partners in crime [Kevin]

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All Tabitha wanted to do when she sneaked over to the mess hall was to get Pizza to boost the moral of her turtles who were lazy as always. She grinned when she took a plate with her and quickly wanted to head back to her cabin but she didn't get far because she saw someone. Valentine. Her brother who she'd deemed dead because he didn't come back from a quest four years ago. Four. Years. Ago. And now that jerk was standing there, talking to a group of girls. Her first thought was to just walk up to him and kick him right in the balls because of the anger she felt boiling up inside her. She'd grieved because of him. Luckily for once reason won and she had a better idea.

Still boiling with anger (and carrying the pizza), she ran back to the cabin. Tabitha slammed the door open and took a quick look around, to see which of her siblings were there. "Kev!", she yelled at her brother and slammed the door shut again, jumping a bit at the unexpectedly loud noise. She walked over to the turtles, who'd been sitting in the corner underneath her bed but immediatly moved when they realised that she had pizza. "You lazy little buggers", she muttered under her breath but gave them the pizza before turning around again, to look at her halfbrother. "How high are my chances that you'll have my back when I go and kick a certain Ares Camper in the balls?", she asked, still angry when she thought about her brother. She'd heard about that other demigod who'd come back to live... But he seemed to haven't aged while Valentine had. Why hadn't she thought about that before? He hated the rules at Camp; he'd probably seen a chance to get away and he took it. The girl crossed her arms over her chest angrily and started pacing up and down in front of her bed.


Kevin Cook

[Kevin Cook]

Kevin was on his bed quickly penning the latest addition to his novel when he heard the door open and slam shut. He tried to ignore it as he kept writing, but then his sister screamed his name and slammed the door, again. He cursed as his pen ended up scribbling in the middle of a word. He looked up and glared at his sister slightly, but noticed that she looked like she was in a rage. This was the maddest he'd ever seen Tabs. He raised and eyebrow at her and watched as she went to feed her turtles.

His eyebrows went higher up on his forehead as she asked him about balls kicking. "Umm..." he said as he put his pen and paper down and stood up as he cautiously walked over to his sister. "You do realize that the Ares cabin and I do not have a good history when it comes to kicking balls, right?"

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Tabitha stopped in her pace, when Kev got up and turned to look at him again. She glared at him fiercely even though it may have a better effect if she wasn't so much shorter than he was. She was furious and it was very easy for her to project her rage on others right now, so he better stopped making her angry before he even started. Tilting her head, she raised her chin and got on her toe tips slightly for a few more inches of height.

"My darling brother", she began, her voice a little too syrupy. "My darling brother, it's his balls or yours, so you better decide real quick." She smirked at him and for a moment she looked as if she actually meant it but then that impression dropped, with her sitting down on the edge of her bed. The girl sighed and looked up at Kev, her arms still crossed over her chest. "You better help me out or you'll regret it. C'mon you wimp, you can teleport and it's not even you who has to do the actual ball kicking!"

[Kevin Cook]

Kevin raised an eyebrow as he looked down at his sister trying to decide what got her panties in a bunch. She was tiny, but the amount of anger and rage she had was unbelievable. Whatever was bothering her was bothering her big time. He raised both of his eyebrows as she started ranting on about...

"Your br-brother?" he stuttered out as he looked down at his sister to make sure he heard her correctly. "I didn't know you had a brother, besides me of course." He wanted to smirk, but knew that would only infuriate the five foot terror his sister recently became. He finally lifted up his hands in defeat deciding that it was the safest route than getting his own balls kicked. "Okay, okay. You win. I'll make sure your lady balls don't get kicked and I'll teleport us out of there if it gets to be too much, okay?"

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The daughter of Hermes looked up at her brother and nodded. "Yup. I have a brother. He's a dickhead and I thought he was dead for the past four year but apparently he's pretty much not dead and back at Camp and he didn't even bother to drop by and tell me something along he lines like 'hey, by the way, I didn't die'", she explained, getting angrier with every word and ended up yelling at Kev. She cleared her throat and took a deep breath.
A smirk of satisfaction appeared on her face, when he gave up and Tabitha didn't hesistate to pull a pair of heeled boots out from underneath her bed. They didn't belong to her but they came in handy. "Of course I win, I always win, now c'mon", she said and pulled on his hand because she was impatient and wanted him to come along. She didn't wait for resistence or anything as she dragged Kev along, to the spot where she'd seen Valentine but hesistated when she saw him. "Okay, tall, dark hair, lots of freckles, flirting with the girls. That's Valentine", she whispered even though he was too far away from him for him to hear her anyway.

