[For Percy]
Oct. 23rd, 2012 02:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
After a more interesting day at the Compound, I decided to go back home and wait up for Percy. He hadn't been back at our place when I got there, so I fired up the game system and started up dishing out some digital death.
Coraline had asked me if Percy liked her. She'd also mentioned Esther attacking her, and how she and Percy had some earlier conversation that hadn't answered her questions. I didn't honestly know anything about any of it. I'd told Coraline I'd ask Percy for her. Maybe the best thing would've been to insist that the two of them try talking again, but I thought I'd get in the middle here just for a bit. This could get messy considering not-Thalia, a.k.a. Valkyrie.
And, maybe Percy doesn't know either. I'll help him sort it out if he needs me. Anyway, until he gets here, I'm going to pile up the virtual bodies.
Coraline had asked me if Percy liked her. She'd also mentioned Esther attacking her, and how she and Percy had some earlier conversation that hadn't answered her questions. I didn't honestly know anything about any of it. I'd told Coraline I'd ask Percy for her. Maybe the best thing would've been to insist that the two of them try talking again, but I thought I'd get in the middle here just for a bit. This could get messy considering not-Thalia, a.k.a. Valkyrie.
And, maybe Percy doesn't know either. I'll help him sort it out if he needs me. Anyway, until he gets here, I'm going to pile up the virtual bodies.
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Date: 2012-10-28 08:34 pm (UTC)I looked up at Luke. "I know you're laughing. Stop it! It's not funny!"
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Date: 2012-10-28 08:43 pm (UTC)For Percy, I try to keep my amusement down to just a smile. My smile's wide, though. There's only so far I can go.
"I know it's none of my business, Percy. But, you might want to actually tell Coraline whether you like her or not before this soon-to-be-infamous sleepover."
If Percy knows me at all, I completely and totally plan to throw in references to sleepovers into our everyday lives for the foreseeable future. Connecting that reference to the line 'be gentle, it's my first time' will be only too easy.
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Date: 2012-10-28 08:52 pm (UTC)I stopped, suddenly keenly aware of another connotation for the word "like". A connotation that Coraline used quite often. "You mean 'like-like' her, don't you?"
I looked at Luke for a response, all the while wondering how this had come to me through him. Must have heard something. How? Through Coraline. Why?
I lowered my head in my hands. "Oh, crap!"
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Date: 2012-10-28 10:21 pm (UTC)"Percy, you didn't say it, but 'oh crap' is not a response someone with no feelings gives."
I'm sure this isn't simple for him. He's still got his 'thing' with Valkyrie, and even further hiding is the topic of Annabeth. I'll just let him say something at this point.
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Date: 2012-10-29 03:39 am (UTC)But my mind was beginning to spin. Geez, first Annabeth, then Valkyrie and now, possibly, Coraline?! What kind of lovesick fiend was I?
Then again, maybe it was the Island. Bella was a friend who'd just married Edward Cullen -- a man/vampire from back home. But I'd heard through the grapevine that she'd been in love and living with another man whom she'd met on the Island. And Annabeth had been here and suddenly she wasn't and I was full of regrets.
It wasn't that my feelings for Valkyrie were superficial -- far, far from it. But maybe it was possible to love more than one person in your heart. And maybe this place, with its uncertainties, made this more urgent.
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Date: 2012-10-29 03:56 am (UTC)The other things might influence how he acts, but not how he feels.
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Date: 2012-10-29 11:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-30 03:03 am (UTC)"Percy, I know why you want to avoid directly answering that question. It's messy. I can see that. What you decide to tell Coraline is one thing, but you need to figure out the truth of how you really feel. Don't lie to yourself. You've got Valkyrie to think about, and Annabeth too. Like I said before, it's okay if you want to keep pursuing Valkyrie, but don't build it up into a quest that the world depends on. I know you're a very loyal person, but break-ups are okay too. Coraline told me she tried to ask you. She probably didn't do a great job of it, but she deserves an answer."
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Date: 2012-10-30 04:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-31 02:58 am (UTC)"Whoever you end up with will be very lucky, Percy. You've got a good heart, and everyone underestimates you." I surely did. I'm not quite sure why I felt like adding that. Maybe I want Percy to know I think very much of him. There's also envy, but I want to keep that to myself.
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Date: 2012-10-31 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
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