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Dora Tonks is (polymorphic) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-05-09 22:31:00

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!complete, andy gallagher, day 07, location: church, nymphadora tonks

Who: Tonks and Andy
What: More exploring and meetings!
When: Day 7, morning
Where: The Church
Rating: TBA
Status: Active

Tonks had, the day before, made sure that Edward would be okay. He was a really nice bloke, and an innocent to boot. So the twenty-three year old took on a little bit of a protective streak for him. And she wanted to help, hence wriggling about in tunnels with Logan. Today was the same, at least mama-henning wise. After making sure that things were okay, she was off to explore again.

It looked like it would snow more as the hours went on. But pink hair wasn't terribly difficult to see in the white. It was like a beacon, she figured. Hands deep within her pockets, the witch was hoping to find the thrift store for a pair of gloves. But what she ended up getting ready to pass looked like..a church? Well, that was interesting. Turning that way, she ducked her head against a gust of wind, and trekked along a path. "Olly, olly, oxen free?" Called out, though Tonks felt a little silly.

Was there even going to be anyone around? Likely not. Right? Hand wriggled out of her pocket, ruffling through her hair, before being shoved back in again. "Cripes. Why did I get pulled in the middle of winter?"

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brain_ninja
2009-05-10 01:17 am UTC (link)

It took a little effort to pull on a pair of jeans over the pajama pants he'd decided on the previous night, but Andy was not even beginning to entertain the idea of going out in the snow without some layers. His muddy hoodie and jacket had been abandoned on the first day, but they were dry and so those went on over the shirt he had been wearing already, too, before he was willing to venture outside. It was cold even inside by the fire - which reminded him, as soon as he was able, he was going to have to find a way to get some kindling, because he and Luna were running out of chairs to cannibalize and burn - so he knew it'd be pretty frigid outside, but Andy needed to get the fuck out again. Even if it was just for a few minutes. He was going completely stir crazy and he could hardly stand it anymore.

As he walked carefully outside, using the crutches to support the bulk of his weight just like Lexie had told him, he heard someone call out and he smirked. Probably someone new, if they weren't sure someone lived in the church. "Marco!" he called out with a chuckle, even though he could see very clearly that someone was approaching. Someone with pink hair. Bad ass!

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polymorphic
2009-05-10 01:31 am UTC (link)

"Polo!" She called back out, lifting her head fully to face the direction that the voice had come from. A wide smile appeared when she saw the new person (she was actually the new person, but six of one) and she hustled to get closer. "How are ya?" It was good to get to know who was where.

There was a plethora of questions in the Auror's brain, but she figured that it was easiest (and more polite) to start with the basics. "I'd hold out my hand but yours look occupied. And mine don't want to come out of my pockets!" Said with a laugh, "But I'm Tonks."

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brain_ninja
2009-05-10 01:42 am UTC (link)

Andy laughed when the woman responded appropriately. Nice; at least ol' girl had a sense of humor still, whoever she was. "Not too bad, all things considered, how about you?" he asked in response. As she got closer, she came more clearly into view through the snowfall and he smiled. She was cute as a button and she looked about his age; maybe younger.

"Your hair is fucking awesome, I thought I should say," he blurted out. It was true; he always thought it was pretty sweet when chicks dyed their hair colors like pink and blue and purple and shit. They were the kinds of girls who didn't think he was a creeper for inviting them into the back of his van for a bong load or two and some Taco Bell. They were the kind of girls that knew that was literally all he wanted out of their company.

"Tonks, oh hey, yeah I think I talked to you in the journals yesterday," he replied. "I'm Andy. And yeah don't worry about it, it's too damn cold if you don't have gloves or anything and I'd shake your hand, too, if I had any desire whatsoever to end up on my ass in the snow," he joked. "I feel like Bambi learning to walk again," he added with a roll of his eyes.

