Not a common day at the market. (Erik)

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It was a sunny day over New Rome, it seemed that Apollo was in a good mood that day and he was granting the city and the camp with his marvellous warmth. Usually it wouldn't be well received by the legionaries and civilians, because in California the sun was really hot and not all the demigods enjoyed sun. But in Winter, even when the sun was felt hotter, it also helped people to keep warmth in themselves. That morning it was warm, even when the cold winds running around.

Walking down the via that led to the market, was a slim red haired girl, holding in her arms a wide basket with a lot of vegetables in it and also fruits. As it was a warm day, she was wearing a short sleeve purple shirt, reglamentary of the camp, also dark blue jeans and that was it. she was barefoot. It was unusual in her to not wear sleeves, her left side of her face, left arm left torso and her right leg had awful burnt scars. Her name was Alexandra Rosethorn, daughter of Ceres if the last name didn't give that away. She hated the violence and better tried to help around in other ways. So she worked everyday in a greenhouse near there, like the greenhouse back at home in her beloved Wales.

The vegetables that she harvested were, part for the camp's kitchen and the others for a small stand in the Market, that a legacy of Ceres and her husband a son of Bachus owned. She met the legacy of Ceres when she was a rookie in camp and she was already about to leave the legion. So her vegetables and fruits were only for those places. SHe was walking confidently down the via when she didn't see a crack on the ground, she stepped on it and her ankle got twisted, she was about to fall to the ground, so she dropped her basket, all her fruits and vegetables rolled over the ground.

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Erik was making his usual rounds around New Rome. He had to pick up some stuff for him and his sister and then he went around visiting some of his old camp friends. In fact, just earlier that day he ran into his old centurion and was surprised by the fact that she was expecting her first child with her husband. Though, why it surprised him, he didn't know. The lady was in her late twenties now, she was no longer some teenager barking orders at him or inflicting punishments due to his lazy nature. However, entwined with his surprise he couldn't help but be happy for his old centurion. It was nice to see that after the rough ten years of roman service people were able to go back to living normal lives. Erik was almost able to leave everything Roman behind. He remembered that year after his service he spent in the lecture halls of the university, listening to the abundance of knowledge given to him. It made him feel enlightened! But that flame of future prospect was shortly diminished due to his fathers concern over Eriks twin sister, who loved everything about the Roman way of life and had found herself caught up in the war in Othrys. Now here Erik was, babysitting his sister to make sure she didn't run head first into a battle. Talk about a waste of his precious youth.

As his mind wandered about life he saw a red haired girl trip over a crack in the road. He rushed over, since he was close anyways, and immediately grasped her to stop her fall. Unfortunately he couldn't save the fruits and vegetables that started to tumble across the cobble stone streets. As he was about to say something to the girl, he stopped. A familiar prickling sensation was crawling up his arm, more specifically the parts of his arm that was touching her skin. He looked at her quizzically for a moment before resetting his expression with a well played smirk.

"Gotta hate these Roman streets sometimes, right? I get that they like the tradition, but couldn't they at least invest in making the stones less...cracky?" Erik said with a soft chuckle before letting go of the girl, straightening himself up as he gave the individual a once over. She was attractive, that was for certain. However, she did have some noticeable scars, looked like burn scars. Luckily Erik didn't find them grotesque, he actually found them interesting, it gave the individual in front of him a unique characteristic. One he found alluring.

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It wasn't difficult for Lexi to see herself falling to the ground and then have to pick up all of her vegetables and fruits. First because it wasn't the first time she fell down while carrying a really heavy basket of vegetables and fruits, she had to buy a small cart, but she had no money for that. and secondly because the ones who knew about her would never dare to help her and the ones who would, well... she would rather fall than hurting any of them. She was already awaiting for the hard ground against her knees and hands when she felt that something or someone had just stopped her from falling.

