The gym, Sunday morning

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Since coming back, Aeryn's been to the gym all of three times. This needs to be remedied.

She puts on her gloves, and heads straight to the punching bag, smacking into it easily at first, then progressively harder as she goes on. She's actually not at all upset, she's just making sure she's not out of practice. Which she's really not.


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[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Weird how Cameron ends up in the gym of all places. "Yo," he says as he watches Aeryn work the bag.

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She looks back over her shoulder, says, "Hi," and smacks into the bag again.

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He smiles and moves closer. "How did you like the play?"

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"I... had no frelling idea what was going on," she says, frowning.

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"Glad I wasn't the only one," he chuckles. "I think the best part was when it got dark."

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"That was a highlight," she agrees, considering the bag before hitting it again. "I think the whole thing was a little... beyond me."

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"I really don't blame you," Cameron moves to the side of the mats to do some stretches as he hasn't been in the gym for a few days either. "Shakespeare can be confusing enough as it is, add the modern interpretation and the whole everyone being a ho thing and... yeah."

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She turns away from the bag and asks, "Being a what?"

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He pauses mid stretch and there's a slight blush. "Ho. Uh, please tell me that translates."

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She shakes her head.

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"Ah," he sits down on his ass and scratches the back of his neck as he considers the best way of putting it. Seriously, there's only one way. "Someone who gets paid for sex. Or in this case, someone who kinda spreads their legs too easily."

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She would have expected a flail with that explanation. "Oh," she says. "That would be the... That would seem about right."

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"Yeah, that's what I thought too." He says with a quick grin and motions to the bag. "You're still in shape." And maybe it's sort of a challenge.

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"Not as much as I should be," she says, still concentrating on the bag.

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He tilts his head and nods. "Got to give your body time to heal," he says and pushes back to his feet to move over to one of the weight lifting machines.

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It's been three weeks. The cut's closed and healing. But she still says, "Not the worst idea," and goes back to hitting the bag.

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"Yeah, once in a while I have the luck to come up with one of those," Cameron says and starts up his exercises, just maybe he's not entirely unaware about how long it's been.

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"How's, um.... things?" she asks, because she's not entirely sure what's going on in her own head but she's aware she hasn't actually asked him that.

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He pauses and he needs a moment to realise that if he's caught off guard it's because it's the first time she asked him since she got back. If he wasn't in the middle of weight lifting, he'd probably shrug. "They're fine."

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And because it's been so long since the problems she knew about happened, Aeryn figures they're probably solved and she just wasn't there. "Good," she says.

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"Yeah," he agrees and wonders how he's supposed to tell her about things that don't come close to what she's been through. He concentrates on the work out instead.

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She just hits the bag again.

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He ignores everything but the steady movement of his body against the weights, but it doesn't really work. Aeryn's right there like he's used to, but just like everything this conversation got uncomfortable but the silence is probably even more so.

He counts to ten before stopping and sitting up again. He rubs a hand across his face and takes a breath. "Everything's not fine. If you want to know, they haven't been fine since the week you left. I'm just not sure how to tell you because you've been through a lot and it's changed you. Or things have changed me, or just... something's changed and I have no clue where to start and fix things."

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Aeryn turns, not quite sure how to take that. "I'm the same as I've always been, don't act any differently," she says.

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"Then I guess it's just me," he says simply.

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That was the kind of thing she was afraid of. "How, then? What changed?" she asks. Because she's trying, and she's dealing with things.

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"You can't tell me you don't feel the difference," he says, not able to buy that either.

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"I just don't know what happened," she says. "I go away for less than two weeks and everything's different."

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"Things change," Cameron says softly. "That's just how it works. You had to go back and you went through things. People stayed here and went through different things. When you meet again, you get a whole set of different experiences and sometimes they just don't add up and you got to start from zero again."

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"Except no one's starting from zero," she points out. She doesn't ask what happens if you can't meet up again after starting over, either. She doesn't want to think about that yet. Too early.

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He grimaces. "People missed you. I missed you. I can't tell you how many times in those two weeks I just wanted to head down to the gym and have you kick some sense into me," he meets her eyes briefly. "So when you got back, I was happy and I wished we could just pick up from there again. I guess that that's not how things work and if I have to start over from zero to work our way up there again, I will. I just miss it."

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Aeryn looks away a little and says, "I'm trying."

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"I know," he says softly. "So am I and we'll get there. I'm just sorry that I keep putting my foot in it in the meantime."

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"You're not," she assures him. Thoughs he doesn't exactly want to admit that she has been having trouble dealing with certain things. It isn't that it's anyone's fault, it's just... hard.

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He gives her a small smile. "You're still perfectly free to kick my ass if I do."

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"I would do that anyway."

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That gets a grin. "I'm counting on it."

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Not wanting things to get weird again, Aeryn gives a smile back. "I should get back upstairs. I'll see you later?"

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He nods. "Sure, I'll catch you later."

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There's a quick frown at the phrasing, because it makes no sense, but she shakes it off and takes off her gloves as she heads out of the gym.