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polymorphic
2009-05-10 01:20 pm UTC (link)

"Ditto. Though it'd be nice to be more properly equipped with snow gear. Maybe a sled or something." She liked taking delights in small things during stressful times. This was no different. So while Tonks didn't forget the cause, or what the mission was, she also was usually on the hunt for something to entertain herself and others with.

The compliment to her hair garnered a big-ass smile. "Thanks! Pink's one of my favourites to go for." A nod of her head at having spoken with him in the journal, then the smile grew more broad at recognition of the name. "It's nice to have a face to put to the name, then." Then he called himself Bambi, which she didn't quite recognise. Though she had seen some Disney movies, that one wasn't one of them.

"My cousin hobbled round on a pair of those before. They were ace to do races on!" She laughed and shook her head a bit. "Did you need something? Mite dangerous to be hobbling in this weather."

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brain_ninja
2009-05-10 01:36 pm UTC (link)

"Oh man, I haven't gone sled riding since I was, like, six or something," Andy replied with a smirk at the very thought. "But, uh, I'd be happy with a heavier coat and a pair of gloves, for now. Boots would be a bonus," he added. He appreciated the light tone in their conversation. Actually, save the prank on Dean - which, whild childish, did wonders for his mood - Andy hadn't had a light conversation in days. Everything was so dismal for him, between the leg and the drugs for it and all the confusion with Luna. This was nice. Leave it to a pink-haired chick to brighten Andy's day. Man, it was just like being back in Guthrie only with way more snow and a shitload of bad news he was pretending wasn't waiting in the wings to be recognized again.

"That's awesome. Where'd you get that color? Hot Topic or something? It's, like, really bright. Usually the chicks I see with pink hair, it's all faded and nasty," he pointed out. He failed to add in that usually it was matted, greasy, or in a poor excuse of dreadlocks. "Yeah, it's nice to get faces to names. I actually haven't met that many people, even though I've been here, like, a week or something. I've been laid up for most of it," he said, nodding down at his leg.

She mentioned racing on crutches and Andy had to laugh. "Shit, I'd fall over," he replied with a chuckle. He was still having hard enough a time getting used to using them just to walk, much less run. Then, she asked if he needed something and Andy gave a facial shrug and shook his head. "Nah, thanks. Not unless you've got some primo weed on you by chance. I just needed to get out and stretch my legs. I've got some wicked cabin fever, having been sitting in there pretty much useless for the past, like, four days or something. What brings you out in the cold?" he ventured.

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polymorphic
2009-05-10 01:50 pm UTC (link)

"I haven't gone since I was like sixteen or so? When it snowed at my school, I always dragged my mates to do somethin' ridiculous." She laughed then, thinking about Hogwarts. Then bobbed her head a little side to side, a wry smile appearing. "And usually got in a touch of trouble for it."

Tonks tilted her head curiously, "Hot Topic? What's that?" She paused, thinking about it for a minute, and then lifted her eyebrows. "S'not hair dye, actually." He was the not-Muggle, if she recalled right. Not that Tonks would keep her ability a secret if a Muggle asked, or the time called for it, but he'd be probably a little less weirded out by it. And, to show him, she thought about what other colour to go. And settled for streaks of orange and red set against the pink, like a sunset.

"Oh! I would too! I'm dead clumsy." Excitedly, Tonks forgot about her hair for a moment and laughed. "I always feel a wee bit better when there's someone who also manages to trip over their own feet."

"Yanno. I've never smoked." She hadn't had a chance to. Drinking, yes. Anything else? Never. "And I'm gettin' my bearings around here. You lot had created a map and I've been trying to follow it!"

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brain_ninja
2009-05-10 02:17 pm UTC (link)

"That's the best part of being a kid, though. Doing ridiculous shit and getting into trouble for it," Andy replied with a knowing smirk. He'd been down that road many a time back in his day.

