City Of Delusions (Private/Luna)

-Hysteria- · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Sun Apr 19, 2009 9:47 pm

As Andrew listed off the types of wires, Levi paused and placed similar looking wires into their respective piles. He was more of a businessman, so he really didn't know much about the technicalities of electronics. He wasn't too surprised to hear about the pinball machine wires; Kairn did have a bad habit of bringing home the strangest, most useless things. Once, he had actually dragged a half-dead banana tree into the apartment. Suffice it to say Levi did not appreciate it's presence. The plant was now flourishing quite well at the family home. "Fantastic; I'm sure those will come in handy in the near future."
A slight frown met the thirteen year old's mouth. "His worry is misplaced; he should be worrying more about himself, if anything." The frown vanished as quickly as it had appeared. "Is that so? It seems hard to believe; you don't have an unpleasant personality, a little timid, but not to an extreme. Then again, high school students don't seem quite so inclined to include new people into their circle of friends unless it's beneficial to them. Ah well; their loss." Once again, Levi sounded older than he appeared, and considerably more mature.
"All of this makes me wonder just who Lucien bought this box from." He moved slower than Andrew, but worked carefully, ensuring each wire went into it's respective pile. "Anything? What about a ridiculously expensive, entirely custom-made computer? It's another one of Lucien's unfinished projects. He asked me to set it up, however I'm next to certain there are pieces missing, and I have no idea what they are."
Considering that they would probably finish untangling the wires relatively soon considering how fast Andrew was working, Levi decided to give asking a shot. He wouldn't be able to buy the parts they would need, if they did need any, tonight considering that it was too late, but it would be helpful to know what he needed to buy so he could go and get everything tomorrow.

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Sorry about the shortness; I didn't want to speed ahead again >-<

Luna Opal · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Sun Apr 19, 2009 1:57 am

Andrew couldn't help but laugh this time. After meeting Keirn or rather Lucien it seemed like a thing he would do. Buy a bundle of wires for cheap then just leave them for some day of boredom when there was nothing else to do. "You got phone wires" He said untangling a gray one with jack. "Steroe wires." He said some thin black ones. "Speaker wires for the steroe's" Blue and red ones. "Various computer wires for monitor's." He said getting lost in the wires as he worked to untangle them as well."Oh. I'm Andrew." He said continuing to sort the piles of wires by catogry that they go into. "I do a little computer work. I've helped Mr. Mariane fix arcade machines before." He laughed holding up a few wires. "He really did get everything. I don't think your going to be using these unless you plan on buying a pinball machine." He said setting them into a unknown pile.

Andrew was in a lighthearted mood today as well. He was enjoying his visit more then his last had been. "Your brother Lucien seems as if he cares about you. He was rather worried that you didn't have many friends. I really don't have any friends myself." He said humming a litte as the bundle of wires began to grow smaller. It was a simple task for Andrew to untangle the wires and he was untangling them rather quickly. Andrew picked up some other wires. "With all these wires I could probally build just about anything from scratch." He said finding blender wires. Heck who knew what he would find next. It was like someone just dumped everything in a box without bothering to look at it.

-Hysteria- · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Sat Apr 18, 2009 8:30 pm

"Sure." He replied, staying still to make it easier for Andrew to help untangle him from the wires. "I know. My brother found them in a box at a flea market downtown and decided it would be an intelligent idea to buy them, just in case we ever needed a giant bundle of wires to spend an afternoon untangling." Today, his sarcasm sounded less cynical, more joking rather than mean.
"Ugh. At the very least, it should be go by quicker if both of us work on them." Levi proceeded to work on unweaving another wire. "By the way, you never did tell me your name. I assume you know mine since my brother visited you. Knowing him, he probably wasn't merely dropping off your backpack, but, then again, that's really none of my business." If the thirteen year old had figured out his elder brother's intentions, he wasn't giving his knowledge of it away. Still, judging from the fact he was actually trying to initiate a conversation, he probably didn't care about 'Lucien's' plans even if he was aware of them.
He placed one of the wires he had unravelled in the growing pile of neatly wound wires beside the two of them. "So, considering that you work at Mariane's electronics store, you probably deal with untangling wires quite often, and you probably know what the majority of these wires do, correct? While you're here, would you help me organize these wires so I don't end up having to test every single one myself?"
Even Levi was aware of how unusually friendly he was acting, however his good mood and the fact he actually did have a liking for Andrew allowed him to ignore that. Besides, things would go faster if both of them worked together, and Levi didn't want to end up organizing wires all day. He had plans to set up a computer for Kairn in the living room later, but with the wires in the way that would've been quite difficult. Kairn had actually asked him to set up the computer last night, claiming that he wouldn't know how. Levi did find that strange considering that Kairn was actually relatively intelligent when it came to electronics, however he hadn't had anything else to do, so he accepted the request anyway. He had set up computers before, however Kairn's was slightly...complicated. He had ordered everything custom-made and it didn't look like it would be simple to set up. Still, Levi figured it was worth giving a try. Briefly, he considered asking Andrew to help him with that as well, however decided against it since Andrew probably had deliveries to make after this.

