The Shooting Range | Tuesday Afternoon

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It was a mark of Alec's truly impressive disinterest in Fandom goings-on that he'd managed to miss the arrival of the new students without even knowing the picnic had come and gone. He had spent his break week preoccupied with what he considered more important things. Training, mostly. There had been a couple trips to the mainland for patrolling

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[myownface]

Wasn't everyone working through something, these days?

Sparkle wasn't under the assumption that Alec wouldn't see him coming, but that wasn't going to stop him from stepping up behind him and quietly watching him shoot for a moment.

"Figured I might find you here," he noted, after Alec's quiver had emptied. "You look like there's something on your mind, handsome."

So sue him, he'd missed the guy.

[OOC: Slowplay is going to be the order of the day, but I couldn't help it. <3 I've missed these two.]

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"Hey," Alec said, but his voice came out sounding scratchy so he tried it again. "Hey. What're you doing here?"

Sparkle in a room with weapons was, well, a surprise, but Alec was pleased to see him, too. It felt like it had been a while since they'd last seen each other.

[myownface]

"Just... thought to myself, 'hey, know who I haven't pestered at the range in a while? My boyfriend.'" Sparkle shrugged his shoulders and attempted a little smile. "Figured I'd watch a master at work. Maybe pick up a few pointers."

Try not to flail at him too much about Isabelle...

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Yeah, about that... the funny thing was, Alec had no idea that she was even here. At least, for another few minutes.

"That sounds like a valid reason to me," Alec decided, but his 'firm' declaration came out more, well, cute than seriously approving. "Educational. Practical."

Likely to lead to kissing. That one he didn't say, but he took a moment to lean in and demonstrate it clearly enough.

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Isabelle was not the least bit surprised that the first place on her mental list of Find the Predictable Big Brother turned out to be the right one. Not at all.

She entered quietly, because she could be like that. It'd been a while since she'd last seen him training. Or doing much of anything, really. So she was stealing a bit of a moment of that.

Or just waiting to really surprise him. One of those.

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Yeah, Iz was definitely quiet when she wanted to be. A lot of people probably wouldn't have turned.

But Alec -- who normally prided himself on his ability to focus and not be distracted by background noise -- was not one of those people, and he turned as soon as the next arrow left his bow on a perfect trajectory toward the target and it was safe for him to look away.

"Iz?"

[seveninchmotto]

Isabelle grinned at him.

And preened a little bit. She didn't even need a real reason.

"In the flesh."

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Alec set his bow down before he hurried over to hug her, since that was obviously the thing to do here.

"I didn't know you were coming," he said, though that was obvious. Because she hadn't told him and all. "Is it another visiting weekend?"