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[sophos]

Characters: Annabeth; Zatanna, Vanessa, Ororo, Bryn, Soranik
Date: Today/Tomorrow idek??
Location: PLACES
Situation: Teaching Annabeth how to normal girl
Warnings/Rating: T overall, talk of sex

[When you have spent literally over half your life at a camp for training demigods how not to die in the mortal world, it's really not all that surprising that Annabeth is bad at normal nine times out of ten. There's just usually other things she'd rather be doing. Like poking at her laptop. Reading a book. Knife practice (not that she isn't already good, but it never hurts to spar, and she very much enjoys the 10:2 ratio of victory over Percy right now). Research of any or all kind, and she hasn't stopped drawing buildings even here.]

[So please ladies. Come to her suite, knock on her door, and kidnap her away for shenanigans and girl times, and don't take no for an answer!!]

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[sophos]

[She makes a face.] No. I'm good with just him. [More than good, really.] But he's not a book.

[storm_warning]

And you like him? Even with that fatal, deal-breaking flaw?

[Okay, now it's teasing.]

[sophos]

I wouldn't call it a deal-breaker, or we wouldn't have started dating in the first place. [Because she loves her books. But she loves Percy, too ok.]

[storm_warning]

Ever been teased, girlfriend?

[Seriously. See this eyebrow? It's raised at you for taking that at face value.]

[sophos]

[Annabeth stares for a second.]

[Yep. Totally went over her head. It's not like she hasn't been teased before, but it's usually a lot more obvious and only by people not afraid of getting their heads ripped off.]

[She crosses her arms a little grumpily.] Of course I have. [Not often.]

[storm_warning]

Yeah. I believe that.

[Ororo is amused by this turn of events. Annabeth is such a blank slate for the whole friendship thing that it's almost amusing in and of itself.]

You have got to get yourself some experience with the friends deal. Lucky for you, I'm around.

[sophos]

[A little defensively:] I have friends.

[Just. You know. Not so many that are actually on the turtle. And they usually grow around life threatening adventures and training. That she can do.]

[storm_warning]

Relax, girl. I'm not here to replace, just gonna help you ace. [Bookish = scholarly, right? So clearly Annabeth wants to pass the friends test.]

You can't want to sit in all the time and just read, right?

[sophos]

[She fidgets a little.] I'm an architect, too.

[Wait that's probably not entirely what she meant??] I mean, I go to the movies sometimes, I guess. There's just usually a lot of stuff going on.

[storm_warning]

That's no excuse to stop living life. [Ororo crosses her arms.] This 'stuff' is just stuff. School, work, saving the world; whatever it is, it's just stuff and none of that means you've got to give up having fun because of it.

[sophos]

[She frowns a little.] Architecture and books are fun. [For her!!] And that's what all of that stuff going on is for - trying to live life by keeping it and myself alive.

[storm_warning]

Yeah. Okay, sure. [Crossed arms are still crossed. Ororo may concede that point (but, really? reading? boring. writing's better) but she's got the original one to make still.] Point is that you've got to embrace the whole social thing too. Friends. Teasing. What good's saving the world and being alive if you don't get all up in that?

[sophos]

I told you, I have friends. It's just - [Different?? Weird?? She's not the most approachable person so friends and normal friendships are hard?????]

[She blows out a puff of air.] Most of the good things are Camp related, too.

[storm_warning]

Kind of like the X-Men? I get it.

[A shrug, a penetrating look.]

This camp. That manage to come here with you?

[sophos]

[She makes a face. Maybe a little suspicious.] Not the actual physical camp, no.

[storm_warning]

[Ororo grins -- or maybe smiles smugly.]

Then you're free to have friends and fun here, girlfriend!

[Just pointing that out.]

[sophos]

[BUT SHE DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT.]

[You know. Make friends when they aren't in life or death situations. She's super awkward so often okok. But ha ha ha saying that out loud.]

[She grumpily crosses her arms.] I already said I had friends here.

[storm_warning]

Then you've nailed step one.

[Ororo holds out her hand to Annabeth.]

Step two: Have fun with them.

[sophos]

[She awkwardly hesitates, and if it were another situation, she might have avoided it entirely; but Annabeth's suddenly feeling like she's got something to prove. So she takes it.]

Something that's fun for all parties, I hope.

[storm_warning]

[Ororo casts her Look (tm) that comes accompanied by a pause, then a rolling of her eyes.]

Yeah. That's why we're hitting a book nook for you and the clothes lane for me.

[Then she puts out her hand.]

Deal?

[sophos]

[She makes a face at the eyerolling, but it's... pretty fair. She's not all that opposed to the whole clothes thing, she's just not very used to it, but she's pretty up for the challenge rn.]

[Still, she holds out her hand for a shake, the look on her face more agreeable than resigned.] Deal.