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[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

The Flash is on the job - pondering a vacation from said job.

He's feeling a bit burned out lately, but he has no idea what he'd do if he took time off.

He's heard a few reports about some funky orb going around, so he's trying to find it and corral it for study.

He comes across it sooner than he expected, and he's not quite ready for what it's going to show him...

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[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

She's not. Not for very long, at least.

Possibly long enough to hurt him.

The belly shot brushes against her as she steps out of the way of the sweep. Shiva throws strikes where she thinks he will be, where his positioning should take him.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

She's damn quick. This is taking a lot of compensation, like turning the sweep into a scissor kick, determined to at least hit ONE ankle.

His arms cross to try and cinch her wrist between his forearms and twist...

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

The scissor kick impaces with her calf. He catches her arm, though she does manage to drive her fingers into his chest. There will be a deep bruise at least. But he could probably break her arm right now.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

He doesn't. Too direct.

Instead, he brings a knee up to hit her hip, to prevent the impending kick.

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

Shiva steps into the knee, taking the impact and at the same time sending her free hand toward his head.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

It's all he can do to swivel his head on his neck, so she'll jab her hand against the bolt on the side of his mask...

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

Her hand catches and cuts open as she still makes contact with his head. When they're in contact, he seems to slow down some. Interesting.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

Not for long.

A quick series of rights, directed at her knees, something easier to do while his head is ringing...

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

She can't dodge all of them and it causes her to smile. Even when the damage is becoming serious.

"So much potential."

Her next blow is to a pressure point, causing a surge of nausea and pain.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

The compliments are really eerie.

The fighting skill is farther along than he thought, if he can take her like this...

Except that hit causes a small bit of bile to spit out of his teeth, and he rolls back, putting distance between them and supporting himself on one knee.

"Potential... ?"

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

"You will never be one of the best pure practitioners but your speed makes up for much."

She's in some pain, blood dripping from her fingers.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

"So I've been told. Backhanded compliments won't get you past me to kill this man."

He's fighting the glaze in his eyes.

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

A soft chuckle from Shiva at that.

"Are you planning to watch him forever?"

Pause.

"Or are you willing to do what no other will?"

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

"I'm the Flash. I've got all the time in the world. Is he that important to you?"

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

"Very little is important to me."

Shiva leans back on her heels, "He is not a good man."

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

"You are not a good woman. That doesn't give anyone the right to kill you."

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

Shiva smiles, a very faint turning up of the corners of her mouth, "I find it amusing that the few who can are the ones who won't."

She also finds it depressing but the two are not so very far apart in Shiva's world.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

His eyes narrow.

"You've got a death wish, don't you?"

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

"If I simply wished to die, I can think of many ways to accomplish it." Pulling a handkerchief from her pocket she winds it around her fingers.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

He shakes his head.

"What HAPPENED to you, to make you like this?"

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

"That is a long story."

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

His lips purse.

"I can't imagine you ever speaking enough to tell it."

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

"Ask Canary."

That seems to amuse her more than anything else so far.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

"Maybe I will. But right now, the only thing you're doing is turning around and heading to Hoboken. This place is off limits."

[shiva-wusan.livejournal.com]

"As you wish."

With that, Shiva turns and starts to walk away.

She will try again.

Later.