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Atlas Gym - Tuesday

There was a point where Jessi really needed to shut her mouth before Rose punched her in the face and took care of it for her.

"And, then, oh em gee, I totally thought he was, like, gay cause he just kept totally ignoring me, and seriously, if a guy's going to ignore this? Has to be gay."

Yep, that was it.

"Shut up, Jessi," Rose snapped, working on that whole not breaking Jessi's arm thing. "I don't care, and I don't believe you anyway."

Jessi smirked, hopping up on the counter. "Aww, don't be upset. You just gotta admit you've got a little schoolgirl crush, but Dimitri needs a real woman. Like me."

Goddamn pink spandex. Rose took a step towards her. "Okay, if you don't want me to break you, you need get your ass out of here right now."

Apparently there was something about the tone of her voice or maybe Jessi just remembered the time she'd tried to spar with Rose using tae bo, and she jumped back off the counter. "Whatever, little girl," she said, tossing her hair. "I was going to go get a pedicure anyway. I'll come back later."

And then she was so going to get her ass kicked. Rose took a deep breath, finally giving into violence-as-a-solution as she turned to beat up a nice safe punching bag.

Some people would be so proud she held her temper.

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Who's in a bit of a temper possibly.

Jack came in for their spar and watched Rose whale at the punching bag for a few moments before speaking. "... right, are you just warming up or did the bag steal your lunch money?"

Rose whirled on him then realised who it actually was and relaxed just a tiny bit. Someone she didn't want to break. Good. "Warming up."

"Good," Jack said, though he still was uneasy. He'd never seen Rose before a match before; maybe she was always this on edge. "I'm dressed so ... I suppose I should stretch."

He was hesitating, though. "Is now a good time?"

She reached up to tug her hair out of the ponytail and shook it back over her shoulders as she took a breath. "Sorry," she said, making a face. "Just pissed. Nothing to do with you."

"What happened?" he asked, reaching for her arm almost instinctively. "Is it anything you want to talk about?"

Some part of this was stalling. He didn't want to fight her if she was mad enough to take it out on him.

That would be an interesting conversation, wouldn't it. Every once in a while, Rose thought Dimitri was as interested in her as she was in him, but then - yeah.

She shrugged, not pulling away from him but tense. "Just stupid shit. Fucking bitch who works here needs her ass beat."

"What did she do?" The thing was, Jack knew Rose, and she was usually only angry like this when something got her Guardian side riled up. If someone was being threatened -

It might not be his business, but as his friend, she cared.

Rose opened her mouth then shut it again. Admitting it sounded so, so stupid in her head.

"Boasted about getting with people she shouldn't touch," Rose said, glancing towards Dimitri's office for a moment.

Yep, that sounded stupid.

It did ... okay, it sounded stupid.

"I never thought you cared who slept with who," Jack said, and plopped himself down on the mat to do a few stretches. He had no idea why she was eying the office door like - oh.

"What, she 'got with'" -- some day he'd be able to say that without obvious quotation marks in his voice -- "your trainer?"

"I don't care," Rose lied instantly. She reached back to tie her hair up again. "You ready?"

Jack thought she was lying, but if she didn't want to talk about it, he wouldn't make her. He rose to his feet.

"Sure," he said, and put up his arms to guard his face. He could spar, but he couldn't hit a woman first.

Rose took a breath, reminding herself again that this was Jack and not someone she could take this out on.

She grinned at him then launched a high spin kick towards those hands by his face.

He ducked under the leg easily enough , rolling toward her other leg in an attempt to bring her down.

[OOC: Fleeing -- may be scarce tonight. Sorry.]

Well, okay then. She aimed a sharp heel-strike down at him before somersaulting over Jack, hitting the mat beyond him.

And what the heelstrike taught Jack was that someone stepping on his thigh hard really fucking hurt.

Which ... he could have guessed.

He rolled toward her anyhow, trying to grab her wrists before she could stand again. He was moving fast, but not especially forcefully.

Rose looked more amused at that than anything else.

"So what is it you're trying there?" she taunted, letting him grab her wrists, but totally confident she was stronger than he was.

"Grappling," he answered, ignoring the stray urge to kiss her as he tried to roll enough to pin her down. "is it working?"

"Nope!" she said, trying to speed up the roll so she could yank her hands away and end up rolling away from him.

Jack let her go. "It would help if I really wanted to hurt you," he observed.

"Maybe," Rose admitted, rolling up to her feet. "I could probably get free though so -" She shrugged.

Purely to make the point, Jack darted toward her and reached to clasp one wrist between his hands. It would be a firm grasp this time. "Really?"

[OOC: Night!]

Most of the time, she'd take that flirtatiously and respond accordingly. Especially given that it was Jack.

Today though she was still pissy and pissed and even though she'd relaxed a little, she was in no mood to give quarter.

"Really," Rose agreed, yanking him forward into a hip throw that should have him landing at her feet on the mats.

And usually, Jack would have meant it flirtatiously.

... okay, he did. A little.

And yes, the hip throw did its job. Jack could have stood and shoved at her but he was still running into that problem where he didn't want to hurt Rose. Also, he was afraid the room would spin if he stood up too quickly.

"Point made," he murmured. "My superpowers have failed me."

Rose knelt down beside him, offering a hand to get back up. "Your superpowers are holding people down?"

He pressed himself up without her help. Pride again. "No, remember, you said I must have superpowers if I thought I could spar you without training?"

She shrugged, rising easily. "Pretty much all I do is train. Kinda pisses me off when people assume it's just bs."

"I know you work," Jack scrambled to apologize (or as near to it as he could do). "It just bothered me the way you said that, about Arthur beating me and you coming to my rescue. Like I'm nothing."

"Well, okay," she said, not entirely sure the point there. "But if I needed something detectivey done or someone smart, I'd come get you."

"Well, of course," Jack said. As if that was obvious.

It took a second for him to process her point.

"... and if I ever get it into my head to fight Arthur or one of the Fight Club people, I'll come get you."

He was so very gracious.

Rose rolled her eyes, obscurely hurt and covering it with a flare of temper. "Whatever, Jack."

"... what do you want me to say?" And now she was hurt and he couldn't quite understand why. She'd won, hadn't she?

"Nothing," she said instantly. Nothing like complaining about feeling like she thought he was nothing and then flipping it in the next breath to make her feel that way.

"It's cool. You should go. I have to work now."

"Go work, and I'll see you later," Jack said easily as he went to find his coat again. "Thank you for the match."

If he was thinking uncharitable things about women and their moods, he could, perhaps, not entirely be blamed.

That poor punching bag.

Rose waited until Jack was gone, and then it got such a work out.

Edited 2009-12-16 18:36 (UTC)

Away from the pissy guardian novice with a crush.

I love Jessi.

Ahahahaha. <3 <3 <3

\o/ :D

I got to 'sparring Rose using tae bo' and died of LOLOLOLOL.

AHAHAHAAHA, that has come up like three times now and I am GOING TO KEEP USING IT because it makes me laugh every time.

*DIES*

Poor Jessi! So abused.

It's Rose's firm opinion that she deserves it.

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