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Don't worry about it; mine isn't any longer ^-^

Luna Opal · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:24 pm

Andrew smiled kindly setting down a the parcel on a table watching Levi. "Yup." He said smiling trying not to giggle at the mess Levi was making. "Need help?" He offered gettind down to pull a wire off of Levi's head wanting to laugh. He littled like a kitten trapped in a ball of string which was rather cute. But he wouldn't tell Levi that. "Ere, let me help. I don't have anymore deliveries for a while." He said as he untangled Levi before looking at the other mess of wires. "Eh that's ALOT of wires." He said talking in a friendly tone obvisously less worry then he had been before he got here. Reaching for a wire he looked at it with a gentle hum and started weaving it about until it was free from the mess. "That's one wire down." He said crossing his legs seeming all happy to be helping Levi with this little task. He did want to get to know the boy a bit more and have a friend. "Only six hundred more to go." He said laughing a bit since there were still plenty of wires to untangle that would take the two of them well over a hour to sort out. More then enouh time for them to talk a bit.

(Sorry for the shortness.)

-Hysteria- · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:52 pm

That night passed rather uneventfully; Kairn stayed inside under Alexis' watch, and Levi didn't return. In fact, he didn't show up until Monday night, resulting in Kairn being stuck inside all of Sunday and Monday. Riley came through the front door at about eleven at night carrying a sleeping Levi, slightly disheveled after where ever he had disappeared to and whatever he had done for the past two days. In spite of being worried to the point of insomnia, Kairn did not wake Levi.
On Tuesday afternoon, when Levi finally awakened, he ignored Kairn's question and appeared to be in a bad mood. The bad mood lasted until about Wednesday, only clearing due to a rather important trade going through successfully. On Thursday, Levi and 'Lucien' attended a rather fundraising gala, at which Levi, acting through 'Lucien', successfully negotiated a business deal with the company president of a prestigious medical corporation. Thus, albeit somewhat tired after spending most of the night out, Levi was in a relatively good mood. Well, as good a mood as he could get into whatwith being stuck in a thirteen year old body and such.
Anyway, with being stuck in the house and fretting about Levi's absence, Kairn, in fact, forgot to phone Mr. Mariane on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. On Thursday, much to Kairn's horror, Levi, apparently having forgotten about the little fight with Andrew after everything that had happened, actually ordered something from Mr. Mariane. Luckily, Kairn managed to phone back while Levi wasn't paying attention and request Andrew to deliver the parcel. Well, at the very least, this meant Levi would be expecting a package.
Speaking of which, when Friday came, Kairn made the convenient excuse of having to go grocery shopping, and dragged Alexis and Riley along with him, leaving Levi alone to pick up the package.
"Bye Levi! Have fun! Call me if anything goes wrong!" The enthusiastic, raven haired teen called from the elevator, right before the doors closed.
Levi rolled his eyes and closed the door of the suite, heading straight for the mess of wires in the living room. He had meant to straighten them out for the past week, but had found himself too busy to do so. Now seemed like the perfect time.

