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[Dru Alberts]

Okay. This looked bad. A few busted rips, scraps and cuts from head to toe, half of her body was covered in bandages and she could barley move. It could be worst. Then again, it wasn't often this happened to Dru and it wasn't often in camp someone got this injured without a monster being involved.

All she wanted was a full panoramic of sun rise for a short film she was doing. She needed to start somewhere and film contest online were the way to go. Luckily a Hermes kid found a computer she could use a few miles from camp that when she was done filming she could edit and upload it. It was a tall tree but she thought she was stable, apparently not though because the second the sun started to rise, she felt a gust and lost her balance. She was able to slow down enough by grabbing at branches before she hit the ground. It was a hard impact but she couldn't just sit here, she used all her energy left to shadow travel to the big house. Needless to say that her appearing on the doorstep passed out was a surprise to all.

Now she was sitting on the steps of the porch. She was too tired to go back to the cabin honestly. She had been asleep for hours but she was still exhausted. Now she just sat on the steps, leaned over looking a mess. Yeah, it looked bad.

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    The day had been pretty nice so far, Wick had trained fro a few hour in the arena and beat a few Ares kids in a friendly spar. Well, saying it was a friendly spar would be a stretch, they were quite unhappy from start to finish and claimed he'd cheated somehow. Typical Ares kids, couldn't deal with loosing, especially to a son of Athena.
   
    Wick made his way to the big house at a brisk walk, his armor clanking slightly because he was to lazy to take it off at the moment. As he approached the big house, his intention had been to see if Chiron needed anything done and to ask if there were any new campers, but as he got closer he noticed a blonde girl sitting on the front steps. "Pretty girl," Wick thought as he cocked his head to think harder. "She looks familiar, so she can't be new..." As he got even closer he noticed she had striking blue eyes. "One of Zeus's kids maybe?" he questioned internally. "Come on....I feel like I should know this."
   
    As Wick slowed down to a halt near the steps, he noticed something else: She was really banged up and looked exhausted. With a look of concern on his face, he asked, "Are you o-o-okay? What hap-happened?" Wick cursed in ancient Greek in his head for stuttering, as his face turned pink in slight embarrassment.

[Dru Alberts]

Note to self, Dru thought as she let out a sign. Don't turn down a nectar to go when you fall out of a tree. Her entire body hurt to breath and she was so over it at this point. She just wanted to go back to her dorm and sleep honestly. This was her own damn fault though, so she couldn't blame anyone else. But she had to admit as she looked down at the camera in her hand, that had only suffered a crack across the screen. The video was something to behold. She could always turn her film into a comedy.

She finally registered the other person when they spoke. She looked up and saw a guy looking at her concerned. He seemed familiar but she didn't think she had ever spoke to him. A small smirk popped onto her face when he started stuttering. Aw, that was adorable. She laughed slightly and nodded, "Yeah, well I mean. As fine as I can be" she said, laughing again and messing with the bandages around her arm. They were way to tight "I..um.." she said softly, a embaressed blush creeping onto her face "I feel out of the top of a tree." she said, rubbing the back of her neck awkwardly. "Nothing that won't heal though."

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Wick tried to smile off his embarrassment, but it only made the redness get a little darker. "Why do I always stutter around people I don't know...for gods sake just finish one sentence without stuttering!" he yelled in his head. His blush faded and was replaced by sympathy when she became embarrassed explaining what happened. He cringed when she said she fell off the top of a tree, knowing she had to have broken something.

    While kneeling down to be at eye level and focusing really hard on the words, Wick said, "Ouch.... did you take any ambrosia or nectar....umm...." He tried to come up with her name but just couldn't manage to get it out. "Sorry, but what's your name?" he asked grinning apologetically, but silently doing a mental fist pump. No Stuttering! Yeah!

