Atlas Gym | Thursday

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Finding there was little actual work to be done after 9am, Dimitri sent Jessi off to clean mats and took over her spot at the front desk. Standing awkwardly in front of the computer screen, he hunted and pecked at the keyboard to track down the information on local apartments that he would need if moving was actually going to happen before the end of the month.

Absorbed in his task, the over-sized manager was as botherable as ever, yet still not likely to be successfully startled.

[OCD was out late with the band!]

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Rose came in the side door today because part of being observant was varying your patterns. Or - well, something like that.

She might even have tried to come in quietly to see what her giant mentor was doing.

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Quiet was a good thing, but as soon as she was anywhere near him, Dimitri was certain to detect a familiar spicy scent on the air. Lucky for Rose, he was in the middle of a search and didn't look up or give notice to her arrival as she was harmless.

Well, mostly.

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By the time she got a few steps away from him, it was pretty obvious that he had to know she was there.

So, you know, time for a different tact.

Rose closed the distance between them, slipping her arm around his waist as she looked around him to see the screen. "Hey, that's not in Russian."

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It seemed to Dimitri that Rose was out to prove herself very harmful. "No, it's not," he confirmed, removing her arm from his person with a slight frown at her lack of self control. "But I'm glad you can recognize the difference." What with the different alphabets.

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It had seemed funny at the time, but his reaction sobered her a little, and Rose moved slightly away from him, crossing her arms over her chest.

"Anytime," she said. "Can I ask what youre doing or should I go get warmed up?"

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"You can ask," he said, minimizing the windows to get back to them after training was over. Dimitri turned to her, face schooled to its normal, impassive state.

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So not asking now, no. Rose gave him her normal smirk. "So? What to?"

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Of course she wasn't asking; that was the point of telling her she could.

"Let's get stretched out," Dimitri said, leading the way to the mats. "I have the dummies ready for you."

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If he was going to answer, he already would have.

"And stakes?" she asked hopefully, following him out of the office.

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"You brought a stake?" Dimitri asked, feigning surprise in his tone as he turned and looked at her, knowing full well she had not.

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"Yes, Dimitri," Rose deadpanned. "I brought my imaginary stake."

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Training was actually helping, Jaina found, and there was probably no better distraction than probably getting your ass handed to you. "I'm not interrupting any actual work, am I?" she wondere when she showed.

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"Not at all," he assured her, providing his full attention and a slight smile. "I was just thinking of taking a break."

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"Very nice, Rose," he replied. It seemed Dimitri was maintaining his serious business take on their training through the whole week. "Now, while you stretch, tell me what you know about taking on multiple opponents."

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She glanced over him as she started to stretch on the mats and was unable to hold back the snark. "More people to hit."

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"Yes, and more people to hit back while you're occupied," he added in, ignoring her snark.

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"No shit," Rose bitched. "I understand how it works."

She rolled her eyes and began listing off everything she'd learned over the past 12 years of fight training.

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Rose brought a certain amount of color to an otherwise dull day at work, so Dimitri never complained much. Especially when her background knowledge was more than adequate.

It didn't stop him from starting to talk more in depth about a specific defense strategy he had wanted to work on for the day. "But if you understand how everything works, we can all go home."

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"I understand how it works," Rose said. "I'm wondering how we're practicing it with just the two of us though."

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"You would prefer I bring in a mob to attack you?" Don't think he wouldn't find a way to arrange it.

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"I think it'd be more useful if you changed yourself into one," Rose said, eyes wide.

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"You think you could fight off more than one of me?" The amusement in this question was clear.

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"See, if you divided yourself up, you'd be shorter," she replied, totally keeping a straight face. "So yeah, I could."

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"I think I'd prefer straightforward doubling," he replied. "Which would significantly lower your chances for success."

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"True," Rose agreed. "But that makes it less fun for me so I'm against it."

Unless it was dirty.