Gym, early Saturday

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

It was very early on Saturday morning, so hopefully there wouldn't be anybody else around in the gym. She needed to work out some frustration, preferably without being recognized by more people she had never seen before in her life.

She pulled out the mats, laying them down at a decent distance from each other, then stepped onto on one and thought for a moment.

Back-in, full out...



ooc: open!

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[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Sure!" Dean said enthusiastically. Much as he'd like the sparring they'd did the day before, swords really weren't his specialty. He was much more comfortable with unarme combat. Not as comfortable as he was with a gun in his hand, but since that wasn't likely to be an option in the gym, unarmed it was.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I can tell - your enthusiasm spells trouble for me," Peter joked. He was much more comfortable with a sword in his hand, personally. Though it sure seemed like he was going to have to get used to unarmed styles at Fandom without access to his sword.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"I'll go easy on you," Dean joked.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Sure that you're not a knight, Dean? Your chivalry is beyond compare," with a big smile, Peter bowed jauntily.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean gave a bark of laughter. "Knight, huh? I've been called a lot of things, but that's definitely a new one."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I suppose it would be hard to be a knight and American, hmm? I haven't heard that your Presidents bestow such titles."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Nah. He just gives out medals and that kind of crap, I think. My dad's got a couple from when he was in the Marines."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Because Peter had learned enough about the past century's wars by now, he asked, "Vietnam?" Then added, "my father was a Navy man."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, 'Nam." Dean looked at him, impressed. "Not bad for someone who's from the middle of World War Two. I take it your dad fought in that?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I'm not that good - I've talked to a few others whose fathers fought there. It seemed the most likely choice." Peter nodded, "he serves on the Illustrious. Well, served, I guess."

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"This from all times and places thing is really hell on the grammar isn't it?" Dean grinned.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"It's like taking Latin all over again! Only there aren't any rules to break, just attempts to make a past perfect tense and future imperfect fit together in the same sentence," Peter said with the vehemence of a child who grew up in the age of grammar drills and declensions.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Uh.. right," Dean said vaguely, not ready to admit that he had very little idea of what Peter was talking about. He knew past, present and future, and whether they were perfect or imperfect had more to do with what happened than any grammar rules. "I figure the best thing to do is just to talk about the outside world like it's all the present. For you it is, right?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I suppose. I doubt I'll ever end up back in 1940 though so maybe calling the past, the past is the best way to go."

Peter shrugged with a grin, "Want to spar? Far better than debating grammar?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean grinned. "Works for me."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter found gloves in the supply closet and offered to throw Dean a pair before strapping his on. He held out his gloves to be touched and assumed a defensive position, bouncing slightly on his toes.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean caught the gloves Peter threw him and put them on. Doing this with gloves would be different; usually he and Sammy went at it bare knuckled. Though then again, they were hardly fighting by Queensbury rules.

"So how do you want to do this?" Dean asked. "Formal?" He grinned. "Or anything goes?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter shrugged as he saw Dean's look of surprise about the gloves. "I don't fancy a broken finger is all," he said.

"Anything goes works," Peter agreed. "Until we call time?"

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

"Time or someone taps out, yeah," Dean agreed.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter held out his gloves for Dean to tap and began circling a bit. He threw two quick jabs towards Dean's face more as an opening salvo than real attempt to hit.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean ducked out of the way of both, the second time letting his momentum continue carrying him to the side where he threw a punch of his own at Peter's head.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter dodged to the left out of the way of Dean's fist. Continuing to move that way, he sent a jab-cross combination flying towards Dean's ribcage.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean blocked Peter's attack and sent a flurry of punches toward first Peter's face, then midsection.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter managed to dodge or block all of the punches until the last two which caught him in the sterum. Coughing, he danced out of the way of the flurry then darted back to throw a right-left cross combination towards Dean's chest following it up with an uppercut aimed at the belly.

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Dean leaned back out of the way of the chest shots, but wasn't quite quick enough to avoid the belly punch. It didn't land full strength, but hard enough to pull a soft grunt out of him.

He danced back out of range, then dove to the side and at Peter, trying to catch him around the waist in a grappling attack.