[GP] training day

[st_oryinsilence]

There was a trope that in prison there wasn't much to do except work out or read. As colorful as Madonna Inn might be, it was still a prison. And look, somebody had put together a library.

Put fifty some people, many of them military, adventurers, vigilantes, or superheroes of one stripe or another, in a prison with none of the urgent missions or near-death experiences they were used to, the fitness center was going to be a popular place. Maybe almost as popular as the bar.

... Probably not quite that popular.

There were free weights and weight machines, treadmills and ellipticals, yoga mats and exercise balls. A room set aside for classes, if someone decided to lead. A large square had been taped over an area of the floor off to one side as a make-shift sparring space. Sports equipment had been brought back from Bonesville for those who preferred more organized games. And those who had been stuck here longest remembered there hadn't always been a salmon ladder.

In other words, something for just about everybody. And you could usually find someone in there if you were looking for a spotter, workout buddy, sparring partner, friendly competition too.

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[st_x5_494]

Ale spent a lot of time in the gym and when he wasn't in the gym, he was outside and when he wasn't doing that, he was probably drinking. He'd like there to be more sex, but since Bo decided to end their benefit plan, that only left Pike and he liked her enough not to initiate that kind of thing himself. He didn't want her to feel cheap.

Shirtless at the moment, Alec was on the salmon ladder. He was moving with a speed that was half his ability, but still fast for a 'normal human' and he wasn't missing any of the rungs. After a few rounds of that he jumped off, sweaty, and reached for his towel. Alec glanced around the room. He was really itching for a fight.

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[st_accato]

Buffy's blond hair was pulled back into a ponytail and she looked like the cheerleader she had been. She might be with Carlos but that didn't mean she didn't notice hottie guys and the guy at the salmon ladder was definitely hot. A lot like Dean actually but she'd heard that Sam's brother was a lot older than he'd been last time that he was here. She'd also noticed the quickness, and that intrigued her so she moved closer. Buffy also wondered if it was a Doppelganger like Vampire Willow.

"Hi." She greeted when she was close enough to talk. No, Slayer Tingles so no Alternate/Wishverse Vampire Dean. Whew!

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[st_x5_494]

Buffy was on the receiving end of a big, charming smile. Alec couldn't help but notice how hot she was He had seen her around the inn before, but this was the first time it was up close and personal.

"Hey. You looking for a partner to train?" Because he'd love to be her partner.

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[st_accato]

"Always." Buffy nodded, "If you don't mind sparring with a girl." She shot him a quick grin, "I'll go easy on you."

It was the truth but she knew that he'd take it as a joke.

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[st_x5_494]

"I know enough about girls to know some can kick my ass." He winked to her. "But most don't hold back."

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[st_accato]

That piqued Buffy's curiosity. He looked fit enough that a 'normal' female shouldn't be able to kick his ass. Unless they were a higher degree of belt than he was.

"Okay, then I'll give as much as I can unless you tell me different. Deal?"

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[st_eelremains]

Someone had suggested he take a look at this place, the so-called gym (another odd word that didn't quite seem to translate). Geralt was genuinely unsure what one did with the equipment it contained, even when he took a closer look at it all. They looked vaguely like torture devices, some of them.

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[st_x5_494]

"You look like you might be lost." Though he kind of looked hardcore in a Dungeons and Dragons sort of way.

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[st_eelremains]

Geralt eyed the young man. "Aren't we all?" he asked dryly.

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[st_x5_494]

He let out a small laugh. "Okay, you got me there. But you're looking at this place like it's some science fiction stuff."

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[st_eelremains]

Another one of those untranslatable combinations of words. Geralt shrugged. "My world is... less complicated than this when it comes to training." Even at Kaer Morhen, a training dummy had looked more or less like a training dummy, and the Pendulum like something designed to do you real harm if you dropped your guard or failed to pay attention. This place and its machines were oblique and somehow ostentatious at the same time.

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[st_makemeastone]

At a barre near one corner was a girl with bare feet, flyaway hair and one foot in the air. Then without any warning other than a barely detectable tightening of muscles she whipped around doing what he probably wouldn't know was called a Fouetté. Then she did another and bent to touch the floor all without putting her second foot down.

