The Gym - Monday Morning

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Peter made his way to the gym when he woke up Monday morning.  He headed straight for the heavy bag.  It had been far too long since he'd worked on hand-to-hand.  Plus he needed to screw up his courage for further apologies.  


[OOC: Open, of course]

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[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Good morning, Mr. Pevinse," Pip said as he entered the gym. "I see you have, in quite a dastardly way, taken the exact thing I was hoping to use."

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"A good morning to you, M. Bernadette," Peter replied. "May I tender my apologies for my dastardly behavior?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Yes. And because I am feeling particularly benevolent today, I'll even accept your apologies. As long as there's no singing on the bleachers."

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Peter grinned and made a particularly flourishy bow. "I'm honoured to say the least, good sir. As for singing on the bleachers, never again if I can help it."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Good man. You've been practicing those kicks I showed you?"

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"You didn't get caught up in the madness of Saturday, I take it?" Peter asked. Instead of answering the question, he stepped back from the bag and threw a pretty effective roundhouse then sidekick.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Nope. No signing, and no grease in the hair. Which, considering my hair, is probably a good thing."

"Wanna learn some more?"

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"I don't know," Peter replied. "Anakin almost pulled it off. Though given that some people actually dyed theirs, you might have cut off the pigtail while convinced you were a greaser."

"And I'd love to."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip grinned. "Not happening. Now, watch me close. This is the hook kick. Not much on it's own. Takes too long. But if you can get it down right, I'll show you how to do something really cool with it eventually."

He demonstrated.

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Peter watched carefully and after taking a moment to work through it in his head, he tried the kick slowly, focusing on getting the movements close to right.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"The thing about this kick," PIp said, "is that you've got to snap the leg back quickly. That's what gives it it's force."

He demonstrated again.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"So you're striking with the snap more than the original push out?" Peter asked. "It's not like a sidekick then?"

He tried, working to snap the heel back for the strike.

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Pip nodded. "The idea is that once we've refined this, we'll add the spin, so that the force of the spin is added to the hook and you really do some damage."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory woke fairly early for her, and decided to wander down to the gym to see if she could locate Aeryn. Plus she needed to work a little on her forms - which was why she made a beeline for the mats off to the side and began to immediately stretch.

This totally had nothing to do with avoiding eye contact with anyone else in the gym. No, really.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter totally didn't avoid Rory's eyes either for a moment. But then his conscience got the better of him and he walked over to her. "I owe you an apology, I think," he said quietly.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"No, I owe you one," Rory said, blushing and stopping the stretches. "Or, you know, not at all, since we were under a spell and it doesn't matter."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter tilted his head. "Shall we both consider apologies tendered and accepted? Then we acknowledge the spell and impaired responsibility?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory considered this. "That makes sense. It's hardly the first time someone's done something idiotic under a spell."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I'm just thankful I wasn't Dean," Peter said with a grimace. "Or Anakin for that matter. You got your hair back though. It looks much prettier this way."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory blushed harder. "Thanks. I missed being a brunette." She made a face. "Poor Anakin wanted to live in the woods forever and become a crazy hermit Jedi."

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"I considered that myself," Peter told her, grimacing. "I can't blame him for seeing that as the best solution. And perhaps, he'd be following in the steps of generations of crazy hermit Jedi so it would be a wise path."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"He told me that the mosquitoes were interrupting his concentration," she sighed. "Look, I spent an evening thinking I was three years old in December and spent the day hiding in my room afterwards. At least we all had company in our humilation this time."

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"Maybe hermit Jedi should only live in areas without mosquitoes then," Peter said with a grin. "That's so very true. And it was fun at least at the time."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"And we weren't that bad, like you said," Rory added. "I need to talk to Willow at some point, but at least no one got hit in the head with a frying pan, right?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I...need to talk to her too," Peter said, shifting uncomfortably. "And yes, I'm thankful for the lack of a frying pan to the head. Or being beat up during the day."