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Atlas Gym [7/12]

Ashley was in a pretty good mood when she arrived at the gym this morning. Class had gone well on Friday, she got through the weekend without anything weird happening and Jessi was nowhere in sight.

She settled in behind the counter with the new issue of Guns and Ammo magazine.

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"Guns and Ammo," Dimitri read off the title of Ashley's magazine as he approached the desk. "Promoting our range?"

Ash smirked. "Not particularly. But I am teaching a workshop on marksmenship this term with Captain Price so I figured I should read up."

"Well, I'm sure accidental promotion is better than none at all," Dimitri replied. "But teaching kids to shoot, that sounds rewarding." Or insane, Dimitri wasn't sure given the population of the school.

"It's certainly interesting," Ashley admitted. "I was surprised by the skill level. I thought only my mom was crazy enough to teach shooting in kindergarden."

"Yes, a lot of cultures that send people here seem to share an educational system that promotes fighting from a very young age," he nodded. "My training started in elementary school as well, just not from my mother."

"Who trained you then?" Ash wondered.

Dimitri cocked his head, a bit confused by that follow up. "...my teachers."

"Really? What kind of school did you go to that trained you like that?"

Yes, she was being nosy.

"It was just like the Academy Rose attended," Dimitri replied. "Only in Russia. There are many academies to train novices, it's very common for our world."

Ash nodded. "Wow, I don't think I realized that Rose's training started that early. Did you have to live away from your family for that?"

He nodded. "I was in school with my sisters, but now that I'm here we don't see each other hardly at all. It's just the way things are." This didn't mean he didn't miss them, just that he was accepting of his own situation.

"It's rough being away from your family," Ashley said.

Especially when your family thought you were dead so you couldn't even call them.

Price stepped into the gym dressed in a manner that few had seen. He had on work-out clothes, a sleeveless shirt and long, loose shorts with an elastic waistline. The clothes were dark, drab colors of course.

He gave Ashley a nod in greeting. "Afternoon," he said. "You normally here on Mondays?"

"Yup," Ashley said with a nod and a smile. "Never saw you here on a Monday though."

Price smirked a bit. "That's because I work these days, now. I'm actually just in for a work-out on my lunch break."

"That would do it," Ash said. "Class went pretty well on Friday, don't you think?"

"Looks like we've got a regular bunch of soldiers in training," Price said. "That Katniss, aiming for the eye... damn impressive. All of them, really, in their own ways."

Ashley nodded. "They were all really impressive."

"I probably should give you a bit of history about this week's class, sometime," Price said. "Given that we'll be replicating a part of my own personal past."

That surprised her a little but she nodded again. "Yeah, sure, you want to meet for coffee on Wednesday?"

"Coffee and military secrets," Price said. "Always a good combination. Fashionably late morning? 10 am, perhaps?"

"Don't worry. Your secrets are safe with me, Captain," Ash told him.

Price chuckled. "I'll be sharing them with an entire batch of teenagers. I hardly need to trust you that implicitly, Ashley."

Ash put on a mock pout. "Okay, fine, if you don't trust me," she said with a loud sniffle.

Price smirked. "Well for all I know, you've got deeper, darker secrets than me, darling."

"I'd say that depends on how deep and dark yours are."

Which was Ashley's way of saying that, yes, she did have secrets.

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