Third Floor Common Room | Wednesday Afternoon

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The thing about days off from classes was that Nico ended up way more tired than the days he had classes. Luke had kicked his ass in new and inventive ways today that really had Nico repressing the time he'd seen a different Luke use some of those moves. It was a terrifying thought that he wasn't having. Taking Mrs. O'Leary out for a run had helped a little, but after getting cleaned up he just didn't feel like hanging in his own room.

Nico clicked on the common room television and promptly lost the remote, meaning he was just going to sit on the sofa and zone out to some channel entirely devoted to food preparation. Eh, Nico supposed there were worse things to stare at, but the old lady obsessed with butter reminded him of Demeter and the way she force-fed him grain. So disturbing, but better than thinking about his own cousin issues.

[Open CR is open.]

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Percy didn't have any classes either so when he saw Nico in the common room, he wandered in to see what was up but stopped when he caught sight of the program on the television.

And now he was staring at it, wondering why that much butter was needed for anything. It seemed like a heart attack in the making.

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"I know, I can't look away either," Nico said, eyes still glued on the screen. "I'm both hungry and disgusted."

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"Butter...is good but that much seems excessive," Percy finally said, still frowning at the television. "I'm just thinking of a block of butter sitting in my stomach now. Ugh. Ew."

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"Makes me want some cottage cheese for some reason," he said. "Might be kinda hard to burn though." Nico maybe thought of the stranger parts of food consumption first.

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"Cottage cheese?" Percy asked, raising an eyebrow. "Is that curled milk or something? My mom used to try and give me that and say it was some kind of yogurt. She could never explain the chunkier parts, though."

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Nico snorted at Percy's mistake. "Yup, they stuck cheese in rollers and curled it right up," he agreed, glad for a reason to tease.

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"Curdled," he corrected, making a face at Nico before plopping himself down. "Curdled. That's what I meant. Curled milk is probably some delicacy in a country I'll never go to. Jackass."

[fiery-demigod.livejournal.com]

This wasn't Leo's floor but he had heard from a couple people that everybody stole from everybody else's fridge around here and if someone complained he figured he could still plead new kid for a few more weeks.

Of course thoughts of stealing ice cream out of the fridge were gone when he saw someone he recognized in the common room. "Hey, man! ...what the hell are you watching?"

Looked like butter porn.

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Nico wouldn't fault him stolen ice cream. If this common room didn't have a sofa he liked laying on, Nico would've swapped floors for comfort's sake.

"I'm not sure, but I can hardly hear it," he admitted. "So I've been making up my own story about how this old chick is the goddess of butter and is trying to kill her enemies with blocked arteries."

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"Silent killer. Nobody would see it coming," Leo said as he plopped down in a chair. "Wouldn't be a bad way to go. Death would taste pretty good."

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"Yeah. Not really a hero's death, but not entirely painful at the same time," he agreed. "She had this big guy on before and she kept squeezing his cheeks like he was an infant. So creepy." So familiar.

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"That's...disturbing," Leo said. "Was it like her husband or something? Wait, no, that would make it even more disturbing."

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"Uh, I'm not sure. I'm going with son though, 'cause he looked too young to be screwing her. Oh for Zeus' sake now I have the mental image!" Gross. "I might need to wash my brain."

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"Oh, man, that's not cool," Leo said, wrinkling up his nose. "What with the old lady and her son and the butter and the patting. Freaking gross."

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"Hey, man," Percy said, giving Leo a wave. He didn't recognize the other boy but he could occasionally be friendly and he wasn't in an awful mood so polite greeting it was.

[YOU WILL DEAL WITH MY SP CUZ IT'S COMING BUT I WANTED TO PING HIM OMG]

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"Hey, dude," Leo said, giving Percy a wave back. "Enjoy learning about the wide world of butter?"

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"I'm more worried for whoever might eat that," Percy confessed, making a face. "That much butter's gonna leave its mark, one way or another. I'd be worried about my digestive tract."

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"Hey now, I'm sure that lady has been eating that much butter her whole life and she is doing just fine," Leo joked. "Look at that physique."

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Percy looked from the television to Leo and the back to the television. "No thanks, I'll leave to you. You got a crush on the cooking lady or something?"

[dontvotemeout]

With classes over for the day, Jason went down to the third floor to see if he could find Nico. When he spotted him in the common room, he was instantly taken in by what Nico was watching. "Is what she's making actually edible?" he said, leaning over the back of the sofa.

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"If you believe the noises she makes when she tastes it," Nico said, biting his cheek to kill the smile that threatened to break through on sight of Jason. "She gets pretty loud even with the sound down low."

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"Seriously?" Jason asked, looking back and forth between Nico and the television. "And you're watching this why?"

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Nico glanced over at Jason and considered how his response was likely to be taken. "Because I lost the remote. In my defense getting up is overrated when it's not like I'll pay attention to any program for all that long." He hadn't grown up with TV so he wasn't all that used to it.

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Jason tried not to snicker, but he wasn't very effective. "Do you want me to help you find the remote, or are you good here?"

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"Laugh and I'll make you come sit and watch with me," Nico warned. Such a terrible threat. "But if you want to change it, feel free. This channel makes me hungry."