Hyperion basement, Saturday

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Angel did not have a problem totally channeling his frustrations into his workout routines.

He could quit any time he wanted. Really.

[ooc: for Aeryn]

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Once Aeryn had settled herself in her own room and worked out exactly what it was she should say (strangely enough, she has no basis for this sort of thing, hm), she dialed Angel's number. Which she is just going to memorize now.

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Angel picked up his Blackberry. "Angel."

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"It's Aeryn," she greets him, which is the same thing as hello.

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"Hey!" Angel said happily. Clearly his mind reading skills were as strong as ever. "How's it going? How's John?"

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"He's good," she answers, and because she said she would, adds, "He says hello. How is everything over there?" And on her end of the line she's rolling her eyes at herself because while she does care about the answer to that question, she can't believe she's padding this.

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"Fine. Fine. Totally fine." Angel might be saying this a little more forcefully than he needs to. "A-okay. Clients. Dog. Everything. Yeppers."

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She has no idea what a yeppers is, but decides she might not need to know. "Have you spoken to Callisto recently?"

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"No," Angel said, getting a little more serious now. "Why. What's up?"

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"Well, she seems to be pregnant, for one thing." There. Blunt approach tends to work best.

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Dead silence.

No pun intended.

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"Are you still there?" It isn't like she can hear him breathing.

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"...maybe?"

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"That sounds like a yes to me."

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"She said she wasn't sleeping with anybody!"

This from the guy who'd encouraged her to date new people.

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"From the way she was talking, it sounds like this was from... before," Aeryn says.

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"She had an old boyfriend she never told me about??"

There's a reason why, sadly, Logan was the brains of the operation.

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Aeryn frowns, having been pretty sure that kind of thing wasn't possible with humans. Pretty sure. "No..." she says slowly.

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"Hang on a sec," Angel said, feeling both a headache and a need for a recap. "You just said Callisto is pregnant, right?"

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Despite the fact that he can't see her, Aeryn nods. "Yes."

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"Well it's not mine!" Angel said, with all the tact of... actually there was no tact at all. He's male. He does that sometimes.

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She actually pulls the phone away from her ear and stares at it for a moment. "Tell me you did not just say that," she says into it when she's done staring.

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"Okay, A) I'm a vampire, and B) - " Angel faltered. "No, actually A pretty much covers it."

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"What does that have to do with anything?" she wonders.

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"Hello? Shooting blanks?" Angel said, as though Aeryn should have known that. "The only way I get to have a kid is thanks to a special mystical whatever the hell that makes it happen just one time!"

Clearly the gerbil that powered his brain was napping in this morning.

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It's a really good thing Aeryn isn't asking for clarification on 'shooting blanks'. "I actually have no idea what you just said," she tells him. Which is sort of an all-encompassing wtf.