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People came easily to Luke.
That was not to say people generally liked him, necessarily. Some would say he had his father’s charm and his mother’s once beautiful features, and that was why he’d always attracted a crowd, but Luke hadn’t been his parents’ son in a long while. He was every bit the thief his father was and, like his mother, could see far past what was presented, but everything he’d built for himself had been from the ground up.
Even by demigod standards, Luke was the son of one of the lamest gods in Olympus- he wasn’t great with his hands like Annabeth, and he definitely couldn’t control lightning the way Thalia could. All Luke had was people. He could tell, for the most part, what buttons to push to upset, to anger, to flatter, to confuse; that was Luke’s talent. He was a pickpocket, a sleight of hand artist, and like most cynical, petty crooks, nothing slipped past him.
Luke understood how people worked. Understood what the flutter of an eyelid or a trembling lip meant, understood just how much tension in the brow separated grief and aggression. Above all, Luke understood that people were always exactly as they were not- playing a game of charades against the rest of the world as though that might protect them, in some way, from her jagged edges.
He’d always been too clever for his own good.
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rating: explicit pairing: percy/annabeth, with previous luke/annabeth summary: It wasn’t like Annabeth hadn’t been warned about him. In New Rome, there was just one unofficial rule to surviving and thriving for demigods and mortals alike. Avoid the son of Neptune. At all costs. support: ko-fi
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Lacy giggled, following behind her. “You must have it bad if you’d rather suffer through a fitting than talk about him.”
“You’re the one who said I had to pick something for the gala today or die trying. Dying is not on the schedule.”
“Uh-huh.” Lacy carefully set the shoe box on a vanity chair, away from the chaos of the rest of the dressing room chaos. Annabeth grabbed one dress off the rack they’d gone through yesterday. “I’ve heard rumors about him.”
“You and everybody else in this damn city.”
“Ugh, not those rumors. Everyone knows he’s a beast to be around.” Annabeth frowned, but had no time to defend Percy before Lacy continued with her clarification, “I meant the sexy rumors, duh.”
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a fun little break from the ~dramaaaa~ of the last few chapters
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/03/1408341/-Psychologist-openly-admits-he-trains-police-officers-to-shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later S-I-G-N-A-L B-O-O-S-T
This man has gone through so much for the criminal act of not letting a cop kill a man and face no consequences. He was jailed, an attempt was made on his life, and his efforts to be heard about the mistreatment he faced was suppressed.
Please consider donating to The Ramsey Orta Welcome Home Fund if you have something to spare. No one should have to endure the things he has endured for demanding justice.
Seven Seas of Rhye | (Chapter 4) Murphy’s Law
Some days, when Leo looks at Annabeth, he wonders if it is possible for someone to die and reanimate their own corpse.
Today is one of those days.
Her skin is ghostly pale in the lights of the bunker, her eyes — eyes that are framed by dark, heavy circles — are lifeless, unseeing, and her hair hangs limply around her face.
Her thumb picks at the ring on her left hand.
(Or the one in which all of the original pjo characters are a decade older when the Hero of Olympus series start.)
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This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.
That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.
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