Perfectly Good Heart {OPEN}

[Kaylee Wulff]

Kaylee liked walking through the garden alone. It gave her a chance to think by herself while admiring all the pretty flowers. So that's why today she was just walking up and down the paths in the gardens as her hands were stretched out to run her hands across the top of the flower bushes. It was a beautiful, sunny day out and Kaylee thought it was perfect. After a walked down a couple of paths, she gradually started skipping. And why shouldn't she skip? It was just a perfect day. A beautifully perfect day to just frolic in the gardens.

[Jennifer Kail]

’Son of a gods be damned bitch…I’m going to punch someone in the throat if they don’t turn off those lights...’ Jen thought as she attempted to roll over and bring back the blessed darkness of her sleep but…oh gods no…whenever she tried to move her head felt like Vulcan himself was pounding away on it like some deranged monkey demon or whatever damn roman something or other was an acceptably deranged and insane equivalent.

The girl groaned. She was hung over. Her mind dimly remembered the party last night and good gods she remembered the drinking but try as she might she couldn’t remember where she was or how she had gotten here. Of course it didn’t help that it felt like the entire twelfth legion was performing drills inside her head but she needed to figure out something about her surroundings, preferably without opening her eyes and letting in that ungodly light.

Okay start with the basics. She definitely wasn’t on a bed. Whatever she was laying on was prickly…grass maybe? Other senses were starting to kick into gear now and yeah, judging by the sounds that seemed to make her head scream she was outside. That explained why the light was so bright. ’If I ever meet Apollo I’m going to run that sun chariot right up his flame retardant ass…’

There was something else too. Something that was worse than the sun or the sounds or this gods pounding headache. What was it? Was someone…frolicking? Oh gods. Oh dear sweet merciful gods of Rome, Greece and every other country and people there were. If there was any goodness in the world it wouldn’t be so because the last thing Jen needed right now was some peppy, happy to be alive son of a bitch to try and make her day cheerful.

Jen set up with a groan and quite a bit of effort on her part. Grass and flowers were stuck on her skin and clothes and her hair was matted a tangled into a mess. She didn’t want to open her eyes but there was nothing to do about it now. She opened them slowly but still winced in pain as she struggled to get her bearings and find the source of those happy vibes to bring some kind of end to them. “Quiet down will you?” She groaned in the direction of whatever it was. “Some of us aren’t sure we’re alive or dead yet….”

[Kaylee Wulff]

Kaylee was completely blissful as she frolicked through the gardens before she heard a groan. She paused for a moment as she looked over towards where the sound came from. Now, any other normal demigod would probably think twice before going to investigate the groaning sound. However, Kaylee was proving to be unlike the normal demigods around camp. Instead, she frolicked towards the noise, wanting to know what it was coming from. And what is was coming from, Kaylee quickly discovered, was a groaning girl laying in the grass in the middle of the garden. What a silly little place to rest.

She moved to be besides the girl as she moved to plop down. She sat cross legged as she looked down at the girl. Oh dear. She did not look like she was having a good day. "Are you alright?" Kaylee asked in her normally chippy voice. "Sleeping in the grass is kind of a silly place, don't you think?"

[Jennifer Kail]

Jen didn't want to see whoever it was. Opening her eyes hurt like a son of a bitch and even when she did it was only long enough to see the shape of someone coming towards her. In her mind it looked more like a thing than any discernible person so that's what she decided to go with for now. The thing kept coming over and before she knew it was sitting down beside her in the grass. Oh gods was she going to have to talk to it? She supposed she was.

The thing spoke to her giving Jen a little more information about what she was dealing with. A girl no doubt but the happy, cheerful lilt of her voice made Jen groan internally as she got herself into a sitting position and tried to keep her head low and still. This was already shaping up to be a glorious day. "Alright?" She repeated in a groggy and slightly irritated voice. "My head hurts, my body is sore and my mouth feels like I had sand with a side of broken glass for breakfast...Do I look alright?" She immediately regretted talking. By speaking to the cheerful little thing she was only giving the girl a right to respond back with more questions but now that she had begun there was nothing for it. "Unfortunately all the rooms at the New Rome Ritz-Carlton were rented out last night. I had to make due. Where am I by the way?"