[Dru Alberts]

The cringe that played on his face when Dru said what happen made her laugh a little. "I know right" she said with a slight smirk. It wasn't as bad as it sounded though. She was lucky to be alive she knew that much, most of the fall was mostly her trying to catch herself on branches and slow down the velocity of the fall.

When he asked if she had taken anything she laughed a little, still rubbing the back of her neck, a awkward habit of hers, "well..." she said, giving a little smile. "They forced some in me when I first got here but not since then. It doesn't hurt that much" Maybe it did but honestly she was so annoyed with herself for letting herself fall like that. It was her own damn fault, nothing else could be said about that. "I'll be fine once I get back to my cabin." Whenever that was. She could walk but in short burst of movement. She knew Fire was back there somewhere in the room, that or he vanished back to the underworld for a bit, he did that at times. "Its Dru. What's your name?"

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    Wick grinned when she said her name. The name really fit her, he wasn't really sure why but it just did. Okay....now focus. "Wick Gamble Abston, at your service." he said standing up then bowing. He looked back at her with a lopsided grin, and tried not to laugh at his own geekyness. A thought raced through his head, "I really have to stop watching The Hobbit..."
   
    He knelt back down on one knee, keeping his grin on his face then rubbing the back of his neck. He took a quick glance at Dru's body..... to check her wounds of course. Looks painful but she looks good....for a person that fell out of a tree. "Um, w-what were you doing in a t-tree anyway?" he asked. Dammit, here comes the stuttering again...

[Dru Alberts]

"Wick" Dru repeated back to help her remember. It was a strange name, she liked it. She liked things that didn't fit together, that stood out. She laughed at his mannerisms though, the goofy bow and how he was talking was making her feel better already. She gave the fake curtsy she was use to from back home, the formal movements that a young Dru was forced to bare with for years. Curtsies, mam's and sirs, the fake smiles, all of the proper-ness. It made her sick to even think about. "Nice to meet you." she said, laughing slightly before grabbed her side. Damn ribs, they were such a dick.

She noticed he did the same nervous mannerism that she did and that just caused her to smile. Why had she been in that tree? "I was trying to get a shot." she said, gesturing to the cracked camera in her hand. "I was waiting for the sunrise and then a strong breeze and I wasn't paying attention and boom. Falling from the top of a tree." She said, laughing slightly at her own stupidity.

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"Nice to meet you too," Wick said with a grin in response to, well... Dru saying the same thing. She continued to explain how she was trying to get a shot with a video camera when she fell out of the tree. "Oh, are you making a movie of some sort?" Wick asked. Then she showed him that the screen on the camera was broken. "Think man," Wick thought to himself. "Don't you have a camera lying in your chest back at your cabin? And gods you have to stop having these conversations in your head you nut."

Wick cleared his throat a bit, not entirely sure how he was going to put it, and rubbed the back of his neck again with his hand. "Well you can't very well get any more shots with a broken camera. I have a camera back in my cabin if you'd like it, I mean I've never used it and I'd be happy if someone got to use it." Wick rambled on, then realized he was rambling so he stopped to let her talk.

OCC: Just for the sake of making things easier to read: thought and dialogue

[Dru Alberts]

Wick was a awkward one, Dru had to admit. She thought he would be fine for a second but his actions proved other wise. At least he wasn't stuttering anymore that was a plus. He'd make it there one day at least. Dru smiled and looked down at the broken camera in her hands. She may have broken rips but her camera being busted was the worst blow of them all. It was her life. "More like a short film. Its just for some stupid contest I want to enter." she said but ended up mumbling at the end. Most people didn't know how to take full time campers that interacted with the mortal world as well. It wasn't normal, that and most technology was like a gps to monster buffet.

Her ears perked up at his words though as they came out of his mouth. A little too much as she straighten up her back to fast causing her to strain her side, Again. She was too excited to care though. "Really? Cause that would be amazing!" she said probably far too excitedly and quickly but she didn't care. That contest was important to her and as long as she could submitted it that's all she cared about.