Stanger {Edmund}

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of course you are you're my best f r i e n d (even if you didn't know it) There were only a few people who could genuinely make him show positive emotions. And Felicity so happened to be one of them. Another small grin flickered across his face. "Oh, how could you, Weingarten? I mean... all you have to do is follow my shining star example!" Really... all he and Felicity had done were checked out without permission and then there was Ed's entire case of breaking a few things and punching and getting strapped down... star patients if he ever saw any! He gave a slight nod. "Yeah... me too," he said with a slight scoff. He would've thought anything in his life would've ended him. Getting attacked by monsters. The house fire. Training with Lupa. Training in the Legion. The forge. The war. The quest. The other war. Being a traitor in said other war. But no. Here he was, still alive and standing. Still alive and fighting in a body that refused to give up and shut down even if his mind had a couple of times. Sure, he, Felicity, and the others of Camp and New Rome were the "lucky" ones in a sense. Sure, they were alive, but they were living the life of a demigod. Depending on how old they were and who they were, they had lived through things that no one (much less kids) should live though. And then there were, of course, all those who didn't make it. Some during war, others before Edmund had ever seen them in Camp Jupiter. Then came their mood whiplash. Teasing to serious in a second or less, as demonstrated by Edmund Simons and Felicity Weingarten. Maybe they'd even make a joke out of it later on. At first, Edmund had thought that it would be a mistake, like when he had talked to Venus. But then it didn't feel like it because it felt... better. Right. Even if they did make a joke out of it later, it would be her. And he'd be more than fine with that. Besides, she had to know. Verbally. Edmund usually didn't do affirmation with words. He mostly lied about... everything, really. But if he did say something serious like that, it wasn't a lie. He meant it. Then she hugged him. Part of him expected the hug. Part of him even wanted it. Still, it didn't stop him the initial freeze up. He could've easily back away if he wanted. She was freely giving him that option. But he didn't want to. Instead, he hugged her back, slightly tighter. If only for a few seconds, he felt like everything would be okay. He had Felicity back, so Josh (the dumb son of an idiot) would come back too. Ed would be able to honestly say he was okay, they'd all live happily, and the world would leave the demigods alone for once. The last three were stupid, naive hopes that would probably never happen but hey, he was allowed every once in a while to attempt optimism.  COMMENTARIUM: No worries <33 #FedmundForLife!!! -theygivemefeels- VERBA: 491

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She expected the freeze up and had almost started to back away to give him his space and was about to mentally bash herself for doing something so absurd to someone who probably placed his personal no-touchy space at a higher pedestal than the air he breathed when it happened. She felt his arms around her hugging her, and it was some flimsy hug which she had done to give him space, no she felt that little bit tightness in it. A small smile lifted her face as she tightened her hug around him and gave him a genuine hug. So what if in the next few seconds the hug lasted it started to fill them with awkwardness and it would be something they would tease each other with until their dying breath it was something. Something that Felicity really needed after her roller coaster of emotions from the past couple of days. That was the benefit of having a best friend, their hugs always seemed to brighten the day and make someone feel better. Actually, she was pretty sure that one day when she was bored in a bookstore she read in a magazine that hugs helped lower stress and blood pressure and released the chemical in your brain related to happiness. Whether or not that was true she didn't know, all she knew was that in the most moment she felt at peace and she was genuinely happy for the first time since she had come back to camp.

After a moment, when she felt as though if the hug went any longer it would become too awkward she released her hug from him. Now was the moment to try to make the post-hug moment not so awkward. But how? "Who knew you knew how to hug someone?" Felicity teased at him and automatically wanted to face palm herself. First off, that was a lame tease but hopefully they had such a good history of teasing each other that even the lame ones had to account for something. If not, well, he'll have to deal with it anyway because that was the first thing to say that came to Felicity head and she sort of ended up word vomiting it out. Luckily she didn't have such a bad case of word vomit that the main character from Mean Girls had, that just messed up her life a lot. Nope, instead Felicity had her lack of forethought to mess up her life, oh well, at least she was able to keep her best friend at the end of the day and that was all that matter to her. Screw relationships, screw stupid gods and immortals, she had her friends and thats that. She no longer had any rules to tie her down because no one cared anymore and lets be real, she would probably drag Ed to whatever spontaneous adventure her brain decided to pull her of to next. Maybe ice skating, laser tack, or going to a Broadway play to make fun of the costumes. Who knew, not her.

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notes: Fedmund forever!!!

