The Gym, Sunday Evening

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

After a somewhat delayed reaction to the events of the Attack Shadows, Billy had elected to try to run out his remaining fear and disgust. That hadn't worked.

So, instead he was beating up on a practice dummy rather hard. He'd come close to dying before. Even had a premonition about it. He felt he shouldn't be as frightened about death as he had been. But dying like that, simply fading away, without being able even to try to fight off his attackers...

He'd rarely felt that helpless. And all of a sudden the practice dummy, which until now he'd been pretending was a shadow, was now a shadow that looked remarkably like his father.

*SNAP* Billy held nothing back when he kicked out with his prosthetic, snapping the practice dummy like a twig.

"Aah!" he cried, as pain flared in his thigh where it connected to the artificial limb, and fell to the floor. "Damnit."

ooc: mostly establishy but it's the gym, so, open, but I might be slow on the pinging

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[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

After spending time with Nadia in the common room, Tori had decided to head down to the gym to get in a quick workout.

She hadn't expected to find anyone there, so she was surprised when she found Billy there, too. Tori frowned as she saw him on the floor. "Billy, are you okay?" Obviously he wasn't, but she didn't want to presume anything.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Oh, uh, it's nothing." he said. "Had a bit of an accident I guess."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"If you're sure." Tori wasn't completely convinced, but didn't press the matter.

She put her towel and bottle of water down, hoping to go a few rounds on the punching bag.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy attempted to be surreptitious about checking his status. Every time he moved his left leg pain throbbed in his thigh. He winced slightly.

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori noticed the wince and bit her lip in worry. "Is there anything I can do for you? I don't mean to sound like a nag or anything, but you're obviously not okay."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I don't know." he admitted. He pulled up his pant leg to inspect the damage. Well, there didn't seem to be any bleeding. "Kicked a little too hard with this one." he explained.

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori didn't like that answer and moved over to where Billy was. "Do you need to go to the clinic or anything like that?" He was in pain, it didn't look like anything was wrong, but Tori wasn't a medical expert by any means.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I doubt it." he assured her. He started undoing some straps so he could get a better look. the skin around the end of his stump was starting to look a little red.

"I think what happened is, I jarred the prosthetic against my thigh."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori nodded, glad to hear that. "That must be painful." She admitted. "Do you want some ice?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy undid the last strap (taking the prosthetic off with pants on was easy. Putting it back on was the hard part) and examined the stump. The skin was calloused in the places where the tiny electrodes poked it, and it looked like he might get a very nice bruise starting where the bone had jammed the flesh. But he doubted it was anything serious.

"Couldn't hurt." he said finally.

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori nodded with a small smile and handwavily found an ice cooler, coming back with a bag of ice.

"Here you go." She handed it over to Billy.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." He held the ice to his stump and looked at the broken practice dummy. "You dont' suppose I'm gonna get in trouble for that do you?"

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"You're welcome." Tori nodded. She frowned and shrugged. "I'm not sure, honestly."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy sighed. He really needed to get a reign on his temper if things like this were going to happen. "Note to self, be a lot more carefull with artificial limb."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that's a good plan." Tori smiled warmly.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I normally try not to kick with that one." he said. He opted to borrow one of the bo staffs to use as a crutch rather than put the leg back on just yet.

"This just gives me another reason."

and now to bed

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori nodded. "I guess so." She smiled, hoping to lighten the situation a bit.

zomg, yes! bed!

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy rose to his foot, and slung his leg over his shoulder. "Well, thanks for your help."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Anytime." Tori smiled at Billy. "If you need anything, just let me know." She offered.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"I will, thanks...Uh, could you get the door for me? My hands are kind of full."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Sure." Tori nodded and opened the door, holding it so Billy could get through.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy hopped through and waved his prosthetic at her. "Have a good workout."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." Tori smiled and after seeing that he was okay, on his own, she went for a few rounds on the punching bag.