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Julian Fisher AKA Psych ([info]psych_man) wrote in [info]devils_tower,
@ 2008-02-07 17:11:00

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Entry tags:echo, psych, ruby

Sunday//Week Two
Who: Psych, Ruby, and Echo
When: Sunday Night
Where: Twin Feather's Camp
Why: Julian is asked to fix a leak, Echo hates the storm, so Ruby is picked to help him out.

There was a leak in one of the roofs and he had been asked to go fix it, just because this leak happened to be dripping right onto his fellow Twin Feather's bed. And he everyone knew he had a hard time saying no. And this rain was getting worse, or it felt like it was getting worse, so the leak would just get worse. Julian just stared at the other for sometime, they were covered in water, looking desperate at him. He licked his lips before nodding his head and told the other to come inside, stay at his place while he went to fix the leak. His tools were grabbed when he suddenly felt a little hand grabbing how own.

Echo looked up at her father with those wide-eyes that always reminded him of Katherine. One hand was on his while the other held Bear. She was dressed in her PJs and he had just sang her to sleep. There was a tremble to her lips that made him think at any moment she would just start crying. Carefully he turned so he was her level and brushed back her tangled hair, smiling for her, even though he was not looking forward to the job before him. "Now, sweet pea, I have to go fix a hole so this nice person here can sleep. You just wait here, with Bear, and I will be right back."

Right back and drenching wet, likely going to catch a cold... These thoughts were running through his mind but he did not voice any of them to Echo. Still, she shook her head back and forth, stubbornly at his words, the tears beginning to form. Oh no, not the tears! His mind screamed mentally and he picked her up, swinging her around as he held her tight in his arms.

"Shh, shh.. Don't cry. I'm not going far. The rain is not going to hurt you while I'm gone." He tried to sooth her with both words and hands. His body moving like all desperate parent's bodies do when they are trying to calm down their child. The next phase in tears is always the trantrum that follows, that tantrum can sometimes consist of the child suddenly losing the ability to move their limbs and they become dead weight. Echo sometimes did this.

"Gone, gone, gone.." Was all she was saying, about to throw her tantrum. Julian quickly moved to grab up her blankets and wrap her in them, snug and tight, then picked her up in his arms. It was hard to balance her, his tools, and keep from falling out of the tree, but like mother cats caring their kittens around in their mouth he managed not to fall.

He did manage to get wet. Echo had stopped crying though, instead she was just clinging to him. He ran, as fast as he could while still be careful, till he came to Ruby's door. She would hear a desperate knock on it and would likely open it up to see him soaked to the bone, looking wide-eyed, with a huge moving bundle because Echo couldn't be seen with all the blanket he threw on her. "Uh, hi.. Can you do me a favour and just watch her? I'm sorry to wake you but.. I don't want her trying to follow me out here in this."

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[info]ruby_red
2008-02-07 11:49 pm UTC (link)
The rain had been falling steadily through the evening. Most didn't like the rain, but Ruby loved the way it sounded falling on the rooftops at night. It was soothing and often helped her to relax. Such was how she'd felt that day, not going out much and now watching the rain fall through the window. Tink was reading Peter Pan again. The fourth time since Ruby had borrowed it from the library. They shared a mutual love for the story and often told it to each other time and time again to pass the time.

"All children grow up...all except one..." she heard from behind her. She turned to look at Tink with a slight smile on her lips. "That's my favorite line from the story. And I know it's yours too." The younger girl nodded, looking up at her 'older sister' from her spot on the bed. She nodded, her slightly shaggy bangs brushing down into her eyes. "It never gets old. I love it every time I read it." Ruby chuckled a little and sat down by her on the bed, fingers tickling at her sides.

Tink was like the little sister she'd never had. Her company was a wonderful thing to have without her real family around. That's what had brought them together. Two girls without any family left that became 'big sister' and 'little sister'.

