Dinah Lance, Staff gym

[raptorcanaria]

One of the rooms in the staff hallway is converted into a gym. Unlike the training ground outside, it's not a very well known area to work out, which is one of the reasons Dinah likes it: she can spend hours and hours working on a single punch without people interrupting her or asking why she's so determined to get one punch right.

There's another reason she likes it; to one side of the gym is a hand-built motorbike, which someone covered for storage years ago and walked away, apparently forgetting it.

Dinah's been eying that forgotten motorbike for months, now.

Today she finally gave up on Raph ever returning, so she's ripped the cover off and is now lying on her back under the bike, working on the exposed engine.

If you were looking for her, you'd just have to follow the U2 blaring from her cassette player and echoing down the hall.

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[scots_wolf]

Urquhart sticks his head in the door. He'd been in the kitchen, baking, and caught snatches of the noise. Music.

"Hello? What is that?"

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah slides on her back, out from under the bike and grins at him. She hasn't seen him since the invasion, and she's a lot more relaxed than she was before.

"The bike, or the music? I know you know what a motorbike is."

[scots_wolf]

"The music, and the legs under the dismembered bike," Urquhart says. "Hello Dinah!"

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah sits up properly, crossing her legs under her, and turns off the music, so she can talk to him properly. "An Irish rock band. They're really big ini my time. How've you been, Urq?"

[scots_wolf]

"I've been well," Urquhart says. "Alfred has had fun ideas. I've met a mermaid. The dog is really clever and cute."

[raptorcanaria]

"Oh?" She starts to beckon him, in then changes her mind, standing up and grabbing a rag to wipe her hands on. "Tell me about the mermaid."

[scots_wolf]

"She doesn't wear any clothes," Urquhart says, "and likes to drown and eat young men. Hopefully in that order. She appeared in the lake a few weeks ago, claiming to have followed a manta ray."

[raptorcanaria]

"Um," says Dinah.

Then she says, "she doesn't drown and eat young men here does she?"

Beat. "Though obviously I'd prefer if she didn't do that at all."

[scots_wolf]

Urquhart grins.

"She tried," he says. "But quite a number of people have impressed on her that she mustn't. Emphatically."

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

Charlie has followed the sound of U2 to the gym, a place he visited a few times but never found to be very inviting. He spots, in order, the source of the music, the motorcycle in disrepair, and the woman doing the disrepairing...repairing.

"Dinah?" He's close enough that he thinks she can hear him, but far enough away not to be in kicking range in case she's startled.

[raptorcanaria]

"Charlie?"

Dinah slides out and grins an oil-stained grin at him. "Charlie! How are you?"

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

"Not bad. Hanging in there." As much as the formerly living ever do, he supposes. "And you?"

[raptorcanaria]

"Pretty good," She replies, with the grin to prove it.

"We won."

But he knew that was going to happen, didn't he?

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. I couldn't tell you that. Though you should have guessed, if you think about it." He sits on the floor.

[raptorcanaria]

With him sitting so near, Dinah feels it's not too rude to talk to him while working on the bike.

"Yes, well, I think I knew we were going to win. I didn't realise that we were going to all be friends again."

[52-dropoff.livejournal.com]

"You mean you and the green guy and the rest of the League? I didn't know there were issues back then." Oops. That was probably just a little more information than Dinah needed about the future.

[raptorcanaria]

No, it's the prefect amount.

"Well, there were," Dinah says, frowning a little. "For weeks, we thought he was working with the enemy."

She doesn't blame Charlie for not telling her. The responsibility is all on the team.

[hey35andholding]

Clem knows how to follow the sound of blaring rock music - it's her secret skill. In fact, she finds Dinah pretty quickly.

"Can I at least replace this with some better music?" She's totally kidding. And yelling loudly.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah grins - but she doesn't emerge, so Clem'll have to hear her grin in her voice.

"Knock yourself out," she yells out.

There is a box of cassette tapes available, but Clem will find that it's dominated by early 90s soft rock.

[hey35andholding]

Oh, she recognizes the smile in her voice all right. But Clementine always carries her own, and her taste is always less eclectic.

And Dinah's casette's being switched out for some Steely Dan.

[raptorcanaria]

"This isn't mine."

Dinah scoots out from uunder the bike and eyes Clem. "You carry your own cassettes?"

[hey35andholding]

"Just this one. I keep my Dan CDs upstairs," she admits. The implication being that she doesn't go anywhere without her Dan CDs.

[raptorcanaria]

"This thing doesn't play CDs," says Dinah helpfully. She sits up now, reaching for a rag to wipe her hands on. "How're things, Clem?"

[hey35andholding]

"I couldn't tell!" Well, it looked modern enough from the outside. She shrugs. "Not bad. Sam situation is stable. How's it going for you?"

[raptorcanaria]

"Not bad," Dinah says. "We brought in a new member to the League - and he keeps hitting on me."

It's kind of annoying.