Who: Johnny and Jax What: Sibling talks When: 4AM Where: Home Warnings: Language
Johnny was home later than usual. The last call had been intense. By the time he got home, he knew it was only a matter of at most half an hour before his sister got up for practice. He didn’t understand, since she wasn’t working, why she still practiced at five AM, but he wasn’t going to argue. Okay yea, he knew in part it was to accommodate wanting to train with Avanni, but it was still awfully early. Still, knowing she would be up soon, he decided to make her breakfast, and was in the process of cutting up some fruit for either a fruit salad or a smoothy, whichever she decided was easier.
Jax had started sleeping in her bed at night. It was a bit of a change from the couch, but with both brothers there and keeping odd hours, she needed to rely on the fact that she would be able to sleep through them coming in and out. She woke, as per normal, at 4:30 and hopped in the shower. After that? Downstairs for coffee, and then she would head out. She grinned when she saw Johnny there, pleased that he was home. "Hey, been a while. Out with work? Or a woman?"
“Well you’re up and awake when I’m fucking sound asleep.” Johnny accused. “And fucking work.” He wasn’t going to tell her about the late night car accident that kept him late, not wanting to possibly remind her - or even himself - of their brother. “Coffee’s ready. And I made fruit salad, or with some greek yogurt or juice I can toss it into the blender for you, since I doubt you want bacon and eggs.”
“Yes, yes I am. Morning starts around sunrise for me, and that’s when your day ends.” She smiled at him again and rolled her eyes, pouring out some coffee. A quick examination of the fruit and she plucked up a bit of apple, nibbling it. “Yeah, bacon would not be the wisest idea unless you want it to go to waste…”
“So… fucking blender or bowl?” He prompted her, wanting to take care of her a little bit, since he was awake. “I don’t mind working fucking nights, but fucking going back and forth between evenings and overnights might fucking kill me….” Enough complaining about himself. “So how’s your fucking coach think things are going?”
“Bowl.” This was easier on her, she could pick and choose what she wanted and didn’t want and it would make her much more comfortable with eating, since she could limit this way. “She says I’m doing well. Getting back in form more quickly than she expected, though it doesn’t hurt that I’ve always worked out.”
Johnny had tried to include fruits he knew she liked, although fruit wasn’t strictly rabbit food. Still, he passed her a bowl and the serving bowl of cut up fruit. “Fucking starting working routines yet? Or still practicing that fucking skills building shit?” It was probably early for routines, really, but it might be a way to start motivating her towards competition.
She carefully worked around the fruits she would not eat, making sure she got a few bits of pineapple and apple, while avoiding the melon he had put there. Those were not things she would consume. “She has me doing like, simple kids routines along with the skills I have to get back. Nothing huge yet, sort of just basics for the moment.”
“Yea, except what you guys call fucking ‘simple kid’s routines’ are probably still pretty fucking complex.” He knew how easy she found all of this flippy stuff. Still he settled in the seat across from her, popping a grape into his mouth. He was trying to decide if he wanted coffee, or if he was going to bed when Jax left.
“They can be, yes, but they’re good for building back my skills so I can start picking up new things.” She smiled and picked another bit of apple, nibbling on it. She did enjoy apples, they were one thing that she could not reject when she was offered food of any sort. She was doing her best too to not upset her brothers by not eating entirely- she knew they knew.
“New shit? You weren’t fucking amazing enough with what you used to do that you gotta add some fucking new stuff now too?” Johnny teased. He was proud of her talent. But he frowned a little that she was only picking at the fruit. He’d been so confident that he’d made something that fit her rules for what she ate, while still ensuring that she did eat.
“I’ll always be amazing.” Jax stuck her tongue out playfully and grinned at him. “I have to be better than amazing though.” A small frown tilted her lips though as she remembered something. “I need to get rid of all my online-accessible things. Amazon and iCloud, all of that. Some freaking artist is taking the stolen pictures and presenting them as commentary on internet privacy. I mean, seriously? Continue the illegal bullshit?”
“On-line? You fucking worried about that fucking theft? What fucking kind of pictures do you have that I don’t want to fucking know about.” Johnny didn’t tend to think of his sister as famous, but then, that olympic gymnast was targeted too, and she hadn’t dated a pro football player back in the day.
“Nothing like what’s out there, not really, but some of the things were photoshopped, and I am not sure if I have one or two lingering from when I was with big football guy…” And at that time she was far from legal, so she did not need those pictures getting around. She would pitch a fit. Luckily she was not huge in the public eye right now, though. “I’m glad Vanni’s into Jared, she would not have pictures like that around either.”
“You think Jared ain’t the fucking picture taking sort? Or you mean because they’re still fucking innocent about their attraction?” Johnny knew that Jarius at least was a photographer, and Jace drew pictures… there was visual arts talent in the family even if he didn’t get any.
“Both?” Jax grinned and shrugged. “Jared is smarter than that too though, he knows I would kill him if he corrupted Vanni.” It was true. The younger girl was like a sister to them all, and she wanted her protected. Jared knew better than to do anything to take advantage.
“He’s fucking nineteen. And Avanni isn’t a fucking kid anymore either.” Johnny pointed out. “I was doing shit like that at their age.” Of course, he was a college freshman, away from home, not a dedicated athlete.
“But Avanni’s been a lot like me in all that stuff. She didn’t date at all, gymnastics was it for her.” Jax had been with one boy, but the same mind-set sort of stuck in her. “She does not have the experience really to shelter against things like that…”
“Fine. Have it your fucking way. And Jared is probably fucking only hard-on for his dance and shit…” His siblings with their talents and passions didn’t need drink and sex to relieve their boredom the same way Johnny did, obviously.
Jax laughed at that. “Jared’s got his stuff, he’s just quiet about it.” She knew to some degree what Jared got into, though she was sure Johnny did not want to know. “We all have our issues, Johnny. We just all dealt differently.”