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Chapter 2: Ethan's Musings

"You kissed Annabeth." Ethan deadpanned. They were in a reserve cabin, one of the cabins that the camp kept for unsorted demigods, but in their case they were special guests. He was sitting on the bed while Luke was pacing around the room. He knew he didn't have to state the obvious. He just liked to torture Luke. And it really was a surprise for him that Luke would do such a thing. Sadly for him, Luke didn't seem react to this barb. He just stopped walking and stared at Ethan with his piercing blue eyes. He raised an eyebrow as if to say "Yeah, so?"

"She slapped you." Ethan deadpanned once again, as he stared at Luke's reddish cheek. This time, Luke visibly flinched and glared at him. Ethan couldn't help but lose his poker face and smirk. Ha, I gotcha. Ethan thought. Payback for the time Luke was bossing him around before. He wasn't the son of Nemesis just by name. He watched Luke run his hand through his blonde hair and pace once again around their room. He could feel Luke's frustration permeate the air as he muttered to himself before looking back at Ethan.

"You know, you're lucky that I'm kind enough not to poke your other eye out." Luke threatened him. Ethan just rolled his eye, as he only had one good eye. He just couldn't get what Luke wanted to do with his second life. It was obvious for him who Luke really liked. Judging from the stolen glances Ethan caught Luke giving to her and the cliché plan of making your loved one jealous, it was clear to him that Thalia was the one that Luke liked. Maybe Luke has a psychotic disorder? Oh wait, he is crazy.

When they arrived at the camp earlier, he clearly saw Luke gazing at Thalia as they were walking towards the camp. She was standing there with all her punk glory, her piercing blue eyes were staring straight at them and a smile was hanging on her lips. Luke was about to approach her when a hunter reached Thalia. The hunter was treating Thalia with so much respect, even bowing before she went away. The reality dawned on Luke, the horror was clearly written in his eyes. Thalia was a hunter. Ethan noticed Annabeth approaching them and he was about to acknowledge her when Luke suddenly stopped in front of her and kissed her.

He saw Thalia's face went from warm to cold. It was suddenly dark as rain clouds hovered above them. He could feel a little electricity in the air. Ethan looked at Annabeth to see her reaction. She was staring at Luke with wide eyes and she was touching her lips when she turned around and walked briskly away.

Luke gave furtive glances at Thalia while he and Annabeth were talking. The slap was completely unsurprising, though it's a bit late reaction. Ethan could only shake his head at the situation. It was only approximately thirty minutes since they have arrived and Luke was already wreaking havoc again, which brought them to their current predicament.

"You know, making a certain someone jealous just because you're frustrated is so old school." Ethan pointed out. And not to mention stupid. Ethan thought it was pointless of Luke to make Thalia jealous, mainly because of the fact that she was Artemis' lieutenant and it's just hurting them both. Not to mention the fact that Luke was also dragging Annabeth into his problem.

"It's all part of the plan. You'll see. Things are going smoothly." Luke said confidently. Ethan sensed that Luke was not telling the whole truth. He stared at Luke, an expressionless look on his face. It was enough to say that Ethan did not believe him. Yeah right, and I have two eyes. Ethan inwardly thought.

"Okay, maybe things are a tiny bit messy right now." Luke exasperatedly stated. Ethan still stared at him, if only he still had his other he could do another eye roll that isn't awkward and a full forced glare. Maybe he could ask his eye back from his mother. On the second thought, he'd rather not ask for his eye back; he liked his eye patch.

"Fine. Things are going horribly. I pulled that kissing stunt to make Thalia come back to me but I kind of forgot that she's a hunter now." Luke grumpily admitted. Ethan smirked once again at the Luke's predicament. It was typical of Luke to do things rashly. To see him lose composure was in the top ten list of Ethan's "Must See".

"And the lieutenant of Artemis to add to that fact" Ethan gleefully reminded Luke of Thalia's position. He decided that torturing Luke would be his new hobby. A question popped into Ethan's head like a mushroom when he realized Luke couldn't have just thought of his actions on his own. No matter how Luke looked stupid to Ethan, there has got to be some limit to his stupidity. A certain goddess entered his mind.

"Is that why you were revived? Did Aphrodite order you to do that or something?" Ethan curiously asked for he knew that Aphrodite was the one responsible for their revival, so there must be something that she wanted them to do. After all, Ethan's mission was to just accompany Luke through his second life though that seemed to be a weird request coming for the goddess of love and beauty.Unless the goddess wanted to make us into a couple . . . . . Ethan visibly shuddered at that thought.No freaking way would I allow that to happen. I'd rather die again.

"Why don't you take a guess?" Luke said mysteriously. With that said, Ethan was even more confused by Luke. He was starting to sense his head ache. This is going to be one hell of second life.

Lalalalala. Still thinking about the pairing, any suggestion? xD