Third Floor Common Room | Afternoon | Monday | September 6

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

One of the benefits of being a demigod was that Percy wasn't showing any effects of his fight with Luke yesterday. He'd gone down to the beach and done some swimming which had taken care of the cut on the back of his shoulder and the bruises on his hand. Even if Luke had beaten him, Percy was glad that he wasn't going to show obvious signs of that which would bring questions which would mean he'd have to tell people what happened.

And he really didn't want to tell people he'd gotten beaten.

There was a bad action movie on the television that had gotten Percy's attention almost immediately. He spent so much time training and running from monsters that getting to just chill out and watch movies had become a rare thing. He was taking advantage of it while he could.

Even the action movie couldn't completely hold his attention so if it looked like Percy wasn't paying attention, he probably wasn't. His thoughts were pinballing around every so often. If some of those thoughts included his cousins, well, oh well.

[It's a common room so it's open, dontcha know]

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[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"With swords," Wes answered. He almost wanted to invite her to watch, but that ran the risk of sounding arrogant, like he expected her to say yes. Plus he had no interest in letting her see him get his ass kicked.

[thegirl-onfire.livejournal.com]

"Swords that won't stab either of you?" she asked, biting the inside of her cheek to mask her immediate worry. Practice or not, the idea of people she knew -- someone she was actually fond of, in Wesley's case, anyway -- fighting tended to evoke some reactions. "I mean, you'll be careful, I hope."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Aww, Mother Hen Katniss!

Wesley winced. He hadn't meant to make her nervous, and he should have known she'd have a sore spot about fighting. "Well, the swords can cut us, but I am almost certain it won't come to that," he said with much more certainty than he felt. Actually, he was about thirty percent certain. "We'll likely fight just to disarm, and the first of us to disarm the other will be the victor. We won't be going for blood, certainly."

He wanted to add that he, at least, was a decent enough fencer that Percy would have no chance of stabbing or injuring him in any way, but their last spar had proved that to be very incorrect.

[thegirl-onfire.livejournal.com]

She didn't particularly believe that, but she did trust that no one would be trying to hurt one another. "Be careful," she cautioned after a moment. "I have some salves and so forth that can ease minor wounds, if you need them, though I trust that anything bigger would be taken to the clinic. I've seen what an untreated sword cut can do to a person."

She almost wanted to ask if she could watch, if not this time then some other time. It would be interesting to watch Wesley actually fight, but she didn't know if having an audience might not just make both parties nervous.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Oh. So she... wanted him to be safe.

"Thank you," he said, touched. It was just that the last people he'd spent any significant amount of time with had allowed him to get trampled by a mad rush of high school students racing away from a giant snake, then mocked him for "whimpering." So the fact that Katniss cared enough about his safety to offer him salves and tell him to be careful was just really, really nice.

[thegirl-onfire.livejournal.com]

"You're welcome," she said, a little shy. "When is it?"

Not because she was planning on checking on him. Certainly not.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Friday. After classes."

He decided not to add the part Percy had said about that giving him "time to practice" because it was entirely unwarranted.

"I can stop by afterwards, if you'd like," he offered, then immediately felt like a moron for assuming that she'd even want that.

[thegirl-onfire.livejournal.com]

"If you aren't in the clinic," she said. Never stop being an optimist, Katniss. "Which I'm sure you won't be. You'll win. But yes, I'd like that."

And then immediately, for the sake of the cameras she was sure were on her, she added, "I'd worry a bit, otherwise. Playing with swords is dangerous."