AN: There are going to be parts where Sunny thinks to herself…where the boldface inside is another part of her talking to herself… ex: 'I like pancakes…I know you do…I love pancakes…I get it!...You don't have to shout…Really?'
I just wanted to make sure no one is confused by it… and I know some of you will love it.
Tori takes a deep breath as she prepares herself for the conversation ahead. When she takes a step toward the Campion, Jade makes a beeline toward the bathroom with a brief,
"Got'a pee." Tori drops her head, 'sure and I'm a weremoose.' This thought actually makes her chuckle ,for two reasons; first the very idea of a half man with moose antlers, then because there's no such thing as herbivore were-beasts. Feeling a little better she moves closer to Sunny.
Once she's a couple yards away, because spooking a ranked fighter while in striking distance is the very definition of stupid,
"Uhm…Sunny?" Her voice is understandable timid. Sunny delivers a brutal crosskick, which makes Tori cringe. But the fighter smiles,
"Back so soon, Ms. Vega? Did you forget something?" She takes the time to take a few deep breaths.
"No… Actually I needed to talk to you about something… and its Tori." She smiles lightly as she tries to be more casual and friendly, but the sweat on her brow betrays her.
"Oh, all right. But do you mind if I finish up first, I hate to break my rhythm." This is as much truth as an attempt to let Tori collect her thoughts.
"I guess I'll just…take a few swings over here then." She motions to one of the original heavy bags as she begins moving toward it.
"Careful, those are pretty heavy. There's a switch on the wall near the elevator that controls the bags. You might want to try a lighter one." Sunny points to the wall near the elevator. Tori simply looks at her with confusion. Sunny breaks her stance and moves closer as she speaks,
"There are multiple heavy bags and obstacles in the ceiling and floor that can be controlled using that panel. You know for multiple opponent and obstacle training. Those two bags are for special heavy weight fighters, not ideal for a novice." Sunny speaks and moves with great confidence as she motions to the floor, ceiling and finally the heavy bags. Tori notices the 'special' comment and begins to wonder how much the Georgia native actually knew about those bags, but instead of pursuing that pitfall of a route she instead goes the friendly path,
"And what about me says I'm a novice?" All said in a 'don't underestimate me' tone.
"Everything." Sunny smiles with bravado.
"You're not as…" Tori notices this one-eighty in her personality.
"Shy? Timid? Nervous?" As expected Sunny lists these with more bravado.
"Yeah."
"When I'm at work I like to be polite, it keeps things moving smoothly. But here I don't have to worry about upsetting a customer, so I…" She sighs before pointing to her head and,
"Let my hair down." Afterward she looks up with a grin. Tori can't help but snicker. Sunny rolls her eyes,
"Yeah, yeah. So now that you've thoroughly screwed up my regiment, what can I help you with?" Tori's moment of joy is now replaced by nervous terror,
"Sorry… I'm…not gay." She tightens her muscles in her legs and slightly adjusts her feet to better prepare to run if the rest of her confession requires it, but,
"And?" Sunny stares with the lazy question.
"…" Completely stunned Tori loosens her stance and relaxes as she stares at her.
"You were pretty loud when you were defending my…" The barista bobs her head for a bit before the word comes to her,
"Honor." She smiles lightly. Tori's eyes are a little widened,
"So you did hear us… Oh, crap." Feeling like a horse's ass she brings her right hand up to mouth level then proceeds to drop her forehead into her open palm with a light smack. When she lifts her head she smiles thinly,
"That's a relief, but I am sorry if you were offended by Jade and me."
"Yeah, because I'm going to go psycho killer just because you two are such good friends that you can make those kind of light-hearted little jokes with each other at each other's expense…for the most part." After realizing that she was part of the joke she felt a little stupid for everything else she just said, but nevertheless she keeps the smirk. Tori lets her keep the moment and remains silent.
"It's fine. I don't mind. But you owe me a sparring match Saturday." Sunny points at her with conviction and a serious stare. Tori surrenders,
"…okay, I'll be here."
