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Andy Gallagher is not the droid you're looking for (brain_ninja) wrote in vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-06-24 03:02:00

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!complete, andy gallagher, day 12, lexie grey, location: gym

Day Twelve - Mid-morning
Who: Andy Gallagher and Lexie Grey
What: Checking in with Doc Lex
When: Day Twelve - mid-morning
Where: In the gym
Rating: PG-13 (to be safe, but it'll probably only be for Andy's language)
Status: Complete

Things had quieted down quite a bit. It seemed like the worst was over; that the threat was gone. Andy knew better than to fully believe that, but he was also willing to allow himself to relax, even if just a little.

He wondered if the happenings in Guthrie and then the ones in Cold Oak had changed him or if he'd always been like this... Andy wondered when he'd become a poor man's Winchester. Somewhere along the way, he'd made it his business to keep tabs on the people he cared about, but mostly the women. While Luna had made it pretty clear to him that she was completely disinterested in having him as a buddy anymore - which didn't mean he couldn't still wonder if she was all right - and Kim seemed to be okay now that she'd found someone she knew from the real world, there was still Elliot. And Doc Lex. Elliot had taken something to the side, but she looked like a fighter; she was hanging in there and doing her thing in spite of it all. He wasn't too worried about her for the time being, because she seemed to be okay. It was Lexie that he was worried about.

It hadn't been lost on him the way she hadn't joined Elliot and Dr. House in their makeshift rounds. If she thought everyone had failed to notice the way she sat alone, staring out at nothing, she was only fooling herself, because Andy had noticed. He'd been noticing for more hours than he cared to count, by now. In fact, it had taken a lot of will power on his part not to invade her personal space by sitting beside her and offering the poor woman a penny for her thoughts, but he had a feeling, judging by her body language and the not-quite-vacant but very far away look on her face, that it wouldn't be appreciated, so he'd kept his distance.

Until today. He couldn't just sit back watching her and wondering if she was all right, anymore. So, finally, he made his way over to her and cringed inwardly as he noticed the lump on her shoulder. Never mind the dried blood on her clothes. Carefully, wincing slightly at the way the new stitches Elliot had been kind enough to put in his leg pulled and shifted when he moved, he sat down beside her. For a long moment, he said nothing, just looking out over the injured the way she seemed to be. "How ya holdin' up, Doc?" he asked quietly. He didn't want to push buttons or upset her; just wanted to make sure she was still okay when she didn't entirely look it. He gave her a sideways glance, then. "You doin' okay? I mean, all things considered...?"

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skipped3rdgrade
2009-06-26 01:40 am UTC (link)

Lexie could feel Andy's movements as if he had said something. but, she didn't catch it in the roaring wind. She imagined it was probably something along the lines of It will be, Andy seemed the sort who would be very reassuring in a time like this.

Slowly her hand started to loosen and the tear stained face of Lexie Grey was pulled back from his shoulder so she could look up at him. She wanted desperately to give him a real smile; though, the best she could manage was a small tug at the corners of her mouth. "Thanks, Andy," her brow knitted a little, a sad look of sincerity hanging on her features. She really was thankful. Truly.

You wanna take a walk now? He'd asked, and Lexie nodded quickly in turn. She felt like she wanted to run away from the scene of the crime. She'd get away with robbery and murder and battery and everything else if she could just get away from the back of the gym. "Yeah," she said, raising the back of her hand to wipe at her cheeks again. The Wind was ridiculous, making her blink rapidly. As if she hadn't cried enough already the wind seemed to be conspiring to get even more tears out of her.

"You're doing a great job, I'll try not to go and jibber jabber on about nonsense to you," she teased, her voice a bit stronger now.

Tentatively, Lexie stepped away. the closeness immediately missed. A protective hug from a friend and all Lexie really wanted to do was curl right back up in there. Instead, she forced back on her brave face before linking her arm back in Andy's. "Did Doctor Reid give you the okay to be out and about with those stitches?" She jabbed. "I mean, I know they're not dental floss or anything..."

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brain_ninja
2009-06-26 02:19 am UTC (link)

Lexie pulled away slightly and looked up at him, tugging on Andy's heartstrings. It took a conscious effort for him not to move to brush her tears away on his own. She's Lexie. She's not Tracy. Just be a friend, Gallagher. Friends don't do that. Boyfriends do that and boyfriend, you ain't, man. He matched her weak smile with one of his own and nodded. "You're welcome, Lexie." His eyes met hers in an effort to let her know that he meant it in such a way that he hoped she felt she could turn to him in the future if she needed something like this. Or, well, anything, really. She'd taken really good care of him when he'd needed it; he wanted to pay the favor back with interest.

Andy was glad that she was agreeing to a walk. To him, that meant Lexie was feeling a little better and he hoped he wasn't wrong about that. "Ha, yeah, well I'll try not to pump you full of hallucinogens and you should be okay," he joked back, smirking at her. Yeah, she must be feeling at least a little better. Mission accomplished.

