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Edward (shear_innocence) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-06-13 15:38:00

Current music:	Tom Jones- "With These Hands"
Entry tags:	!dropped, day 11, edward scissorhands, kim boggs, location: gym

With These Hands
Who: Edward and Kim! And open to Kaylee later, if she wants to repair his leg for him? ^^
When: 1:00 AM, Day 11
Where: The Gym while Edward waits patiently for his leg to get reattached.
What: Reunion!
Rating: PG for now
Status: Active

Edward was a sweet, patient thing. He lay quietly, as Gambit had instructed him, with his detached leg tucked safely under his cot, for someone to come and reattach his leg, but he was well aware that it might be a while. Since he had seen what kind of shape others were in, like Watanuki (who had had a balcony come down on him), and a man with two broken arms, and another who was deliriously talking about non-parasitic Platyhelminthes due to the generous amounts of morphine distracting him from a shovel in his side. He listened to that man's soft mumbling for awhile, wondering why the inventor had never told him any of those interesting things about flatworms. They would have been scary, if they weren't so small!

Things did get dull, though. Since Edward didn't sleep, he resigned himself to simply staring at what remained of the ceiling in the gym, and the stars that were visible where sky peeked through.

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shear_innocence
2009-06-16 03:27 pm UTC (link)

The trust was mutual. Edward knew how fragile Kim was, and that she would never let him hurt her. She was bright and sensible where he succumbed to flights of fancy, and he could rely on her very real vulnerability to gently keep him from doing anything irreversible.

He nodded to affirm the fact that it had, indeed, fallen off, glancing down at the black, leather-clad stump. "Yes... all gone, see? But it's OK, I still have it, and it's easy. Father put them on me once, I think that someone else could do it again!" He was unfalteringly optimistic, even though he was missing a limb, because he knew that there was always a way to fix things. Wasn't Kim breathing proof of that? She'd fixed his sadness!

"I made lots of things. I saw beautiful things that inspired me." He didn't have to say it, by any means, but it was clear that in his eyes, Kim had been the most beautiful and inspiring of everything he had seen in Suburbia.

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catchmedancing
2009-06-16 04:44 pm UTC (link)

"I hope you're right," Kim agreed. "Wait--you were awake while your dad put your legs on?" That sentence felt so weird to say. "You're kind of incredible, Edward. You have skin and everything...but your leg fell off and you're not bleeding...does it hurt?" Kim hoped it didn't. Edward in pain was such a heartbreaking sight that it made her want to cry. She wouldn't be able to stand it if Edward was really hurt. She would have to find one of the doctors and demand--albeit very politely--that they put his leg back on at once, if that was the case.

"Do you ever take this suit off?" She wondered aloud. It was probably a silly question, because with all the buckles and straps, it would be pretty impossible for him to do so. Kim wondered, too, if he ever wanted to take it off, or wear something else. Or if the suit was what was holding his body together. Now there was an alarming thought.

"Then...it was worth it?" She hesitated, then forged ahead, gently working through the tangles in his unruly hair with her good hand. He didn't feel like a doll. He felt real. "Coming to visit us, I mean. Was it worth it? Because you were inspired?"

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shear_innocence
2009-06-20 11:20 am UTC (link)

"Of course I was awake," Edawrd said, as if it was the most natural thing in the world. "He waited until I had learned all about poetry and literature and art, so I wouldn't get bored and walk away." How well Edward could remember not being able to move anything except his face and his hands during the early stages of his cognitive development. That had been very interesting. "No! No, it doesn't hurt. It's missing, but it's not painful. I'm OK," he assured her, smiling. But it was clearly different with Kim's arm. "You're broken?" he asked quietly, staring at the sling her arm was currently held in.

The buckles and straps did make removing the suit impossible for Edward. He had never tried, and there was the thought that the tight leather served like skin, keeping his insides inside of him. Even Edward wasn't quite sure if that was the case... obviously, he couldn't feel through the leather, but he had worn it for so long that it might as well have been his skin. "No...I can't..." Edward said, shaking his head slowly back and forth. "It protects me, but it's hard to move, sometimes..."

He sat up straighter when Kim asked him if it was worth it to come down to Suburbia. Eyes shining, filled with knowledge that had not been there before his introduction to society, he nodded.

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	catchmedancing 2009-06-27 07:34 am UTC (link)
	ooc: Bumping thread down. See Kaylee's reply. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

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