#piper is a shoplifter

[princessofghosts-posts]

Piper doesn't have kleptomania

I don't remember if Riordan,at some point,actually introduced her as a kleptomaniac in TLH or it's some of the fandom view of her and her stealing habit,but she isn't.

Piper has a lot of issues,and I'm not referring to only her character or her attitude with her Aphrodite's nature,she is also a mess when it cames to powers. But that's Rick's fault again,since he gave her an OP power while also establishing Percy,in this case Jason too,superiority with the powerscaling (that too is a mess). But that's another thing to talk about.

I saw a couple of people referring to her as a "former kleptomaniac" but she never was.

Kleptomania is the inability to resist the urge to steal items,usually for reasons other than personal use or financial gain. It's also classified as an impulse control disorder,and while it could be on the obsessive-compulsive spectrum,it also share similarities with addictive and mood disorder too.

This is one of the many official meaning of being a kleptomaniac. Kleptomania is a desorder that push the person to steal uncontrollably,no matter what,when or in what type of situation. And that's not Piper.

Piper steal because it's the only thing she can do to have her father's attention. And she also don't technically steal,because her charmspeak ability basically hypnotize people to give her what she want,even if those things are completely off limits.

And after she found out about her charmspeak,she knew why it was happening and why people give her things when she asked for them. Again,for a kleptomaniac stealing is stronger than them,but I don't have any memory of Piper stealing something because she just wanted it and had an impulse stronger than her,instead of needing for the quest. She either did that for attention or because she had to.

Also,the disorder is frequently under-diagnosed and is regularly associated with other psychiatric disorders. Patients with kleptomania are typically treated with therapies in other areas due to the comorbid grievances rather than issues directly related to kleptomania. Pharmacological treatments using selective inhibitors,mood stabilizers and receptor antagonists,with also other antidepressants along with cognitive behavioral therapy,have yielded positive results for the "cure" of it.

It's a disorder that needs to be "cured" (more like stabilized and minimized) with therapy and pharmacological interventions. It doesn't go away just because someone decided to stop stealing and can resist the urge of it. That's not how this disorder work. And Piper didn't have any of this,because she isn't a kleptomaniac.

The girl has a lot of misconceptions and her whole character is a huge mess (mostly because Rick went on a different route with her and then threw Piper under the bus midway HoO),I don't like her that much,I'm mostly neutral to her,but she wasn't a kleptomaniac. And if Rick actually portrayed her in this way,in TLH,then he was wrong to do so,because she can't be a kleptomaniac since she only does it for attention and stopped after realizing it was her power doing.

If you need to call her something,then Piper is a shoplifter,never a kleptomaniac.

[raps-hellion]

demigods who know how much an average loaf of bread from the store costs:

leo — he was between foster homes a lot and often ended up homeless. he knows the cost because he's spent many times counting out the spare change in his pockets and praying he has enough.

percy — he and sally went/still go on grocery trips, and he rants to annabeth if the price goes up. want to know how the economy's doing? ask percy about bread prices.

demigods who do not know how much an average loaf of bread from the store costs:

annabeth — maybe back when she was with luke and thalia, but she's been in camp half-blood for most of her life. bread just appears on a plate in front of her, who is she to question it.

frank — he's a nepo baby.

hazel — she's been dead for 70 years. seeing what the price has been inflated to now may kill her.

jason — he was raised by wolves. lupa does not have time to worry about the inflation rate of bread.

nico — he was cut off from modern society for 70 years.

piper — she's also a nepo baby. and she spent a lot of time shoplifting, so the illusion of cost doesn't apply to her.

[zalrb]

PLL 1x01 Review (Per Anon Request)

"I'm loving her new video." "Maybe a little too much, huh?" Allison, I already want to kill you.

"I've looked everywhere for her. I think I heard her scream" she says calmly.

I love that the newspaper headline is "Still Missing" and not something like "The Search Continues" "Still Looking for Answers"

PIPER.

They do look like they'd be mother and daughter.

Which network is this show?

"They're calling it the anniversary of Allison's disappearance like it's a party or something" I mean, does it sound like that?

Arya looks like her name should be Effy.

They're speaking like it's been a few months and not a year.

Why do they ALWAYS play lacrosse?

"Dad, I'm still keeping your secret, OK?" she says at normal volume in the middle of the house.

"Would now be 16" L O L. These "missing" signs are KILLING me.

"And I write too" of course she fucking writes.

"You're smart" how do you know? You said 3 things to this underage girl.

This bathroom makeout is impersonal and choreographed and it annoys me because if you two are so hot for each other that you have to make out in a public restroom, then it's this hot and heavy, grope-y type thing, it's not this teehee sit on the sink while we smile at each other. Public restrooms are disgusting.

It's also weird that they chose to cut to the theme song after this flat bathroom makeout and not after Allison goes missing??

Wait, who is this blonde girl? I thought this was a flashback. Guys, straight up, I'm not going to be able to tell these two apart that well

"Remember what she said that night about secrets?" YOU ARE ACTING LIKE IT'S BEEN A FEW MONTHS.

Spencer's blazer is pissing me off.

Maybe your dad cheated on your mom as karma for you being a bitch to Mona.

Her dad couldn't even be an adult about his affair? Get a room.

None of these people are talking like they're actual people.

"They're not so close anymore either." "So they're friendly but not friends" oh my lord, I miss season 1 Caroline.

"Holy crap" *as he looks directly at Aria in front of the ENTIRE class* NO ONE IS REACTING LIKE PEOPLE WOULD.

BIANCA.

Girl, you're just standing there holding this basket.

LMAO. "Would you kill me if I smoke a little weed? Would you like to join me?" Did any of these writers smoke weed?

Aww, Torey.

She is a teenager, Ren.

YOU ARE IN THE SCHOOL. All of these characters are idiots.

"You feel like this is right for us too" you two said TWO THINGS to each other and made out in a washroom???

Oh are you going to massage her shoulder.

Yes.

Piper, go find Leo. Sure, he'll leave you to be a a head angel but he would never cheat.

I never understood the Queen Bee Mean Girl in a group mostly because in my experience, the GROUP of girls are mean and there may be a leader but it's not one girl terrorizing her entire group of friends and everyone just taking it because

it's usually the group terrorizing that one friend in the group, idk.

And since Allison is so herself, why would any of you tell her any of your secrets anyway?

So weird, they're acting like it's been a few months since the disappearance not a year and yet they act like they don't know each other at all.

Wouldn't it be enough to send a uniform for shoplifting?

"In Rosewood, you don't have room to make a mistake" bro, I need to SEE this. Why is FNL and, like, True Blood the only shows I can remember who actually do what a small town feels like well?

When do they do that dramatic walk in the hallway and act like it's a runway?

Hanna eating ice cream and watching the news of her friend's death is actually hilariously morbid.

And you're just going to watch your mother makeout with the cop?

And your mother is just going to look at you as she goes upstairs to have sex with him? Would you not send your daughter away?

The school isn't having an assembly about this death or anything?

