Match 3

[mathisradical]

Action: Outside 1249 Williams Road

[ Niou steps out the front door just to trip over a package lying there. He trips, letting out a couple of swear words, and looks around quickly to see if anyone saw him. ]

Who the fuck-

[ He stops his angry question when he actually looks down to see what he tripped over. It's a package, and the shape of it is very, very familiar. He bends down to pick it up, turning it over in his hands. Could this be...? Tearing off the paper, he discovers that yes, it is! It's his tennis racket.

Seconds later, he's heading down the sidewalk and towards the rec center. If he remembers correctly, they have tennis courts. ]



Action: Rec center tennis courts

[ The dull sounds of tennis balls thumping against a racket and the courts are accompanied by the occasional grunt. Niou is serving balls hard over the net. He's easily fallen into a familiar rhythm, and it might take a bit to catch his attention as he's in the zone. ]

Comments

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

My captain always told me not to knock somethin' 'till I tried it. So maybe you could show me sometime.

You had yourself a smart teacher, then.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

I'd be glad to. I'd like to get a game going sometime, if I can.

Ah, Jecht was... a pretty intense teacher, yeah.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Do many people around here play football? 'Cos I only know of one other person here who plays tennis.

I taught myself. It was that, or get my ass kicked for lookin' at someone sideways.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Not too many, but I bet I could rope some of my friends here into trying it out.

Ah... I never really felt a need to learn until I got here. But I figured self defense was something I really needed to know.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

I could start a tennis revolution... I'll have to rope Marui into it, too. [ Now he's just talking to himself. ]

Not that hand-to-hand or knives are any good against the ones who have weird-ass powers or guns.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Ah, you know someone else who'll play? Guess I really better get to practicing then.

Um, well, true. But that's the whole reason I started training in the first place. I don't have any powers or magic or anything like that. But I have been learning to use a gun, too.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's someone else from my world here. He's not as good as I am, though. He's specifically a doubles player.

It's a shame I'm only fourteen and can't get my hands on a decent weapon.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Ask an "adult". I had to get a gun the same way. Ah, Mr. Sniper, he's got a shooting range here at the rec center. He'd probably be willing to help, since he teaches people how to shoot.

[mathisradical.livejournal.com]

Huh... Guess I'll have to do that. [ He's not sure how he feels about guns, but whatever. With Mayfield, you gotta pull out all the stops. ]