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Genevieve Sommers ([info]sommers_wind) wrote in [info]lineof_fire_rpg,
@ 2008-01-21 19:38:00

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Meeting up a few years later. And not the reunion she pictured.
Who: Gen and Lucas
What: Meeting up again, and Genevieve freaks.
When: Sunday afternoon at the salon
Why: Lucas comes to get input on a gift for Antoinette
Rating: PG, some emo
Open: to [info]spencer_nomore only

Genevieve was sitting in the back office, going over the notes she kept on her clients. She made small notes, points of interest in their lives, how they last got their hair cut including a small sketch, and how much they'd tipped her. Genevieve was over-organized as a stylist, and felt the urge to keep some kind of records to supplement her memory bank.

She shuffled the papers into a neat stack and shoved them back into her laptop bag, making sure the stack stayed neat. Gen sat back in the chair, resting her palms on her eyes and giving her aching back a good, long stretch.

The intercom sounded, and the new front desk girl's voice came through the room. "Gen, there is a guy out here," she paused, and Genevieve could hear a man's voice muffled in the background. "Lucas, he's here for," the man's voice came again, "Antoinette? He wants to get a gift package for her, but wants to know what she'd want." Genevieve leaned forward and smiled, pressing the button on the intercom. "Okay. I'll be out in the second." Genevieve shook her head, once again jealous of the man that Antoinette had under her thumb.

On her way out of the office, she picked up her appointment book, flipping through the pages and looking over her schedule for the next few days. It looked like mostly regulars, with a few new people thrown in for good measure. She'd be busy.

She approached the front desk, and glanced briefly at the male figure waiting for her. She smirked to herself, then started to speak. "So, you're the man Antoinette talks about. You must be Luca--" She raised her eyes to him, and her voice died in her throat. Her heart raced, and the appointment book fell from her hands, a few pages detaching as it hit the ground. Her breath hitched in her throat, and her eyes welled.

It was years ago suddenly, and she was standing on a football field, staring at the face that made her heart stop whenever she looked at it. Her Lucas was standing in front of her. All she wanted to do was race to him, throw her arms around his neck, lay kisses all over his face.

He was older now, and she couldn't take looking at him, knowing something had changed. Her eyes broke away from his face, and she darted out around the desk, pushing the front door open and running into the open air of the parking lot. She stooped, her hands going to her knees. She couldn't breathe.


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[info]sommers_wind
2008-01-27 09:48 pm UTC (link)
Her fingers lingered against his chin, then she let her arm drop away from him, pausing to brace on his arm and give a gentle squeeze. Genevieve managed another small laugh at his comment that she was older, and nodded. "You really know how to state the obvious today." She smiled at him warmly.

She let her arms drop to her sides, then, not knowing what to do with her hands, she crossed her arms over her chest again, but kept the same distance. It was more out of awkwardness than any need to really comfort herself now.

Her face took on a look of resolve, as she'd made a sort of decision in her mind. She was going to keep Lucas in her life, from now on. Sure, he was with Antoinette now, but she wanted him to be around, near her. They were best friends at one point, before they even started dating, weren't they? They had a connection, through a shared past, that had to be rekindled.

Genevieve looked him over, then looked down again, catching a glimpse of her watch. She had a client coming in in the next few minutes, and knew she had to get back inside. As reluctant as she was to leave Lucas' side, she knew he'd be willing to give friendship a shot.

"I have to get back in there." Genevieve failed to stifle a frown coming over her lips. "But I want to keep in touch." She nodded, then pulled her cell phone out of her pocket. "I'll give you my number. We should get together, soon. Maybe see a movie or something. I know neither one of us really wants to rehash the last few years, so we can just hang out and laugh and... I don't know. I just want to keep in touch." She looked at him hopefully, knowing that he may have been too guarded about his new life to let her in. She hoped not, but was at least slightly prepared for that possibility.

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[info]spencer_nomore
2008-01-27 11:02 pm UTC (link)
A bit of a crooked smile curved his lips and he nodded, bowing his head a little after she pulled her hands away from his face. "Yeah well, you know me..." He pursed his lips together in a tight line after he said it. She didn't really know him anymore, but he wanted her to...surprisingly. He didn't let anyone get close. Aside from his 'family' members and the few friends he had, but letting her in, he felt, would be something entirely different.

Leaning back a little, he realized how close they'd been to one another. He swallowed hard at the lump in his throat and stuffed his hands back into his pockets. He studied her face, watching for any flicker of doubt or fear, but seeing none. He suddenly wanted to tell her everything, tell her what had happened to him after he ran, what happened that night. Everything he'd kept so deep inside of himself, that he couldn't allow himself to tell anyone. But then this was Gen, and even before he'd fallen in love with her, he could tell her anything.

His eyes glanced away from her face and back toward the salon. He pursed his lips together, feeling at a loss that he wouldn't be in her company anymore. Her cheery expression made him smile, and while he was slightly taken aback that she was so willing to just jump right back into spending time with him, he wasn't going to question it. "Yeah, I uh, I'd really like that." He said, smiling a little as he took out his own phone. There were about six people who ever called him, and he hoped she wouldn't have second thoughts about her promise to want to hang out. "I'm usually free during the days..." He said, trying to think when would be a safe time to be with her. Usually nobody needed taking care of during the day.

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[info]sommers_wind
2008-02-04 05:08 am UTC (link)
Genevieve took Lucas' number and gave her his, then closed her phone. She looked at him for a moment, unable to really take her eyes off him. She could sense the change in him, she really could, but all of it seemed masked by the old Lucas she still saw, the one she missed so terribly.

She had no idea how she'd be able to face Antoinette next time she came in, but she didn't much care, either. Genevieve had her Lucas back in her life, and that was all that mattered.

"Okay. I'm going to go." Genevieve smiled at Lucas, feeling something inside of her she hadn't remembered feeling in so long, something she would've sworn an hour ago was dead. But there it was again, embodied in the man standing in front of her.

"I'll call you, soon." She reached out and squeezed his arm, then moved into him, hugging him tightly to her. She breathed him in, then sighed, moving far enough away that she could place a brief kiss on his cheek, something she couldn't stop herself from doing. Genevieve moved away before it went any further than that, and took a step toward the salon. She picked up a good pace, then glanced over her shoulder, smiling into her shirt and waving goodbye to him.

She'd call him soon, very soon. She needed to hear his voice again, and wasn't ready to wait very long for it.

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[info]spencer_nomore
2008-02-04 06:26 pm UTC (link)
For the moment, Lucas dropped his normal tendency to over-think things, and just went with it. Gen was here, really, truly, in the flesh, and she wanted to see him. Part of him knew he should probably feel guilty about this, or at least that he should tell Antoinette when she got home, but the part of him - the part that won out, was selfish. He had missed her, and that was the only way to put it. She was, once upon a time, his best friend, and while Raul and Niccy served their purpose as good, even best friends, it wasn't the same. Lucas was the responsible one, at all times, and never really had anyone around he could just let himself be goofy and fun with. That wasn't who he was anymore.

"Yeah, okay." He said in response, nodding a little as he watched her. He couldn't help but mirror her smile, a feeling that felt foreign to him. His eyes closed for half a second when her lips brushed against his cheek, and he had to inhale deeply and hold her a little tighter for one more moment before he let her go.

"I'll see you." He said simply, finding it hard to find words that might mean anything at the moment. This whole thing, having Gen here, in Boston, and what's more, willing to see him ... that still had the effect of making him feel like the wind had been knocked out of him. He wasn't about to question it, but he was pretty sure he wouldn't be able to get her out of his head now that she was back.

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