Room 209, Thursday evening

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Aeryn doesn't think much about shopping unless she needs it. Thanks to Wilderness Survival, she needed shoes. Now she has them. One day you're refusing to kill a girl (no matter how dumb they were), the next you're kind of temped to go through with it if it'll keep you from hearing the word 'cheerleading' ever again.

After last week's mummies and

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[peter__parker]

After getting a voicemail, Peter decided to stop by Aeryn's room. He knocked on the door.

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Aeryn leaves the bags on her bed, even when she closes the closet door with the actual purchases inside. She opens the front door, greeting him with, "Hi."

[peter__parker]

"Hey. I got your voicemail," Peter said. "I just wanted to stop by and let you know that I'm doing okay."

As proof of this, he held up his slingless-but-casted left arm.

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"Is that better?" she asks, because she hasn't had a chance to see him until now.

[peter__parker]

"A little, I think. I still need to wear the cast for about three weeks or so," Peter said. "Fun stuff, really."

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"You did well out there," she says. "Even with an injury."

[peter__parker]

"I didn't do anything after the injury," Peter said. "And I'm glad I didn't have to. You guys did well."

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Because she's curious, she asks, "You really don't stop talking, even when fighting, do you?"

[peter__parker]

"I do sometimes. Not often," Peter said. "It's a nervous habit. When I'm worried, I talk a lot. It helps me concentrate. And, really, I'm never more worried than when somebody is trying to kill me."

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"I don't think I've ever heard someone admit that before," says Aeryn, who really has kind of hung with a limited type of crowd.

[peter__parker]

"Also, it tends to irritate people I'm fighting," Peter said. "If they get mad enough, they make mistakes. It works two ways."

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"Not a bad tactic, actually," she agrees. "As long as it doesn't distract you, too."

[peter__parker]

"It's second nature to me. It just flies out without me even thinking about it. A lot like my fighting style, actually," Peter said.

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"I can see that," she says, and for Aeryn it might be something like a compliment.

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"Someday I swear I'll learn how to actually fight," Peter said. "It can only help."

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"You haven't had any training?" she asks. Thinking about it, it isn't that she's actually seen him fight in the way she's used to, but she just expected that he knew what to do.