Is there something on my face? [Percy]

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It wasn't a question to anyone where Thalia Grace's favorite place was at camp. The mess hall. Even though you catch her there regularly, Thalia didn't usually have a buffet of all her favorite foods spread far and wide around her. She was currently stuffing her face into a triple big mac and even Thalia usually knows where to draw the line. Today this daughter of Zeus seemed a bit upset. So far only one person tried to ask Thalia what was wrong and that resulted in her zapping their demigod butt out the door. Thalia knew she probably shouldn't be that mean to the other campers, but she sure as heck didn't want to talk to a random stranger. She might try to apologize later. Thalia continued shoveling fast food in her mouth and mumbling as she shuffled through her thoughts.

[PERCY JACKSON]

Percy entered the mess hall looking for a sandwich. What he was not expecting was to see Thalia stuffing her face. She was normally pretty cool about stuff, and wasn't normally seen ... letting lose like this. 
He cautiously walked up to her and sat down across the table. He picked up a big mac and looked it over before he took a big bite out of it. 
"Thalia, you're a mess." He probably should have approached more tactfully, but honestly, tact didn't really work with them. They were a little too excitable for tact. So he just said what came into his mind, as he did often. Sometimes it worked out for him, others... not so much. 

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Non other than the one and only Percy Jackson had just walked up a sat down in front of Thalia. The infuriated girl had seriously considered zapping him but decided Annabeth wouldn't be too happy with that. (Plus they were similar enough to start a full out demigod battle in the middle of the mess hall). Thalia swallowed the food in her mouth while ignoring the comment Percy made. "What do you want Jackson?" She just kept eating her big mac and listened for a response. Thalia didn't know if she would be able to speak her mind to Percy or even Annabeth. She didn't even know if they would understand...

PERCY JACKSON

[PERCY JACKSON]

Wow, touch-y. What was her deal today? Thalia could get pretty moody, but since she joined the hunters it had seemed like she didn't as much. Maybe it was being to let loose her anger on all those animals she hunted. But also it could be that Percy never got to see her anymore. She was always off doing something cool with someone else. Which was fine. He was also super busy. You know, saving the world and such.

" I was just wondering what... all this is about." he asked, gesturing to the food piled around her. It was obvious that she was having a hard time and he wanted to help, but his kind of help wasn't often what girls wanted.


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"This is what it looks like when I am having internal conflict, Percy." Thalia sighed. She wasn't exactly sure how to come about this. The daughter of Zeus had been thinking about a lot of things lately. About why she became a hunter. Even though it was so long ago, she had been thinking about Luke. Thalia had been angry about Luke's betrayal, and to also ensure Percy being the one of the prophecy, she decided to become a hunter of Artemis. Thalia stared down at her feet. Being a hunter was great and all, but she missed being a normal demigod and having everyone at camp see her as normal. Mostly though, Thalia was afraid that nobody would understand. For sure Artemis wouldn't, but what about her friends or her fellow hunters? She hardly even got to see Percy and Annabeth now. Would they understand?

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[PERCY JACKSON]

Internal conflict? Thalia? Wow, he guessed he really hadn't seen her in a while. Let alone talk to her about her problems. Actually, whenever the two of them talked about problems it normally ended in scorched ground and everyone around them looking like drowned cats. Today was probably not a good day for that. So he decided to do what Annabeth would do.
"Do you want to talk about it?" he asked her, trying to sound conversational and not lofty. He knew that being a demigod was hard. Even on a good day it was hard. On a bad day, well there was a lot that most demigods chose not to think about.

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"Percy actually wants to know?" Thalia thought. This was new. Thalia had no idea how to start this. She had no clue on how Percy was going to take this, Luke tried to kill him multiple times and the daughter of Zeus didn't know how Percy would respond. Thalia took a few more bites of her big mac before she spoke. "Well Percy, do you remember why I became a hunter?" Hopefully that would be a good place to start the conversation. This might just take a while. Thalia was a bit anxious on how this would go, hopefully not leaving Camp Half Blood charred and soggy.
 
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[PERCY JACKSON]

Percy shrugged, "Sure, you became a hunter because you wanted to make sure prophecy had more time to work." he hesitated... was that why she had joined? That time of his life had been so crazy, a lot of it was fuzzy. At least as fuzzy as Grover's shaggy legs, but maybe not quite as fuzzy as Mrs. O'Leary.
"Was that why?" He clarified, just in case he was way off. He didn't want her shutting down on him just because he had a bad memory. If he asked Annabeth why Thalia joined the hunters... well everyone knew Annabeth's memory was 20 times what his was. Not to mention she was just awesome in the firs place.