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Atlas Gym, Monday afternoon into evening

It had been a couple years since Jessica had experienced Fandom's unique allergens, and there was plenty in between that last time and today that gave her excuses not to jump to conclusions. Maybe she couldn't concentrate because she finally overworked herself and needed a break. Maybe it was perfectly natural to be thinking sexy thoughts only a week after getting a little bit of action following 3MD. She had certainly been thinking them during the week.

In any event, she decided the best way to get her focus back was to get some action at the gym. By which she totally meant working the bags. The punching bags. She was sure nobody would mind if she got them sticky. With webs, while practicing combos. She kind of lost track of time while she worked up a nice sweat, but… Wait a second.

And that's when she started to realize what was actually happening. Goddammit.

[OOC: Today has been miserable. Open, please.]

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Gwen was not really a fan of the gym, as a general rule. But she had to do something and she was probably going to have a harder time hooking up with an adult than one of her fellow students in the dorm gym, so.

"I hate thiiiiiis," she whined, walking in.

Jessica was so glad right now that she was cloned before Peter and Gwen started dating or else she might have some kind of lingering thing that would get her in trouble now.

"Makes sense. It's kind of miserable," Jessica said, staring at the punching bag as she continued to work.

"Look at this! It got me down here to exercise! Me!" Madness!

"I'm guessing that you're not much for working out," Jessica checked. Because even though she knew a few things about Gwen's unathletic lifestyle, she didn't know this Gwen well enough to be all 'Hey, guess who I really am!' "It won't help as much as you'd like, but at least you'll be tired afterwards."

Gwen was quiet for a moment.

"Sorry, I took that dirty and got distracted. You meant the workout, right?" she checked.

Jessica thought about it. "I think I meant the workout, but who the hell knows what's going on in the back of my head by this point?" Jessica sighed. "But it's true for the dirty stuff, too. FYI. Not that I know from experience."

Gwen frowned at her. "You don't know from experience?"

"Nope. I never made a bunch of terrible decisions while under the influence of pollen, and anyone who says otherwise is a liar," Jessica said. "And, more importantly, they're not on the island to lie in the first place."

"Smart. I figured I'd just have to own temporary sluttiness," Gwen admitted.

"Whatever gets you through it," Jessica said. "When I was going to school here, I was a tiny bit repressed and figuring things out, so this stuff would just get me to do a lot of things I probably wouldn't do again." She was talking about guys.

"Welcome to adolescence," Gwen said dryly. "It's like the kissing booths or parties. Any excuse."

And okay, one she'd totally gone for once or twice but that was different.

"Oh, it definitely wasn't any excuse for me. I needed to be pushed hard by goofy Fandom junk," Jessica said. "I had a lot of things to figure out back then, and I did whatever I could to avoid trying to do any of that figuring."

"...The girls thing?" she guessed.

"And then some," Jessica said. "It all got figured out eventually."

"Good. So... yay sexy pollen stuff?" It felt weird saying that.

"Oh, no, not really. I mean, it helped me figure out that I wasn't really into guys through, um, trial and error?" Jessica said. "But I didn't figure myself out until after graduation."

"I mean, I'm trying to find an upside to this whole ready-to-snap-things-in-half feeling here. You can at least lie to me for now," Gwen told her.

"It could help me get lucky now that I know what I like," Jessica suggested. "It might even lead to my first booty call. Those are positive things."

"...Ooh, I've never done a booty call." And she probably had an option in Ezra, really.

"I'm not completely sure I should encourage that, but if you do, just be sure to do so safely," Jessica said, finally pausing from hitting the bag. "I'm pretty sure that covers me as a public servant."

"I've known a lot of public servants. You're the only one who's ever told me about high school hookups," Gwen said approvingly.

"Get them worked up on pollen and then asked them some pointed questions," Jessica suggested. "I bet it works more times than not."

"I'm not going to try that this week, though. I feel like I'd learn more about troopers than I want to," she said.

"... Oh. Oh god, I'm going to hate my shift on Thursday," Jessica said. "I wonder if trooper helmets have air filters." Replace 'wonder if' with 'hope that' and it would be more honest.

"Might be a good day to call out sick," Gwen said. "Hey, this week is the perfect time to say you caught mono from someone!"

"I'm not sure I can give up the calls that day, though," Jessica decided. "I have to assume there are going to be entertaining calls to the station. Somebody's going to get stuck with something somewhere."

"You have to promise to call me with details if it looks like anyone is going to end up on Sex Sent Me to the ER," Gwen said.

"Just as long as you promise not to take anything as a suggestion, no matter how interesting it sounds in the moment," Jessica said.

"No, this is a Not to Do List," Gwen promised.

"Good. Confirming that is my second public service of the day," Jessica decided.

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