fandomhigh | Physical Education, Thursday, May 17, 2018

Today's PE class was on a part of the beach designated for swimming. They were greeted by Steve and Tony in swimtrunks. "Hello, everyone," Steve began. "I hope you were less rainbow colored than I was after I finished up the rowboat competition yesterday."

"Though there was some concern about people's ability to swim," Tony said with a smile that said he knew well enough why people wanted Steve to rescue them. "So, today we'll be working on the basics."

Steve nodded seriously, totally not knowing why people wanted him to rescue them. "So grab a kickboard and we'll start with leg drills, and progress from there, okay?"

"But first, let's watch a PSA on water safety." Tony went through the effort of bringing one of those terribly old fashioned school TVs to the beach. All for this moment.

"You didn't," Steve hissed. "Did you borrow them from Hardison?"

"You make it sound like I can't procure them on my own," Tony said while on the TV, Captain America sat backwards on a chair to show how hip he was.

"So, you want to learn to swim--" TV Cap said in a hearty voice while Steve just shook his head and blushed.

And Tony was bust trying his very best not to laugh at poor Steve. "We can do our introductions in the water."

"Heaven forbid we interrupt the video," Steve muttered while Cap continued to talk in that same boisterous tone about the virtues of knowing how to swim.

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Now that you're in the water with your kickboard, tell us about yourself! Name, year, experience swimming if you have any...

"Theron, I think I'm a junior, I know how to handle myself."

That last was said with a straight face and total innocence.

"Just in swimming or in sports in general?" Steve asked.

Theron shrugged. "Depends on the sport. Don't have much experience with being a team player."

And it had showed with that rowing performance.

"We can definitely help you out there!" Steve said.

Dodgeball, Theron. Dodgeball was now allll your fault.

Though she certainly didn't need it for swimming, Astrid was clinging to her kickboard as an anchor to reality.

"I'm Astrid," she offered, legs kicking underneath her lazily, steadily; it did feel good to get in the water. "I'll be a freshman, and I've been swimming for as long as she could remember."

Whole days spent lounging in pools or on the beach, watching the waves with nothing better to do.

"Good to meet you, Astrid," Tony said. "Was there any activity in particular that you wanted us to cover?"

"Jason, I'll be a senior in the fall, and I pretty much grew up on fishing boats," he said. "If I couldn't swim, I'd've probably drowned long before now." Accurate, if maybe a little morbid.

"That's definitely a good reason to learn to swim," Tony said slowly.

A kickboard! Norman hadn't seen one of these since before he'd started actually talking back to the ghosts. He kind of grinned a little at his as he got into the water.

"I'm Norman, I'm heading into my junior year now?" Figuring out what year you were during the summer was always a bit confusing. "And I used to swim a bit as a kid, but I haven't exactly been swimming in a while."

Apparently he could row a boat just fine, though.

"Well, there's no time like the present to revisit such a good physical activity," Steve said, sounding uncannily like he did in the PSA.

And it took incredible self-control for Norman to keep from snickering at that fact.

"It helps that the weather is better than it has been now," he offered. "Though I guess there is the pool in the dorms."

But it just wasn't the same as swimming outside in the summer, okay?

"Outdoor swimming always feels better, though," Steve said. "Like jogging outside rather than on a treadmill."

"I have never used a treadmill in my life," Norman admitted with a little laugh that was somewhat on the sheepish side. "I did used to ride my bike all the time back home, but the streets here aren't so great for that."

Stupid stairs.

"Too many stairs," Steve said. "I generally stick to running here. And swimming. And rock climbing."

Norman paused for a moment, considering that.

"Rock climbing could be fun?"

It would probably be better than that time he'd almost fallen off a flying tree to his death because of an angry ghost.

"So fun," Steve assured him. "Much better than horseback riding."

Tony.

"I... have also never ridden a horse," Norman admitted. "But I'll take your word for it."

Professor Rogers seemed to know what he was talking about, there.

"I'm Manfred, I'm a sophomore, and I had lessons when I was like eight so I can swim okay enough to not drown," he said with a shrug.

"That's definitely a good spot to start," Steve said with a tiny smile. "We'll see if you can't remember some of the old lessons today."

"I'm Khadgar, I'm going to be a senior, and I don't have much experience with swimming, or athletics in general. I'm trying to work on that this summer though," he explained.

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