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Atlas Gym | Thursday Day

If Dimitri was speaking about it to anyone, he'd have to admit there was nothing very interesting about his tasks at the gym, other than when he was working out or when people stopped in for their own training. This day was no different, but rather than be bored, he set himself to the task of refitting the training dummies with an extra layer of padding in their chest cavity.

Rose could consider the enhanced dummies a special surprise for when she resumed her training. Thinking of Rose, Dimitri realized he'd not seen a certain feisty bobcat in quite a few hours. A glance toward the doors had him wondering for a fleeting moment what she was up to out there, but given the things he'd witnessed the bobcat doing over the last week, Dimitri felt he could be better off not knowing. So he resumed his task, humming along with the overhead music.

Clearly engineering dummies called for an 80s soundtrack.

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It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do

Dimitri's wondering wouldn't have to continue much longer as there was a commotion at the door of the gym.

Possibly the commotion of a bobcat with something to show off but unable to open the door for herself. More than possibly, as Rose had her teeth sunk into the upper back of a large squawking pink flamingo.

When he heard the commotion, Dimitri was at the door in an instant. The question was whether he was coming to the aid of the cat or the bird. Stupid flamingos.

"What do you think you're doing?" Sure, asking the bobcat questions was pointless, but it made him feel better about her ongoing situation.

With an incredibly smug 'mrow', the cat tried to push her way into the gym. She was bringing him a present.

The flamingo seemed to try to object, flapping its wings in an escape bid, but Rose shook her head, settling her teeth more firmly to secure that grip.

When wasn't she smug sounding?

It was against his better judgment to open the door more, but if he was going to get the bird from the cat, he'd need access to it. Quickly propping the door, he tried reaching for her pink prize. "Let it go."

Many, many times! Really.

With a growl, the cat tried to dodge away, hampered in her efforts by the bird's flapping. Her prize! Hers!

The bird's wing clipped his leg and Dimitri frowned down at the cat harshly. "I understand you're bored, but you'll regret dragging this creature in here later." Like when he made her clean up the mess she was likely to make of the bird.

And if she wouldn't let him get his hands on the bird, he'd just have to try feinting and grabbing for her scruff.

There was an unhappy yowl as he grabbed her, and she hung onto the bird with all her might as she flailed against the grip.

Why couldn't he just like his present? She'd worked very, very hard to catch it and bring it to him. Hours of stalking and hunting.

"Rose!" Dimitri lifted her up to his level with one hand, and worked to wrench the bird free of her jaws with the other. "Let. It. Go." His words held all the threat of what his strong hands were capable of doing should she fail to listen.

The stupid bird's squawking and flapping was going to stop one way or another.

She hissed at Dimitri for daring to pick her up like that and then realised her mistake as the bird fell free. No! Tasty treat and present all in one now falling away as her jaws closed on pink feathers.

All of which left a slightly bloodied bird flopping to the ground and hopping to its feet in noisy protest. Dimitri encouraged the creature back towards the open door with a foot.

"Did you just hiss at me?" Dimitri asked, getting a more humane grip on the bobcat but keeping her up close to his face.

Her mouth was full of feathers so it was a slightly ashamed but still pissy bobcat who looked up at Dimitri.

Mrrit? she replied, reaching out to try to paw at him. Without her claws cause claws near Dimitri's face would be terrible.

The paw pressed against his cheek earned an eyebrow lift from Dimitri. "You look ridiculous," he told her, reaching up to knock some of those pink feathers away. "Only you would bring an evil pink bird to work like it was some sort of gift. Were you hoping I'd take it to the taxidermist and decorate the gym with your spoils?"

Shaking her head fiercely to get rid of the rest of the feathers, the bobcat made another hopeful noise, trying to look towards wherever the flamingo ended up.

Dimitri's eyes glanced where she was looking as the flamingo shook its wings and pecked at its feathers as it waddled out the door. "You are not going after it. Really, you're lucky it doesn't need medical attention." Because explaining that to any vet would be complicated.

She patted at his cheek again as she turned her big kitteny eyes back towards him. It was his present. Did he not understand that?

A rumbling purr started up. Possibly in hopes that if she was adorable, he'd either put her down or hold her without the dangling. He was a very tall person, and it was a long drop.

As though he could trust her not to run after the flamingo. Dimitri shook his head and tucked the cat he should not find adorable against his elbow for ease of transport across the gym. "I will show you things that will make you forget your bird. Remember training?"

Her paws were hooked around his arm now because if he was going to hold onto her like that, she was going to make sure she stayed there, dammit. Rubbing her head against Dimitri's chest, she kept purring. Possibly in response to his question and possibly just because he was the one who gave pets.

There was no disappointing a cat in need of pets and he scratched behind her ears as he walked her over to see the dummies he was working on.

Dimitri wondered if she'd be at all capable of holding a stake in those fierce jaws and then remembered he didn't need cat spit on his equipment. "Now, I could be getting ahead of myself, reinforcing these dummies, but I'm hoping sometime soon you'll be capable of wielding a stake in your hands."

The petting was very much appreciated as she accepted it as her due for bringing him such a present. Somehow in the cat brain, it had turned into that, yes.

She leaned forward as he showed her the dummies, clearly interested in sniffing at them, but not yet wanting to move far enough that the petting would stop. Clearly, she was such a ferocious cat. Really.

"I knew you'd be interested," he commented, quite pleased to lean closer so she could get a good sniff as she liked. "Though no scratching these, we'll need them intact later." And then he'd be encouraging destruction, go figure.

Oh please, like the bobcat wasn't going to reach out to try to scratch at the dummy. With the paw that was still a bit bloody from the flamingo fight, oh yes.

And then she gathered herself to try to leap onto the dummy, wanting to inspect it on a much more personal level.

The gathering gave him warning and Dimitri launched her at the dummy, hoping perhaps she wouldn't completely destroy his work. "You realize it wasn't meant to be used as a scratching post, yes?"

The way she was digging her claws into the dummy to keep herself situated was probably a clue that she didn't realise that. Also the way she was now chewing on a bit of the padding that was still sticking out. While growling ferociously, of course.

Never forget this was a Crafty and Fierce Bobcat.

"Maybe not. Rose, don't chew on the dummy..." Dimitri reached to push her face away from the padding. He had a purpose for this dummy that didn't involve a snack for animals.

She hissed, snapping at his fingers playfully. If she wasn't allowed to chew on the dummy, was there an alternative offered? Cause really, it just seemed like he kept taking away her toys. Poor bobcat.

Always with the teeth and his hands. Dimitri waggled his fingers for her, not bothered by the nipping at the moment. "I'm sorry we have no mice for you to catch instead. Though I heard a certain spandex-wearing tae bo instructor say something about wishing she had a furry animal in her class for demos."

I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never have

I've been singing this song all day at work and now I'm heading home and you can all suffer with me, ha!

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