The Gym - Saturday Afternoon

[lil-nikita.livejournal.com]

Alex was at the gym just as she was almost every day. She'd been thinking about what was discussed in the Coping With Change class yesterday. Punching the bag had become a coping ritual for her, something she constantly relied on now. Today was no different. With every punch, she thought about all the things she'd been through, and how she emerged a stronger person. At least that's what Nikita tells her often.

It was just like one of her favorite symbols: the butterfly. She made a transformation of sorts. The punching bag, in a way, helped her get here.

Maybe that had something to do with it suddenly changing color. The bag changed to a light shade of yellow...like some butterflies.

What the hell? This was taking a metaphor a little too literally.

Alex was baffled at how she made it change, but she also thought it was the coolest thing ever!

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[notvenom.livejournal.com]

And a second later Anya zipped right next to her.

"Hey Alex," she said. "Apparently I can run insanely fast now. Crazy, huh?"

[lil-nikita.livejournal.com]

Alex blinked as she watched Anya zoom by. "Is there some weird thing happening this weekend?"

[notvenom.livejournal.com]

Anya quickly ran around Alex once, because she suddenly had five years. "If you ask me, people are getting their powers swapped. I don't have powers though, so I guess I lucked out." She then looked at the bag. "You did that?"

[lil-nikita.livejournal.com]

"I don't usually have powers either," Alex admitted, glancing at the bag. "This is new."

It wasn't teleporting, but making things change color was pretty cool.

[notvenom.livejournal.com]

"So you change the color of things. How?"

Inquiring minds and all.