Andy's brow furrowed slightly. A girl willing and happy to have pink hair didn't know what Hot Topic was? "Do they not have 'em over across the pond? It's just a retail store, but it's got all kinds of punk and grunge stuff...and weird color hair dyes," he replied. He opened his mouth to ask what the fuck she meant by "s'not hair dye, actually," when her hair changed and Andy blinked. Then he grinned. "Shut up, that's awesome! Do that again," he said. Hey, if he was tripping again, whatever; at least this time there wasn't a Luna parade. He didn't remember taking anything at all, much less accidentally the Ketamine instead, but hey, it wasn't every day you saw someone who could make their hair color change at will like that.

Smirking, Andy shook his head. "I'm not so clumsy, but with this leg and all that," he replied. "You could say I'm not at my best." When she said she hadn't ever smoked, he raised a slightly dubious eyebrow, but said nothing else about it. "Oh yeah some girl did that a while back. It's really useful, though...the few times I've used it, it's been really accurate. Were you looking for something in particular or just kinda feelin' the place out?"

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polymorphic
2009-05-10 02:43 pm UTC (link)

"I don't reckon they do, though it sounds fairly wicked!" She had already decided that were she ever to live a Muggle life, even in an undercover capacity, she'd immerse herself in the rock culture. Muggle music was fantastic. Anyway. She grinned again, laughing, and went a little more dramatic. From pink to electric green. "I'm what you'd call a shapeshifter? Well, a metamorphmagus, but that's a bit of a mouthful innit?"

Then she laughed and pointed her finger at him. "I see that look!" It was the same look that Sirius and Remus gave her when she tried to proclaim her innocence over the broken dishes. Though that usually was her. "I haven't!" Smoked, that was. "A fag once, but it was gross and I nearly burnt myself." She waved her hand and then chuckled, "I imagine that crutches makes you not up to par. What happened, if you don't mind? And it is dead useful, the map. I'm just feeling the place out."

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brain_ninja
2009-05-10 04:20 pm UTC (link)

"It's pretty cool, yeah. They have all kinds of random cult classic and pop culture shit in there," he replied with a nod. When she changed her hair again, Andy grinned broadly. "That's so fuckin' cool. I wish I could do that. My thing is lame," he replied, because even if it did come in handy sometimes, for the most part, he'd prefer something like that; something that only affected him.

Andy feigned innocence, eyes wide and expression drawn in mock scandal. "What?" he asked and then his expression cracked back into a smirk. "Oh, man, tobacco cigarettes are gross. Plus, you don't get anything out of it, 's far as I can tell." He nodded and then shrugged. "Yeah, it's a pain in the ass. I got attacked by a couger," he replied sounding far too nonchalant for his own comfort. "In one of the experiment things or whatever on my second day here."

Once again, Andy nodded his understanding when Tonks said that she was just feeling the place out. He still hadn't gotten a chance to do that, but the sooner he got a chance, the happier he thought he'd be. "I haven't gotten to, yet, but soon as I can, that's my plan," he divulged.

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polymorphic
2009-05-11 11:07 am UTC (link)

"If I ever get to the states, I'll haveta find one." That was, if she got out of here and when the war was over at home. A tilt of her head was given, and she looked at Andy curiously. "What's your thing? I'd wager it's a lot less lame than you think it is!" Why would any ability be lame?

And though she was waiting for that answer, Tonks excitedly bounced between subjects. "I know! And it just smells gross and gets stuck in your--" She paused, blinking. "They matched you up with cougars." Said in disbelief. "Fuck me." That sounded like an unfair fight.

"So they take up random people an' put them in wonky, or dangerous, situations." Mused with an absent chewing of her lip, then smiled brightly. "You should. It's good t'know where you're going then. Or rather where you are. I figure that if I know where I am, they can't confuse me terribly by plopping me in a random spot."

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brain_ninja
2009-05-12 11:18 am UTC (link)

For a moment, Andy hesitated to answer the question Tonks posed. He'd walked right into it and he knew that, but he wasn't sure he should say. Luna had called it an unforgivable curse, in just so many words. From the sounds of things, Tonks was from the same ilk, so it was highly likely that she was going to agree with the sentiment and he didn't want to shoot himself in the foot so soon with her. The last thing Andy needed was another person who wanted nothing to do with him.

