Title: Boats and Birds

Author's Note: This story is a joint project to cure my writer's block. It will have short chapters but will update randomly—sometimes two to three chapters a day. It's written in a much different style than I'm used to because I am trying to make it so that it reads like an innocent ten year old.

Warning. The original PJO characters don't appear until around chapter 5-ish.

Disclaimer: I do not own PJATO.

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Today is my 10th birthday and the man and woman are taking me somewhere. The tall boy said that he's staying at a friend's house so he lets me have the back of the man's car to myself.

"Just this once." So he says.

I stretch tiredly as I hear the remnants of a happy meal crumble under me. My naked foot brushes on the cold surface of the car window as the woman tells me that we're almost there.

When I ask where, they ignore me.

So I fall back asleep, accidentally bumping my head on the handle of the car door behind me.

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The sound of the car honking wakes me up, I jolt up and nearly blind myself as my eyes meet a bright light, and I fall back and hit myself on the head against the car door.

The woman giggles as I look back up.

I hold back a smile as I see Mr. Tompkins walk out of Nana's cottage in his penguin suit with Nana's apron on. He looks confused at first but he hugs me back when I fly out the man's car.

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End Note: That was supposed to be two different chapters but I ruled it as too short so I combined them. The first few chapters will be about the girl 'Elie' so yeah…