I didn't want to make this a corny Romance thing so I decided to just make it without that although I don't know if I did a good job...

Nothing belongs to me except Simon and I just needed a son of Ares for this bit.

~Melissa L.

Percy

It had been four months since the seven had won the war with Gaea but none of the seven really liked to talk about it. The whole Leo-blowing-up-parts-of-New-Rome incident was forgotten and the camps had made peace. The Romans moved into Camp Half-Blood and expanded the space they had and now there were Greek and Roman structures mixed together. They even made a city for the campers to stay. Sally and Paul came to stay there and many other parents soon followed. But that's not really the point of the story.

Percy and Annabeth were just sitting by the campfire they had. The fire blazed in many different colors to the campers' mood. Just as the song they were singing had ended, the Apollo Cabin had calmed everybody down to listen what they had to say. Will Solace, their counselor, stood up.

"As you know, we are now all settled down with the whole Greek-Roman changes we'd had. But my cabin and I think that we should all do something to bring us closer. We have already talked to Reyna and Chiron and they think it's a good idea."

"Well, what is it already?" Percy heard one of the Hermes kids shout.

"We think that this would also be a great way to welcome our parents into this place," Will continued, ignoring the Hermes Cabin. "We will be performing a play for them," Lots of groans from the crowd.

"The play will be Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet," He said and the Aphrodite freacked.

"OMG That's my favorite play!" shouted an Aphodite kid.

"The Love story is soooo romantic," said another.

"It's stupid," said Connor and the Hermes and Mercury children laughed.

"Shut up," yelled the same girl.

"Stop arguing! Connor, just for that, you're going to be in the play no matter how much you stink!" said Will looking annoyed.

"You can't make me!" Connor said.

"I can't, but Reyna can," Will said, knowing very well that Reyna wasn't someone who liked playing games. Connor stopped talking but muttered things like, "Stupid...Will...Scary...Reyna,"

Will, pleased with himself told the rest that auditions were tomorrow.

"What do you say we try that?" asked Percy at Annabeth once the campfire was over and they were heading for bed.

"Maybe, I'm sure you'd make a great Romeo," she teased him.

"Yeah I would wouldn't I?" Percy said since he didn't catch the playful sarcasm.

The next day, at auditions

Will

The day went by after seeing person after person but Will couldn't find exactly what he was looking for. The Apollo cabin and him were the judges and they had found some possibilities for some of the characters but he couldn't find all of them but here's how some of the auditions went...

Audition #1 Drew

"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?!" Drew said rather melodramatically as she had that stupid pose of looking in the distance with her hand touching her forehead, "Deny thy father and refuse thy name." she said as she did another weird pose.

"Stop! Stop! Er, thanks Drew for that...performance," Will decided not to say anything to her. He didn't feel like getting cussed out today.

"It was good, wasn't it? I know I got the part of Juliet, didn't I Willie?" she said. Will was a bit irritated by her. He hated when she called him such a ridiculous name. He swallowed his nasty comebacks.

"It was good, but we're looking for something else," he said a bit nervous.

"What!? What do you mean you're looking for something else?!" Oh boy, this would be a while, "I have everything! Beauty, talent, and charm. Not to mention popular!" she said arrogantly.

"Yeah, but we're looking for...what's that word?" Will thought about it for a second, "Innocence. That's it! Juliet is this thirteen year old girl who is innocent and naïve."

"Who the hell do you think you are?!" Drew screamed angrily as she walked up to him to come cuss him out. Great.

Audition #2 Ares Kid (Let's call him Simon)

"Why, such is love's transgression," Simon said the words slowly and with no emotion whatsoever. Will wanted to bang his head on the desk but remained calm as Simon continued to struggle in reading, "Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my...breast? HAHAHA! What the fuck am I reading?" He said as he laughed. Will gave up and he let his head drop to the desk, which hurt but didn't care. He finished for Simon to stop laughing and explain what was happening.

"Romeo is talking about how he's sad that Rosaline, some girl doesn't love him back. He has cried for this girl and mainly depressed about it." Will said as calmly as he could, being fed up with Simon since he obviously had no idea what he was reading.

"Man, then he should suck it up and should stop being such a puss-" Simon started.

"Okay!" Will interrupted him. "Sorry Simon, We think that Romeo should be played by someone who's-"

"Gay?" Simon suggested.

"I was going to say sensitive," Will said clearly showing his annoyance at the son of Ares.

"Fine this is stupid anyway," Simon said as he left the stage.

Audition #3 Connor

"So who am I going to be again?" Connor asked.

"You're Sampson, a servant from the Montague family," Will said.

"I don't 'serve' anyone," Connor said it as if Will had offended him.

"Not for real! Just read your lines," Will said before he lost his temper, which he had been holding in since the auditions had started.

"Fine," Connor rolled his eyes and squinted at the paper, "Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals," Connor looked up at Will amazed, "Did they also believe in Santa back then?"

"What?!" Will asked confused.

"This guy sounds like he's angry at Santa because he left him coal," Connor observed.

"Ugh, I give up!" Will said and let his head, once again hit the desk, knowing very well he would probably have two visible bruises later...

More auditions followed and Will did find what he was looking for after a few hopeless cases. He and the Apollo cabin spent a whole day just to figure out who would get what part. They couldn't tell anyone until the next day but they could say that all of the Seven were going to have a part in this messed up play they were all going to do. But that would be revealed later. For now the seven would just have to wait.

Nobody P.O.V.

Percy and Jason were already arguing about who got a better part in the play, while Annabeth and Piper looked at their boyfriends, having nothing else to do. Not that they minded that much. Leo, Frank, and Hazel were having a friendly competition of who could climb the climbing wall first. It was friendly at first but then Leo and Frank went into serious mode, not wanting the other to win and left Hazel behind. It was pretty intense and at the end they both tied but they wouldn't admit it. They argued about who was first the entire day while Hazel was trying to calm them both down, which was not an easy job.

That's my version of a PJO style Romeo and Juliet. :D

~Melissa L.