"You should probably be winding down about now..." she began, seeing the way the pout settled on the nine year old's lips. "Hey, hey," she continued, "I know you're not a baby. I'm not asking you to go to sleep right now. Just chill out. Every night can't be like a slumber party." Tink nodded, smiling. "Alright. But just let me finish the book? I've only got a few more pages." Ruby could see that few meant at least ten or twenty, but she agreed with a smile.

Eventually, Tink finished those 'few' pages and they'd drifted off to sleep.

When Ruby heard a knock on the door, she thought it was something she was dreaming at first, but then realized it wasn't. Wondering just who it was, she got up, walking over and opening the door to see Julian, or better known as Psych among the Feathers, all soaking wet and holding a big bundle of blankets in his arms. "Oh...hi. It's quite alright, I don't mind watching her." She stepped aside so he could come in to set Echo down.

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[info]psych_man
2008-02-09 01:59 am UTC (link)
He did not look so sure, glancing at her almost suspiciously, before coming into the room with the wiggling blankets. For a change, he looked a mess, though that could be because of all the water that kept pouring from outside. The bundle was put down and he removed one of the blankets to check on his precious cargo only to have Echo grinning up at him like she had not even been crying moments before. A chuckle escaped him before he could stop it and he tried to cover it up with a well placed cough.

"If you do, I'm sure I could tie her up somewhere." Echo seemed to giggle at this concept, but when his eyes slid over to her she instantly stopped, trying to fight to look somber. Bear was clutched her chest as she gave Ruby a smile, deciding the floor was a good place to sit.

"There is just a leak, I have to fix it, I shouldn't be long. I woke you." He was whispering, because he was afraid he might awaken Tink as well. But his face fell for a moment like a kicked puppy's face would. "She just.. Karla, Echo, she just..." When it came to things like this he was always short of words. In the end he just ended up hanging his head, strands of wet hair clinging to the sides of his face as he let out a sigh as he fought to try and compose himself.

"She just, she just..." Echo said from the floor, as if trying to help him along with his sentence that was left at dots. Julian gave her one of those looks out of the corner of his eye and she instantly moved to cover her mouth with her hands. Her eyes expressing more than her mouth ever could.

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[info]ruby_red
2008-02-09 04:17 pm UTC (link)
Ruby watched as he set that wriggling bundle of blankets down and moved the one away to check on his daughter. And there she was, smiling up at him as only little girls can to their fathers. Like Ruby had to her father once. The cough wasn't really fooling anyone as she'd heard the way he'd chuckled. Even wet from the rain and looking a slight mess, Psych still looked like what a father was defined as in her mind.

"I don't think that's necessary. It's really no problem at all." Ruby smiled at him and then looked over at Echo. She was so cute! As the small girl sat down on the floor, she looked back to her father as he began to explain things.

So there was a leak. Always troublesome. And of course he wouldn't want his daughter following him out into the rain. "It's alright, I understand. Besides, sleep's something I've been learning to live without," she replied, her voice soft as well. The last part was meant to be a sort of joke. It was true though, she'd needed less and less sleep once she'd met Tink. But that was beside the point. She was patient, waiting for what he had to say. "She just what?" The question was asked gently.

It seemed that Ruby, Psych and Echo weren't the only ones awake now. Glancing over at the bed for just a second, Ruby saw that Tink was awake, rubbing at her eyes a little. Looking away from Psych for just a second, she said, "Hey munchkin. You're supposed to be sleeping." Tink shook her head stubbornly. Now that she was awake, she wasn't going back to sleep so easy, especially since there were other people there. "Okay, okay. You can stay up a little while longer. Keep Echo company." The nine-year-old girl smiled, waving hello to Echo before coming to sit down next to her.

Maybe things would end up in a slumber party after all.

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[info]psych_man
2008-02-09 08:44 pm UTC (link)
"Started to cry." He finally finished, as if that was the magical thing to get him to cave into anything. A hand brought up to comb some of those damp stray strands of hair out of his face. A weak smile overcoming his features as he looked at Ruby before he saw Tink up.

"Hello, Tink. I am sorry for waking you." Echo looked at Tink, mocking what her father said, "sorry for wake you." He sighed, bending down to her level and messing with her hair for a moment. "Do not give Ruby trouble."