Noticing the continued absence of the other individual to exit the elevator Sunny looks over at the restrooms,
"Ms. West seems to be taking quite a bit of time in the restroom."
"Avoiding you're iron fists most likely." Tori shakes her head.
"Are ya' goin' in after her?" Sunny looks at Tori and motion with her head toward the locker room.
"I could leave her here, but she is my ride…so I guess." She sighs and begins to move toward the aforementioned room.
"…I'd offer to give you a lift, but my ride's in the shop until Saturday and my backup is a moped." Sunny is honestly nervous about this little statement, but feels that it's only right to make the offer, even it sounds slightly suggestive. Tori senses her discomfort and smiles,
"It's fine, I'll just go get the cowardly tiger." Sunny was Dorothy in her elementary school play and knows for a fact that it was a,
"Lion." And she speaks with absolute confidence.
"Uh-oh right, sorry." Tori is briefly confused by this, but snaps back,
"Jade's never really seemed like a lion, much more like a tiger." She hopes her foolish reference to Edaj (she mentally slaps herself multiple times for this slip) is explained by this…and for that matter hopes that Sunny sees a reasonable difference between the similar big cats.
"Ah, then my mistake." Sunny knows that a tiger is indeed different in many ways from a lion and gets that maybe this is an inside joke between the two very odd girls, 'maybe a secret lover's joke? Tiger in bed maybe? I wonder what Tori's is then…Not the time for this Sunny…maybe a cheetah or a leopard?...NOT NOW!' Quickly she snaps herself out of such thoughts and prays to God that she didn't make a face while she zoned out, 'OH God! I didn't zone out did I? Frag me…You're doing it again!' She smiles hoping for the best.
"It's not a problem, Jade doesn't exactly fit the term normal, then again very few people who attend Hollywood Arts do." Tori speaks as if nothing had just occurred to the infinite joy of the barista. However a sinister grin does grace her face,
"If I didn't know better I could swear you're bragging in an attempt at flirting." Tori is completely mortified; she had so feverishly lectured Jade about this kind of thing and now she herself may have been guilty of the very same act. So it was completely understandable that she was nervous,
"Uhm…" Until Sunny, figuring she's owed at least one joke lets a snicker slip. Tori narrows her vision as she looks at her expressionlessly,
"That's not funny."
"I disagree, she's hilarious." Emerging from behind one of the steel/stone supports Jade is grinning diabolically.
"Done hiding?" Tori glares at her with a thin smile.
"For now, but I still reserve the right to run."
"I seriously doubt I'm going to get back to my workout now." Sunny feels her adrenaline rush has completely faded away.
"I doubt you need it that bad." Jade scoffs.
"You are really fast." Tori can't shake the memory of her speed from earlier.
"And the best way to keep that speed and preserve my other skills is to keep up a routine." She throws a few lightning quick jabs.
"Well if you need to keep up your other skills I think Tori might be able to help you with them." Jade's face is emotionless, though Tori senses something about her statement,
"She knows I'm straight."
"I was talking about fighting, gee Vega." For whatever reason Jade can't stop her grin, despite a reasonable effort.
"Sure. I believe you." With eyes rolling Tori smiles.
After a moment of silence Sunny grins, then,
"So…are we going to have a 'dynamite' threesome, or was that just a joke too?" Tori's eyes go super wide before she finally regains the power of speech,
"…You heard that too?"
"Really good hearing." Sunny points at her right ear. Tori brings up both of her palms and slams her head into them, then whacks her head a few times with her right hand and curses herself,
"Idiot!" Jade can't stop herself from laughing out loud. Sunny winces at the impacts of Tori's hand. After one last hit Tori grabs her head with that hand and starts laughing. The two have to hold each other up as the intensity of the hilarity begins to destabilize them.
