fandomtownies | Atlas Gym; Tuesday [10/31].

Atlas, like many other places around town, was thankfully back to its much less purple and treadmill-filled self again, although the staff were debating about bringing back the Lunk Alarm, but only to be used whenever Gladio walked through the door, which....Gladio supported, really, because that was kind of funny, and as long as it didn't mean he was restricted to four weights on each side, he was more than fine with it.

And while it wasn't pizza, he was a little skeptical about the bowl of candy for the taking on the reception desk when he came in, until he saw what the candy was and he had to laugh, because that, too, was fair.

He had his own to add to the bowl later on in the day, too, while also spending a good deal of time checking his phone, just in case any updated on how that whole 'having the babies' thing might be going for Annie right now. He'd like to think, all things considered, the news of it happening would trickle down to him through one channel or anything if it did.

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Well, since it was Halloween and all, Summer figured showing up in orange was pretty much required, so done. And she liked to think she was keeping it classy and not, you know, blatant and obvious by showing up like a pumpkin, and definitely count her as someone constantly checking her phone today, which mean a lot of time on the treadmill, actually, so she could use her hands to both check for Annie Baby Updates as well as making any last-minute decisions on her costume for the party tonight. Just when she thought she had it all figured out, she started to doubt herself and wonder if she should take it in a different direction, although if she was going to switch it up, she'd have to do it now or never!

Stark was there. Stark was developing a new fondness for the color orange. And Stark was also going to do hit the weights at some point when he wasn't appreciating the color orange.

It was kind of difficult to avoid noticing any undue distractions by the color orange today, but Gladio would at least have the decency to not say anything about it.

Not right away, at least.

Instead, he was getting the standard chin lift bro greeting.

"Stark. How's it goin'?"

"I'm glad the island is back to itself," Stark said. "And things are going well. How are you?"

"Good," Gladio said with a nod as if to confirm it. "Real good. Thanks for asking. Definitely with you on things getting back to normal, though. Everything with the gym wasn't too bad, but I think we definitely got the least of it."

"I didn't mind the extra coffee," Stark said. "But it was all...a lot. Are you going to the party tonight?"

"Yeah," Gladio said, with a grin that was a good indication that he was actually somewhat excited about his costume; the fact that it was kind of stupid was the whole appeal, really.

Okay, no, the near shirtlessness was the appeal; surely, Stark could understand that, right?

"Kinda looking forward to it, actually."

And not even just to get a glimpse at the place Ignis had been spending all of his time at recently!

"What about you?"

He could definitely understand why 'Halloween party at the house of the person who tried to drain all the life out of me were it not for big buff guys to intervene' might not be high on Stark's list of things to do tonight.

"We're going," Stark said with a glance at Summer.
And of course he could understand the appeal of Gladio's bare chest. He had one eye; he wasn't blind.

"We talked. Liliana and I. About...what happened."

He was reasonably certain Liliana wouldn't try to use him as a battery again. Reasonably.

Gladio wished he could be even remotely sure he could say the same about his worry about her using Ignis as one next time.

His head tilted thoughtfully, maybe a little worriedly, at Stark.

"Everything go okay?"

Given the choice between Stark and Ignis as batteries it seemed likely Liliana would go for Stark again. Oh dear.

"I think so? She thought I was trying to kill her," he said, looking down. "I wasn't. I wouldn't!"

Gladio frowned a little, thinking back to that night and the confusion of it all, especially when things really started to get involved with Stark and Liliana.

"By the look of her," he murmured, "she was practically dead already...."

He then shook his head. "How do you feel about how everything turned out?"

"She was," Stark said, sighing.

"I...I'm not certain. She seemed to believe me that I was trying to help because I thought she was too far gone. I don't think she's going to do me any harm on purpose. But...I'm not sure I'd want to be alone with her all the same."

Nell took a moment to peek in first, making sure it was all back together as it should be, then she made her way in with a sigh of relief. Today was definitely a forms and yoga day.

And, of course, her eyes searched immediately for Gladio.

Well, one good thing about Gladio was that he was pretty easy to spot if you were looking for him. Especially if he was keeping a bit of an eye out for you, too.

"Hey," he greeted Nell with a grin once he spotted her coming in. "Morning."

Her smile spread across her face. "Good morning! Nice to be back in the real gym!"

"I don't think we had it nearly as bad here as some other places," Gladio admitted with a faint huff, "but, yeah, definitely glad to have it back to normal. And all the space for training back. Moving all those machines was going to be a huge pain in the ass."

"There were so many!" Nell agreed. "And so purple!"

"See, now," said Gladio, taking a moment to look around, rubbing his chin thoughtfully, "I almost kind of miss all the purple..."

Nell laughed. "Then paint the walls purple or something. Just don't bring back the rows and rows of people machines."

She adored him and he always challenged her assumptions and made her laugh. How in the world had she gotten so lucky?

"Oh, no way," Gladio shook his head in emphatic agreement. "Even if it didn't make this whole place feel so cramped, most people don't even use those machines. Most people like the space for training. I'm pretty sure there were more treadmills than people who live on this island stuffed in here."

"I didn't come in far enough to see much, but I'm sure there wasn't room for me to do forms," Nell said

"Not unless you were getting real creative with your use of space," Gladio said with a snort. "But at least you wouldn't have to worry about the Lunk Alarm."

Gladio was just realizing that Nell had completely missed out on the Lunk Alarm and now he was very interested to hear what her thoughts on it might be.

"The Lunk Alarm? What in the world is that? Warning that the TV head people were coming?" Nell was completely flummoxed.

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