vanillajello | Room 324, Saturday Evening

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Room 324, Saturday Evening

So, after her randomly awkward visit to the library, it seemed there was to be no party for Kate today. Well, not unless you counted it a party that she was wearing her new dress while music played on in the background. Kate didn't. The dress was because for just a moment, she'd considered going into town after all, before she'd realized that would've either meant going to the Devil's Nest and not being able to drink, or going to Caritas and having to face Caroline.

The music was just because.

She was slumped on her bed, playing a game on her phone and wondering whether she should dig out the liquor bottle she knew she had stashed in the depths of her closet. It called for consideration.

Thinking hard on just how pathetic that would make her look, mostly.

[ooc: Mostly 'stablishy, but can be open since I'm probably not gonna go to bed for a couple more hours ~~like an insane person~~! The door is cracked open.]

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Luke didn't feel like going outside when it was cold and he didn't feel like hanging out in his room either, so he went down the hall to see if anybody else was as bored as he was.

Since Kate's door was one of the few that wasn't closed he tapped on the door frame lightly to see if she was around.

"Yeah?" Kate called out, not even looking up from her phone. She'd look up once there was actually something besides her door to look at, thanks.

Also, it was the most non-committal 'yeah?' ever, but it served its purpose.

Well that didn't sound very enthusiastic but Luke pushed open the door anyway. "Hey. You busy?"

"Depends," Kate drawled, trying for a faint, lopsided smile as she glanced at him. "If playing stupid games and angsting count as being busy then yeah."

"Oh cool, I was doing that too, but I decided I didn't want to do it alone," Luke said, stepping in the room. "It'll be much more effective if we combined our powers."

Kate snorted and pushed herself up to a slightly more sitting position on her bed. "Yeah, sweet zombie Jesus forbid we be ineffective about being mopey bitches."

"Well if you're gonna do something you might as well do it right," he said. "You're better dressed for the occasion than I am, though. Were you doing some classy angsting?"

"Actually, if you can believe it, for a while there I wasn't gonna do any angsting at all," she shared, like it was some big revelation. "But then I realized that angsting might be a better idea than going somewhere where I would've probably just started a fight."

Not that those couldn't be fun.

"You're a better person than me. I would have taken the fight." Not that Luke couldn't have knocked on the door across the hall and started a fight with Percy. "So what are we angsting over?"

"I don't even know," Kate admitted, shaking her head. "My magical talent at making things go awkward with my boyfriend, maybe? That's kind of an age old favorite."

"Awkward's not too bad, right? It's fixable," Luke said optimistically, sitting down on the edge of Kate's bed. "At least he doesn't want you dead. There's a bright side."

Kate sighed, rubbing her temple. "Yeah, I know, I'm just being melodramatic over kind of a minor thing that'll probably get fixed, like, tomorrow. Stuff's just been mostly going so smooth after we got back together that I'm just being weird about it."

Luke smirked. "At least you're admitting it's a bit melodramatic. I would have hated having to point that out myself. You might've gotten violent."

"Hey, I can totally admit some of my flaws." Just not any of the important ones. "I'm a girl. We like melodrama. Or just drama, really, but I'm not really having that right now, for once."

"You're just angsting now for practice, huh?" Luke teased. "You want some of my drama? I've got some to spare."

"I think your drama has too many supernatural components for me to handle, thanks," Kate snorted, rolling her eyes. "... Though this is coming from a chick whose drama generally involves vampires. Even when it's my lovelife."

"Now vampires I don't actually have too much experience with, so you're ahead of me in that supernatural area," he said. "I do have some empousai working for me, though. They suck the blood of men after hooking up with them."

"Ew," Kate replied eloquently, making a face. "No, I think that's close enough to vampires. Considering that's almost happened to me with one."

"Yeah I'm keeping away from them 'cause of that reason." And not because of Percy at all. Riiiiiiight. "Not my business what they do on their off hours but I'd rather not be one of their victims."

"Yeah, it... sounds like it would be really fucking unpleasant." Understatement. She wrinkled her nose. "No offence, dude, but sometimes I really miss the time topics like this weren't normal for me."

Luke laughed a little. "If you're looking to have a normal conversation about normal things I don't know if I'm the best person to be providing that at the moment. I'm like knee deep in monsters and demigods and quests for magical items."

"Well, if I was really that desperate for normal stuff I would've already skipped town, instead of laming it up here," Kate admitted, and shook her head. "Magical items, really?"

Luke rubbed the back of his neck. "Yeah. You ever hear the story about Jason and the Golden Fleece?"

"Other than being pretty sure that it might involve the argonauts, no, not really," she said.

"The argonauts are the group of guys Jason got to help him get the fleece. It's always a real bitch to get. The trip's dangerous and it's always guarded by some jerk these days," Luke explained. "Anyway, they say the fleece can heal anything and it's important that I get it."

"Uh huh." Yeah, Kate was never not going to sound at least a little bit sceptical about this stuff. "Sounds... dangerous."

There were a few other words she might've picked instead.

"Oh yeah, anybody going for it will probably end up dead." Which was why he wasn't planning on getting it himself. "You'd have a cool story to tell if you do manage to get it though."

Kate quirked an eyebrow. "So, I assume you're not gonna go for it yourself. At least, I'd like to think you'd be a little less blasé about the imminent threat of death and everything if you were."

"Someone else is gonna try first, yeah. But if they die then I'll go get it myself," he said with a shrug. "I am sort of blasé about death. Have to be. Most demigods don't make it to adulthood."

"Yeah, I guess get the whole... different points of view to death thing. I mean, my boyfriend was raised by dead people so I've kind of had to deal with it before."

Plus her BFF was an undead guy, so.

"Creeps me out, but I get it. Still sounds pretty horrific to me, since I can't really imagine wanting a fleece that bad, super duper mystical healing powers or not."

Luke smirked at hearing it worded that way. "That probably makes you a smarter person than I am."

"I get that a lot," Kate drawled. "Benefit of being borderline normal and kinda sheltered compared to most people here, I guess."

"I don't know, I've seen plenty of borderline normal, sheltered mortals do some pretty dumb things," Luke said. "You obviously have some special talent beyond that."

"Half a working brain," she said. "Though I have still done some pretty dumb, dangerous things too. Guess I've just managed to learn something."

"I would have been surprised if some of it didn't rub off on you after all this time," Luke said, chuckling. "You can still brag that you're smarter than the average Fandomite, though."

"Thanks," Kate replied with a faint smile. "Even if that mostly manifests itself in my tendency to either camp in the dorms or flee the island at the first sign of trouble."

Although she figured things might have changed slightly in that respect, by now.

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