Atlas Gym - Wednesday

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Wednesday meant that Beka showed up early at the gym. Twas still quiet when she got there and Beka took the time to clean off some of the machines afore their first clients would come in.

"You don't have to wash the mats," Jessi announced as she flounced in. "Dimitri did it last week, and he can do it again."

Beka stopped and glanced up at the girl. "I thought he'd be the one to give orders here."

She shrugged, lounging across the machine Beka had just got done washing. "I'm just trying to save you some work. God."

"Are you?" Beka asked and she reached over to wipe the seat just behind Jessi's back, bumping her in the process to make it clear she was in the way.

Jessi was oblivious. Oh so oblivious. "Ow," she commented, not moving so much. "We're friends, right?"

"It'd depend on your definition of friends," Beka repeated the movement. That'd be a no.

She shifted around to face Beka, her pink spandex-clad body draped over the equipment. "So, why does radio go on and on about how Dimitri and Rose have a relationship." The finger quotes were in evidence as was the total lack of understanding of Beka's response. "But he keeps sleeping with me. What's up with that?"

Beka glared as Jessi was undoing her work. "Mayhap it'd have to do with him not being himself," she suggested, at least that was what happened when Beka's slept with him and given the previous weekend... She frowned and tossed the towel at Jessi. "If you'll be standing here, you can clean those. I'll clean the desk."

[No OCD because weetuskenraider is still out for lunch. Thanks to guardianborn for playing the spandex girl.]

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[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Mornin' lass," George said, wandering in. "Are ye still stuck up wit' a funny accent?"

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Beka made a face and she sprayed some of the cleaner product at him. "Yes, I'm the only gixie on the island who didn't go back to who she is."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

He snickered, making a face at the cleaner. "Could be. Ye were a very pretty gixie... "

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She made a face and scrubbed at a stain that wasn't there. "She was vain and unpleasant," Beka replied. "Acted as if she was a noble."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"A right hag of a pretty gixie," George agreed, coming over to lean against the counter. "'M glad yer you."

He was pretty sure he thought he liked Beka's pretty more.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"As am I," she agreed, trying to wipe his nose with her towel. "She was a mage, too."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"D'ye think ye've still th'Gift?" he asked curiously, laughing as he dodged out of the way of the towel.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"I've always had a Gift," Beka wrinkled her nose at him and she replaced some papers to clean under there too.

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Not th'same kind," George pointed out, reaching over to pretend to tweak her nose.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She batted his hand away. "If you get this dirty again, you'll be cleaning," she warned.

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"I know how t'keep me nose clean," he pointed out, possibly a little smugly.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Beka leaned forward, narrowing her eyes as she watched him. "'t looks dirty from here."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Keep tellin' yerself that, Beka," George smirked a little. "But me nose is as clean as it could be."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"That'd not be saying much that," she shook her head at him. "Tis you we're talking about."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"I came by t'talk t'ye and yer jus' insultin' me?" George asked, pretending to frown a little.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"I'd be worried mayhap you fell on your nob if you'd expect me to compliment you instead," Beka shot back, grinning a little.

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Y'd never compliment me, lass," he smirked. "Jus' a part of ye charm."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"I might," she said, studying him for a moment. "Just to see you gaping when I do."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"I'd never be gapin'," George said, tossing his hair back. "Y'couldn' make me."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She raised an eyebrow at him. "That's no challenge you want to make."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Tis," he decided.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"Isn't," she shot back, frowning. "So what've you been up to? I've not seen you for a while."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Saw ye on th'trip," he pointed out. "An' last week was jus' looking fer Bobby and studyin' th'hockey."

And going to New York to steal diamonds. No big.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Sommat made her tilt her head and study him for a moment. "With your nose clean."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Aww, Beka," George complained. "Ye jus' said y'wouldn' believe me if I did say that."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"Mayhap I've got reason to not believe you," she pointed out.

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

He leaned in towards her. "What reason's that."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"That I'm a Dog and know when a Rat's looking shifty," she replied, leaning forward as well.

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

George gave her a sweet smile. "'m thinkin' yer senses be a bit off as 'm lookin' anything but shifty."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"Then what'd you say you're looking like?" she asked him. The smile wasn't helping make his point.

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Like a lad who came t'check on his friend?" he suggested. "Should I not've?"

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"I've not said that," she pointed out, reaching up to tug his hair.

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

He wrinkled his nose at her, allowing the tug. "What are ye sayin', Beka?"

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"That you're up to sommat," she told him.

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Promise I won' be gettin' arrested," George said. "Happy now?"

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"No," she said. "That hardly means aught with you."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Then unless you know 'm doin' somethin' wrong, guess there's not much ye can say," he told her smugly.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She rolled her eyes at him afore setting back to work. "The Dogs in your time must be blinde."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Or ye do know me better than they," he pointed out. "I don' catch their attention."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"Then they must be blinde," she repeated, grinning a little.

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"They'll know me soon enough," George said. "But then they won' be able t'take me. Which suits me fine."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

Her smile faded and Beka was scrubbing now at spots she'd already cleaned. It saved her from looking at him. "And so much better it'll be to have every Rat out to kill you or double cross you."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

He shook his head. "Tisn't th'way of it. They'll know I'll be takin' care of th' Lower City, an' I'll have their loyalty or they'll find another way t'live."

Or not live. As the case may be.

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

She knew what he meant, she'd grown up in the Lower City just as much as him. She knew it were no different from what Rosto, Kora and Aniki did, but it wasn't easy knowing it about her friends, let alone George.

"Aye, 't'll be a fine loyalty," she agreed. "Till th'next rusher promises them more coin. There's not been one Rogue to hav' a peaceful send off to th' Black God."

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Then I'll have t'be th'one t'do it," George told her. "I'll retire when I'm bored an' travel th' world."

He smirked over at her, happy to try to direct attention away from him. "Or p'haps yer lad Rosto'll be."

[provostsdog.livejournal.com]

"Yes, and once you do, I'll become the King's personal guard," she said dryly.

[noearsyet.livejournal.com]

"Better get yer finery ready, lass," George said, grinning widely.