Sunny simply thinks to herself, 'Yep, they're a couple. Still sexy though…Sunny, stop it…But they're so cute together…I'm you, stupid. I'm not disagreeing, just saying that this isn't the time…Then when?...Later, you know in the shower…Good call, me…I'm aware.' Tori, having recovered from her bout of laughter, looks at the blank expression on Sunny's face,
"Are you okay?" It takes her a second to recover from the thoughts…and even then all she can muster is,
"…huh?"
"You kind of zoned out for a second." Tori looks a little worried.
"Just thinking." She shakes her gentle as she smiles.
"Probably about you naked, Vega." Jade smirks as she looks over at the mighty mage.
"Jade, just because she's gay doesn't mean she thinks about every girl like that." Tori's tone is dead serious… But how little she knows of Sunny's little fantasy…not that she does think about every girl like that, in fact she can be rather picky…but Tori and Jade fit her standards rather nicely.
"Guys do and we think about guys the same way." Jade winks at Tori.
"You do, I like to have some decorum." Tori's tone shifts to a more prudish flavor.
"Really, so you didn't think any impure thoughts about that new guy Tom?" She noticed that Tori may have stolen a few glances before the whole werewolf incident.
"No, why? Did you?" Tori on the other hand has no idea what she's talking about.
"Duh, he's got a great ass." She's as blunt as a sledgehammer.
"Tasteless." Returning to prudish Tori shakes her head in disapproval.
"More like tasty." Grinning Jade licks her lips.
"He did have a nice smile, but I have other things on my mind right now." The mighty mystic confesses, sort of.
"Like me?" The gun-lover smirks.
"You know it, babe." Tori plays along apparently ignoring the barista looking at them.
"Awe, always so sweet. I'll have to reward you later." Her eyes seem to be undressing her in preparation.
"I can't wait. I'll bring the leather." Tori beams.
"I always knew you were into the kinky stuff, no one is that prudish." Jade's is fairly certain that Tori is actually into that kind of stuff and she's just using this as an excuse to say it out loud without any real judgment.
"What can I say, I love the sound of a whip cracking against my soft bronzed skin. The feeling of the pleasure surging through every fiber of my being as you soothe the pain with your soft, gentle kisses. The very though makes me want to see you in your tight leather suit with the exposed…" The spell-weaver's torrent of sexy is made infinitely more sensual by her seductive tone and body's slow gentle movement closer to Jade. She's stopped by Jade raising a single hand,
"Not in public." She then grins as she motions to Sunny, who doesn't seem to be affected in the least… of course on the inside, 'Holy Shit! That was hot!...no fucking kidding, dumbass…She is so sexy…Again, no shit!...I think…I know.'
"Sorry, I think I got a little too into that." Tori is completely horrified for forgetting about Sunny's presence.
"Like I said, 'In your arms' and 'naked'." Jade on the other hand is delighted to no end by this little display and can't help but remind Tori of the last time she went this far, which was like twenty minutes ago.
"…Sorry for interrupting your training and the gay jokes and the weird sexy talk…stuff." The dragon-mage's face is a lovely shade of red as she apologizes furiously, and the truth is it's only embarrassment. Jade snickers, earning her a sharp glare from Tori, which only makes the gun-lover snicker more.
"It's alright. No harm, no foul." Sunny speaks perfectly calmly, despite her internal chaos.
"Okay, well… I'll see you Saturday." Regardless of this weirdness Tori plans on keeping her word and will spar with Sunny on Saturday, but doesn't really want to see her beforehand, if only because of this…incident.
"See ya'." Sunny throws her a two finger half salute.
"Yeah, bye." Jade does the same to Sunny, whose response is a nod and,
"Bye." At this last farewell she turns back toward her heavy bag, in a hope to release a certain stress with violence against a harmless bag. Jade and Tori are bound for the lift.
"She totally wants you." Jade leans over and whispers as they board the elevator.
AN: Love, hate, input, then please review.
And I pray that the Sunny internal dialogues were entertaining.
Oh, and no, there will not be any Sunny/Tori action…or Jade/Sunny either. I'm saving Sunny for another…But I won't say who…mahahahhahahah :{)