She felt is as if it had been on a slow motion move, she looked at her arm and saw the strong, squared hands that were holding her by the arm, then she lifted the sight little by little in that slow motion and she the strong squared jaw that was part of the face of her saviour, then he helped her to regain some balance, there she pulled back her arm against her body and stepped back a step or two, she looked at him as if she was waiting for him to fall to the ground dying if not dead. He had held her by the arm for a long period of time, more than 5 seconds, which was more than necessary to get a full hit of her toxines and a visit to the infirmary, if not one to Mors and Pluto.

He made a funny comment about the streets and how New Rome should invest a bit on them, it was funny, but Lexi was really concerned about his health to take a moment and laugh about his joke. "are you..." she started, but then she just stopped, how was it possible that someone that had touched her would still be on his feet and joking!? "do you feel ok?" she asked with extreme fear in her trembling voice, she have had horrible experiences in the past, she had even killed some campers when she was a kid only because they touched her, but he seemed to be... just fine!

Peaople passed by and not even tried to get closer and help, some of them in that market knew who she was, so they knew it was much better to keep their distance. some people even walked away from where they were and others went to find an apollo child in case someone needed their help. But Lexi's attention was on the man that just helped her. It was simply impossible that he was still there, talking and alive!

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Erik watched as the red haired girl took a step away, almost in fear. Well, he couldn't blame her, some weird stranger just touched her. Even Romans were informed about stranger danger, well, at least he hoped they were. He started to pick up the produce that had spilled out onto the streets. Yet, he knit his eyebrows in confusion at her question. Shouldn't he be the one asking that question. All he had done was stop her fall, she was the one who had tripped. He laughed a bit. "Yeah, I'm fine. But shouldn't I be the one asking you that question?" Erik asked as he walked back over, his arms full of produce that he had picked up for her.

Maybe she was feeling awkward about meeting up with a stranger or something. He should probably introduce himself and not be a stranger anymore. Erik cleared his throat. "The name's Erik by the way. Erik Martin. What's your name?" In his head he was trying to figure out if she was still in the legion or a citizen. He knew that some people arrived at camp later than he and his sister did. By the time they were eighteen they were able to leave the camp, yet he knew that some people had to wait until they were twenty. Honestly, just for that fact, he was glad he got to camp earlier than some. He was able to be a lazy teenager for a couple of years at least. Granted, not too lazy as he had gone back to help his dad at the university.

That was another thing he didn't have in common with some of the campers. He had a pretty much normal childhood, a happy one too. He was able to enjoy being outside of camp without a huge fear of monsters and still had a family to go back too. He was a lot luckier than a majority of campers and now civilians that he and his sister knew. Yet, they did notice that a lot of the ones who started to live in New Rome were able to make happy lives for themselves. That was always something that warmed them up inside whenever they felt bad for their comrades.

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Lexi looked at the guy standing in front of her and was completely surprised that he was not only on his feet, but alive! She couldn't believe such miracle! and it for sure was weird to have that red haired girl looking at him in such way, because more than looking at him she was observing as if he was a ghost or worse! Then he smiled at her and started picking up the produce, who was that guy?! He said he was ok, she only nodded at that statement, knowing he was right, but still couldn't believe it.

"Me?..." she shook her head, then knit her brows. "I'm fine! thanks to you!" she said and then knelt to pick up the few products that were near her, her bare foot had a nasty bruise on her toe, because of the crack which she was tripped with. SHe put the produce in the huge basket and then looked at her toe and frowned, it was going to hurt to walk carrying the basket with the produce and that injured toe. Then her attention got back to the miracle guy that was there closer to where she was.

He had just introduced himself to her, she smiled a bit at him. "Alexandra... Alexandra Rosethorn..." she said and then got up again. She smiled at him, now that he was doing it again. he seemed to have inside like a battery, as if something inside him made him be that... energetic! She walked closer to him again and observed him, she walked slowly, because of the pain in her toe, but walked around him trying to find a reason why he was... different. Then she just stopped and decided to stop acting creepy and act again as a common demigod.

