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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] bluecapboy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[It's very calming.]

...Where did you learn that song?

[identity profile] an-zero.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
"It's not the body that counts, but the heart."

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas smiles a little.]

I know. I think we're pretty good friends if the worst you could say was that it annoys you when I say 'Mister'.

Something's been a little wrong with people recently, hasn't it? I don't think it's something I can heal . . . But a lot of people have been acting funny. It's alright, Mr. Vince.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
H-Huh . . . ? Oh, hi, Luke. . . . Back at home. It was something I heard that stuck in my mind.

[identity profile] kurasuprincessu.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
No, no, it's my pleasure.

[She gets up to allow herself room to properly introduce herself. She bows.]

I am Tsumugi Kotobuki. It is a pleasure to meet you.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas thinks about that for a few moments.]

That's right. But it's still a little strange . . . How do you get to be a person? I don't think he ever figured out how to make them that way. To be real people . . .

[identity profile] an-zero.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry. I'm not really the philosophical type. If I had to guess, a part of the answer may be 'he didn't want them to be'.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
O-Oh!

[Lucas hesitates for a few moments before bowing, too.]

I'm . . . Lucas.

[Does he have a last name? He forgets.]</small. It's nice to meet you too, Miss Tsumugi.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
You're probably right. I just never thought they could be.

[identity profile] bluecapboy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Is that so? I really like the song...

[identity profile] an-zero.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[. . .]

There is one good thing about being human, even if it's an inconvenience.

[identity profile] numanstan.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[best little friend ever ;u;]

So, it's not just me, then?... Do y'think it's the town doin' it? They usually make everybody go mad, though, 'stead of just a few people.

[identity profile] kurasuprincessu.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Lucas, then. I promise to do my best.

Pretend that didn't happen

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
And I'll do my best, too! Now that I have a real teacher, I mean . . . I really appreciate it, Miss Tsumugi.

[identity profile] dodo-master.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh Lucas you KNOW he was waiting for you to ask. He gives you a sly grin.]

Ah yes, but of course! Let me see, let me see...

[Thinking, thiiiiiinking... and then after a moment, sings a snippet of the tenor's part in Don Giovanni. He's a Mozart fan. And, perhaps surprisingly, he's very good. He's had a few hundred years to get it right.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't notice it, but Crowe made an apology, too, and Mr. Hughes, and I think a few other people are acting funny.

[Lucas's face darkens a little.]

I hate to say it, but it's probably an ability that someone got back recently.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucas's response is a bit strange.]

Strawberry ice cream malts.

. . .

Uh. Sorry.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
I like it, too. That's why I remember it. I had to make up the words though. They're kinda silly . . .

[identity profile] kurasuprincessu.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

Please call me Mugi.

[identity profile] an-zero.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
...Alright, even I'll admit having a sense of taste is a bit enjoyable. But that's part of what I was going to say.

It's a learning experience. Learning what it's like to be human has been good.

[identity profile] numanstan.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
... The ability to turn people into total arseholes?

That's awful.

[identity profile] bluecapboy.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think so, you're really good at it!

Do you know any others?

[identity profile] wolf-faerie.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! I like to sing.

[She pauses for a moment, and then starts to sing a song in Gaelic.]

You must go where I cannot,
Pangur Ban, Pangur Ban
Nil sa seo scha ceo...
Edited 2010-08-27 03:02 (UTC)

[identity profile] crawlininmytome.livejournal.com 2010-08-27 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Ange is going to stop walking and quietly listen to him sing in the park.]

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