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There is no fault in these stars
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A son of Hermes was dozing off upstairs in the observatory. He was worn out from hours of practice woth the Apollo kids and now his energy was drained. He has probably been in the observatory for a few hours now, tossing and turning on his beach blanket.
Wyatt Ortiz's eyes fluttered open to the sound of shuffling. The seventeen year old groggily sat up and rubbed his eyes. As far as he knew, Wyatt was the only person who comes into the old observatory. Wyatt looked over the railing to see a girl playing with a camera. How late was it? He came to the observatory around eight. It was darker out, he could assume it was atleast tenish.
Wyatt stood up slowly and leaned on the railing. He watched the girl take pictures. She was probay charting Virgo, he was pretty sure that was out tonight.
"Hi."
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"No it's fine, please, stay." The Brazilian's accent was heavy as he spoke, and he had to remember to slow his speech down as he spoke. Wyatt wrapped his blanket around him as he ran down the spiral stairs to see the girl.
"Are you charting or something? I know Virgo is visible tonight. It's one of my favorites, Taurus is my favorite, actually."
Wyatt paused, deciding if he should approach the girl. He did just interrupt what she was doing. But she was doing something with stars. And the celestial objects always perked his interest. That's why he naps in the observatory and continuously charts the stars. He finds them absolutely beautiful. Anyone who is in the observatory must think the same, right?
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Leah calmed down when the guy mentioned the stars, she liked the stars. "Uh, not really." the brunette replied, "It's more art. Y'know those pictures that you see on the internet or whatever? Or the default desktop on a Macintosh computer. I take photographs of that stuff. Except I still haven't figured out how to connect my camera to the telescopes here, so I can't take pictures of nebulae or galaxies like I can at home. Here I just take pictures of the night sky. If you wanna see..." Leah took her camera off the tripod and switched to the last few pictures she had taken. Sure enough, she had caught the constellation virgo, complete with mars in the corner.
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Wyatt let out a small laugh when the girl made the comment about the computer screensaver.
"Oh, well pictures are cool too." Wyatt smiled. His mother took photos of the constillations too. She sent her son photos of Hydra last week. The son of Hermes leaned in to examine the pictures.
"Wow." He whispered. His smile widened as he saw the pictures, they were breathtaking.
"You're very good at taking these photos, they're amazing," he paused to fix his blanket, "I'm Wyatt." he extended his hand for her to shake, still smiling.
Ooc//this is too short.
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Leah shook Wyatt’s hand, glad to be able to put a name to his face. “Leah Howard.” She responded.
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Wyatt frowned, "You should put them up in the art room, a lot of Apollo kids put their stuff up there. I have a hand turkey somewhere in the art room, I have to say it's my best work." Wyatt ventured of from where he was originally standing to find the control panel. Once there, the son of Hermes flipped on the rest of the lights. It was a little too dark in the observatory for two teenagers to have a discussion. It was kind of weird/creepy.
Wyatt moved over to the closet, pulling out a few bean bags. The son of Hermes spends a lot of time in the observatory, he has anything a teen in this generation needed. He has bottles of water, food, bean bags, blankets, he had a child of Athena install a television recently so he and his friends could watch FIFA.
Wyatt jumped onto the blue bean bag, motioning for Leah to join him. He assumed she didn't want to stand the whole time they talked. He knew he didn't, Wyatt's legs were sore and he wasn't in any mood to stand for much longer.
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The daughter of Aphrodite ambled over to the bean bag chair, sitting down cross legged and scanning the observatory again.
“This place looks like it belongs in a retro science fiction movie. Just make everything black and white, add Boris Karloff, and you’ve got Frankenstein or The Body Snatcher,” Leah paused, “Or Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Except that technically doesn’t count because it was animated.”
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Wyatt laughed, observing the room. To him, he really didn't see it like she described it. He guessed it was like olfactory fatigue, after a period of time, Wyatt got use of the creepy aesthetic.
"I think this place would be cooler in black and white. The whole vibe would seem cooler than what it is now."
Wyatt leaned back into the beanbag smiling. He liked talking to people. It didn't matter if it was a complete stranger, like Leah, he wants to talk to everyone. Besides, Leah seemed cool. She liked the same thing that Wyatt liked. If she liked soccer as well that would be cool. Cooler than cool, actually.
