caughtinanetwork | Plan 4 → [video] & [action]

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Plan 4 → [video] & [action]

[ Annabeth doesn't usually cry as a rule. Demigods don't have easy lives and most emotions can be rationalised away with the motivation of 'getting on with things'. But for some reason, this time whenever she thinks she's stopped crying somehow more tears come. It's not just that he's gone... it's also what he's gone back to.

She sits and stares at the jellies outside the bubble until she's sure she can make this video post without crying. Drawing her coat more tightly around her - Hades, it's cold lately! - she shivers and turns on her SFC for the first time since Percy had left. ]

So, I don't know how many of you knew Percy Jackson, my boyfriend, but he's gone. Just thought I'd do the courteous thing and let everyone know. [ She wipes quickly at one eye but manages to hold off tears. ]

[ooc: This is a network and action post! Feel free to respond either by SFC or with awkward cuddle curse actions out by the jellies. ]

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She's grateful when Leo turns up and doesn't say anything. The oddest thing happens when he nudges her though - a liquid shot of warmth rolls straight through her. She turns to look at Leo at first, wondering if he's holding a hot water bottle or something.

"Did you just..." But Leo doesn't seem to be hiding anything. He looks almost as down and out as she feels. Still, that was weird. She nudges him again and lo and behold, she feels the same warmth. "Do you feel that?"

"Yeah. It's the curse. Crazy getting one so close to the last one, right?" Leo hasn't figured out all the details of the curse yet, but he does know that contact makes the cold go away, so he drapes an arm over Annabeth's back, his hand resting on her shoulder. Partly for the curse and partly for support over Percy leaving.

"Another curse? I thought we only got them once a month!"

Annabeth wants to shrink away when Leo puts an arm around her. Part of her feels like this would be Percy's job, and part also just doesn't want to be touched right now. But when warmth floods through her for the first time in a day she reasons with herself and accepts the embrace. There was no point going cold and Leo was one of her closer friends. Like a little brother really.

Gratefully, she nudges in closer to him and almost sighs with how warm she suddenly becomes. "Thanks. Seriously, thanks, this feels so much better."

"Yeah, I thought so too. Maybe this means we won't have one at the end of this month?" Leo doesn't want to think too much about the possibility of another curse happening this month.

And Annabeth was like a sister to him. There was no way he was gonna let her get so cold that she gets sick or anything. Plus, it would help keep him warm, too. And there was also the fact that Percy was gone and this probably offered some sort of comfort to her knowing that she's still got people who care about her here.

"Yeah, no problem. You can hit me up for warmth any time you want this week."

"Thanks Leo. You too. Maybe it does mean that we'll spend the rest of the month curse-free but I don't know, I'm not going to count on it."

She curls in a bit closer and gets comfy, wrapping her arm around Leo's waist. What a stupid curse, especially when her boyfriend has just been taken away. She probably would have barely noticed it if Percy had still been here. She tries not to let that bother her since Leo's trying his best to make her feel better.

"Wasn't saying I was counting on it. Just hoping. Or that maybe the next one won't affect me."

Leo settles in and looks up at the jellyfish. He hadn't even bothered to look at the view when he got here, he was more concerned for his friend than the marine life. But now that he was looking at it, it was really cool.

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