Room 401, Sunday Afternoon

[nottrivial]

As of a trip to the mainland this morning, Alec was now the proud owner of a longbow.

It was, obviously, long (seriously long; Alec was six-two and the bow was probably about the same) and even if he didn't dwell on how exactly he intended to carry it around to the range and to places where he might need it (for example, home), he did have to come to a conclusion on where to store it in his room. Ideally soon, because the more he stood and looked around for a place for it, the more he kind of wanted to take it to the range and break it in, and he'd already done his training for the day with his recurve.

The obvious answer, 'under his bed,' was eluding him so far. He'd get there.

Comments

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"You know, someone might think you're compensating for something with that bow." And hello. He meant to add a hello or some sort of equal greeting in there.

[nottrivial]

"Then please don't tell me what it says about the girl who I saw shooting one just like it the other day," Alec requested. Huh, that retort was almost snappy. Way to go, Alec.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Is this girl your new sibling?" Jace asked. "Natalie told me you were having some sort of shooting contest with her a few days ago."

[nottrivial]

"She told you that?" Wonderful. Alec ran a hand through his hair. "Yeah, her name's Kate Bishop. I don't know why Natalie felt the need to tell you. It wasn't that interesting."

Unless you were the kind of person who thought Alec getting his ass kicked in a contest was interesting.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"So did you win or lose?" Yeah this is probably why Natalie had told him. So Jace could mock him if he lost.

[nottrivial]

"Our judge called it as roughly even," Alec said. That was not true. "But it reminded me I'd been meaning to pick up a new bow. So."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Roughly even," Jace repeated. "What does that mean?"

[nottrivial]

"You know, approximately a tie." Even though ties were, by nature, pretty precise. And non-approximate.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh." Yeah he totally didn't believe you, Alec. "Well that's good then. Be pretty embarrassing if you lost to a mundie. She's a mundie, right?"

[nottrivial]

"You know, I didn't ask," Alec said, feeling a bit more optimistic all of a sudden. "Maybe not. She definitely had... skills."

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"You know I didn't expect you to do the sibling thing for anyone." Not because he didn't think Alec did a good job at being a sibling to him, but he wasn't exactly the type to want to be around strangers.

[nottrivial]

"I didn't exactly volunteer," Alec admitted. "The school just paired me with her. But she's interesting, and we at least have the archery thing in common, so I don't mind."

Even if she seemed to like Natalie more than Alec would have liked. Sigh.

[liarallmyown.livejournal.com]

"Got lucky then," Jace said. "You could have been stuck with someone completely dull."

[ultron_junior]

"Heavy firepower," Victor observed matter-of-factly as he came back to the room and launched himself onto his bed. "Where are you keeping it?"

Far be it from him to deny Alec his hobbies -- especially given the milk cartons of electronic stuffon his side of the room -- but the longbow was rather noticable.

[nottrivial]

"I'm not sure," Alec replied, turning away from his super-weird scrutiny of the room to look at Victor. "Maybe my closet. It's a little big to just keep on the bookshelf."

[ultron_junior]

"Does it fit under your bed?" Victor wondered, since he didn't share Alec's particular blind spot. "Or they have lockers at the range, right?"

[nottrivial]

"I didn't think of that," Alec said thoughtfully, peering under his bed. Yeah, it would work. Obviously. He lifted up the bow and got to work putting it back in its case so it could go under the bed. "Good call. Considering the island, I think I'd rather have it in the room. Unless you mind."

[ultron_junior]

"There is a thing in the handbook that says not to have weapons in the dorms," Victor said, because of course he had both read the handbook and remembered that page. "But I think they just mean not to be dumbasses with weapons in the dorms. And you aren't a dumbass, so ... go for it."

[nottrivial]

"Thanks," Alec said dryly. "I must have missed that page. ...It probably would have been good to mention that rule to my little sibling."

Oh well. He was going to give Kate the benefit of the doubt and assume she wasn't a dumbass.

[ultron_junior]

"Anytime." Truly, Alec might get a big head if Victor was allowed to keep pumping his ego up this way. "It's not like they do room checks. Bet she'll be fine, unless she's the type to pull a knife on anybody who bugs her."

And possibly even if she was. Surreal hadn't gotten kicked out yet.

[nottrivial]

"So far, I think Kate uses her bow for fighting crime," Alec guessed. "Or... something. I wouldn't worry about it."

Ahahaha, Alec not worrying. What was this island doing to him?

[ultron_junior]

"We have a whole league of crimefighters here," Victor observed. "We never seem to get the ones who are the crime. Maybe they just lie about it."

[nottrivial]

"Or they wait to enter crime until they're older?" Alec suggested. "That might be overly optimistic."

[ultron_junior]

"Probably they're too busy knocking over 7-11s to go to high school," Victor agreed. "Or else they have their own weird school. Like Inverse Fandom."

[nottrivial]

"Right here but in an alternate dimension?" Alec wondered. "Where instead of invasions, they get, I don't know, visiting ethics lecturers?"

That wasn't the best example, but still.