Sunday evening, in the gym

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Kitty enters a small room adjacent to the main gym and flips on the lights. A bar stretches, waist-high, across a wall of mirrors. She sits down on a stack of mats, peels off her legwarmers and changes her sneakers to ballet shoes. Her blue leotard and tights are comfortably worn, but not threadbare. She begins her ballet stretches.

Lockheed flies in and settles on the mats, stretching out and resting his chin on his front legs to watch.

[ooc: Company welcome.]

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After spending time with Dru (http://www.livejournal.com/users/crazyvampchick/2171.html) Angelus swung by the gym to check on the contents of his locker (http://www.livejournal.com/users/notsouledyet/12658.html). As far as he could tell, they hadn't been disturbed. He decided to add that to the list of good things that were happening with his week.

On his way back out he heard someone in the gym proper. He followed the sound and saw Kitty.

More importantly, he saw someone doing ballet.

He looked Heavenward. "Seriously, I owe you how much of a tithe now? Because I'll pay it."

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"Hello?" Kitty said. "Is someone out there?"

::Lockheed lifted his head and growled.::

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"Just me," Angelus came out into the light with his hands held up, showing his weaponless state. He kept a careful distance from Lockheed. "Angelus. Sorry, saw you practicing. Stopped to watch."

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"Hi," Kitty said warily. "There's not much to see, really. I'm just practicing."

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"Ballet, right?" Angelus hooked his thumbs into his front pants pockets. "Great form. Been doing it long?"

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"Since I was little," Kitty said. "I wish we had a good dance teacher here, though. I'm afraid I'm going to get out of practice. Do you like ballet?"

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"Did Franz Hilverding love a good use of dramatic gestures?" when Angelus belatedly realized she might not know the answer to that, he added, "Yes."

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Kitty smiled. "Do you dance?"

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"Not ballet," Angelus said. He crossed over to the wall on the opposite side of the mirror. For Kitty to look at him, she would have to turn away from his lack of reflection behind her. "I can fake my way through a club, though. That is, when I'm feeling like myself."

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A flash of worry passed over her face when she noticed his lack of reflection, but she pointedly ignored mentioning it. "That's too bad. I was thinking of trying to form a dance club. Of the ballet type."

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"That I would support," Angelus folded his arms in front of him, leaning back against the wall comfortably. "I've been dying for a good show in this town. Even went to Frisco the other day and couldn't get one in. It's killing me."

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Kitty smiled. "Yeah, that's one thing I really miss about New York. I used to go into the city for shows all the time."

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"New York?" Angelus's eyebrows raised with recognition. "I spent some time there. Not happy time, but I spent it. Whereabouts?"

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Kitty shook her head. "You probably haven't heard of it. Little town called Salem Center in Westchester County. Where were you?"

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"Absolutely right, I haven't heard of it," Angelus grinned at her. "Manhattan. Though you might not have heard of the place either. It was a little spot I liked to call third filthy rat-hole on the left."

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"Oddly enough, I have heard of Manhattan," Kitty grinned back. "And it's got plenty of good qualities."

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"Oh sure it does," Angelus said. "Just not my particular corner of it. Literally." He tilted his head thoughtfully. "Though I guess it was more accurately an alley. Sure there was garbage and the aforementioned rats, but at least there was shade. That's important for my people."

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Kitty bit her lip. "I haven't met any other vampires, but I tend to be the curious type," she smiled, "and I was wondering some stuff. Do you mind if I ask? If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine, I understand."

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Angelus spread his arms wide. "My unlife is an open book. Shoot."

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"Okay," Kitty said. She sat down, crossed her legs in front of her and leaned back against the mirror. "You said shade. You can go out in the day? Isn't there reflected sunlight even in shady areas?"

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"There is but it's not as bad as you'd think," Angelus said. "Direct sunlight is what starts to make me itchy. Indirect, even a cloudy day, all of those I can deal with."

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"So you can go out during the day," Kitty said. "And - ok, this is probably going to sound really silly - but do you have a coffin?"

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"Did when I died," Angelus smiled to show he'd taken no offense to the question. "These days I prefer a proper bed. Good sheets too or it makes me cranky."

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Kitty laughed. "It's funny - I've known some of the strangest people you could imagine, and yet we have so much in common. Like a preference for good sheets."

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"Who do you know who likes good sheets?" he asked.