Change The World
Part Five
By Missy

SERIES: Change The World
PART: Five of ??
RATING: PG-13, possibly future "R"
PAIRING(s): L/L; S/C
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CATEGORY: Horror/Supernatural; L/L
FEEDBACK: PLEASE?!
SETTING IN TIMELINE: Milwaukee, pre-Lenny's Crush
SPOILLER/SUMMARY: What appears to be a severe case of the flu leaves Lenny with strange powers, leaving others to question what the true nature of a miracle is.

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He wasn't at Vinny's Poolhall. He wasn't at the Pizza Bowl. He wasn't anywhere he was supposed to be.

Laverne was ready to toss herself over a pier. It wasn't like Lenny, to disappear into thin air. But it wasn't like Lenny to bring the dead to life, now was it?

In desperation, she ran to the docks. And there she found him, head bowed, leaning against a mooring.

"Lenny!" She yelled, then grabbed him by the wrist. "What're you doin'?!" They tumbled into a heap on the docks.

"What's it look like?" He snapped.

"You dope!" She cried, smacking him gently on the cheek, "Killin' yourself ain't gonna help anyone!"

"Really?!" He laughed, "What good am I don' anyone, stayin' living? I'm hurtin' you, I'm hurtin' Shirl; I'm probably hurtin' Squig."

"You are not! Lenny, we love all of you, we love you a whole lot!"

"Yeah!?!" He shouted, "Ya don't love me!"

She kissed him then.

Abruptly. And it was unlike any kiss she had ever experienced in her lifetime. Sparks sizzled across her spine, making her feel dizzy and lightheaded. She seemed to soar through the cosmos, dance with the clouds.

All of this from one little French kiss.

Panting, Laverne fell back from Lenny's embrace.

"Gawd." She said, holding her chest, "My little heart!"

"I didn't touch it." He said, a parody of what he had told her a year before, when Shirley had had her appendix taken out.

She looked at him, "Lenny, you're all magic."

He laughed, "Sure."

"You are!" She touched his arm, "And dyin'...that'd kill it, Len. That'd kill all the magic that's in you."

"Vernie," He said sourly, "I'm a freak of nature. Everyone keeps sayin' I'm yahwayah or Jehava or someone. I ain't normal no more. I ain't anyone you'd wanna hang out with."

"Is that so." She shrugged, "OK..." She stood at the very edge of the docks.

"What're you doin'?"

"Well, if you don't wanna live, with that great gift you got, what good am I in this world."

"Vernie, don't say that."

"No." she shrugged, "Let's see how much you really care about living."

And at that she dove into the icy sea.

Lenny knew that Laverne could swim, but she wasn't even trying to.

"Paddle!!" He ordered her.

She shook her head, "Help me if you want to live, Len." She said, as a wave topped her head, dragging her under.

And he dove in after her.




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