fandomtownies | The Park, Monday

There was also an Artie in his branches. Though Artie wasn't, as far as we know, nesting.

"Never fear, Music Man! I will safe-guard you as long as you are tree!"

Walter showed up and didn't have too much trouble figuring out which was the Lucas-tree, since the other trees didn't have apples.

Lucas was pleased to have a visitor. So he dropped an apple for Walter.

Walter caught the apple and looked at it. A nice, shiny, perfectly apple-y apple.

That had just dropped off of Lucas.

No way was he eating that. It smacked of cannibalism.

"Thanks, Lucas." He tucked it in his bookbag. He couldn't just throw a piece of Lucas away, either.

Nadia arrived at the park at a run. Not because she was in any hurry to see Walter, but because she was in a hurry to get this over with and make Lucas not be a tree any more.

"Hola, Lucas, Artie. . . . Walter,"

She resolutely wasn't looking at Walter. Because she couldn't decide if she wanted to kiss him again, hit him, or run away from him.

It was an accident!

Walter squared his shoulders and smiled at Nadia. Maybe not the world's best smile, but he was trying, dammit.

"Did you have any luck finding any information?"

Nadia caught sight of the smile out of the corner of her eye. Maybe he didn't hate her? Maybe he was just trying to be nice, since they had to deal with each other right now.

She offered him a very quick, very weak smile back. "Nada. But the new librarian thinks I might be a mutant."

Like your green boyfriend. Maybe she could turn Victor into an apple tree? She slammed the breaks on that thought immediately.

She was a bad, bad person.

Orlin was strolling throught the park with Scathadh on a leash. Scathadh was pouncing on grass blades that offended her kitteny sensabilities. Orlin however caught sight of Nadia and Walter, whom in his head Orlin referred to him as Mini-Butler .

"Hey you two, How are you doing?"

Scathadh attacked a fallen apple. Oooh! Shiny!

~~I am not mini, I just haven't grown yet!~~

"Hi Orlin. Have you met Lucas?" He gestured to the tree.

Orlin blinked and looked at the tree.

"You named a tree...?" He asked, looking confused. After all, he missed the radio broadcast this morning, like normal.

Scathadh batted at the apple and started practice her ninja!skillz by attempting to balance on it.

"No, his parents named him. This is the owner of Empire Records. He's accidentally a tree for now."

Walter watched the kitten and didn't even think about how peculiar it was to walk a kitten on a leash. Not when standing next to Lucas!tree.

Nadia was busy in with her conversation with Walter, so she didn't notice Orlin right away.

"Hi, turned my boss into an apple tree, we have to go research. Adios!" Nadia gave Orlin a smile. "Can you keep an eye on him with Artie for me?"

"Sure... You mean Lucas from the store?" He asked, just to verify.

Scathadh was balancing on one paw. Go killer kitten ninja!skillz!

"Yeah. It was an accident."

"Oh... well, I can stay here for a bit."

weird....

"Gracias! I owe you one!" And then Nadia was off after Walter towards the book store.

"A mutant?" Walter barked a quick laugh. "And your mutant power is turning people into apple trees?" Good thing she hadn't turned him into an apple tree last night when she...

Subject change!

"It looks like Artie has things under control here. Have you heard anything about the bookstore? We could check there to see if there's anything useful. Besides, I needed to pick up a book for... um... class."

Nadia nodded quickly, still not looking Walter in the eye.

She possibly never would again.

"Bookstore. Sounds good. Let's go."

"Right. Let's go (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/708938.html?thread=27501642#t27501642)."

Orlin is watching tree!Lucas for Nadia (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/709953.html?thread=27503169#t27503169) while Scathadh is practicing her ninja!skillz.

Lucky him, he brought a book.

Lucas appreciates that Orlin is willing to look out for him, so he drops an apple.

He also appreciates recreating famous moments in history, so the apple might just be aimed for Orlin's head.

Trees can't laugh. But the rustling of leaves might sound a little bit chuckle-like.

Orlin didn't see the apple falling, but Scathadh did. With ninja!fast skillz, she jumped up on Orlin's head, and attempted to catch it. She failed and fell over the back of the bench, with the apple clutched in her little paws.

