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 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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"So you know what happened to Anakin?" she assumes.

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"Luke said," Tyler answered. "Sounded like it was a long time ago for him. I didn't ask for gory details."

For some reason, he had a hard time saying the word died.

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"Vader did it," she tells him simply. And no, really, it's a bad idea to shoot a teacher. She's really going to have to convince herself of this.

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"Do you know why?," Tyler asked. Because that's how his mind worked. "Or why he's here?"

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"Anakin's kind was all but exterminated after he left here," she says, shaking his head. "As to why he's here..." Until she knows anything, she's not giving out theories, even if she keeps becoming more convinced of them.

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"So I guess we watch and wait," Tyler said, with a tiny smile. "And hope he's here to reform."

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"I'm still talking myself out of shooting him."

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Tyler is not exactly the one to talk her out of that. "One way to solve the problem," he said. "Administration might not like it, though."

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"Right," she says, nodding. "They know what they're doing." That doesn't stop her from smacking into the bag a few times, though.

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Tyler isn't sure he believes that, but he doesn't like the alternative. Some part of him, too, wants to meet this Vader, just to see what someone who could bring down a civilization would be like.

"Right." He nods, and switches the elliptical runner back on, thinking about the whole thing.

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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.