The Gym - Thursday Afternoon

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica showed up to meet Cameron and was surprised to find he wasn't there yet.

She started stretching and hoped he would show up soon. She wanted to have time to take a shower and change before heading to work tonight.


[V's here for Cam and I don't have time to play a bunch of threads, but feel free to use for your own gym needs.]

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[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron arrived fifteen minutes later, out of breath. "Sorry, I'm late," he apologised, looking around to see if he could steal her water bottle.

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

"Everything okay?" Veronica asked from her spot on the floor. Her water bottle and keys were against the wall, as usual.

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"Yeah, went running after basketball training and forgot what time it was and there was a duck hold up in the park which made me had to do a detour so... I'm late," he lied through his teeth and motioned to the bottle. "Do you mind?"

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Blinking as she tried to keep up with his babbling, she shook her head. "No, go ahead."

She tilted her head. "Duck hold up?" Yes, she was totally imagining ducks holding little guns in their wings. Hey, it was Fandom.

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"Yeah, I don't know," Cameron shrugged as he grabbed the bottle and took a drink. "Maybe they were having a festival. They were all waggling around on the path so I had to go around the park."

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Veronica shrugged as well. "Whatever. Let's get started. I have to be at work in a couple of hours."

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"Sorry," he said sheepishly and put the bottle back down. He bent down to start undoing his laces. "Are you still up for a spar?"

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

"Sure," she said, standing up. "Are you up for it? Between basketball and running, if you're too tired, we can skip it until next week."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

He raised an eyebrow, pausing his struggle with his laces. "Are you questioning my stamina?"

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Veronica rolled her eyes. "No," she assured him, her tone clearly amused.

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"Good," he said, continuing his fumbling. "Because i'll have you know that I have excellent stamina." And maybe he should keep in mind that distracting someone didn't mean that you'd have to say the first thing that popped into your mind.

Finally the laces worked with him and he kicked off his shoes.

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"That's good to know," Veronica said, hiding her smile.

"You ready?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Just a sec," he pulled off his socks and got to his feet.

"Gloves," he remembered and moved to retrieve a pair. "Do you want to use padding?"

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"Do you think we need it?" Veronica asked.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Putting on padding took time. He needed time to make her late, but padding prevented injury so it might make his whole fake injury less believable.

"I don't normally use any and I'm not exactly planning to stop pulling punches, but if you want to play safe and prevent bruises..."

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Veronica considered the options. "Black and blue aren't really my colors," she decided. "Better to be safe than sorry, right?"

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"Probably," he nodded and grabbed the gear from the storage. "Did I show you how to put these on?"

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"No, we only went over hand wraps," Veronica told him, studying the equipment he was carrying. "How am I supposed to move in that stuff?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"It's easy," he assured her as moved beside her. "You just..."

He held up the equipment and frowned. "No, not like that. It's..." He turned it around a couple of times. Switched up and down. "Ah right, I got it. It's like this..."

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Veronica watched him, head tilted. "Maybe we should skip it," she suggested.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"No, it's fine. It's this way," he assured her, holding it out for her to take. "It's just been a while since I used them."

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

"All right," she said, taking the padding and fumbling around with it for a few minutes.

"Is this right?"

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Cameron took his sweet time to inspect the padding, fussing over it and making small adjustments.

"Yeah, I think you're good to go," he said after a while.

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"Are you sure?" Veronica asked, starting to get a little impatient.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Yep, you're fine and all padded up like a padded up thingie..." He clapped her on the shoulder before moving onto the mat. She probably should be grateful he wasn't going to wear padding himself.

"Ready when you are," he said as he got into position.