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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"Looking for a replacement sword?" Percy asked, wandering in, Riptide already out and changed into a sword. "Won't your other one get jealous?"

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"It's not for me," Luke said distractedly. "I offered to help train a friend and I wanted to see if these were good enough for her or if I'd have to go home and steal some."

Considering Katniss had told him that she didn't know what would be thrown at her in the arena, Luke wanted to make sure that she learned to use as many different kinds of swords as possible.

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"I thought Kate was more a knives sort of girl," Percy said, giving Riptide a few twirls before lazily striking one of the practice dummies. "Moving on up to the big time now?"

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"Nah, I think Kate's content with knives. Probably better for her considering her situation." The average mortal with a sword didn't seem like a good idea to Luke for the most part. "This is for my friend Katniss. You know her, we had class with her last semester."

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Percy snorted a bit and let the blade of his sword rest on the shoulder of the dummy. "Yeah, I don't think she likes me. We had one conversation and argued. She was wrong."

Of course he'd say that even if he couldn't remember what the argument was about.

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Luke rolled his eyes and left the practice swords alone so he could turn and watch what Percy was doing. "I don't think one argument means that she hates you. You and I argue all the time."

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"Yeah, but she doesn't get to sleep with me afterward," Percy said, pulling the sword back. "You're getting quite the little caravan of trainees, aren't you?"

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"Three people is not a caravan," Luke said. "In case you forgot I'm used to teaching a whole camp full of people."

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"In this place, three people's a caravan," Percy insisted, shrugging. "Maybe you should start advertising? Put fliers up in the dorms, declaring the awesome swordsmanship of Luke Castellan, demigod extraordinaire, and watch the offers roll in."

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"If I did that I would spend all my time in here and wouldn't get to spend any time alone with you," Luke pointed out. "Which I'm sure would leave you devastated."

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"I'd adjust," he said nonchalantly, shrugging. "Your memory would be enough to carry me through, Luke. I'd pine and watch you from afar, waiting until the day you came back."

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"You have more willpower than I do then," Luke said with a smirk. "After a few days I'd probably be all sexually frustrated and pissy."

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"You don't think you'd be able to solve that on your own?" Percy asked, glancing down at Luke's hands.

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"Totally not the same thing," he said, shaking his head. "I mean, it helps, yeah, but definitely not the same thing."

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"You could always get a blow up doll," Percy said slyly. "Might help even more."

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Luke laughed a little. "A blow up doll would be less annoying than you, that's for sure."

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"Why Luke, I had no idea you had such a fondness for latex and plastic," Percy quipped, running the sword through the dummy.

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"Desperate times call for desperate measures," Luke joked. "Maybe you can teach me the ways of self control."

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"And why would I help you when it would be your own fault that you'd be sexually frustrated?" Percy wondered. "That seems a little backwards."

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Luke shook his head and went over to pick his sword up from where he laid it down earlier. "You're gonna fault me for wanting to help people?"

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"In this hypothetical example, yeah," Percy said, smirking. "If it happened for real? No."

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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?"