The gym, Tuesday night

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Aeryn would love spring break if she had something to distract her from personal stuff. As it is, she doesn't, so she heads down to the gym to work some of it off.

She drops her water bottle off on the mat, and pulls the gloves on before she starts hitting the punching bag. On one hand, the big thing that she's been dealing with for four months is more or less over with, and all that's left now is adjusting to it. It's nothing she won't get over, it just takes some time to get used to the way things are now.

And on the other hand, there's still another mess she's still dealing with with John, so she figures it's better to work off some of the frustrated, confused stuff so she can focus on things like that. By wailing on a defenseless punching bag.

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Rory has her own frustrations to work out, and so she wanders down to the gym with her gloves on Tuesday night.

She stops when she sees who's there, and just kind of watches for a bit.

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Aeryn is giving the bag a pounding, but it's getting less angry and just more focused. She finally stops, bending to get the water bottle, and stops when she sees Rory. "Hey," she greets her.

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"Hi," Rory says with a wee little wave that doesn't even really count as a wave. "Did the bag insult you?"

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"It was there, that's enough," she says, taking a drink. She nods at Rory's gloves and says, "I see we had the same idea."

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"Do we have the same reason?" she asks.

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"Probably," Aeryn nods. "So how are you doing?"

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Rory holds her hand flat and tips it back and forth. "Mostly confused. You?"

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"Not confused as much as.... thrown," she says, and admitting that is kind of big for her. "I can't say I was expecting it."

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"At all," she agrees. "I mean, part of me was expecting the...you know, the turnaround. But not...." She flails a hand.

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Bored out his mind Jamie headed down to the gym just to do something than hide in his room and avoid people he gave detention to. "Hey Sun!"

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Aeryn finishes off her punch and turns to see him. With a little smile, she asks, "You're not expecting me to call you Principal Madrox, are you?"

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"Don't let Principal Zoe catch you saying that," Jamie said with a slight twitch. "You'll be in dention so fast you... okay you'll just get in detention very fast."

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"I'll remember that," she says. "I'm surprised you're not living in detention, actually."

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"I've been avoiding Zoe or any school type official," Jamie replied glumly. "As soon as they catch me I'm sure I'll be on permanent beautification detail."

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"I'm sure you expected that when you staged a coup of the school, though," she points out. At least she hopes he didn't think he was going to get away with that.

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"What are you talking about? If someone hadn't tried to poison me I'd still be in charge!"

Yes. Jamie did think he was going to get away with that.

And now he's sulking.

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"You do realize you gave away detentions for pretty much any reason, right? Trust me, you would have been removed from office eventually." Like on Satuday after detention.

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Alanna glanced over at Aeryn and the punching bag and began to stretch out. "We need more than one punching bag here."

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Aeryn steps back from a punch and says, "It would be a good investment." She glances over at Alanna. "I'll be done soon."

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"No rush, I still need to stretch." Alanna said and began to do so. "So what's new with you?"

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"I babysat children, trained some... The usual." With another almost weak kick, she asks carefully, "Have you been listening to the radio the last few days?"

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Alanna blinked. "Um...no, actually." She frowned. "Faithful messed up my radio again and I keep forgeting to download the podcasts." "Imagine how that happened." Faithful said with a Look in Aeryn's direction.

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Aeryn catches the look, and while she's not sure why, she's not going to ignore it. "I'm sure I couldn't even imagine," she says. "How have you been?"

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Alanna felt like she missed something. "Oookay. Um...insane. Aly turned wee and called Jack and Charlie 'Daddy' and I considered joining a convent. There was drinking."

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"I bet. I saw her a few times when she was small. She was... very smart," Aeryn says. "Also, a hugger."