Hit me with your best shot. Actually, please don't... (Rox)

[Jack McCarthy]

Ok, so maybe the events of the truth or dare event might have been weighing just a little bit on his mind. Namely how much the tall. Blond Amazon woman –Or at least he thought it was a woman- She was certainly stacked like some kind a body builder seemed to be slowly phrasing out Jack, well ok, maybe that last point wasn’t exactly true. Lux even told him that Jack had nothing whatsoever to worry about, and like most things that had managed to sooth Jack nicely so, Jack didn’t have as strong feelings as he did.

But that didn’t stop him from attending the gym

What? He just happened to have the urge to beef himself up…totally out of the blue, nothing. Whatsoever .

Nope. he just happened have the need to turn himself into a muscle bound bad ass who knew so much fighting shit that he could shove his entire fist into someone chest temple of doom of style and show it to them before they died, that’ll show everyone he's not to fuck with him!

Of course, that unfortunately required actual real work …Urg…WHY?! But if it was going to turn his hands into lethal weapons then so be it.

So this is how Jack found himself in the training room dressed in a tight fitting dirty t-shirt he just lift up from his floor that morning trying in vain to lift quite a tiny weight for quite a long time. Frantically gasping with the strain like it was the heaviest weight in the world. Eventually Jack gave up, thinking he needing to change tactics he suddenly changed to the pull up bars, it looked easy enough. Jack looked at it from afar psyching up before taking a running jump and catching the bars and tried to pull himself up.

…It turned out it wasn’t as easy as it looked. “Onneeee….” Jack’s felt like his arms were about to pull himself up failing miserably several times his face contorting in quite a comical expressions like he was being tortured and letting out tiny little high pitched squeaks like a mouse. “Come on..come on…eye of the tiger…Onnnnnee…”

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana tended to go to the gym at odd times, that way she was alone, and did not have to deal with people watching her. She actually often trained out in the woods so she did not have to hold back, but sometimes the workout room was just better for the sake of being able to choose the exact amount of weights you wanted to lift and so on. Now was one of those times where it was perfect for no one really being in the workout room. At least, no one was supposed to be there, but low and behold Jack MCarthy was.

Roxana was mainly surprised at the fact that a person like Jack was in such a location in the first place. He didn't seem like the type to be all for actual exercise and probably kept his weight and body build just form his general energy and running around. Roxana still headed in the gym, dressed in a manner different then her usual style, but it was what she wore when she worked out in the gym. "Perhaps you should start off with building your upper body strength before you try to life all of your weight." Roxana suggested as she walked over towards Jack. She didn't want him to end up pulling something with how he was straining himself already.

"You can seriously end up hurting yourself if you don't train properly." Roxana said; her tone the same as it always was. It was still interesting that Jack could not lift himself up, but there were a lot of people that were not capable of such a thing. Roxana of course could lift herself up, even with just using one hand but she had training and been working out for years.

[Jack McCarthy]

So I guess this is what they call feeling the burn….

Jack huffed and puffed but there was no earthy way his arms were bugging, fuck no wonder so many people did drugs, this was impossible! Not ti mention the fact that Jack arms felt like they were falling off, surely there was an easier way of getting in shape.

“Onnnneeee…”

Suddenly Jack craned his neck his face still beat red and straining with sheer effort of staying up right and saw the one person he didn’t want to see standing there. Roxanna. Of course she had to be alone with Roxanna. Jack had been trying to avoid Roxanna for quite a long time. He still had some quite negative emotions towards her ever since the Truth or Dare incident, that Jack was holding on to. But once again Lux had worked her magic on him and caused him to heel, but he still didn’t want to have any kind of heart to heart with her. So you can imagine how he felt seeing her there. Jack stared at her for a moment before trying to do another pull up

“…Million” With that Jack leapt down and dismounted ungainly almost falling down in the procress but tried to shrug it off in front of Rox “One Million push ups! Must be a slow day!” Jack smiled confidently as if they were friends and he wasn’t giving her evil eyes a few months ago while rolling his shoulders as if he has had a full days workout. “Pisshhhh. Yeah, amateurs might get hurt but you don’t get this body by working out once.Yup it’s not easy keeping this image of physical perfection, but still you can see the results. BOOM!”

