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Andy Gallagher is not the droid you're looking for (brain_ninja) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-03-21 00:17:00

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!complete, andy gallagher, day 01, location: church, luna lovegood

Day One - Morning
Who: Andy Gallagher & Luna Lovegood
What: Andy and Luna wake up in the woods (Arrival)
When: 8:45am
Where: Forest/Church
Rating: PG-13 to R(language)
Status: Complete

Mumbling to himself, Andy turned his head, eyes closed in a lazy form of tossing and turning. His eyes slowly blinked open only to squint shut again. Rain? He'd been inside...

His head was swimming and his mind felt thick and heavy...a little like he'd smoked way too much pot, although he'd been stuck in Cold Oaks with Sam, Ava, and Jake; there was no marijuana to be smoked. It would've been nice, he had to admit to himself dully, seeing as how apparently they weren't going anywhere and a freakin' demon had put them there.

Rain. What the fuck? Andy opened his eyes again and looked up, squinting. Not really rain...more like the kind of mist setting on a hose or something. "Lame..." he mumbled unintelligably as he grunted in distaste and sat up to look around. "What the hell...?" he murmured, looking around.

God, he felt like shit. Head swimming, eyesight just coming back into focus and he felt numb all over. Uh, and he was in the woods? No, seriously, what the fuck?

Andy sat in the mud, scratching his head. "Sam?" he called out, or tried to; his voice was scratchy and low, like he'd been shouting and lost it in the process.

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brain_ninja
2009-03-23 11:45 am UTC (link)

Andy frowned at the question. He wished he could say that he was. "No. There's more like me. We all have different things, for the most part. My brother..." he paused and set his jaw, the word having been spit out rather than said. "Webber. He had the mind control thing. And Sam, remember I mentioned him? He sees things before they happen or something. Ava did too. There was a girl," he said, his voice softening a little sadly, "Lily...if she touched someone, their heart stopped, I think she said. And Jake, but he didn't say what his thing was." Andy wondered, even, if there were more people like them that he just hadn't met. Maybe they'd been sent to a different place or maybe they just hadn't been found by the time Andy woke up in this place. He hoped like hell that the ones he'd met were the only ones all together. "The ability's new, though. I just started being able to do it last year. Bam, all of a sudden. At first it was really creepy, because I didn't mean to do it and it just happened, but then I got better at it. At controlling it and keeping it to myself. I don't use it anymore. Unless I have to."

He watched her as she went on examining everything; right then, she had been looking at the baptismal. Andy frowned slightly at her reply as she crawled under the altar. "Why? What'd we ever do to them?" he asked. A morbid part of himself wondered what exactly she meant by torture, but he was afraid if he asked and she actually answered, it'd make him think of Webber again and he definitely didn't want that.

When she came back out from under the alter, standing on the opposite side from which she'd gone under, he smiled back. "You're welcome, I guess," he replied, the smile tugging its way into a smirk. She'd taken it as a compliment when he'd really only been making an observation. Although, he supposed, it certainly hadn't been meant as an insult, so it was fine with him that she'd taken it that way.

Luna put her hands on her hips and looked back at him, announcing in a rather dreamy voice that Andy couldn't help smiling at, that this was a good shelter. Whether she meant the church itself or the alter, he wasn't sure, but he had a feeling that she meant the church as a whole. "Yeah I plan on sticking around here for a while, anyway. At least until the rain stops and I can find a phone to call a cab or something."

He leaned back against the pew again, slouching and smiling dumbly at her as she skipped back. Without turning his head toom much, Andy looked up at her with raised eyebrows. She suggested they find food and make a fire. Well, at least that was what it meant to him. "You planning on staying here a while, or something?" he asked, "because I, for one, am ready to roll on outta here as soon as I can find a phone. Man I wish I had my van right now..."

Although, his stomach disagreed with him. He couldn't remember, when he tried to think about it, when the last time he'd eaten had been. "Actually...now that you mention it, I am pretty hungry," he agreed, stretching his arms over his head and his legs out beneath the pew in front of him before standing. "All right, you win, Luna. Let's blow this pop stand and get some munchies."

