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Day One - Night-time
Who: Andy Gallagher & Luna Lovegood
What: Heading back to shelter for the night
When: 10:00 pm
Where: The Church
Rating: PG-13 for language
Status: Complete



By the time Andy and Luna were on their way back to the church for the night, the sun had long since gone down and the rain was coming down in buckets, thunder rumbling and lightning brightening the sky in random splashes of blue-white. They'd had to take it a lot slower than he'd hoped they could've and he thanked whatever powers that he'd found a poncho in the thrift shop earlier. He'd wrapped a bunch of clothes that he and Luna had found in it and at least those would be dry.

It was a lot harder, too, to navigate the dirt road in the dark with only the spurts of lightning in the distance as a guide. By the time they'd gotten where he thought was close to the cemetary, Andy had pulled his coat off and, shivering, held it over he and Luna's heads.

"Okay, this is gonna be s-s-s-s-seriously b-b-balls, but we're gonna need to build a f-f-fire," he managed through chattering teeth. "Easy on the s-s-steps," he added when he nearly faceplanted himself on them on his way up to the church door.

When he was up them, he held a hand out to Luna to help her, figuring with the mud everywhere and the rain still pouring down, her sandals would have her slipping and sliding all over the place. He was freezing and soaked to the bone, not to mention exhausted; she must be worse off in that thin little dress of hers. His hoodie must weigh a hundred pounds to her by now...