A/N Hello everyone! Khalida Jewel here!
This story takes place after Hail Colin and Hannah, twins of Artemis, written by ImmaHufflepuff. You have to read that before you read this, otherwise it'll make no sense.
Speaking of ImmaHufflepuff, this story is a collab between us. The Colin POV chapters will be written by him, the Julia POV chapters will be written by me.
-Khalida Jewel
Sure, they went on a quest. It didn't mean they were accepted though.
Children of Artemis? Scandalous. No one could believe that Artemis had broken her vow for a mere mortal. Some people thought it was a fraud, that they were children of Apollo or another god.
Most of the campers treated them normally, but others avoided them like the plague. They understood why, but it didn't make it hurt any less. In a place like Camp Half-Blood, acceptance could mean life or death.
Hannah didn't seem to mind. Actually, it seemed like nothing bothered her. After the quest, she was chipper and full of energy. The hatred didn't seem to bother her the slightest.
Colin was too wrapped up with some other problems.
He blamed himself for her death sometimes, even though he knew it wasn't his fault. But the thoughts still came. If only he had kept a closer eye on her, if only he saw her being taken… it was those thoughts that drove him to near tears.
Aphrodite had told him to woo another girl. But how could he forget Lynsy so quick? She was the only girl that he ever really liked, and she had died by a monster's hand.
Sure, he liked Julia, as far as he knew. But at this point, he wasn't sure if it was genuine or just Aphrodite messing with his emotions.
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After they held hands at the lake, Julia was confused about how she felt about Colin. As if she didn't need more confusion in her life.
Sometimes, she felt like being a browned-eyed and brown haired daughter of Athena was a curse. She couldn't care less about the things they liked. Her architectural designs looked more like boxes then a building. Math? Forget it.
They only thing she shared with her half siblings was the spider issue, and they didn't bother Julia half as much as it did with the others. They would flip out whenever a spider was within fifty feet of them. A few of them were known to scream. Julia just stomped on them, then continued what she was doing.
Sometimes, she wondered if staying year round was a good idea. But where else would she go? Her father cared too much about Stacey, his girlfriend (Who Julia personally thought looked like a life size Barbie doll) to care about her. She suspected that was why she sent her to the camp in the first place.
She wasn't sure how she felt about Athena either. She only saw her mother once and that was when she was staying in a hotel, heading to camp with her father. And that was to give her an amethyst earring. When the earring was removed from the backing, it grew into a celestial bronze sword, her most prized possession.
So she stayed at Camp Half-Blood, where she felt like a giraffe among a herd of zebras.