Roof - Friday Late Afternoon

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose's ass was thoroughly kicked by her second training session in the afternoon.  So much so that she was pretty sure if she sat down on her bed, she'd end up asleep right up until tomorrow morning.  Which would be pathetic. 

The rain seemed to have stopped though so she wandered up to the roof and sat on the wall.  It was totally dorky, but she even had a book with her to study. Something about that new determination plus actually having talked Dimitri into fight training had made her realise there were other parts of being a guardian she hadn't been paying attention to.  So she was fixing it...even if this book was a little too focused on the threat of guns to the protectees. 

The longer she was up there, the less the book was actually getting read.

[Home from work early wheeee]

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"And I'm neither," he declared. "Not a nerd, not a food lackey. What am I, Rose?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"What d'you wanna be?" she asked.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Uh uh," he said and waved the cigarette at her. "I asked you first. None of this throwing questions back at me bullshit."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"What? I'm not allowed to steal your tricks?" Rose teased.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"That just makes you unoriginal," he said. "Shame."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose rolled her eyes. "No, it's mockery."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Unoriginal mockery," he claimed, smirking. "No material of your own, Rose?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"I have great material," Rose snapped back. "You ought to give me that much credit by now."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Oooh, defensive," he said, unmoved. "Why should I give you any credit when you're copying me?"

Living on the edge tonight.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"I wasn't copying you, Alex," Rose said. "That would be boring. I was making fun of you. Totally different things."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"And you never did answer my question," he noted. "What's that about?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Which question?" she asked. "The one about credit or the one about what you are?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"What I am," he said, shrugging. "The important one."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"You're Alex," Rose said with a shrug. "What, you want labels now?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Never mind, Rose," he said, shaking his head and letting it go. Stupid week had him all out of sorts. Now he was asking introspective questions. God.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

No ripping on her? She glanced over at him, raising an eyebrow NO SHE DIDN'T CAUSE SHE CAN'T WTF. "What up, Alex?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"What?" Alex asked, glancing over at her. "Nothing. What's up with you?"

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"I'm just waiting for your comeback," she said lightly.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I don't have one tonight," he said, shrugging nonchalantly. "Everyone has their off days, right? Consider this mine."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose shrugged. "Sure thing. And now I'm totally going to live in awe that you got in the copying your jokes crack on an off day," she teased. "Why's it off?"

Hey, when you threw in that last bit all nonchalantly, it totally could be ignored if it wasn't welcome. Really. Patented Rose Hathaway technique.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Because it is," he said, shrugging a shoulder. "Long week. I'm tired."

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

"Classes get too rough for you?" she asked.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"No," he said succinctly. "Classes are fine, Griff's fine, the room's fine, everything's fine."

Except him, kinda.

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose shrugged and let the silence hold for a moment.

Then snorted. "Okay, give me a cigarette. Then I can have something to play with when it gets quiet."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"If I give you a cigarette, you're going to smoke it," he said, "not play with it."