Wyatt sat back up straight, looking back up at Leah. It was weird that he didn't actually know Leah. He thought he knew everyone at camp. Wyatt did consider himself fairly popular. And he was pretty sure that meant that he knew everyone. But he guessed not, and that was really weird for him.
"I'd like to get to know you more." He said. A few seconds later he added, "Okay, maybe that sounded weird, or maybe it sounded seductive and cool. Maybe not." He shrugged, "But still, I want to know."
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Leah raised an eyebrow, “Weird.” She stated, “Definitely weird. But, what the hell. I was born in 1996 to Aphrodite and Samuel Howard in Liverpool, UK. Dad’s a primary school teacher. Year three. I came to camp ‘bout... two years ago. In my free time I take photos, of basically anything. As long as it isn’t food or selfies. Those drive me crazy. I am five foot two, and I absolutely hate it. I speak french. I like watching movies, any genre and year. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them all. That good enough for you?” Leah smirked and looked over to him.
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He smiled,"You're a whole foot shorter than me."
Height was always a funny thing for Wyatt. He's one of the tallest kids I'm his bunk. He towers above most of his friends, guy and girl. Now here was a girl who was a whole foot shorter than him. He suddenly felt self-conscious about standing up again.
"I figured you liked movies, or maybe you reference the book version but Body Snatchers is a pretty old movie, I mean if you count 1993 old." Wyatt shrugged, " they did remake it in 2007 too."
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"Sounds scary." Wyatt replied. He smiled as she said she was on a roll. Leah has been talking about vintage movies since he told her his name. He thought it was cool that she was into something and would talk about it.
Wyatt flipped his curls out of his face. He should probably get his hair cut soon. It was neck length, but that's super long in his standers.
Then the lights went out.
The lights never go out in the observatory. It's old, but the nerdier kids fix the lighting in here every month.
It was dimly lit, but you could still see Wyatt's puzzled face. The son of Hermes walked over to the circuit panel. Wyatt kept on flipping the switches hopelessly even after he knew they weren't working.
"I don't know what would be the source of this. There's no storm, nothing's wrong with the panel, they just checked it last week."
Wyatt really didn't understand what was going on. At first he thought that it was his father, Hermes, trying to be an a**hole. He's only met his father a few times, and it was the same routine. Trick, say something embarrising, then ask him about girls. He never asked how soccer was going, or even how his mother was. Wyatt never understood why Hermes always asked about girls. Was he going to give Wyatt tips on how to leave girls like he left his mother?
Maybe Hermes wasn't the person to blame for this one. One of his siblings? They're outstandingly annoying, first of. They probably saw him having an actually nice time and then wanted to ruin it.
Then again, it's ten o'clock at night. Who would wake up to ruin Wyatt's life.
It could be Leah, she looks smart. She definitely beat the 'typical Aphrodite' stereotype. She could be controlling the whole thing.
Stop it Wyatt.
Leah is a nice girl, hopefully. He needs to stop being paranoid.
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“Y’know what? It’s late, I should be getting back.” Leah said, moving towards the door. She’d get her camera tomorrow once people knew where she was. Except the door wouldn’t open. Leah shook the knob and pushed harder on the door, even putting her shoulder into it. Her heart rate spiked, and she turned quickly towards Wyatt. “I’ll have you know that I have a knife on me, if you try and hurt me, I won’t be afraid to use it.” Ok, so maybe she was bluffing. She actually had nothing on her. Besides her charming personality and endless amount of movie references. But she was not about to become the girl in horror movies that thinks screaming is a good solution to her problems.
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The door wasn't opening. Of course the door didn't open. It's Camp Half-Blood and no teenager can go through the day like any normal person. But no. They're not human, they're demigods. Apparently demigods are basically a different species.
And they are a different species. Wyatt was pretty sure no one outside of camp threatens a normal person with a knife.
"Oh, yeah, blame the Brazilian, that's racist." The son of Hermes couldn't help but to laugh. Sure, the two teenagers are trapped in a creepy observatory with the power off; but hey, he was a funny person.
Anywho, Wyatt approached her slowly with his hands in the air. "Now, Leah Howard. My name is Wyatt Ortiz. I am a futbol player, and I might add that I am very good at it. I have many friends who enjoy my company. Now, I may be some weird Hermes kid that lives in the observatory. But I would never, never, lock myself in here, shut off the power, and lock myself in with a daughter of Aphrodite and no food. No offense to you of course. You seem like a charming person, you're work is brilliant, really, I want some of those pictures; but I don't like being threatened."
