Salle | Afternoon | Thursday | September 30

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

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.

[Salle's an open place so this is an open post]

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[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Nah, she's too young to be traveling by herself like that," Luke said, shaking his head. "Your mom not coming?"

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Nah, not this time," Percy said, shaking his head. "She offered but she's got a new boyfriend and she's like...happy for the first time in a long time. I didn't want to disrupt that with a weekend where I'd probably be grumpy."

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke thought that Percy's mom probably wanted to see him no matter what kind of mood he was in, but bringing that up would just be wrong considering the situation Luke was in with his own mother.

"That's considerate of you," Luke said instead. "Don't worry about making yourself too scarce, though. I'm sure there's a lot of us that don't have anybody coming."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Were you here for the last one of these?" Percy wondered curiously. "I mean, is there at least free food or something?"

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Nah, I've only been here a few months," Luke said. "But they have free food at every other event here, I don't see why this would be any different."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Maybe I'll come out of my room for that," Percy said, shaking his head. "You wanna do something this weekend since you're in the same boat as me? Maybe beat each other up in the salle? Or watch a movie or something stupid?"

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Really?" Luke looked kind of surprised to hear that. "I could be up for that. Either a movie or beating each other up. I'll have fun doing either."

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Well, we live next door to each other. Wouldn't it make sense to do something that keeps us both busy?"

Percy didn't know if Luke knew about Hades yet so he was going to avoid mentioning that they both might wanna just stay out of sight of the God of the Underworld.

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"I guess so," he said. "I just, uh, the hanging out with you thing kind of surprised me."

If Luke was better at math and calculated how many conversations ended on a high note...well, the number would be low.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Why do you think I suggested beating each other up?" Percy asked, smirking. "We don't have to talk to each other much if we got that route."

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Good idea. Maybe you're not as slow as I thought," Luke teased.

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"I don't know if that's a backwards compliment but I'm taking it as one anyway," Percy decided with a smirk. "I'm not freaking slow."