Paladins and zombies and mooncalfs, oh my!

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Aubrey
returned to the penthouse with a frown on her face and looked around to see if anyone else was home.

Junebug Levesque
was there, with a sliced open throat and multiple gunshots along his right side. Why was it always his right side? He sat, legs spread and back propped against a wall, looking rather unamused at the current state of his life.

Junebug Levesque
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Aubrey
blinked, like she thought her eyes were playing tricks on her. "Junebug?! The hell happened?" She kind of said it louder than she meant to, but she was worried about her brother and went over to him, kneeling down on the floor beside him.

Junebug Levesque
lifted his head up, his lips moving like they were trying to find some sort of saliva to wet his lips with. He coughed and black blood spurted into the air, lingering there for a moment before it faded into nothing. He licked his lips.

Junebug Levesque
I fucked up, Aubs.

Junebug Levesque
I fucked up.

Junebug Levesque
spoke with with his voice all groggy, sounds burbling from his throat when he did. He held up a finger, shook his head ever so gently.

Junebug Levesque
pointed to his throat and the gash across it's front.

Junebug Levesque
T

Junebug Levesque
Th-is's not like the movies.

Aubrey
made a face when Junebug's voice made that gurggly sound and she shook her head. "Don't talk. Hang on, I'm gonna....." She looked around the room and decided to just rip off a strip of cloth from her cloak and started to tie it around Junebug's throat to help with the bleeding.

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Junebug Levesque
listened to her instead of arguing because holy mother of jesus who wept, he was in some sort of fresh hell of pain. His whole body was on fire, as he rolled onto his left, less damaged side and panted, breathing through the pain. He shifted his head to make room enough for her to secure her makeshift bandage before his hand reached over to take hers in a squeeze.

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Aubrey
was there alone with JB and was super worried about him. Once the bandage was tied around his neck and he held her hand she sat there with him, trying to figure out what to do to help him more. Caligrace and Every had been there when Noah was hurt, and they'd taken care of most of it . "JB, I'm gonna try and heal you, okay? Just gonna give you a little blood so maybe it won't feel so bad."

Junebug Levesque
Wha- you can do that?

Junebug Levesque
talked and immediately regretted it.

Aubrey
nodded and shushed him with one of her fingers pressed to his lips. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the power, imagining that she could see it, feel it, manipulate it. She'd recently encountered some of the spirits in the world and was full up on bug juice, which helped her powers. At first it was a little trickle of energy, and she focused on it more and willed the trickling of power to flow into JB, healing him with as much blood as she could, which was only a couple of pints, but he was losing so much. And blood was all she could offer him at her young vampire age.

Junebug Levesque
watched her with intrigue, those big, bugged-out eyes blinking slow as his side, then his neck welled with warmth. The ache in his throat slowly grew, then subsided, along with the daze that rolled his eyes about when he blinked. He laughed sluggishly, a grin stretching out across his lips.

Junebug Levesque
Cooool.

Aubrey
looked relieved, at least a little, when Junebug said that. "Now you just get to rest here with me," she said to him, trying to help him be comfortable. "We're gonna help you get through this and it's all gonna be cool, okay? I mean, least you didn't lose an arm and a leg like Dad did, so that's a good thing."

Junebug Levesque
smiled at her, though the residual throbbing aches. He went to tip his head gently against his littlest sister's shoulder only to grunt and roll it back up, his nose scrunched in a rather sharp discomfort.

Junebug Levesque
Man, I can't believe he did that.

Junebug Levesque
A whole arm? AND a leg?

Junebug Levesque
What is this? Fullmetal Alchemist?!

Aubrey
nodded. "Yeah, that Paladin dude wrecked him." She was able to say that now, trying to make JB feel better, so he would understand he would heal. But when she had first seen her Dad on the floor like that, with limbs missing, she wouldn't deny she was scared as hell.

Junebug Levesque
Man - this is all so wild.

Junebug Levesque
Paladins and zombies and mooncalfs, oh my!

Aubrey
giggled. "I know, right? I still feel like an ugly duckling." The mask was helping, and she didn't dare take it off unless she was at home with her family.

Junebug Levesque
Hey - don't talk about my little sister like that.

Junebug Levesque
coughed some, his left hand lifting to cradle his shot-through shoulder. He laughed, bewildered -quietly honestly - by Fate.

Junebug Levesque
*quite]

Aubrey
smiled at him before making a goofy face, only her eyes and lips and a little bit of her chin showing from beneath the mask. "I will if you stop getting my big brother all shot up."

Junebug Levesque
laughed then, which resulted a grunt from his belly and he shifted, groaning as he pushed himself to sit further up against the wall.

Junebug Levesque
Oh, no promises, Aubs. You know me - I got a knack for getting in trouble.

Junebug Levesque
grinned at her.

