Gym, morning

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Needing some room to think, Cameron headed down to the gym. He'd go running, but he wasn't in the mood to freeze his ass off. So instead, he picked up the boxing gloves and started working out.

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[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack hadn't been back in the dorms much since he'd moved out, but he figured it was a good place to work out.

He saw Cam and waved hi. "Need a sparring partner?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron stopped hitting the bag and looked over at Jack.

"Sure, but I'm not exactly good at it." He said, definitely not thinking this might be a great opportunity to get back for the mokcing him as a cub or leaving him hanging when Zero came after him with a mallet. Nope.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Good, then you won't squash me too bad." Sublimely innocent of Cam's intentions, he picks up another pair of boxing gloves and puts them on.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I've only ever sparred with John," Cameron says as he moves to the mats and stretches a bit. "I wasn't pretty as we both had no clue what we were doing."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much the same here. I've only seen holos. Vids. Movies, I mean." Jack raises both fists and sort of hops in place. "En garde. Or something."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I think that's fencing, which I'm supposedly taking but keep forgetting to actually go to," Cameron matches the hopping as it does seem to be important to have good footwork, if Rocky is anything to go by. Realising they could be hopping around each other for a while, he tries to hit Jack in the face.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack ducks out of the way, and tries to aim a blow at Cam's shoulder.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron winces as the blow connects and staggers back a bit. He knows the smart thing would probably be to pull back entirely, but they're close like this, so he pulls up the arm that just got hit in defence and tries to lay in a blow underneath Jack's own defences with his other.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack... was not expecting that. Jack reeled under the blow and stepped back. "Good one. Okay." He raises his fists again and starts with the hopping. Eventually, this will work.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," Cameron moves back and this time keeps his hands up as well. "It's been a while since I've seen you around here," he remarks and circles for a moment, trying to look for an opening.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack shrugs, and circles too. "Yeah. I've been living in town. Gotta visit the dorms, sometimes, if only to see my Legos."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Legos rock," Cameron realises they'll just keep circling like this and aims low again, dropping his own defence as he does.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack sees a open spot. He doesn't see the fist, and manages to run right into it while clipping Cam lightly on the chin.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron's head snaps back and somehow it annoys him. Jack annoys him and it has nothing to do with him having slept with Vala. Not at all. He moves in closer and tries to get some more low hits in.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Sheer necessity is changing Jack's style from dance-around-with-his-arms-waving to something tighter, to try to keep Cam off. His ribs hurt from the blow Cam had landed.

He shifted to his left, and threw a punch at Cam with his right fist, aiming for the jaw.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron staggers back as the blow lands solidly on his jaw. He hadn't been paying attention to defence at all, he rubs his glove where he can feel the bruise forming. His head is still reeling when he jumps forward and maybe that's why instead of trying to hit Jack, he tries to tackle him down to the ground.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack really wasn't expecting that, and went over like a felled tree with Cam on top of him. Caught between wrestling and and quipping, "Gee, Mitchell, I didn't think you liked me that way," Jack went for both.

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

"Uh, boys?" Vala stood in the doorway of the gym, one eyebrow raised in question of the scene before her.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I don't," Cameron growled at Jack and tried to disentangle himself from him. If he managed to elbow Jack along the way, it was poor coincidence.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Ow," Jack said in an annoyed voice. "Fists are one thing. Elbows? Are another. Hi, Vala. Your boyfriend is trying to take advantage of my virtue."

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

"Is he now?" She responded. "Isn't that your deal, Jack? Hitting on anything that moves?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"You malign me severely. I am *available* to anything that moves. If you want to call me advertising my availability 'hitting on', well, that's one thing. But you wouldn't believe how long it's been since any of the hits landed... other than your boyfriend's, that is."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron got to his feet and moved away from Jack, trying to not let it show that he was out of breath. "I believe I got more hits in than you."

[aka-vala.livejournal.com]

"Or Aeryn's pulse blast?" she grinned.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack sticks his tongue out at Vala from where he's sitting on the floor. "Thanks for reminding me. Nice bruise you're gonna have on your chin, Cam."