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of course you are you're my best f r i e n d  Despite other people's thoughts about him, Edmund Simons still did know how to act like a decent human being. Not that he cared what other people thought, but the notions were still there. He had been raised to be nice, but over time, his nicer personality had just been buried. Deep. Deep. Deep down. Mostly so he could live with himself and survive in the Legion. But of course, he still knew how to hug, how to be nice, how to talk to people when they were having a hard time, or how to show concern. Of course, 99.7% of the time, it was thrown by the wayside to make room for his personality that everyone else knew. Who could ever think (himself included) that he'd ever find someone who he would allow to hug him, and that he would actually hug back? Better yet, who would've thought he would ever find friends or a family? Sure, he told himself it was all fake and that it wasn't true, but that was just it... just part of him being him. None of it was true, and it never would be. No matter how much he yelled, punched, or denied it to hell and back. Just as much as he knew that he didn't deserve family, he knew that they'd keep insisting. Of course, some people were more verbal than others, but the feeling still presented itself. Stupid Roman stubbornness. On both their parts. He could only remember hugging two people since coming to camp: Felicity and Lyn. Both times, he hadn't been the one to initiate the hug, but to go through with it instead. Maybe one day he'd learn to initiate. Today was not that day though. One of his therapists had actually said that people needed reassuring, physical, touch contact, at least eight times a day. He wasn't getting that, surely. But maybe, just maybe, the hugs from those two could make up for all of contact missed. They stayed there for a few seconds before Felicity drew away. And then, in normal fashion, joked. He let a small smirk flicker across his face. "Oh, I'm full of surprises," he scoffed lightly, rolling his eyes. Sure, he had missed her and all and that warranted a hug, but he was 95% sure that he wasn't the first person she had seen. She had left someone much more important to her than him when she had died. She had left her finance, Stone. Gods knew how many other people she'd have to see after that. It could get taxing, facing all the people. It was partially the reason why Edmund had wanted to die in the war. He had been so close too... but now he was almost glad he didn't. Even though he had lost Felicity, he was alive again to see her come back. He'd be alive to see Josh come back too. And then the idiot was getting whacked. Possibly. COMMENTARIUM: <33 VERBA: 500

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Felicity gave a slight laugh as she shook her head. "Full of surprises are ya? Makes me wonder whats next, going to pull a rabbit out of a hat? Actually, if you did that, that would be amazing and I would name the bunny Sir Fluffy Butt because their puff of tail makes their butt look fluffy." Ah yes, bunnies being pulled out of a hat because Edmund Simons was secretly a wizard and accidentally got the wrong letter when he came of age. He wasn't suppose to go to the wolfhouse, he was suppose to go to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, obviously. Alas, mistakes happened oh well, the mistake lead to Felicity gaining one of the best friends she could ever ask for. Try, while their relationship was warped from the normal view of friendship, it was still at the top of her cherished frienships list.

She took a breath as she tried to clear her head for a moment. With Remus she couldn't exactly ask how everyone had been doing since she decided to get out of dodge but she could always ask Edmund, just because he didn't initiate conversation with everyone didn't mean he had no idea what was going on around him. "So do you have any idea how everyone else? Spoken to the old quest team lately, well, besides Lyn. How are all of them? I know Josh was pretty well... he missed Rhia. That much was obvious." Felicity said as she brought on a normal conversation. One that did not involve the possibility of Edmund suddenly becoming the next Harry Potter due to having magical powers. Though all this talk of Hogwarts made Felicity wonder what house they would be all sorted in anyway. She liked to think she would end up being a Gryffindor but what would Edmund be? Maybe a mix of houses or something. Oh well, no need for useless mind wanderings, it didn't help when she was trying to actually catch up. She had been back for less than a day and wanted to end up she wouldn't get culture shock from her time away.

Granted, it wouldn't be called culture shock rather reverse culture shock since you would be getting use to the culture you left from but still, it took some time to fully adjust to way of life you haven't been living for awhile and FElicity wanted to make the adjustment as easily as possible.

