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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.]
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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He gave Flick a nod as he made his way over to a free punching bag. "Hey."
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Okay, maybe he could slow down for a moment, catch his breath and give his hands a break since Alec had given him a decent enough excuse.
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Combining conversation and exercise was going to be weird. Welcome to the social world, Alec.
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At least Flick wasn't the world's most social person? He wouldn't involve you in any flowery conversations, Alec, don't worry. "Just love this place and their tiny gyms and lack of anything to do."
But, he could bitch a little since his mood was always somewhere in between angry and cynical.
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"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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Flick wiped his forehead with his upper arm and threw a few more punches, quicker but with less force than before.
"Shopping. Yeah, that's fun," he said, rolling his eyes and shaking his head. "Because I want to spend hours on end looking around for new shoes or clothes. That's so much fun."
It wasn't.
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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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It'd been a great place to fence items.
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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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"I've met one or two people from New York," Flick said, walking around the heavy bag mostly just to give himself a brief break. He pushed it away from him and then slammed his hand into it when it came swinging back. "I'm from all over. Lower East Side is where I tend to spend most of my time, though."
It wasn't very luxurious but it worked for him.
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"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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"I probably know it," he added after a moment of the two of them just beating the crap out of the respective heavy bags. "I tend to stick to Chinatown if I want good food. If you ever head back, there's a place on Doyers Street. Cheap but great food."
The cheap part was a big draw for him. "Haven't checked out Baltimore, though. I'm gonna say they're just a wannabe New York."
Flick didn't like a lot of things but he liked New York.
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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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Said like it was an insult or something. He wasn't sorry, Baltimore.
"I don't know what you'd get from Baltimore besides a virus."
Still not sorry, Baltimore.
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...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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And he didn't want to do that. "I lived in Connecticut once," Flick shared without really thinking about it. It wasn't some huge reveal so he could let it go. "The rodents there were...snotty. Of course, if there were ever rodents in our house, the exterminator was immediately called and someone got fired."
And Jude probably tried to make friends with them but that was staying withheld. "Dignified isn't always good. Sometimes, that just means rich snobs."
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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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"Gremlin," Flick repeated, making a face. "Never had the honor of seeing one of those. Never want the honor. I've heard stories and this island on its own does enough weird crap that I don't need the animals contributing."
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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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He gestured towards the heavy bag. "Trained?"
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He nodded at Flick's own heavy bag. "You?"
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Not that he'd tried to cuddle with them, of course.
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He could relate. Though he privately doubted that the mundane military trained that hard.
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Flick shrugged. "I've adapted to stranger situations. What about you? You're obviously trained too and you're here. We're both just sitting on our asses, basically."
Since beating a heavy bag in a gym wasn't that fulfilling.
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There seemed to be a lot of weird things to deal with before there was an invasion.
"The fun never stops."