"For Alison or for being a jerk?" I mean, he is a grown ass man, Aria.

This dramatic turn and kiss doesn't make sense right now. None of this is earned.

Does the mother care that her child is "dead"? "Aria, thanks for coming!" It's a funeral not a housewarming.

Maya is the only one who is trying to look sad.

L M A O, Aria's mom couldn't even go with her daughter to the funeral?? Jesus christ, teen shows, give them parents or don't.

These forever 21 funeral dresses are SENDING me.

Detective, they are MINORS, you will have to speak to their parents.

The "Na na na na na na na" singing in the background is so unserious.

"and I know everything, A" in UNISON??? L O L this is so bad.

[pulsingvoid]

hi can i be mean first thing on this fine sunday morning

sorry for your loss but that shit was so bad even a shoplifting catfood-eating cassandra billie piper couldnt save it. im amazed at the gall of asking severance enjoyers of all people to sit through this (cancelled 🧡) show when it is. in fact. Not Good.

[sunnyie-eve]

24 | Trouble Teen

Series: Purpose

Paring: Chris Halliwell x OFC!

Word Count: 2.8k

Warnings: none

| MASTERLIST |

"Can you get me my dress I took to the dry cleaners please?" Phoebe asks Cassie as she gets things ready for her reunion tonight.

"Sure." Cassie gets off the bed and pulls out the dress seeing it messed up, "We have a problem." Cassie says making Phoebe rush over to her taking the dress and screams.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god." She rushes towards the sisters.

"What happened?" Piper asks her.

"What happened? You wanna know what happened? The dry cleaner ruined my dress for tonight. That's what happened." She shows the the spot.

"Phoebe, you know better than to scream in this house if there isn't a demon." Piper explains.

"I'm sorry, but what am I supposed to wear to the reunion tonight?" Phoebe sighs.

"How about some prison stripes." Paige jokes with her.

"You told her about the shoplifting?" Phoebe looks at Piper.

"You little thief." Paige smiles.

"No, I acted out. Okay, now back to what I'm supposed to wear tonight." She asks for options.

"I don't know, why don't you try your little black suit, the one with the thigh slit. You know, sexy, looks successful." Paige suggests.

"No, I think black's too threatening. I'll be in my closet." Phoebe rushes away as Chris orbs in.

"Chris, hi." Piper tells him.

"Hey, look, I need your help. I think I've got scabbars on my tail." He tells them and the looks on their faces make Cassie giggle.

"Oh, well, I have some hydrogen peroxide in my bathroom." She lets him know.

"He means Scabbar demons." Cassie lets her know.

"I went undercover to follow a lead on who turns Wyatt but I think they're onto me. Alright, I need a cloaking spell just in case. Is the book still in the attic?" He asks in a rush.

"Yeah, last I saw." Cassie lets him know.

"Thanks." He gives her a kiss before turning to leave.

"You want me to help you?" Piper asks as Chris goes upstairs, "He hates me." Piper says.

"No, he doesn't." Paige lets her know.

"Yeah, he does." She turns to them.

"Piper, he doesn't hate you." Cassie lets her know before going to help Phoebe. "Find a dress yet?" She ask making Phoebe huff. "Move." Cassie moves her out of the way picking a dress. "Here. Sexy and elegant. Doesn't scream Phoebe from high school." Cassie hands her a dress. phoebe looks at it for the longest then rushes to the girls so Cassie heads up to Chris. "Look, I get it because in our time your mom isn't with us... but don't ignore her now." She walks up to him as he looks through the book.

"I just don't wanna get close now that she knows about me." He looks up from the book.

"Have you ever thought about us being here may have changed some things?"

"I don't wanna talk or think about it." He goes back to the book.

"Chris, what if I told you she's in our future? She never dead." Cassie makes him look at her.

"I believe you but what if something happens? Can we stop now?" He begs her.

"Fine. I'm gonna go play with Wyatt." She turns to leave.

"Wait." He grabs her wrist pulling her in for a kiss.

"Dork." She laughs at him leaving.

Cassie tires Wyatt out with all the playing so Piper was thankful she gest him to sleep easily. "Wanna tell me something Chris won't?" Piper asks her.

"It's not really my place to say what it's about. I told him he doesn't need to worry about it anymore because I see it differently." Cassie lets her know.

"You know since you guys got here, Chris has always shown how much you mean to him... but now with feelings known he really can't stop showing it." Piper says making Cassie laugh. "When did you know you liked him more than a friend?" She asks smiling.

"Believe it or not since the young age of six. And yes, I knew." Cassie says making Piper laugh now.

"Okay, I'll write that down so when you guys are teenagers you can confess instead of in your 20's." Cassie laughs as they leave Wyatt's room. "You said you can see the future and things... do you become my daughter in law?" Piper turns to face Cassie raising an eyebrow.

"Yes." Cassie says making her get a big smile.

"That's the best news I've heard in awhile." She gets the door letting Victor in.

"Piper, honey, good to see you." They hug.

"Good to see you"

He sees her pregnant stomach, "Oh, whoa, you're pregnant!"

She chuckles some, "Yeah, it looks that way, huh?"

Cassie giggles at that going up to Chris, "Hey, you're needed downstairs." She lets him know.

"I'm busy. I don't have time." He groans but doesn't make his way downstairs till he hears his name. "Is someone calling me?" He asks.

"Yeah, uh, sweetie, could you come here a sec?" Piper asks him.

"Can we air this out, 'cause I gotta... Grandpa!" Chris goes over to Victor and hugs him. Victor was confused but smiles seeing him.

"I said you were needed." Cassie walks up beside Piper.

"Well if you said grandpa was here, I would have been here faster." He turns to face her.

"Dad, this is Cassie. Chris's best friend, who came from the future with him to warm us about Wyatt becoming evil." Piper sums it up for him.

"My best friend, who's my girlfriend, who's also my future wife." Chris faces his grandpa who was super confused. "Wait, does that mean we should skip the girlfriend phase right now and you be my fiancé?" Chris turns to Cassie.

"Slow down, Chis. You technically haven't even asked me to be your girlfriend so." She laughs patting his back.

"I thought our kiss made us officially a couple? We been kissing for months now." He says making her laugh more.

"Confusing but hello dear." Victor gives her a smile.

"Hello." She gives him a wave.

"How do you two meet?" He asks the two.

"Playdate when they're babies. Cassie's aunt, who's a friend of mine, moves next door when she's born. It's what I've been told. Also that when I'm too busy you watch the boys and her at your place. She will be around a lot." Piper tells her dad.

Some time while they all talk in the kitchen, Cassie leaves when they bring up the event Chris doesn't wanna talk about. "Hey, what's going on?" Piper asks the other sisters as they come in.

"Hi, daddy." Phoebe walks up to him and they hug.

"Okay, I hate to cut this reunion short, I think we've had enough of those for today. Now you go upstairs until we figure this out." Paige walks Phoebe to the stairs.

"Bye, daddy." Phoebe goes upstairs.

"What happened?" Chris asks walking into the room.

