The Gym, Saturdary morning

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

After not making it to the gym all week, Isabel headed down for a workout after she woke up Saturday morning. After stretching out, she pulled on some gloves and approached the bag for the first time since coming back from Roswell. She's a bit out of practice but after a while she settled into a steady rhythym of punches and the occasional kick. You can take your pick of which blonde she's picturing as she hits the bag.


[Open for all your gym needs. Conversation with Aeryn is NFB.]

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[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Peter felt that it was about time he actually used FH's gym facilities, so he wandered down for a workout.

Also, Isabel was here and he needed to talk to her anyway! Convenience! He just might be talking very slowly for a while.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel was surprised when Peter walked into the gym. "Did you get lost?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"No, but I did get bored," Peter said. "I figured I might as well see a bit of the school that I've barely ever seen in its natural state."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Well here it is," Isabel said with a wave around the room that the magic elves had restored to order after Anakin and Angel's fight. "It's not usually this empty."

"Did you make it to the Student Council meeting? I got involved in something in town and couldn't make it back in time."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I did and I have my notes on it back in my room," Peter said. "Short version is that poker is next week, trivia is sometime after that - I'm thinking right after finals, personally - Prom is coming up and we could have homemade crowns if Pippi has her way," Peter said. "Which, really, if I just type that description up, I have my column for this week. And it'll use up a lot less ink than usual."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"After finals sounds good to me, it'll be something fun to do for stress relief. Of course," Jab, jab, punch. "I need to get it in gear and start collecting trivia questions."

"Homemade crowns?" Isabel asked, her inner organizer twitching.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Plus, we'll be able to expunge all the knowledge we have leftover in preparation for summer," Peter said.

"Um. Yeah. I hope we can find plastic crowns at Stuff for Sale or something."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Plastic crowns?" Isabel asked and then landed a solid kick against the bag. "You're kidding right?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I say plastic because that's what Fearless Leader said they generally are. I'm a peasant, personally, with no idea what crowns are made of because the monarchy is holding me back," Peter said.

"Anyway, it would still be better than folders and glitter."

[can_be_more]

She won't see John until after detention, so Aeryn heads down to the gym to work some things out. She gives a nod to Isabel when she sees her.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Morning Aeryn," Isabel said as she stepped away from the bag. "It's all yours if you want it."

[can_be_more]

"Thanks," she says, pulling on her gloves and delivering a hard punch to the bag as a sort of hello to it. "How are you?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Busy,"she said. Isabel looked towards the trainer and decided that she wasn't in the mood today, instead, she crossed her legs and sank to the floor. "But that's okay. Otherwise things are going well," she added, thinking of her conversation with Xander and the art fun with Rory.

[can_be_more]

"Good," Aeryn says, looking back at her and then smacking into the bag again. "Glad to hear it."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

She's been meaning to talk to Aeryn, and this is the first time she's seen her without a million people around. "There was another reason I asked you to teach me after Darla attacked Vala," she said. It was random but it seemed like a good place to start.

[can_be_more]

Another hit at the bag, and Aeryn steps away a little, because this feels like a Conversation. "Which was?" she asks.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Apparently we're supposed to go back and save our planet. Do I look like a warrior to you?" Isabel asked.

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna came into the gym and Faithful ran over to his usual favorite window.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Hi Alanna. Hi Faithful," Isabel called from where she was on the trainer. After talking to Aeryn she'd decided that a little cardio workout wouldn't be such a bad thing afterall. "What's happening?"

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna shook her head and began to stretch. "Many things, some of them even make sense. How are you?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Busy seems to cover it," Isabel shrugged. "But there's still good stuff happening so I'm satisfied."

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"That's good to hear. Oh, um, can I ask you a really odd question? It's kind of been bothering me for a bit now."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel braced herself. "Ask away."

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

"What's an alien and why does it matter that you are one?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

She's momentarily startled by the question but then it makes sense a kind of sense. Aliens are probably as unimaginable to Alanna as talking cats and magic where to her when she first came to Fandom. But now she needs to find the right words to explain it properly and hope that Alanna understands.

"In my particular world, aliens are people who aren't from planet earth," she explained. "Except they're sort of imaginary in a way because no one has ever met any. They're the monstors in stories if that makes sense."

"The thing is, I am real. And there are people who would kill me because they think I'm a monster."