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| | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | A well equipped gym is on one of the lower floors. Paul is currently working out on a punching bag. | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
He stepped inside the gym and paused to look around for a moment. To take in the equipment that was available as he grabbed a towel from the pile and drapped it around his neck.
Ben nodded to paul as he started to stretch out, warming up his muscles for his workout.
"Paul, I will have a higher gravity field where I am working out. Didn't want you stepping into it without knowing." | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul:
“Is it that large of an area?”
He pauses.
“Unless it’s truly massive, I imagine I could deal. I’m pretty tough.” | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
"No, I usually make it a five foot radius around myself. Not enough to hurt you but if you aren't expecting it you can trip and bang yourself pretty well." | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul
“So, I never expected to see you here, honestly.”
He says mildly.
“Your da was petty ruthless about protecting his secrets. Wonder how he got caught?” | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
"It appeared that Lady Grey messed with their minds." he said quietly, worried how mom was doing. "Although how they knew to be there...I don't know." | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul
“Yes. Isn’t that weird? Someone told that they would be there.”
He picks up a fair side weight and starts lifting.
“So someone knew, and that someone was willing to risk ticking off your da in order to make it happen. How many did that? Hell, I know mine would have rather have just gone ahead and beat himself up in an alleyway rather than do that.” | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
"I have no idea. I didn't really engage in my father's 'other' business. He was grooming me to take over the firm and to develop my abilities so that I could defend my own. I believe that mother and he had an agreement." he said, shrugging as he slipped off his jacket to reveal a chiseled torso and concentrated for a second as he adjusted his stance for the increased gravity and started off with some dumbbell curls. | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul:
“Yes. From what I’ve heard your mother was very good at ‘arrangements’. Father usually tried to avoid being on the wrong side of one of hers.”
“You ever learn wrestling?”
He says mildly. | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
"Some basic moves but more ground work from judo and Krav Maga. Father thought one should know how to defend oneself." he said, curling the weights in sets of twelve.
"You wrestle?" | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul:
“Greco-Roman Wrestling, Dambe and Moraingay. My father wanted me to know how to kill people, honestly. And no, I haven’t yet.”
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| | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
He nodded, concentrating on his curls and then moving to upright rowing.
"He wanted you to be a killer?" | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul:
“Well, what else are we for but to follow in their footsteps, right?”
He says with just a tings of sarcasm.
“I mean, when your father is the assassin against whom no lock will hold, what else would you expect the dumb jock kid to be?” | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
"Whatever you decide to be. Your father might have expected you to do what he wanted you to do but he isn't here anymore. What do you want to do?" | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul:
“You really think your father was going to let you live a normal life, Ben?”
He starts ... stretching- quite far.
“Seriously? I mean, I know who he is, it’s obvious.” | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
"He had his plans and I had mine. One of the benefits of being the son of someone that doesn't follow the rules is that you don't have to either. I had my own plans and thoughts. Frankly he won't have thought much of me if I hadn't." he said, shrugging as he finished off his upright rowing. | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul
"YOu believe that, do you?"
He said mildly.
"How well did you really know them? You do realize that he had people killed - and he wasn't the only one, right?"
He seems to be watching him carefully, as if studying. | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
"I know exactly who my parents are. They did not tell me every detail of their operations but it really came as no surprise to me. My father was an exceptionally calculating businessman and his ambition knew no boundary." he said, getting a lighter set of weights to do dumbbell flys.
"Whatever else they were or did, my parents were good parents if hard at times." | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | He nods slightly.
“Wish I could believe that. Hard to hold to that when you see who they are first hand, you know?” | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
"I am sorry if they involved you in things you did not wish to do. But I won't talk about what they might or might not have done here. Not where anything I say could be used in evidence against them." he said, shrugging as he takes a moment to wipe the sweat off of his brow. | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul:
He sits looking at him for a bit, eyebrows raised.
“... you think they're innocent?” | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
"I think that they are my parents and I will not help convict them."
He finished the flies and went to start squats. | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul
“Huh. Ok.”
He shrugs and starts more exercises himself.
“Guess I never really got all that attached to mine. Good thing too. Got himself killed trying to take out a passenger train with someone he didn’t like on it. You probably saw it on the news, big crash averted by bod heroic action and all that rot.” | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
He paused after the first set of squats, looking over at Paul.
"I vaguely remember that. Sorry about your loss. Despite everything he was still your father." | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | Paul:
He pauses.
“No. Not really. I wish I could sugarcoat it but if it had been his choice I would have known five ways to kill a man but been complete unaware of the rules of a football game. I at least have my suspicions that my mother didn’t really die in childbirth. He was not a good man. Hell, I guess I’m not one either, otherwise ...”
He shrugs.
“But it is what it is, you know?” | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
"It was what it was. Maybe this place will give you a new shot at life. Make your own way and decide who you want to be. At least my parents gave me that. In the letter they left me in case they ever got taken it told me to go forge my own life. I was stupid enough though to think I might have been able to get my mother out of custody." he said, shrugging. | | | | Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 Arssanguinus Moderator | OP Arssanguinus Moderator Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 61,243 Likes: 3 | “Yes, I would have to agree. The hole never lets go of its prey. And that is probably for the best, all told.” | | | | Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 Babylon 5 Rules Administrator | Babylon 5 Rules Administrator Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 173,430 Likes: 7 | Ben
He just nodded and turned back to his workout, gradually increasing the gravity well around him. | | |
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