Salle; Monday Afternoon

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After recovering from eating doughnuts with Leo, Luke decided a workout was probably in order. He was probably gonna end up going down to the salle anyway out of sheer boredom but he liked having a reason to be down there. Gave him something to work to.

He spent some time doing some simple exercises before getting into practicing against the dummies. As per usual when he was working alone, Luke sort of went into autopilot when it came to training. He sliced through the dummies easily and with a lot of skill, but his head was off somewhere else, thinking about everything from the work he had to do back home to Katniss's problems to what the hell he was gonna eat for lunch later. Before he knew it he had worked up a pretty good sweat and the dummy he was wailing on was worse for the wear.

After a few minutes he took a break and wandered over to the practice swords, inspecting them to see if they were good enough to teach with or if he'd have to go back home and steal another one.

[The salle is open, of course]

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"Well that's a relief. Not that I think it's going to happen any time soon," Luke said, idly slicing his sword through the air. "It's not like I offer to everybody. Kate and Nico came to me wanting help and I offered to Katniss because she's got something big coming up and I don't want to see her hurt."

Well, he didn't want to see her hurt until she was ready to die for that Peeta guy on her own terms, anyway.

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"How's Nico doing with it anyway?" Percy asked curiously. "Has he managed to get the best of you yet?"

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"I believe you saw the scar on my shoulder." Yes, that was a big fat lie and Luke hated even pretending he lost to somebody, but he figured he owed Nico this one.

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"Yeah, I remember that," Percy said, nodding. "Does that mean I can scar the other shoulder and give you a matching set?"

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"Don't you think I have enough scars on me to last a lifetime?" he asked. Not that he thought Percy was capable of hitting him as hard as Ares had.

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"You honestly think you're done getting scars?" Percy asked, raising an eyebrow.

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"Of course not," Luke said, shaking his head. "I'm probably gonna get a lot more before somebody finally does me in. I just hope the one on my face is the worst of it."

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"That one's not that bad," Percy said even if he knew Luke wouldn't believe him. "Not that I expect to convince you but it's not."

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"Yeah, well, you're weird," Luke said before stabbing one of the practice dummies in the back.

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"You want me to lick it right here?" Percy asked, just going for reaction more than anything.

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Luke peaked over the dummy's shoulder so he could give Percy a look. "Is that supposed to convince me that you're not weird?"

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"Nope." He shrugged. "It's supposed to prove that it's not that bad."

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Luke smiled a little before freeing the sword from the dummy's back. "You're welcome to lick me when we're not in public."

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"Oooh, rejection," Percy said, holding his heart. "How am I ever supposed to overcome this? My heart is broken."

No, his heart was fine.

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"I didn't realize you were such a wuss," Luke teased. "Might want to look into hardening that heart of yours."

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"You don't want to ever be licked again, do you?" Percy wondered, raising an eyebrow again.

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"Didn't say that," he said. "I'm just showing concern for your poor sensitive heart."

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"By mocking it!" Percy pointed out, shaking his head. "Honestly, Luke, you're a mean jerkface."

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"Please, I am way nicer than you," Luke insisted. "Aren't you the one accusing me of being sappy all the time?"

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"You are," Percy said, shrugging. "That doesn't mean you don't have a mean jerkface side of you. It's totally like Jekyll and Hyde, Luke."

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Luke knew that was true and shrugged it off easily even if he felt slightly bad that Percy didn't know the full extent of it. "And yet you put up with me anyway. Such a saint."

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"Well, you're kinda cute so the pros outweigh the cons," Percy said, smirking jokingly.

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"I'm more than kind of cute," Luke told him. "Waaaaaay more than kind of cute."

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"And totally modest too, aren't you?" Percy asked sarcastically.

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Luke rolled his eyes. "Please, like you have room to talk. You're as bad as I am."