It would probably have been more graceful if she hadn't been wearing a Madonna Inn sweatshirt that was big enough to be a dress on her. Better too if she had proper footwear.

Not that River noticed or cared.

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[st_x5_494]

The dancing from the girl caught Alec's attention. While he had seen her around before, he hadn't really interacted with her at all. She seemed kind of... odd. Still, she was also kind of cute.

He sauntered up, leaning against the barre. "The shirt looks a bit big on you."

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[st_makemeastone]

She put her foot back on the floor and then bent the knee of her other leg so she was once again balanced on one foot and cocked her head.

"It needed to be adequately covering. A smaller shirt would have failed." She was also wearing leggings which had been as close to tights as had been available.

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[st_x5_494]

Alec thought how not having adequate covering wouldn't be necessarily a bad thing and then paused and wondered how old she was. Was she too young? Was he being a perv? Now he was trying to figure that out as he stared.

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[st_makemeastone]

"Age is based on a vestigial mode of measurement linked to solar cycles." And at home, there wasn't a sun to orbit unless they were on a planet, otherwise days were arbitrary in space. So did they exist? And if they did exist did one age at a faster or slower rate based on how long the arbitrary accounting of day was?

"I lose track." She wasn't sure how long she'd been at the Academy, how old she had been when Simon had saved what was left of her. Then there was Serenity and now she was here. But how long had it been? It was possible she had missed a birthday in there somewhere and she was seventeen now.

Or not.

She honestly didn't know.

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[st_andingtall]

Sam eyed the salmon ladder as Alec jumped off. No, he hadn't bothered to spray and wipe it down. Why would he? Dean wouldn't, and Dean thought Alec was the next best thing to pie or something.

He grabbed a spray bottle and stray towel, wiped down the rungs he could easily reach, and flipped the towel over his shoulder. He'd catch the others on his first pass. That turned out to be harder than it seemed, but Sam managed, then tossed the towel down -- and in Alec's general direction (mostly unintentionally).

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[st_x5_494]

Alec had to side-step not to get a face full of Sam sweat. "Dude." As in to say 'um, I'm standing here, thanks."

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[st_andingtall]

"Yeah?" Sam swung his way up the ladder again and the yeah came out as a grunt like maybe if you don't like it you ought to clean up after yourself. Which, admittedly, was a lot for one word, but if Alec actually was anything like Dean, he'd read it all in the bitchface that went with it.

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[st_x5_494]

He rolled his eyes.

"You sure you're related to Dean?" Because... fire and water.

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[st_andingtall]

"You sure you're not?" Sam shot back when he hit the bottom of the ladder. He wanted to make a few more passes, but he jumped down and stood to face the guy.

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[st_alksthroughwalls]

"Looking for someone to kick your ass?" Kitty called out to him good-naturedly.

She knew how she looked. Slender, willowy, built like the prima ballerina she'd trained to be and not the demon-ninja trained fighter she'd become. Then there were the powers he didn't know she had. Still, he wasn't the type to turn down that challenge. Even if he was sure he'd be doing the ass-kicking.

Besides, she'd seen him on the salmon ladder. She'd lay decent odds on him being enhanced somehow.

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[st_x5_494]

Alec smiled wryly to her and took her in again as he walked closer and more over to the area for sparring. "If it's by someone like you, than yeah."

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[st_alksthroughwalls]

Kitty offered him a smile that might've looked flirty but mostly was her calculating the ten different ways she could knock him flat in the next few seconds. She didn't choose one, because she didn't know what he could do, and there was confident, and then there was cocky.

She set herself in the center of the mat that had appeared after the trip to Bonesville and then beckoned. "Let's see what you've got."

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[st_x5_494]

"Alright." He was a little like a kid excited at the chance to go on a new ride. He hadn't had a lot of opportunity to fight since he got here and he realized he missed it, even if life sucked back home. Probably how he was made.

Alec entered the sparring area, hands up in a military stance with watchful eyes. He decided to start out with the basics - he sent two punches - left then right- and a kick to the shin.