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Clarisse wasn't hurt, she had no injuries, she was just sore. That's what Will said anyway and she wasn't about to argue about medical things with the one medic son of Apollo they had left. But gods, she hurt.
She felt sore and her bones felt heavy and she felt too tense and too loose and she felt exhausted.
“Clarisse?” Chris, her boyfriend whom she loved dearly, called her name and like the good and loving girlfriend she was she flipped him off without even turning to look at him.
“So mature,” he teased, coming over to sit next to her on her bed, where she lay face down and under her blankets. She just whined.
“Want me to get Will?” He rubbed her back soothingly, making her melt into the bed.
“‘M not hurt, ‘m just being a little bitch,” she explained and Chris tsked, he hated when she would say things like that, hated when she would insult herself because she was injured or in pain.
“Is one of the injuries acting up again?”
“if you start on that ‘sports injuries can cause chronic pain and technically capture the flag is a sport’ nonsense I will punt you out of this cabin injuries- hypothetical injuries be damned.”
“Fine, fine.” he rolled his eyes and paused for a moment “if one of your injuries- ow!” he whined when she smacked his arm. “Sorry, if one of your hypothetical injuries was acting up, what would you want me to do to help?”
“Ambrosia?” she glanced at him, trying to give puppy eyes.
“Does Ambrosia actually help when you hurt like this?”
She looked away burying her face back in her pillows and mumbled “... no.”
“I bet we could get Silena to convince Beckendorf to let all of us watch something in his room and just hang out, if you want," he suggested while running one of his hands through her hair, which was incredibly unfair to her because how the hell was she meant to think enough to answer when he was doing that?
“Just me, you, Silena, an’ Beckendorf?” she asked, leaning into his touch.
“yeah, just us,” he promised.
Clarisse just whined “everything hurts, I have no clue why.. wait.” She paused for a moment and lifted her head to look at the calendar and then immediately shoved her head back in her pillows and groaned. “Nevermind I know why.”
“Why?”
“I'm bleeding out.”
“You're bleeding ou- oh, your period” he sighed, trying to will his heart rate to return to normal. “You know you could phrase that in a way where it doesn't make it sound like you're dying.”
“Tell that to my uterus ‘cause it seems to think I’m fucking dying by the way it's makin’ me feel,” she grumbled.
Chris just patted her, laughing when she made a face at him.
“Do you think I could convince Will to give me a hysterectomy?” She asked, rolling over on her back.
“He's like four,” Chris argued.
“He's a doctor.”
“A fourteen-year-old doctor.”
“He's the only doctor we have, besides he managed to save both Silena and Beckendorf.”
“He had help for Beckendorf.”
“Okay but I think a hysterectomy would be a little bit simpler than a bringing people back from the fucking verge of death.”
“Please do not get your uterus scooped out by the fourteen-year-old.”
She whined. “You're mean, you're a mean mean boyfriend.”
“I'm not against you getting a hysterectomy, I just don't want Will to be the one who does it.”
“Why not?”
“Because he's like a toddler.”
“He's fourteen,” She argued rolling onto her side to better look at Chris.
“That's a baby, he's a baby.”
“We're not that much older than him.”
“He's a baby,” Chris insisted.
She laughed “yeah, I guess he is, do you remember when he came to Camp? He was so little and sunshiny and loud and now he's like tall and adult and all that shit, it’s weird” Clarisse moved a bit away from the edge of her bed allowing Chris to lay next to her, he wrapped his arms around her and she curled up against his chest.
The two just lay like that for a few moments before Chris broke the silence. “You never confirmed the movie idea.”
“What? Oh uh, yes, movie sounds good.”
“Princess Mononoke?”
“Obviously, but what are the other options?”
“I dunno, whatever Beckendorf's managed to pirate from library DVDs, I guess,” Chris said with a shrug Clarisse just hummed. “You know, you have to get up if we're going to go watch a movie” Chris said making no move to actually let her go or get up himself, He wouldn't mind spending the rest of the day just cuddled up with her.
