The Gym - Late Friday Morning

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Because what was a morning without going to the gym?  Peter wasn't sure he wanted to find out.

So he headed down there after getting up and started his warm up.  After a few minutes, he began running through sword drills working his way from the easiest forms to the most difficult he knew.




[[OOC: Gym's open for all'y'all]]

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker studied her sardonically. "Since you should still be very sore and rather tender? I'm assuming you're taking the good stuff. I heard how light-headed you were on the Radio." She eased herself down next to Pippi, and watched Peter and the othes go through their routines for a minute. "Everything okay with you so far?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi looked at the floor.

"M'not takin' any stuff. I think that's one of my 'things', I don't usually feel hurt except this past weekend... And that one time I went cliff diving but the water wasn't deep enough."

And by "but the water wasn't deep enough" she means "into a dry riverbed".

"Otherwise I guess I'm doing okay. I'm more worried about my friends." she cast a glance at Pip on the other side of the gym.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker sighed, and followed Pippi's glance across the floor. "He looks like he's doing better than you are, at this point." She cocked her head at Pippi. "And you're also not up and exercising. Yay on that." She was quiet for a minute, then asked, "How's Walter? I saw Nadia a day or so ago, but I haven't seen her opposite number since the clinic."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Up and walking around." Pippi said. "Which is a marked improvement. We both have to go see Dr. Lambert later today. It was a condition of out escape discharge."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"I'm glad to hear it. She seemed like a good doctor, the couple times I met her." Parker nudged Pippi's arm with her own, her eyes still on Pip. "So why are you worried?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"There was an argument." she explained. "I don't think it had to do with what happened but..."

Pippi sighed and leaned back against the wall.

"I'm probably just being over sensitive."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker parsed that out, and came up with, "Someone else was arguing over you, maybe?" She tilted her head, studying the younger girl. "You've got a right to feel paranoid now. A lot of crap happened."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I don't even know what it was about." she said, "I suppose it's a combination of lots of things, stress, people who have a skewed sense of self-preservation, and at the same time are protective of others... Everybody kept telling us that they're not mad at us. And I believe that... And I'm glad, you have no idea how glad. But that leaves a lot of undirected anger floating around you know?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. I know." The best part of Study Group was having a target. The worst part, for everyone, was people getting hurt and not getting Dru or Darla, after. Parker sighed. "You just have to ride it out, I guess. Ask them what it was about, if you're up to it. If you're not-- in a week or two, it'll be better. When people aren't visibly wounded and reminded every time they see their friends any more."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

That would be why she forced me to look under his eyepatch then.

"Yeah," Pippi responded rubbing her face, "You're right... Of course." she bumped shoulders with her and smiling again.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker scrutinized her, and returned the smile. "Anything else bugging you? Anything I can help with?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I know you've just been, but I do need to go shopping for clothes at some point. Somebody needs to teach me the proper way to squander my Grandfather's money."

Other people might ask for a way to make it so the past weekend never happened, but that's not Pippi's style.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"All right, then. Maybe next week? We'll do it right, go into D.C. Find you a few things you can't on the Island." Parker smiled and go to her feet. "Does that work?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes, that sounds delightful!" said Pippi who quite enjoyed her last trip to DC as it didn't involve adding to the list of things that suck.

"By next weekend I'm sure I'll be able to go do stuff with out people wagging their fingers at me."