The Roof, Friday late afternoon/early evening

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

After her tutoring session with Professor Atreides, Dinah had gone back to her room to seriously think about things. She was fine for about an hour, and then restlessness had her looking for something to do.

It had been forever since she'd had a chance to practice with boomerangs, and Barbara had let her have one of the simple Bat-a-rangs, without the heat-seeking, tracking functions, or blades, when she left New Gotham. Taking a handful of other boomerangs along, she headed to the roof to practice.

whup whup whup whuppa whup!

[ooc: expecting someone, but open for anyone who wants to throw a boomerang off the roof, or your other brooding/smoking/gardening needs.]

Comments

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Going looking for Dinah now, Merlin had spent himself looking in the dorms proper and finally gone up to the roof and...

"Dinah!"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Whuppa whuppa whupp whap! The boomerang landed in Dinah's hand, and she turned, eyes widening. "Merlin? Hi!" She started to bounce over to him, then stopped. "Um. Are you, can we, is everything...?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin waved a touch awkwardly. "Hullo. I think talking is fine, really."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yaaaaaaay," Dinah said, bouncing on her toes and beaming at him in relief. "Awesome! Hi!" She took a breath, then hopefully said, "Are hugs out of the question?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Hi," Merlin replied, greeting her again. "Err-- I suppose not."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

And Dinah pounced, arms going around him. "I'm glad. So glad." She backed off enough to look at his face, eyebrows up hopefully. "So. Um. Any other news?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin might have squeezed her back, just a bit harder than necessary. "About Arthur?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Not that I'm not really grateful that I don't have to try to avoid you," Dinah said hastily, almost afraid to push her luck. "I just wonder."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"He's--" Merlin really didn't know. "--trying."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Dinah said, more subdued. "Okay." Not yet, then. If at all. Okay, think of it as not yet. The other was too upsetting just now. She reached out to take Merlin's hand. "Right. So. What've you been up to since Sunday?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Other than the bit with--Arthur?" Merlin followed after her dutifully. "Nothing, really."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah grinned at him, and handed him one of the plywood boomerangs. Still a little giddy with relief. "I've been throwing punches. Now I'm throwing boomerangs. It helps when there's things I can't talk about." She held up one of the neon foam ones, and sent it spinning out into the dark, thwicka thwicka thwicka thwack! and it landed back on the roof, several yards away.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Boomerangs?" Merlin repeated slowly, taking the offered... thingy.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Not magic. Not even hi-tech. Tribesmen in Australia hunt with them in the deserts." Dinah gave him a crooked smile. "The curve brings them back to where they started."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Assuming Australia was something like the isles to the north, Merlin nodded slowly. "It would be a bit crap if that was the only magic they were. Returning when thrown..."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yeah." Dinah grinned, picked up and then threw the plywood one, listening to it whistling out in the darkness, then coming back, closer than the other, to skid across the roof. "They can bring down small game too. But that's it." She gave him a small smirk. "Anyway. We don't need them to be magic to be fun, do we?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"You're the one who mentioned it first," Merlin replied, flinging the boomerang rather poorly out and waited for it to return.

And waaaaaited.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"It's on my mind," Dinah admitted. Then snickered at his expression as the boomerang didn't re-materialize, and handed him another one. "Hold it more--" She picked one up so she could show him how to do it. "Level. Yeah, that's it." She flung hers, and said, "We should go somewhere. Off-island. So you can see more than just Fandom."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Taking a breath, he tried it that way and... He'd replace the ones he lost. He would have to.

"I saw those islands on the cruise."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah giggled, glad she'd nearly bought out Turtle & Canary's boomerang supply. "This is Nerf." She squeezed it before handing it over. "Foam. Soft fabric. Also, fun to say. Nerf nerf nerf." She threw her own Nerf-a-rang, then used her TK to try and bring it back.

Well. It landed within a yard of her. "Those islands were really low-key. Not the big city. Baltimore's much more modern speed. We could go to a tavern, and dance again."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"I don't know how well I'll do in that sort of place," Merlin pointed out. "I'm shite at handling my drinks."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"We wouldn't have to drink. Probably better if we didn't, remember what I told you about drinking age?" She ducked down to grab another couple boomerangs, and kept her voice casual. "But only if you want to. You don't have to."

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Why wouldn't I want to?" Give him a moment or two.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. People might... find it objectionable, or say you have work to do." Dinah handed over another boomerang, and bit her lip. "It's one thing to hang out. It's another thing to be blatant about it, you know?"

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

"Oh." Merlin fiddled with one of the boomerangs for a moment. "We'll see, yeah?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Dinah said, her voice quiet. "We'll see." She smiled at him. "Ready?" She cocked her wrist back.

[bigdamndestiny.livejournal.com]

Merlin shook his head, trying not to laugh. "Not at all."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah snorted and snickered. "It's not like we can't find them on the lawn tomorrow!" She grinned. "Ready! Aim!"

Twist of the wrist, and throw!