Who's Mr. Right?
I was reading (laughing at) a post on tumblr and this came to mind. Sorry but this had to be done…
A new camper arrives at camp half blood and develops a crush on the cute blond healer and notices that he seems to be pining for the creepy-goth-must-be-an-asshole kid that looks like death. He then becomes fixated on trying to prove that he's much better because he's such a good person and way better than that freak.
Jeremy is my OC; I don't own anyone or anything recognized.
P.S. If any of you are named Jeremy I'm sorry for the name choice I just picked one at random.
Chapter 1 Jeremy's POV
Jeremy arrived at Camp Half-Blood after being told that he was something called a Half-Blood, a child of some Greek goddess, what was her name? Irene? No- Iris that was it. Some goat guy had come up to him saying that he was the child of a god or goddess and that in order to keep him safe from monsters that apparently were also real but just hidden from mortals by some magical fog- Mist- that he needed to go to this camp where he'd meet others like him.
Jeremy wasn't too thrilled but once they got attacked by some wired giant thing that wanted to eat them he was all aboard the crazy train if it meant living.
Camp Half-Blood was odd but not so bad really. Once you got past the mythical creatures, real lava on the climbing wall, the guy in charge being half-horse (that counted as mythical creature right?) and a few other things it was an okay place.
Though what really convinced him that this camp might not be such a bad place was the cute medic he met upon arriving at the Big House.
The cute guy seemed to be about his age, he had shaggy blond hair, sky blue eyes, tan skin dusted with freckles and a beautiful smile that had stopped him in his tracks when he crossed paths with him on his way to watch some orientation video or something.
"Hi, you're new around here right?" the blond asked when he ran across him in the hall.
"Uh yeah. I just got here." he said not really sure how else to reply.
"Well it's nice to meet you, I'm Will Solace. I'm head of the infirmary and Cabin 7, that's the Apollo cabin. Which godly parent do you have?" he asked still smiling.
"I um uh Iris." he stammered feeling stupid.
Will nodded. "The head of that cabin is Butch; he's usually by the Pegasus pen."
Will said like that was a totally normal thing, which around here probably was… okay then.
"I can show you around when you're done watching the video if you want. I'm used to showing new people around."
Wow cute and courteous, maybe he should take him up on that offer. "Sure, that sounds good. I'm Jeremy by the way. Jeremy Stans."
"Nice to meet you, I'll see you when the video is over." Will said with one last smile and a wave before he headed back to the infirmary.
Well might as well get this video over with Jeremy thought and went to the room he had been heading to before meeting Will.
…
"I'm sure this is all kind of a shock huh?" Will asked as he led the way out of the Big House.
"Yeah kind of." Jeremy followed as he led the way doing this little tour guide routine as if it was second nature to him.
"There's the Green, over there are the cabins, that there is the dining pavilion where we have our meals and make offerings to the gods, the head of your cabin will explain what to do. That's the amphitheatre and where we have bon fires at night and sing camp songs. There's the forest, don't go in there alone because there are monsters in there."
So much for this place being safe…
"That's Thalia's tree, it is part of the barrier that protects camp, don't get too close or the dragon will attack you. You've already seen the climbing wall. Over this way is the arena where you will do combat training."
He led the way into the arena and Jeremy saw what looked like a class being taught. There was a group of younger campers dressed for training watching as three older campers seemed to be doing a combat demonstration.
There was a tall blond boy with a gold sword, another tall boy but this one with black windswept hair and a bronze sword, and a shorter possibly younger boy also with black hair that was somewhat long and a black sword.
Will smiled as he watched the three of them. "Those are Jason Grace," he pointed out the blond, "Percy Jackson," the older dark haired one, "and Nico di Angelo." The smaller one.
Maybe he was just imagining it but he swore Will's smile grew slightly at the mention of the last one.
"They're pretty famous around here so don't be surprised to hear a lot about them, they saved Olympus and the rest of the world a few times."
Wait what? Saved the world? What was this a cartoon?
"They're sons of the Big Three; you know Zeus, or in Jason's case Jupiter since he's from the Roman side, Poseidon is Percy's dad, and Hades is Nico's."
There it was again. Jeremy looked over at this Nico guy and from what he could see there was nothing really all that great about him, just some scrawny little punk/goth looking kid that needed a haircut. According to the video Hades ruled the Underworld so didn't that make this kid like the prince of the damned or something?
