Pain only lasts a moment

[scionoftheflame]

Characters: Luke and whoever finds him
Location: Where ever you want it to be!
Rating: I am going to say pg - 13 for now, will raise it if need be
Time: November 28th from 12pm til 4pm
Description: Luke has some time off to recover from his arm, but doesn't want to stay with sick!Asch anymore right now, so he is out... while also on his painkillers.

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2:30am, at a random street corner

[lionborn]

Leo had been prowling the City streets once again, having found that any attempts to sleep would only bring him nightmares again. Roaming the pretty much empty streets felt in an odd sense comforting to him, even as he casually took twists and turns however he pleased, slowly formulating a plan of the city and all its possible ways through it in his head. Playing 'avoid the Watch' was another game he half-heartedly pursued when he caught sight of a familiar whiff of shocking red hair out of the corner of his eyes.

Stopping, the Half frowned when he recognized - well, not his friend, but still better than some others, hrm - Luke. Who was apparently not quite clear, if the way he stopped and randomly stared at things was any hint. For a moment Leo wondered if he should just let him go, but then he remembered just about how clueless the guy could be. Leaving him out there in such a state was like kicking a damn puppy. ... Mentally cursing his soft side, Leo raised his fingers to his mouth and whistled.

"Hey! Princess!"

edit for the most embarrassing typo ever orz

[scionoftheflame]

Luke's head snapped towards Leo's voice, a startled look on his face for a moment before a wave of dizziness from his meds hit him and he stumbled a bit. He was able to grab onto a building to keep from slamming into anything, but the world would not go back to it's normal state, it just kept spinning and he was starting to feel like he was going to fall over just by standing there.

[lionborn]

"Whoa!" Leo flinched at the sudden turn for the worse. Hurriedly crossing the distance between them, he approached Luke warily, ready to make a quick grab in order to catch the other should he suddenly fall but also prepared to jump back should whatever he's taken make him prone to violence. The latter wasn't very likely, but he had grown up with guys with some volatile tempers, so he preferred to be prepared.

"Luke...?" His voice turned instinctively soft and low as he moved to touch the redhead by the shoulder. "Hey, man, what's wrong? You look like shit."

[scionoftheflame]

Luke breathed deeply a few times, the world still seeming to move wildly underfoot despite his hold on the building. He blinked slightly, recognizing Leo's voice amid the pounding in his head and haze over his brain.

"Leo?" He asked, his voice sounding a bit weak, and the only thing he would be able to 'throw' at this point might be his lunch. Slowly he lifted his head to look at the other. Blinking every now and again to clear out his vision. "Moved too fast, need to not do that on these pills."

[lionborn]

"Really?" Leo's face pulled into a wry grin. "I won't disagree with you on that. Fuck, what the hell did you OD with?" Not waiting for an answer, he stepped closer, taking Luke's free arm and slinging it over his shoulder while sneaking the other behind his back and other arm while doing so. "Let's get you somewhere where you can sit down before you end up kissing the street, huh?"

[scionoftheflame]

Luke nearly jumped when Leo got him supported, shivering at the feeling of the arm behind his back and on his injured arm. "I only took as much as they said to... it's those stupid painkillers." He said, shifting himself until he wasn't feeling a painful pinch somewhere along his ribs. "Sounds good to me."

[lionborn]

Leo felt bad for a moment when his attempt to help obviously ended up hurting the other, but he kept at it, figuring that Luke’d tell him if it got too much. That and that the boy really looked bad if it was just some doctor’s meds.

“Just painkillers? You sure?” Grateful for Luke’s cooperation he shifted their weight until he was sure that he could balance them both and keep from accidentally poking Luke in bad places. He’d never been that out of it with just painkillers before himself, but then again the health system in his world wasn’t exactly dying to get a Half nice treatment as long as they just survived. Frowning at Luke’s face - no, definitely not ‘good’ - he mentally cursed to himself before continuing with a forced casual tone. “So, where ya wanna go, Luke-kun? How about my place? I’ve got a freshly filled fridge and it’s getting kinda cold ‘n dreary out here anyway.”

[scionoftheflame]

Once Leo had them adjusted well he took a couple deep breaths, hoping to calm the slight shake he was developing from the strain.

"Mmm yeah" He said, remembering not to nod his head in response. "A lot of medicines don't work right for me... cause I'm not normal." He said. Thanks to being a replica his body didn't have the kind of resistance that it would normally have developed against things like painkillers, as such they affected him more than 'normal'. "That sounds good." He really didn't care at the moment where they went, but it was reassuring to have someone standing bedside him, even taking care of him, right now.

[lionborn]

"Good." Making sure that his grip would hold, Leo started to get them both into motion, moving carefully and rather slow. The comment about Luke not being 'normal' made him scoff. "You know, I don't think that the way your body was made influences how you're gonna react to it as long as you have the same parts inside as all the others." What was it with him and overdosed guys who went that high from the stuff that they got all down and whiny about them being 'not normal' on him? Was there a secret tag on him screaming 'good listener, please abuse' in neon colors where he couldn't see it? Sometimes Leo really wished that he was enough of an asshole to leave somebody sleeping face-first on the street for doing stuff like this. 'But noo, whatever, Leo'll do and make it right, yes sir~', sighing to himself, the Half directed the drugged up replica towards Casualty Communal. Anyway, Luke was still half a kid if what he said and the way he was acting was true and- waaait, that was it, wasn't it?!

Turning towards the redhead, Leo blurted out the genius thought he'd just had. "Hey, could it be that they're slamming you that much because you're still a virgin?"

1/?

[scionoftheflame]

"Really, you think that it doesn't matter?!" Luke asked, sounding more shocked and some how hopeful than anything else. He didn't mean to use Leo to talk to, but there was something about the rough Half that made Luke feel comfortable around him. Like he wasn't going to be judged based on something like being a Replica.

"Wwha-!" Luke stuttered, actually tripping slightly in his shock.

[scionoftheflame]

[scionoftheflame]

"Ha..."

[scionoftheflame]

"haha"

[scionoftheflame]

"HaHaHa"

[scionoftheflame]

"HAHAHAHAH Oh that is a good joke..."

[lionborn]

"No, I'm serious! I heard they get you worse if it's your first time taking them- ...."

Leo trailed off, just now realizing how else his question could be understood. Almost instantly, the Half blushed several shades of red.

"I-I mean-! I d-didn't mean it like that, why the fuck would I care if anther guy's done it before or not if-" If they're not even friends? But somehow, without Leo noticing it, they already had managed to become friends or otherwise he wouldn't drag the half-drugged human to his apartment so that he could crash there without getting himself hurt. Clearing his throat, he escaped into a hurried.

"What the hell, I was talking about the stuff you've taken and how you're reacting to it! Quit being creepy, ya drugged-up perv!"