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Astor Bennett wants to kill things (miami_angel97) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-02-15 02:58:00

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astor bennett, complete, day 32, laura moon

Day 32
Who: Astor Bennett and Laura Moon
What: Astor's not feeling well and can't figure out the thermometer
When: Day 32, morning
Where: B214, Astor's room
Status: Incomplete
Rating: G

When Laura agreed to come over and help her out, Astor shut her journal, tucked it neatly between the mattresses and rolled over in bed, groaning and clutching the teddy bears (one with a hot water bottle inside it, as per Rose's suggestion) tightly. Her eyes fluttered shut and she furrowed her brow against an uncomfortable flop of protest from her stomach after having rolled over. She really hoped that her bellyache was just that. That perhaps she'd indulged in too much sugar against Sam, Sam Winchester's advice. At least if it was that, she'd feel better sooner and she could play Candyland with Gray.

Being stuck in bed was sucky already, but being stuck in bed without Cody to talk to or Mom to make her feel better? That sucked the big one. It was almost as bad as being sick when she was at the neighbor's house cuz Mom and Dex both had to work at night. As far as Astor was concerned, there was nothing worse than being sick and not being at home. It made it easier for her that her room here looked identical to the one at home, but still. It wasn't home.

A knock on the door made Astor open her eyes again. Her mom would kill her for not getting up to look through the peep hole to check who it was, but she didn't want to move and it was probably Laura, anyway. "Come on in," she called out miserably, closing her eyes again.

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miami_angel97
2009-02-24 05:17 pm UTC (link)

Astor listened quietly as Laura spoke darkly and then backpedalled on the grounds that Astor was just a little girl. Furrowing her brow slightly, Astor frowned. "I'm almost twelve," she pointed out indignantly. "I'm not scared," she added quickly.

Shifting slightly, Astor laid back down and clutched the warm teddy closer to her stomach. Her bellyache was starting to settle and Laura was saying, then, that if Astor had to tell her secret, she should. "I don't think that'll be a problem," Astor said with a small smile. "Nobody goes out of their way to talk to me 'cause everybody thinks I'm too little. And besides, Spike's gonna show me how to fight," she added, grinning excitedly at the prospect. "He promised."

Laura pointed out that Astor was taking the dead thing pretty well. She shrugged and smiled. "You're still walking and talking..." she pointed out. "So it's not so bad. You don't have a scary face like the other dead person I met," she added, "so...it's no big deal to me whether you're technically alive or technically dead. I'm not scared," she finished with a smile. "I like you. You're helping me."

When Laura asked about Spike, Sam, and the Doctor, Astor smiled a little. "They're really nice. Sam, Sam Winchester was at the snowball fight and I met the Doctor and Spike both by accident at different times." She opened her mouth to say more and snapped her jaw shut again, because she realized that if she said more, she'd be giving away their secrets.

Laura hadn't been dead anywhere near as long as Spike had been, but she sounded more effected by it than Spike had. Astor wasn't sure she understood, so she didn't say anything further on the subject.

"Oh wow..." Astor breathed when Laura showed the scar to her. She recognized it from one of Violet's books. That was an autopsy scar. Her eyes widened as she looked at it curiously. She listened as Laura talked about not healing and she had to ball her hands into fists not to reach out and touch the scar out of sheer morbid curiosity. Part of the statement caught her ear, though.

"Superhuman speed and strength? Like Superman?" Astor asked, looking back up at Laura's face again. "You're always cold?" she asked with a sad sympathy. "Isn't there any way to warm up, even just for a minute?"

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