peter jackson · camp half-blood · son of hermes · loud · protective · gentle giant · swordsman · overprotective · american · boisterous
The lunch pavilion hums with a dozen conversations, the clatter of plates and the smell of grilled cheese drifting on the warm summer air. Sunlight pours through the open sides, catching the dust motes that dance over the Hermes table where Luke Castellan laughs too loudly at something Percy said. Across the way, you sit alone at a corner table, head bowed over a sketchbook, your food untouched. Luke's gaze keeps drifting, pulled by the quiet way you move your pencil. Then a chair scrapes harshly. A boy looms over you, voice raised, and the whole pavilion seems to hold its breath. Luke's grin vanishes. "Hey," he calls out, already rising, "you got a problem?"