Perfect Flaws

Nico di Angelo stalked off towards the dark cabin in front of him. She was so annoying! Always arguing with him! He entered his cabin and lay down on the bed that was isolated, except for a small desk next to it. Inside the top drawer were his neglected Mythomagic figures and cards, all musty from not being used for nearly four years. In the bottom drawer was what the camp supplied each cabin with: a book of Greek myths, some pens, paper, a dagger, and a single square of ambrosia. He reluctantly opened the top drawer. No, he didn't like this childish game anymore. The bottom drawer held little interest too; he didn't like reading, and didn't need the dagger or ambrosia, so that left the pen and paper. Desperate for something to take his mind off the argument with her, Nico reached in and snatched up the pen and paper.

He sat up and set the paper on the book of myths, using it as a hard surface to write on, in his lap. After twenty minutes of thinking, the page stayed blank. Still angry at her, Nico wrote out "The Annoying Facts" at the top. Almost instantly, the words flowed. He wrote down every single thing about her that was pesky, irritating, annoying, insufferable, and downright horrible about her. Not wanting to stop the list when he was done, he wrote out "Considerably Less Annoying Facts" and filled that list in too. Exhausted, he tossed the paper in the drawer and then slept.

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Two days later, Nico was bored. Immensely bored. So he got out the lists and re read them. When he was done, he noticed something odd about the two lists.

They were almost identical.

Everything about her that Nico didn't like, he also liked. And vice-versa.

Then realization hit him, and it hit hard.

He liked her. But what he liked about her was her flaws. Every one of her flaws was a good thing. Nico di Angelo loved Rachel Elizabeth Dare for all her perfect flaws.