"Well, you've heard of recapturing your youth, I think Phoebe's youth is trying to recapture her." Paige tells us so Cassie asks to explain it.

"I don't know, it's like one minute she was totally normal, the next it's like she's freaky Phoebe." She explains to the four.

"Great. Who else saw?" Chris asks.

"No one. She changed back before anyone noticed." She tells him.

"I'm having a little trouble keeping up here. Phoebe's being chased by, what, demons?" Victor asks confused.

"Maybe inner demons or a spell gone wrong? It seemed to happen after someone named Paula Marks called her 'freebie'." Paige explains.

"Oh, yeah, that'll do it." Piper tells her.

"You wanna go upstairs with me and check the book, see if there's anything?" Paige asks and she agrees.

"You two go ahead. I need to get back to the Scabbar demons before they know I'm missing." Chris says before turning to leave but Piper stops him.

"Hey, wait, what, and leave your awesome grandpa alone? Grab a sandwich, grab a beer, get an answer." Piper tells them them motions for Cassie to follow her so she does.

Cassie helps the sisters look through the book till they ask her to go check on Phoebe. "Going out to eat with grandpa, love you." Chris gives her a kiss as he passes her in new clothes.

"Have fun." Cassie finishes going to Phoebe's room. "Phoebs, how are you doing?" She walks into her room and don't see her. "Phoebe?" She notices the window walking over to it. "Really?" Cassie groans going back to Piper and Paige. "Phoebe snuck out through the window. So I'm sure we're dealing with teen Phoebe now." She lets them know and Piper closes her eyes sighing.

"She had to go back. Cassie come with, please." Cassie nods her head and orbs with Paige to the reunion.

The whole class was acting like if they were all back in high school. "Phoebe? Phoebe?" Someone dives across a table. "I'd called Piper if I was you." Cassie let Paige know so she does.

"Okay, I found Phoebe. I have good news and I have bad news. Well, I think I now know what Phoebe was like as a teenager. That's also the bad news. In a word... bad." Phoebe sees the two and rushes off.

"Phoebe! Phoebe!" They call out to her and have trouble getting through the crowd.

When they finally do see Phoebe and her friends it was them getting in the cop car and drive off. "This is gonna be harder than I thought." Cassie huffs.

"Yeah. We need to reverse her spell before we leave." Paige tells her so they do that before they orb back to the manor and tell Piper everything. Piper ends up looking through the book and Paige scrys for Phoebe. "Damn it, I thought I had her. She's on the move again." Paige huffs.

"Well, we better find her soon because we're gonna need her if those Scabbar demons come after Chris. I can't believe I let him go out with dad. What was I thinking?" Piper stops looking at the book.

"Honey, you weren't thinking, you were actually feeling which is allowed in this family." Paige tells her Chris orbs in with Victor who has a sick look on his face.

"You're okay." Piper looks at them.

"Who says I'm okay." Victor says making Chris and Cassie laugh.

"Don't worry, you'll get used to orbing in the future." Cassie lets him know walking over to them.

As soon as she gets by Chris, he wraps an arm around her. "I thought something might have happened to you." Piper tells Chris.

"No, we're fine, we just talked. Really, I'm fine." He lets her know.

"Yeah, well, Phoebe's not. She's out there running around with her old gang." Paige tells them know.

"I thought she was downstairs." Victor says.

"No, she's out the window." Cassie adds.

"And even worse, she's under the influence." Paige adds now.

"Of alcohol?" Chris asks confused.

"No, adolescence." She tells him.

"She stole a cop car as a prank." Cassie moves away from Chris.

"That's not a prank, that's a felony." Victor says.

"Yeah, well, teen Phoebe also happens to have her adult powers and she cast a spell on her entire reunion class." Paige adds.

"What?" Chris asks shocked.

"Don't worry, Paige and Cassie were able to reverse it all, but..." Piper stumbles back so Chris and Victor grab her arms.

"Are you okay?" Chris asks her.

"Yeah, I'm just a little light headed." She lets them know.

"Sorry. You know, about me." Chris means baby him.

"Huh. Must have been some hell of a talk there." Piper looks at Victor then Chris.

"Yeah. Go get off your feet, honey." Piper and Victor leave the room.

"Look, we need to stop Phoebe before she gets into some trouble we can't get her out of." Chris tells Paige and Cassie.

"She's been trying but she keeps moving, she keeps moving." The crystal points to a place on the map, "I got her."

Two Scabbar demons appear and Chris orbs out as they spit yellow acid-like goo and it hits a cabinet, smashing the glass. Paige and Cassie kneel behind a table and Chris orbs in behind them.

"Glass!" A piece of broken glass orbs into one of the Scabbar demon's stomach. It just melts away, not harming him. He spits more acid goo and it hits the table, melting it away. Piper tries to blow one of the demons up as she runs in but is does nothing.

"Icky stuff!" The yellow goo orbs back to the demon, vanquishing him.

"Icky stuff?" Piper asks Paige.

"It worked." She tells her.

"Sorry about all this." Chris walks up to Piper.

"It's okay, kids are messy." Cassie giggles so Chris smacks her.

"They'll be back." He lets her know.

"Then we'll handle it." Piper reassures him.

"Uh-oh. Any idea how we're gonna find Phoebe now?" Paige picks up a melted crystal.

Piper finds away to keep Chris safe from the demons in the attic by using crystals. As I walk back to join him I stop outside the doorway as they talk. "I can't tell you that. It could change the future in even worse ways." Chris tells her.

"Right. But isn't that why you came here in the first place? To make the future better? How do you know you haven't already changed mine? Cassie told me she told you not to worry about because she sees it differently." She tries to get him to understand it's possible.

"She's got a point." Victor tells him.

"Well, whatever it is, it obviously doesn't happen until you're born, so save it. You got it?" She tells him.

"I got it, mom." Cassie starts to smile at them as Piper smiles.

"No need to wait outside, Cassie. You're family in the future so come in." Piper says making Chris and Victor face her.

"In the future yes but now, no."

"True but knowing about you, you're family before you're even born." She gives her a smile.

Once they find away to get Phoebe and get her back she's back to her normal self, but they had to send her back to help her old friends. Piper and Victor leave the attic to go watch Wyatt while the rest of group wait for Phoebe to get back.

"How come you waited to long to tell Cassie you liked her?" Paige asks looking over at the two sitting together.

"Scared. I thought growing up it was weird to like my best friend. I thought trying to fall in love with Bianca would work but it didn't. What's the point in denying in it when I can be happy?" Chris messes with Cassie's hand, "Wait." He stops to look at her. "For the best future... when we grow up again is Wyatt still your first kiss?" He narrows his eyes at her and Paige watches the two. Before Cassie could speak there was noise downstairs so Paige goes to to see so Cassie has to keep Chris in the attic. "You didn't answer." Chris stands up.

"Well yeah because your still denying your feelings at the time." She lets him know.

"I'm gonna tell someone to tell me to get it over with because..." He groans sitting away from her crossing his arms.

