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 Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 8:52 pm
An indoor swimming pool. Izaya had to see it to believe it. They had an indoor swimming pool and it was free for any Rocket to access it. Sure, it may have been intended mainly for training purposes, but the luxury of the private pool was too much a temptation to resist. The newly-demoted trainee decided to take a dip.
He arrived at the scene with a towel which he carefully kept over a chair by the poolside. Hazardous though it was, the slim man decided to chance bringing one or two of the books that Aila had assigned him to read while his back healed up. It was healing very nicely, he believed, and so long as he didn't stay in the water too long, he couldn't see how it would be harmful to take a little swim, injury or no injury.
Slowly easing himself into the shallow end while wearing his swimming trunks, he opened one of the books to where he had left off and placed it on the dry edge of the pool, immersing only half his body in the water as he sat on the shallow steps. His swimming trunks billowed around his slim legs, the contrast of a black background against the pattern of yellow caution tape and street signs still visible even underwater.
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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:32 pm
Just because she owned a Water-type Pokemon didn't mean that it got to go with her every time she wanted to take a swim. She had been hoping to catch Shin and put him in his Pokeball while he was asleep, but the silly Oshawott had woken up, seen her in her bathing suit and had tried to follow her. Multiple times.
Eventually the young Trainee had managed to escape and leave Shin in their room, but she knew that whenever she went back, she would be in for it--Shin hated not going to the pool.
She shook those thoughts away though as she pushed open the door to the pool, then curiously tilted her head when she noticed a man with black hair reading in the pool. Reading in the pool.
"Er, you know those'll probably get wet, right?" she said before she could stop herself. Then smiling hesitantly as she adjusted her cover up, she added, "Sorry, of course you do, you're probably not an idiot," Blushing lightly at her own stupidity, Cassie moved away from the door and found an open chair and set her bag down, then started back over toward him--only because the stairs to climb in the shallow end were right by him. Normally she would've just slid in without them, but she didn't want to risk--as she had pointed out--getting his books wet.
"I'm Cassie, by the way. What's your name?" she asked, leaning up against the adjacent wall of the pool after she had climbed in. "And what are you reading?"
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Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 11:28 pm
The young man looked up, his reading disrupted. He knew he wouldn't have time to himself for long, but the silence had hardly lasted a couple of minutes. Smiling wanly at the blonde girl, he rested his cheek against his palm. "Thanks for the warning, but I rationalized that as long as I refrained from splashing around, the water wouldn't have much of a way out of the pool." That, and they weren't his books to begin with. "Now that you're here, though, I suppose I should re-evaluate the chances of them getting wet."
He laughed suddenly. "I appreciate your faith in my intelligence, but I've actually done quite a few idiotic things within my short time here. Far worse than getting a few books damp. Like getting demoted from grunt to trainee, for example." The enraged, reddened face of a certain brown-haired, blue-eyed man came to mind, causing Izaya's grin to broaden. "A friendly warning out of concern is a nice change from the tantrums of fury some people instantly throw."
Closing his book, he got out of the pool to put them on the chair over which his towel was draped before returning to the shallow end. "Pretty name for a pretty girl. Careful with that blushing, Cassie," he teased her with a smirk. "Someone might get the wrong impression. As for what I had been reading," he continued, swimming out to her, "It was a book on the benefits of subordination and teamwork."
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