fandomhighdorms | Salle | Afternoon | Thursday

With the rain sheeting down outside and feelings of restlessness creeping up inside him, Percy found himself in the salle to work off some of the nervous energy. Parent's Weekend was creeping closer and he hadn't heard a thing from his father. His mother had called and told him she wouldn't be able to make it. Percy understood and assured her he was fine. She had Paul and she had things that were actually good now. He wanted her to be happy.

With a particular vicious overhead swing, one of the practice dummy's got mauled by the blade of Riptide. Percy didn't stop. He didn't stop when the sweat started running into his eyes or when his hand started to hurt from gripping the hilt of Riptide so hard. When Riptide's blade got stuck in the neck of the practice dummy, he stopped and blinked.

Well. That poor practice dummy had seen better days. Percy wiped his brow with his forearm and tried to calm down some. He flexed his fingers and didn't think about where all that anger had suddenly come from.

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"Of course you'd say that," Luke said, ignoring Percy's insult. "You're inexperienced."

Luke had no way of knowing that, but he was making an educated guess.

"Yeah, you've got no way of knowing that," Percy said, shaking his head. "I'm plenty experienced."

Well, he knew a lot of girls.

Luke smirked. "I saw you yesterday, you looked like you were gonna pass out when that girl was talking to you."

"That was because of the -- "

Percy stopped talking and glanced at Luke, looking almost accusing (and a little interested).

"Why were you watching me?"

Luke shrugged. "Just curious to see how it'd play out. Why were you watching me?"

"I'm a TA," he said, going for an easy excuse, "so I was watching everyone to make sure things went okay. You weren't the only one I watched."

Luke rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I'm sure. I didn't think you knew what a TA did."

"I've been in the class like a month now, I can learn, Luke," Percy said, shaking his head. "It's nice to see you think I'm incompetent though."

"I never thought you were incompetent," Luke said. He smiled. "Just a little slow."

"I never stuck around at a school long enough to know what a TA was," Percy explained again, rolling his eyes. "Calling me slow for that?"

"No, not that," he said, enjoying Percy being annoyed. "But I will point out this is the first time I've been to school since the third grade and I still knew what one did."

But he watched a ridiculous amount of TV.

"I spent my time getting expelled," Percy said tightly, giving Luke a glare. "Is it really that bad that I didn't know what the heck a TA did? It's not that stupid of a question."

"Chill out, Percy," Luke said, shaking his head. "I'm teasing you."

"You saw how I was when I walked in and you're teasing me? You're a brave guy," Percy said, stretching and cracking his neck since it'd gotten a little stiff during his workout.

"What would have happened if I didn't stop?" Luke asked, looking amused. "Would you run a sword through my neck too?"

Percy scoffed and shook his head. "That would make too much of a mess and I don't like cleaning up blood. You intending on stopping?"

"Well since there's clearly something bothering you, I'll let up for now," he said. "But don't expect that to happen often."

"There's nothing bothering me," he lied, giving the dummy a glare in lieu of glaring at Luke again. "I'm just training. Am I not allowed to do that now?"

Maybe something was bothering him.

"Okay, seriously, relax," Luke said, sighing. "It's not like I asked you to share your feelings or anything. If you want me to go so you can go back to doing the angry stabbing training thing, I will."

"I didn't say that," Percy said, relenting a little since it wasn't Luke's fault he was in a mood. "It's just a bad day, I guess. Figured I'll have to hide this weekend too so I'm getting in some training while I can."