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[tooprettytodie]

Valkyrie felt a bit out of it. Only a bit though, she wouldn't admit to being more than just a bit. She had only had a little bit to drink at the party, mostly just because she could, and made sure she didn't get all out drunk or anything. Besides, she'd had a pretty fun time of it. It was just all a bit much with everyone there knowing each other and being such good friends that after a while she couldn't quite take it anymore. She didn't expect to fit in right away, and she didn't begrudge anyone their fun, but after a while she had to get out of there.

She hadn't been in her new place long, only just a week or so, but already it was becoming to feel uncomfortably like home. It was a cute little cottage that she couldn't imagine why no one would have snatched up so far, but when she saw it she loved it. It was almost ridiculous with how picturesque it looked.

Valkyrie almost felt like she was violating the wholesomeness of it with her costume. Trinity from the Matrix was not all that wholesome. But that's what the clothing box had given her, and she thought she had looked good in it so she went for it. Besides, it reminded her a bit of her clothes from back home.

Yawning and stretching, she stumbled over to her bed. It wasn't late and she really shouldn't fall asleep in her costume, it wasn't exactly breathable, but she just wanted to crash without too much introspection. Flopping down into her bed, she gave a happy sigh as her head hit the pillow. Reaching out she pulled close the stuffed bear that Percy had won for her at the fair and closed her eyes to fall asleep.

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[prettywithawill.livejournal.com]

Any lingering frustration Valkyrie felt over Percy stabbing her floor with his sword was gone the instant he complimented how nice her outfit was. At least he had noticed, she would have been upset if she had gone through all the trouble to wear it if he didn't notice.

"I'm not sure we're really at the point where I'm comfortable discussing with you what I wear to bed," Valkyrie said, shifting so that he would have an easier time of it to untie her. She almost wished that she had taken her coat off, just so he could see how well she looked in the pants.

"Apparently you feel entirely comfortable asking me about it though."

[percy_jackson]

"Yeah, that could have come out better," I said. I felt the blood rushing to my cheeks, but I gave a little grunt of triumph as the knots came free and the bra fell from Valkyrie's wrists. "It's just that, it's not all that usual and, and... I thought you looked nice."

Now, normally I wouldn't have said something like that. That's what you call 'digging yourself deeper'. But when you are as disoriented as I was, having had my head bashed repeatedly into a support beam, you sometimes don't know which way is up.

I did have some sense that I'd said the wrong thing, though. And possibly my body tried to cover for me by sending me a twinge of pain in the vicinity of my ears. I winced and touched my right one tenderly. "Ow."

[prettywithawill.livejournal.com]

As soon as he untied her, Valkyrie kicked the bra off of her ankles and unlooped it from around her wrists. It was perhaps, no definitely, the most humiliating way she had been tied up.

She was itching for a fight, her heart pounding a bit and she was not nearly satisfied with the little action she had gotten. At the very least, she had been rescued by a rather handsome, if somewhat bashful and possibly clumsy hero. After rubbing her wrists and getting some circulation back in her hands, she pulled Percy forward and kissed him on the cheek.

"That's for saying I looked nice in my costume. And this is for saving me..."

She pulled him close by the collar and kissed him hard and fast before letting him go. She felt giddy at the action, her lips tingle and stomach flip flopping. It had been a complete spur of the moment decision that she was blaming on the heat of the moment, but she had definitely enjoyed it.

[percy_jackson]

When Valkyrie kissed me on the cheek, I could feel my cheeks reddening. When she kissed me, hard, on the lips, I didn't feel that way anymore. Any sense of bashfulness, any thoughts of Annabeth, were banished from my mind as I felt her lips against mine. As I felt myself kissing her back. It felt good. It felt really good.

Then Valkyrie released me with a little push, and I fell back. Where to land, I didn't know, or care. The memory of that kiss filled my senses, until...

Thunk!

I hit my head on the gods-damn support strut again.

I slumped on the floor with my hand on the rapidly forming goose-egg. "Ow!" I said, ruefully. Then, quite involuntarily, I let out a chuckle, which turned into a laugh. "Ow!" I said again, and laughed harder.

[prettywithawill.livejournal.com]

Valkyrie couldn't help but laugh at Percy, more at the fact that he was laughing, not necessarily that she found his pain amusing. She liked that about Percy, that he was someone she could have a laugh with. Also, he was a pretty decent kisser.

"Come on," she said, grinning at him as she got to her feet. "I want to put the heads of the decapitated ones on the picket fence as a warning to others. Then we'll take a look at those injuries."

[percy_jackson]

"Okay," I said, reaching out for her hand to help myself up. I kind of liked the idea of her ministering to my injuries, "But there's more of those things out there. All of the things won at the carnival. They're all attacking. People need our help."

[prettywithawill.livejournal.com]

"Your injuries first, then we'll go," she said, pulling him up to a standing position. She almost pulled him close enough to kiss again, but that moment was gone. One fast kiss for her rescuer was one thing, another one a few moments later was something different. A something that she didn't need to get into right now.

"And then we'll go see about killing all the rest of these things."