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Levi was fairly tangled up in wires when he heard the knock on the door; the ridiculous things just refused to disentangle themselves. He had managed to separate some of them, however had ended up tangled up with the majority of them, thus it was quite impossible for him to answer the door himself right at the moment.
"It's open! Just come in!" He called out; it may not have seemed like the wisest choice for him to leave the door open after last week, but after the incident, he had posted two of his private bodyguards to watch this floor. They would only let people they recognized through, or people who had the appropriate clearance. Thanks to Kairn, the two men lounging at the end of hall totally ignored Andrew.
When Andrew found his way to the living room, he would Levi entangled in a mess of wires, a few loops of untangled wires lying to the side. He didn't even glance up from what he was doing when Andrew came in. "Hello again. Are you here to deliver something?" Astonishingly enough, he didn't sound irritated in the slightest, it was as if the little argument had never happened. In fact, he actually sounded like he was in a good mood. It appeared as though, for the time being, Lady Luck was on Andrew's side.

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Yep, it's good ^-^

Luna Opal · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:01 pm

"Goodbye" He said only half aware of the fact that Lucien Sterling was leaving. He knew that perhaps he should have acted better in the person's pressence then he did but he didn't much care at that point in time. Too much had happend in such a short time it was going to take Andrew time to adjust. After Lucien was gone he made himself breakfast before sleeping a little bit longer then going in to help around the arcade. He was shocked that Mr. Mariane was so happy he was there and he went about finishing the remainer of his orders. Nothing yet to be delivered to the Sterling residence though he didn't expect it so soon.

6 days later. Friday.

School had been a blur in Andrew's mind that week. The first few days had been impossible for him to focus since he had so much trouble pushing the events out of his mind that had occured at the start of last weekend. Waiting to see Levi again hadn't made things progressed any easier for Andrew. By wensday he was a wreck thinking that the order would never come in as Lucien had said it was. He started gving up on ever seeing the thirteen year old again yet tried to wait until delivery day which was friday. A start of a new weekend.

When he arrived at The Wonder World Arcade Mr. Mariane was already waiting outside with him with all the packages and a bicycle. "Andrew! Hurry hurry now. Mustn't keep nice Mr. Sterling waiting. Look at this nice fine bike. Make your deliveries faster." He said nothing his head. "Go quickly now." He said patting Andrews head and loading him up with the percels for the week. Andrew blinked fo a moment before a huge grin crossed his face. "Ok!" He said jumping on his new bike quickly and taking of again. He was somewhat hoping that Levi would be in a good mood today when he arrived. He didn't have many stops before he reached that side of town and the bike most certainly made things much quicker. When he reached the Sterling location he paused chaining his bike up outside before heading up to the nesscary floor and knocking on the door. He wasn't sure if it was going to be Lucien or Levi or maybe one of the security people that answered... Waiting he held his breath hoping that this friday wouldn't be a repeat of last.

(Hope that's ok for a skip.)

-Hysteria- · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:32 pm

Kairn smiled lightly, "Oh, I almost forgot, I talked to Mr. Mariane and explained the situation. He did seem upset, but your job should be okay if that's what you're worrying about." He stood from the couch (which they magically appeared on somewhere during that discussion XD), as if preparing to leave. "Well, I should probably get going. I can tell you're tired, and I don't want to cause you any further trouble."
Luckily, being observant about other people was one of the things Kairn was good at. He was generally quite good at dealing with the feelings of others, which, once again, set him apart from Lucien/Levi. Still, he had to work on conveying his own feelings properly in certain situations.
He proceeded to the front door of Andrew's home, "I'll call Mr. Mariane about the delivery on Monday, so bye until then!" With that, 'Lucien' left Andrew's house and hurried off down the street, hastily erasing the smile from his face when he noticed an old woman staring at him strangely.

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"Levi! I'm home!" Kairn called out as he entered the apartment, shutting the door behind him and being careful to lock it. When no reply came, he called out again. "Levi? Are you ignoring me? Where are you?"
"He went out with Riley." The reply came from the kitchen; Alexis was still in the hotel room. She strode out into the hallway where Kairn was standing, a frown now upon his face. "Sorry babe, but he also left orders for you to be under house arrest. I'm your babysitter, so, if I were you, I would just sit tight for the next several hours and make my job easy."

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Would you mind if we did another time skip?

