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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[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Percy rolled his eyes and pretended to watch the movie for a few seconds. The explosion was bright and loud but he barely knew why it had happened. "I bet everyone loves having their words picked apart as much as I do."

Which was to say he didn't like it at all.

[vanillajello]

"Everyone doesn't have to," Kate shrugged, scooping up another spoonful of pudding. "Just the people that matter. Everyone else's loss if they don't like it."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"You run into many people that don't like it?" he asked idly, glancing over at her. "Or do you intimidate people into saying they like it even if they don't?"

She reminded Percy a little of Annabeth with the way she carried herself but even Annabeth wasn't as arrogant as Kate was.

[vanillajello]

And she hadn't even gotten to actually proclaiming herself awesome yet.

"Does it really make any difference?" Oh yes, it did, even to her (some of the time, anyway), but now she was just saying it like that for the hell of it. "Anyway, that's assuming I actually do it to everyone all the time."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Are you telling me you can have normal conversations?" Percy might have feigned shocked there just for the heck of it. He knew how to be sarcastic too. "Imagine that."

[vanillajello]

"I've been known to dabble in having normal conversations occasionally, yes," Kate drawled, rolling her eyes. "Just gets some things done more efficiently, y'know?"

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Of course," Percy said, shrugging and not really believing her. "I'm sure some people probably get tired of getting the run around. Probably start daydreaming when you keep talking."

[vanillajello]

"Like I'd just keep talking if people's eyes started glazing over."

Well... It depended on what she was talking about.

"Anyway, I'm too awesome for that to happen."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"If you say so," Percy said, still sounding skeptical of that fact. He wasn't going to say anything about being able to daydreaming no matter who was talking.

"You're not short on confidence," he added. It was sort of a compliment, at least.

[vanillajello]

ADHD kids didn't count anyway. And she would've only pointed out he hadn't checked out on her yet, at least.

"No reason to be," Kate replied, a tad smugly, peering into her cup to see whether using a spoon was still useful. It wasn't. "I'm fabulous like that," she added idly, before bringing the cup to her mouth to lick it clean.

Such a pudding addict. Nothing should be wasted.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Percy's eyes widened a bit at the...obvious enjoyment of the pudding. He hadn't gone after food like that in a long time. Percy didn't say anything but he did chuckle and look away.

He didn't know why but it felt weird to watch someone do that.

[vanillajello]

Well, it was obviously a private moment between a girl and her favorite snack food! He was just lucky she hadn't dirtied it up on purpose. Because she would've found that hilarious.

"Mm." She dropped the empty cup into the trash. "Good pudding."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"I guess so," he said, peering back at her now that she was talking again. "I'd hope so since you pretty much vacuumed it up."

[vanillajello]

Kate shrugged. "Pudding's expensive." It was not, but it still felt like that to her when she had to use her own money to buy it. "No point in wasting any of it."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Very philosophical." Or it wasn't and Percy was just being sarcastic. He hadn't ever really been that into pudding so maybe he was just missing out. "Very zen. Deep."

[vanillajello]

"I wasn't trying to be," Kate pointed out, rolling her eyes. "It was just a simple fact, kid."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

That word had him pursing his lips but he didn't say anything, trying not to rise to the bait. "Unintentional philosophy. I have a few teachers that would praise you profusely."

[vanillajello]

"Yeah and I bet they're consistently full of crap," she returned. "People like that usually are."

Kate and philosophizing? Not exactly a match made in heaven.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"I don't know, some weren't," Percy said, shrugging. Mr. Brunner was philosophical sometimes but Percy didn't think he was full of anything. "Some just knew what they were talking about."

[vanillajello]

"I think you kinda just contradicted yourself," Kate noted, "but I'm gonna be nice and let that one slide." She glanced at the television, now. "What exactly are you watching?"

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"A movie." He was going to be unhelpful, yes.

[vanillajello]

"Yes, I see that," Kate said, rolling her eyes. "A crappy action movie, looks like."

Which... really probably was all there was to know about it.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"That's about all I know about it," he said and shrugged. "It's loud and there are a lot of explosions. I haven't been paying attention all that much. Sorry, I don't have a plot summary for you."

[vanillajello]

Kate quirked an eyebrow at him. "Jesus, ease up on the bitchy, I was just asking a question."

After slightly picking on him for a while. Ahem.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Whatever," Percy said, not really intending to ease on anything. "I'm sure you can take it. You give it out."