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Agent North Dakota ([personal profile] nofortunateson) wrote in [community profile] legionworld2017-08-22 10:51 pm

bang bang shoot shoot

Who| North and Tucker, later open to others
What| Range time
Where| The shooting range
When| After Resistance is Futile
Warnings/Notes| Firearms, Tucker-standard double entendere cautions


[Closed to Tucker]

After the adrenaline of the mission, North's ready to relax - which, more often than not, means going back to routine as much as he can, as soon as he can. Showing a sim trooper around his rifle is hardly routine, but range time is, and there is something easy and almost nostalgic around the low-pressure act of blowing through ammunition with absolutely nothing on the line but vague intentions to keep improving.

He's there ten minutes before they're due to meet, out of his armor, gear in a long case tucked under his arm. Just enough time to put out some targets and get set up, he imagines.


[Open]

Maybe there's something infectious in the more constructive (or at the very least highly non-competetive) range time with Tucker. North's still there as much as he ever was, keeping sharp, but he's more likely to strike up a conversation, rather than get in, do his practice, and move on to the next item on the daily training schedule. After about a week of this he even puts up a standing notice near the entrance, around the time of his usual afternoon practice, which advertises the time slot as Unranked Marksmanship League. Not that he's actually going to point it out to York, but maybe there's something to his whole 'not everything has to be a competition' theory.
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[personal profile] brisance 2017-10-19 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)

"Oh, lot of schmoozing and schmaltzing. I was there to look intimidating," she teases. "As for her - she seemed okay. Didn't like the tiff we got involved in at the end I think."

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[personal profile] calibrates_big_guns 2017-10-19 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"Because nothing can ever just go smoothly." There's a wry edge to the joking complaint, and it's followed by an expectant pause. You gonna tell him what happened or does he have to dig through the after-mission report?