The Shooting Range, Thursday Morning

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Because Alec was officially the most welcoming of all fake siblings ever, suck it Natalie Adams, no sooner had he met his new little sibling Kate yesterday than they had made plans to go to the shooting range today. And because Fandom had no shortage of professional arms models archers, they even had a judge lined up to oversee the proceedings. In

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Other Shooting Range Uses!

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And this is my only OOC-ish icon, which also looks weird, so... two for two.

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[whenshewasnice]

Natalie wasn't going to suck anything of yours, Alec, thank you very much. She was wandering down here this morning, though, because she was due for a bow of her own, and wanted to check out the range.

She was surprised to see people here. Things looked like they could even get interesting, so she stayed.

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Alec managed to keep his scowling at seeing Natalie in 'his territory' fairly minimal, as he was aware that this was a public place and being scowly was irrational and childish. Still, that didn't stop him asking the condescending question, "Are you waiting for someone?"

Because she had no bow, see, and he refused to believe that she knew how to use one. Real nice, Alec.

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[whenshewasnice]

Natalie's spiteful side (a little more prominent these days, with allher stress) made her want to offer to text Jace to get him here. But she didn't go with that.

"No," she said, looking utterly unaffected by his unnecessary condescension. "I'm just looking around."

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Alec gestured. "Lanes. Bows. Equipment. It's not that complex."

Alec was the nicest guy ever.

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[whenshewasnice]

Yeah, Natalie's blank look completely agreed. "Is there something you're afraid of right now, Alec?"

Because she felt like he was trying to shoo her away. Passive-aggressively.

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That got an eyebrow-raise out of him, even though yep, Natalie was spot-on right there. "Should there be?"

Well, you know. Losing to a mundie in front of his mortal enemy, etc.

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[whenshewasnice]

"You're acting like there is," Natalie replied impassively, glancing around. "What is it that you're actually doing here?"

You know, right now.

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"My school-assigned sibling and I were going to practice our archery."

You know, at the same time. With different types of bows. While a professional archer judged them.

That was totally normal.

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[whenshewasnice]

"Right," Natalie said.

Please excuse the way she was reaching into her pocket for her phone right now.

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"...What?"

No, he actually was ignoring the phone. His attention was mostly on that 'Right.'

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[whenshewasnice]

"What?" Natalie asked right back at him, while glancing down at her phone because she couldn't quite find the new text bit blindly.

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"You said 'Right.'"

And Natalie was a master at that dry sarcasm thing that Alec never seemed to quite get the hang of when other people did it, so...

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[whenshewasnice]

"Yes," Natalie agreed, barely looking up. "Could've also been substituted with 'Of course', or maybe 'I see'."

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"Aren't there other places you could be using your phone?" Alec interjected, abandoning the sematics discussion. He didn't know why, but he knew that something about Natalie was unnerving him right now.

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[whenshewasnice]

He'd just sealed her decision to press Send. So, thanks for that, Alec!

The phone went back in her pocket after that. "It's a public space."