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luna_llena
2009-03-23 05:09 pm UTC (link)

While her gaze was not unsympathetic, Luna's eyes held no pity in their depths. "What was that like?" the Ravenclaw in her had to ask, wanted to know what it was like to suddenly wake up with a power. Hers had been wrapped around her body and heart from birth, she had never not known of her powers. Luna had never heard of people-shaped-kind that each had only one power, or even one unique one apiece. While not everyone was experts at the same things, whether they were charms or potions, for the most part only power level varied among her kind. "No mentor to train you?"

Her inspection of the font had left her deciding that it could be something to worry about. What if it was the bed of some creature in the church that she had not seen yet? Or, more importantly, what were the feathered chubby children carved into it for?

"Existed," was the truest answer that could be relayed for why the Death Eaters seemed to hate Muggles so. "Muggles and Muggleborns, halfbloods and blood traitors." With the last word she perked up, "That one's me." It did not really occur to her, or at least was not really mulled over that he would not believe her. Oh well, some people believed, and some did not. It all depended on the openness of their minds.

She shook her blonde head, long wet-tipped hair and all. "Not planning, preparing just in case." Sometimes you never could be sure what was going to happen, and without magic, in a strange place...even Luna Lovegood was being a bit practical. In actuality she was being extremely practical, for her.

As he stood, Luna remarked with a tilt of her head, "You really do speak oddly."

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brain_ninja
2009-03-24 02:43 pm UTC (link)

Andy raised an eyebrow at Luna, unsure at first of what she was asking. "What was what like?" he asked. "Waking up and being able to make people do whatever I wanted? Weird," he replied. "Really fuckin' weird. But then it was cool, because it meant I never had to pay my bills or work." He paused again and thought of Sam and Dean and the whole thing with Webber. "And then it was not so good. At all," he added with a small frown.

He'd never really thought about not having a mentor, as she put it, to train him. He'd just harnessed it all on his own and it had come naturally once he'd embraced it. So, he shrugged. "I didn't really need anyone to train me. It just sort of... I don't know, it was like I already knew how to do it after a couple of days," he replied.

She said that the only thing Muggles (as she called people like Andy) had done to merit being tortured and killed was exist. Andy blinked. Even as she went on, not all of it computed, because he was still caught on the fact that all they'd done to deserve horrible death was...exist.

That put things into perspective a little for Andy. It made him think of Webber and the way he'd murdered their birth mother and the doctor just because he could and because he was angry that he and Andy had been separated at birth. Those people didn't deserve to die just because Webber had issues. Dean didn't deserve to be put in the line of fire for protecting Andy and Tracy and Tracy sure as hell didn't deserve to be up on that dam in a slip ready to jump because Andy cared about her more than he had cared about Webber.

Andy's jaw set at that thought. "I hope your Aurors or whatever killed them. All of them. Every last fucking one of them, then," he said bitterly in reference to the Death Eaters. He didn't feel the need to elaborate as such and let Luna know that Webber was dead because Andy had made a snap decision to pull the trigger. Webber was a bad person and Dean's life was on the line. Andy didn't have time to think of the ramifications or how he would feel knowing that he'd killed a man after the fact. He'd acted reflexively. And he didn't really regret it, because Webber had it coming to him.

...except, sometimes Andy wasn't so sure Webber had deserved it at all, because in Andy's mind, Webber was a nutcase. Maybe he hadn't ever really realized that he was doing bad things at all. Maybe, Andy thought, Webber had really honestly thought he was helping Andy. But, Andy didn't like to think about that, so he pushed it away and looked back at Luna.

"Fair enough, better safe than sorry, I guess," he agreed dully. He gave her a weak smile when she said he spoke oddly. "Yeah, well, you do too, you know," he pointed out. "C'mon, let's go," he added before touching the small of her back to prod her forward as he started to walk back toward the door leading outside.

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