Log; Incomplete

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

When; Thursday, January 1st
Rating; PG (Good starter there)
Characters; Mat bloodygoodluck and Clow i_themagician
Summary; Mat should have been resting. Instead, he went for a walk into the City...
Log; His leg was hurting.

That was his very first thought as he finally stepped into the City limits. He should have stayed at Rain's place resting. However, he was tired of staying in one place. Yes, he'd been brought here last night (and Tony's medical team had ambushed him) but he still wanted to get places by his own power. Without anyone helping.

Which was why he now was limping badly as he stepped into the square. His hat hiding his face as he studed the ground he walked on. Maybe he should've brought his quarterstaff. At least then he'd have something to lean on.

He never claimed to be the most intelligent of people. No matter what his past was.

Taking one bad step, Mat winced and moved to a nearby wall to lean against it.

Comments

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

Mat frowned. "Yes." It was obvious that he hated admitting that.

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

Clow smiled a little at that - so stubborn, yet so flappable. He teased, "Surely you don't think I'm a bad person, do you~?"

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

No. Clow wasn't a bad person. Grumbling under his breath, Mat glared at him. "No. I don't. If I did, I wouldn't have anything to do with you, you bloody idiot."

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

"Then I wouldn't use magic to hurt you, would I?" He's smiling and attempting to be cute. Perhaps it's working.

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

"No." Then he grinned. "But I only trust you. Not the magic."

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

"I have trouble separating the two, sometimes," Clow admitted, softly.

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

For a long moment, he stayed silent. "One of my closest friends back home can use the One Power. Light, he could go mad at any second from the taint of the male half of it. It's destroyed his life completely and forced the rest of us into things we never wished to be a part of."

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

Clow remained silent, unsure of what to say; he didn't want to admit that the description seemed very familiar. He stole a sideglance at Mat, but then looked at the ground, not wanting to give away more than he has already.

"I see."

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

He frowned. Whether it was because his leg was throbbing again or if it was Clow's reaction wasn't clear. So, Mat asked something else.

"How old are you?"

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

Why do so many people ask that? He had no intention of answering, perhaps couldn't give a straight answer.

"Very old," he simply said.

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

"That explains why you get wise on me every so often." Not very often but he had noticed.

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

"I wouldn't need to be old to do that, would I?" Clow was genuinely confused about what Mat meant by 'wise' but refused to admit it.

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

"I haven't seen anyone who was young be wise." Just think they were.

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

"I have." He smiles again, reverting back to that annoyingly placid default state of his. "Wisdom isn't so much something that steadily rises as we age; it's a bell curve that reaches its lowest point probably around whatever age you are."

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

Mat glared at him. "You're doing it again."

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

"You apparently worry when I don't," Clow countered.

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

"You're so bloody irritating." Mat left out the part about how that was so like a woman. Instead he sighed and became serious. "Have you ever hear of the Daughter of the Nine Moons?"

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

Clow laughs off being called irritating, but who knows how he'd react to being compared to a woman? "No, I'm afraid I haven't. She's someone from your world, I take it?"

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

A moment of hesitation then he nodded. "I had a prophecy told to me once. I'm supposed to get married to her. I've never even met the bloody woman."

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

"Those things can be wrong, you know," Clow was quick to observe. "And it's possible that you will meet her, eventually."

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

"Does that mean the part about me giving up my life to save the Light could be wrong too?" Mat studied the ground as he walked.

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

"It's possible." Clow replied as neutrally as possible, but he was also looking at the ground.

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

"Life was easier when I was a bloody lazy farmer and nothing more." Mat glared at the ground.

[i-themagician.livejournal.com]

Clow only chuckles a bit half-heartedly in response. "I'm sure that everyone who has ever had to save the world sympathizes with you."

[bloodygoodluck.livejournal.com]

Mat laughed and shifted his weight a little. "I never thought anyone would trust me with saving them. Now I have to be in charge on an army."