Eye of the tiger, fist of a...flower? [open]

[terribly2shy]

Laurie was never someone who'd go out to the gym to hit a punching bag. That was more of Josh's thing (or what she had assumed was his thing. She's not so sure anymore, and not just because he isn't here right now). But since she hasn't heard about the warfare training yet, and the entire situation beforehand with the bombs put her on edge, she

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[gunslinging]

Physical activity to de-stress was a popular pastime lately, it seemed.

Axl wasn't really surprised to walk in on someone else getting their frustrations out in the sensoriums, with everything that had just happened. He was a little surprised, however, when he realized he'd just walked in on Laurie. She hadn't really struck him as the type to unwind by hitting things.

He could've just turned around, quietly walked out, and come back to get his own relaxation-through-property-destruction game on later, but he was wondering how she was doing. (If she was hitting stuff, his guess was "not so hot," all things considered.) And he did like --

-- uh, like talking to her, that was all! (Robot boys are apparently no less stupid about these things than human boys are, at least in Axl's world.)

"Hey, uh, sorry to interrupt, but." But what. Uh. "How're you doing?"

[terribly2shy]

[gunslinging]

"Sorry if I surprised you!" he said quickly. "You'd think Stacy would have, like...I dunno. Occupied/Vacant signs on these things or something. So, I mean, if you're busy, I can take off, but I just...thought I'd ask. It's been kind of a crazy week and all that."

[terribly2shy]

"Yea it has," she says a little quietly, rubbing her arm with her gloved-hand anxiously. "It's OK. I'm not busy..." in many senses. She'd been standing there ready to throw a punch for five minutes before Axl walked in.

[ayasofia]

"Hi Laurie." Sofia tried to smile brightly at her friend, although the events of before had dampened her spirits. But that was even more reason to try to cheer up her friends.

[terribly2shy]

Laurie whirrs around on her heel when she hears Sofia's voice. She hasn't seen her friend in a while, and she'd started to worry a bit. "Sofia!" she says aloud, rushing to her friend and pulling Sofia into a hug. "I've missed you!"

[ayasofia]

"I missed you too." Sofia returned Laurie's hug. "I'm sorry I didn't come see you right away. I had to think some things over." And then grieve in private. She hadn't known the people who died, but their loss- especially the loss of Cassie, the same age as most of her friends- still affected her.

[terribly2shy]