Learning to fall

<font color='#0000FF'>Lucas looked at Turon.

"I know not of you." He said simply.  "I...know nothing."  He slumped to the ground and covered his eyes with his paws showing both of them the large scar that goes from his neck to the end of his tail right on his spine.  He growled.

"Stop thought talking!"</font>

 

<font color='#810541'>{Etincelle! That's classified information you're spewing all over!!} Turon was now furious with the pair of them, although Etincelle especially. {Stop that right now or I'll be forced to silence you with the Arts (Arts=Magic)! And so, we won't speak to Lucas this way, but if you won't talk to me in private very soon, I will continue to talk to you this way no matter how impolite to your precious Lucas!} Turon hesitated a bare second, then added in a hiss {and by the way, I caught that last thought of yours, it was wide open in your public mind for anyone to hear. What do you have against Yonara?? Etincelle, what's come over you recently?? If you really don't wish to continue being a spy, than there are ways to breach your contracts and still retain your credits and references, but not if you go about it the way you've been doing so far! I will help you if you wish and even give you good references for whatever post you choose to take up next, but not if I don't think you deserve it! And telling classified information to anyone? Does that sound very worthy or desrving Etincelle?} (this last was delivered in an especially scathing tone). Turon paused almost interceptibly again, then added, softer this time, {Etincelle? Do you truly think I would wish to harm you? Don't you know how I feel about you?} And then, abruptly, before Etincelle could get even the briefest glimmer of his thoughts behind the tight shield of his mind-speach, he closed the link between their two minds and blocked the channel between them, preventing her from sensing any of his thoughts, which were now a confused tangle of fury, bewliderment, frustration, rage, sadness, and an ever-glimmering love for Etincelle.
    But then he shook himself mentally walked to within a few steps of Lucas.
    "Lucas...I...I'm sorry." He meant sorry for more than just his telepathing, also for hunting him all these years without a real reason, and hoped his tone would convey what he was too proud to say in words.
    "I had no idea you coudn't telepath. Perhaps...if you wish...I might be able to help you unblock your mind from whatever is keeping telepathy out of your grasp."
    "But enough of that. We need to talk, and soon. However...Lucas, I'm sorry, but...you need to understand, much of what Etincelle has been telling you, I believe," and here he paused briefly to shoot a dark glance in Etincelle's direction, "is most definitely classified information. I...I;m truly sorry, Lucas, but I need to speak with her privately to establish what you do and do not already know, before you and I can talk and try to put our enmity...well, I suppose myold enmity for you would be more accurate (and here he let his features slide into a slightly sheepish look) I guess...behind us. Will you allow me to talk to Etincelle privately for a few moments?" and as he mentally reviewed Lucas's possible reactions in order to try and prepare himself, he hastily added, "I promise to stay within your sight at all times, and if you think her in any danger from me you may intervene...please? Lucas? Etincelle? Just grant me this one favor, will you? Please?"
   Damn, Turon thought, very privately, to himself, begging twice in 1 hour! What am I coming to? Although I suppose I have been warned by numerous of my various instructors over the years to watch out for my pride and my temper, I suppose. O, well; I suppose they'd just think tonight a good lesson in groveling and humility then...   They always did have a screwed sense of humour. But come! I need to pay attention to Lucas now, not to mention that fecking Etincelle.</font>

 

<font color='#0000FF'>Lucas looked upon Turon.  Blocking his mind, eh. A flash of memory overcame him.
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Lucas walked into the town and he stopped dead in his tracks.  He heard three words.

"Kill her now!"  He looked around and no one was there.  His mind gift was too strong.  Obviously, there was no one that was going say that out here and it was not a good idea to follow this thought but he couldn't resist.  He walked to where the feelings were prominant and he saw three male pendragons cornering a black and red female pendragon.  He became enraged and ran at the male pendragons.  Before he knew it the three male pendragons were lying at his sides and only the female remained standing.  She looked at him.  He was enchanted with her emerald eyes.  She walked to him and nuzzled him.

"Thank you beautiful."  She wiggled her butt in his face and licked his ear.

A mist came upon him and before he knew what had happened she was already gone.  

He looked around in surprise.  His master arrived at the alley and ran into it.  Lucas sat down and smiled.  Master Ti-Chi looked at him and smacked him upside the head.

"Idiot!  You let her go!?" Ti said.

Lucas nodded and then stopped and growled.

"Why is there something wrong with her?"  He snarled at his master.

"Yes.  She is insane and will kill anyone that touches her.  I am surprised you aren't dead, boy."  Lucas looked to the ground and snarled.

"She is not evil!" He yelled as he ran in the direction she went.  "Wait for me, please."