Luna Opal · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:41 pm

"I see." He said even though he really didn't. There was definally something strange going on that was beyond Andrew's comprehension and he didn't want to take the brainpower to try to figure it out. He was tired and hungry as he hadn't eatten since about 11am yesterday which was well before he delivered the parts to Levi. And he hadn't eatten when he arrived home since he was upset over the little fight between he and Levi... even though he should have just shrugged it off and forgotten about it. The boy was close to his age.

"Mr. Mariane's store opens at 11:00. If he has the items in then they'll be delivered this afternoon... that is if Mr. Mariane trusts me enough to let me go out again after I missed all my orders yesterday..." He said frowning. He really liked working for Mr. Mariane. "If Mr. Mariane has to order it then I... it won't be delivered until next friday..." He said looking upset at the possiblity of losing his job.

Andrew at that point was looking very tired and not at al up for company any longer. Lucien having a younger brother should be able to tell that much from Andrew's posture resting across the couch. As much as he wanted to see Levi he was a bit too tired at that moment.

-Hysteria- · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Mon Apr 13, 2009 8:29 pm

The people who did know Levi and Kairn, which was actually barely any, did usually find them extremely strange. Levi was mature, yet was younger, while Kairn was immature, yet was older. There were plausible explanations for it, however. Levi, thanks to Lilith's curse, grew up knowing the darker side of things and developed a more cruel, cold personality, while Kairn ended up leading a more sheltered life, with Levi/Lucien protecting him from experiencing the more unpleasant side of life. That, and they were polar opposites from birth, Kairn being the good one, while Lucien was...well, evil. Regardless, Kairn grew up to be a childish, innocent figurehead who only did what he was told, while Lucien/Levi grew up, sort of, to be a merciless, coldblooded criminal ringleader who really didn't seem to care who got hurt in the process of getting what he wanted. So, yeah; they were pretty messed up.
"Eh?" He froze when Andrew accused him of not being Lucien. They may have been brothers, but Levi would be absolutely furious if Andrew found out about it thanks to Kairn. At the very least, Levi would probably try to shoot him, he might regret it later, but he would hurt Kairn if he got angry enough. Not to mention the fact that he would force Kairn to spend a month or so at the family estate while he 'patched things up'. It had only happened once before, but Levi's reaction had frightened him greatly. He had pulled a gun on Kairn when he had tried to refuse leaving, and given him the same icy, cold, merciless stare he would've given someone he intended to kill. He had been scared, so he left. When he got back three months later, the apartment had been trashed, people had feared him more than ever, and the person who had accidentely discovered their secret had gone missing. Permanently. For those three months, it appeared as though the city had been ruled by an iron fist, who was none too happy. The police, under orders from Levi, were not even searching for the missing person. Kairn didn't want that to happen to Andrew.
A frown met the teen's lips. "What are you talking about? Of course I'm Lucien. Do you honestly think Levi would let me act this way out in public? It's thanks to him I have the reputation that I do." Miraculously, it sounded sincere. Kairn hated lying, so it usually sounded fake, but if he wanted to lie desperately enough, he could get away with a half-lie. "In a way, I suppose Levi is my hidden, cruel side, and that's exactly why I'm worried about him."
"Oh, I didn't consider that..." The smile returned to his face as Andrew began suggesting ideas. "Ordering something from Mr. Mariane is a good idea; is there a specific time I should call him at?"
Luckily, since he did live with Levi and all, he was generally used to worse insults. In fact, most of the time he didn't even notice he was being insulted until someone pointed out if it wasn't terribly obvious. "I apologize for not being very prepared by the way; I'm afraid I'm really not useful for much other than acting." Unfortunately, it was more or less true. He was pretty good at doing things like cooking though, and he was considerably more sensitive towards the feelings of others than Levi.

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Now I really can't wait for when Levi turns back into Lucien; Andrew will probably thing Kairn has a split personality or something XD

Luna Opal · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Mon Apr 13, 2009 7:22 pm

Andrew blinked staring at Lucien in amazment a few moments. Luicen appeared as messed up at Levi was. Sighing after a moment he flopped down. "Why the hell does everyone think I'm too much of a kid to tell me anything?" He muttered. "Your not Lucien. You act too much like me to be him unless you go some hidden cruel side in you." People did talk about Lucien. "I get it ok? There's some reason you have to pretend to be him. I'm not going to go and tell anyone." He said. Andrew would like to be taken seriously in his own home. Not have this softhearted friendly Lucien trying to play match friends with him and Levi. It was that same thing that had annoyed Levi... "Sorry.." He muttered. "Shopping sounds great but um just inviting me shopping? Will that work? Shouldn't I just like bump into you at the store or something? And then maybe you can be all. "There's your cute little frend Levi!" And then get lost while Levi's all annoyed with me?" It sounded a bit more complicated when Andrew plotted it out and he wasn't sure.

