Homplot Wake Up Post

[thethirdwonder]

Normally, Cassie wasn't one to spend a lot of time in bed. But lately, or really the last two days, it had taken everything she had to get out of bed in the morning. Someone people might have been excited to find out the king of the Greek gods was their father but for Cassie, it just made her miserable. The powers she'd felt she'd earned for her bravery now felt cheapened. It just...it just wasn't fair.

And because she'd spent more time in bed, she knew instantly when she woke up that she wasn't on the island. After the events in the Fire Nation the month before, Cassie woke up quickly and sat up at the ready, wanting to be prepared for wherever she'd found herself. It was with a small sigh of relief when she realized that she was asleep on the couch of Young Justice headquarters. She took a deep breath and made herself float for the first time in years. Even through her depression, she couldn't help a small smile.

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[not-so-smooth.livejournal.com]

"Who said son-of-the-gods?" Sam asked. "I didn't say son-of-the-gods, you brought up son of the gods. I was just talking about being no one and then being someone. Like Frodo, only with more muscles and less hairy feet."

Sam could tell that this wasn't really the sort of thing that Luke wanted to talk about though. Obviously he had some issues with gods. From what he remembered though, the gods were kind of dicks and not really any wiser than humans.

"But if you're from the 2000s, you know that vampires are in now. Not surprisingly though, they have yet to invade the video game market."

[luke-castellan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sometimes I forget that mortals don't have that as their number-one thing they know about Hercules. If you're a half-blood, that's all they tell you about. See what Hercules and Perseus and Theseus did? They get you into hero-worship right along with god-worship. Then all you do is train and worship.

And...

"...vampires?"

I sigh and shake my head. Gods, this guy's such a total mortal!

"Have you ever stopped to think of what vampires actually do to people? What that would look like?"

I saw what Kelli did to that boy from Seattle and I'll never, ever forget it.

[not-so-smooth.livejournal.com]

"Dude, I've read Dracula, okay? I know that vampires kill people," Sam said.

He was starting to see why the others might not like Luke so much. From what Sam could see he seemed to jump to conclusions in a way that put people in a negative light. Or at least his tone seemed to suggest that. Maybe Sam was misreading the tone.

"I also know that draining blood from people is pretty nasty. Just because vampires are in doesn't mean I'm in their corner, rooting them on."

[luke-castellan.livejournal.com]

Sam's response reminds me how bad I've been snapping at people lately. It's because I've been depressed.

"Sorry, I saw something like that for real. Shook me up a bit, I guess. There's a couple former vampires on the island."

[not-so-smooth.livejournal.com]

"It's cool. I know I can sometimes give of the pre-teen girl vibe that so often finds vampires hot," Sam said. If look was willing to apologize then it really wasn't that big of a deal. In fact, it was pretty cool of him to apologize.

"I guess in a world like mine where all of that is fiction, it's hard to separate how real the horror would be. And yeah, I've heard some of them live in the basement of the Compound or something."