He search and searched it seemed for centuries.  He looked until there was no where else too look and he was too tired to search anymore.  He fell to the earth and closed his eyes tears overwhelming his senses.  He desided it was best if he were to just go to sleep and dream.  And so he did.  (He remembered dreaming of eating juicy bunnies.  He smiled at the thought.)  When he opened his eyes from his astral projection there were green orbs looking at him.  He had found her.

"I have been searching for you for the longest time."  She looked at him and smiled.  Her face became very serious.

"Stop looking for me or I will have to kill you."

Lucas looked up at her and shook his head. "No I cannot!  I must..."  She smacked him hard across the face.  He whined.

"Listen to me!  For your safety you must not follow me.  I will kill you.  I don't love you!"  He nodded his head and watched her walk away the stinging in his eyes was back again.  He curled up to get out of the crisp air and feel asleep again.  When he awoke his master was sitting in front of him.  It seemed that all the times he had seen his master he wore a frown.  He wondered if it was him that made people so upset.

"How did you know about her?"  M. Ti asked.

"I heard it through my mind gift." Lucas stated.

"Okay.  I am going to make sure you will never easdrop on someones conversation again even though I know you didn't mean to."  Lucas tried to tell him no but he became dissy very fast and he looked at his master.  Ti's lips were moving.  Lucas passed out.  When he awoke he was alone.  He vowed to never fall in love, never to care and to never to cry.
~~~

Lucas returned to the present time and looked at Turon.

"No learn Telepathy...no need."  Lucas listened to what Turon had said and nodded.

"First, stay.  Second, go.  You confused.  I know enough.  I not talk to enough people to tell her secrets.  Capeech!"  Lucas sat and snarled.   Now he just really didn't want to be here.  He had to up hold his vows.</font>

 

<font color='#810541'>Turon was no longer furious, but his anger had subsided to an intense frustration. He felt he could say the same thing to the pair of them, although he would have to frame it more politely to Lucas of course. God that guy was touchy! {Oy, peabrain! Etincelle! Haven't you been paying attention to anything I've said? I WILL HELP YOU BREAK YOUR SPY CONTRACT IF THAT IS WHAT YOU TRULY WISH!! Will you listen to me now?? And other than your spy contract, there are many other things we need to discuss, mainly buisness, but others too...such as, do you want me to right you a good recomendation for whichever job you take next?? Because if you keep on going as you have been, ya sure I'll write you a recomendation...a bad one! and even if you dont want a recomendation from me, I'm the one who logically fills out your evaluation reports from this job, given as I've had so much contact with you...! Yeah...let that sink in a bit, will you?? Etincelle, please, I'm not trying to blackmail you here - I just want you to understand that I do not have a single track mind and am capable of thinking ahead as you seem unable to do! Please will you cooperate just for the next few hours?? Is that quite so much to ask??}
     There. Now he only had to rephrase that for Lucas, and hopefully - although at this point it was seriously doubtful about his chances - hopefully things would start to work.
     "Lucas, I know you probably dont want to be here", he started, trying to placate the touchy pendragons temper as best as possible, "but I'm afraid there are many things other than what Etincelle has or has not told you that need to be discussed. I admit, many of them...are...more on a personal count than a business count", he went on, grasping for the right words to say. "Please...I need to catch up with Etincelle a bit - I presume she's told you of her wish to give up Spying? - but I do - urgently - need to talk to you. Please, Lucas? Etincelle? Can we all come to some agreement here, even if only temporary?"
    For some reason talking to the two of them - probably because he'd been begging again, damn them - had made him furious again.
    There. And he refused to grovel before the two of them one more time, and he wasn't going to either, dammit, no matter what! He hated to beg dammit! Damn them all, they could all go hang for all he was concerned. They could take his offer or leave it, he had done his best after all, and that was that, he thought, remembering only barely in time to shield his thoughts. Hell, they were probably never going to agree anyway, they were just putting him through his paces so they could have a good laugh at him later. Well, shucks for them, there show was going to be discontinued very soon if they didn't change their tune summarily.</font>

 

<font color='#0000FF'>Lucas looked at Turon confused again.

"First go!  Then stay! Which one!?"  Lucas glared at Turon.  "Leave little then back?"  He turned on his behind and looked at a tree.  He smiled.

"At least tree make sense!"  He hissed at Turon.</font>

 

<font color='#810541'>"Yes, 'leave little then back'", Turon said, grinding his teeth in frustration and glaring at Lucas. "ok? look, pal, im doin my darndest to be nice but you're not making it very easy here! please can we just all cooperate for a while? im asking you one last time...!".</font>

 

