Secluded Section of the Beach, Tuesday Early Evening

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan dropped a basket -- with light finger foods, mostly fruit and vegetables; a half-dozen bottles of water; and a half-dozen bottles of Gatorade -- on the beach, rolling out his shoulders.

"So," he said, grinning at his sparring partner, "winner gets first choice of food?"

[For the one, and for SP.]

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[not_a_whiner]

Kaidan made a passing attempt to wring some of the water out of his uniform shirt as he went for the basket. He leaned over and dug around until he found some of his migraine medication. "Well, it was pretty impressive," he said, "For about five seconds."

[not_in_the_book]

"Thanks," Ronan said, rolling over and getting, shakily, to his feet. "You've got some interesting skills yourself."

Stumbling over to the basket, Ronan grabbed a bottle of water and chugged it down before doing the same with a Gatorade. Letting himself fall to the sand again, he grinned over at Kaidan. "So that was fun," he added. "Even if I'm going to be paying for it for the next week."

[not_a_whiner]

Kaidan took some of his meds and chased it with a bottle of Alliance-mandated protein shake. "If we do this again, I think we need to add a few rules to this thing," he said, and ran a hand through his hair. "Starting with me wearing my armor... and you not flinging bodies of water around."

[not_in_the_book]

"What?" Ronan asked, and, because he's Ronan, continued, "You don't like when I get you all wet?"

Reaching into his claudication, he pulled out a towel and tossed it at Kaidan.

Always know where your towel is.

[not_a_whiner]

Kaidan huffed out a laugh-- definitely laughing at you, not with you, Ronan-- then caught the towel. "Thanks," he said, drying off his hair first - it was drippy. "More armor, less crazy stunts," he added. "I think that's probably a good guideline."

[not_in_the_book]

"But crazy stunts are what I do!" Ronan insisted, laughing back. "Armour sounds good, though, yeah. What's it designed to stand up to?"

[not_a_whiner]

"Biotic attacks, gunfire, explosions," Kaidan said. "Just your run-of-the-mill stuff."

You know. If you were Kaidan, and you used to run after people who did crazy stunts on a regular basis. Crazier, in fact, than what Ronan had just pulled.

He glanced up.

"And, uh... hate to break it to you, but what you do these days? Is teach high school kids how to go camping."