a_gentle_boy | Twentieth PSI

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Twentieth PSI

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Lucas is a wreck. By now, he has forsaken the hat and the mask, and his burn marks are very clearly visible to anyone who didn't guess before. He doesn't particularly care.

1. He stumbles across town like a zombie, smashing into things wherever he goes, barely registering the pain. He stops suddenly in random spots, staring at the floor or at a tree or at a shop window or at a drone. This is where we had ice cream. This is where I bought him the present. This is the bench where he listened to my story . . . This is where . . . This is . . .

2. In school, he keeps his head down and buried and sits in a far corner. His shoulders occasionally heave.

3. At home, he shuts himself in his room. Family members or those who visit him will find drawing after drawing after drawing of a certain person strewn all across the floor, each one with slash marks through the face. Is he already forgetting? Is he losing the smile, the laugh, the voice?

[action, forward-dated, open to Taiwan, Saki, and Mindy]
A full day after his meeting with Taiwan, Lucas enters the house uninvited. He doesn't care about not being selfish anymore. He has remembered -- There is something very precious he needs to get back, the symbol and the memory that he absolutely needs.

He finds it in the basement. True to his word, the Netherlands has framed the very first drawing that Lucas has ever made, of Miffy and Hello Kitty enjoying a picnic in a park. Propped up beside it is the best piece of art that Lucas has ever produced: a drawing of the two of them, laughing and happy, so closely resembling each other in looks that they could've passed as a father and a son.

He is about to leave with his treasures when he catches a glimpse of something else out of the corner of his eye. A shoebox. For 'Lucas'. His hands shake as he pops the lid; he stares at what's inside.

"Mr. Netherlands . . . . . . . I . . . I . . . OK. I'll keep going. I'll keep fighting . . . "

((I have been informed that Lucas has been left notes of all the conversations the Netherlands has had with Jane Smith, the Westport notes, and Richard Grey's wallet. Also, Nini, if you don't mind, I think I will forward-date that conversation they just had to after this.))

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[Hi Lucas. There's a crazy, green-skinned man in a yellow sundress following you around at the moment. He's not saying anything, but just how close he is to you is probably horrifically uncomfortable. He isn't so much "tailing you" as "walking directly behind you in a frog-like crouch".]

[ Wy is wandering around the school. If he's in high school, she came to steal art supplies.

She notices Lucas and has this odd feeling that she shouldn't be as much of a brat as always. ]

... Hey, you.

[Whoa whoa whoa, no bumping into things! Vince grabs Lucas' shoulder to stop him, visibly concerned.]

Lucas? What's wrong?

[She notices the boy who helped her the other day, and slows her motorbike to a stop. She owes him a huge debt of gratitude, and so she may as well begin today.

But something seems strange; he isn't acting like the boy she met the other day.]

Em Lucas-! [She then watches him knock into a pole.] ...Oh! [She climbs off of the bike to rush towards him.] Are you alright?

[ooc; This post literally made me cry. You are such a talented writer, DL.]

-Literally running into him. She couldn't see him over her grocery bags, orz.-

[Have a curious-looking and worried Luke checking in.]

Lucas?

[America is out and about when he sees Lucas stumbling around, and he hurries over to him. He's not so put out by the lack of mask due to meeting him with Vietnam, but he's concerned that he doesn't seem to be well.]

Hey! Kiddo, you all right?

[Coming down to see who is in the basement. Here Lucas, have a sad little girl clutching a teddy bear.]

Lucas....?

[he is concerned about this... angsting in a corner business, but he has no idea what could be wrong, making this awkward. He approaches uncertainly]

Uhhh...

Lucas?

[They don't have the same classes, but that's not going to stop her from chasing him down immediately after school.]

What is with you?

[Miakis is out for yet another walk, not looking too happy herself, but the sight of a sad kid makes her forget all about the bad week she's had. After watching him bump into a wall, she runs over to Lucas and gently grabs his shoulder, frowning.]

Whoa there, kiddo, watch where you're going! You feeling okay...?

[Garnet approaches Lucas with caution, because she sees the way his tiny frame is trembling. A little voice is telling her to let him be, but he reminds her too much of a certain Black Mage, who filled her heart with sunny memories and then Stopped from one day to the next like an old pocket watch, to let him go unnoticed.

So she'll gently set a hand on a heaving shoulder and lean in, but not too close.] Lucas?...

Edited 2010-10-18 11:39 (UTC)

[Sees you walk into something and hurries over worried.]

Oh dear, are you alright?!

[Ok, the assumed you were injured when he saw you last but he didn't think it was THIS bad]

Lucas...!

[Jesus Christ this kid. This kid. Parsee snarls and tries to shove him away; her bruise might have healed, but the memory hasn't.]

You again. What, did you get tired of using a bat?

[It's only in Finland's nature to worry about everyone he sees.]

Excuse me, are you alright?

[Taiwan comes downstairs into the basement a few minutes after Lucas finds the shoebox with his name on it. She's pretty sure she heard someone come in, and has already looked everywhere else but down here.]

"...Hello? Is someone there?"

[ooc; Sounds good. We'll address anything regarding this there, then?]

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