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Pool; Wednesday Evening

This wasn't the most awkward situation Luke had been in, but it was up there. Waiting around by the pool for your cousin from another universe to show up and heal you wasn't exactly normal, even for him. He was just thankful he had the option to do this somewhere other than the showers because that would have been even more awkward.

Luke was determined not to show how awkward he felt about this, however, and made himself relax by the poolside while waiting for his cousin. He was sitting on the edge with his legs dangling in the water, thankful that this thing seemed to be heated or something.

[Luke's there for Percy, but the pool's open to all, naturally]

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Since this was Percy's first visit to the pool, it'd taken him a little longer to find his way. When he finally spotted the back of Luke's head (yes, he could tell), he knew he was in the right place.

"One of the schools I got kicked out of had a pool like this," he said as he wandered up. "I spent most of my time there before, you know, I got booted."

"Has there been a school you haven't been kicked out of?" Luke asked, smiling over at Percy.

"Well. This one," he said, wandering over to stand next to look to peer down into the clear water. "And Camp Half Blood. Does that count?"

"It does not count. I don't think Camp Half Blood's kicked anybody out," Luke said. "Not for lack of Mr. D trying."

"He thinks my name's Peter Johnson," Percy said, sitting down beside Luke and dipping his feet into the water. Almost immediately, he felt stronger and quicker.

"He calls Annabeth 'Annie Bell'," he added, shaking his head. "The joke got old the first time but he hasn't stopped."

"Try not to get too annoyed. Pissing us off is the only fun he can have right now," Luke said, moving his legs to disturb the water a bit. "God of wine stuck with Diet Coke for a century. I'd take it out on everyone else too."

"I don't know how Chiron takes it," Percy said, keeping his hands in his lap and watching the ripples created by Luke's legs. "He's got more patience than I do."

That was probably why he was the teacher and Percy was the bratty student.

"He's had a lot of time to practice patience," Luke said. "And he gets to remind Mr. D that he's stuck there, which I'm sure eases the pain of dealing with him a bit."

"You ever heard of Tantalus?" Percy asked him, figuring he had but asking anyway. He'd scanned the story to see if there was any danger of telling Luke and found none.

"Guy who fed the gods his kid so now he's stuck in the Underworld unable to eat or drink anything as punishment," Luke said with a nod. "What about him?"

"He ended our camp director for awhile," Percy said, making a face even at the memory. "Chiron had to take some leave -- "

No need to tell Luke why Chiron had to take some leave. That wasn't important and he'd come back in the end.

" -- and Tantalus took his place. He was...just awful."

"Seriously?" Luke started to laugh. "That's freaking amazing. I would have actually liked to see that in action."

"I think all of Mr. D's entertainment came from watching food end up in front of Tantalus and then watching him fail at eating it."

In hindsight, it had been pretty funny. He'd just been too worried to appreciate it at the time. And he resented Tantalus. A lot.

"He'd didn't last," Percy added, shrugging his shoulders and laughing a bit. "Chiron came back and Mr. D had to go back to making fun of students."

"At least you had a few moments reprieve from his mockery," Luke said. He reached up and began to unwind the gauze on his arm, exposing the cut Percy had made. "He's not really all that bad. Keeps the weather at camp nice."

"Yeah, he's all right. If the worst he's gonna do is call me names, I'm doing okay," Percy said, flicking his eyes down to watch Luke unwind that bandage.

"He got my name right once awhile ago," he said idly. "Maybe we're turning a corner."

"He did? I'm impressed," Luke said, tossing the gauze aside one he freed his arm. "Maybe you're capable of not being annoying after all."

"Hey, I managed to get along with the other kid with my face," Percy told him, shrugging. "Bobby, I mean. I didn't send him stalking off to cry in a corner."

"Wow, you're impressing me all over the place today, Percy," Luke teased. "So what do I need to do for this healing thing? Want me to get in the pool?"

"Yeah, we both gotta get in," Percy said, getting back to his feet so he could pull his shirt off. Yeah, he didn't really need to worry about getting wet but sometimes he wanted to. "Once we're in the water, I'll take it from there."

Luke nodded and pulled himself up so he could toss off his shirt as well. He mostly silent about the whole thing until he was starting to lower himself into the pool. "This is kind of weird."

And here he thought he had pretty good control over the "blurting inappropriate things out" aspect of his ADHD.

"What? The pool?" Oh, Percy knew what he was talking about but he was trying not to draw attention to the weirdness.

He slipped into the pool after Luke, feeling immediately stronger and more at home than he'd felt previously. He could understand why his dad kept a kingdom in the water.

"At least it's heated?" Percy tried, wading closer to his cousin. "It'd kinda suck if was cold."

"I wouldn't be in here if it was cold," Luke said, perfectly fine with being in denial about the weirdness if Percy was. "I prefer the air."

"Yeah, I'm not really cool with the air," he said and made a face. "Zeus isn't my biggest fan."

And, in a few years, Luke would be in the same exact boat. Misery loved company or something.

Since there was no one else in the pool, Percy felt comfortable making a few small waves just for the hell of it before he actually got around to healing Luke. He'd call it practice. Maybe it was showing off.

Luke already thought he was on Zeus's bad side for what happened to Thalia, but still went in the air anyway. Because he was a reckless idiot.

He also didn't mind Percy showing off (since that was totally what he was doing). Luke found the whole thing to be kind of cool, and he had to admit that since the water was warm the pool was kind of nice.

"So you can heal and make waves," Luke said as he watched Percy. "What else can you do?"

"Uh. Hmm. Ever wanted to walk on water?" Percy asked. He figured the answer would be 'yes' since it seemed like something everyone would wanna do. "I can make that happen. I can make weapons out of water too."

Well. Sort of.

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