“I don't want to, my back really really fucking hurts.”
“Why?” Chris rubbed a hand up and down her back in an attempt to soothed the pain.
“I don't know, my lower back is killing me though, I mean I know why; my period but I don't think it usually hurts this much.”
“You know, I'm pretty sure periods are not supposed to hurt so much they basically incapacitate you.”
“Yeah, yeah, whatever.”
“I'm serious, I don't think it's supposed to hurt that much.”
“You don't have a uterus.”
“True but I know other people who do and they're not in so much pain they're throwing up when they’re on their periods.”
“That was only one time,” she grumbled.
“It was five times!”
“It was only one period.”
“It was every day of the period”
“Yeah but it was only one time” The two sat in an awkward silence for a moment Clarisse was too stubborn to admit that her body shouldn't be hurting like this and Chris too stubborn to just let her live with the pain she broke the silence after a minute. “Movie, we're going to see movie before we both forget”
“Yeah, uh I think Silena and Beckendorf are out by the Strawberry Fields.” He said untangling himself from her.
“Let’s go to the Strawberry Fields,” she stood and whined. “Let me get Ibuprofen and then let's go to the Strawberry Fields.”
The two made their way to the Strawberry Fields discussing potential movie alternative options based on what they knew Beckendorf had, though Clarisse was very much set on her favorite movie, Princess Mononoke, being the one they watched.
They made it to the Strawberry Fields to find Beckendorf and Silena just talking nearby on a hill Selena noticed the two approaching and wave to them over “hey! We were just gonna come get you, you want to watch a movie?”
“That's why we came over here,” Clarisse said with a laugh.
“Great minds think alike,” Silena said wrapping her arms around Clarisse's neck and hugging the other girl. Clarisse pretended to not enjoy the hug but didn't push her away or actually complain.
“I wonder if this is how my dad feels” Beckendorf deadpanned to Chris, who immediately burst out laughing.
“Oh shut up Charlie” Silena laughed and gave him a quick kiss, still holding Clarisse.
The two girls pulled away but continued to hold hands as they all headed back to camp.
Cabin nine was mostly empty when they got to it, most of the Hephaestus kids either in the Forge or at some training activity so slipping into Beckendorf's private little room unnoticed was relatively easy. They had to be relatively secretive about it as technically no one was allowed to be alone together with people not from their cabin, especially in bedroom areas, but unless someone got walked in on doing something nasty most of the other campers just kind of ignored it.
All of them piled in to Beckendorf's private little area, all four of them working together to set up a little movie area.
By the end of the movie all four of the demigods had fallen asleep more or less all cuddling each other. Silena's legs over Chris and Clarisse's laps and her head resting against Beckendorf’s chest, Clarisse smushed between Beckendorf and Chris holding hands with her boyfriend and her head leaning against Beckendorf's shoulder, Beckendorf's head was leaning against the top of Clarisse's, and Chris was curled up against his girlfriend.
And that is how Nyssa found them when she went into her brother's room looking for him and Silena “please don't be having sex, please don't be having sex, please don't be having sex..” She glanced at the couch and saw all of them fast “oh thank the gods they're not having sex.”
She paused looking at her older brother and his girlfriend and their two best friends and decided waking them wasn't worth it, especially if it meant potentially pissing off Clarisse. She carefully left her brother's room.
“He's passed out and Silena also passed out so..” she told Harley with a shrug.
“Does anybody know where Clarisse is?” Will asked his head into the Hephaestus cabin “Y’all know if she’s hanging out with Beckendorf or somethin’?”
“Yeah they’re all taking a nap in Beckendorf’s room, Clarisse and Chris and Selena and Beckendorf"
“Damn,” he mumbled then paused for a moment before asking “so we'll talk to them later?”
“So we will be talking to them later because I'm not risking pissing off Clarisse by waking her up right now.” Nyssa nodded.