Thurs. Morning - 1/4 - The Park

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Clad in her all black jogging suit, Annette set out for the park, knowing that an early morning run would clear her head (and another bad dream, this one about Alec with sharp claws and teeth, chasing her, growling something or other about her virtue. It was hard to tell what he was saying exactly because his tongue kept getting in the way of his long sharp teeth. But she thought the whole virtue thing stemmed from Bel, and what he said about Alec) and wake her up good enough to face whatever she might encounter for the day.

Besides, she needed to work off all those pancakes she and Pippi made yesterday morning. She could get addicted to those things. How easy was it to pour water in a bottle, shake, and pour? Her mouth watered; she had to forget about pancakes.

As she ran, she considered the vampire's Pip had mentioned. Since it was turning light outside, she didn't think she would run into any. Now, a vampire hunter might be kind of cool to meet. Just like an ex-demon. Who knew?

Annette turned up the volume on her ipod, she loved! this song by Rob Thomas, and began singing while she ran. It was a little loud, her singing, and it wasn't exactly in key. But who cares? She certainly couldn't hear herself.

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[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori had decided to get up and explore the park. She wanted to map out a spot that she could use to train. A nice grassy spot would do.

It was somewhat early, so she hadn't expected many people to be out and about. It was a bit chilly, but not terribly cold, so Tori was content in her workout suit (http://www.belikoff.com/images/clothing/track.jpg).

Seeing one other girl out and about, Tori smiled to herself as she heard her singing. It seemed as though she was enjoying herself and Tori admired that.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette continued to jog along, decidedly content in her own little world of ipod hit tunes and out of key singing, when she spotted another early riser just up ahead.

Slowing down, she thought to say 'hey', and pulled the ear pieces from her ears and let them dangle over her shoulders. She jogged in place, smiling while her breath evaporated in quick, short clouds of hazy fog around her.

"Good morning!"

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Morning." Tori answered cheerfully. "Hope I didn't startle you." She had been walking about, still attempting to find her spot.

So far, she hadn't come up with anything, but then again, she could manage to train anywhere in the park.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Nope, not at all. I'm Annette Hargrove and new as new can be." She grinned, keeping her hands moving.

Noticing the other girl's attire, Annette asked, "You work out in the morning's too? I used to run every morning; going to try and get back in the habit."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori smiled, relieved. "Good. I'm Tori, new as well."

She nodded, "I'm trying to get back into waking up and training, yeah. Hopefully, it'll come as a second nature soon."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Ah, are you experiencing the whole World of Make Believe too?" Annette gave her a lopsided grin. "I pinch myself every night before I go to bed."

"Do you train specifically for something?"

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"I am." Tori laughed, nodding. "I know the feeling."

She nodded. "I practice martial arts." It was an honest answer, she just didn't mention that it was specifically the ways of the ninja.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"I'm hoping to meet one of those vampire hunters soon. You know, just to add it to my ever growing list of things I never knew existed." She laughed and shrugged her shoulders.

"Oh! That's great. I met a ninja yesterday. His name was Kabuto." Annette nodded, brows raised. "He uh, did a little demo for me."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"A vampire hunter, wow." Tori had yet to meet one of those. She smiled, amused. "Yeah, that's what happens around here apparently. You meet people that you thought could only exist in comic books and the like."

She grinned sheepishly. "Thanks. A ninja? Neat." Tori nodded. A fellow ninja, Kabuto; she'd have to meet him.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy was still feeling rather out of sorts, so he decided perhaps a day of exercise might help.

If you meditated while hanging upside down from a tree it counted as exercise.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

After her nice meeting with Tori, Annette continued on her way, singing and looking at the winter trees and--

She stopped, stared, tilted her head, and walked over to Billy who was hanging upside down from a tree branch?

Pulling her ear pieces from her ears, she said, "Billy, what the heck are you doing?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy opened his eye. "Oh hi." he he said. "Hang on a minute." He reached up, grabbed the branch and swung down to the ground. "Good morning."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Good morning." She said, shaking her head. "Do you usually start it by hanging upside down from a tree?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Not usually no. Normally I'll start it running, or having breakfast in one of the common rooms. Today I felt like meditating. Upside down. Also not usually the way I do it."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette arched a perfectly shaped brow and shoved her hands into her jacket pockets. "I interrupted your meditating then, didn't I?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"Ah that's okay. The nice thing about meditating? You can do it anywhere. Mostly anytime. I wouldn't reccomend it when operating heavy machinary though."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"No, I iguess not." She grinned. "Want to walk with me a bit then?" Annette has never meditated a day in her life.

[rose-bad-wolf.livejournal.com]

Running was one of the crucial skills in her job, so right after speaking with Aziraphale, Rose donned her running shoes and headed for the park.

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

This must be Annette's lucky day; she was running, not literally, into all sorts of people.

She slowed when she neared the other girl, and gave a little wave. "Hey!"

[rose-bad-wolf.livejournal.com]

Rose slowed down and smiled at the girl, "Hello!"

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Nothing like a morning run, is there? I'm Annette by the way. New student."

[rose-bad-wolf.livejournal.com]

"Nothing like it, hopping doesn't hurt too." Agreed Rose, "I'm Rose. New teacher."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

"Nice to meet you Rose, er, Miss Rose? And what are you teaching?"

[rose-bad-wolf.livejournal.com]

"Rose will do." She said, stretching her arms, "And I'll be teaching popular culture."

[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Annette smiled. "Looking forward to it?"