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Andy Gallagher is not the droid you're looking for (brain_ninja) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-05-21 14:46:00

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!dropped, !incomplete, andy gallagher, day 08, location: church, npc

Day Eight - Late Morning
Who: Andy Gallagher and Luna Lovegood's clone
What: Can Andy tell the difference?
When: late morning
Where: The church
Rating: TBA
Status: Incomplete; dropped

The confines of the church were becoming too much for Andy while he was alone. Not being able to go out and find Luna for himself - make sure she was safe - was killing him. Damn this place for putting him in such a helpless and useless position. He should be out there helping people or, at the very least, Luna. He supposed he could, really, but the risk of ripping the healing wound or tearing the stitches and having to endure another K-hole experience for Doc Lex to fix them made the option a little more than horribly undesirable. Then he'd be laid up even longer and as it was, Lexie had said that she could take the stitches out today...it was just that things were so goddamn out of control here today that it was looking less and less like she'd actually make it over to do so. Andy could and didn't fault her for that.

But, he was worried about Luna. She hadn't come back to the church the night before and even though she said she'd been with Logan, he felt no better about it. He'd actually have preferred the hell out of it if she'd been with Sam or, in a pinch, even Dean. He knew them. As much as he hated to admit it for the latter of the two, he trusted them. They'd keep her safe and wouldn't let anything happen to her. Logan, to Andy, was still an enigma. For all Andy knew, the guy could've been a serial killer or a rapist on the outside, but he tried not to think of that because it made him even more uneasy than he already was in involuntarily leaving Luna in someone else's charge.

He'd asked her to come back; he needed to see for himself that she was okay and needed to know where she was. That thing had said she was going to die...and it would be over his own dead body that such a thing came to pass, because like hell he was going to be directly or indirectly involved in another person's demise. Especially not Luna's.

Unfortunately, though, all he could do was wait and hope she came to him. She hadn't said one way or the other in the journals whether she'd come and he could understand her trepidation in being around him. Things were awkward and if that wasn't bad enough, everything was compounded with her having witnessed him under the influence of the Ketamine. He wouldn't have wished that on anyone who didn't know what to expect from it, least of all her. So, fidgeting nervously and anxiously, Andy paced on the crutches, sat in the pews, refreshed the fire in the baptismal, played with his matches; anything he could do to take his mind off the minutes that were melting away as he waited for her to show...or not show.

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vc_player_npc
2009-05-21 03:39 pm UTC (link)

This body... oh how much fun this body was. Luna still moved a bit clumsily, trying to readjust to having hands and fingers and feet -- who was she kidding? She'd never had a body ever before so there was no readjustment period was there? But she needed to act similarly in order to show that she was who she appeared to be. Luna shook her long blonde hair, wondering who she had interacted with -- memories were still a bit of a blur. Not clear yet. Should be clearing.

Something pulled her towards the church, avoiding some of the more populated areas in favour of seeking quiet. Better to be a bit awkward with a few people as opposed to seeing a ton of people.

The church. Surely that would be mostly empty, right?

Luna stepped inside, not expecting to see anyone, almost taken aback when she saw someone in the sanctuary. She drew her lips into a thin line and tried to pull out his name from the haze. Anzie... Ankie... Andy. Yes, Andy.

"Andy...?" Luna asked softly, hanging back towards the start of the aisle, hands braced against the back pew.

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brain_ninja
2009-05-21 03:52 pm UTC (link)

At the sound of Luna's voice, Andy nearly dropped the matches entirely when he whipped his head around to the source of the sound, simultaneously worried and relieved to see her standing there. She sounded more soft-spoken and looked more spooked than normal. Then again...they hadn't talked in person in days.

Getting to his feet and taking up the crutches to help support his weight, he headed toward her, stopping halfway so as not to impose himself upon her. "Luna," he said, a small, sad smile tugging at the corners of his mouth. "Are you okay...?"

It was all he could do not to hurry closer to her...or hug her. The last thing he wanted was to give her a reason to leave or push him away again.

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vc_player_npc
2009-05-23 11:33 am UTC (link)

"No, don't," Luna said, holding up a hand. "I'll... I'll come to you." Yes, Luna would be concerned but as to why Andy was on crutches, she couldn't quite pull that knowledge forward. Weren't the clones supposed to have the same memories? Maybe it was Luna's personality -- fuzzy in life and thus her memories were just as muddled. Luna frowned, not realising the expression translated to her face. Odd. Very, very odd.

"I'm okay," she said, turning the frown away and smiling instead. "Really, I'm okay. Never better." She moved closer to him so he didn't have to walk as far, eyes flicking between his face and the crutches. "You? Are you okay?" Yes, let him talk. All the better while she got rid of this new-body feeling.

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brain_ninja
2009-05-26 07:31 pm UTC (link)

Andy stopped when she told him to and even went so far as to take a step back out of reflex when her expression changed. She was frowning. Things hadn't changed; the church wasn't home because he was there. It was home because, perhaps, she didn't have anywhere else to go. In retrospect, that was probably the point at which Andy gave up.

As dreamy as Luna seemed to be most of the time, he was unsurprised at the way she changed the frown to a smile, but it didn't make him feel any better. The way she continued to move closer was less than a consolation, as well; obligation, he thought. Luna was maybe one of those people who felt an obligatory loyalty to him just because he happened to be the one she met first when she woke up.

"I'm all right," he replied and it wasn't a lie, but he could definitely be better. "As good as I can be, anyway," he said with a wan smile, nodding down at his leg as he leaned his weight more heavily on the crutches in order to slouch. He paused and then, "I'm glad you came back," he told her quietly, looking down.

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