Just as much as Lexie missed the closeness, Andy did as well. He kept his observation to himself when he saw that the second she moved away, she acted as though she'd never been upset to begin with. That was fair enough. If she felt like she needed to remove herself from it, he wasn't going to stop her. And he was going to keep the whole thing to himself; he wasn't going to tell. Andy hoped that by keeping her secret the way he'd been keeping Sarah's would give her reason to think she could and would want to trust him in the future if she needed another moment like that; a friend she could just be herself around.

Looking over at her, Andy raised his eyebrows. "I didn't ask Elliot cuz Doc Lex is the one who gives me my medical advice," he pointed out, winking. "I felt bad enough cheating on her by letting Elliot re-stitch it to begin with, so I'm kinda glad it wasn't dental floss. That's, like, a signature move and everything. Doc Lex does minty fresh stitches because she's the shit," he added, grinning. "Plus she said she'd save me the red and purple lollipops."

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skipped3rdgrade
2009-06-27 11:38 am UTC (link)

He said she was welcome and out of reflex Lexie looked down at her shoes. She couldn't help it. Again, she was used to being the caregiver, not the one taken care of. Hell, she wouldn't even let Karev take care of her, and it seemed like he really wanted to after he'd found out about her dad. She chalked it up to the whole situation just being something he understood, and not really his wanting to be 'there' for her. That look, though, from Andy made her quite certain that he was really trying to see her. Maybe he really did, despite her best effort at subterfuge.

"Pssssh, you're going to have to do better than Ketamine if you think you're going to get met to babble," OK, so maybe it was a bit of a half assed attempt at teasing. Maybe even a half assed attempt at bravado. Whatever it was Lexie was doing, it felt only half way there. She didn't want to be half baked or half cocked or half whatever. Though, it was probably more sheer exhaustion than anything else that kept the young surgeon from really being able to crank everything up to full speed. She'd get there. She had to.

When Andy started joking about not asking Elliot and calling her Doc Lex, it was hard for her not to laugh a little. His jokes weren't lost on her and as much as the big black cloud she'd been holed up under didn't seem to want to dissipate, the sunshine that was Andy seemed to be knocking that cloud out with a one-two punch.

"You'd think they'd have included some lollipops in the batch of medical supplies they'd sent in, huh? I mean, every hospital I've been in has had them as standard fare..." Her good arm looped back in his again, seeing as he didn't have any crutches and an arbitrary direction was chosen.

"I'm kind of bummed they turned my room into a death trap," she confessed, trying to make light of it all. "And they trashed my clinic," it was her clinic. It may have been started by Martha, but she felt like it was hers. Lexie shook her head. "When we get out of here, I'm going on vacation. Probably to a beach. A beach or maybe a desert. Or maybe on a cruise..." Yes, she was babbling because she was trying to think of places that were the least like the place she was right now. So, it meant she would not be going back to Seattle - because the humidity and the trees and the gloom might be far too easy to recognize there.

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brain_ninja
2009-06-28 12:38 am UTC (link)

Andy's eyebrows rose and his smirk widened. "Oh really? You're stronger than the drug, huh? What's that say about your recreational activities back home, Lex?" he joked. He could tell she was teasing and it would've been better if it sounded to him like her heart was in it, but he figured baby steps would do just fine for now. He could be patient when he needed to be and right now, he thought maybe he did.

It was nice, though, to see her laugh. If there was anything Andy felt confident in his skill in doing, it was making people laugh...or at least break out a smile. Lexie being able to laugh at his lame ass jokes and at the very least fake pretty well the genuine amusement in her eyes was enough to make Andy smile brightly back at her. He never thought the sound of someone's laughter would be music to his ears, but there it was. It was great to hear Doc Lex fucking laugh.

"Yeah, you'd think," he remarked in return as they started walking. "Fuckers. The least they could've done was drop off some damn lollipops." What he didn't add was that he thought for some of the people in the gym, lollipops might be just enough to get a small, weak smile. There were people in there that weren't hurt as badly as others and who were milling around in the gym, at his best guess, because that was where the doctors were and, from what little he'd been able to see last time he'd come out and run into Sarah, it was the only building still standing. It wasn't really because they needed to be there so much as they didn't have anywhere else to go. While he felt stupid thinking it, Andy couldn't help but ponder the positive effects that just a lollipop and a giggle might have on some of the people he'd seen taking up cots.

Nodding sympathetically, Andy sighed. "Yeah, that's pretty shitty. Once people start clearing out, I'll help clean up, Lex. It probably just looks worse than it really is," he said, trying to see the bright side. If there was one, that was... "Oh man, I've always wanted to go on a cruise. I could probably hook us up with some free tickets if you don't mind a stowaway," he offered reflexively before thinking. Not only was he running the risk of her asking how on Earth he was going to manage to get free tickets, but he was also shoving his way into her little impromptu fantasy. Fuck, that wasn't how he'd meant it at all... With a roll of his eyes, and a smirk, Andy shook his head. "Or, you know, I could try," he attempted to save.

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