fandomhigh | Phys Ed; Thursday, First Period [11/30].

Class would be meeting in the Danger Shop that morning, in part for its intended purpose to safely prevent injuries, perhaps, but mostly just because it was sometimes just easier to mock something up in there than to arrange a field trip. So the students would find themselves in a nice winter wonderland on the summit of a mountain, with a nice slope down one side and a lovely pine grove forest on the other, and considering that Gladio stood beside some racks of skiing equipment and snowshoes, it was probably pretty clear to anyone who recognized it what they were doing today.

"We're heading into winter here," he explained, "and so I figured we'd look at a few different snow activities before we get entirely sick of it, or to give you the chance to maybe learn more about it before trying it out in the wild. Skiing, where you use these flat, bladed apparatus to slide over snow and down slopes, and snowshoeing, where you use these flat, meshed apparatus to walk through the snow. We're going to cover both, you can try both, or you can just stick to one if that's more comfortable."

Or you could decide not to do either and just get yourself into a snowball fight or make snow angels or snowmen, but Gladio wasn't going to just suggest that to you all, you had to come up with that all your own.

"So we'll go over some of the basics for each of them, and then you can just have at it."

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"Mmm," Gladio hummed a little thoughtfully, rubbing his chin a little for emphasis before cocking his head toward the exit and turning toward it so they could start making their way out, "well, that's good to hear. That guy's a beast. I'd hate to have to go up against a guy like that in a fight."

But he looked over at Nell with an amused curiosity. "What makes you think," he asked, "he wouldn't be as crazy for you as you are for him, though? That's a pretty high bar, you know."

Nell turned with him obligingly. "Might be fun to watch, though. The two of them fighting? Mmmm..."

The next part she took more seriously. "Well... I can't imagine anyone possibly being anywhere close to as crazy as I am for him. I never even imagined anyone could ever be as crazy about anyone as I am about him."

Gladio spared a faint grin for Nell's clear appreciation for such an epic battle royale, but it was definitely tender around the edges from her words.

"He's probably thinking just about the same about you, too, you know," he said. "I've got it on good authority that he definitely never thought he'd feel for anyone the wah he feels about you. Wasn't really his style."

Nell moved in a little closer and smiled up at him. There might have been the slightest bit of uncertainty in her smile, but only a hint. "You think? Really? Seems hard to believe, but he's not one to say things like that if he doesn't mean it."

She smiled softly. "It's nice to know."

And with Nell moving a little closer, Gladio did the same, at first just to give her a little nudge, but he decided to just sling an arm over her shoulder and pull her in the rest of the way to even closer. "I don't think so," he told her, "I know so. You're right. He wouldn't just throw something like that around."

And he send a big grin down her way, because even cloaked in their little game of separation, it always felt good to say it, too.

It was fun to talk about it that way - and nice to have the little added reassurance. "Good. Because I love him - you - an awful lot."

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