Travis sat down at his table and sighed flicking off a piece of fuzz on his shoulder. Frowning he tried to remember if he'd finished his final load of laundry last night. He whipped out his bullet journal from his pocket and flipped to a new page to begin jotting down today's to-do list. He slung his small backpack onto the seat beside him pulling out his multi-colored pens. While writing his list he began gnawing on some toast. That is until he was rudely interrupted…

Katie sauntered up to him snatching the piece of toast he was about to devour. She sighed, slightly less energetic than usual.

Probably because it was morning for her, Travis thought to himself, mind you it was past 10…

Travis ignored her grabbing a different piece of toast.

Katie didn't enjoy being ignored and was expecting an amusing reaction from him. She frowned while munching on the toast. She decided to resort to plan B and grabbed a pen doodling on the journal.

This got Travis' attention.

"What do you want?" He asked her shortly, fending off her hand and protecting his journal. He still didn't make eye contact with her.

She opened her mouth and began to speak, chewing with her mouth open. "Di-d y-ou hea-r"

"For the love of gods, swallow first." Travis put a pen up her mouth without looking up from his journal. He couldn't let her distract him he didn't want to forget anything.

She swallowed, rolling her eyes, before continuing. "Did you hear, Chiron finally approved our request for the boat."

Travis turned to her giving her his full attention. "Really?"

Katie smirked satisfied. "Truly." She nodded.

Travis was ecstatic, he loved going out on the sailboat. Camp Half-blood had finally bought a sailboat to take out on the ocean, but they rarely were allowed to use it. If they used it too often then monsters appeared, it was weather-permitting, what if it broke, etc. Plus no one wanted to give an expensive boat to a bunch of disaster-prone teenagers.

Percy was always on a quest, at school, or fucking around with Anabeth. It wasn't like they had a child of Poseidon they could count on to always go with them. For this, Travis was secretly grateful, he loved being in charge of the sailboat.

Travis wrote down sailboat in big capital letters on his bullet journal in blue pen. He smiled doodling little sailboat next to it for good measure.

His smile died as a new thought occurred to him. "Wait… Are you going?" He asked confused.

"Wouldn't miss it." Katie smirked playing with her braid of red hair and stealing another piece of toast from Travis.

He snorted. "You can't swim."

"That's what the boat is for dumbass." Katie stood up and tossed his pen back at him. It bounced harmlessly off his forehead and landed with a plunk of the floor.

She turned around whilst walking backwards. "We depart at sunrise tomorrow morning." She saluted him with a smirk. "Captain Travis."

Travis blushed slightly turning back to his now empty plate. He liked the sound of Captain Travis.

Travis woke up even earlier than normal to get a head start for the sailing expedition. He packed up any possibly needed supplies while he changed into some swim trunks. Applying his sunscreen, he double-checked his journal to make sure he'd have everything he needed.

Sunglasses

Compass

Extra sunscreen

Sailing manual

Flare Gun (Emergencies)

He methodically went through the list. Water bottles, Log book, Tide Table, Binoculars, the list went on and on.

Naturally, he was the first to arrive at the boat. He immediately began prepping. He'd taken sailing classes since he was a kid and he loved every minute of being on the water. He slowly waited for the rest of his friend group to arrive. Rachel showed up first, followed by Will Solace, Pollux, Jake Mason, Drew, and finally Clarisse.

Guess Katie was oversleeping. He instructed everyone to get into position and grab a lifejacket.

"Don't forget to strap it in tight." He commanded walking over to the ships wheel and taking control. "We set sail in five."

Just on the edge of his visions he saw a blur.

Travis sighed, Katie was fast he gave her that.

"Here!" She proclaimed sprinting across the dock leaping into the sailboat just as they were pulling away.

Travis smirked slightly forcing himself to look away. He wouldn't ever tell Katie this but she was pretty sexy. She was wearing a tiny black bikini and she had her vibrant red hair pulled back in a classic braid. She was extremely pale but her skin was spotted with little freckles like constellations across her skin. He wondered if she had freckles everywhere on her body. He quickly scolded himself. Katie was the single most annoying person on the planet. She always managed to distract him and get inside his head.

Travis rolled his eyes tossing her the last life jacket. "Here." The life vest was an ugly poop brown and it was massive. It looked like it was made for someone twice her size and it absolutely swallowed her, completely covering anything remotely attractive on her body.

Perfect.

Katie frowned reluctantly pulling it on and yawned groggily getting into position.

Travis spun the steering while shouting commands; he was in his element. Even Katie wasn't going to ruin this beautiful day. It'd been far too long since he'd been on a sailboat.

"Adjust the boom and tack to starboard!" He ordered.

Travis relished in the feel of being out on the open water. He loved the speed of the boat, the sails billowing out with the wind, the sun warming his face. He inhaled a deep breath of salty mist as the craft skipped across the waves speeding towards nothing in particular.

They'd been sailing for an hour or so and decided to stop and just float for a while to swim. They cast the anchor out and took down the sails. It was a very windy day and even with the anchor they were dragging a little.

Everyone was hot, sweaty and eager to jump in the ocean for a dip.

Travis was no exception.

Everyone jumped into the ocean and was having a good time. Everyone was splashing around, diving off the boat, and searching for fish.

Except for Katie.

Katie stayed and pouted on the boat while everyone had fun in the ocean.

After a few hours of swimming, and Katie 'working on her tan', everyone climbed back in and they hauled in the anchor before continuing on their adventure.

They were starting to pick up speed when he heard a gasp. He turned around and saw a brown speck in the distance.

"Goddamn it Katie." He growled exasperated. "Alright guys, man over board, circle back around." He ordered commands.

"Katie can't swim!" Rachel panicked.

"She'll be fine." Travis mumbled squinting his eyes and trying to see Katie more clearly. All he could see was the brown blob that was her life jacket.

"Fuck." He whispered to himself. He pulled out his binoculars and focused in on the brown blob.

There it was, the Katie-less life jacket. The poop brown life jacket was bobbing along with the waves... minus the red-haired girl.