<font color='#810541'>OOC - rika, wud u plz stop sayin the same thing over and over??
BIC:
"ETINCELLE!!! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT I WONT FORCE YOU TO KEEP SPYING IF YOU DONT WANT TO! God, and I used to think you were bright!" Turon shouted telepathically at Etincelle, not bothering to keep his voice low to shield from Lucas. He was too fecking frustrated and angry to give a damn at the moment.</font>

 

<font color='#0000FF'>Lucas looked at Turons face and giggled then faced the tree again and addressed the tree.

"Pissing off little one. heh"  He looked back at Turon, grinned and then looked back at the tree.  He stood and went closer to the tree and rested his head on it.</font>

 

<font color='#810541'>Turon growled low in his trhoat as he saw Etincelle nuzzle Lucas and say something to him. It was too much, on top of his previous insults...shaking off the urge to attack Lucas with difficulty, he barked to Etincelle, "Lets go" and strode off to the tree Etincelle seemed to have indicated. Sensing she had followed him, he whirled around when he got to tree, and, facing her, his fur unknowingly bristled in a menace, he growled, "all right, lets have it. tell me how you met lucas, the circumstances..." his tail thumped the ground angrily. "you know spy protocol. report to your superior on your doings...i shouldn't need to tell you this. yes, i knowyour not going to continue Spying, but you may have accessed key information in  the past few months. Among other things (and here he growled again) how you came to be so invloved with one of this planet's most wanted pendragon." and here he sat, eyes glistening with anger, and looked at her attentlively, waiting for her to begin.</font>

 

<font color='#FFFFFF'>[font color=blue]Lucas nodded and continued to talk to the tree for that seemed to be the only intelligent conversation he could get around here.[/font]</font>

 

<font color='#0000FF'>Lucas smiled and nodded to the tree.

"Etincelle pretty.  Turon cranky."  Lucas walked up to the tree and licked it.

"Tasty but no eat tree."  He sat down at the base of the tree and looked into the sky.



^ this is spectras skeletal pen.  I edited it.  IT IS NOT MINE.  I am working on getting mine on the net.</font>

 

<font color='#810541'>"And what made you decide you wanted to stop Spying? Don't tell me Lucas didn't influence your decision, however subtly, unconciously, or accidentaly that may have been, you never breathed a word of disliking your Profession until now." Turon thumped the ground with his tail again, and then had to hold back a yelp as it hit a sharp rock. Needless to say, this did nothing to improve his temper.</font>

 

<font color='#0000FF'>Lucas looked at the tree and smiled. He dropped his eyes and peered at the little green bush that adorned its trunk.  He nodded.

"Bored."  Lucas stated plainly.

"So am I."  The tree stated back.

Lucas looked up at the tree and in an instant was wide awake.  He looked at the tree.

"Tree talk?"  Lucas offered into the air.

"Yes.  And frankly I didn't appreciate you licking my trunk or talking to me.  I have been peaceful for millenias and then you come along and start talking to me.  Stop talking to me please."  The tree snorted at Lucas.

"Asshole."  Lucas stated plainly as he turned and started to walk away.

The tree uprooted one of it roots and smacked Lucas square on the tush.  Lucas shrieked and looked at the tree with complete interest.

"Mine."  Lucas stated.  He looked at his butt and then waved his tail back and forth pushing his point.

He continued to walk away from the rude tree towards the two others.  He felt something grab his foot.  He looked at his hind paw.  A vine wrapped itself around his leg.  The vine pulled him up and he was dragged into the tree and hung upside down infront of the trees eyes.

"Never call me that again you stupid mutt."  The tree yelled.

Lucas looked at the tree and crossed his arms over his chest.  "No"  He stated.

The tree became very mad and kept him there.  

"You will die here you stubborn wretch."  The tree humphed.

Lucas just shrugged and turned his body around to look at the others from higher.  They looked a lot different then did before.  He giggled a little bit.</font>

 

<font color='#810541'>Hearing a sudden disturbance near where they'd left Lucas, Turon growled again. Probably Lucas just trying to cause trouble. Wouldn't put it past the mangy, flea-ridden, rat-infested cur he growled to himself, shielding tightly - he didn't want Etincelle hearing and then repeating his comments to her precious Lucas! - to cause a disturbace simply to interrupt us. Snarling deep in his throat, he enclosed the circle of space inside which he and Etincelle were standing in an invisible barrier without even giving Lucas the satisfaction of looking to see what he was doing - he and Etincelle couldn't be seen or heard, nor could they see or hear anything outside the glowing yet invisible (to all but Turon (as creator) that is) barrier. Etincelle won't even know it's there , he thought smugly to himself. It boosted his morale slightly. Settling onto his haunches, he waited for her reply, his tail still thumping rythmically on the ground to express his annoyance.</font>