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[bodilesswarrior]

[Her eyes are red, and her voice is flat.]

Cassandra Cain is gone.

Does anyone feel like sparring? [She wants to hit someone. She wants to sweat and ache and bleed.]

[Private to David Cain]

Not you. [Her laugh is low and choked.] It's funny, isn't it, that I don't want to hurt you? [But she's not sure she could stop herself from going for his throat, right now.]

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[bodilesswarrior]

No, I know. Just figured it'd be a good distraction.

[A slight grimace.] I guess there just hadn't been enough hell this month. I'm sorry, Mickey.

[americasdirtiest]

I know. [The distraction, he means. If it hasn't exactly been helping, beating down every one of the demon parasites he can find, it's at least been putting time between himself and the sharp, bitter hurt that is losing Ian.

But even the has limits, he thinks, glancing away, then doubtfully back at the camera.]

You ever do that before?

[bodilesswarrior]

What, use gratuitous violence to cope with grief? [There's a wry, faintly bitter amusement in the words.]

[americasdirtiest]

...I meant sparring, but yeah, I guess.

[bodilesswarrior]

Yeah. Had to switch it up, after - [she gestures at her chair] - but it's just as effective.

[americasdirtiest]

...with guys?

[bodilesswarrior]

[Oh, that gets a smirk. Sharp and fierce, shining through everything else.] Don't think I can handle guys, Mickey?

cw: sexism, implied ableism

[americasdirtiest]

[He's pretty sure there is no reasonable way to answer this question.]

...look, where I come from, you don't hit women, okay? You just don't. Especially not one in...

[He knows enough to shut up there, at least.]

cw: sexism, blatant ableism, ty babs

[bodilesswarrior]

[Her smirk only deepens.] In a wheelchair, you can say it.

See, that's one the reasons I win all the time.

cw: more sexism

[americasdirtiest]

[He frowns, still looking uncomfortable. He rubs the back of his neck.]

I got in a fight with that vampire bitch, but... I dunno.

[He still feels a lingering weirdness about that, too.]