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@percy.jackson — witness me not caring that this isn't set up

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( he probably, like, instantly told annabeth about loki on the network — that he's here, that he's claiming to be the real deal but this? this is news. )

if i volunteer for dream training, does that mean i get to sleep more?

thank you for reminding me...

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( they probably told each other at the same time like the annoying hivebrain that they are. )

No. I think it means you'll get worse sleep, and be crankier than usual.

it's my job

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when am i cranky?

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When do you get a solid eight hours of sleep?

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i don't need eight hours
i need candy and coffee

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Are you getting caffeine headaches? I thought the brain surgery and haircut came with a cure for those.

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you got a cure for caffeine headaches?

all they gave me was a seizure

( she can't snap that's not funny if she can't find him. )

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PERCY.

( she can too. )

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ANNABETH

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Please tell me you did not actually have a seizure.

( she will, actually, murder someone. it will be all the impetus she needs to find whoever dropped them off and rip their heads off their bodies. )

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i would but i don't talk as good as i did in my youth

come on
i would've told you if i was serious

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You're not really having caffeine withdrawals, are you?

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no but i drink more soda than coffee
are you?

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I miss the buzz, I think. But I don't feel sick the way my dad used to. Whatever they did to us must have pushed me past the withdrawal phase.

( or maybe it was however long they were kept in confinement. time heals all wounds, after all. )

I might have gotten you a job.

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what?

( he's relieved that annabeth doesn't have killer migraines. emphasis on killer because he doubts the world around them would survive a caffeine-deprived daughter of athena. )

why?

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i mean where?

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Because you need something to do that's not mindlessly binging futuristic television or getting into fights with street vendors.

( she didn't sign him up for slavery, jeez )

It's at the bar. Silena works there.

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do i? i haven't fallen into a showhole yet

( what's with the fear? annabeth's idea of hard work and percy's are not the same. but, it's for them and their future. know what that means? yup, he's screwed by his own moral compass. )

who do you want me to talk to about it?

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Stephen Strange. He runs the place. He swears that's his real name, for the record, so don't make stupid jokes.

( don't get fired on your first day or they'll never be able to afford their own place. )

If you keep binging everything without me, you'll just have to sit through the shows again a second time when I'm ready to watch them.

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i wasn't going to make stupid jokes
everyone knows they write themselves

( out here, trying to live his life, failing. )

and?
that's not actually punishment even if you do hog the couch

( he'd rather watch her than the screen. )

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If you get fired on your first day because your new boss gets tired of you making fun of his name, I'm disowning you.

( liar, liar. )

I only hog when you're not falling asleep on it.

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do you think i'd make a good bachelor?
unemployed with fifteen stray dogs?
or dying plants since there apparently aren't many animals here
somewhere, grover and juniper have actually disowned me

( thin ice feels great under his feet. )

let's not blame the couch for being cozy
the couch didn't ask for this
and i like you taking up 90% of the space despite being shorter than me

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You'd be begging me to take you back an hour later.

( never mind the fact that it was annabeth going out of her mind with worry for six months before. )

I'm only shorter than you because you got stretched out by some monsters over the summer. Normal-Percy is a shrimp.