[Kevin Cook]

Kevin raised both of his eyebrows at the realization that Tabitha did have a brother outside of the cabin. He immediately scrunched them together before he muttered, "When were you going to mention you had an undead brother?" But his question was met with her screams and that caused Kevin to jump back a bit. For someone so tiny, Tabs was the scariest person he knew in the Hermes cabin. Once she put on heeled boots, which for a moment Kevin questioned their practicality, he followed Tabitha outside of the cabin.

He stopped when she stopped and his eyes went to where she was staring. Tall. Dark. Hansom. "Hot damn," Kevin muttered underneath his breath. "He can be my Valentine anytime he wants." He looked down at his sister as he raised his eyebrows. "Are you sure that you want to kick his balls? He looks too pretty to get his balls kicked."

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Tabitha froze in her movement when she heard Kev's comment about Valentine. She blinked slowly, as she turned to look at him, her face just blank for a moment before she glared at him. "Earth to Kevin", she said calmly but with an dangerous undertone in her words. Then her hand slipped and she smacked him in the face. "Kevin Scott Cook, no! Don't even continue this thinking thought or I will whack it out of your head!", she scolded him. "You're staying right here and remember that you told me you'd have my back, so stop checking out my brother!" One last glare at him before she turned around to walk up to Valentine.

She didn't hesistate or give anyone a chance to react. The few girls her brother'd been talking to were just about to turn and leave and apparently he wanted to as well, when he saw Tabitha. The girl kept walking and he seemed to misinterpret it because she also walked towards her, but with a smirk on his face. When they stood across from each other, he opened his mouth to say something but Tabs didn't let him. Her leg shot up to kick him right where it hurt the most. He winced but she didn't give him a chance to recover from the first kick because she went for a second and a third one. "Valentine Dwight, you are a jerk!", she yelled at him while he went down to his knees and seemed to be doing his best not to cry. His sister just stood above him, her arms crossed in front of her chest, glaring at him. "Tabs, I wanted to tell you that I'm back", he breathed and the girl exhaled sharply, clenching her fists. "But you didn't!"

[Kevin Cook]

Kevin tore his eyes away from Valentine as he looked down at his sister... and immediately regretted making any comments aloud. If looks could kill... Kevin barely had time to comprehend what Tabitha was saying before he felt her hand struck across his face. He whimpered a bit as he gingerly reached up to soothe his angry skin. "Was that really called for?" he muttered, but Tabitha was already out of earshot and by her brother.

He watched and flinched along with Valentine as Tabitha proceeded to kick him right in the crotch. Not once. Not twice. But three times. Kevin decided that it had to be stopped, so he walked up to Tabitha and put a hand on her shoulder before trying to physically to drag away his darling sister. "I think he gets the point," he said as he gave her shoulder a particularly hard yank. "And if you keep it up, you've guaranteed that you will not become an aunt."

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Tabitha was about to kick her brother once more or scream at him or probably both, when she was pulled back by Kev. Valentine seemed to immediatly recover from the kicks, when he saw that his sister was touched by a guy and she pushed her other brother behind her quickly. "Who's that?", he asked suspiciously and the girl rolled her eyes. "That's my other brother, who's not a dickhead. He's a better brother than you are, because he didn't leave me here for four years and he never made me think he was dead!" She tried to stay calm, but definetly failed as she swore that she saw Val wince a little at her yelling.

Maybe it wasn't right to tell him that Kev was a better brother than he was because of course he didn't get the right message. Instead he glared at the other male and Tabs mentally facepalmed herself before she reached back and kicked Val once more, which finally made him stay on the ground. "You know what?? It would be great if I could make sure that I'll never be an aunt because this world already has to bear one Valentine Dwight and that's already too much!" She huffed and tensed her jaw while she looked at her brother who was trying to deal with the pain he had to be in.

[Kevin Cook]

As soon as Kevin managed to pull Tabitha away from her brother, she immediately moved to shield him from the Ares boy. Who's that? Kevin initially raised his eyebrows before he gave a seductive look and a wink to Valentine. He could still have fun with this even though the state of Valentine's balls was still questionable. Kevin hoped that they were only a little banged up.

But Kevin's mind wandered off for a moment and Tabs was suddenly out of his reach and kicking her brother in the crotch once more. "Gods dammit," he muttered as he went to pull her away again. "You said you'd kick him in the balls. Singular, not plural. And you do not want Chiron finding out you assaulted another camper. Trust me."