"Okay, you don't have to worry about the demons anymore." Paige joins them again.

"What did you do?" Cassie asks.

"Phoebe's old friend took your face and the demons killed him." She keeps it short.

"Okay then. Thank you for helping." Chris tells her.

"What's wrong with you two?" She crosses her arms at them.

"He's mad because I said yes about the Wyatt thing because at the moment in our lives he's still denying the feelings." Cassie lets her know.

"Don't worry buddy. I'll let you know." Paige sends him a wink leaving the two.

"Done being mad at me?" Cassie asks him.

"I can't be mad at you for too long." He pulls her up and they walk downstairs.

When Wyatt wakes up from his nap, Cassie helps out with him so Piper can spend time with her dad more as he gets ready to leave. "What time is it?" Cassie sings bouncing Wyatt as Chris gets some toys to put out. "It's play time." She says and Wyatt claps his hands. Cassie sits down on the ground with Wyatt in her lap as Chris shows Wyatt his toys. "This is so funny to me." She places Wyatt between the two of them so she could play with the toys too.

"Because we're younger than him but older than him right now?" Chris chuckles.

"Yeah." She glances up to see Piper smiling at the three.

[unwelcome-ozian]

Dissociative Identity Disorder By far, the most well-known dissociative disorder is dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personality disorder). People with dissociative identity disorder exhibit two or more separate personalities or identities, each well-defined and distinct from one another. They also experience memory gaps for the time during which another identity is in charge (e.g., one might find unfamiliar items in her shopping bags or among her possessions), and in some cases may report hearing voices, such as a child’s voice or the sound of somebody crying (APA, 2013). The study of upstate New York residents mentioned above (Johnson et al., 2006) reported that 1.5% of their sample experienced symptoms consistent with dissociative identity disorder in the previous year.

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is highly controversial. Some believe that people fake symptoms to avoid the consequences of illegal actions (e.g., “I am not responsible for shoplifting because it was my other personality”). In fact, it has been demonstrated that people are generally skilled at adopting the role of a person with different personalities when they believe it might be advantageous to do so. As an example, Kenneth Bianchi was an infamous serial killer who, along with his cousin, murdered over a dozen females around Los Angeles in the late 1970s. Eventually, he and his cousin were apprehended. At Bianchi’s trial, he pled not guilty by reason of insanity, presenting himself as though he had DID and claiming that a different personality (“Steve Walker”) committed the murders. When these claims were scrutinized, he admitted faking the symptoms and was found guilty (Schwartz, 1981).

A second reason DID is controversial is because rates of the disorder suddenly skyrocketed in the 1980s. More cases of DID were identified during the five years prior to 1986 than in the preceding two centuries (Putnam, Guroff, Silberman, Barban, & Post, 1986). Although this increase may be due to the development of more sophisticated diagnostic techniques, it is also possible that the popularization of DID—helped in part by Sybil, a popular 1970s book (and later film) about a woman with 16 different personalities—may have prompted clinicians to overdiagnose the disorder (Piper & Merskey, 2004). Casting further scrutiny on the existence of multiple personalities or identities is the recent suggestion that the story of Sybil was largely fabricated, and the idea for the book might have been exaggerated (Nathan, 2011).

Despite its controversial nature, DID is clearly a legitimate and serious disorder, and although some people may fake symptoms, others suffer their entire lives with it. People with this disorder tend to report a history of childhood trauma, some cases having been corroborated through medical or legal records (Cardeña & Gleaves, 2006). Research by Ross et al. (1990) suggests that in one study about 95% of people with DID were physically and/or sexually abused as children. Of course, not all reports of childhood abuse can be expected to be valid or accurate. However, there is strong evidence that traumatic experiences can cause people to experience states of dissociation, suggesting that dissociative states—including the adoption of multiple personalities—may serve as a psychologically important coping mechanism for threat and danger (Dalenberg et al., 2012).

[cabeswaterdrowned]

piper mclean and nico diangelo for the characters question

Piper McLean 

three things I have in common with them:

without elaborating I relate to some of her parental issues 💀

went through a not-like-other-girls phase and later realized I like girls in a gay way xd

well. A while ago (last year when I reread pjo&hoo and then read toa for the first time well read the first two books again and read 3-5 for the first time you get it) I rbed this post https://www.tumblr.com/gothictessa/702571746582216704/pipers-foci-of-control?source=share which is very good and went on a tag rant about her relationship with autonomy and control that was a healthy mix of me actually analyzing and projecting some of my own issues xd 

three things I don’t:

My dad is not a famous actor or millionaire 

I’ve never shoplifted 

I don’t sing. Or charmspeak lol

Nico Di Angelo 

three things I have in common with them 

grief/abandonment issues

curious and driven to seek knowledge about the world around him first purely because of that curiosity then because of practicality but still tends to regard said knowledge as cool, sort of a mix of how I am in some non fantasy environments and similar to how I think I would act in a fantasy setting I tend to love chars like this (Sydney is along these lines too) 

tendency to isolate to cope 💀

three things I don’t 

sadly I don’t have his powers :((( 

have never been homeless or in the foster system 

I have other nerdy interests but card game collection type stuff was never my thing 

thank you!

[shoecrabs]

HoO things I have headcanoned/au'ed for my canon divergent version of the story (most take Percy and Annabeth out of the story lol):

Leo and Piper meeting before the Wilderness School. They became begrudging allies to friends while hanging out in the streets, causing mild vandalism, and shoplifting chocolate. turns out a born-to-be-public speaker with a healthy hatred for authority and a hyperactive homeless kid with an arsenal of scrap metal make an incredible duo against police

They were both worried about going M.I.A since they had no proper way to call eachother before being spontaneously thrown into the Wilderness School. then they got excited that they ended up together! Man, what luck is that :D (it was Hera lmao)

Piper met Aphrodite on Cyprus and finally had a chat one-to-one about everything and her place amongst the team

although Lupa raised Jason like a pup, she wouldn't let him forget just how human he still was. She'd always tell him to straighten up, or to use his hands rather than just teeth. She'd teach him to skin animals by himself with sharp stones. Still, she warned him not to be too human, too mortal. "human weaknesses" such as crying would not be tolerated.

