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The one bad thing about having your long distance boyfriend come over to stay with you during his Spring Break was that however wonderful it was, it somehow wasn't grounds enough to stay home from work. Kate had had to leave Bod at home, doing whatever it was you did when you were an unusual Englishman staying with your girlfriend's aunt and her wailing infant in Kansas. Watching over Wheels in fifteen minute increments, probably.

And Kate had a long day of visiting several Midwestern cities behind her. And since it was one of those days where she hadn't managed to cajole the Green Hornet away from her mom (something about needing it to get to school, blah), she was on a bus. And bored. Looking out the window, absently playing with her necklace while ignoring the drunken mumblings of a dude a few seats away from her kind of bored.

She just wanted to get home. Sigh.

[ooc: NFB. Primarily for one, but open for other calls/texts etc, sure!]

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Luke wasn't really sure what time it was in Kansas but he had drank enough at this point that he really didn't care. He figured if it were 3 am there or something she just wouldn't pick up the phone.

Or she'd pick up the phone and be pissed. Oh well, he was willing to risk it.

Had he woken her up at three in the morning, it could've easily meant also waking up Wheels, and that would've meant she would've come where he was to yell at him.

So, he was in luck, because she was just delighted to get a call to break the boredom right now.

And having checked the caller ID, she picked up the call with, "KCMO Public Transport Dissatisfaction Committee, how may I help you today?"

That was way too many words for someone who had practically faceplanted onto a table at a Brazilian bar. There was a couple moments of silence where he tried to work it out but, yeah, not happening.

"Uh...what?"

Kate snickered at his confusion. "Wooow, Luke," she drawled, "spring break is really doing a number on your ability to think on your feet, isn't it?"

"Oh it is you," he mumbled. "Yeah I didn't understand like half of those words so I wasn't sure."

"Well, I'm bored and on a bus, callers beware," she told him, amusement still obvious in her voice. "What's up? Missing me?"

"Always," he said. "I'm in Brazil, trying to see how many drinks I can have in one sitting before someone starts yelling at me in Portuguese."

"Well, that definitely sounds like spring break to me." Kate was, after all, an alumna in overindulging in alcohol during that particular vacation time. "But I don't think I can hear anyone yelling so far, so you must still be off from your goal."

"It's still early," Luke said. "And I've been coming here all week so maybe they're getting used to my presence."

"Uh huh." She snorted. "So, is this just a general vacation binge, or do you have a reason to be testing your demigod liver's functions?"

Luke let out a dramatic sigh and gestured for another drink from the bartender he was making fast friends with. "They roomed me with Percy."

"Ah." Well, that explained a lot. This was probably where Kate should've sounded sympathetic, but... "Wait, what's the deal with you guys currently?"

She got so confused sometimes.

"Uh..." Even he wasn't sure. "Things are awkward and he doesn't trust me. For good reason 'cause, man, I really fucked up. So yeah we're definitely not together."

There was a pause.

"I mean, we had sex a couple weekends ago but we're not together."

Kate nodded to herself. "And I bet that was an island thing." Because she'd managed to get her share of that as well, even without being directly affected. "So, what? You guys are just awkwarding at each other now?"

"Pretty much," Luke said. "He's much better at pretending nothing's wrong than I am."

Luke thought drinking helped even the playing field a bit. He was wrong.

"Yeah, I can tell by how you're pulling a... well, me circa spring break last year, basically," Kate remarked. "Except I'd sat on cake for skeevy dudes' sexual enjoyment but anyway."

Almost the same, really.

"You're probably not gonna want to hear this, but boozing it up probably won't help much."

"Were you naked while sitting on cakes?" It wasn't that he was ignoring what Kate said he was just distracted by it.

Too bad she was so easily distractable, too.

"What? No. No, no no no. Ew." Gross. But then the whole thing had been just that even clothed. "Though I can still report that cake gets inside teensy shiny shorts about as grossly."

Luke laughed. "Sorry, sorry. I'm just confused. I like cake and I like girls, but them both together doesn't turn me on."

"Well, how about sitting on balloons?" Kate drawled. "'Cause that got me a Vespa."

And some scarring mental images via webcam she was never getting out of her brain.

"The moral of this particular story is that I hate the internet."

"But the internet's awesome," Luke said. "My dad invented the internet, you know."

He looked over to see some guy staring at him with a lifted eyebrow.

"What? He did!"

It was a miracle he hadn't been in a bar fight yet.

Yup. "Luke, please don't get into anything over whether your dad invented the internet or not."

Said the girl who was yet to realize the drunk a few rows down from her had been giving her interested looks since she'd announced the cake thing.