Echo did one a cross over her heart with one hand. He kissed her forehead before standing up straight and looking at the door with a tired look upon his face that just said how tired he was for having to do all this. Perhaps he would try making gutters for all the homes next... "I will be right back." If he did not fall and break his neck, he thought about bitterly.

"Right back." Echo said sternly, looking at him, before turning to Tink. "Right back." She said again, just to make sure Tink her and understood his words, since they were important.

He walked towards the door, picking up his tools, and looking back at the three of them. With a somber expression he opened up the door and moved outside, the rain growing louder with the open door. Yes, this weather was certainly going to produce a cold for him. If he had any luck on his side that would be all it was, a cold.

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[info]ruby_red
2008-02-09 09:15 pm UTC (link)
Crocodile tears. One of the things that got a parent to give in or do something. "Oh, I see." She'd never seen Echo cry, but it was easy to imagine what kind of damage those tears could do. Hence why her father was here with her now.

Tink shook her head, smiling sweetly at him. "It's okay. I wasn't having any fun dreams anyway." She giggled a tiny bit as Echo repeated what her father had said. That was the one thing that had always interested Tink about the smaller girl. That she always repeated something someone else said. Kind of like a parrot, or, like her name, an echo. Why did she do it?

Ruby went to stand by the girls, watching as he kissed Echo on the forehead and prepared to go out. Tink, on the other hand, was still giggling slightly at Echo's repetition of words. "Right back," she echoed after Echo. Hopefully it wouldn't become an ongoing trend.

"Be careful," Ruby said with a small reassuring smile. She couldn't even imagine what going out to fix a leak in that type of weather would be like. Dangerous, surely. Hopefully, he'd be just fine.

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[info]psych_man
2008-02-13 08:12 pm UTC (link)
Crocodile tears that had large teeth that just took a chunk out of his heart. Echo generally did not cry around others, it was a myth that she even knew how, except when she was younger. When he had first arrived she had cried, but she had been sick.

"You will have to tell me about your dreams sometime, Tink, I could tell you what they mean." Or at least the editted version of them. Not the usual Freudian Version where everything ended up back with sex. He was careful about what he said around the younger generation, never cursing. All he needed was Echo to repeat that word...

Echo found more giggles when Tink repeated her words, now that was a new one. She did stand to her feet, wobbily, moving towards Ruby and placing her head against the woman's leg. A small hand waving to her father. "Be careful." She chimed in, before finding Tink more interesting once her father had vanished out the door.

"Always," He muttered, saluting the women, before vanishing out the door into the rain and cold. It was hard to climb, he slipped several times in the branches, managed to dirty himself up and bruises and scrapes to his general apperance. His shirt ripped as well, but he did not curse once. Instead focusing on the problem at hand, fixing the leak, so the nice people could sleep.

It took him around an hour, though time was a hard thing to count on these days. When he stumbled back to Ruby's house he was a mess, a sneezing mess, looking as if he had decided to go for a chilling swim in the lake and got chased by an aligator. His teeth were chattering a bit and his daughter giggled when she saw him, covering her mouth as she did so, looking towards Tink because she wanted them to think that she thought Tink was being funny. Not that her father was looking funny. Except it wasn't fair that he got to go out and play in the rain but she didn't.

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[info]ruby_red
2008-02-14 12:34 am UTC (link)
Tink nodded with enthusiasm. "Okay, sounds like fun!" The girl's dreams didn't really go too deep into anything other than the typical little girl's fantasies. Being a princess, having a unicorn and in her spcial case, being able to fly like Tinkerbell. Probably wouldn't take much analysis...and wouldn't have anything to do with the Freudian Version. That could be saved for another day. When she was much, much older.

Ruby smiled down at the two young girls. She did have to admit, Tink repeating as well was kind of cute. But it was understandable that she didn't want it to be a permanent habit. That would get rather annoying. But with Echo, it was cute and wasn't really annoying. Different things for different girls.

