Wellspring Arms Firing Range, Wednesday

[grenadesandohana]

Steve had made arrangements with the shop owner to use the shooting range on a weekly basis, but that didn't mean he wasn't there early to give the entire place an obsessive inspection himself. He had pulled out ear, eye and head protection (safety was more important than looking particularly great) and he was checking his weapon one more time as he waited for Will to arrive. "I'm not teaching you how to shoot," he told the little green face he caught peeking around the corner. "You're like a foot tall."

[OOC: Expecting one, but public post and all that.]

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[doctorgingerspice]

Will had narrowly avoided being full-on drenched with eggnog this morning, but anyone with a keen enough sense of smell would probably be able to detect a certain lingering eau du lait de poule.

But that was neither here nor there, really. Will was here, though. Super ready for this. Yep.

“Hey,” he greeted Steve.

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"Morning," Steve said with a grin. "How was your shower?"

He'd had to compensate by going for a swim. In December. Steve Made Some Choices.

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“Nonexistent,” Will grumbled. “Ugh. Not how I wanted to wake up this morning.” He narrowed his eyes and gave Steve a once-over. “You look awfully chipper, on the other hand.”

[grenadesandohana]

"I'm a morning person," Steve said. "I got up, showered, then recalibrated with a quick swim."

Yes, it was freezing outside. Steve had problems.

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“Ugh,” Will said again. “That’s disgusting.” Yes, being a morning person was in fact worse than taking an eggnog shower.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve laughed. "When they wake you up before dawn, you learn to adapt, brah."

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“I wouldn’t have survived my residency without being able to function at all hours, but that doesn’t mean I ever enjoyed those early mornings,” Will shook his head.

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"My morning workout's kind of meditative these days," Steve admitted. "Good for quieting my mind. The one in the evening is for getting better at stuff."

Yep, two workouts a day. Steven. Why.

[doctorgingerspice]

Will wrinkled his nose for just a fraction of a second at 'meditative', because the last thing he needed these days was to slow down and give himself time to think about stuff.

"Oh, of course it is," he said instead, with a grin that felt just a tiny bit forced. "Naturally."

[grenadesandohana]

Pfft, thinking about things. Steve did it entirely to shut his brain up.

"SEAL habits," Steve said with a sheepish answering smile. "Danny assures me that it is not at all normal."

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“Danny’s absolutely right,” Will said with a nod.

[grenadesandohana]

"That seems unlikely," Steve said, laughing.

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“Yes, well, I think you’re biased,” Will informed him. “Slightly.”

[grenadesandohana]

"That can't be it," Steve said, shaking his head. "Okay, get your gun from the safety and I'll show you how to check it over."

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Will nodded and went to retrieve his gun, glad that he’d taken the time after purchasing it to just… get used to the feel of it in his hands (unloaded, of course).

His hands had definitely shook when he’d first started handling the weapon, but he had that under control now, at least.

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"Heavier than it looks, huh," Steve said.

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Will nodded. "I don't know what I was expecting," he admitted.

[grenadesandohana]

"Probably closer to what we played with as kids," Steve said. "Plastic and easy to toss around."

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"I was more about my fists as a kid than anything," Will said, looking a bit sheepish.

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Steve laughed. "Really? I was a pretty easy going kid."

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"Ah, well, you know. I was a nerdy scholarship kid from the rough side of town. No matter which way you sliced it, someone had a problem with me," Will confessed.

He'd never liked feeling helpless, and it was something he hadn't experienced for a long time, up until the last couple months when everything had started way too quickly out of his control.

[grenadesandohana]

Steve ducked his head. "I was the high school quarterback," he said.

Of course he was.

[doctorgingerspice]

"Of course you were," Will said with a snort. "If we'd gone to school together you probably wouldn't have even known I existed."

[grenadesandohana]

"Well, it was a pretty big high school," Steve said slightly apologetically.

Because he was a jock with nerdy tendencies and, well, yeah. He wouldn't have noticed Will.

[doctorgingerspice]

Even their nerdy tendencies probably wouldn't have overlapped.

"Good thing we're no longer in high school, then," he replied. Cause you were more or less stuck with him as a friend now, Steve, sorry not sorry.