The gym, Sunday night

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After the not-fight stemming from the Rubik's cube gone wrong, Aeryn's almost tempted to head into town for a while. But that probably means she'll end up at Spike's, and that way leads to problems. Instead, she heads to the gym.

Just when she thinks she's fitting in here, something happens to remind her that she can't know everything that other people take for granted. And the influx of families this weekend isn't going to help, and she knew that before, but it was probably time to admit it to herself.

Beating up on things, though, that helps.

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[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee strides in, ready to work himself to death on the equipment so his body will frakking SHUT UP and he sees Aeryn at the punching bag. "Hey," he says.

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Aeryn nods a greeting, though she's not sure Lee can see it, considering she's still concentrating on the punching bag. "Hey," she says, and hits the bag with a one-two combination that makes her really glad she wore gloves this time.

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"Rough weekend?" he asks as he starts to stretch.

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"Rough couple arns," she says above the sound of her fists connecting with the bag. "You?"


((Icon. Guh.))

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"Not sure, actually," Lee responds and starts on the bicycle machines. "But I am ready for it to be over. Crazier things have happened, I suppose."

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"I believe the crazier things was what the zoo was for," she says, and shrugs. "Or so I've heard."

She kicks at the bag, hard, sending it swinging. She lets it go for a while, ready for a short break. "Wouldn't mind having a day of classes myself."

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"So what's up, Aeryn? You look...crosser than usual," Lee asks without really thinking and then realizes his life is now going to be very very short.

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She bites back her initial response, remembering that he's not from here, either. "You know when there's something you don't understand, and everyone else thinks it's a joke, and that only makes things worse?"

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Lee smiles softly and nods, "Yeah, Aeryn, I'm from a whole different star system myself. Earth people can be such snobs about their odd whatchamadoodles."

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She shrugs one shoulder. "It'll pass. And then there'll be another thing," she says, smacking at the bag one more time.

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"How's John?" Lee asks tenatively, moving to a weight machine and wishing he hadn't left his water bottle in Kara's room.

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"He's being John," she says absently, changing her stance lightly to put less stress on her wrist. "He'll be moping about this for days because he can't leave anything alone."

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"He loves you, you know that," Lee says a bit too gruffly as he lifts weights with his awesome thighs, omg.

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She knows that, and that's exactly why she's trying not to angst them anymore. There needs to be a separation between her problems, and her problems with John, and she is happy to let this fall into the first category if John would let it. "Yeah," she says. "How's Kara?"

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"Kara's--" Lee grunts as he lowers the weights back down, "she's --" He's not sure what he should say. "She's fine. Really excited about the pyramid thing -- I suspect John told you about that."

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"I've heard some things," she says. "I don't actually know what everything is."

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"Basically she's being picked to be in the running for a top athletics team where I'm from. I'll make sure John takes you to see Kara and Anders practice -- they're amazing at the sport."

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Aeryn raises her eyebrows. "Good for her." She pauses. "You're okay with that?"

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"With her getting chosen? Hell yeah," he says honestly. "With her being distracted from a handsome young future fighter pilot, no, not quite okay with that, but that's life, I suppose."

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"Things work out sometimes," Aeryn offers.

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Lee smile, "Sometimes," he repeats and starts on his crunches.

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Aeryn starts again on the punching bag, but she almost doesn't feel like it anymore and she's not sure why. Steadying the bag, she asks, "Have we ever done this before?"

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"What do you" -- he pauses to take a breath, breathless from the crunches, -- "mean by 'this'?"

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"Talked to each other," she says. "Without a room full of people."

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He stops and thinks. "No... no we haven't actually." He smiles.

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Aeryn smiles back as she starts taking her gloves off. "We should," she says. "I should probably be going. Can you... not tell John what I said?"

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Lee smiles mischeviously, "You said what?" and he winks. "Nice talking to you Aeryn, we should do this again."

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"Definitely," she nods, starting out. "Thanks."

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"Bye!" and Lee waves. And wonders why he has a vague memory of focusing on her breasts last night.

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((Holy balls! Mom is ripped! *licks icon*))

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((Dude, that's just disturbing. *dies*))

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