"I'm really sorry, Erik... I'm not used to... get help. But thank you very much, I just need to take this to a stand..." she looked at him again, as if he was the most beautiful yet weird and scary thing in the world. then after a minute of being looking directly at his face, she looked away blushing and then looked back at him. "I'm really sorry... usually I'm not this... weird... "she giggled nervously. "but... I can't understand why you are still alive..." ok she couldn't be more direct, right? not even if she had wanted to, well if he thought she was nutz, that was the moment to leave her standing all alone.

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NOTES: XD hope it is ok! love these two!!

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Upon hearing that she was fine he smirked, that was good to hear. He would have hated to have his good day ruined by an injury. Well, not too ruined. It would have been fixed, he would have gotten a band aid or something for her. Least he could do of course. As he had stopped her fall. Then she said her name and wow, what a great name that was. Alexandra Rosethorn. Very beautiful. He wanted to remember that name and keep reverberating it within his mind for eternity. It was like a name someone gave to a fairy tale creature. Perhaps she was a nymph, that would make sense, right? Though weren't they suppose to be stuck to whatever plant they were attached to? Who knows, mythology wasn't his strong suit either. Again, he was a very lazy demigod during his ten years of service. Then she started to walk around him. Automatically her tried to stand up taller, expand his chest out wide. Why was he doing this? It was just meeting a normal girl, he had never tried before to impress a girl, why start now? It had to have been that pretty name and her hair, he had a think for gingers okay.

He laughed shyly as he rubbed the back of his neck, trying to not look embarrassed from all the attention. He wasn't use to it honestly. "It's okay, just not use to all the attention." He watched her pick up the produce. "I can walk with you to the stands if you want. Wouldn't want you to trip again."]Erik added with a slight smirk. Wow, was he flirting, that was different, but a good different, despite the nervousness creeping throughout his body.

His smirk faltered at her next statement though. Why wouldn't he be alive? Was there some reason why he shouldn't be? He played the last few minutes in his head. He saw her trip and reached out to grab her, feeling the familiar prickling of poison on his arm...., that was it. That familiar prickling feeling. Something about her was poison. Her skin? Some aura around her? Oh well, too much thinking about something he didn't understand, the best way he was going to get an answer would be if he asked her himself what exactly she meant. "What do you mean you're surprised I'm alive? Should there be some reason why I shouldn't be?"

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Maybe the guy in front of her was related to Ceres, or to Trivia, maybe that was the real explanation to it. She remembered that her father never got sick when she touched him, also recently she met a girl that was a daughter of Trivia and well, she only felt some tickles on her skin, and a slight numbness, but that was it! So maybe this guy was in the same position and he wasn't going to drop dead at any second just because he touched her bare skin. That was something that unconsciously made her smile, knowing that she wouldn't kill at least other person was a nice thought!

Then he offered his help, he offered her to walk with her to the stands to watch over her, to check that she wasn't going to fall again. Well that was not just nice, but also cavalierous, which no one in camp had when it came to her. Either her looks, or the knews about her deathly touch, but no one had ever acted like that to her. Then there it was that smile of his, it was partially twisted to a side, but it didn't made him look bad or ugly, in fact gave his face a rogue look that was nice to look at. She smiled at him, it was a flirty smile, maybe not even her knew that she was using it, because she had never flirted before! And better was that she didn't realize about it, because at that point she thought he was probably a relative!

"Well, it would be a pleasure to have some company while I walk to deliver the produce" She said as they walked slowly to the stand where she had to deliver the vegetables and fruits. As they walked she was still trying to find the solution to the question, why he was still alive? But thinking right was difficult when he was smiling at her in such way. "it is difficult to believe that you got no attention on you more often..." she said and then looked away, why would she had just said something like that. She just hoped he didn't think she was a weirdo or something like that.

