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"Whatever you say, Hoss." Freddie threw a punch at Gaius's gut, as ever broadcasting his target by the movement of his arm.

Freddie sucked in a breath and made an odd, high pitched squeal as Gaius's punch connected. He'd forgotten about how much that hurt.

"You... ********..." he muttered, his eyes watering.

Freddie hadn't quite recovered enough to speak... but after putting both hands on Gaius's shoulders he did make a good attempt at kneeing him in the crotch.

"Guess that hurts more after all." Freddie took the opportunity while Gaius was down and not looking to try and massage out the lingering pain from the hit to his chest. He hadn't quite reached a point that he could associate that with being as bad as crotch scratching in public.

"So there."

Freddie almost gave into temptation to kick Gaius while he was done, but there was a practical part of him that knew he had to get out of there before he could recover and possibly even the score. If he left now his victory was safe.

"See ya." He'd run out of horsie nicknames, so he left it at that before he turned and left the work out room.

It still hurt.

Lauren might have been pushing herself going into the gym maybe too early. But she wanted to recover as fast as possible, fighting the serum induced illness with all of her will. She hated being weak, but that was her right now. Weak and ill but recovering.

She decided to try to use a walker today instead of a wheel chair. It was working rather well, her legs were gaining a small amount of very lean muscle again. The mongoose girl was also gaining back her hair. She still, however looked like she had been through hell and back.

Lauren decided the treadmill would be her best bet. On slow low intensive walk mode. Before the illness, Lauren was one of the more active people on the island. Now she wanted to work back up to it.

She spotted the old man with the strange appendages on the treadmill. He looked very odd, but Lauren imagined she probably appeared just as odd in her current state to anyone else. Lauren decided to introduce herself, mostly out of boredom.

"Hey tentacle man!" She greeted the gray haired elder.

Lauren smiled back, "Richard, do you go by d**k?" She said rather imaturely. "No I don't think we have met, I don't think I've even met ten percent of this ******** island, I kind of keep to my own." She was rather conversational today, part of the mongoose's social instinct.

She was starting to tire already but walked slow with her hands held tightly onto the bars. With her tank top and short gym shorts Lauren's bone structure was clearly visible. One could tell where these bones have stoped appearing human easily. She stopped being as self conscious about her ugly scrawny form and started to accept it. It was only temporary after all.

"Well Rich I'm Lauren." She stopped the treadmill a bit to take a breather and drink from a bottle of water.

She made a face, "I don't really 'hole' myself up more then I've been... unavailable." Lauren didn't want to give away her weakness, so tried to be as vague as possible. But still she wasn't a recluse, well she didn't consider herself one. She loved the outdoors at least even if the Lauren deep inside tended to dispise most people, avoiding them at all cost. "I'm from duplex ten, but I'm now living in forty two with my girlfriend." The girl looked mostly uninterested in the conversation, keeping her eyes on her water as if it was more interesting.