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There are three places you might find Lucy today:

1. Flying away from the Cooper farm, carrying an empty sack, glossy black wings flapping industriously as she heads directly for the nearest source of pears.

2. Flying toward the Cooper farm, carrying a sack of pears, paying more attention to the ground and her surroundings and flying a little slower now that her mission is complete.

3. Sitting in the kitchen of the Cooper farmhouse, human-shaped, munching on a tasty fresh pear with the rest piled high in a very large bowl on the table in front of her.
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Somewhere in New York, there is a gravestone. A five-foot-tall boulder, roughly square and about three feet wide on every side, but lumpy and uneven. The word RENEE is gouged into the flattest side.

Today, there is a girl sitting on top of it with her knees drawn up to her chest and a canvas bag perched beside her. Every so often, she takes an apple out of the bag, eats it, and tosses the core onto the rubble-covered ground.
littlestcooper: (devastation)
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Lucy is sitting on the edge of the farmhouse roof, human-shaped, not moving or really doing much at all. Occasionally she swings her bare feet in the breeze.

She would be quite accepting of company.

kansas

Apr. 10th, 2009 06:23 am
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Having talked to Oracle and Dinah already--not to mention a Batman from after the one he knows--it's obvious to Hal Jordan that if he wants to get to know this world better, he will need to start with Kansas. In particular, the Kents' old farm, now owned by this 'Lucy Cooper', whoever she might be.

Hal was never out to the farm as much as other members of the JLA, but he remembers well enough where it was, and he's not surprised to find it in the same place in this world. Still, he opts to cruise around the area a bit first. Maybe he'll run into more people he knows.

And maybe he'll get used to the sight of Metropolis rising up from the plains of Kansas. Eventually.
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There's an interesting little group making their way toward the Cooper farm. It consists of three smallish dragons and what looks like an enormous ball of light.

No one's said much on the way back. For Rachel, it's out of frustration. They took it down and that's a victory, but they didn't get the father, the guy that started the whole thing, and that's making her tack it down as a failure.

But she'll mention that when they land.
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There! Up in the sky! It's a bird!

Well, it's two birds, within a few hundred yards of each other.

A hawk with a rust-red tail and a bald eagle are making their way toward the farm. There aren't too many words passing between them, other than Rachel's occasional comment regarding what the plan is. Both sets of sharp eyes are on the lookout for Lucy.

Rachel's half-hoping the dragon-woman managed to scrounge up a few more friends to help out, and half-hoping she didn't. Too many people and someone would have to be a leader.
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Somebody's sitting on the roof of the Cooper farm.

Who do we know who does that?

Quite.
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"Full emergency power to the engines," Jake says. "Ram the Blade ship."

Tobias smiles as Jake gives the final order. At least he smiles as much as a hawk can smile. <Rachel,> he says privately, a habit he never broke himself of, even though she hasn't been there to hear him for years. <I'm coming.>

The blinding flash and deafening bang are impressive, but somehow Tobias had expected something even bigger as the two ships collided.

He also isn't expecting to find himself five hundred feet and plummeting toward the trees. Partially because there aren't a lot of trees in space, but mostly because he was pretty sure death wouldn't be so similar to life.

Instincts kick in and his wings snap, pulling him into a glide.

He banks into a thermal to gain some altitude and begins to circle. What in the world just happened?



[Tobias is a red-tailed hawk. And he's currently flying over the Pacific coast somewhere in Oregon.]
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Rachel dreams - spoilers for the end of the Animorphs series

Her pace is steady, if only because anything that isn't steady calls her attention and gives her something to be angry at, and even Rachel finds it difficult to get mad at her own feet. Plodding along with her little bag slung over one shoulder, chewing numbly on some of the bread from yesterday's dinner, hardly looking around her. It's just another road in another state probably with another town that needs a thug tossed out of it or something. Doesn't need her, just needs anybody.

What's the point?



Grumbling to herself, a very tired, very cranky blonde continues on.
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Somewhere in New York, there's a particularly flattened area that used to be skyscrapers and is now rubble.

In the centre is a massive boulder, ten feet high and easily four wide, standing firmly planted amid the wreckage with the word RENEE gouged by unknown claws into one rough face.

Lucy hasn't visited her sister's grave in a long time. Partly she was busy. Partly there were people. Partly... she doesn't know.

She's there now, sitting barefoot in a charcoal grey dress atop the gravestone, chin resting on arms resting on knees.

There's a bag of apples on the stone beside her, looking as though it threatens to roll off at any moment.
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Jo and Dean are off doing something - the meeting with Oracle is over, so Rachel couldn't care less. Besides, she already pulled Jo aside and swore to cover her in cockroaches if she leaves the farm and leaves Rachel behind.

There's no way Rachel would ever collect a bucket of cockroaches, even to throw on Jo, but intimidation works well.

Even if her arm is going to bruise from that punch later on.

She'll worry about that later. Right now, she's got hours of waiting to do that can translate into training time. About five miles out from the Cooper farm, she'd morphed Hork-Bajir and done what they do best - cut into a tree. A thick branch, one that could be cut up into five or six thick, short pieces, set up a hundred yards away or so.




The gunshots won't be too audible from the farmhouse, but they're sure as hell audible to Rachel. She manages not to wince with each pull - humans are deaf and she's ignored gun blasts before as a dog, she can certainly do it like this.

