Coup of the Usurpers (OPEN)

[Audrey Appleby]

I finally did it. Audrey thought to herself as she stumbled over to her cabin. I finally did it... Her clothes were torn and bloodied, but not with her own blood. A slight smirk crept onto her face as she approached her cabin, despite it hurting because her lower lip was busted. Gideon was gone and they were never going to find the body. Audrey didn't care. She won once and for all.

She kept her left arm close to her body as she finally made it to the porch of the Artemis cabin and entered. She already had a story in case someone was in there and saw her in her current state. She just finished fighting off a very tough monster and it was believable with her black eye, bloody nose, potential broken arm, and various bumps, cuts, and bruises. Fortunately, nobody was in the cabin, which meant Audrey could get rid of the evidence without any witnesses.

She hobbled over to the bathroom and gingerly stripped herself of the evidence before stuffing it deep down into the trash can. She stepped into the shower and scrubbed herself of the dried blood. It was a quick process before she got out of the shower and put on clean clothes. She hobbled over to one of her fellow hunter's side table and grabbed some ambrosia from the stash. As Audrey at it, she chuckled slightly as she started to feel a high. Now she understood why serial killers did what they did.

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She still got creeped out by her old cabin, but she had to see if Audrey was back. The girl had been gone for ages, and she needed to make sure she was alright. She hadn't even gotten details. Audrey was just going 'on a mission' for a while. Even though they had only been dating for about a week, Pri was anxious when Audrey wasn't around. People stared at her, they whispered, and she never knew who was working for Gideon and who wasn't. As she approached the cabin, she had to make sure not to trip, which was difficult in her exhausted state and the pitch blackness. She managed, though, as she got to the door. Through the screen, she could see movement, and she didn't hesitate to walk through, avoiding eye contact with the statue of Artemis. "Oh thank the Gods." She gasped out the words when she saw her girlfriend in one piece standing by one of the other Hunter's bunks.

She moved forward before she stopped dead in her tracks. Audrey was a bit hunched, and there was a dried red substance near her hairline. She must not have gotten it all. "Audrey...You're hurt." She whispered as she finally pushed herself to Audrey's side. "What happened, are you alright?" Her hands moved to her girlfriends shoulders, holding gently just in case Audrey was more injured than she originally believed.

[Audrey Appleby]

Audrey chuckled to herself as that high was completely taking over her along with the ambrosia fixing her questionably broken. Her mind raced wondering who else should be on the other side of her knives. It was already sweet justice that Gideon was on the end of the knives that Pri personally made for her. She straightened up a bit as she heard someone open the cabin door and she relaxed a bit when she heard it was her girlfriend. She turned around as Pri stood by her side.

"I'm fine," Audrey said a bit as her voice cracked a bit. She coughed a bit to clear her throat, but that only irritated the ribs she might have fractured. She tried to hide her wince as she looked at her girlfriend. "I'm fine," she repeated with her voice a little stronger than before. "I'm going to be okay. I was... I was fighting a monster." That was a good way to describe that Ares boy, right?

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Princess could see through the girl like glass. "You're not okay, Audrey." She whispered as she cupped her girlfriends face gently. When Audrey said she was fighting a monster, she hesitated and her eyes darted a little bit. "You're lying to me." Her words were even softer as she dropped her hands, stepping back. She wasn't even trying to hide the hurt on her face. "You're eyes shift when you lie..." She mumbled as she stared down at the hands that were now fiddling with the hem of her shirt. She had no idea why Audrey would lie to her, unless it was something super serious, but she had no problem calling her out on it. She was hurt, it was plain to see in her stance. What in Hades was she trying to cover up?

[Audrey Appleby]

Audrey thought she had a perfect poker face and she was using it as she looked blankly at Princess as she tried to convince her that she was fine and that a monster caused her injuries. Maybe she wasn't good as she usually was or Princess read her face better, but she couldn't hold up the charade. She cursed underneath her breath as Princess stepped away from her all hurt.

"I didn't want you to know," she muttered as she looked at Princess with concerned eyes as she stepped towards her. "I didn't want you to know. The camp might find out and try to exile me or worse..." She reached out to put hand on her girlfriend's shoulder as she took a deep breath. "You want to know why I was gone so long? I made sure he wouldn't come back to hurt you ever." Her eyes were serious as she searched hers. "But he's gone, for good, Pri. I made sure of it. That's what happened. He was just as bad as a monster."