As Echo leaned her head against her leg, Ruby smiled softly, watching the small girl's father walk out the door into the rain. Nasty weather it was. She really hoped he would be okay. It would have been pretty bad if he fell and hurt himself. Once he'd gone, she turned back to the two girls. "Alright, what do you guys want to do?" Tink, of course, voted for having storytime with Peter Pan and since there really weren't any objections from Echo, Ruby sat down with them and read, infusing an excitement into the words about the boy who'd never grow up.

After that, Tink tried playing with Echo. Nothing like tag or anything, just silly things like Patty Cake and having staring contests. Which she always lost because she started laughing halfway through. Ruby was watching them in between watching the rain fall. That's when Julian came back, looking a mess. She was up in a flash, concerned look on her face. "Oh my goodness. Are you okay?" she asked him. Going to pick up an extra blanket from the bed, she offered it to him. "You must be freezing. Here."

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[info]psych_man
2008-02-14 05:01 am UTC (link)
Echo listened to the story, she had heard it before, and she tried to relate to it. She did not want to grow up either, but if she grew up more, she could help her daddy. She loved stories and more importantly, she liked Ruby's voice. A part of her wanted to tell Tink that her mommy read her stories where she got to pet a kitten and really pet a kitten. And she was reading her a story about going potty when she disappeared into the house that smelled funny. But she didn't know how to tell them that.

Then Tink wanted to play the games and whenever she started to laugh, Echo joined in. Sometimes at the same time because Tink had a pretty laugh. Then the door opened and daddy had come back in, she turned her head up with a big smile and opened her arms to him.

"No, no.. I can't pick you up now sweet pea.." He managed to say, holding back another sneeze, as he thanked Ruby for the blanket. "I'm sorry, I'm just going to end up making this all wet." The words were a bit stuttered out, because his teeth were chattering. Yes, he was likely the only one who would have done this now and not waited until morning. He had a hard time telling anyone no, unless it was a matter of life and death.

"I'm.. just.. cold.." Another sneeze as he wrapped the blanket around him tighter. "Moments.. l-l-like this I miss-ss-s hot ch-chocolate."

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[info]ruby_red
2008-02-18 02:52 am UTC (link)
In many ways, Ruby would have made a good mother and wife. Despite her past misadventures, she'd grown to have an endearing kindness and nurturing personality. These things helped her to care for Tink as she would a daughter of her own. And of course, she also felt concern for others rather easily. Hence the worried and concerned look upon her face. It must have been terribly cold outside, and paired with the rain it must have been...well, definitely not good.

She shook her head when he said he'd get the blanket all wet. "It's alright. If anything I can just make another. Besides, you're the one who really needs it." It wasn't Echo, Tink or Ruby whose teeth were chattering so much, after all. "I think we all miss hot chocolate," she said with a slight smile.

"Do you want to sit down?" came her next question, as she motioned to the lone chair in the room. He wasn't in any condition to go back out into that terrible weather, now was he?

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[info]psych_man
2008-03-09 08:23 pm UTC (link)
In many ways Psych would have made a good father and a doting husband, if he could have ever found the right girl. Now he could not even consider such things, other than the good father part, with all the worry that was going on in this world. He would sit and think about such things at night sometimes but those thoughts would only last for a short period of time before he found other things to occupy his mind with. New projects to start up. New things to dwell upon.

He only nodded his head, unable to find the proper way to argue with Ruby, before he took the offered chair to sit down. Echo followed after him, dragging her bear along, and sat on the floor beside him, smiling up because she was so happy that he had come back. "Chocolate." She said helpfully, after Ruby, holding up her bear as if to suggest that the bear was the sweet.

"If we could somehow get.. or build a green house, and find cocoa beans.." His mind was always going off on this sort of thing. Right now he was trying to create Solar Energy, or build it, so that no one would have to rely on the Mountain Lions for use of their energy. "It is just ideas though."

He sneezed into his hand, turning away from all in the room. Muttering an apology.

