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This ain't the Garden of Eden

Who: Julien and OPEN to friends (If you're wondering if he considers your character a friend, the answer is yes)
Where: Tony Stark's semiabandoned pad in Locke. (Permission was given by the mun who played his godson and 'inherited' the house)
What: Pool party, hangout, talking about things! Go on and mingle.
When: Backdated - Sunday the 27th.

There's a section of Locke given over to rich people's houses in the woods. This one is surrounded with concrete walls and has an angular, geometric-looking gate guarding access to its long driveway. Julien is operating it remotely and opens it without delay.

Much of the space between the walls and the house hasn't been maintained at all this year and is a field of tall grass and flowers, some wilting in the heat, with bushes and trees dotted about. Closer to the house is a volleyball net and the two swimming pools. In the shade near one of them is a table with drinks and mostly fruit-related snacks.

The house itself is aggressively modern and a massive show of wealth. Most of the many cats have been shut away for this - do not release them, there are a lot! Some still roam about or sleep on the furniture. Also roaming is a small army of modified Roombas, chirping and trundling about to the directions of the house computer. Tiny cameras are everywhere, but Julien has subverted the security systems completely.

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[She'll manage all that, but Blaine is well balanced on the ledge of the pool and thus all that Robyn will achieve is having her arms wrapped around Blaine's shoulders.

And Blaine grinning up at her.] And what now?

Uhmm...Uh...This!

[And she'll do her best to try and yank Blaine back into the water.

...Except she doesn't have a lot of weight to use against her. ...Or upper body strength.]

[Yeah, it's not working - Blaine of course realizes what Robyn is trying to do, because she has to work against it, but it isn't enough effort to force her to show it - not with her favourable position and her much more trained muscles. She isn't security for nothing.

So what she will do is pretend to look relaxed and grin up at Robyn.]

And what is this?

[Robyn just shoots her a little glare and tries to push harder. When that doesn't work she'll put her legs up against the wall of the pool and try to pry to her off.]

Urgh! Grk-This!

You'll have to be clearer-

[When Robyn has thoroughly brought herself to a point where all of her is directed towards the pool, Blaine will suddenly push herself up and throw both of them back into the water, aiming to push the other girl downwards again, hands on her shoulders towards the bottom of the pool.]

Wha-

[Robyn can barely get another word out before she suddenly finds herself being thrust into the water again. Her grip will tighten onto Blaine now out of shock and surprise rather than playfully trying to force her under.

She'll keep holding on until they get near the bottom, at which point she'll let go and try to make a quick escape to the other side of the pool.]

[She'll let go once Robyn starts to try and get out from under her, and drift back to where she was, leaning again on the edge of the pool.

And then shout over once Robyn is out of the water and has gathered herself:]

You should learn to defend yourself better!

[It doesn't Robyn too log to get to the ther side of the pool an surface. She'll take a couple deep breaths an shake the water out of her hair before she shoots a glare over at Blaine again.

Until the comment about her needing to learn how to defend herself comes up. That hits a rather recently developed soft spot and she looks down to the bottom of the pool in self conscious thought. She probably wouldn't have all those mostly faded bruises if she could have defended herself, she'd probably still be able to team up with Danny if she hadn't of gotten them both into that situation with the mob.

She'll shake try to shake those thoughts off and swim back over toward Blaine, she was here to enjoy herself with friends not think about mafia attacks.

Unfortunately for her with all the thinking she's been doing she's stopped running her mouth, which isn't something she normally does.

When she gets closer to Blaine, she'll throw another splash her way, but it's small and half hearted, lacking the energy she had a moment ago.]

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Hey.

[She ignores the splash, turning so she has one elbow on the side of the pool, leaning her head on her hand and looking at Robyn that way.]

You shut up. Why?

[Robyn just starts treading water when she reaches Blaine, idly kicking her feet to stay afloat. She glances from side to side nervously when asked why she got quiet.]

