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Andy Gallagher is not the droid you're looking for (brain_ninja) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-08-23 16:03:00

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!complete, andy gallagher, day 20, location: gym, rose tyler

Day Twenty - Late morning
Who: Andy Gallagher & Rose Tyler
What: Meeting for the first time with both in adult form.
Where: In the gym
When: Day 20, late morning
Rating: PG-13ish?
Status: Complete

Andy looked back through the journal, studying the map for some time before he made his decision. He'd found the two-by-four hiding snugly wedged under the reception desk and decided that he hadn't been that bad at Little League back in the day; he wasn't going to sit around the museum chit-chatting with the others about their regression when he should be making sure Elliot was okay. Hopefully, the birds were being overestimated and he'd be able to knock on the door to make sure she was alright before having to duck into the gym.

The way he figured it, after running around like a spaz playing Ninja Turtles the day before - not to mention the fact that it had been ages since the last time he had bothered or had time to take one - Andy needed a shower. By going the direction of the gym, he could check on Elliot, meet Rose while he was an adult, and still get a shower in. Three birds, one stone. The metaphor made Andy roll his eyes as he slipped out of the museum and raised the piece of wood like a bat.

He hadn't really even had time to think about it before they started coming at him. On autopilot, Andy ran in the direction of the gym, swinging the two-by-four lamely around and cringing both at the sensation of beaks breaking his skin and the sound of bones cracking whenever he felt the makeshift bat come in contact with one of the birds' bodies. Keeping his head ducked low, Andy decided to skip the van - Elliot would be better off if he just waited on checking in with her - and burst into the gym, all but hitting a homerun with the body of a bird dumb enough to follow him inside before he could slam the doors shut again. It slammed into the bleachers across the room, richocheting off and landing on the floor a few feet away with a sickening thud.

At that point, Andy dropped the piece of wood and allowed himself to register the pain. The hoodie he was wearing was spattered in blood, both of the birds he'd managed to lambaste as well as his own where rips and tears in the fabric left tangible reminder that they'd gotten the best of him just as much as he'd gotten the best of some of them. He'd hit a few good ones off those fucking things, but there had only been one Andy...and a shitload of crows.

"Hello? Anybody home?" he called out, brow furrowed as he carefully slid off the hoodie and wiped the blood out of his eyes with it. "Rose? Lex? Could use a little help here," he added, hissing in pain when the dirty fabric came in contact with a cut left just over his eyebrow. Only one bird had managed to get his face, but because of it, he didn't even want to know how many had gotten the back of his head. It stung already when the sweat rolled into the open wounds. In retrospect, he should've stayed put, he supposed... Shit.

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brain_ninja
2009-08-27 10:17 pm UTC (link)

Raising his eyebrows, Andy smirked back at Rose. What a little tease. Weren't they all at that age, though, he thought. "That's because Michelangelo was the coolest one, obviously," he replied in a nonchalant tone. "Again color me surprised that someone that cute could play someone as evil as Shredder," he added, quick to put the flirting on an even plane.

He backed away a few more steps and laughed when she called him Ninja, complimenting his looks not only as a child but, he thought, also in his adult form before telling him that he did, indeed, smell badly. "Don't be jealous that my manly scent beats the hell out of every other guy's. You should've been here the day before the Earthquake. Then I was really ripe; ask Doc Lex," he added with a laugh before turning and starting toward the locker room again. "No peeking. If you wanna look, you gotta join. That's my rule," he called over his shoulder jokingly and then turned to face her again, continuing to walk backward. "In all seriousness, though, thanks for helpin' me out. You're a cool chick, Rose," he said, giving her a smile and a halfhearted wave of his thumb and first two fingers before turning again and disappearing down the hallway to shower.

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jeopardysfriend
2009-09-03 11:09 pm UTC (link)

Rose only smirked at Andy's...well, not too terrible looking backside as he walked off. As deep as their conversation had mistakenly gotten? She couldn't deny she'd enjoyed it. In all honesty, she'd needed someone like Andy just then. The people who knew her--and the ones who knew her that she didn't know--were different. They had expectations, they thought she needed protection, and they wanted to talk. About what she was feeling and how she was holding up and so on. And Rose? Didn't want that at the moment.

What she wanted was to flirt and to be playful and to be herself again. She wanted to forget the revelations of the day before had never happened and she wanted to pretend she wasn't in this awful place. So she wiggled her fingers at Andy and called after him, "You'll regret that one day. I take up the entire shower, so you know." And before he could turn back and come up with some sassy remark that would give him the upper hand, she turned and flounced off, back to the corner of the gym she'd been hiding away in before he'd come charging in.

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