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notes: ouch, short, sorry

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and i'll pretend that nothing's c h a n g e d at all And cue mood whiplash numero dos. "Completely." He allowed a small smile and scoff to escape his mouth. "Oh, Felicity. How did you guess? You really should become the next augur," he teased. Magicians. Before meeting Rhia or seeing other children of Trivia, he had doubted magic really existed. Sure, when he was younger and saw a magician with his parents, it had impressed him. How couldn't it have? He had only been a child, impressed and entranced with anything and everything around him. Of course, every demigod child had their own sort of magic. Ed's so happened to be turning the lights on and off by blinking, making all different kinds of complex Lego structures, tearing a computer apart and putting it back together. But since coming in to the Legion, he realized everything was smoke, mirrors, slight of hand, and trickery in the mortal world. In the demigod world, they were just powers possessed by the child of the prescribed god. Ed's ways with computers, metal, and wood weren't special or the stuff of a child prodigy, but just the better side of his demigod powers (of which also included ADHD and dyslexia). Nothing special. No fire resistance (if he had been he wouldn't have the long pants or skin grafts). Just the average forge monkey through and through. Although he hated thinking about it, he couldn't help but think of his parents. His mom.... he could remember her being more... interested than his dad. Then again, if what Discordia had told him was true, it'd make more sense. One she got the drift of what he was able to do, she had probably figured out everything else. She had been the one to supply him with all the building materials. She encouraged him to no end. She'd tell him to just will the lights off and not use the switch. She'd tell him to start the microwave without touching it, or fix the computer, and he (eager to please as he was at that age) would do it. His mom wouldn't yell at him for being different. His dad had thought his mom insane. Who in their right mind would give tools to a six year old? He paused a moment to consider. Half of him didn't even want to answer, because just talking about it seemed too... final. But Felicity had come back, and she wanted answers. Much like the time when she had gotten amnesia, he found himself necessary to be straight with her. He owed her that, if nothing else. So, he pushed any feelings of the matter he may've had down, Romaned up, and opened his mouth. "Yeah. I bet he was... but uh, about Josh, Felicity... He's... he's gone missing." Well, that was one hard bit. Time for the next one. "And, I haven't spoken to Lyn in a while. She joined the hunters after the war. Haven't seen or heard from her since." Because I more or less pushed her out. "But Ethan's doing well though. He's seeing an infirmary girl, McKinnon. They seem happy." Gods. At least one person of the former quest team was okay and still here at the same time. COMMENTARIUM: All good lovely <3 VERBA: 533

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Next augur? Gods, that would be hilarious. "Only if it means I get to take down the last Augur. August hates me enough and something tells me he won't go down without a fight." Felicity joked. Though, it could be completely rational if that did occur though obviously Felicity did not have the skills of an Augur she did have a connection with Apollo but while that may be in the job description it certainly didn't make her eligible for the job. Not that she would have wanted it anyway. Too much work and people constantly badgering you about the future, it would suck. She would feel like some glorified fortune teller. Felicity was quite happy to her traveling through shadows power as well as her ability to reanimate the dead and have control over them. Those were some great, and powerful perks. Which may have consequences if used too much or in the wrong way obviously did not stop making them the coolest power ever, not that she was biased or anything.

Felicity listened as he spoke of the old quest team and bit her tongue to keep from just yelling out at the mention of Josh. That stupid idiot, what did he even do to go missing? She took a breath and let her thoughts collect themselves for a moment before she dared talk again. "That's good for Ethan, he always seemed to luck out one way or another. As for Lyn, I'm sure she's enjoying the hunters. She was really outdoorsy so she is probably really happy." Felicity managed to get out before clamming up again for a moment. "Has anyone tried to look for him? When was the last time he was seen and was anything suspicious happening? Seriously, whats wrong with the stupid people in charge of camp, don't they care when one of their own people turns up missing. Guess Remus doesn't even care about his family anymore since he and Josh were literally family. That stupid, dense son of a pig head god." Felicity ranted off. Granted it probably wouldn't have been a rant on a normal day but today hadn't exactly been normal for her anyway given what she had just dealt with Remus and now finding out that Josh was missing. She just wanted to punch a wall or something.

Despite the multitude of emotions inside of her she knew a deep breath would do her justice, so that was exactly what she did. Felicity took a deep breath and looked at Edmund with remorse. "Sorry, shouldn't have ranted at you. Just a lot to deal with. Do you know how long he has been gone or any reason why he might have just left?" Felicity asked, trying to get back on the subject where she wanted to help find Josh. After all that was what family did for each other, no matter how broken they were.

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notes: Sorry about the wait ^_^

