The Gym, Tuesday Evening

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After getting off of work, Teddy went to the gym. That Superheroing class made him want to try working out again. Wouldn't be good to look like he had been slacking in front of Cassie.

His problem? He had no idea how to use most of the equipment in the gym. After staring blankly at the weights, he decided that it would be safest to stick to stretching and a few sit ups.


[[ooc: for ranma_sao, but open like a thing that is really open]]

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Cassie was finally done at All & Sundries. She decided some excercising was in order.

Some super-exercising, in fact.

She waved at Teddy and started practicing growing and shrinking.

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Teddy stopped his situps long enough to wave back. "Hey, Cassie!"

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"...we need to talk sometime," Cassie said.

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"What about?" Teddy asked warily.

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"I talked with Jude in class today," Cassie said.

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"Oh, yeah," Teddy looked down. "That."

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"Whenever you're ready," Cassie said. "I don't want to put you on the spot or anything. Lord knows if I make you cry again Chad says he's gonna hit me..."

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"It's complicated," Teddy said, sighing. "I really like Chad, but yeah, Jude's there too."

He flopped back on the mat. "I don't know what to do."

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Cassie almost said 'find another hot boy witch?'

"You're asking the wrong girl if you want relationship advice," she admitted.

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Teddy sighed again. "I wonder if any of the other superheroes have problems like this."

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"I'm sure it's very possible," Cassie said.

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Teddy made a face. "Ugh, I don't want to think about any of the Avengers dating. It's just creepy."

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"Yeah," Cassie said. "Really weird."

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Parker came in after some time in her room, talking to Liz, then blinked when she saw Cassie doing her size-thing.

"Okay. New. Also? Interesting."

She started stretching on the mat, watching Cassie in the mirrors.

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"Oh, hi," Cassie said, making sure she was normal size. "I'm Cassie."

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Parker nodded carefully, and said, "Parker. Magic, alien, or mutant?" She leaned forward, stretching out her hamstrings, noting the spandex Cassie was wearing, then asked, "Or is it a special technology workout suit?"

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"Well, the suit is special," Cassie admitted. "But it doesn't allow me to do this. And I'm actually none of the above."

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"No? Something completely new?" Well, unless Cassie was an experiment, like a few other people here, but that was too much of a minefield question. "And how is the suit special?"

Parker stopped stretching, and moved over to the bag, starting with a side-kick, crescent kick, then a roundhouse as she began her workout.

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"I kinda used a substance on myself," Cassie said. "Something my dad worked with. They're... okay, you probably don't care about specifics. But basically that allowed me to do what I can do now. The suit is sorta treated with the same stuff. The molecules in it are unstable, so they can grow and shrink with me."

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"Interesting." Parker was remembering her own work on adaptations and mutations last semester, and ways they could be induced; put Cassie in the corner with Alec and Peter Parker then, of Students the Centre Must Never Know About. "Do you get proportionally stronger, as you get bigger, I suppose?"

Punch, punch, elbow-strike, punch.

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"Yeah," Cassie said. "My mass goes up and everything. So good thing the floor is sturdy. The weird part is that my strength doesn't go proportionately down, when I shrink."

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"Hunh." Parker stopped for a second to catch her breath, then said, "So you're a tiny super-strong-for-your-size Barbarella doll?" Her mouth quirked sideways. "Cool." She sized Cassie up, then said, "So, you wanted this to happen. To be-- a superhero, or something?"

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"Like my dad," Cassie said with a nod.

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"Ah." Yeah, Parker gets father issues. "So what are you going to do when you're not -- crimefighting? Lifesaving?" She paused in the kicking, then looked thoughtful. "Does that pay well?"

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"I'm 14," Cassie said. "I really haven't thought that far ahead, yet."

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Parker blinked. "Hunh. I've known what I wanted to be since I was eleven." She started kicking the bag again, and alternating it with punches. "You'll certainly get enough practice at hero-ing here, at any rate."

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"I guess I was always trying to be a hero," Cassie said. "I didn't actually have my powers until recently."

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"Ah." Parker thinks that's more dumb and admirable than just admirable, but, hey. The kid's fourteen. She'll get over it. Or she won't, and the Island will eat her.... "Hopefully you'll get used to this place before any extreme weirdness hits. The better to survive it."

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"I grew up spending one weekend a month at the headquarters of a superhero team," Cassie said. "I can handle it."

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Parker's slowing down a bit now, and very deliberately avoiding thinking of Kitty Pryde. Angelus is gone, after all. Molly's handling Fandom; so is Pippi. This girl will too.

"I'm sure you can." She started doing her cool-down exercises, stretching out her arms, thinking. "What do you like about this place so far?"

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"People are nice, the boys are cute, and I have one of my friends from back home as a sort of fallback for when I get overwhelmed," Cassie said, plainly.

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"Cool. I could have used that, my first week here." Parker smiled at Cassie. "And you're not wrong about the guys."

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"Now just to find boys that aren't all dating each other," Cassie said.

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Parker started laughing. A lot. "Good luck on that. You'll probably have better luck with the crop of new guys-- most of them seem to be pretty straight." She grinned. "It's been interesting talking to you, Cassie. I'll see you around, hmm?"

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"Yeah," Cassie said. "You ever need anything off a high shelf, you know who to call."