Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Afternoon

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Now that Zack was officially done with classes for the summer, it was time for a little getting out and about and being social. It was also, Zack decided, the perfect time to get the gerbil that Deadpool had given him out for some exercise.

And that was why, armed with a hamster ball and a bunch of notebooks, Zack was hard at work constructing the most epic gerbil floor-maze the second floor common room had ever seen!

Poor, poor Mr. Winkles.

[Open, as common rooms tend to be!]

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"It doesn't surprise me that Deadpool would give you a difficult gerbil," Riggins told him. "It's probably been trained to kill me in my sleep once you leave us alone in the room."

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"You and Deadpool really don't get along, huh?" Zack set the gerbil back down and gave the ball a nudge. Awesome maze! Go to it!

It didn't work.

"Don't worry. I'll keep the rodent in line. You won't have to worry about death by Mr. Winkles on my watch!"

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"I'll sleep soundly now," Riggins said, chuckling again. He was pretty sure he could take a gerbil, even one that had been trained to kill him. "I was completely cool with Deadpool until he started calling me Gambit and accusing me of having STDs that don't exist. Now I think he's a tool."

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"He kind of walks on the shaky side of sanity," Zack admitted, smiling faintly and shrugging. "But he's still not a bad guy, even if he doesn't make sense sometimes. He's kinda training me with a sword!"

Zack said 'kinda' in a way that suggested there was more bleeding involved than actual learning.

And that he was totally fine with that.

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"Is there a lot of need for knowing how to sword fight where you're from?" Riggins asked.

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"There is if you want to leave the house and come back home in one piece," Zack agreed. "I mean, not just a sword. It helps to know how to fight. It's pretty dangerous out there, almost anywhere you go. Not so much where you're from, huh?"

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Riggins shrugged. "Mostly have to watch out for the violent drunks. To be honest, I'm the scariest thing you're gonna see in Dillon. So take that as you will."

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"Are you a fighter?" Zack's curiosity was getting the better of him, yes. "You're into sports at least, right?"

[badassfullback.livejournal.com]

"I only fight when I have to." Or when he was bored. "But I do play football, yeah. That gets kind of violent since tackling's a big part of it. You ever see a game?"

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Zack gave his head a shake.

"Not in person, no. Just on the television." And even then, he was usually too squirmy to pay full attention. "The tackling looks like the fun part, really."

Because Zack was a violent kind of guy sometimes, too. For a wiggly puppy.

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"It's a good way to let off some steam," Riggins agreed. "Getting tackled ain't exactly fun but that's what you get for not running fast enough."

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"I think I could probably handle getting tackled, too," Zack mused, giving the ball another poke to get the gerbil moving about again. "I dont' suppose there's any chance you could teach me how the game is played?"

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"Sure, dude. Once the season starts up it'll be easy to show you how it works," Riggins said with a nod. "It seems confusing at first but it really isn't that hard."

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"I appreciate that," Zack decided. "It'll be nice to have some kind of sports going on around here that aren't just... You know. Cheerleading."

Even if it was just two guys with a football, tackling one another!

[badassfullback.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, that's annoying," Riggins agreed. "What's the point of cheerleading if they don't have anything to cheer for?"

[puppy_fair]

"Maybe they cheer for..." Hm. This was a hard one to figure out, actually. "The fighters when something invades? Though I really don't remember miniskirts and pompoms when the sewer gators were running around, either."