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so even if you're m i s s i n g i'll try to bring you back Edmund smiled slightly. "You've got my backing and support." Always. For anything. Not only for that. "I'll help," he smirked. "And then you can get an unlimited amount of stuffed animals," he teased. Then again, he was pretty sure she was happy with her powers: shadow travel, that fancy word for rock control, raising the dead... Sure, her reward for being a daughter of a big three god included getting monsters a lot, but at the same time, she had boss powers, so hopefully the scales evened out some. He couldn't really complain about his powers either. He liked them. It felt nice to have a connection with... something non human, even if that something had to be a machine made of wires and chips or a 120 pound lion that could easily eat him alive by now. Not that those two could explicitly understand him in the human sense, but he did have telepathic rants with Cinny... so that could count as something, right? Besides, just since Cinny was a machine, it didn't mean that he couldn't think or not have empathy. Sure, it wasn't a human's way of thinking and empathizing, but... well, it was something, wasn't it? The only things he obviously didn't have that the other two did were pyrokinesis and fire resistance. He watched her carefully. She almost did well not to scream right as he told her about Josh. Gods knew he had nearly yelled when he got told. After that, he had seen Rhiannon in a slow decline. He did everything he could to make her keep eating and drinking, but most of the time, she just wandered around New Rome aimlessly. A habit that he had picked up whenever he had come back from the forge. He managed a small nod when she mentioned Ethan and Lyn again. Hopefully those two were happy... gods knew they deserved it... Well, Ethan was probably worried about Josh, but he had Lilith and most of the rest of his family for support. And now for Josh. He semi-braced himself. He let her rant herself out. "No need to apologize. Rant all you like. Gods know I call them idiots for not doing anything at least twice a day." She was upset, and understandably so. One of her friends had gone missing, of course she was. That, and she was probably emotionally spent from talking with Stone. "A month... a month and nine days." Oddly specific yes, he knew. Call him compulsive, but his brother was missing, geeze. "Gods know I've tried... the GPS wouldn't pick him up. Rhiannon says he got captured, and more people've started disappearing off the radar too. I've tried with them too... nothing. The fear is that if anyone physically leaves, they'll get snatched. But since when do I take orders?" he asked with a semi smirk. Yes, he had snuck out a few times. No, he had no definition of careful. All he knew was that Josh was missing and he'd do anything to get him back at this point. Rhiannon probably wouldn't be too happy with him risking capture too, but whatever. COMMENTARIUM: No worries <3 VERBA: 523

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She wanted to agree with him but she knew that praetors didn't do nothing. How many times had she listened to Remus talk about his work or caught him sleeping on his desk due to too much work. If anything they were overworked. "Lazy idiots, both of them." Felicity said ignoring the guilt at saying that as her rage took over as Edmund gave an oddly specific time that Josh had been missing. "I mean, it has been a month and nothing has happened to find him or help him?" Screw it, she had nothing keeping her here why not just go and look for him herself. Wait, she had Edmund. She couldn't do that to him. He had already lost Lyn and Josh and to imagine what he went through when she had disappeared, she couldn't do that again. Not to him. Or Remus, but forget that last part, she didn't care about that last part. For all she cared that last part could trip over the sidewalk and fall onto his own sword. OKay, she didn't really want that but ya know, rage.

"If you do that I'll hit you over the head so hard you won't know how to sing the ABC's as I drag you back. And yes that is both." Felicity said with a slight smirk at the end making mention to their ever continuous "is that a threat or a promise" phrase they would hit each other with whenever someone threatened the other. "At least don't go without me. You know I'd never forget you if you let me out of a good fight. Plus someone needs to guard your scrawny back if there really are people snatching up demigods for some weird demigod slave trade that is happening or whatever." Felicity said with a slight tease in her voice. Which this was a more realistic scenario where Felicity would get mad if she was let out of raising hell with her best friend, literally or not since she was technically capable of both if one thought about it. They did sort of raise hell in England but that was them being dorks pulling a little bit of a prank in order to blow off some teenage rebellion steam. Neither of them wanted to be in a group and have to deal with all of them. It was a bit funny about how close they would become, not that she would change that for anything.

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i'll do anything just come h o m e Fun Fact: Edmund was almost never as angry as he let on. Almost. There were multiple circumstances where he had been in a state of rage befitting of his vocalization and action, but that didn't fit this particular event. He called them idiots mostly for being the symbol of authority in Camp. Not that he was apart of that anymore, but still. Authority would be authority and he wasn't ready to give that grudge up. Another reason was just out of frustration and worry. Mostly worry. Frustration and anger borne of worry. Josh could be anywhere, in any amount of pain, with anyone, in any kind of state. The pain of knowing someone was dead hurt, a hell of a lot. The pain of knowing someone was missing though was a whole different feeling. Instead of letting himself feel any kind of pain though, Edmund went into denial and, as a coping method, put up a wall of mass sarcasm and rudeness. Figure any of that out though, and you'd be dead. "I think something's trying to be put together, but... nothing's coming together quick enough... or at least I don't think so." Edmund knew from the quest that Felicity and Josh were rather close. She probably was itching to go get him herself. Heck, that's what Ed had been attempting to do for the past few weeks. Sneak out, try to get a reading on his GPS... he had been close once... or so he thought. Even though it was what he had been doing, he couldn't help the small burst of panic that he felt. What if she left to look and got captured too? He had already thought he had lost her for good once. To know that she was missing, along with Josh, and along with Lyn (even though she was with the Hunters, but still), would become  a bit much. Welp, there was his famous hypocrisy. Here he was, worrying over Felicity striking out to find Josh when he would probably give Rhia the same mini heart attack if she knew that he'd been sneaking out. Ed had promised Josh that he'd look after Rhia. Yet there he was, maybe playing it a little safe, but putting himself at some risk nonetheless. He sure as hell couldn't fulfill his promise if he got his butt captured as well, but Josh was missing and it was driving him up the walls, darn it. "Is th-" a small smile flickered across his face. She answered his question before he could finish. "Hey! At least let me ask the question!" he teased. Why make it solely a promise or solely a threat when it could be both? Yet another mark of their crazy, yet functional friendship. "Fine, fine... If I get that reckless again, you'll be the first person to know." VERBA: 473

