The gym, Monday afternoon

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After fifth period is over, Aeryn bypasses going up to her room to go straight down to the gym. Peter's out of classes first, but she likes to try to get there early to warm up a little. She drops her bag at the door, gets out her gloves, and starts out easy on the bag.


[Mostly for peter__parker whenever he's around, but open like woah.]

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[tyler-gone.livejournal.com]

Tyler didn't have class, so he slept in before heading down to the gym for a session on the elliptical trainer. "Hi, Aeryn."

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Aeryn pauses to nod in greeting. "Hey," she says. "No class yet?"

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Tyler shook his head. "Not until Ethics tomorrow," he said. "What about you?"

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"Just got out of Pop Culture, and please tell me I'm right in thinking Ethics is on Thursday because otherwise I have four classes tomorrow."

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Tyler frowned. "No, you're right. Ethics is Thursday, Criminal Justice is tomorrow. The teacher's names mix me up, Vader and V."

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She actually fumbles on a punch at the sound of one of the names, turning to focus on him. "Vader?"

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The fumble catches Tyler's attention, and he quits running, because he gets the sense Aeryn rarely misses a punch and he wants to be as serious as she is. "That's what it says on my schedule," he said. "Do you know someone by that name?"

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"By reputation," she says slowly. "...He's frelling teaching Ethics?"

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And now Tyler is frozen. "I'm getting the impression he shouldn't be."

He thinks about claiming to have remembered it wrong -- he messed up the day, after all -- but he's somehow sure he didn't.

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Aeryn hits into the bag hard, and stops at that. If he's here, and it's the same person, they have to have hired him for a reason. She's curious about Vader's reasoning, but there are a couple ways in which that could be obvious, in which case she wants to do irrational things like put Luke and probably Rory in locked rooms for the time being.

"Ethically, no," she says, frowning. It would be bad to shoot a teacher. She's just going to have to keep reminding herself of that.

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Tyler tilted his head. "Want to tell me what's up?"

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She hates telling people, she's decided this. "Have you met a student named Luke yet?"

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Tyler nodded slowly. "Saturday, yeah. He was perky. Said his dad was Anakin Skywalker, which is bizarre, especially given the rest of what he said."

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Peter came down to the gym, ready to learn how to actually fight. It would be a good thing to learn after all this time. "Hey," he said, walking over.

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Aeryn is really not in the best of moods, but she's not going to punish Peter for it. "Hey," she says, and bends down to toss him a pair of gloves she'd gotten from the locker.

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Peter caught the gloves and put them on. "Thanks for agreeing to this. I have a feeling it'll be a big help to me down the line."

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"It's a good skill to have," she says. "You never know when you'll need it."

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"Plus, if I actually know how to fight, I'll be better suited to incorporating it into my own style," Peter said. "Okay, how do we start?"

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"Right where you are, show me how you throw a punch," she says, and she's a little disturbed that she seems to have developed a routine for how to do this.

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Peter thought for a moment about how he normally threw punches while standing up and realized that he wasn't really sure how he did. Normally it was a glorified clubbing blow combined with some sort of forward motion. Sometimes upside down.

So he overthought it and threw a quick but slightly awkward straight punch.

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"Good," she says with a nod. "Had a lot of experience with punching and blocking, or shall we skip that?"

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"As long as you don't need to see technically pretty punches, I'm good with those. As for blocking, I mostly dodge, so that could probably use some work," Peter said.

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"All right," she says, and puts her arms up in a standard blocking position. "Copy my stance."

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Peter did so. "Like this?"

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"Exactly. Now, if I come at you like this," she says, slowly putting her arm forward in a punching motion, nowhere that she could hit him, "then all you have to do is knock my arm away."