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[info]ruby_red
2008-03-09 09:29 pm UTC (link)
There was no way to argue with her on such a topic. She wasn't going to allow him to say no, so it wouldn't make a difference. As he went to sit down, she went to stand by him while Tink went to sit next to Echo. Ruby couldn't help but smile when Echo repeated 'chocolate' after her. The girl really was adoreable, especially with her teddy bear as well.

"I suppose that would work. Everyone would be glad to have chocolate again." It was a pretty good idea, but likely would be a tad harder to carry out than just to say. Nevertheless, it would benefit a lot of people. Little things like hot chocolate tended to be missed a lot at times. "A wonderful idea, though. It would make a lot of people really happy, I'd think."

Her expression shifted back into concern when he sneezed. Hopefully he wouldn't get to be too sick. "It must have been pretty bad out there, huh?" she asked.

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[info]psych_man
2008-03-15 03:59 pm UTC (link)
"Green housing was the first sign of solar energy, created back in the age of the," sneeze, "Romans." Psych figured it was useless information or would even interest Ruby. Of course, he was researching a way to bring in Solar Energy. It was his biggest challenge yet. Books on such things were not that uncommon in the library, no one really wanted to steal those.

"It wasn't that bad." Psych said, only to have a loud clap of thunder echo his words as if making them false. Echo suddenly moved a lot closer to her father and he reached out a hand, not even thinking about it, to sooth her. Fingertips combing through her hair that reminded him so much of her mother...

"It can't hurt you." He assured her. Of course the little girl was looking up at him, seemingly wanting to argue in her silent way. How could he say that something that loud was not going to hurt her?

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[info]ruby_red
2008-03-15 06:24 pm UTC (link)
It was an interesting fact to know, considering most of her knowledge revolved around the medical parts of science. But she was the tribe medic, so that was to be expected, wasn't it? "I didn't know that. It's not exactly touched on in books for pre-med studies and I know it wasn't something I paid attention to in high school." Ruby liked to learn unlike some of the other people out there. But she didn't really think she would ever be capable of bringing solar energy back into a world that had lost most of its advances with the deaths from the virus.

Ruby gave him a sort of 'Yeah right' look. "I think Mother Nature begs to differ." With the boom of the thunder came a slightly scared whimper from Tink. Sure, the girl was nine years old, but without her real parents she'd always acted younger than her age. Right now, she was holding onto Ruby's arm. "Hey munchkin..." Ruby said softly, looking down at the younger girl, "there's nothing to be afraid of, okay? Do you think Peter Pan and Tinkerbell were afraid of thunderstorms?" Tink shook her head no. "Then be brave like them, okay?" The younger girl nodded and went off to sit back on the bed, her copy of Peter Pan hugged to her chest.

Looking back to Psych and Echo, Ruby smiled softly. It was hard not to smile, looking at the two of them like that. "You're welcome to stay here for the rest of the night, if you'd like. I don't think you want to back out there with what seems to me to be a cold."

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[info]psych_man
2008-03-20 01:31 am UTC (link)
His knowledge in medicine was certainly not as wide as hers. He knew about different pills used to treat mental illness which were no longer in production… And likely any that he tried to find now would be expired and unhealthy to use. Now he was looking more into herbs to treat such things it seemed like they would all be going backwards before they could step forward. “I just started to look into it. I can’t remember anymore what they taught me in school and what I’ve read on my own.” Everything blurred together these days, he was lucky to know what day of the week it was.

Tink was given a sympathetic smile from Psych. “I use to be afraid of loud noises like thunder. Whenever I would watch fireworks my mother had to put me in the car or I would just cry and cry…” He still could not stand loud noises, but he was not afraid of them anymore. “But then I saw the loud noises could not hurt me.” Though he later found out that the actual fire in the fireworks could hurt him, but that was another story, likely when she was older.

“I do not want to impose upon your hospitality, Ruby. It is a very nice offer…” He glanced towards the window. Echo blinked up at him, then looked back at Ruby before standing up and walking over to cling to her hand. She was not sure what the two grown-ups were talking about but she had a feeling it had something to do with the bad weather.