[Kaylee Wulff]

Kaylee looked at the girl as she raised her eyebrows. The girl was definitely not looking like she was doing too well. It was almost like she had been ran over by a metaphorical bus. The poor girl. "Have you thought about going to the sick bay?" she asked as she looked down at her. "They might be able to help you than a patch of grass might." Kaylee didn't question it. For all she knew, the girl could've been one of those weird hippies that believed in the power of grass. Kaylee didn't understand it, but the girl could've been one.

But when she asked where she was, Kaylee lifted her head up and looked around. "Well..." she said as she clicked her tongue. "You're in the gardens about three feet away from the rose bushes." She giggled as she looked down at the girl. "Good thing you didn't end up sleeping there... I'm Kaylee by the way."

[Jennifer Kail]

"I haven't thought about much of anything yet little miss sunshine." She said a trifle shortly. Just as she had suspected she had opened the door and now the little bundle of sweetness and joy beside her was going to annoy her to death. "And I'm not going to the sick bay. I've got a hangover not a busted skull." It certainly felt like she had a busted skull but right now there was nothing for it. She would go on wishing she could die until she got her system balanced back out in one way or the other.

At least sunbeam here was making herself useful. The gardens. Jen had no clue how she had gotten here but at least she still had clothes on. She chanced another look at herself wincing again as she did so but it was worth it to confirm she wasn't stark naked. 'Lucky there...' She thought and then realized this other girl had actually given her name. Kaylee. What was a Kaylee? Something far too cheerful and innocent for her own good that's what. "I'm Jen and yeah...I tend to be that lucky."

[Kaylee Wulff]

Kaylee looked down at the girl and giggled a bit as she called her little miss sunshine. She shook her head before she said, "Nah, I'm not an Apollo kid, so I'm not sunshine. I don't know what I would be." She thought for a moment before she clicked her tongue. "Shoes. I would be shoes." She nodded her head to confirm that idea as she looked down at the girl. "Well..." she said as she knitted her eyebrows together. "Wouldn't the sick bay have something to make you feel better? Like... I don't know... anti-hangover stuff?"

Kaylee didn't know that much about hangovers or really any type of medicine. She just knew that if you weren't feeling well, you went to the sick bay to feel better. Unless you were one of those hippies who really loved their grass. She looked down at the girl and nodded her. "It's nice to meet you, Jen, she said as she beamed down at the girl.

[Jennifer Kail]

Shoes? What the hell was this little cupcake talking about? Jen didn’t know and wasn’t sure if she wanted to know but if Kaylee was any sweeter Jen swore she was going to get a cavity just sitting here listening to her. Either that or she would end up corrupting the poor girl. It was obvious that she was too innocent and naïve to hang around Jen for any extended length of time especially since she didn’t even seem to know what a hangover was.

“You do know what a hangover is don’t you? It’s not something they have medicine for…” Oh sure the sick bay could probably give her some aspirin or something but that wouldn’t help, not really. No, she just had to pay the price for drinking too much. There wasn’t any other way around it. “Yeah, yeah, a real pleasure sunshine. Now do you think you could turn back on the ‘cheerful’ a bit? I’m already sick enough as is.”

[Kaylee Wulff]

Kaylee looked down at the girl as she blinked a couple of times. Jen was not in a good mood at all. Maybe hangovers did that to people along with grass. If grass made people grumpy, she didn't know why hippies liked it so much. Hippies were supposed to be all mellow and chill, not grumpypants like Jen. Kaylee raised an eyebrow before she said, "Well... hangovers are... bad. Very bad... and they happen when you..." She pursed her lips together as she tried to think. She knew about hangovers, but not that much. How were they caused again... "Drink!" she finally shouted as she snapped her fingers. "It's from when you drink too much!"

But Jen continued to be a grumpypants as Kaylee looked down at her. "If you're sick, you should go to the sick bay," Jen repeated again. "They have stuff that helps with that, even if it doesn't help with a hangover. Why would you want a hangover anyway?"

