Nineteenth PSI

[a_gentle_boy]

[filtered to Vince]
Mist -- . . . Vince?  If you're free sometime soon . . . Sometime really soon, preferably.  And, um.  If you don't mind having to pull off a small miracle.  And . . . If you promise not to yell at me or anything when you see me.

I really need a haircut.

[filtered to Luke, Wy, Shiraasan, Lyn, Ness, and Duster]
Are you all OK?  Did you make it through the night?

[open call]
Did anyone find out anything interesting at the party?  I think I might've gotten something . . . I don't know if it's important.  It seems as if Billy is nice as long as you play along -- He likes fire a lot, and he likes it when you don't mind about him setting them.  If you say anything about it, though, he gets upset really quickly.

It might be nothing.  I don't know.  If anyone runs into him, though . . . try and humor him.  . . . Maybe things would have gone differently if I agreed.

[For anyone who runs into him, Lucas now dons a stylish hat pulled down low over his face, and a strip of cloth cut as a mask wrapped around the top of his head with a single eyehole for his right eye.  If anyone asks, he is playing cops and robbers.  He bumps into things a lot.]

Comments

[weaponsparked.livejournal.com]

Precisely.

... I was... a bit overcharged myself. Not out of my own free will... if that tells you anything.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Lucas frowns at that for a few seconds. He'd gotten used to the peculiar way that Sideswipe talked, but it still took him a while to understand that 'overcharged myself' meant 'drunk myself'.]

He mind-controlled you into drinking? Is that what you're saying? That seems . . . a little mundane. He likes it that much?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

It's a lot better knowing you've got a good friend nearby when you're facing something bad. . . . I probably should've remember that.

[weaponsparked.livejournal.com]

I... can't think of any other reason why I'd suddenly crave his beer like I do a good fight. I don't even like it.

But yes, it does.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

...I didn't. Did something happen there..?

[Vocal]

[bassicfootwork.livejournal.com]

Lucas? What happened at the party?

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

I'd rather try and fail than never try at all.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Ah-ha. He admitted he picked fights, then. Lucas remembers this for future reference.]

Jack Smith likes beer and Billy Smith likes fire. Maybe they all have some sort of weird obsession.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

A lot of things happened. None of them were . . . very good. I think a lot of people might've gotten hurt.

[Vocal]

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Lucas hesitates a little before answering. Though he's known Duster most of his life, it was still hard to admit something like that -- Actually, it was all the harder because of it.]

. . . I messed up, I think. The sort of thing I warned you about . . . happened.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . Not this time, I don't think. I would still have been hurt and you'd be hurt, too, and then I'd be upset that I got you h --

[Shoot, he'd admitted he'd been hurt. Lucas breaks off.]

[weaponsparked.livejournal.com]

... That's not nearly as much information as we should have had.

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

Lucas...

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

We should wait for more people to report. I'm sure someone saw something or noticed something important.

[Lucas is also waiting for a certain person to respond to his call still . . . ]

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

I'm not surprised.... [A sigh. Why did anyone go to that thing?]

Did you... make it through in one piece?

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . It wasn't anything.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

You're looking right at me, Crowe. Nothing fell off.

[weaponsparked.livejournal.com]

If you hear anything, I want to know. I don't like feeling as if I'd wasted my evening.

[wybrows.livejournal.com]

He's a bastard, that kid. [ Australia has been teaching her curse words! ] He... didn't try to hurt ya or anything, right? It's not like I care, I'm just askin'...

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

He . . . didn't try to hurt me, I guess. More . . . He made me hurt myself.

You didn't run into him, I hope.

[wybrows.livejournal.com]

So what'd ya do then? What are your injuries?

... I saw him and I beat 'im up. He apologised for callin' my hair ugly, that's all really.

[windmill.livejournal.com]

Well, this'll help. [he would know. he sighs a little. he knows Lucas is holding much of his distress in.] Dosage is on the side, take two before you sleep, drink a lot of water. That should do it.

[rapier-ex.livejournal.com]

... If you won't say anything, then I won't press the matter.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

. . . Don't lie, Wy.

I got burned a little.

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

I'll let you know. But I'm hoping they'll say it publicly . . . We had enough with the people keeping stuff to themselves last time.