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"No, don't say you're sorry, it's fine I forgive you." Wyatt rolled his eyes, tapping on one of the telescopes. "I mean I killed my friend in futbol, but I don't think he's that pissed." No, he really didn't kill the kid. Unless you count not letting him score once. But hey, Wyatt doesn't like to lose.
The blonde met Leah to the platform, "I mean while we're stuck here, we can have fun. I told you I practically live here. We have food and water and music. It can be a little party for star nerds like us, please?"
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OOC: short again
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Wyatt grinned, walking over to Leah. Leaning onto a crate he said, "Do you like to have fun, Leah Howard?" It was a simple question. Wyatt knew he liked to have fun; he's like the king of fun. But he was wondering the same about Leah.
Idea.
Wyatt moved over to his old radio and pressed play. Robbers, by The 1975 started to carry through the observatory. Wyatt walked to Leah once more, grabbing her hands. "Lighten up." He whispered. The son of Hermes looked over his shoulder, something was in here with the two. Wyatt shrugged it off, he needed to focus on other things.
It's not like he wanted to dance with Leah. Yeah she was pretty, and she liked what he liked. Wyatt just...well Wyatt didn't really know. He was attracted to her, in all honesty. A non social daaughter of Aphrodite peaked his interest.
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The brunette was just about to say something else, before the air got cold. And then out of the corner of her eye, she saw the blur of a cream colored object falling. Right next to her, there was the sound of shattering, and she felt tiny shards of glass hit her ankle. Leah yelped out of surprise and jumped backwards, letting go of Wyatt’s hands. She hadn’t meant to scream, except randomly falling objects do tend to scare a person. Leah looked down to see the remains of a tan colored sphere. She knelt down, and examined the pieces, it looked like blown glass, and each shard was colored with different colors of creame and beige. Leah looked up to see a large model of a solar system hanging near the roof of the observatory. One planet was missing, the one that had fallen to the ground. The second one from the sun. Venus. It had to be some kind of coincidence. Nevertheless, Leah felt panicked. She looked at Wyatt, her eye’s wide, unable to form a sentence.
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It was weird, only knowing a person for two hours and then suddenly you were less than arms distance apart, dancing in the moonlight. Not that a certain someone minded. No, Wyatt Ortiz was enjoying himself dancing with Leah. She puzzled him, yet amazed him at the same time. Would he admit that, no.
Foreheads touching, there was something brewing between them. But not what Wyatt wanted. The sister planet to earth crashed down infront of the teenagers. Wide eyed, Wyatt jumped back as debris fell everywhere.
There were many things ironic about the situation. The first being that Wyatt had climbed on the model days before, and used it as a swing. The second, well it was a werid one. He planet named after the roman goddess of love fell to their feet. Wyatt couldn't worry about that now, he worried for Leah. Wyatt's hands amediently grabbed her shoulders, a look of panic was on his face,
"Are you hurt?"
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“No. Just a little shaken up.” Leah knelt down again and picked up a piece of the broken planet. “Do you think it’s a threat?” Leah looked up, “Against me? I mean, I’m a child of Aphrodite. Aphrodite is Venus. And Venus just crashed to the floor.” Why would someone want to hurt her? It's not like she ever did anything wrong. She wasn't asking for this to happen. Leah tried not to look scared. Sure, she had seen hundreds of horror movies before, and they didn’t really scare her anymore. But living a horror film, well, that’s a bit different.
All she wanted to do was take pictures of the stars. Really. Then she finds herself in a situation suited for Alfred Hitchcock.
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Wyatt's mouth was open, but no words came out. He was still in shock. There's definitely something in here with them. The wires on the planets were sturdy, the panel was just checked on, and the knobs, well the knobs were perfectly fine. He didn't want to tell Leah that he was 95 percent sure that there was something else in the observatory.
But was it watching them? Wyatt shuddered, he hated to think someone was watching him do things. It was creepy Especially thinking that he thought he was having a moment with Leah, but..someone was watching.
Wyatt knelt down to Leah, "I doubt anyone wants to hurt Aphrodite. Venus is different from the greek version. If Venus fell, then Venus is in trouble, not your mom." He smiled a little. Wyatt didn't want to set Leah off in some sort of frenzy. If Kira Ortiz was in any sort of trouble. Wyatt would go super comando and go after the perp. WHo knows what Leah would do.
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