The possibility of using it to tell her she didn't really want to know briefly flitted through his head and he set his jaw, looking down. That was why it was lame. He'd gotten so used to using it casually to get little things he wanted out of life that he hadn't really stopped to think about how that would affect the people he used it on. Webber had obviously never thought about it...or worse, he had and hadn't cared. The latter was actually more likely the reality and that made his stomach turn. "It's...just this mind thing," he replied awkwardly after a long pause. "Really, I don't use it unless I have to, anymore, so it's pretty lame." Plus, it freaks people out where I come from, he thought with an inward frown.

The change in Tonks' tone when she processed what he'd said made him smile grimly in response. "Well, they tied me to Martha, which was bad enough because she was so much smaller than myself, but yeah. Tied us up and left us out in the mud and rain and sicced a cougar on us." He pointed to his ear which had since gone numb completely on him. "Then there was ripping a chunk of my ear off slipping in the mud and trying to keep from breaking my face on a tree when Martha and I tried to get the knife out of the tree - they left us a knife, but it was up too high to reach with our arms tied down," he added. "Sucked." He was numb, too, emotionally in reference to the experience, now. It felt small and insignificant now that the leg was dealt with and the two of them had lived through it.

To her generalized observation, Andy nodded solemnly. "At first I thought they were trying to kill us, honestly," he admitted. "Martha and I weren't the only ones tied up and left for dead. But then there were other experiments, I guess," he replied thinking about the bits he'd read about the people waking up naked beside complete strangers. "I feel like I got the shit end of the stick, man," he laughed.

A facial shrug of pensive approval followed Tonks' assessment of knowing where things were. Andy hadn't really thought of it that way, but that was a really good point, actually. "Well, maybe a little though, if they drop you in the woods since that shit all looks the same, but once you get to the street again if you know where shit is, yeah, good point," he agreed.

With a bit of effort, he took a few steps toward her and cringed slightly at the twinge of pain in the leg when he tried to go down one of the stairs. Up until just then, he'd just been walking around in the church a bit here and there and, at most, he'd paced the small porch. "Ah shit, this is annoying as hell," he muttered with a frown, ignoring the pain and making his way to the bottom steps and then into the snow which was now settling mid-calf. "Dude, this sucks...if it keeps coming down..." his voice trailed off. The idea of being snowed in with Luna when she wouldn't even look at him was unappealing. The idea of Dean being there, too, was even less so and he had no idea whether the older Winchester planned on coming back.

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polymorphic
2009-05-14 10:32 pm UTC (link)

The woman watched him shrewdly, an eyebrow lifting upwards as he silently hemmed and hawed about telling her. Then a slow smile appeared, hopefully deterring that frown that he was getting. "S'alright. I understand." Sometimes it took a bit for people to admit what was different about them. A shrug was given and she ruffled a hand through her hair, returning it back to pink. "It's likely not too lame, I reckon. Just different is all." Pointed out. She fell quiet then and also frowned, because..."A sodding cougar. They're nutters. Not just in the scientific way, but plain nutters." Said as she moved closer to get a look at his ear. "Cripes!"

Pulling away, she chuckled a little and rocked on her heels. "Well, they owe you one then, don't they? Bit of a reprieve or something." And she thought about the woods thing. "Should find string. Tie it round specific trees as markers." She mused as she watched poor Andy come closer. Hurrying to meet him up, Tonks slipped on an icy patch and nearly fell ass over tea kettle, but managed to catch the railing just before. Meant to do that, really! "If I keep it up, I might needta borrow your crutches afterward." She admitted with a chuckle, steadying herself on the ground. But then stopped and looked over the snow-covered ground as well, stomping her boots.

"That wouldn't be too good. Less they give us one of those snowblower machine thingers. I've always wanted to drive!" Tonks never learned. But she was sideglancing over the man. There was something else there, but she had no clue what.

