Back To Square One(Eva, Hotaru, Egil)

[Hotaru King]

Hotaru turned to look at Eva, who started to look a little more annoyed. Actually, she looked pretty pissed.

"'Evangeline, why don't you grow up to be something useful like your brothers and sisters?'" she quoted in a stuck up sounding voice. "'They all do something people look up to, all you ever do is fight. It's disgusting and we're sick of it.'" she let out a loud sigh.

"That was my parents all my life, until they decided they didn't want me and kicked me out." she shrugged. "Been happy ever since." she ended with. That was always one topic that could piss her off pretty quick, and that was on a good day. "... Oh, and never call me Evangeline, it's too snobby-soundin' to me." she told them before staying silent again to hear Egil's reply. Hotaru already knew about all of that anyway.

[Egil Mednick]

Egil nodded and took another drink. "I see..." He looked down in thought for a moment. "An' did y' ev'r mak' am'nds w'th 'em, 'r try a' least?" You never knew what you had until it was gone after all, though Egil was almost positive what her response would be. He wouldn't be surprised, Eva and he seemed to think along completely different lines...

[Hotaru King]

Eva shrugged. "I tried things their way for a while, I was actually interested in Chemical Engineering, science and math were always my thing in school." that was one fact that most people didn't know about her, even Hotaru. The brunette looked at her oddly, but let her continue.

"But one day I got into another fight with some kid who had made fun of my friend at the time. I ended up getting expelled and got home that day with nothing in my room but a couple of clothes. I think they made it clear they didn't wanna hear my end of things." she shrugged again. "Don't bother me, it obviously don't bother them either."

The blond laughed a little at a certain memory. "Though the police caught me one day for stealing. Chief of police came in to talk to me 'cause they thought I was connected to a murder, which I wasn't." she added before going on. "Anyway, the chief ended up bein' my big brother Lucas. He just said how he expected better of me and let me go after a few questions. Nuthin' else, an' I didn't really care."

[Egil Mednick]

And there was the apathy. Egil simply gave a nod. "So wha' d' y' have 'n min' f'r Hot'ru? F'r th' trainin' I mean." He'd rather know what was being planned lest he interfere and ruin it.

[Hotaru King]

Eva sighed and looked over at Hotaru for a moment. "Ain't sayin' if she's in here. Rather keep it a surprise."

Hotaru shrugged. "... I can walk out for a minute if you want." she suggested. She walked out and went back into the training room before Eva finally replied to Egil's question.

"Well, I plan on messin' with her head a little." she explained, looking up at the top part of a nearby wall. "A friend of ours was killed a while back, him an' Hotaru liked each other a lot. Now she has this boyfriend that I plan on comparin' him with and gettin' her pissed off enough to wanna try to kill me basically."

She looked back over to Egil. "Me an' you are gonna tag team against her at that point, kay?"

[Egil Mednick]

Egil nodded. "N't s're why yer bein' this tough on 'er though..." He said, continuing after a slight pause. "D' y' really thin' this guy she's up ag'nst is g'nna 'ave allies?" Why else tag-team, unless she was trying to up Hotaru's endurance or something.

[Hotaru King]

Eva shrugged. "Dunno, but it's better than not bein' prepared at all." she told him. "This is basically what her training was like when I first trained her. I gotta be hard on her or else I won't see the results I want. She won't see her full potention and when the time comes she won't be as prepared as she would have been.

"I know my methods aren't the nicest in the world, but I do what I do because I don't want her in the potition to where she can't protect herself the way she could have been." she sighed. "It might have been my harsh training the first time that made her act the way she was for the longest time."

[Egil Mednick]

Egil nodded, understanding at least a bit of what Eva was saying. "'Lright then." He said, crushing the remains of his soda can and tossing it in the trash. "Le's g't b'ck." He gestured to the training room. Just standing here talking wouldn't help the redhead prepare for what was coming her way.

[Hotaru King]

Eva nodded, throwing away her own can before walking to the training room. When she went back inside, Hotaru was sitting there, not all too sure what to do from the looks of it.

"We ready to start again?" the brunette asked.

Eva nodded. "Yep." she looked over at Egil to see if he was ready.

[Egil Mednick]

Egil gave a nod. "Y' wanna star', Eva?" He offered, hoping that he wasn't already screwing things up. Hopefully Hotaru would think either she'd be fighting Eva or that the elder Tora would be giving her tips. Egil didn't know enough about the pair to make assumptions.

[Hotaru King]

The blond Tora nodded. "Yeah, in a little bit. There's actually sumthin' I've been meanin' to ask Hotaru first." She noticed the puzzled look on Hotaru's face before continuing. "How long did it take you to get over Greg?" she asked, perfectly calm. "Y'know, til' ya startin' datin' Jack an' all."

Hotaru was stunned for a minute. Why was she asking this now? "Um... This isn't something we should be talking about right now..." she told her, a little uneasy.

Eva shrugged. "Just wanted to know. I mean, for all I know Jack's prolly just a rebound."

The brunette's eyes widden. "No he's not! Take that back now!!" she shouted, starting to get a little more irritated.

Eva looked at Hotaru with an odd look. "You could've found someone better than him is all I'm sayin'. I can already tell just by lookin' at him that he ain't the fighting type, how do you expect him to protect ya? Greg was more of a man than that moron is."

Hotaru glared at Eva. "Shut the fuck up!!" she yelled before going after Eva, her fist ready. The blond simply caught Hotaru's fist and planted one of her own in the brunette's stomach. Well, it was started, Egil's move was next.

[Egil Mednick]

While Hotaru was recovering Egil snapped into action, moving forward and grabbing the Tora before hurling her back. Hopefully Eva wouldn't get Hotaru hurt too badly, emotionally or otherwise. Hopefully, but hope hadn't exactly done the Swede much good over the years.

[Hotaru King]

Hotaru fell to the ground, only to get back on her feet and try to get to Eva again. She couldn't let her get away with saying all of that!

Eva went after Hotaru as well, only dodging the younger girl's hit and grabing her arm to stop her. "Hotaru, face the facts, you wouldn't even be in this mess if you weren't dating that guy!"

The brunette tried pulling her arm away, not wanting to listen to Eva's words. "Shut up! Shut up shut up shut up!!" she repeated.

The blond Tora sighed. She hadn't gotten her mad enough yet. "Jack's no good for you, Hotaru, no one is ever gonna love an ex gang leader so stop believing he will!" She could feel Hotaru struggling more to get free, but was able to hold her back pretty well. More than a few tears could be seen on Hotaru's face as she looked about ready to kill Eva the moment she got out of the hold.

[Egil Mednick]

Egil realized he was hesitating only after a few moments of Hotaru struggling. He had been fairly attentive to the words, and filed it away for future reference. The Swede then aimed a kick to the redhead's stomach. She'd probably be able to dodge it easily enough, the more riled up she got, the better she was. Now Hotaru seemed downright furious.

[Hotaru King]

Hotaru dodged the kick, followed by finally getting the strength to throw Eva over her shoulder. Not waiting for the blond to get back up, she threw herself on her and started to punch her repeatedly, catching the older Tora off guard completely. To say she was pissed was an extreme understatement, her rage was so focussed on Eva that she had no clue Egil was even there anymore.