A Step in the Flight Direction [Closed]

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

In the City, near one of Sherry's many hiding spots (safe until her parents decided to plug some kind of tracking device into her), a little girl and a little bird boy stood atop of a two-story whitewashed building. There really, logically, wasn't any reason for Sherry to be up here with him. But she knew, she just knew, that if she was down below, calling encouragement, Komali would probably never jump down.

Not that she blamed him, but as someone without wings, it was probably better that she didn't go flinging herself off of buildings. "It really isn't even that far down," she urged.

"I bet you won't even hit the ground."

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[governmentninja]

«Already en route. Is she all right? And where's Samus?»

Seriously, what the hell was going on?

[dis-courageous.livejournal.com]

Komali still has his Comm, by the way.. He's not done yelling at Sherry yet.

<<SHERRY PUSHED ME OFF A BUILDING AND NOW I'M BLEEDING!>>

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

Oh jeez Komali. Stop fussing so you don't hurt yourself even more.

She would facepalm so hard if her hands were free.

[dis-courageous.livejournal.com]

Komali was unrepentant.

"She promised she wouldn't push me and then she did," He grumbled, unhappily, "And then she promised she wouldn't leave me if I fell, but she still ran away."

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

Sherry glanced at the ground, her lips a firm, if irritated, line. "I was helping Komali, and she," not Sherry, but Samus, "startled him and he fell." Whether or not the little girl had pushed him to begin with was fairly moot to her.

Komali would've been fine if he hadn't gotten scared. ...AND he was trying to yell at her!

«KOMALI, YOU JERK, FALLING WAS ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT.»

[dis-courageous.livejournal.com]

«YOU SHOVED ME OFF IT! TWICE!»

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

«I WARNED YOU BOTH TIMES!»

[dis-courageous.livejournal.com]

«TWO SECONDS DOESN'T COUNT AND YOU KNOW IT»

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

«YES IT DOES, YES IT DOES! AND IF YOU HAD JUST GONE, I WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO URGE YOU TO BEGIN WITH!»

[gogopowersuit.livejournal.com]

Okay this had gone on long enough. Samus snatched up Komali's comm.

«I am ending this discussion now. Fight about it later.» Like after Komali is safely in the medbay. Then she can deal with this. She turns his comm off.

[prettycoolguy]

Seriously, what the hell is going on?

<< Sherry pushed Komali off a building and he broke a leg. >>

He's mostly sure he has it now.

[governmentninja]

«.......what?»

Seriously, what the hell?

«Never mind. I'll be there in three, I'll sort all this out when I get there. If Samus is still around, just keep her from killing Sherry until I arrive.»

[prettycoolguy]

<< Samus is taking Komali to medical. Compound fracture. I'll be here. >>

The Chief sighs deeply. Kids.

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

With her previous argument discussion with Komali effectively shanghai'd by Samus, Sherry puffed out her cheeks in annoyance. It wasn't her fault that Komali had hurt his leg. It wasn't! And she was going to continue to stick to her story until she was blue in the face.

[governmentninja]

Leon did arrive a few minutes later, looking even more linefacey than usual.

"Chief," he greeted, and gave the Spartan a nod, then he focused his attention on his daughter.

"Do you want to explain yourself?" Just tell him it was not what it sounds like.

[prettycoolguy]

The Chief salutes. "Sir."

He looks to Sherry, honestly curious. He's still not sure what happened.

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

"I was helping Komali." Sherry stated stubbornly. "Because he's had those pinions for ages and always talking about how he's going to fly. So we decided that he just needed a little push in the right direction for practice."

She looked entirely vindicated as she continued, "And while he only glided the first time, the second time he had it before his mom scared him and he fell." So, yes, in a roundabout way, she pushed him. Twice.

[governmentninja]

Leon let out a breath and facepalmed. It was going to take him a minute to come up with a response to that.

[prettycoolguy]

Uhuh. Suuuure, Sherry. The Chief nods once.

"You can take it from here, I'm sure," he says to Leon. "Samus left her comm with me."

He feels a little like he's intruding, and he does need to get that back to her anyway.

[governmentninja]

"Yeah, thanks for keeping an eye on her."

Honestly, though Leon wasn't sure he could take it from here. He looked at Sherry, his hands on his hips.

"What am I going to do with you?"

[prettycoolguy]

The Chief makes his exit, though he's in no hurry to catch up with Samus and Komali. This isn't as important as getting the kid's leg looked at.

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

What? It's the truth! Sherry crossed her arms and turned her face away. It was clear that the little girl, for whatever reason, didn't believe had done anything that warranted punishment.

"I don't know."

[governmentninja]

Leon let out another breath, then thought for a moment. "C'mon," he told her and waved her along. He head over to where there was a bench, "Have a seat."

Well, despite being on a few words, he didn't sound angry.

[in-venting.livejournal.com]

Sherry followed long stiffly and sat down on the bench. She smoothed out her hair with one hand, before replacing the old, red band. Sherry sighed deeply and looked up at Leon.

[governmentninja]

"Listen," he said, sitting down next to her, "when I was about ten, me, my cousin Daniel, and my best friend at the time, JP, were in the back yard just playing around with a nerf football. Anyway, in the course of playing around, the ball kept getting caught in this tree we had back there.

"The first few times it got caught, me and JP took turns climbing the tree to go get it. Finally, Danny kicked it into the tree, and me and JP decided that it was Danny's turn to go get it.

"Danny was a little wuss, though. Still is, really. or was... Anyway, he refused to climb that tree. He always had, but me and JP had had enough and decided that Danny was gonna go get that ball, so we bullied him into finally going up that tree.

"We went up there with him to make sure he didn't chicken out, which he almost did. So we shoved him out onto the branch. I had climbed that tree a thousand times with no problem, so had JP. But we also knew what branches could hold us up, and we knew how to fall so we wouldn't get hurt. Danny didn't know any of that.

"He got most of the way out there, and was doing fine, until he slipped a little, tried to grab a branch to steady himself, but it snapped, he ended up losing his grip and dropped a good... must've been about twelve or so feet. He fractured his ankle when he hit the ground.

"I got grounded for a month for that. I was pissed about that too. Danny kicked the ball up there, and he said he'd go get it. Not my fault he fell. But looking back on it, they were right to have grounded me.

"I should've known better. I did know better. Whenever people do anything for the first time, they're going to make mistakes. I knew how dangerous that was, and I knew he could get hurt doing that, but I made him do it anyway, without any kind of a safety net.

"I know you were trying to help Komali, but you did was a little thoughtless. You should've known he would mess up the first few times he tried to fly, you're too smart not to know that. He did break his leg, and he could've hurt himself a lot worse if he fell straight down since there'd be nothing to break his fall but concrete."