Jason then had to relearn how to be human by trying to copy the members of Camp and interpreted them how Lupa taught him. The demigods didn't help him as much as they would've due to his parentage, so he was always awkwardly trying to fit in and adapt. He spent ages trying to associate names to facial expressions and it made him upset realising he didn't recognise that many anymore

Hazel and Gaia almost always fought for control over the earth. Hazel eventually pried the land out of Gaia's control just long enough for the others to escape a collapsing cavern & teams up with Piper's charmspeak with her power over the Mist

HAZEL CONTROLS OPALISED FOSSILS. I think she should have gotten the chance to summon opalised skeletons, especially since they were by the sea a lot of the time

Frank was always clumsy because his body was always twitching to shapeshift. Once he unlocked his shapeshifting, he'd instinctively transform to continue his stride. when not paying attention or too tired, he'd still stumble and trip

Frank and Hazel took over when Percy and Annabeth (without them it'd probably be Leo) fell into Tartarus. Jason advised them, but was glad at not needing to lead

All of them (again, without percabeth) learnt at least one way of supporting the ship when Leo wasn't available or too exhausted! Jason would send winds into the sails and navigate at air, Piper learnt a few of the controls and which ones opened up to secret storage and etc, Hazel was in charge of retrieving metal and noticing damages to the structure of machines, and Frank was the main strategist that ended up being really good with the ballistae. They still couldn't match up to Leo, but they managed to get the ship stumbling to its destination

Jason doesn't give Frank Praetorship until the final fight against Gaia, where the Romans have a chance to agree or disagree and all that, but he takes the position of team leader after Jason steps down (Hazel is his second in command + co-leader)

more time between books, arching within 2 years at least

also a possibly hot take: the sacrifices should've been Jason and either Piper or Hazel cause they have more thematic weight to them other than "they're the oldest and most annoying" or whatever the original reason was

[vexic929]

How would your OCs react to being assigned to a minimum wage retail job for two weeks? (They can not quit or be fired, it's assigned to them via fate/the universe/etc)

Vice: well if they can't be fired then they're going to say EVERYTHING he's ever wanted to to any rude customer who crosses her path lol also so much shoplifting, just so much

Lana: she'd probably spend most of her time not working on anything she's meant to be working on, sorry to her coworkers but she's six pages deep in a subreddit on ball lightning sightings

Berrie: they'd actually probably do a pretty good job until someone was mean to her, then that person isn't leaving the store until he exacts his revenge lol

Aria: she's not working and you can't make her, she will sit in the break room every day for two weeks straight if she must

Salacia: having not experienced much life outside of Themyscira, I think she'd be excited honestly, very reminiscent of Buddy The Elf working in the toy store lol

Tuatlall: she is going to end up punching someone and they will have to call security

L'Harann: I have this image in my head of her working as a cashier and someone handing her the things to ring up and her just pocketing the items

Neila: she'd do okay but if someone yells at xir she might cry

Lea: she has worked retail so she'd do a good job but she'd hate every second

Eoland: it would be a literal bloodbath

Barbara: has also worked retail so would do fine

H Wells: has also worked retail so would do fine

Rodriga: never worked retail but did work as a server so she'd probably also do okay

Hartley: would take a similar approach to Vice lol she can't get fired so why not say everything she's ever wanted to say

Ricki: would suffer through it even though she'd rather be anywhere else

Jessie: would curse constantly on the loudspeaker in the hopes of making everyone leave

Laska: is a good worker but also flips off every customer as they leave

Piper: probably the best worker out of all of them

Lara: she's done plenty of jobs she didn't want to for the sake of the mission so she'd just go into that headspace until the 2 weeks were up

Jisoo: tries to convince everyone else to do the work for her, probably succeeds

[josephinezuccarelli]

[SHOPLIFTER] - 'Camille' Lace Set / Fatpack

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Sante - 'Katalina' Hairstyle

[BL] Coffin nails // mesh fatpack (unpacked)

--- PUMEC - Piper - BEAUTY SET (LELU EVO X)

[princessofghosts-posts]

Recently realized that demigods at CHB are either rich/upper class or poor/broke by default.

You got Piper,and she is really the daughter of a famous Hollywood's star,she grew up under the spotlight all of her life,full of people that wanted to have her father's attention,and is super rich. She shoplifts thanks to her charm-speaking ability,yes,but she still got the money.

Rachel's the daughter of an important CEO,her family's money got her a last-minute helicopters (and taxis in all the city too-) to fly to Manhattan,in a couple of hours,while she was in a totally different locations. She hates her dad,and her family business isn't the best ecological one,but she is rich.

Annabeth's father is a professor that got his family of 5 (counting Annabeth even tho she doesn't live with them that much) moved from a state to another,Virginia to San Francisco. He might not be Rachel/Piper level of richness,but he is still able to provide a big family with an house in an expensive place and without economics problem. Annabeth is upper class.

Nico and Bianca's family is part of italian old money. Their grandparents were politicians,so was their mother,and they were probably related to someone with a noble title. During the start of the war,only a couple of people,usually the rich one,could travel from a place to another (Maria didn't met Hades in Italy after all). They lived in the Lotus and that place is full of everything you ever wanted,especially with the infinite credit card. Hades is the good of the riches too. They are upper class.

Half of the Aphrodite's cabin,if not full,is probably related to rich or famous people because of her nature. It's impossible she only had Piper that was from a famous actor. Silena and Drew are probably rich too but not on "Hollywood's star" level. (Tanaka is a japanese surname,and japanese families are usually well off,Beauregard is french surname so she is probably french,and most french people have a pretty expensive lifestyle.)

Thalia and Jason's mother was a famous television star that got Zeus attentions twice,so at least the first years of their life they had a good economic situation. She then went insane,and was horrible to her children and Thalia had to live on the street to get away from her (like Annabeth) while Jason got adopted by Lupa.

Then you got Leo that basically jump from a foster home to another,most of which are abusive or mistreat him. The guy lost his mother and the rest of his family hated him so much that decided to hand him to CPS directly. He lives day by day,and probably on the street a couple of time too. He is completely broke.

Percy (before Sally published her book and became a well-known writer,and Paul entered their life) was poor. They had enough to get by with Sally's money,and most of it was wasted on alcohol by Gabe. He didn't had a comfortable life,fortunately now his economic situation is better.

Now,you can discuss that Luke wasn't really poor,but the guy ran away from his mother and spent half of his childhood in the street. And with May's condition I don't think someone would employee her,and if she had a job before she probably got fired.

Ethan Nakamura literally lived on the street all of the time,either because he was doing something for Kronos,or because he didn't had a place at CHB (Hermes's cabin doesn't count).

Half of the children of minor gods/goddesses,and the revolutionaries who joined Kronos,were probably in the same situation as Ethan,if not worse.

Jason lived in a forest with a bunch of wolves. Then at CJ it's not like he had any monetary problem since they didn't really needs money inside the camp. And for any quest to do,I'm sure the romans had a vault,or some sort of safe,to keep money in case it was needed.

Probably majority of the Greeks demigods weren't in a good situation in their finances too,but I personally think that most of them had at least a a life with an enough stable economic situation.

Also,gotta love the parallelism that some of them have:

• Annabeth and Thalia (and Jason) are upper class thanks to their mortal parent's job,but had to live on the streets because their family were shit.

• Percy was poor but after his mom's business skyrocketed,and thanks to Paul's job too,they never had to worry about rent and not having enough food.

• Piper is rich but spent all of her teenager years shoplifting and stealing,trying to get her dad's attention.

• Rachel is rich but prefer to be an activist-artist,with oracle problems because she hates her dad.

• Nico and Bianca are rich,from both family's sides,but were forced to live in "poverty" (I have to desagree on this one because it's not accurate since it was from Percy POV's during BotL).