Me? shut up? Nah, I-I'd never do that. That's crazy talk.

[By the tone of her voice it's pretty obvious she isn't being too honest about that.]

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[A splash of water flies in her direction.]

Stop lying, and tell me why. Is it because you're weak and too dumb to do something about it?

[And she takes that splash in the face. She'll spit some water out of her mouth before she looks around nervously.]

N-No! It's not that at all. I-I was just thinking about something for a last week...

[She pauses nervously, she really didn't want to think about it much less talk about it.]

There... Well there we a bunch of mafia goons and well...

And they attacked you and beat you up, and you couldn't really do much.

[Her eyes narrow as she leans forward a bit.]

Or was there more to it?

[She slowly inched over toward the edge of the pool and put an arm up against it.]

...Uhmm... Well there was more to it but well... You've basically got it there.

They used the fact I couldn't do anything to hurt one of my friends.

Tell me about the more. And also what you're going to do against being unable to protect yourself.

[She doesn't sound particularly interested, more like it's a light small talk topic while they're waiting in a line, or even derisive, but that's what you got to expect from her in cases like these... it says nothing about her actual levels of interest, and she's rather curious right now. And the old thought of "indebt people to you so you can call in favours should you need them" resurfaces as well... And then Robyn has kind of caught her eye, but she's too young and she'll probably come across her too often on the network for it to be a good idea to hit on her, anyway. Too hard to drop the connection later.]

Well... I was with someone else when it happened. Normally I think they'd be able to handle something like that without a problem. ...I guess I kind of held them back during the whole thing and we both ended up getting hurt.

[She paused nervously, watching her feet kick lightly in the water for a little.]

I-I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do. My aunt offered to teach me some stuff, but I'm not sure how well I'm going to be able to use that.

Why? If it works for her, it should have half a chance of working for you unless she's got some magical powers that you lack, or you're too dumb to handle the equipment that she gives you.

[She shrugs.]

Though it's still better when you don't require any equipment. Fighting with your hands and whatever you can get ahold of in an everyday situation is more useful. [...She's never taught those things. She never thought she ever would, but she finds that she wouldn't mind showing this one the ropes, at least a bit. It's been a while that she had a punching bag, and it'd mean that the girl would have to be grateful - that's totally it.]

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Y-yeah and I mean if I run into a situation where I can use it, I think I'll be able to... But, well... she can show me how to use a gun but that doesn't exactly make it legal for me to carry one right now.

[She huffs a little, but after a passing moment she'll just sigh.]

Yeah, that does sound a whole lot more useful to know right about now.

I'll teach me if you promise that you don't cry over every single bruise that you acquire.

Wai-What? You'd teach me?

[Her eyes go a little wide in surprise at the offer, but her narrow into the smallest glare at that last part. She'll send another splash of water Blaine's way.]

I-I wont cry!

If you say that you're setting yourself up for failure. But don't do it every other second.

[She thinks for a moment.] The day after tomorrow I'm free all afternoon until seven. How about it?

[Ruby's eyes narrowed a little more but she didn't say anything. ...She had taken a beating recently and well... she had cried about it. It was hard to argue about that.]

The day after tomorrow? Yeah. Sure, I could do that.

If you do well, we can find a second date.

...until then, stop it with that face. It's a beautiful day and all that, sun shining and such. Get yourself a drink.

[She gestures over to a low table where a couple of bottles are located, not all of the sodas. None of them paid for by Blaine.]

[ooc: Do we want to log one of the follow-up trainings?]

...I'll try to not to let you down.

[Robyn considered that for a second and she did her best to smile before she pushed off the wall, swam up behind Blaine and made an attempt to climb up on her back again.]

Alright, take us over to table!

[Blaine will scramble out of the water when she sees Robyn make her move and just so make it - but stay to offer Robyn a hand, bracing herself as she almost expects the other female to try and pull her back into the water.]

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