Atlas Gym, Monday (1/21)

[notallbluemonks]

Beau had had an interesting enough weekend, that was for sure, but given that it had involved picking a fight with a gremlin and spending most of yesterday trying to roll a ping-pong ball around her apartment because she was under the impression that random objects would stick to it and it would get increasingly larger, she wasn't really going to talk about it.

Which, to be fair, was her standard approach to a lot of things, but anyway.

The gym appeared to be fairly normal today, which at first glance seemed like a relief, but . . . well, Beau was going to be eyeing the place suspiciously all day today unless something weird really did happen, in which case it'd be a relief.

Whatever, she'd be doing some upper-body work in her downtime today.

[OOC: Post/gym open!]

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[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan hadn't been to the gym in awhile. After his morning run, he grabbed his gym bag and headed on over. A quick change in the locker room and he was walking out to the heavy bags while wrapping tape over his knuckles. "Hey Beau," he greeted when he saw her.

[notallbluemonks]

Beau was doing pull-ups when Kaidan walked in, and she dropped down from the bar and nodded in his direction.

"'sup, Kaidan. That shrinking shit hit you too?"

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan lifted his chin at her in reply. 'Sup.

"Yup," he answered, "Wasn't as bad as some other jinxes the island's pulled. At least I fell asleep in my clothes. You do ok all weekend? We knocked on your door but you didn't answer."

[notallbluemonks]

"Yeah, I was, uh." Beau's laugh was as sarcastic as a laugh could possibly get. "I was fine. Just a little, uh -- little. Ha. I was kinda busy. It was fine, though. You knocked? I totally missed that."

Because she'd probably been swearing at the not-a-katamari at the time.

[spectre_alenko]

"Yeah. Hernando was regular size so he played sherpa for us. We went around the apartment but the only person we heard from was Peter," Kaidan answered, beginning to warm up on the heavy bag. "Jack was worried."

[notallbluemonks]

There was a moment where Beau just blinked, shaking her head, totally perplexed at the idea that people might worry about her.

Eh. Probably wasn't about her specifically anyway.

"Hang on, you were riding around on a regular sized person?" she asked, because deflection was nice. "Damn, kind of sorry I didn't see that."

[spectre_alenko]

"Yup," Kaidan said, "On his shoulders. It was easier than walking down the hall at that size. Plus I hear Seivarden's cat sometimes escapes into the hallways so, y'know, happy to have the height."

[notallbluemonks]

Beau winced. "Not really complaining about not getting out this weekend, really, in that case."

She could totally take a cat. But that was someone's pet, and no.

[spectre_alenko]

"I wasn't so much up for dealing with the native or otherwise fauna of the island," Kaidan agreed. "Saturday was mostly checking up on people and napping. Sunday, I went to the diner."

He grinned a little. "They have little plastic sword picks for sandwiches. My buddy works there and happens to be the guy I do sword practice with. We had some fun with that."

Yup. Two little dudes on a diner counter, hacking at each other with little green plastic swords. One of them dressed and one of them only half-dressed and wearing a little pillowcase cape.

[notallbluemonks]

That actually sounded like fun, and Beau's eyes lit up for a second before she went back to pretending she didn't actually care.

"Sure, if that's your thing," she said like she wouldn't have been going to town with a chopstick or something about that size. "I mean, what else are you gonna do when the island decides to make you four inches tall?"

She was glaring up toward the ceiling and yelling the last few words, like the island cared.

[spectre_alenko]

"Not much," Kaidan agreed, trying not to smile when she yelled. "There wasn't much to do. I got some running in, doing laps around Jack's throw rug."

A man of excitement, he wasn't.

[notallbluemonks]

“Well, yeah. Gotta get the workout in one way or another, am I right?” Beau gave him the nod of jock solidarity. “I, uh, spent a lot of time trying to parkour up the couch, kinda. Usually I do a lot more pushups, but that was tricky ‘cause I kept almost suffocating myself in the carpet, and the bathroom floor’s too cold so yeah.”

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan nodded firmly. "I get twitchy when I can't run at least a couple hours every day." He was some sort of exercise freak, yup. He thumped the heavy bag in a couple repeated triples for a moment. "I stayed off the carpet itself, just ran around it. Your apartment's wall-to-wall?"

[notallbluemonks]

"Yeah, it's kind of weird?" Beau shrugged. "The m-- the last place I lived was pretty sparse and now this feels all . . ."

She waved a hand. "Overindulgent or something, I don't know. Carpet's a bitch to run on when it goes up past your ankles, man. Probably great for your calves but that's not the fun kind of rug burn."

[spectre_alenko]

"Jack's having issues with that, too," Kaidan agreed, "We're both used to living on a ship with no space, no privacy, and you keep your personal stuff in a footlocker."

He chuckled a little. "Last time I had rug burn, it was on my knees. It sucked."

And somewhere, for no reason, Sparkle just fell over laughing.

[notallbluemonks]

Yeah, Beau was not even trying to smother a smirk at that. "Did it though? I mean, really? You know, because . . ."

She waved a hand. "Never mind. The bad ones happen sometimes, right?"

[spectre_alenko]

"Yeah, it sucked pretty hard," Kaidan said in completely oblivious Kaidan fashion, "Jacked my running for a week. Could've been worse. Could've been a bullet wound."

[notallbluemonks]

"Look, man." Beau held up her hands. "I'm not one to judge anyone else's kink, at least not out loud, but that's A) super hardcore and B) kinda TMI, you know? I mean, you do you, whatever, but I didn't think we were to that stage of sharing yet."

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan stared at her blankly for a moment and then blinked, "Wait, what?"

[notallbluemonks]

"Dude. Dude." Beau broke down into a snorting fit of laughter for a few seconds. "Really, you had no idea how that sounded? Oh man, your face right now."

[spectre_alenko]

Kaidan just blinked and shook his head. "I have no idea what you mean. How did it sound?"

[notallbluemonks]

Beau stared disbelievingly at him for a breath or two, trying to gauge whether he was serious.

Still gruff and diffident, but not mocking, she offered, "It was a figure of speech, man. Only like . . . the innuendo kind."

Shit, did that sound like she was making fun of him? She wasn't actually trying to.

[spectre_alenko]

"Yeah, I got that it was supposed to be an innuendo but.. like.. of what?" Kaidan asked because he still didn't get it. "How much it sucked to tear my knees up on the carpet?"

.... He blinked. Then a hand went right into his hair and down to the back of his neck with a rub and a small laugh. "Oh. No. I mean .. yeah? But there's no carpet on a ship."

[notallbluemonks]

"How do you know Jack and miss out on these things so much?" Beau asked. "Serious question, by the way."

[spectre_alenko]

"Because I know her so it just kind of flies over me now," Kaidan shrugged, "It's not really something she gives me crap about." He offered a wry smile. "She's got so many other things to choose from, that one's kind of at the end of the list."