Gym - Sunday Morning - 6/1

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Liir was at the gym, as it was Sunday morning, getting in a little more practice before Ino got there. Worf had certainly made an impression, and so his focus was mostly on very firmly teaching his body that it had to learn things as well as his mind.

It was going surprisingly well.

If that had to do with his lack of hesitation taught to him by his experience in Oz or his specific focus for the day, who could tell?

[open for your Liirish or gymish needs; I'll be in and out today since there's laundry and furniture moving happening in my apartment today so SP warning!]

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Ino was, for her, slightly late. She wandered in, looking tired, and just watched him as she tried to more firmly wake up.

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His hesitation was gone.

It wasn't so easy to see now, as he worked alone, but he felt it. Getting up out of that chair, talking to Trism, being kissed...

He had a feeling that the old Liir would have gone to Andrew, feeling horrible. Or perhaps he would have gone crying over the whole ordeal, shaking at what he'd done.

And it was their first session since then.

He hoped it showed.

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Ino leaned, silently, against the wall and crossed her arms as she watched. He was getting better, she mused, wondering suddenly how long she'd be able to keep teaching him.

Until he surpassed her, she supposed. Wasn't that the way of things, really?

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He'd laugh if she told him that. He didn't even know how to hit someone, despite attempting to learn from two or three different sources.

"Were you not feeling well?" he asked her after returning to one of the first positions.

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She blinked at him, confused a little. "Not feeling well?" Ino asked.

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"You were a little late," he said with a brief smile.

"And you were just watching. Or did you not want to interrupt?"

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Ino shrugged a little. "No worse than usual lately," she said honestly. "And watching is a good way to get an idea of your progress."

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"Not too terrible, I should hope," he said as he trotted over to her.

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"You're doing fine," she said, offering him a smile. "Seriously."

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"Good. I'd hate to disappoint you."

He grinned her way.

"What're we doing today, hmm?"

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"I'd be more worried about me disappointing you at this point," she said lightly. "With the way my head's been all over the place lately."

"You were practising harder than normal," she noted, "did you want to keep with that?"

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"I figured you'd work me harder than normal," he covered with a shrug. "It's been almost three weeks since the last time."

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"I hadn't realized it had been so long," she said, knowing that it was true. "We can at that."

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He rolled one shoulder, then the other.

"What're we doing today?"

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"Something harder," she supposed, with a shrug. Her heart wasn't in it, hadn't been in much lately, and she hated the fact that she'd just be a disappointment to him.

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He noticed the shrug as a sign of

"Ino? Is there something the matter? Is this about, um..."

Well, there wasn't any kind of way to get out of this that wasn't awkward.

"What's the matter?" he finally asked.

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"Is this about what?" she asked, deftly avoiding answer his question.

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"Answer mine and I'll answer yours," he said, thinking on the fly.

Thinking on the fly? ...what?

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"Everything is the matter, and so is nothing," she retorted. "Now answer my question."

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"If I didn't think it would make things worse, I'd call foul on that answer," he pointed out before finally sitting down.

"Andrew and I broke up," he said after a moment. "I thought perhaps you'd heard, though I haven't exactly been broadcasting as such."

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Why should he think that she'd have heard that?

Ino brushed away his comment about him thinking her answer wasn't right. Who cared? It was the answer and if it didn't make sense then it was and wasn't only her problem. Whatever.

Her mind caught up to what he'd said, brain freezing, latching on to the idea, turning it over in her head and letting her get well and truly furious about something that had nothing to do with her. Excellent.

"He's dead." Flatly. And she wondered idly how best to go about it. She hadn't ever killed someone before though all her training was dedicated to that point and she knew that if she did something like this that Cable-san would disapprove but what did it matter anyway... what really mattered? She didn't know, but the fact that Andrew had done what she'd told him not to and gone and hurt her brother was...

Something she could get entirely furious and not feel the least bit confused about her emotions for.

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"I was the one who ended it," he continued, unalarmed at her answer. He'd known she'd react as such.

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She ignored him. That answer didn't matter. Of course he'd say that, of course he'd know that she'd be upset and try to sooth her and she didn't want to be soothed.

So she stretched, and turned, and started making her slow and steady way to the door without another word. Let him talk to the air until he was blue in the face. Andrew. Had hurt. Her brother.

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"Ino. You can't hurt him."

And he was very firm on this point.

"It was my choice. And I don't want him hurt. I still care about him."

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"And who are you to tell me what I can and can't do?" Ino asked, pausing but not turning around. Her voice hard-edged and livid.

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"If my wishes aren't important to you on the issue, Ino, then I'm no one," he said flatly. "If this is about you, do as you like. But if this is at all for me, then you won't harm him.

"Say what you like to him. He certainly doesn't seem to care what I have to say about things, so perhaps you could find out why he's decided I don't matter anymore.

"But hurting him will just hurt me."

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She hated him for that. Really, truly, hated him for that. For making it all about either she cared enough about him to not hurt Andrew or she didn't care about him at all.

Ino hated that.

"Fuck you," she said finally, then stalked out of the gym before he could say anything else.

Andrew was safe from her killing him then. But that didn't mean she had to admit it out-loud.

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"Thank you," he said quietly, hoping she heard. She probably didn't but...

Well, he did ruin everything.

After a deep breath, Liir stood back up and grabbed his things. Then he left to move his things back to his room.