[high-fructose-porn-syrup]

this is incredibly true, but let me add my own ideas real quick

Piper: Has no idea how much things cost. she is the epitome of that 'it's just a banana, Michael, what could it cost? ten dollars?' meme. she'll spill her coke on a genuine Valentino white bag and just get mildly upset because 'aw that's my favorite one :c' and not. like. MORTIFIED at how much it costs and how oh crap, it's ruined now. because it's fine, she can just buy another one. it's like she just can't see the price tag on anything, like she just mentally blocks it out

Percy: This guy, on the other hand, is constantly on the lookout for ways to save money. he'll call Annabeth up and ask her on a brunch date and she doesn't even need to ask if this is because he found a two for one coupon for Denny's in his mailbox yesterday, she already knows. he knows all the secret codes for free food at every restaurant, he has to fight the urge to shoplift whenever he's buying snacks at a gas station because hey, there's no cameras, there's no scanners at the door, why pass up free candy?

Annabeth: Messy. not like, 'a little dirty laundry on the floor' kind of messy, I mean 'can barely see the floor' kind of messy. she judges Percy for dirty socks and candy wrappers under the bed, meanwhile she hasn't emptied the garbage can beside her desk in two months. anytime anyone asks her about it she just shrugs and says 'executive dysfunction is a bitch' and like... yeah actually, that's fair. but still, get it together girl (lowkey projecting on this one ngl)

Hazel: always overdressed. for everything. it's not, like, out of a desire to make her friends self conscious or anything (although that does happen), it's just those pre-second wave values of 'women are always supposed to be pretty so you have to dress up every time you go out in public'. she NEEDS to be the hottest person at the grocery store. she'll put on a full face of makeup and a pearl necklace and Frank will ask her where she's going and she shrugs like 'oh just the laundromat' it's the most frustrating thing. and the worst part? half the time, the outfits she picks aren't even seasonally appropriate. she's so used to Louisiana climate that she'll just. forget that winter exists. (I'm also projecting on this one a little)

Frank: This guy makes being Canadian a personality trait. he gets so mad at Percy for making New York his thing, meanwhile he responds to every insult with 'at least I have free healthcare'. it's a little bit less annoying than Percy's because aside from Frank, none of them have been in Canada for an extended period of time, so it doesn't come off as condescending. but that also means that he can just. make up whatever bullshit he wants about Canadian culture, and they have no choice but to believe him. at this point, everyone is convinced that these two have some kind of beef with each other and are using their respective hometowns as PVP, like a 'my dad could beat up your dad' kind of thing

Leo Valdez: He's the kind of guy to respond to everything with 'that's what she said'. he will moan into the speaker while you're on the phone with your mom. he will take powdered sugar and pretend to snort it like it's cocaine, just so it'll show up in the background of your snap story. and yet, if you're watching a movie with him, and a sex scene comes on, suddenly he's as innocent as can be. he's scandalized, he's flabbergasted, he doesn't know how to handle it. he has to leave the room and wait for you to come knock on the door and tell him it's over. and the next day, he'll go back to talking the talk, knowing full and damn well he can't walk the walk

Jason Grace: Jason Grace is a furry. everybody knows this. and anyone who rushes in to say 'oh no, Jason's not a furry' is a liar and a coward. But here's the thing; furries are cool. it's not that he's a furry that's the problem. No, the problem is that he, himself, is in denial of being a furry. he will fervently defend himself against the furry allegations, and lose. he is SO ASHAMED of being a furry that he trash-talks other furries and the whole furry subculture just so he doesn't have to admit to himself that he's a part of it! he doesn't wanna be! he wants to be a normal teenager SO BAD but the weirdness just keeps following him no matter how he tries. it's kind of sad, really

h.o.o. characters & their icks

characters: percy jackson, annabeth chase, jason grace, piper mclean, leo valdez, frank zhang, & hazel levesque

content warning: slight cursing

word count: 853

author's note: idk if some of these are necessarily icks? but 😆

percy jackson

percy thinks he’s sooooo cool for growing up in nyc 😒😒

he’d say some new york specific lingo and would be all like “oh hah sorry, i forgot you aren’t from new york.” 

it is not that serious percy. 

somehow he always finds ways to relate things back to new york. you could be talking about a weird homeless person outside a convenience store, and he’d be like “well i’ve seen worse in new york.” 

percy lost his metrocard one time, but you guys needed to take the subway somewhere so he tried to act so nonchalant about hopping over the turnstiles. 

“oh yeah, i do it all the time. i’m basically a pro.” 

then, he went to jump over it only for his foot to get caught. he face planted onto the floor. when percy got up, he tried to act like he didn’t care, but you could see the embarrassment in his eyes. 

not his best moment! 

annabeth chase

in her own way, annabeth lowkey mansplains a lot 😭😭

she doesn’t mean to, but whenever she explains certain concepts or ideas, she comes off as super condescending. 

it could be the most niche subject ever, and she’d be peeved when you don’t know anything about it. i’m sorry i don’t know shit about a random philosopher who died hundreds of years ago 😒 

(i’d let annabeth mansplain to me any day of the year) 

jason grace

if no one orders for him, jason’s go-to are chicken tenders and fries. it’s not that he’s picky, it’s just that he’s so accustomed to ordering it, that he simply forgets he can order other things.

it’s as if his eyes just ignore everything else on the menu and only look for chicken tenders and fries. like, it’s okay to eat something other than that… 😕

when he orders at restaurants, the waiter always gives him the strangest looks. because why is a 6’0 athletic-looking teenager in here ordering chicken tenders off the kids menu. 

speaking of kids menus, jason treats the little activities on them so, so seriously. not to say that the activities aren’t fun, but he’s oddly obsessed over them. he gets genuinely upset when food or drink splatters gets on it because he likes taking them home?? jason please tell us why these little word searches and connect-the-dots matters so much to you. 

piper mclean

piper always claims that animals love her. (they do not) 

whenever she encounters wildlife, she’d start calling it over just for it to run away from her. “oh no, i think you scared it off” is her excuse 90% of the times. 

i know for a fact it wasn’t me. it was definitely you and your bad excuse for a squirrel call. 

she’s also convinced she can charmspeak animals too. last time she tried, the cat ended up smacking her across the face. 

when will piper learn 💔

leo valdez 

to all the leo lovers out there…i’m sorry to say that he’d have that little mustache after he drinks anything. he’s always rocking that milk mustache!!

after a long day of working in bunker 9, you’ll see him walking around camp with a bright red stain above his lip. you won’t even have to ask him to know that he was drinking fruit punch gatorade.

leo even gets that little stache with water?? it’s not as prevalent, but it’s definitely there. if he’s under the right lighting, you can see his top lip just glistening. 

you always have to remind him to wipe his mouth after taking a sip of anything. but it’s just as worse when he wipes his mouth because he uses the back of his hand or his sleeve…

if you go through his closet, there’s a high chance that you’ll find some of his shirts with different colored stains at the bottom of the sleeves. someone get leo some napkins please! 

frank zhang

whenever frank wears flipflops, his toes always hang over the edge of them. the worst part is that he really does not see an issue with it. he thinks it’s fine because “it’s just loungewear.” 

yes it may just be loungewear, but i promise you that no one wants to see your toes hanging out like that.

even if someone buys him a bigger size, he’d still find a way to have his toes over the edge. 

at this point, everyone just thinks that frank finds it comfortable so they don’t say anything anymore.

hazel levesque

hazel’s the type to enter those random instagram giveaways… 

she’d tag you in the comments and would text you asking you if you could follow the account and tag five people too. 

please hazel, you’re not gonna win that $300 amazon giftcard or that new laptop. give it up!! 

somehow she finds so many different giveaways?? you’re always tagged at least once a week. it’s gotten to the point where she’s entered so many giveaways, that people start recognizing her username. they feel genuine pity for her because why is @horselover1217 entering a giveaway for the third time this week.