Aubrey
pinched his nose. "Dad's gonna, not like this." Of all her siblings, JB could always get her to laugh, at just about anything. This had to be the weirdest year of her life yet. She was home, for good, in a new home, getting to know her siblings as a young adult and not a little girl, but she suspected they all still saw her as a little girl, and learning how to live as a vampire. If you'd told her this at her graduation, she would have laughed and said that would make a good movie because all of that could never come true at once.

Junebug Levesque
Oh, pfft, Dad knew what he was getting into.

Junebug Levesque
Hey- have you tried eating anything yet?

Junebug Levesque
0/10, do not recommend.

Aubrey
choked on a giggle, "That sounds like the voice of experience." She shook her head. "Dad warned me 'bout that. That I wouldn't be able to eat, or stuff." Wasn't ready to admit how right he had been and how much the reflection and mirror thing was bothering her still.

Junebug Levesque
was an eater in life. He was a busy body with busy hands and often those hands were feeding chips or popcorn or blueberries into his mouth. Man, did he miss blueberries.

Junebug Levesque
Yeah, man. It was bad I wrecked my table at the casino.

Junebug Levesque
gasped suddenly and grabbed Aubrey's wrist.

Junebug Levesque
Oh my god.

Junebug Levesque
We can never eat poutine?!

Junebug Levesque
What have we done?!

Aubrey
gasped too, and then smacked him on the arm for scaring her over poutine! At least she didn't hit one of his wounds. "Stop focusing on the bad! Like, I dunno, think of something good. Like....like..." was having trouble coming up with something clever. "Like...I dunno, something! How high can you jump?"

Junebug Levesque
grabbed the sides of his face in distress and groaned as he did, his wounds screaming at him from all his sharp, jerking movements. He never was very good at keeping still.

Junebug Levesque
made a face at her.

Junebug Levesque
I don't know, how high can you jump?

Aubrey
shrugged. "I don't know! We'll have to have a family jumping contest, or something!"

Junebug Levesque
squinted at her, one eye winking closed and then the next until they were blinking back and forth like he was trying to perform some sort of drum solo in his head. Until they suddenly stopped and he smiled.

Junebug Levesque
Hey what else can you do?

Junebug Levesque
How did you do that healing thingy-ma-jig?

Aubrey
looked at him and wasn't sure how to explain it. "I dunno really? I can make it happen only if I have enough bug juice and I think maybe it happens because I love you guys so much and I want to do something that helps you? I mean I just concentrate really hard on giving you blood and it happens."

Junebug Levesque
Man, that's pretty neat.

Junebug Levesque
tapped her hand a few times like an anxious five year old trying to get her attention

Junebug Levesque
I can walk on water.

Junebug Levesque
choked on a laugh and spread his arms out - ignoring the aching burn that spread from his shoulder into his chest

Junebug Levesque
I'm like zombie Jesus, dude.

Aubrey
thought about that for a minute and smiled. "Yeah, I guess it is. Kinda makes up for other stuff." Was enjoying her time with her brother, even if he was hurt. "No fuckin' way?! That's so cool!"

Aubrey
was shocked and that just flew out of her mouth when he told her he could walk on water.

Junebug Levesque
grinned at her, his teeth all crooked between his lips.

Junebug Levesque
Right?!

Aubrey
asked, "Will you take me with you sometime, when you do it?"

Junebug Levesque
You mean will I give you a piggy back ride?

Junebug Levesque
You're damn sure I will

Aubrey
kissed his cheek before pumping her fist in the air. "Awesome! That's gonna be super amazing!"

Junebug Levesque
smiled at the kiss before he blew air out like a raspberry, his body slumping slowly into the corner. He lifted his hand, looking over it before he showed Aubrey.

Junebug Levesque
And for my next trick~

Junebug Levesque
Check it out~

Junebug Levesque
No shadow.

Junebug Levesque
raised and lowered his hand over the floor boards, demonstrating the lack of sold evidence cast underneath him.

Junebug Levesque
wiggled his fingers in spirit fingers.

Aubrey
watched him, amazed by the lack of shadow. "You, dude, that is so weird."

Junebug Levesque
Right?!

Junebug Levesque
Nothin!

Junebug Levesque
held his hand over his body, and still, nothing.

Junebug Levesque
How fuckin' weird is that?

Aubrey
sank down lower on the floor with him and dragged the material of the cloak she was wearing over both of them. "I think we're all in for a whole lot more weird."

Junebug Levesque
tucked his head in against her shoulder, laying himself out comfortably under the safety of her cloak.

Junebug Levesque
This is the dawning of the age of the vam-pi-re~ Age of Levesque Vampi~re~

Junebug Levesque
hummed.

Aubrey
chuckled quietly, "Yeah, that's us. The Age of Levesque Vampi~re~" Mimicked him as she cuddled up with him.

Junebug Levesque
poked his index fingers out from the cloak, letting them dance subtly at the edge of the fabric. His eyes were slowly closing as he hummed the rest of the melody, soothed into a restful slumber with his sister.




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