Outside the Dorms: Thursday 10 AM

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana got there a little early to stretch out before Conner arrived. It was a little colder so she wanted to make sure she was really well warmed up and ready to run.

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[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner only had one sweatshirt on today when he showed up. He winced just a little bit as he did his stretches, hoping his face didn't show it too much.

"Hey, Lana! Survive the aftermath of the last run okay?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana nodded. "I'm a little stiff, but not too bad. That's why I came a little early, 'cause I figured I needed some more stretching before we ran."

She smiled at him. "I see you decided to lose the extra sweatshirts."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner propped his left leg up on one of the bench railings and leaned forward, feeling his hamstrings pull. "No point in leaving them to be rodent bait, is there?" he asked. "You were right, it was plenty warm without them."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana finished the last of her stretches and shook herself out a little. "Very true. So, how'd class go this morning?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Interesting," Conner said with a bewildered chuckle. "We, uh, had to try and build functioning devices out of coconuts and things you'd find on a deserted island."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana blinked at him. "Well, that's certainly different. Did you manage to make anything?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Nothing that would have done about half the people on the deserted island any good, I'm guessing" he said honestly. Explaining that you ended up making a coconut-shell bra was kind of embarrassing on several different levels.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana smiled at him. "I have a feeling there might be a story behind that, but I'll let it go for now."

She glanced up at the sky. "You mind running in the rain?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner shook his head. "Nah. Played soccer in the rain more times than I can count anyway."

[OOC: Argh, apologies for the super-slow response time. :(]

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Cool. Ready to go then?" Lana asked.

[OOC: No worries!]

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Ready if you are," Conner told her after he'd made sure his shoes were tied.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Let's go then," Lana said and started off. It was good to be moving and feel the breeze on her face.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner fell into step beside her, deciding that this weather was really invigorating for a run. "This could get interesting in the snow," he mused. "Does it even snow that much around here?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana thought about it. "Not a whole lot," she said. "Some, but not too much and it doesn't usually last all that long."

She jogged along for a while, thinking. "Have you ever been out in the snow? I mean, coming from California and all?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Once or twice, when my brother dragged me along on his snowboarding trips. And it usually involved getting in the car and driving for a couple of hours just to get there," Conner replied. He looked slightly disappointed that the white Christmas he'd been envisioning wasn't quite going to happen. "And then we never stayed overnight. I always wondered what it'd be like to wake up to snow."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana smiled at him. "I can pretty much guarantee that you'll wake up to snow here."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner's expression shifted to one of relief. "Well, that's good to know," he said cheerfully. "Up for a sprint to the end of the block?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Absolutely!" Lana said and took off.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Which took Conner by surprise, since he'd been planning on doing a whole 'ready-set-go' routine, and today he had to try and catch up.

"Hey!" he burst out, laughing as he sprinted after her.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana giggled as she ran, knowing he'd still be able to catch up and pass her, but figuring startling him might get her a couple of extra feet closer.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner could have passed her pretty easily, that was true. He was feeling like a good sport today, though, and only passed her by several strides.

"Sneaky," he said with an approving grin, glancing back over his shoulder.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I'm small," she said, blinking at him innocently. "I need all the advantage I can get. Then she giggled again.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I see what it is." Conner shook a finger at her playfully. "You're helping to plot the overthrow of tall people, aren't you?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Well, not the overthrow exactly," Lana said with a grin. "More just the evening of the playing field. Which will probably lead to their overthrow, so maybe yes?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner started slowing his stride as they reached the end of the block. "Aha. And you're . . . what, recruiting me to be your secret double agent?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana twirled an imaginary black moustache. "Ah, you hev deescoovered my eeevil plan!"

She smiled over at him, her stride slowing to match his again. "No one would ever suspect you, so you'd be perfect!"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner had gotten in front of her by a few steps by now, so he turned around and started jogging backwards, just because. "Nice moustache," he teased. "So I'd be hiding in plain sight, huh? That could be fun . . ."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes," Lana said with a smile. "And everyone knows the spy gets all the girls."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

And she'd just hit his weak spot.

Conner almost stopped running, and his face lit up with an almost comical expression, some combination of surprise and eagerness with a dash of puppydog. "Oh, that's it. Sign me up!"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana laughed so hard she almost had to stop running for a moment. "Well, now I know what button to push if I want to get you to do something for me!"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner scratched the back of his head sheepishly and admitted, "Friends back home used to tell me I'm easy that way. Don't go spreading that around, though," he added, shaking his finger in playful warning.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Don't tell people Conner is easy. Check." Lana grinned at him.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy'd not slept too well the night before, less worried about what he'd thought the lamp had been, as he was that he'd briefly thought it was anything other than a lamp. In any case he'd gotten up early and was just now returning from running.

"Hey you two."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana smiled. "Hey Billy. How's it going?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Pretty good, pretty good. You?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Not too bad. Off running again today."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Not too bad a morning for it so far. Just got back myself."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana nodded. "Excellent. Well, I guess I'll see you around then."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Yep."