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brain_ninja
2009-05-15 02:05 pm UTC (link)

When Tonks said she understood, Andy gave her a nod and grateful smile. He appreciated that she wasn't going to prod any further, because he wasn't terribly keen on sharing with her. Mostly because of the way Luna had initially reacted. He purposefully ignored what she'd said about the mind thing not being lame but rather different, because he didn't want to talk about it anymore, and instead latched onto the latter part. "Yeah, you're tellin' me," he replied, raising his eyebrows and giving a facial shrug. "Doesn't really hurt like it did before, though. Considering the leg, I hardly notice the ear anymore," he replied when she'd let out an exclamation at having seen the damage done. "I'll live." That was starting to become his fucking motto, lately...

Laughing, Andy nodded. "Fuck yeah, they do," he replied, a smirk tugging at his lips. "I think they oughta bench me for the rest of the season, actually; I sure as shit wouldn't mind," he joked. For a second, he was confused about the thing she said about string, but then it dawned on him. "Yeah that'd be good, but I know when I was trying to get out of there, I was in a damn hurry..." he pointed out. He didn't like to shoot down her idea entirely, though, because it was a good one. "Maybe when it's not so shitty out, we should go out there and do it before someone gets ganked and dropped off out there, ya know?"

"Whoa, whoa!" he exclaimed and moved to catch her, only managing to slip on the ice himself in the process, grabbing onto the same rail she'd used to catch herself, the crutches dropping with a soft sound into the snow. "Ah son of a bitch..." he muttered, shaking his head and trying not to laugh. "Maybe we should share," he joked as he got to his feet again and leaned forward to retrieve them. The one hadn't sunken into the snow quite as much so that was easy enough, but the other was just out of his grasp and he wasn't entirely sure he should try to lean that far forward to get it. So he moved the usable crutch under his other arm and leaned his weight heavily onto it so that he could use his good leg to try and hook a foot into the other crutch to lift it out of the snowdrift.

With a distracted grin as he worked to pull the crutch back up for himself, finally able to get it up enough to lean forward and pick it up with his hands, Andy nodded. "Me too, dude, those things are bad ass. And riding mowers, too, for that matter," he agreed with a laugh. Finally straightening himself up, he looked back at her, having just missed the sideglance and he gave her an impish grin. "Man we're a fuckin' pair, right?" he teased.

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polymorphic
2009-05-16 12:12 am UTC (link)

"I thought the sayin' was cutting off your nose t'spite your face, not get your leg mauled to spite your ripped up ear?" Teased slightly, a cheerful..if wry humoured..smile appearing on her features. Then he laughed and demanded the rest of the season off. Laughter was contagious, and Tonks found that she was infected! "But then you'd get bored, and start complaining about all the fun the rest of us lot are having, and then where would you be?"

Laughter dying down, she nodded thoughtfully and smiled again. "I'm not sayin' right now or while running round out there you git!" Said with a laugh, "But like something brightly coloured? Caution orange, lava red, so on? Each colour representing a different zone of the little city we've got here. Where the closest safe houses are, as it were." When Andy suggested that they do it later, she nodded cheerfully. That was when she was flailing about.

The fact that they were now both flailing about was hilarious, and she was giggling about it. "Are you alright, then? I'm sorry!" She tried to help him, then moved to get the crutch. "You're handy with those buggers." Very deft! "With my dropping skills and your picking up skills, we'd make a fantastic pair." Tonks paused then, chuckling. "So long as nobody gets in our way!"

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brain_ninja
2009-05-16 01:33 am UTC (link)

"Hardy har," Andy deadpanned although he was still smirking. The more she laughed, though, the more Andy laughed until his face started to hurt. "Oh, yeah, it'd be a fuckin' shame if I never got to run for my life again," he replied with playful sarcasm.