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[info]ruby_red
2008-03-20 09:33 pm UTC (link)
Yes, pre-med studies had come in handy for something. She knew things that would have aided in her becoming a doctor. Though that wasn't going to happen now, obviously. In her medical textbooks for school and also her parents' books and writings, she'd learned about the synthetic and natural things that could be used to treat various illnesses and injuries. Some were hard to find but others were out there. "That's where good ideas start sometimes, isn't it? If you continue to learn about it on your own it shouldn't be too big of an idea to accomplish." Optimism, you had to love it. "Or maybe it would. I'm not sure. Like I said, medicine is where my intelligence comes in." But that didn't mean that she didn't still love to learn.

The poor girl was still scared and hugged her book tighter to her. Though, when Psych smiled at her, she returned a tiny smile of her own. To know that a grown-up had been afraid of loud noises made her feel better. Ruby walked over to her and playfully ruffled her hair a bit. "You see, muchkin? Just like he said, the loud noises can't hurt you. And even if they try, they'll have to go through me first." Ruby smiled at her, laughing a little bit before turning back to face Psych and Echo.

"It isn't an imposition at all. There's plenty of room." Which there was. The bed was already too big for her and Tink as it was. There was a long, yet wide bench that she'd built herself...with a bit of help, against the wall. She'd made a cushion for its top, so with a pillow and a blanket someone could sleep there. And Tink had her Tinkerbell sleeping bag that she'd begged Ruby to take from her old house. As Echo came over to her and held her hand, she smiled down at the little girl in a reassuring way. Looking back to Psych, she said, "It's no trouble at all, really. I just don't want to see you go back out in that nasty weather."

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[info]psych_man
2008-04-01 06:05 pm UTC (link)
Optomistic thinking, he knew that was something that was required in psychology for a person to function correctly. He was too much of a realist and somewhat of a pessimist in his own life and so Ruby's way of thinking could be a breath of fresh air for him. Especially when he was so use to hearing other people complain or give their problems to him. It was hard for anyone to be happy anymore. "You have intelligence else where. You were studying medicine, it shows that you are able to retain and use your knowledge. Solar energy isn't so hard though it is rather boring sometimes."

She had talent and intellegence in children as well, Psych thought to himself, watching her interact with Tink. It was why he would leave his precious jewel alone with her and it had taken him a lot to do that. The analytic side of his brain was thinking that what was causing the loud noise could hurt them, especially with them being up in a tree, but that was one of those things an adult should not bring up in front of a child.

He eyed his daughter for a moment, thinking she had just portrayed him. The little girl giggled and he sneezed once more which Echo mirorred before she laughed again. "I think she's already made the decision for me. I really will find a way to make this up to you, Ruby."

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[info]ruby_red
2008-04-01 09:08 pm UTC (link)
Optimism was one of the few things that gave her the strength to make it through the day at times. Sure, to most if not all she seemed a nice and cheerful woman, but there were the times when the weight of all that had happened and was happening just felt like getting her down. Optimistic thinking was the only thing that kept her from being depressed sometimes. It helped her drive through the complaints and problems and also let her at least try to cheer people up. "I would hope it does. It would have been a waste to just forget everything I learned, even though I'll never actually become a doctor..." But being the tribe medic was good enough for her. "Some science was just designed to be boring, I think. But if it's for the good of everyone it can't be that bad."

Ruby had never gotten her chance to be an actual wife and mother, but taking care of Tink was just as good. It seemed that she had a natural skill in taking care of kids, much like her own mother had. And looking after Echo was no different. The key to her success? Treating any child she was asked to look after as if they were her own child or her sibling. It worked well. And you did have to know how to reassure and comfort like a pro. She knew well that the lightning outside that was the cause of all the noise could have hurt them, but that wasn't something to say to a child. So instead she supplied those words of comfort to get a smile back on the child's face. Or at least to keep them from being afraid.

Something told her that Echo had pretty much made that decision for him. Ruby smiled. "Little girls have a way of doing that to their parents," she said with a slight chuckle. "But it's fine, really. You don't have to make it up to me. I'm just trying to help out a friend. A friend who has a cold and shouldn't be going back out in the pouring rain."

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