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RP: Gym and Juice

Jul 17, 2011 18:04

Date: July 17, 2011
Characters: Ava Byrne, Rivkah Greenberg
Location: Serenity
Status: Semi-Private
Summary: A familiar face at the juice bar.
Completion: Incomplete

( as distractions went, she preferred cooking to physical exertion )

character: rivkah greenberg, location: serenity, character: ava byrne

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rivkah_green July 17 2011, 22:13:43 UTC

Rivkah had caved to the heat reluctantly and come to the gym instead of going for her usual run. The sun was too unforgiving this time of year, no matter how she hated going from recycled air conditioned building to another. At least she could get a smoothie to soothe her annoyance. She was sipping on a mostly orange one when someone came up beside her. She looked familiar too...

"Ava?" She asked, fairly sure that had been her name.

avabyrne July 17 2011, 22:20:28 UTC

She put in an order for a smoothie with strawberry, peach and mango, and was pleased at the fact that she didn't tense up when someone addressed her. She hadn't expected to run into anyone. She turned to the woman and smiled when she saw who it was, nodding.

"Rivkah, right?" she said to the woman she'd met at Angel Abbey a while ago. "How are you? I um, haven't seen you here before, which I guess considering I haven't been here in weeks isn't too surprising."

rivkah_green July 17 2011, 22:22:34 UTC

"That's right, I wasn't sure you'd remember me." She smiled at her, setting down her smoothie. "I'm fine thanks. You probably wouldn't see me here anyway. I only have the membership in case of unbearable weather. I really prefer to be outside. How have you been?"

avabyrne July 17 2011, 22:31:39 UTC

"Me too, lately," she admitted. "I think I'm becoming less of a city girl. Back east I was always at the gym." Her order was up and she reached for it with a grateful nod for the attendant.

"I'm okay. Working a lot, getting used to the heat. Not sure what possessed me to come here when it seems like I do just as much sweating walking my dog." She sipped briefly, and smiled. "But this is good, anyway."

rivkah_green July 17 2011, 22:35:10 UTC

"You don't get used to heat like this. You just wait it out and pray. I'm pretty sure that's why there so big on religion around here." She winked, taking her smoothie back up and taking a long sip. "This is my second summer and I'm not sure I'm going to survive it. What kind of dog do you have?"

avabyrne July 17 2011, 22:45:13 UTC

Ava had to laugh at that. "Careful, Catholic school, K through 12," she said sheepishly. "Not that it made me very big on religion at all, I suppose." She cleared her throat and sipped again. She and the church had parted ways around the time she realised she wanted to kiss girls, so it was kind of the least of her worries, even if all those years were hard to shake sometimes.

"Wilbur's a bit of a mutt," she said. "Some kind of terrier maybe; little thing. Do you have pets?"

rivkah_green July 17 2011, 22:49:12 UTC

"Oh, I still go to temple a few times a month myself, but people take things way more seriously here than they did in New York. Not to mention it's way harder to find a democrat. I miss being the majority." She grinned. "I don't right now, but my brother just got a dog so I'll probably steal Sauce occasionally for snuggles and spoiling."

avabyrne July 17 2011, 23:02:26 UTC

"That they do," she murmured, then smiled wryly. "I miss it too, there's definitely something to be said for Massachusetts. I try to avoid bringing up politics down here. Maybe a miracle will happen and Texas will turn blue one day?"

"They're so good for snuggles," she said, "and spoiling. I think I've probably given Wilbur a taste for people food from letting him try some of my recipes. Does your brother live with you?"

rivkah_green July 17 2011, 23:08:36 UTC

"Texas will turn blue about the same time I grow testicles." She snorted. "Sorry to be crude, must be the sweat."

She really did hate tangling with a totally different political system. All too frequently cases that would have gone one way in New York turned on her here.

"Not right now. He shares a condo with a friend, but he doesn't drive so I'm usually picking him up for one reason or another. Gives me plenty of times to steal snuggles."

avabyrne July 17 2011, 23:20:20 UTC

Ava couldn't help her ears burning a little, but she laughed. Rivkah was funny. "Yeah. Trying for a little optimism, I guess." She glanced around as she took another sip. "I should say I do like Texas most of the time even though I wouldn't have landed here if not for work."

She nodded and thought she remembered Rivkah mentioning her brother the last time. She envied that a little sometimes, having close family nearby. Not so much at the moment, but. "If Sauce is like Wilbur, I'm sure he doesn't mind you stealing all you want. How's work?"

rivkah_green July 17 2011, 23:22:32 UTC

"I appreciate optimism the way most people look at modern art. I like it, it's pretty, but I just don't understand it." She smiled a little wanely."Which segues to your question in that work is slowly killing my faith in humanity. Lots of hard cases with not as many results as I'd like pretty much."

avabyrne July 17 2011, 23:30:20 UTC

"So they do make them jaded in New York?" she asked, trying a joke. "I'm not so different, I'm too analytical not to err on the side of hard facts at the end of the day." She was also the type to run scenarios in her mind a lot, usually arriving at the worst conclusions, so that didn't help either.

Ava winced. "That sucks," she offered. "Working in a crime lab doesn't do much for my faith either. Do you at least like your work, even if you don't...well, like people so much?"

rivkah_green July 17 2011, 23:39:34 UTC

"I think I jaded myself. The non-profit thing sounds good until you have to wade waist deep in human misery. Then again, I don't feel like a terrible human being anymore, so one has to take the trade off." She sighed. "Sorry, this is a terrible way to talk. I do like my job and I even like my clients. I just hate that I can't help them more."

avabyrne July 17 2011, 23:46:39 UTC

Ava toyed pensively with her straw. "I don't know," she said, "that sounds painful but it also sounds like what would make you good at what you do. The worrying I mean; the wanting to help more. Seems like it would be easy for most to just accept that people suck and move on."

She shrugged a little. "My job, well, it requires more distance from human suffering. I deal with it too, but at the same time I don't, if that makes sense. I don't know how you do it."

rivkah_green July 17 2011, 23:50:01 UTC

"I don't know either." She admitted. "When I started I had a lot of righteous rage. When my girlfriend left me, I was so devastated and furious that carried me a long way. Now I'm not so sure."

She didn't think much of the girlfriend part, her sexuality was a part of her and she didn't see Ava as the type to care.

avabyrne July 18 2011, 00:03:02 UTC

Girlfriend. Ava glanced up at Rivkah, watching her a little more curiously now, wondering if she'd ever had trouble just saying it to people the way Ava did. She wanted so badly to move past this--whatever this block was.

"Sometimes it takes that kind of thing to make a move," she ventured. If things hadn't got so messed up between her and Jess she might never have felt the same urgency to get out of DC. "I don't know that that makes the move less of a good one." She paused, hesitating. "I'm sorry, by the way, about...that. Was it recent?"

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