Her having called him a git startled another laugh out of him. "I'm a what now?" he asked, grinning. That was a new one; Luna hadn't used that word, so Andy didn't know it. He found himself wondering if it was British slang or something and he sort of could guess the connotation, but still; now he was curious. "I think that's a good idea though, yeah, definitely," he agreed when she suggested using different colors to represent different areas of the town.

"I'll survive," he replied, smirking as his own laughter calmed and finally subsided entirely. He winked at her when she said he was handy with the crutches. "I'm handy with all kindsa things, peaches," he joked. Although, it was true. With the ability to control minds, Andy had the potential to be a very useful person when he wanted and needed to be. He didn't, however, elaborate on that statement and simply left it as a flirtatious one-liner. "Ha, yeah, fucking unstoppable, put 'er there," he said, holding a hand up for a high five.

"Shit it's cold. I hate to cut it short, Tonks, but I'm freezin' my balls off and Doc Lex said I shouldn't be on the leg for more than fifteen or twenty minutes at a time," he said almost apologetically.

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polymorphic
2009-05-16 01:43 pm UTC (link)

"Git! Like mm..rotter?" Also an English slang, and she was chuckling, thinking about it. "Idjit? Bum? Used ta be much more harsh than it is now, mostly it's an exasperated term of endearment." Tonks tilted her head, laughing. "It's hard to explain slang!"

The possible entendre was not lost on the witch, and she lifted her eyebrows with a smirk. "I'll keep that in mind if I need anything handy." Joked in return, then she was giving the high-five. Huddling back in her jacket, she nodded in understanding. "S'alright. I need to get back to where Edward and I are staying anyroad. It was great meeting you, Andy."

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brain_ninja
2009-05-16 03:04 pm UTC (link)

"Ooohhh, okay," Andy laughed, recognizing it once she'd said 'idjit.' "Well that's good to know, so long as it's not, you know, calling me a fuckin' asshole or something," he joked. And then 'git' was filed away into Andy's memory so that he'd remember what it meant if he ever heard it again.

He smirked and winked again as Tonks returned the high-five and joked back at him. "Hope so," he replied. "Good to meet you too, Tonks, and hey..." he said, shifting himself slightly on the crutches again. "When the snow isn't so bad and you wanna go out to do that string thing on the trees, gimme a shout, okay? I've been feeling pretty damn useless the past week, so...it'd be nice to get out and do something so I'm not just dead weight on everybody's shoulders, you know?" he asked, his tone and expression more serious.

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polymorphic
2009-05-16 04:25 pm UTC (link)

"If I wanted to call you that, I'd call you that!" She grinned. Tonks was about to turn and start heading her way back when Andy spoke up again. Moving enough so that she could see him, the woman lifted her eyebrows.

"Don't be daft. You're not dead weight, lambie. You're hurt. There's a difference." She reminded him easily. But then she was nodding. "It gets warmer and we'll find some string to go tyin' ribbons around old oak trees." Or however that song went.

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brain_ninja
2009-05-16 09:33 pm UTC (link)

Grinning back, Andy nodded as he backed away toward the church door, shivering. "Good point," he agreed. His hand was on the door when she turned back to look at him and he gave her a wan smile. "Well, I feel like dead weight."

"Cool, sounds good. See ya later, Tonks, take it easy. Don't stay out too long, it's fucking cold out here," he said, very much aware that he was pointing out the obvious.

Then, he opened the door and ducked into the church, leaning out to watch her until she was out of sight, even if it was pointless to keep look out when he couldn't do anything to help her if she needed it. Still, it made him feel better to try.

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	polymorphic 2009-05-16 10:25 pm UTC (link)
	"You oughtn't." She shook her head then, and then smiled. "I'll find some shelter soon! And maybe that shelter will be like a haven and have keen things..like hot biscuits and tea! I'd murder a cuppa tea." Sigh. A wave given, "See you round, Andy!" And then Tonks was off, until she was just a small pink spot amongst the snow. (Reply to this) (Parent)