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'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."

[vanillajello]

"Yeah but I'm a girl," Kate countered lazily. "I'm supposed to."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"I don't care," Percy replied with a shrug. "Glad you're a girl, you don't get special treatment because of it."

[vanillajello]

Kate shrugged as well. "Eh, still beats being a bitch with the wrong fun bits." A pause. "Except when Fandom interferes. That doesn't count."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Percy...was going to let that one go because he really didn't need to know. "I don't even know what you're talking about. It's like a foreign language and I bet you're doing it on purpose."

[vanillajello]

"Well, you're not wrong about that," Kate replied lightly. "It's probably Fandomese with a KG twist, and yes, I'm totally doing it on purpose."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Percy sighed and shook his head. "Good thing I don't really care, isn't it? Even if you weren't talking nonsense, I probably wouldn't understand it."

[vanillajello]

"I'm not talking nonsense, and you still don't understand, so yeah," Kate noted, smirking just a bit. "Also, you don't care, but you haven't exactly started ignoring me yet, either. What's up with that?"

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Trying to be polite, I guess," he said and shrugged, deciding he could ignore her if that's what she wanted. "I can stop."

[vanillajello]

"I think you could use some etiquette lessons or something, or I hope you try harher when you meet people you're actually supposed to be polite at," Kate mused, ignoring that whole thing about stopping. "Heard you were rude at Elphaba too. I hope that was just newbie nerves."

She was yet to pick up on how Elphaba might have brought that on herself with her attitude, a little.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Well, now he was going to ignore her because he was just getting tired of people telling him how to act. He did scowl but otherwise kept his eyes on the stupid movie and the stupid explosions.

Defending himself was probably futile. Most of the time, he'd try anyway but he decided against it today.