It was a blessing that he had just asked her why she thought he should be dead in that moment. She looked at him again and blushed just a bit. this time wasn't a blush of a flirteous action or reaction, it was more of being ashamed of the answer to his question. She breathed deeply and then spoke again. "My skin is covered with a very lethal kind of toxines, so... if I touch someone or someone touches me, in a matter of seconds the person starts to... have awful allergic reaction, and in a matter of a minute to five minutes... they die." She hoped he didn't react like everyone else, that he didn't just leave her looking at her as if she was the worst plague ever.

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Erik gave his friendly half smile. He had nothing going on at the moment anyways so he didn't mind walking with this radiant girl. Plus, he was interested by her. From the top of her ginger head to the bareness of her shoe less feet. Besides, she seemed happy that he was willing to keep her company, not that he wasn't happy too. He was happy, extremely happy. Now he would be able to get back to his apartment that he shared with his sister and exclaim that he made a new friend. Not that that would surprise her or anything. Alyssa knew he was a friendly person, Erik just liked to rub his abundance of friends into her antisocial face. They were siblings after all. How did people think he acted with his sister? Cradle her and sing her a lullaby? Ha! Now, Erik does care for his sister, its just not so obvious as their bickering. They might be twins but they are two different sides of the same coin.

He looked at Lexi. Why would he have more people paying attention to him? He was just a normal run of the mill kid with demigod tendencies. But his immortal half was so unknown. When Erik had spent time with his dad after his service in the legion, he had looked up his mom on Wikipedia and there was literally only about 2 sections and it told close to nothing on her. "Well, I don't see why I would have more attention. I'm just a normal demigod, actually, most people wouldn't believe I'm a demigod either. My immortal half is very unknown. Most of the time I can just pass by as a mortal no problem." Erik said with a shrug as he continued to walking, stretching his arms behind his head slightly.

Though, he stopped short at Lexi started giving off her explanation for her skin. "Allergic reactions? More like a poisonous reaction. I figured it must be poison. See, my mom is Achyls. Shes the goddess of poison, death mist, and misery. Well, those are the three shes most commonly referred to with anyways. But, thats why I was fine when I touched you. I'm immune to poison. Both my sister and I are. You could almost call it a blessing from my mom." Erik said with a chuckle as he smirked once he noticed the blush highlighting Lexis cheekbones. She really was cute. Erik wondered if she was single. With her skin, it seemed almost obvious that she would be, but her beauty outweighed any deadly toxins she might have secreting from her skin. Erik figured that this adorable ginger already had a man waiting on her somewhere within Camp Jupiter.

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Lexi looked at Erik and couldn't believe he was so humble, how a man like him could think that he was like a common mortal, well he wasn't! And even if he was a common mortal, even the gods looked at mortals and fell in love with them, so why wouldn't simple demigods admire his manly beauty? but then she felt the warmth in her cheeks, she knew she had blushed and that made her look to the front again, away from his lovely eyes and that amazing twisted smile of his! "well... you know... even the gods look at common mortals and fall for them..." she smiled and glanced at him then away again. what was she doing?!

She continued walking with the heavy basket in her arms, but she wasn't aware of the weigth of it, what she was aware of was the proximity to him, the memory of the feeling that his skin left on her arm, it was been warm and soft, not that his hands were soft, but his touch, the way to hold her so she wouldn't fall to the rough ground. That warm, kind touch that for a second had scared her to death, but that now wasn't anymore, but worrying her and letting her know how misterious the world was. then he told her why he was still alive, why she hadn't killed him. She opened her eyes widely and then slowly looked at him it was impossible! She had heard of his mother, but never thought that she had any kids and even less that their gift was to be immune to poisons.

"immune..." she repeated in a very low kind of voice, in fact it was barely audible and she did a very slight move of her lips when she pronounced the word. She couldn't believe that there was someone that was capable of that! "you mean..." she tried to speak, but the nerves and the dry throat didn't let her speak on normal tone, she had to clear her throat and then tried to do it again. to speak again trying to seem more normal. "So what you mean is that neither you, nor your sister can get poisoned? no matter what?" she asked still in a weird tone, But it was something that in many ways brought light into her path. She wasn't thinking in the romantic way, not in that moment at least.