Jack suddenly theatrically flexed his “muscles” Or lack there of “I hope you brought tickets to the gun show. Look but don’t touch.”

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana didn't bother to say anything about the fact that he was lying about how many pull up he had just done. Even she could not do that many and she highly doubted that Jack would be able to at any point in his entire life time. That and the fact that she had walked in when he had first got onto the machine and saw that he was not able to do a single pull up. She just looked at him and had her usual blank expression on her face. Not impressed, not bothered by his lie, and well in general not caring all that much if he wanted to be dishonest about himself.

He was never going to be able to really get anywhere if he kept that attitude and thought process up, but Rox was not going to force him to change his way. It was not relevant to her purpose with him and why she was in the workout room in the first place. She just blinked when he tried to make it sound like he knew what he was doing and that he had a body that was something to brag about. Rox was pretty sure that he had to have been dropped on his head several times thought his different stages of development as a young boy; and even now.

"Don't touch because it will actually reveal the lack of muscle there?" Roxana asked, being blunt as she moved over to the machine he was on. She wanted to leave it alone, but it just felt wrong for him to not be able to at least do one pull up. That was the goal now, and she was not going to leave him alone until he could do at least one. "Lux would be sad to hear about you ending up hurt, so you should take this a bit more seriously so you don't pull something." Roxana said, using her words in a particular way to make a point.

She then moved over to the machine, reaching out to move Jack a little so he would not be in her way. It was easy enough for her to get up onto the bar and then she started to do several pulls ups, the first few slow as she went to explain. "It's not all about your arms with pull ups. You also want to use your core and your back. Then be sure to move your arms like so and keeping in mind that you are lifting all of your body weight when you go about it this way." Rox explained.

"I would suggest putting on some weights of this equipment and try lifting half of your weight." Roxana added, easily talking and doing up to ten pull up without breaking a set before she let go and stepped out of the way. She was willing to even help lift him to get his body used to the motion so he was at the very least pulling up with his arms the right way.

[Jack McCarthy]

Jake was something of an acquired taste, for a number of reasons, he had quite a number of insecurities deeply held within himself to those he feels comfortable around he’s much more relaxed (Well, relaxed for him) but he most certainly was not comfortable around Roxanna. So he was deep into self defence mood.

And Why did she have to give him that look? Like a adult looking down at a kid for being stupid and naive? Sure he was used to that look but with Roxanna it was like her eyes just bore into him.

Jack’s face momentarily soured as Roxanna mentioned Lux, his irritation flaring for a second before he stood up against Roxanna “Yeah, yeah blah blah I’d do things my way and you do things your way. I have a very particular training routine and it worked because I’m super Jacked as you can see” Jack nodded Watching the girl do her reps flawlessly “I could do that if I wanted…”

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana was blunt, she could not help it. Had she been putting on an act then she probably would have been a lot softer when it came to dealing with Jack. Yet, she was not longer bothering doing the whole acting thing anymore. She just didn't see the point in it and Jack had not exactly been nice to her so she didn't see the need to adjust herself to be soft with him. She was the same with Luxanna after all, well mostly. Okay, sure Luxanna had a special place in Roxana's heart and she actively tried to not just stomp all over the girl, but she was not delicate with her.

That last thing Lux needed was people coddling her like she was a child when she was becoming a woman as the days passed and should have been treated as such even with what her power was doing to her. That was Roxana's person opinion on the matter but she knew Jack would likely not approve of such thinking. "There is nothing wrong with having your own way of doing things, but there is something wrong when that way is going to lead to you getting hurt." Roxana pointed out, her tone the same as ever. She didn't understand how anyone could put up with a boy his age behaving the way he did, he would have died if he had lived the life Roxana did.

"Then do it. Don't be all talk. Do it right and at least do one." Roxana said as she dropped down and stepped to the side. Gesturing to Jack to 'put up or shut' up. If there was one thing that really bothered Roxana, it was people who were all talk but no action. Those who would talk big but soon as you scolded them they would tuck their tail between their legs. "I'll support you the first time. Get up there." Roxana said, trying a little bit to at least show some kindness to the other boy.