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Jonathan 'Flick' Brennan ([personal profile] flickofthewrist) wrote in [community profile] fandomhighdorms2013-10-08 10:52 am
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the gym ; tuesday afternoon

Haunting the gym seemed to have become a thing for Flick lately. He didn't consider that a bad thing because it meant he got exercise and got to spend some time beating the hell out of a heavy bag, which was always good for working out excess energy and any anger that he might be carrying around.

When he'd started coming down here, he'd gone with gloves to protect his hands but he'd stopped using those since it didn't feel right. He couldn't feel the vibrations of each blow shooting up his arm and settling in his shoulders and he couldn't feel the pleasurable pain that bloomed in each hand after he'd been going for awhile.

Flick was focused on the bag today, hitting it with blow after blow without any sort of pause or hesitation. The more he swung, the more he wished he would've done this to Gwendolyn or, better yet, Mandel. He was almost wishing he'd left with Gwendolyn on Sunday so he could go back home, face the other man and end the whole thing with his bare hands.

And that thought was kind of scary in a way. Flick figured if he did do that, he'd be fulfilling Mandel's prophecy and yet...he still wanted to do it.

[Open gym. Talk to Flick/use for your own gym-ly needs.]
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Alec wasn't used to running into people in the gym, primarily because his workouts usually occured at butt o'clock in the morning. But today he had slept in, which was why he was surprised to find someone already inside and pulverizing a punching bag.

He gave Flick a nod as he made his way over to a free punching bag. "Hey."
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pretty good," Alec said, rolling up his sleeves and giving the bag a test swing. Seemed heavy enough. "You?"

Combining conversation and exercise was going to be weird. Welcome to the social world, Alec.
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Whereas Alec's mood usually hovered somewhere around 'cantankerous,' which worked well for bitchy banter, believe it or not.

"That's what I keep saying," Alec grunted in between a series of quick warm-up punches, "but I'm told the social life here is really delightful if you're one for repetitive parties and shopping."

Guess who wasn't one for those things!
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Exactly," Alec said. "Not that I don't always get dragged along anyway--" which was what happened when you had a sister and a boyfriend who both loved to shop-- "and wind up carrying all the bags."

He threw a couple of hard, fast punches, then shook out his arms and took a step back. "Probably doesn't help that I'm from a city where there's actual stuff worth doing at least some of the time."
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm from New York too," Alec said. "Uptown, though but no more specific than that because I don't have the books in front of me. I haven't met a lot of New Yorkers here, surprisingly."

Or Alec just had coincidentally managed not to bump into most of the Marvel crowd.

"It's amazing how this place is safer sometimes, but still a huge step down."
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh, that neighborhood was full of vampires.

"There's a diner down there that I like," Alec offered, making an effort to be diplomatic for what was surely one of the first times in his life. He gave the punching bag another couple of kicks, then added, "I'm always tempted to see if Baltimore measures up at all, but I doubt it."
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Doyers," Alec repeated, nodding. "I'll try to check it out."

Or not. He didn't get a chance to get home very often. His loss, really.

"I got pizza in Baltimore once," he added. "It wasn't great."
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
And a pair of weird yellow socks from The Gap.

...Don't ask.

Alec gave the punching bag a couple of hard punches that sent it swinging a little harder and more forcefully than it might have swung if he'd been a mundane, then laughed, "Fair enough." Because Baltimore. "You know, my school-assigned little sibling and I were in a store there once where there was a giant rat attacking people. About the size of a medium-sized dog."

Or had that been D.C.? Well, same difference.

"There's something more... dignified about the rodents of New York," he concluded. "And less monstrous."
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
There was some dissonance going on with this guy talking about moving around all over the Lower East Side, and then telling that story, but he certainly wouldn't be the first person Alec had met in Fandom who'd had a colorful childhood, so he didn't comment on it.

He nodded, not really sure what to say to that. "In this case, we just fought it," he offered. "I think we were both just glad it wasn't a gremlin. There's a snotty animal for you."
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're right to think that," Alec said darkly.

He gave the punching bag an extra-hard series of punches, then took a step back, shook out his right arm, and wiped his other arm across his forehead.

"I'm Alec, by the way." Because sometimes people introduced themselves. That was a thing.
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Alec gave a short nod. "Yeah. It's a, uh, family thing."

He nodded at Flick's own heavy bag. "You?"
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Huh," Alec said, trying to reconcile that with everything else Flick had said. "Going from somewhere that disciplined to this place must be a serious adjustment."

He could relate. Though he privately doubted that the mundane military trained that hard.
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[personal profile] nottrivial 2013-10-08 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"This might be my strangest," Alec said frankly. He was kind of sheltered for a demon hunter, honestly. "I... spend a lot of time anticipating the next weird invasion."