[zalrb]

PLL 3x01 Review - As Per Anon Request

Oh, PLL got a bit of a budget playing S&M.

It's so clear that they've all matured.

"And in poor countries, one house is, like, a home for fifty." Oh, Hanna. Ignorant, ignorant Hanna. But you do know how to open a gate, so.

I am so sorry, but I am laughing so hard because did new A start or is Mona actually just trolling them from her psychiatric ward? I hope it's the latter because imagine, trying to kill almost all of you and then getting caught and just being like i'm bored. sHoW mE YoUr BoObs.

LMAO Hanna's face like omgggggg stop talking about your murdered girlfriend it's bringing down the viiiiibe

"If I wasn't so wasted" DON'T DRINK, TEENS.

Those eyebrows are eyebrowing.

I did NOT need to see Ezra's legs.

Imagine asking your child bride of a girlfriend if you two could make the anniversary of her friend's death your anniversary instead.

And they DON'T HAVE CHEMISTRY. Aria putting her arms around him just looks weird

Ezira you guys make me do it

Hanna take that costume jewellery of a necklace OFF.

Hanna doesn't shoplift anymore! Growth!

Shay does have nice hair, though.

Hanna, you slapped Jenna for less. I don't know, man, it feels like Emily and Alison's storyline would've been better executed with Mona and Hanna.

Wren is everywhere. Are there no other doctors in this town. This isn't even your field!

Mona is so dramatic. The door is already partially open why are you looking at Hanna through the hinges?

Topless Toby does nothing for me, stop it. But I would rather topless Toby than cargo shorts Ezra.

She is looking at you like this

and what she's getting back is

she deserves so much better.

See, in a better show, the whole "I know it was my idea to wait" thing would happen AS she's kissing him.

Like have it be a problem

Toby's "Wheewww" was good though.

Still lying to Toby? It's season 3, he's in it or he's not, Spencer.

None of you need love interests.

I don't ... I ... OK, Caleb's hair.

Maybe Lucas is standoffish because you almost killed him, Hanna. Or maybe he's part of Team A 2.0 who knows. EVERYONE'S A SUSPECT.

"Have any of you heard from Emily." "No, I left her a bunch of messages." "Yeah, me too." "Hope she's OK." The way Aria says it like they aren't friends is hilarious, like damn, hope that random girl is OK.

Aria trying forever to get the bathroom stall door to lock. Just go to another stall.

Why are we acting like Aria has trauma from A. NOTHING HAPPENED TO YOU. DON'T PISS ME OFF.

WHY.

That literally should be Hanna.

"She can't hurt us anymore. BITCH CRAZY." LMAO, that is a Hanna line given to Spencer.

"One day we will all have jubilation" I like how Hanna having an extended vocabulary now means she speaks like she's in a cult.

Every time I see Aria I just think of Little Miss Muffet

Piper is pissing me off.

This is going to be a rough scene.

Emily and Toby talk more than Spencer and Toby.

How many times are these children going to lie to you, parents, before you start questioning what they say to you.

I don't know, Piper, it seems like he needs to die.

"THAT'S IT? THAT'S ALL YOU REMEMBER?" Hanna is all of us. Why don't you start with the text you got, Emily. Jesus christ.

I like how it's the same photo of them at the cemetery printed multiple times. Like you couldn't even catch a few angles?

"Mona played with dolls, I play with body parts." I mean it would be more impressive if there was some body part in the car or something, idk. Let's GO there, then.

[stygianoaths]

i personally believe hermes cheered in the distance when piper used her charmspeak to steal that car!

however, with that being said, i realize now that the looming threat of children of aphrodite and children of hermes working together to shoplift literally whatever hangs over the entirety of new york.

[high-fructose-porn-syrup]

The next morning, Piper came in, in her usual nightgown and pink pig slippers, only to find Leo curled up on the floor, asleep.

She didn't know much about the kid, and until now, she was fine with that. He was just, y'know, a roommate. Not someone you wanna be close with. Actually, it's best not to get close with anyone in this kinda place. The staff tend to separate kids that act too friendly with each other, and they weren't subtle about their reasoning.

They didn't trust these kids, not one little bit, so they had to break up any and all bonds, to make it easier to keep them in line.

This place was the closest thing to hell Piper had ever known. Did that speak volumes about the sheer amount of privilege she has, that a place which provides you with three meals a day, a bed, several clean and well-fitting sets of clothes, and an education, was her definition of hell?

Maybe.

Should she get a grip and realize how good she has it?

The teachers would say yes. But she refuses to grovel or settle. She knows she's worth more than the bare necessities.

She sighed, and picked him up off the floor, laying him in his bed and tucking the covers around him. He looked so sweet, curled up like that. And it was gonna be hard to pretend she didn't care about him.

He looked so scrawny and sad, so she decided to sneak into the secret stash in her closet, pushing aside the four identical sets of uniforms, and pulling out a bag of sour gummy worms from the miniature washer they're equipped with, because god forbid the staff have to do children's laundry. They don't get detergent for free, though, oh no. You have to buy that. At the school shop. Just like lotion, and chapstick, and hair ties, and textbooks, and salt packets because the cafeteria food is so fucking bland and hard to stomach if you think for even a second about how old it is. And if you can't afford it? Too bad!

And they're surprised when the students shoplift, like putting everything necessary to actually feel like a human being behind a paywall, in a school full of students with a history of stealing, and a lot of them with far better reasons for stealing than her, with no way to make any money while inside, isn't the most obvious bad idea since drive-through liquor stores.

She really needed to focus.

She took the bag of candy, and tucked it into his arms. Classes wouldn't start for another hour, and he always took his showers at night, so she went in and bathed, did her basic morning routine, she's had to pare it down a lot since she got here, took her E pill and her mood stabilizer, and got dressed.

She hated the uniform, it was so tacky and grey and gross. At least she was allowed the privilege of nail polish, so she did hers in bright fuckin' pink.

She heard the rustling of plastic, and looked up from her nail job. "Mornin'." She smiled slyly.

"Um... How'd you get these?" Leo asked, with a mouth full of candy.

"I've got my ways. Stash's gettin' low, wanna come with me to get more?"