He was as bad as talking with Lucien Sterling as he was talking with Levi. At least he didn't go for the direct insult of like. If your lucien I'm the pope son or something. "Or you can just order something from Mr. Mariane's. Just speically request that I deliver it or something. That way I have to come there. And make sure Levi accepts it or something." He was doubting these ideas would work but he did want to see Levi again even if it was just to apogizge to him for how he had gotten before.

-Hysteria- · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:54 am

Unfortunately, Kairn using his name would be another reason for Levi to be angry. When Kairn acted all nice and such as 'Lucien', it tended to make people fear the name 'Lucien Sterling' less and less, thus irritating Levi whenever he was temporarily Lucien. Kairn just couldn't act like Levi/Lucien unless forced though, it wasn't in his nature to be mean.
"I don't think he hates you, he probably just wasn't in a good mood and accidently took it out on you." 'Lucien's' eyes widened when at Andrew's quiet reply, and a smile broke out across his face. Without thinking, he impulsively hugged the blonde. "Thank you! I promise you won't regret th-" He paused when he realized he had hugged Andrew, and hastily released him.
"Um...sorry about that, I...kind of got carried away. Sorry." Yep, 'Lucien' truely was the exact opposite of Levi.
"What now...? Um...well...we...uh..." He smiled sheepishly. "I...didn't really think this fully through. I kind of thought you'd reject the idea at first, so...I actually have no idea how to make this work."
'Lucien' paused for a moment to think before continuing. "People usually make friends at school, but that wouldn't work because today is a Saturday and Levi doesn't go to your school...aha!" His eyes lit up with excitement. "I know! We could enroll Levi at your school-ah, but he's only thirteen so you wouldn't be in the same grade...and he would probably just get expelled..."
"Hmm....oh! You could meet in the street when a horrifying monster appears and join forces to defeat it! Although it might be difficult to find a monster..." By now, it was probably clear he was just taking ideas from television shows and anime shows. He could be about as sharp as a bowling ball sometimes. For a few minutes, he continued to throw out a few more ridiculous ideas, like Andrew falling down a well into the Fuedal Era where Levi tried to kill him but they became friends anyway.
"Or...you could go grocery shopping with me, Levi, and Alexis, and me and Alexis could conveniently become lost, at which point you and Levi would have to work together to find us." Surprisingly enough, it wasn't a half bad idea, especially compared to the other ones he had been suggesting. If Andrew wanted to use that idea, however, he would have to speak up before 'Lucien' began babbling about useless ideas again.

Luna Opal · Subject: Re: City Of Delusions (Private/Luna) Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:36 am

Lacey set down a tray of cookies and milk before rushing off to leave the two alone to talk beaming brightly as if she was really happy that Andrew had a friend even older one at that having not realized that Lucien was actually Levi's older brother who Andrew supposely spent the night with. Andrew's eyes went wide for a moment. Everyone knew that name naturally but Andrew just didn't follow the stories on Luicen asmost people did.

"I.. really want to get along with Levi.. I don't have any friends either. He.. doesn't hate me? I wasn't very nice to him.. I didn't even say thank you..." He was going to before he left this morning but everything had gone so wrong from the start. Andrew wasn't very forward at all when it came to fighting to keep friends or that sort of thing. In fact he was looking rather shy and nervous as he stood there half staring at Luicen and half thinking on it. "I'll try." He said softly. He wanted to have a friend as much as he hoped that Levi wanted to have one. It was all really confusing and all that. Taking a deep breathe he tried to calm down a little getting all worked up again over this whole ordeal between him and Levi. He barely knew Levi but he really wanted to hold onto him. "Um.. so what now?" He asked rather cluessly. He didn't just want to go back and be all. "Hi Levi! We're going to hang out today kay?" Something told him Levi wouldn't take to that too well.