The gym, Thursday after second period

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Aeryn's in the gym not too long after Criminal Justice ends, doing some warmups with the punching bag before Isabel's due to show up. The good mood is getting a little worrisome. It's new. Aeryn's not used to it, especially on a regular basis. The punching bag, however, if it were sentient, would probably be really glad for this.


[Meant for izzyalienqueen, probably on slowplay because work sucks omg, or should cameronmitchell stop by, but feel free to use for your own gym needs.]

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Which kinda makes it hard not to grin. "Yo."

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"Hi," she says, smiling back. "I wanted to apologize about the other morning."

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"Oh," his smile falters and he frowns slightly as he starts picking out the right weights. "You didn't do anything wrong."

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"I was out of line," she says. "I wasn't trying to make anything uncomfortable."

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That morning. He picks the right weight and sits down. "I was as much out of line as you were."

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She shrugs. "You weren't exactly verbal yesterday. I just wanted to clear the air."

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"I know," he sighs and looks up and the weight really isn't getting much exercise as he keeps it in one hand. "I'm sorry. That wasn't your fault."

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Aeryn sighs a little. "Did he say anything I have to kill him for?"

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"Nope," he clenches his teeth and starts on the exercise.

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She's not sure if she should push or not, so she shrugs a little and hits at the bag again. "All right. He said you two laughed it off anyway. I just wanted to be sure," she says. And isn't looking for his reaction at all.

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Cameron raises an eyebrow and wonders if John had really just been joking. "He said that?"

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Aeryn nods. "He did."

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"Then I guess we did, yeah." Cameron nods.

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Aeryn wants a look at the video feed from the gym yesterday. Like, now. She hits at the bag again, shrugging one shoulder. "As long as you guess."

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"It was weird, that's all. If John says that was all there was to it, then he's right and we laughed it off and that's that." He grits his teeth and kinda hates his shoulder right now.

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"Weird how?" She realizes why that's a stupid question as soon as she says it, but he's being more difficult than she usually is and right now she wants to know what John said, how much of it was about her, and how hard she needs to hit him later.

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"Weird as in it felt like he was making a point," he still didn't look up. "But if he says he wasn't, then he probably wasn't and we should leave it like that."

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Aeryn can kind of infer certain things from that, and it doesn't actually surprise her at all. She doesn't push it, though. "All right. I'll leave it," she agrees. And might hit the bag really hard this time.

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That sounds draws his attention and he looks up, watching her hit the bag and there's a feeling of dread that he wants to get rid of.

"I don't want this to get awkward," he says softly and maybe she wouldn't hear it if it wasn't that they're alone right now.

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"I wasn't planning on letting it," she says, looking confused.

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"Good," he nods and looks down again.

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She feels like there should be something else she should say, but she really doesn't know what it is. So instead she asks, "Any idea when you can get back to sparring?"

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Cameron shakes his head. "No, maybe next week." He straightens up a bit and shows her the range of motion he has right now with his shoulder. "Not exactly impressive unless you don't mind one armed sparring..."

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"I don't see that going too well," she says, because really, within three hits she'd be trying to use the hurt shoulder to her advantage. "Next week, then."

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"Yeah, probably a good idea. I'm not supposed to push it," he puts the weight down on the bench and massages the shoulder as maybe he already pushed a bit.