[Jennifer Kail]

Hangovers were bad. Well that much was obvious. Real grade A deductive reasoning there. Jen was just about to say as much when miss sugar plum fairy actually shouted out the correct answer surprising Jen and bringing about a sharp pain in her head that felt like an ice pick through her eye socket. Jen groaned uncomfortably noticing that the girl had happily ignored her request to tone down the cheerful vibes but at least she was on the right track even if she probably didn't know what you drank to get a hangover.

Jen decided that was something she didn't want to go into at this point. She also decided to drop the sick bay argument too. It wasn't really something you could explain unless you had been through one and right now she didn't want to deal with this girl's questions let alone the doctors or nurses who would be charged with looking over her. Instead she decided to focus on the girl's other question. "No one wants a hangover but people do like to drink because it's fun and when they drink to much they get them. It's an unfortunate trade off."

[Kaylee Wulff]

Miss Grumpypants Jen just seemed to stay grumpy and wanted to question Kaylee’s knowledge. It was true that the girl wasn’t that knowledgeable in a lot of things, but only the things she really was interested in. So silly things like drinking, partying, and hangovers were things the rest of the camp was interested in, but not Kaylee. She rather spend the night watching silly cat videos than being in a room full of loud, crazy people. Nope. That was not Kaylee’s lifestyle.

But that looked like it was Miss Grumpypant’s favorite past time. “Well, that’s just silly,” she declared as she crossed her arms over her chest and leaned over to look down at Jen. “Why even drink when you know you’re going to hurt later. That’s a very silly trade off. You just shouldn’t drink if you’re going to go sleep in the gardens later.”

[Jennifer Kail]

This girl couldn’t get any more shiny and pure if she was Diana’s impenetrable lady bits and it was getting tiring. What Kaylee needed was a good night out on the town to get drunk, to get stoned, maybe even have a roll with one of the Roman boys in the city, anything to loosen her up a little bit and open her mind to what she was missing out there. There was nothing wrong with having a little fun every once in a while and it wasn’t like you had to drink too much. Jen just got carried away sometimes, well, a lot of times.

She didn’t like being scolded though especially while she had a hangover. She got enough of that from her CO’s and didn’t need it now. Raising her head despite the pain she opened eyes that were puffy and bloodshot to glare at the sun drop. “Didn’t anyone every tell you not to knock it until you try it? You don’t always get sick and the fun is more than worth it the times that you don’t.”

[Kaylee Wulff]

"Well, is it knocking it if I have no interesting in trying it?" Kaylee replied back as she looked down at Jen. Kaylee heard about the parties that were thrown around camp and New Rome and she heard about everything that would go down in one. And what happened during those parties were not Kaylee's cup of tea... if she even liked tea. Kaylee shook her head as she giggled a bit. "Nope. I rather stay at home and watch movies or even play with Cuddlebug."

She looked down at Miss Grumpypants Jen and could tell she still wasn't feeling good. She raised and eyebrow at her again before asking, "Are you sure you don't want to go to the sick bay?"

[Jennifer Kail]

Dear sweet gods of Rome it was like a fairy got together with a unicorn and they had a baby made of rainbows and pixie dust. What on Earth was a Cuddlebug? Jen was fairly certain that she didn't want to know but she wasn't really surprised that a name like that had been thrown out there in reference to something. She just hoped that whatever it was Kaylee hadn’t brought it with her or that would add something else for the girl to torment Jen's life with.

"To answer our question yes, it is and that's your loss." Jen stood by her original assessment that the girl needed to lose the sweet and innocent routine but she wasn't going to fight it. Instead for the moment she turned her mind to thinking about how she could get rid of this Kaylee girl. It probably wasn't going to be easy but unless she wanted to start losing her sanity she needed to think of something. "If I go to the sick bay will you leave me alone about it?"

[Kaylee Wulff]

"Oh well," Kaylee said as she shrugged her shoulders. "I guess it won't be that big of a loss for me. I know Cuddlebug likes it when I stay in and cuddle him. He gets to be quite the purry purr." Kaylee still didn't understand the appeal of parties when cat videos were more fun and they didn't give you a hangover. In Kaylee's book, that was a win-win situation for her. But at least Miss Grumpypants Jen was finally agreeing to go to the sick bay.

"Yup," she said as she nodded her head. "And I think you'll feel so much better too... do you need help getting there?"