( FIGHT CLUB | OPEN )

[puppydogeyes]

CHARACTERS: OPEN
LOCATION: FLOOR 003 HOLODECK
WARNINGS: VIOLENCE, LANGUAGE, ETC.
SUMMARY: MINGLING ENSEMBLE LOG FOR FIGHT CLUB
NOTES: NETWORK POST OPEN INVITATION HERE. FREEFORALL, START YOUR OWN THREADS, TAG AROUND, GO NUTS!

Anyone arriving will find the holodeck almost as it comes: a wide open space with very few decorations. In the middle of the room several set of mats have been laid out in individual areas, as one might expect to find in any wrestling or martial arts training room. There are benches, like bleachers, pushed up against the wall for people to take a seat, and towels folded and stacked in piles on the tables next to them. A water cooler has been moved from one of the common rooms into the corner for relief.

Tyke keeps a supervisory eye over comings and goings, repeats the rules to the room at large regularly, but people are mostly left to their own devices: find a fight, or just watch.

Comments

[iceboxed]

[he'd be lying if he didn't say that derek was the biggest reason he's been able to stay put for so long. being able to focus on the other man as he wandered around the room had been enough to keep him grounded. to keep him from trying to slip out of the room when his attention was drawn elsewhere. each moment of silence between echoing yells and grunts of exertion; they had been prompts to leave. and yet underneath it all, that steady thump thump thump-

when derek arrives as his side, isaac offers up a grateful smile for all of it. for something he may not be aware of. but there's not explanation given. just a shrug of his shoulders as he leans back against the wall instead, eyes trailing back to windsor again. there's a shift, a minute one that closes the gap between them a little. but that's it for a while. right until he takes a slow breath as though he's building up to actually speaking again.]

When this is over, can you start teaching me again?

[how to fight. how to be a better wolf. they're lessons he hasn't had since derek was an alpha to three betas. not whatever this is now.]

[altercate]

[ derek's not expecting the request. his eyes widen, expression flickering into something unreadable. teaching. derek looks at isaac for a long moment, then lets his gaze flick over to windsor. ]

If you want me to.

[ there's a lot riding on this. derek understands that better now than he did then. he needs to be better. he needs to keep isaac close. the wolf in him is fretful, possessive, and derek yields to it. the need to keep isaac safe has always been present, but derek's learned how to do that in a different way. not the way he learned from his family, his pack. something scott taught him, something derek learned to be because of scott. ]