"It would be ridiculous."

"Hey, it's for this guy's own safety, the gods get pissed if you don't show respect," he said. "Not that I think they'll be visiting this universe to see me any time soon. But still. Some might visit Percy."

"Well, I doubt some bar in Rio is the first place they'd go, unless Percy is thinking of settling down and picking up bartending," Kate replied. "No brawling with mortals, Luke. I forbid it."

"You sound like Annabeth." Yeah, because that's what he should be thinking about when drinking. "You don't think it'd be fun to come out here and bail me out of some seedy Brazilian prison?"

"If I had to do that, I would punch you in the face." But notice how that didn't mean she wouldn't. Please, she'd had to go get people from worse places before. "In the face."

"But Brazil is so pretty!" See, that totally made up for the portal money it'd take to get there. "I mean, save for some ugly guys here in the bar."

Yes, he was talking to you people.

"You'd have to come too because Percy wouldn't help. He doesn't like drinking."

So he was sure gonna love Luke's stupid drunk ass stumbling into the room later.

"Brazil may be pretty, but unlike some people, I have a pretty boyfriend to stay at home with."

Not that she was trying to rub it in.

"And how impressed is your roomie going to be with your drunken shenanigans even if you don't get in trouble with Brazilian law?"

"I don't think he's noticed yet, which is how the plan is supposed to work." Oh yes, a plan has been implemented. "Basically I stay out drinking until I think he's asleep, then I come back to the room and the alcohol ensures that I'll be passed out when he gets up and leaves in the morning. I pretty much haven't spoken to him since Sunday, which should tell you how well the plan is working."

Kate was unimpressed. Of course she was. "That sounds an awful lot like the plan that led to me cutting my spring break in Hawaii short last week," she couldn't help remarking. "After Nathan had to take me on a walk so I wouldn't hit anyone. So. I'm not convinced that's the best course of action."

"Well what do you suggest?" Luke asked. "I'll admit I wouldn't mind one that'd save me money because I only got free drinks when I took my shirt off last night at this gay parade."

Well he was still shirtless now but that was because it was hot and he still thought he could score free drinks from it. Blame Tony.

Oh, Tony Stark. Inspiring debauchery even as a weetiny geek.

"Weeeell," Kate drawled, trying not to get distracted by the shirtless gay parade, "I know this one is really lame but have you tried talking to him?"

"We're both guys." Come on, Kate, think about what you were saying.

"Well yeah but I figured you might try and get over that particular handicap." So there. "Since you're probably still all in love and stuff."

"Well, yeah. I think." He looked over at the guy at the table next to him like he could maybe offer an answer. The guy was probably wondering what this shirtless white boy was doing drinking all the tequila.

"I mean, I know I am but he's...well you've met Percy. He's not very good at expressing emotions so he defaults to being a brat."

"Yeah, well, I know what that's like."

From the brat side of things, obviously.

"And this is where I'd offer to do some prodding on your behalf like the amazing friend that I am, but A, I'm a world away and B, Percy doesn't like me. So, you're on your own. But seriously, if he's just totally given up on you, he's a fucking idiot."

And she knew it wasn't that simple, really, but she was a friend.

Luke smiled. "Thanks. I already knew he was an idiot but its nice to have confirmed."

"It's a fact I very strongly believe in," Kate informed him. "But, you're into him so he can't be that bad, really."

"No, he is that bad. I'm just weird," Luke joked. "And I know you're right about talking to him. I just don't want to make things worse."

He was pretty good at doing that.

"Well, take it from someone who got this exact same piece of advice a year ago from a drunken Irishman: not talking about it definitely isn't going to make things better, either."

Man, she was so wise. She glanced out the window and fiddled with her eternity symbol necklace a little.

"And, you know, if shit doesn't work out? You're totally welcome to come hang out anytime. We in the Gregson-Craine-Kowalski household sadly know romantic failure like the backs of our hands."

Edited 2012-02-22 23:15 (UTC)

"I might take you up on that regardless of my romantic future." He weirdly liked Kansas. "Sorry I keep bothering you with my dating problems. I actually started telling this stuff to the bartender but he doesn't actually speak English."

Kate snorted. "Oh, dude, it's no problem," she said. "I mean, aside from the weird fact that all my girlfriend slots seem to be taken up by various tall and strong dudes, I'm totally cool. This shit's the least I can do. Plus I can speak English and I have all the background info."

"So you think I'm tall and strong, huh?" No amount of booze could curb his ego.

Yeah, Kate was just gonna laugh at that. "Dude, it was a factual statement, don't sound smug."

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