Her gun is a six-shooter. Every time she empties, she walks over to inspect the stumps she'd set up, frowns and curses a couple of times, then wanders back to her point to re-load and try again.
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Rachel takes inventory of the things she has:

1. Clothes. Nice clothes.
2. A gun with an uncomfortable shoulder strap that she really can't shoot well at all.
3. A roommate, who's pretty interesting, if nothing else.
4. A neighbor she wouldn't mind never seeing again.
5. A plan.

What she does not have, standing just outside the little suburb in Lawrence, out of sight from Jo's house or the Winchester's, is a plan-buddy. It's an hour or so after dawn and she's scanning the sky for Lucy with a frown. The best time to fly is late afternoon, when the air is hot and the thermals are perfect.

The best time to hunt, however, is almost always morning. For any species.
theresnodoor: (Hm?  Wut?  Oh yes I am truly awesome)
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She spent most of the day wandering around Lawrence, wanting to see it from all angles. Know your territory better than anyone else, never be surprised. And she knows Lawrence now, from the air and from the floor, through sight and scent and sound.

Not as well as she should, not yet, but she will.

It's late afternoon when she starts making her way down the road to the two occupied houses. She'll pass the gun-family first (Winchester?) but Rachel has no intention of introducing herself. Partly because she has no idea if Jo's said anything yet.

Partly because she just doesn't want to.

But there is a tall, beautiful blonde walking casually down the road with her hands in her pocket and a full shoulder holster under her jacket.
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Life just got a little weirder for Rachel.



She didn't expect instructions or much more of an explanation, or even a goodbye. She's known the Ellimist far too long to expect anything in the way of courtesy or useful information.

What she didn't expect was the explanation it did give her.



"I thought you said warriors were a big deal here!"

So they are. But that does not mean your appearance will mean nothing to them.




Which made sense, in a warped kind of way. Still in the forest, Rachel has found a sort of pond and is kneeling in front of it, glaring at her reflection. Twenty minutes ago, she was sixteen. Now, she'd put the face staring back at her at her early twenties.

It was strange to think about, though. She's gotten used to her friends getting freaked out by her, but it never had anything to do with how old she was.

"Great," she grumbles to herself, pushing up from the ground with a scowl and starting to walk - the direction doesn't much matter now. "So now I'm lost, I'm alone, I have no shoes, and my clothes don't fit anymore."




An hour later, as a wolf races through the trees, making for the distant sound of open space and the occasional car, her clothes don't really matter.
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It's taken almost two days to ride from where Dinah found him to the Cooper farm. While Scott is used to pushing himself beyond human levels of endurance, he hasn't been sure what the blonde can take, and its easier to get the lay of the land if they ride in shifts.

There may be a memory here and there of anotehr time spent in a post-apocalyptic world, one where he might have been known as Prelate. Eventually, however, he pulls into the driveway and sits there, studying the layout.

"Anyone home?"
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If you're in the US, you'd likely seen this contrail crossing the skies in recent weeks. He's been on the go a lot more these days. Stopping by the farm to drop off supplies, and checking on the notice board before taking off. Been crashing at times in Metropolis, and keeping an eye for threats.

He's had it up to here with the near-dying, k thxs. Feel free to catch him around. Especially if you're new and need an airlift somewhere.
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(It was loud.)

Loud and bright, the colours running into each other like paints, voices spilliing over like miniature waterfalls.

Loud and jagged, bits of glass scattered on the floor; she cut her feet and tried to stitch them up again, but Simon said "No" because he couldn't see.

He didn't understand why she couldn't stop crying, why she said goodbye, why she screamed and ran into the morning and the fresh scent of apples, her feet soaked in the dew from the grass.

(It was quiet.)
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Wherever Venom's been, it looks like he's been busy. After wandering off awhile ago, he's returned-and come bearing food.

Of a sort.

Venom drops the remains of the once animate and still rather large chocolate bunny on the floor of the kitchen with a thud (and possibly a bit of a splatty-type sound; chocolate and the sun don't always mix well) and looks around, announcing to whoever might be present, "We think we may be in need of a freezer." He pauses. "Or three."
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When Mal went to sleep, everything was right with his ship and his crew. River was pleasantly minding the bridge, Simon was asleep in his bunk, Wash and Zoe were not asleep in theirs and Jayne was busy polishing his gun collection.

So when Captain Reynolds wakes and finds himself on an empty ship, he cottons on to the possibility that something is wrong right away. A thorough search of said ship uncovers nothing in the way of crew members, or the reasons behind their disappearance.

It's not until Mal takes a good look at the sensors that he realizes he's orbiting a planet he's never seen before. Swearing under his breathe in Chinese, the former soldier gently eases Serenity into the atmosphere, on a trajectory that will land him in the middle of the Northern continent facing his direction in the next hour.

When he lands, the settlers had better have some damn answers.
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Right.

Remember Lucy?

This is, actually, her house.

And she's perched comfortably on the kitchen counter, left arm wrapped around her knees, right hand holding a peach, from which she takes an occasional bite.

(The bowl from which the peach originated is beside her. She's accustomed by now to having food with her at all times, in case someone edible happens to show up.)

Come say hi! She'll probably say hi back. Or just stare at you creepily. Either way.

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