's finished, he starts to applaud.]

I think that was a lot more worthy of clapping than what I played. You're amazing.

[identity profile] kurasuprincessu.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Not at all. You're capable of this as well. Would you like me to help?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas nods. He's heard a little about things like that due to his association with the robot space aliens and Massimo.]

But not right now? Since Mayfield changes people . . . I was going to say you looked a lot like a human, but yeah.

Do you like it better that way?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
. . . Do you mind if I ask you to sing something, then?

[identity profile] an-zero.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Not particularly.

[. . .]

But it doesn't really bother me.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Immortals probably do.

. . .

Thanks again for the other day, Mr. Free. I'm still not sure what really happened, honestly.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
A-Ah! Do you really? Thanks . . .

[identity profile] wolf-wolves.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Oh that? Horrible monster. These things happen sometimes.

You healed me a few times before I got my immortality back, and I like to pay back my debts.

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