Closed RP: Yuki and Charlie

[kusarigama-chan.livejournal.com]

Wandering away for the evening from the suite, Yuki made her way out to the grounds. Rather than her usual haunts, she decided to walk in the direction of the Forbidden Forest. Forbidden, of course, being absolutely no warning to her whatsoever. Perhaps there would be fun to be found as right now, she was feeling distinctly not fun - and it showed on the lack of smile on her normally-grinning face.

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Charlie had spent the last few weeks in Manchester. Or, well, just outside manchester. By which he meant Glasgow. But he'd definitely been thinking of going back to Manchester. Admittedly he'd chickened out of it, but it was the thought that counted, right?

He was making his way back to Hogwarts when he spotted a little girl out near the woods - hard not to think of it as a jungle. He half-ran over to her. "Hey! Hey, kid, um - you might not wanna go in there." He rubbed the back of his head absently. "Monsters and stuff, y'know?"

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Yuki turned as the man approached and for a moment, her expression lifted. Now that suddenly made the forest seem all that much more appealing. "Monsters, really? What kind? Where? Will you show me?"

[notasmackhead.livejournal.com]

Shit. "Um... I dunno. I've never been in that one. But the jungle-type thing I used to live in had giant mutant polar bears and boars and, I dunno, moths and things in it." And something else. "Well... the moths were alright, obviously." He looked down at her. Well - she looked a little more cheerful, at least. He grinned. "Hey, what about we go to the lake? There's a giant squid in there."

Squids can't chase after you, after all.

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"Mutant polar bears..." Yuki breathed, clearly entranced. she was about to ask him more about this jungle-place, clearly intent on a story now more than the forest, when the lake and the squid were mentioned. Unable to really cry earlier when dealing with her 'family's' pain because she had been all cried out, now she did sniffle. Tears welled and her lip jutted out to tremble as she looked up at him. Emotions were hard for her, but now they were even harder because she was more susceptible to them. "I like the lake and the squid but they make me sad right now!" she said, sounding as though she was about to start to cry in earnest.

[notasmackhead.livejournal.com]

"Oh, hey, hey, don't cry!" Charlie moved down onto one knee so he could look at her properly. One hand went to his pockets before he remembered that, well, there was only really one thing he had in there, and... well.

"Why'd they make you sad? I mean, they're only rocks and water and stuff, y'know? Big girl like you, I bet you could well take them on if you had to." He gave her shoulder a little mock-punch and grinned (somewhat anxiously) at her.

[kusarigama-chan.livejournal.com]

That he came down to her level made Yuki stop with her tears just a bit because while she liked being small, very few people (other than Nny and Dib and so forth) seemed willing to make up the height difference by crouching or picking her up.

"Jack-chan was mean to Nny-chan and made him so upset so now Jack-chan has to go away and he took me to the lake with the squid and now that makes me think of him and it makes me sad," she said, words halting with sniffles. "And I could, I'm a very good fighter, I have lots of weapons and can use them all better than most anyone!"

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"Right." Charlie wasn't really able to make all of that out, but he got the gist of it. "But... I mean, I bet if we went to the lake and did something fun then the next time you went there you'd feel less sad about it." He rubbed the back of his head, before adjusting the small bandages on the fingers of his left hand. Today they spelt "FATE", which was pretty much his default.

The comment about weapons (which he didn't take at all seriously, of course) made him think. "Oh, hey, and you could always throw rocks at the water or something. And tell it off for making you feel sad." It didn't really matter that wasn't why she was sad, did it? Just as long as she felt better... he hated seeing little kids sad.

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Yuki was quiet for a moment and then nodded. This seemed like a reasonable enough idea, to go have new fun where old fun had been. Besides, she was curious about his bandaged hand. Tears slowed and soon there were only sniffles left.

"Okay, we'll go throw rocks and tell off the water and then we can get the squid to come over and we can talk to it and pet it," she said, moving close. "What's your name? My name's Yuki. What happened to your hand?"

[notasmackhead.livejournal.com]

"Charlie Pace, at your service," he replied, grinning a little easier now. "I'm very pleased to meet you, Mistress Yuki. And, oh -" he glanced at his fingers "- nothing really. It's just... d'you ever write on your hands? I used to do that when I was younger. Me and my brother. But our mum would give us hell for it, so I started putting plasters on my fingers and drawing on them instead... just kinda kept it up, I suppose. 'S how we named our band." Charlie stretched out his hand for Yuki to inspect, and peeled away the top layer of the first, revealing a "H" where the "F" currently was.

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Yuki grinned, as she rather liked being called 'Mistress Yuki' - it was like 'Warrior Princess' and she liked that too. Nicknames like that were fun. She moved close, inspecting the bandages.

"I've written on myself... ooh, and I knew people who carved things into themselves, but I don't like that, so this idea is a very good one," she said in approval. "You're in a band? What kind? What's the name of it? What other things do the bandages say?"

[notasmackhead.livejournal.com]

"Carved things...?" Charlie peered at her. "Uhh. Well, I don't do that. It's less sore, for one thing. And if you decide you want something different you can just change them."

At Yuki's curiosity, Charlie hummed a few bars of You All Everybody. "You never heard that song? Actually, hey, you probably weren't even born when it first came out..." MAN, that's a weird thought. Seven years. "My band's called DriveShaft. We're sort of... like the mutant child of the Police and the Pixes. Which probably means nothing to you," he added with another grin. "And, um... I think the last couple have said fate, hate, date... heh. I guess I got lazy. It's easier to just change the first letter."