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It's that time again [ota]

Feb 22, 2010 16:12

The constant flux of night patrol shifts were beginning to take their toll on Agent Zero. Before he honestly didn't mind them, maybe even enjoyed them, but now that they were only split between he and Jack it made things more difficult. Having a patrol job at night didn't excuse you from your day time duties. He couldn't remember when he'd slept ( Read more... )

✝ kale hopkins, victor creed, ✝ fred 'blob' dukes, ✝ david 'agent zero' north, ✝ alyssa ryan

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kinshou_kitsune February 23 2010, 23:50:41 UTC

The forms were etched in to her mind. Step here, trail with the blade there, guard right then cut left- each movement the woman did with the sword in her hand was done with such an accurate note one would have expected an instructor there watching. Not that Lyssa expected anyone to come in to the gym at that time. Even in spite of the hour, and the curfew, the gym was quite popular during the day. It was quieter at night and more relaxed with less want to impress and intimidate.

Adding a second blade her pace picked up. Blue-green eyes remained closed as she counted out the steps and each change in pitch as blades wooshed past her. Easy enough to miss someone possibly coming in side and possibly informing that she was violating the curfew she, ah, knew she was violating.

donthink_shoot February 24 2010, 03:16:56 UTC

Seeing as the young woman was practicing swords, with fire no doubt, it was probably unwise for Zero to be half asleep. And nearly colliding into her blade. Only a few moments away from being decapitated did he notice, quickly using his reflexes to dodge out of the way.

Instinctively he pulled his guns. How was he to know someone was 'practicing' this late? It was after all after curfew. Could have been an attack. Could have been his lack of sleep.

"Put the swords down."

kinshou_kitsune February 24 2010, 03:28:58 UTC

He shouldn't have been sleep walking to get that close to one of her blades. Alyssa paused, not lowering the blades at first as the green fire cast eerie shadows on to the walls and those close enough to be in their area. When she opened her eyes they swirled between golds and reds locked on to Zero's face. "I didn't think," the younger woman replied with a wry lit, "that it was illegal to workout in the gym."

So she didn't exactly lower the blades per the order, but she did cross them on her shoulders with the blades pointed away and closer to their scabbards. This was like playing with fire but not so much in the proverbial sense of the phrase.

donthink_shoot February 24 2010, 03:42:33 UTC

"It's past curfew. You shouldn't even be in the gym." He slowly began to lower his guns back to their holisters, but his grip on them stayed firm. Though he could see she obviously meant no harm this was Agent Zero. Uptight was his middle name.

kinshou_kitsune February 24 2010, 03:52:40 UTC

"Oops." The slight pause was intentional as was the twitch of her lips upwards in to a smile. "My bad."

Slowly the fire seemed to retract off of the swords as if it were in water with a pace slowed by its want to be released. Once it had crept its way back up toward the hilts it vanished without so much of a trace of smoke. "Sleeping wasn't much of an option. Thought I would try to work some energy off."

donthink_shoot February 24 2010, 04:06:51 UTC

Zero merely rolled his eyes. She wasn't the first to be like this. He'd had plenty of experience with this sort of thing, no one was worst than Wade. At least she was merely pretending and not insulting him with some verbal diarrhea.

"Thats not my problem. Rules are rules."

kinshou_kitsune February 24 2010, 04:18:09 UTC

She hadn't mastered the fu of Wade speak yet.

"What you want be seriously bouncing off the walls in the morning like a person stick in a pinball machine?" The brow that Lyssa raised was much like his own, a slight snort and a roll of her eyes as she studied the man. Her gaze wasn't exactly that friendly falling more in to a line of measuring him up. Lyssa had half a mind just to go back to what she was doing before. Was he going to be a fraking tattle tale on her?

donthink_shoot February 24 2010, 17:15:55 UTC

If he'd known he was going to be rolling his eyes this much in one night he would have considered an asprin. Honestly. There were 24 hours in a day, and only 7 had them required to be in bed. Was it that hard, or did they just enjoy making life complicated? Surely it was the latter.

"Look. Before you get your diapers in a bunch, relax. I didn't make the rules. So go whine to someone who cares. I'm just doing my job."

kinshou_kitsune February 24 2010, 17:23:04 UTC

The look that Lyssa shot the man was more than just a little daring. Her fingers tightened around the hilts of the swords that still rested against her shoulders as she took one deep little breath. "I see someone has a daddy complex. Want me to fetch your paper and slippers before I skip off to bed like a good little girl? What about your pipe?"

All right so there was a little sneer there at the end. Ryan was a grown woman. Grown ups didn't have curfews in the real world and from what she could tell this was still slightly part of that. It wasn't like Aly had planned on being there much longer but the more words that spewed from the gun toting man's mouth, the more she wanted to stay just to spite him.

donthink_shoot February 25 2010, 01:29:05 UTC

"Try the couldn't give two shits complex." Zero wasn't in the mood for this. Not that he ever was, but now he was running on no sleep. He wasn't going to argue or feed fuel to the fire. Literally.

"If you want to get in trouble with Stryker that's your problem."

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