"Ow!" Orlin yelped as Scathadh head jumped him, and noticed the leaf rustle. "Very funny." he muttered, trying to look grumpy, but failing.

Pippi is riding through the park on Old Man, her lewt from All and Sundries bundled up on his back.

When did they plant an apple tree in the park?

"Huh." said Pippi out loud to the tree. "Where did you come from?"

If trees could rustle their leaves sarcastically, this one would.

Alas, it was not to be, as one rustle sounded pretty much like another. Instead, Lucas chose to answer Pippi's question by flinging an apple as hard as he could in the general direction of Empire Records and Bidet.

The act of an apple getting flung from a tree in the direction of a repository of music called "Empire" was far to rife with potential symbolism, for Pippi to get right off the bat.

Old Man was just interested in the apple.

He started to amble off in the direction of the apple.

"Hey! No wait Old Man!"

No good. Can't stop. Apple.

Pippi sighed and slid off the horse's back as he continued to mosey over to the apple.

Mr. Neilson was also intrugued by the tree.

Lucas watched the horse wander off sadly. Apparently his apple flinging hadn't worked.

His branches drooped.

Oh the tree looked so sad.

Pippi is so sad for the sad tree.

"Oh don't be sad apple tree."

Mr. Neilson likewise thought that the tree shouldn't be sad and climbed up into its branches.

Nadia jogged into the park after going to the book store. She was hoping against hope that--

No dice, Lucas was still a tree. "Aw crap."

Lucas spotted Nadia coming and shook his branches excitedly. Surely, she had found some sort of cure!

There are just so many ways to interpret shaking branches. Nadia, naturally, got it completely wrong. She stopped dead.

"Oh god, he's angry. I'm so fired."

Walter followed behind Nadia and looked up at Lucas!Tree. "Are you sure he's angry? He's not throwing apples at you or anything."

Nadia sighed. "He's not the violent type."

Pippi is confused.

Congradulations.

"Huh?"

Lucas wanted to reassure Nadia that he wasn't mad at her. So he dropped her an apple.

"The tree is Lucas," Walter explained to Pippi. "He's accidentally a tree right now, but I'm sure he'll have that cleared up soon."

Nadia jumped at the falling apple, and shot a glance at Walter as though to say "see? Angry!"

She turned back to Pippi. "That's my boss. I turned him into an apple tree."

Pause.

"It was an accident."

"Huh." Pippi grunted looking up at the tree.

"Are you relitively comfortable Lucas?"

Lucas dropped three apples. One for each of them. Then another, for the monkey.

He was okay, as long as someone kept him company.

"He doesn't seem angry. He seems... ~~giving~~ generous. How about one shake for yes, two shakes for no? Are you angry, Lucas?"

Lucas shook his branches twice. Because he wasn't angry. He was really just very, very confused.

Mr. Neilson caught the apple as it fell and hunkered down in the crook of a branch. Bring a monkey, hanging out ~~with~~ in trees was his thing.

"Okay, we need to bring an expert in on this... Because I'm not sure what this means." she says picking one of the apples up.

"How about the new gardening teacher?"

"Professor Zhaan? Do you know how to get in touch with her?" He held up his bag with his purchases from Aereopagitica (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/708938.html?thread=27504714#t27504714). "But I have a book that claims to have 5000 spells (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0007164653/sr=8-1/qid=1142880701/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-5836955-1393548?%5Fencoding=UTF8) in it."

"She has a shop here in town. I'll see what I can do about finding her." Pippi mused.

"Wow!" she lit up at the mention of the book. "5000?! That's brilliant!" she hopped.

Then she pulled out her celphone and made a call (http://notavegetarian.livejournal.com/275.html?thread=12051#t12051).

[ooc: that's very nice of you, but the name is Lucas, not Logan (the mun does that ALL THE TIME. . . .). Also, feel free to carry on trying, but Lucas will not be turning back into Lucas until tonight after the mun's rehearsal, thus, late. Alas, I gotta run. Thanks, guys!]

[[ooc: d'oh! Fixed. I didn't expect her to be able to help us change him back. But I figured an amusing conversation could result in any case.

[ack! I was just checking my email in passing, and am actually on my way to bed. Sorry. Damn work. :/]

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