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"Don't you dare touching my sister again", Valentine barked and Tabitha just stood there and blinked, a little confused. Why was he acting as if she wasn't yelling at him? As if she hadn't kicked him in the balls for four times now? It could have made her angrier but the confusion was definetly stronger than her anger. She shook off Kevs hand and took another step back so Val's crotch wasn't in reach for her leg. "I didn't say that I will kick his balls once, I said that I will kick his balls and won't stop until I think he got what he deserves! Besides, he started this! He assaulted my feelings!", she snapped and crossed her arms in front of her chest when she realized that she was trembling. 

Valentine rose to his feet again with a groan, trying to keep a straight face and definetly failing. He took a few steps towards his sister, ignoring the danger that he was putting his balls into. She glared at him but when she saw his expression, she swalloed. Her brother had the ability to look like a kicked puppy and right now she did and she was the one who'd done the kicking; literally. She took a deep breath, steadying herself when he reached out to put a hand on her shoulder. Instead of letting him, she pushed the hand away and slowly backed away from him. "Val, I hate you", she said coldly without a hint of anger in her voice like it was some kind of a statement.

[Kevin Cook]

Kevin pouted a bit as his attempt at flirting seemed to go over Valentine's head. No, the boy was concerned about his relationship with their shared sister. Don't you dare touch sister again. Kevin raised his eyebrows as he lifted both of his hands up in defeat. "Dude," he said calmly as a slight smirk crept up onto his lips. "I don't touch her that way. I don't do the whole incest thing." And, of course, putting his hands up in defeat allowed for Tabitha to walk back up to her brother.

Kevin just watched as Tabitha confronted her brother, since she looked like she was no longer endangering his balls. He raised his eyebrows at her last statement as he took a step towards them. "Tabs," he said calmly as he kept his hands up just for Valentine's sake. "I think he gets the point. Let's go back to the cabin. I think he gets the point now."

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"That's what you always do, you think it's everyone elses fault but it's your fault. So stop accusing him for anything just because you want to find someone to blame", Tabitha hissed before Kevin told her that they should go back to their cabin. She straightened her shoulders a bit and for a moment it looked as if she would kick him in the balls for a fifth time but she just turned away. She pulled at Kev's shoulder gently, so he would come with her because she didn't want her brother to flirt with her other brother as that would be plain weird and besides in a way it would make her feel betrayed.
"Hey, Tabs, wait. Please"[/i], she heard Val behind her and her whole body tensed but she didn't turn around again. That was until she heard him follow them. She froze, twirled around and glared at him. "Piss off! After four effing years it's a little late to apologize for f***'s sake!!", she yelled at him. And he did just what she'd told him, turned around and went straight back to his cabin, leaving Tabs standing there. "He... I... Kev?", she asked a little lost and turned to the brother of hers who was still there, tears filling her eyes. "I was... I was too harsh, wasn't I?", she asked and unsuccessfully chocked back a sob.

[Kevin Cook]

Kevin watched as finally Tabs gave into his suggestion of going back to the cabin. He glared at Valentine before she tapping him on the shoulder and turned around. How dare he be an ass to their shared sister. If he only had a bit of decency to... Kevin paused in his steps as heard Valentine call out to his sister. He turned around slightly just so he could watch Tabitha's reaction. His eyes widened at her language, but heard the footsteps of Valentine leaving, leaving the two of them alone by the mess hall.

Kevin turned fully to his sister as he raised an eyebrow with a silent question of Are you okay? But he got his answer once he saw the tears well up in Tab's eyes. He closed the gap between him and her and wrapped her up in a big bear hug, holding her close to his chest. "Shhh..." he said as he used one hand to pat her head. "You had very reason to be mad. Four years worth of reasons. You're right to be mad."

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All the rage that Tabs felt just moments ago was suddenly gone, when her brother went away and she was glad that she'd forced Kev to come with her. She needed that hug right now when the tears began to run down her cheeks. This was why she'd said that he was her better brother. Valentine made her cry and he was there to comfort her and reassure her that she'd done nothing wrong even though she knew that she had. She kicked her brother in the balls four times, she was a terrible sister.
"I should... Maybe I should just be.. glad that he's back?", she sobbed and buried her face in her brother's chest. "Now he hates me because I effed it up." She thought about that for a moment and shook her head slightly. "No, I didn't, he did. He effed up and I hate him and it's alright to hate him and I should definetly hate him", she rambled on in between her sobs and felt like her knees gave in so she even more glad that Kev was holding her. She didn't care about other demigods who walked by and looked at her, she didn't even notice them, she was way too upset to bother right now.