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Felicity released a heavy breath through her nostrils, making them flare up some. But her angry face of rage broke into a grin at Eds retort about wanting to ask the question first. It was their little friendship thing. "Oh c'mon, where's the fun in letting you ask it first?" Felicity said teasing. Of course it was fun letting him answer the question, at least on a normal day when she wasn't full of emotions and the most pleasurable thing that came to her head would be to punch a wall until her knuckles bleed.

She smiled at him. "Thanks, I just-" She took another breath to steady her words. "I don't want to lose anyone else that I cherish more than myself." Felicity finally managed to say. First with losing Remus, even if he was still physically there she lost him in the only way that mattered to her. And now to top that off with Josh being missing in action or whatever. It was a lot on her plate and if all of a sudden Edmund were to turn up missing well then, nothing was holding her safely to camp and she would destroy mountains to get her family back. Her family of course being Edmund and Josh, as well as the rest of the quest team but Ethan seemed pretty stable with his life at the moment and she didn't really want to intrude on that, nor on Lyns adventures with Lady Diana.

And as heart felt she was being right now it was also annoying. Maybe she was better off how she was a little over five years ago. Alone. At least then no one got hurt. IT wasn't until she let people get close to her that they started to get hurt both physically and emotionally. Maybe all the rumors were true. Perhaps she really was bad luck just based on her being a descendant of Pluto. Sure, she had use to never believe that, or at least hoped they weren't true but it seemed to her, at this point of time that there couldn't be anything more truthful in all the mortal and divine world. The least she could do is try to make everyone safe again before finally kicking the can and leaving. She'd let Ed know, sure, and the rest of her quest family too, but other than that, she didn't have anyone else who would probably care.

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i'll do anything just come h o m e For a moment, Edmund couldn't tell if he was making this better or worse with his wise cracks. Better go with worse. He usually made things worse. He had a knack with that. Maybe that'd be his mild discord powers? Wait, he did have those if Discordia was his... grandmother, right? Powers usually got snuffed out around... five generations down. He was only the second down... his mom being the first. Two facts that he still was in denial about. He only thought about it when the thoughts of his powers cropped up. He didn't feel like he had any discord power... but, how could he know if he had been living with it unchecked and uncontrolled since... as long as he could remember? Maybe that's why he usually didn't get along with anyone... or rather, maybe that's why it took him a while. Maybe he had to calm down... he didn't know. She looked ready to murder, but then semi-lightened up at his jibe. At her grin, he was able to give a slight smile and over dramatic sigh. "Oh gosh. You've come to know me so well. But c'mon! Lemme have my moment of glory!" he teased, giving something close to a laugh. Edmund? Glory? After all the crap he had pulled? Please. He'd be lucky if he walked away with a sliver of self esteem (and luck was never up his alley, so). Maybe that was it. Maybe this was all his fault. Any family he managed to get, he managed to destroy. First his biological family, then his quest family. Did that mean Josh and Rhia were next? They already had been, to an extent. At her words he gave a slight nod, quickly followed by mimicking her eyebrow scrunch as the implication hit. Out of everyone at Camp, out of all their habits, he had decided to pick up Felicity Weingarten's eyebrow scrunches. Cherish more than herself? Him? Hilarious. He would've laughed if only he... didn't. He automatically wanted to argue that point. No one should cherish him of all people. He didn't deserve it. Why would anyone care about him? A question he had been trying to figure out ever since... well, ever. But she had already been through a lot with Remus, so, he bit his tongue. "Okay," he said softly. He hesitated a second and then put his hand on her shoulder.  "I'm not going anywhere." He wouldn't say it, but he really didn't think he'd be able to deal with everything if she was to go missing again. Sure, he was able to deal with it when he knew that she was "dead", but if she was to go missing again...  COMMENTARIUM: All good <33 VERBA: 450