Leo nodded.

She stood from her bed, her nails now dry. "We're running the track today, so you gotta make yourself throw up when Coach Hedge isn't looking, and then tell him you threw up. It happens a lot, and the school really doesn't like sending kids to the nurse, because it leaves a paper trail, so he'll just give you a bottle of water and let you sit for five minutes. Slip under the bleachers once you're over there, that's where you'll find me. I'll walk you through it from there."

He nodded again, grinning.

-

He wasn't entirely sure whether to trust her, but if she could find a way to contact the outside world for snacks, surely that meant she could find a way back to Texas.

He met up with her under the bleachers, after following her instructions, and found some shrubs, and a dead tree way in the distance.

She reached up to a patch of duct tape, and ripped it away to reveal a bag of money stuck to its inside. She opened it, took out a single bill, closed it, and put the duct tape back like it never happened. "Ok, you see that Joshua tree over there?" She asked.

"Yeah?"

"That's where we're headed." She then took the hair tie out of her hair, letting it fall loose for a minute, folded the bill in half, and wrapped it around one side of the hair tie, before using it again, making sure the money was hidden by her hair.

Then, she got down onto her belly, crawling down in the brush before gesturing for him to follow. "Don't worry about ticks, they'll wash off in the shower."

He took her lead, and did exactly what she did. Once they got to the tree, there was a ditch, which they had to roll down, and keep walking. They came across some train tracks, and Leo stopped. "Um. Which way do we go?"

She pointed to her right. "There's a sagebrush plant that way, that's how I know."

"Huh. Y'know, for someone who hates this whole wilderness school thing so much, you sure know a lot about the wilderness."

She scoffed. "Shut up, I don't wanna give that shithole any credit."

Leo winced. "Okay, touchy."

Piper sighed. "Sorry, I'm not mad at you."

Leo didn't exactly believe her, but... He didn't say anything. He just followed her, and eventually, they came across a truck stop. She pulled out the bill, which was for 100 dollars, and they loaded up, Piper trying to get all her best sellers.

Leo only got free gummy worms because she liked him. Normally, they sell for 2.50.

Once both of them had rested for a bit, they retraced their steps, and she hid behind the Joshua tree. "Ok, can you dig a hole behind the bleachers for me?"

He nodded, and dug his hands into the sandy soil of the barely-not-desert badlands. She snuck over and carefully put everything down into it, the soda cans first, then the cardboard-packaged snack cakes, then chip and candy bags.

"What are you-"

"Shh!" Piper evened the dirt back out a bit, to make it look more natural. "We'll get it tonight. I've got a plan."

"Let's hope it's less needlessly complicated than this one."

"Okay, complicated, I'll give you, but I wouldn't be too sure about the needless part." She stepped back out from behind the bleachers, to find everyone headed to the showers Coach Hedge was hugely displeased. "I give you two five minutes, and you take the rest of the period off!? McLean, this is your second time this semester!"

She sighed. "Yeah, well, I was still feeling nauseous, thought I might have heat exhaustion, so I had to stay in the bathroom."

Coach clearly didn't like it, but he just shrugged. "You get another pass, but I'm giving you gym detention if you do this again." He then looked to Leo. "You, on the other hand... " He scribbled something in a note pad. "Detention, after dinner. Gym detention. You, me, in the gym, you give me 300 push-ups, then and only then are you allowed to leave. You can take 30 minutes, 3 hours, I don't care. I'm getting those 300."

"Wait, what? But... I-I'm the new guy, this is my first offense! Aren't you gonna take it easy on me?" He asked, knowing full well that he was being way more optimistic than he had any right to be.

Coach Hedge just handed him the slip. "We gotta teach you how things work around here. You get second chances when you earn them."

Piper looked over her shoulder. "Woof... Sucks to be you, man. Anyway, I'm heading to the showers."

She hated having to act like he din't give a shit about the guy, but... She couldn't afford to let them find out.

As Nico plunged his canines into the stranger's neck, the first thing he noticed was the film of dirt and sweat on their skin.

The second was the bitterness of the blood.

He released the neck and wiped the corners of his mouth, looking down at the boy. He seemed about Nico's age, just as skinny, and even more disheveled. He was shaking like a leaf, his clothes were ripped and stained, and he had a backpack with him.

Oh no. The poor guy must be homeless or something.

Before he cold rush out an apology, his eyes rolled back into his head, and he collapsed onto the concrete alley floor.

He decided to pick him up and take him back to his home base, just to recuperate. His blood sugar must've been really low when he bit him, that's the only reason it would've been that bitter.

As he carried him back to the apartment, he brushed a deep brown curl out of his face. He barely reacted, just a twitch of the cheek, and Nico's heart squeezed.

He carried him through the door and set him on his bed, before going back out to the grocery store. He didn't need to eat anymore, and though he sometimes ate for fun and nostalgia, it was usually at a restaurant. So his kitchen was always empty.

He came back with pancake mix and the other ingredients, and fried up a stack for the strange boy he'd attacked. He covered them in syrup and an extra thick pad of butter, and put the plate on a tray with a glass of milk and a fried egg before taking it into his bedroom. The boy was still sleeping, but a little bit more responsive, groaning when Nico flicked on the light.

"Hey... Come on, I made you breakfast." The stranger groaned again and sat up, rubbing his eyes.

"What..." He looked up at Nico. "... Where am I?"

He shrugged. "You're in my apartment. You passed out, so I figured I should take you here to recover." He laid the tray across his lap. "What's your name?"

He picked up the fork and looked at the pancakes suspiciously. "... Leo..."

Nico sat next to him. "Sorry, is there anything you're allergic to?" He asked.

Leo shook his head. "... You didn't... Put anything in here, did you?"

"What are you... Oh. Oh, no. No, I just want to make sure you're not hungry."

Leo poked the pancakes with his fork, before shrugging and taking a bite. Soon after, he began to shovel them into his mouth, not even bothering with the knife. He ate the entire plate, drank the milk too, before laying back down. "... Thanks."

Nico shrugged. "Well, I did feed from you, it's the least I could do." He picked up the empty tray. "Do... You have anywhere to be? I could drop you off if you want." He knew the answer would probably be no, but he wanted to make sure he wasn't stealing him away from any family.

Leo sighed. "... No."

Nico nodded somberly. Just as he'd suspected. "In that case, you're welcome to stay here as long as you need, and if you want me to buy you some new clothes, just let me know."

Leo smiled, hugging the pillow as he closed his eyes. "You're a life saver, man."

Nico watched Leo drift back off, looking totally blissed out. It must've been so long since he'd slept in a bed.

He went back out to the kitchen and dumped the dirty dishes in the sink, before laying down on the couch to sleep.

[art-e-gurl]

Herophile: You came here all for me? How did you get here so fast?

Jason: Several traffic violations.

Piper: Three counts of assisting arrest.

Grover: five or six shoplifts for snacks.

Lester: Roughly thirteen cans of energy drinks.

Meg: And that's not our car.