The gym- laaaaate Wednesday night, pre-fire drill

[solo_sword]

Though Jaina often felt like a slacker, she couldn't be further from it. A good portion of every day was spent working remotely from Fandom, going over reports, being conferenced into meetings and training sessions with her squadron, making sure she was as patched in as she possibly could be, and trying to convince some people that genocide was bad. Much like she'd spent most of her evening doing. Usually she had the benefit of regular relief from the stress that came with that, and it wasn't even that she couldn't go without it. It was just that without it, the cranky side of her came out more, and add in the fact that John had been kind of an idiot and she wasn't happy with him, and all that put together meant she'd turned into a tense little ball of bitchy.

Anyway! So Jaina was in the gym at an hour that most people should be asleep, beating the hell out of a punching bag.


[Expecting one, but open for anyone who might be awake and needing to work off some stress way late. This week, I wouldn't bet against it.]

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[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

It wasn't as if John was sleeping well this week (or had a bed to sleep on for that matter) and he knew Jaina wasn't going to be happy with him (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/2031555.html?thread=129455555#t129455555), so when he didn't find her in her room late at night, he started with the most likely other options.

"That bag really pissed you off, huh?"

[solo_sword]

She pushed a strand of hair irritatedly out of her face. "The bed's an innocent bystander," she replied. And then belted said innocent bystander really hard.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Maybe I should give the bag a break," he offered, moving closer.

[solo_sword]

She didn't realize what she'd said at all. "Yeah, because that's a great idea."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Come on, I know you're not happy, let's have it out." John stretched his arms and bounced on his bare feet. "Trust me."

[solo_sword]

"Haven't you had enough fighting for one day?" Jaina asked, finally leaving the bed bag alone to turn and face him.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Guess not," he said, giving her the universal sign for bring it. Mostly because he was an idiot.

[solo_sword]

"I'm not going to fight you," she crabbed, folding her arms over her chest. Not that she didn't want to. She just didn't want to give him what he wanted.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Fine," John dropped his hands to his sides. "Looking to enjoy your workout alone?"

[solo_sword]

"I didn't actually realize other people were an option down here at this time," she pointed out, suddenly disappointed he'd dropped the fight. Hey, she could have gotten some aggression out.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I'm always an option, Jaina," he pointed out. "Come on, I promise I'll go easy on you."

[solo_sword]

"I don't know about that, I know where you don't need to get hit anymore," she said. And she might've been really pissed about that part, yes.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I'm good there," he assured her. "Unless you wanted to do an inspection." Oh John, no.

[solo_sword]

"You're not going to get an inspection," Jaina frowned. Again, the not wanting to give him what he wanted till he took it back.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Jaina." John thought just getting it over with would be good, but maybe... "Do you want me to go? Tell me what I can do here."

[solo_sword]

"I don't know," she said, still irritably. "Maybe not get into fights my grandfather has to break up?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I forgot he was there!" John told her. "Besides, I could've taken him. Eventually. It's what Gavin and I do!"

[solo_sword]

"And now you're trying to pick fights with me, huh?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"No, I just think we could both use an outlet. I know I could and I'm pretty sure there's no way I could hurt you physically here," he told her. "You saw Gavin take me down."

[solo_sword]

"Yeah, I kind of noticed that."

And she totally cheated, just shoving at his shoulder with the Force to remind him she had that up on him, arms still crossed.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

He stepped back with the shove, not prepared for that. "Yes, I remember you can win without moving. Still, standing here."

[solo_sword]

"I can do better than that," she said, shoving the other shoulder harder as she stepped forward.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

This time he was standing more prepared and took the hit with a smaller step back. "And better than that, even."

[solo_sword]

She wasn't standing that far from him when she tried a harder push to the center of his chest this time, waiting for him to strike back.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

That knocked him to one knee and as he came back to his feet, he took a quick swipe at her midsection.

[solo_sword]

She actually smirked, arching out of his way and trying to hook her leg around his knee to bring him down again.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

He went down fast, reaching up to grab any part of her he could to try and bring her down with him.

[solo_sword]

She really should have been expecting that, but she came down on top of him, placing her hands on the mat to try and get back up.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

He tried to wrap an arm around her in an attempt to roll and block her from getting up. A guy could try.

[solo_sword]

Okay, truth be told she wasn't fighting as hard as she probably should have been, which was why she let herself be rolled. Though there was a halfhearted push at his shoulders, thanks to being really distracted by their new positioning.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

He grinned down at her, knowing she wouldn't be in that position if she didn't want to be, and then he tried to kiss her. Which was either a big mistake...or not.

[solo_sword]

It was a mistake. And not. Either way, she ended up kissing him back after an initial second of defiance there, because it had been a really long week and working out aggression was working out aggression, right?

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

As soon as she kissed him back, he knew he'd gone the right direction and kept kissing her, letting some of his aggression out that way.

[solo_sword]

Almost immediately she was deepening the kiss and wrapping her arms around him, and all right, maybe she'd needed that stress relief more than she'd realized.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

He pressed against her (proving everything was just fine, thanks), and managed to get one hand clutching roughly at her side, the other planted into the mat beside her.

[solo_sword]

Her hands were already sliding under his shirt to start working it up, completely forgetting things like where they were and that there were cameras here and that anyone could pretty much walk in at any time, because there came a point during times like this where your hormones just took over or your brain would crack right in two.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

She wanted his shirt off? He broke away to rip it the hell off, his mouth clamping down on her neck as soon as his head cleared the collar.

[solo_sword]

At least she couldn't say he wasn't into this, and she was more than happy to turn her head to give him room and let her hands wander over his skin-

Right until the alarm went off.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

And that would be his fist hitting the mat as he rolled off of her. "Right now the alarm goes off? Now?!"

[solo_sword]

"You've gotta be kriffing kidding me," Jaina groaned, covering her face with her hands. She sat up, shoving that piece of hair out of her face again. "We're having a bad week."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John let out a string of curses on someone's mother as he grabbed his shirt and got to his feet.

He offered Jaina a hand, "Come on, we'd better go freeze our asses off."

[solo_sword]

She took his hand to get to her feet. "Sounds like fun."

She hated everything.