a peaceful day [open]

[Cassandra Baine]

Cassie was sat; a blanket on the ground, a small picnic basket with food laid out in the shade of a tree by the lake, her 5 year old, Willow, was snacking on a slice of apple looking at the birds playfully whisking by in the sky.

It was the first peaceful day in a while, she had finished job searching for the week and had finally finished medical school; which was not an easy task while juggling her daughter and her disease but she felt things were really looking up, it was the start of something new and looking at the sun dancing on the lake she really felt like she could accomplish anything.
Willow jumped up with renewed energy after her snack and promptly tried to tackle her mother to the ground, Cassie threw her arms up and and snuggled willow around her waist, tickling her sides, the little girl went down with a shriek of joy, curling up into a ball giggling manically.

[Lucas Blacke]

He'd been focusing on himself a lot more lately, and not because he was so beautiful or handsome or anything, but he was watching his own muscles move from time to time. It wasn't needed and certainly was no assignment for school, but his ability was easy to use to get ahead because of simple studies of his own muscles. Hell, he practically reduced the need of looking at other people to nil. The only downside to this was that his appearance was a bit more vain now.

Lucas had been taking a casual stroll along where he would always work out; the lake, and watched his own legs as they moved. Studying biology was awesome when you had an ability like his! Eventually he got into a run to watch his own muscles in a running set up, and even though he wasn't wearing work out clothing he had next to no trouble, apart from feeling a bit warm. This also meant he didn't see where he was going though, and while he didn't have much bruises he did hit the ground a good bit more as of late.

Which also happened now. He was watching his own legs moving too much to be able to look where he was going as he ran onto the grass to where he knew a tree was; climbing it would make his muscles move in a way he had yet to study. Whether it was a good way of studying or not was up for discussion, but helpful or not, Lucas was able to both work out and study at the same time. Win/win.

The only thing that made him look up in time was the sound he credited to a child as he noticed a bit too late that the path he was running on was where a blanket lay with a mother and child on it; or a babysitter and child, or creepy woman and child. But fate had it she was a redhead.

His eyes shot from himself to the kid and the mother on top of it and he almost began drooling over the fact she had red hair. All this time in Pilot Ridge and this was the third redhead he had seen. Sadly this meant he had little to no time to adjust and only barely swerved out of a collision course. ''Sorry!'' He yelled out as he looked back with a smile, totally not to sneak a peek at the red hair as his foot got caught on a rock.

He slipped and tried to retain balance, but he crashed to the ground and hit his ankle on top of the rock. Instantly he turned around and grabbed his ankle which he knew was unable to be walked on. ''Fu-'' He looked over at the people on the blanket and swallowed the rest of that word. ''-udge is delicious!''

[Cassandra Baine]

Cassie, tickling her daughter on the ground, was completely absorbed in the moment and did not see a person running in her direction, she looked up just in time as he came close to colliding into them, she grabbed Willow and braced trying to phase them both before the collision. Thankfully he swerved out of the way in time and she heard him shout something that sounded like "Sorry", as she watched him go past she saw him fall.

Cassie released her daughter and told her to stay where she was whilst she grabbed her bag and dashed off in his direction. As Cassie was nearing she heard the stranger proclaim " Fu..dge is delicious." as she got to his side she couldn't stifle her laughter. "Are you alright? You looked like had a nasty turn on that ankle, would you like me to look at it? I'm a Doctor." she kneeled down beside her and took out a small medical kit from her bag, Cassie smiled at the young man "I'm Cassandra by the way".

She looked behind her and called Willow over who was staring at them whilst rummaging through the picnic basket. "sweetheart, could you come over here please? And put down the cheesecake that for later." She sat Willow down next to her and told her to be a good girl.

[Lucas Blacke]

How and why had he fallen? His ability should have been able to maintain his balance for him even under duress, he simply wasn't used to it not doing just that. Maybe it did it on purpose though, a redhead who was now kneeling beside him and offering to look at his ankle, that seemed to be reason enough to fake a fall. Problem was that he didn't want to be interested in girls like that, or in this case obviously a woman, with a kid no less! Secondly, there would be a kid involved. Continuing other peoples saved files.. naw. And lastly, he didn't fake anything. Like that shower incident where he fell and twisted his ankle, luck had it that he knew how to fall though so it wasn't that bad. But he still felt it and knew he couldn't walk on it currently.

So he was stuck getting tended to by a cute redhead. Normally this would make it the best day ever, but right now.. not so much. It was only the second time ever his ability had failed him, and he felt guilty as all hell about it, though he knew better than to say that out loud as the woman called for the little girl to come over there. Good, nothing like a living cockblock to stay away from that particular area.

''Nice name fer a nice person.'' He said. She struck him as a bit too nice, nicer than most of the people he had ever met, but then again he supposed a doctor would have to help people in need. That was their duty, right? Not that the Texan was in need, but the point remained. ''Name's Blacke, Lucas Blacke. At yer cerv-'' He hung on the last letter a bit as his eyes shot to the side and saw the little girl. First thing she seemed to be good for was stopping the inner asshole called Luke from uttering words he started to hate. ''At yer service.'' He corrected with a smile.

However that smile quickly faded as she started touching his ankle. ''Holy f- airplane!'' Good god he needed to watch his words around this one, and being actually hurt for the first time in a while didn't exactly help.