"Nico's sometimes known as the Ghost King because of his powers over ghosts." Will said and then blushed possibly not meaning to talk so much about one guy in particular but Jeremy pretended not to notice. He was a nice guy after all.
"Anyway these three are like the best sword instructors here at camp so feel free to practice with them; they're all pretty cool and easy to talk to."
Seriously? These guys were some great war heroes and celebrities but you could just walk right up to them and chat them up? What was with this place? If it were Jeremy in their place he'd like a little more respect than that.
For now it seemed the demonstration was over and the students began to pair off to practice on their own. The other three begin to make their way over and waved to Will who waved back.
"Hey Will." Percy greeted with a friendly smile. "Who's your new friend?" he asked as they reach the two of them.
"Hey guys, this is Jeremy, he's new at camp, just got here today actually." Will said as he introduced him to the other three.
"Hi nice to meet you, Will says you guys are pretty important around here." Jeremy said as he shook hands with Percy and Jason while Nico stood off to the side and gave him a nod before speaking to Will.
"Hey, you here to check up on me or something Solace?" Nico asked while Percy and Jason tried to strike up a conversation with Jeremy.
"So Jeremy what do you think of camp so far? Pretty freaky at first huh?" Percy asked with a light laugh and Jeremy laughed a little and agreed.
"You can say that again." But he was trying to hear what Will was talking about with Nico.
"Not at all Deathboy, I trust you. Besides I know Jason would just fly you to the infirmary the instant you do anything dangerous."
Nico rolled his eyes and Jeremy had a distinct dislike for him. Must be one of those I'm too good for your feelings to care types. Well that was fine, as soon as Will figured out the shrimp was a total jerk he'd see that Jeremy was the nice guy that he deserved.
"Stop treating me like some china doll or something, I'm not going to break at the slightest touch. I can take care of myself and Jason knows I'd send him to my father's kingdom if he tried to fly me anywhere I didn't want to go." he sent a warning glare over to Jason who held up his hands as if to ward him off.
"Hey man, only want to look out for you. Don't worry I wouldn't do that unless it was an emergency and you couldn't make it on your own."
What kind of jerk threatened his friends when they only wanted to help? Yeah this guy was definitely a major asshole Jeremy thought as he listened to the exchange.
"Anyway, it's getting closer to dinner so I'm going to take Jeremy over to meet Butch and the rest of the Iris campers. I'll see you guys later." Will said before leading Jeremy away.
"See you later!" Percy called while Jason tried to reassure Nico that he wouldn't be whisking him away to anywhere anytime soon.
"What was that about?" Jeremy asked; he figured it would be natural to be curious about what they had just said seeing as he was still new here and all.
Will laughed and shook his head but still had a soft smile on his face that one might describe as endearing. "Nico tends to go a little over board and Percy and Jason think of themselves as his sort of older brothers and want to make sure that he stays out of trouble."
"And what about you?" he asked lightly like he only held a mild curiosity but he really wanted to know exactly what he was dealing with here.
Will blushed from his neck all the way to his roots and the tips of his ears, okay so he really did have a thing for short dark and creepy.
"Well I'm in charge of healing so I want to make sure that everyone is okay, you know?" he laughed a little but it came off as more nervous than light hearted like he likely intended.
"Well I hope that means you care about my well being too then." Jeremy said but Will didn't seem to pick up on anything.
"Well sure, new campers need a little more care until they get the hang of things around here." Will said. "Oh there's Butch now. Butch! We have a new Iris camper for you!" Will called as he waved to the older larger boy standing by what looked like stables.
He came over and Will introduced them. "Butch this is Jeremy Stans, he just got to camp today. I gave him a tour but why don't you take him to meet the rest of your cabin before dinner?" Will said cheerily.
Butch agreed and told Jeremy to follow him.
"I need to get back to my own cabin now, but I'll see you later okay?" Will said in his usual friendly manner before heading off.
Jeremy was kind of disappointed but he figured he'd just go talk to him later at some point.
"I see you've already met Solace, he's usually really friendly so you should get along just fine." Butch said as he led the way over to their cabin.
Jeremy was hoping he and Will would get along better than just fine.
Yeah so here's another random one I started out of nowhere.
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