Louie Duck ([personal profile] talkyourwayout) wrote in [community profile] starlightcafe2019-10-26 10:13 pm

Can your friends do this? Can your friends do that?

Lexi pinned her hair back - it was growing out pretty nicely at this point, she thought; about as long as Webby's had been when they'd first met. Normally, she just let it do whatever - laziness beat out vanity - but having her hair get in her eyes while she was practicing magic wouldn't do.

She was excited about this. Magic training with Unca Scrooge - as much as she looked up to him - was such hard work, but showing Gobo her magic? That was bound to be a great time - especially since telling Gobo about her magic, her Dark magic, didn't feel awkward to the teen. He wouldn't hear Dark and hear "bad", she figured. She could just show off what she'd been learning over the past few weeks in the Other Duckburg.

An exchange of letters and postcards - always postcards from Gobo - had lead to a meet-up being set for that afternoon, at the first Fraggle Hole they'd found in Lexi's own Duckburg. They'd both been pretty busy for just over a month, so it would just be good to see her pal again, really, in the first place. She rounded a corner, and soon after, the Fraggle Hole was in sight.

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-27 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
Along with the Fraggle Hole, Gobo himself is going to be immediately visible. He was sitting in the gateway, his guitar in his lap as he strummed along at some cheery tempo.

"Pick me up and lay me down, an' spread the news all over town, and tell 'em all to come or they'll be sorry." He leaned his head and shoulders back, bobbing from side to side with the rhythm. "Pick me up and shake me twice, I'm comin' back from Paradise, this poor boy is here to live in glory..."

Noticing his friend approaching, he held off on the singing, though he kept up playing the same music.

"Hey there, Lexi!"
gobetween: (Smug)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-27 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
"'Dixie Wailin'." He grinned lightly, still playing the lively music. Given what he says next, that grin speaks to him putting it this way on purpose.

"It's a funeral dirge."
gobetween: (Laughing)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-27 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
A hearty, warm laugh at that.

"I thought that'd get a reaction out of you!" He snickered through his snout. "It's kinda a long story but basically, Red, Boober, and I had been trapped by Junior, who thought he was dying. We needed to distract him, he requested 'a funeral dirge you can dance to' so, that's what we did. When he was good and dancing, we got away."

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-27 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
He swayed with the nudge, which didn't do a thing to dislodge the music, and laughed again.

"Hey, we have our sad songs and proper funeral dirges. Especially if Boober composes them." Another snort. "But we like our parties too."
gobetween: (Discovery)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-27 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
He found a natural end to the music he was playing, watching her curiously with a nod.

"Sure! What is it?"
gobetween: (...Oops.)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-27 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
He watched her curiously, then glanced down when he caught the movement. The sight of his shadow caused him to startle back a moment, tail bolt upright behind him, though he relaxed a half heartbeat later, leaning back forward to watch curiously.
gobetween: (The Master Plan)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-27 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
He laughed some and nodded. "Heck yeah, that was incredible! When did you learn magic?"

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-28 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wow..." He looked down at his shadow again, remembering the way it moved. "Magic is in everything."
gobetween: (So that's Plan G. What do you think?)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-28 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's something we learned a while back." He started playing a softer chord on the guitar. "Did I never tell you the story?

"The first time I was face to face with Doc, he didn't see me at all! But after talking to the Trash Heap, I'd discovered why: he'd lost the 'magic,' the way some Silly Creatures do. But she told me something that's stuck with me ever since. You cannot leave the magic. Cantus gave me a little wisdom too, that once Doc touched me, and I touched him, he'd be able to see me. Well, I went back up to that workshop in time to hear the news that Doc was losing his best friend, who was moving away for his health. And that... well, that hit me right in the heart, you know? I knew what that felt like. I put my hand on his, and that was that. He looked at me for the very first time."
gobetween: (Wish You Were Here!)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-28 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
His smile widened at the little half-hug, and with his hands busy on the guitar, he slung his tail around her in return instead.

"He was utterly fascinated to learn I exist, and I wanted to talk to him more, too, though I had some other business to take care of, which is a story itself I'll tell another time. Unfortunately, not long after that I fell ill and wasn't able to go back up to the surface for a whole week, and by that time Doc and Sprocket had moved to follow his friend. The workshop was empty and dark, and I hadn't been able to give him the message from the Trash Heap about the magic.

"Well, my friends- who had come up with me -and I were going to head back to Fraggle Rock, when Wembley noticed a completely new tunnel off the main one there. It was beautiful, I should show it to you someday. Full of color and light, and it led right to Doc's new home!"

He shifted the song he was playing a little, though it was still soft and sweet. "That's what I learned. Everything is magic, if you see it that way. The way hearts and people touch each other, the way everything is connected, Silly Creatures, Fraggles, and everything in between, Fraggle Rock itself...

"You cannot leave the magic."
gobetween: (Little smile)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-28 11:07 pm (UTC)(link)
He nodded, smiling. "Learning that, or I guess realizing I'd known it all along, has not only explained a lot of things from the past, but just about everything moving forward, too. Magic is in everything. It's a really nice thought."
gobetween: (Smug)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-28 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"The trap your Unca Scrooge set." He snickered some, strumming a little quicker on the guitar. "Your traps, I all foiled."
gobetween: (Conversation)

[personal profile] gobetween 2019-10-28 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
A note skipped at that but he laughed, lightly bopping her with the tail.

"Hey, I give what I get!"

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