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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 2010-08-29 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
I guess so. But, you know . . . even if it doesn't last, you still ought to try to be careful about dying.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. So you were listening back when I was trying out the violin, huh?

[identity profile] snackaholictank.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
What violin?

[identity profile] kimitoaruiteku.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. I once had to live on an island with just my brother and nothing else but that was just for one month... I couldn't imagine not being around so few people for a long time... I bet you were all really close though.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
We . . . were.

[At one point in the past. Lucas looks uncomfortable for a few seconds before changing topic.]

You have a brother, too? What's his name?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
Um. Never mind. Aha.

A-Anyway, I haven't been playing very long so I hope I'll get a lot better soon. I have a teacher now, too.

[identity profile] dodo-master.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not too worried. Everyone who dies here comes back, right? Not like I'm seeking it out, but it is comforting to know that.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm . . . That's what I mean, though. I mean, death isn't forever, but . . . it feels wrong to have people treating it so lightly still.

[identity profile] dodo-master.livejournal.com 2010-08-29 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Strange, isn't it? This town has removed the one thing that's inevitable for everyone. I think it's fascinating!

[identity profile] snackaholictank.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Who's gonna teach you?

[identity profile] kimitoaruiteku.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
Ed. Edward Elric. He's here in Mayfield.

[identity profile] windmill.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
...hoi, Lucas.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
-- !

Oh! Hi. . . . Have you been there for a while?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 12:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah . . . That must be a little easier for you. Or. Well, it's good and it's bad, too, I mean.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
A girl named Mugi. I was trying to play and she just came up and asked if I wanted her to teach me.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Fascinating is one way to put it.

[identity profile] windmill.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Not long. Just passin' through.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lucas nods. After a few moments, he answers a question that hasn't been asked.]

I probably shouldn't sing if I'm not so good at it. It felt like a good thing to do, anyway . . .

[identity profile] snackaholictank.livejournal.com 2010-08-30 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Is she good too?

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-31 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
I think so! I really hope she can help me play better. I think this is the instrument I'm going to stick with.

[identity profile] windmill.livejournal.com 2010-08-31 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Y'sounded just fine. The song's not familiar t'me, though.

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-31 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
You wouldn't be. I heard it somewhere far away, and I made the words up. It's what I . . . wish the song was trying to say.

[Wish is a strange word to use, but he chose it carefully.]

[identity profile] snackaholictank.livejournal.com 2010-08-31 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Huh... Is it hard to play piano?

[identity profile] windmill.livejournal.com 2010-08-31 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
You made that up? [h-he's touched. Lucas so cute.]

[identity profile] a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com 2010-08-31 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It's really dumb, huh?

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