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Laura Moon (spitandviolets) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-02-05 16:23:00

Entry tags:

andy gallagher, complete, day 31, laura moon

Who: Laura Moon and Andy Gallagher
What: Insomnia!
When: Day 31, very late night
Where: Laura's room, C112.
Rating: PG-13 for language and gory details
Status: Complete

If there was one thing that Mirage already knew about Laura, it was that she no longer had any concept of or any care for the concept of time. It had not supplied the undead woman with a clock. It didn't matter. When the sun was down, Laura was active and the rest of the world was not. When the sun was up, well, sometimes she didn't have a choice, and others she debated with herself as to whether or not she should be doing something. Thus, it was very dark, and possibly late or early.

Laura did not remember her own wake and funeral very well. She was not there, exactly. It was a distant memory, like watching herself from across the room. She remembered when her best friend spat on her face, and she remembered the violets. She also remembered the pose in which she'd been put to rest. At the moment, she was practicing it on her bed, bored, as usual, and cold, as usual. Her body was rigid, laying on her back on the plush, black coverlet, arms crossed over her chest, hands folded. Since she did not need to breathe, she was not breathing. Her eyes were closed but she did not sleep. Her hair was fanned out around her. Only the outfit, a pair of jeans and a black tanktop, which made her look even paler than usual, was out of place for a wake.

Having just retired from her computer, she was expecting Andy. When he would arrive, however, was uncertain. Drunk people ran on their own schedule. When she got drunk, when she was alive, she drank a lot. That, in fact, had been the death of her. Literally. Maybe she'd try to brighten Andy's mood with that story. The likelihood that he wanted to hear about her death, however, was probably not high. L was unique in that respect. Still, maybe she'd have another friend, someone else who wouldn't mind that she was dead and cold.

Focusing on the movements of the lights of humans, she managed to zero in on Andy's with only minor difficulty. Rising from the bed as a zombie from the grave, Laura sauntered to the door, opening it just as her guest arrived. She said nothing, holding the door open for him, dark eyes studying his face.

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spitandviolets
2009-02-05 08:34 pm UTC (link)

"I leaned over, and my head was in his lap, so I didn't exactly see what happened. Robbie got distracted, my shoulder hit the gear shaft, and the truck didn't see us until it was too late. Death is horribly dispassionate. I don't even think that I was scared. One moment my head was in Robbie's lap, and I was going to town. The next thing I knew, a truck was making it's way through our car and over my body. It's all very fuzzy after that. I remember that I held out until I reached the hospital. It would have been horribly impolite to die on some stretch of road, especially after the paramedics had tried so hard to keep me alive. I made it to the emergency room. Audrey told everyone that I died with her husband's cock in my mouth. That is not the truth. While I may or may not have bitten down in all of the chaos and confusion, I know for a fact that they would have removed that before the hospital, and I know that I didn't die on the side of the road. I remember thinking 'I'm going to die' and then blackness."

After the long, dispassionate story, Laura fell silent for a moment, just rubbing his forehead. She feared that she had overloaded him with information. When you were drunk, you hardly wanted a long winded woman telling you her death story.

"In the end, that's how I know that karma exists. Bad people get what's coming to them. I learned a lot, even though it was too late."

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