I would like to thank; SwiftieClaire, Kat567, GreakFreak and DiamondsAndJewels123 for motivating me! You guys really helped me, thank you!
When Katie had risen and come out of her haze, she had realized she had been sitting on the floor for a near good 2 hours. Just thinking. Wondering. Imagining, what kind of things she will encounter during this, 'Test' per se.
The sun was well above horizon, and the birds chirped their morning tune, whilst trees cast their morning shadows on the dew covered turf. Cautiously, and carefully, Katie stepped out of the God of Thieves Cabin, and made her way to her own cabin. 'Ugh its so hoy outside!' Katie thought as she covered her eyes to block the sun rays from hitting her. She pretending like nothing had ever happened. Just going with her daily routine; waking up, or in this case she was already awake, putting on their famous Camp Half-Blood tee-shirt, and going to work. No time for fiddling, no time for goofing around.
Katie had been wearing her Camp shirt from the time she had gone to Travis' cabin, so, she just made her way to the strawberry fields, knowing that she was VERY late!
When Katie saw that all her other siblings were looking at her funny, she still kept walking, but quite embarrassed actually, because she didn't know why they were looking at her like that.
"Ummmmm, Katie...?" Katie's older half-brother Justin asked her, with a particular shaken almost uneasy voice.
Katie looked up at her brother with question written all over her face, "What...? What are you guys staring at me like that for?" Katie asked rather defiantly. But when the words escaped her mouth, she covered it with her hands and felt an over powering wave of guilt crash down upon her.
She looked up at Justin with saddened eyes, eyes filled with sorrow and guilt. She hadn't meant to take it out on him, it's just the amount of stress she had been anointed with in the last two-and-a-half hours had made her unstable and he was the first person she had encountered, so he got the Katie Thunder.
"Um sis, there's blood on your shirt..." Justin finally said in a hushed voice. Katie then proceeded to look at her shirt, and indeed find the fake blood she had discovered earlier this morning, it was all over her shirt. It didn't even look orange in the front anymore.
Then she remembered; when she had heard Connor's and Chiron's voice outside the cabin and she dropped the syringe on the floor and it had spattered everywhere. All over the floors, all over the beds, and all over Katie's shirt because she had squeezed it before she had dropped it.
"Ohhhhhh shiiiittt..." Katie said to herself. She looked up at her brother hoping he would somehow understand the situation she was in, though he was and is oblivious to what had happened previously. She looked back down at her "bloody t-shirt" and looked back up at him to see Justin smirking. "What are you smiling? Mister?" Katie asked her brother annoyed!
He laughed at her, "Oh nothing! Just stuff, ya'know?" Justin asked with a grin plastered on his chiseled face. Problem was, Justin wasn't the one who was oblivious-it was Katie. She didn't know that Justin was one of the only ones who knew of the Test for Katie. She thought it was herself alone, and Connor and Travis and Chiron who knew.
"Hmmmmm, not really... But I'm keeping my eyes on you mister!" Katie exclaimed while she stocked off leaving behind a very satisfied Justin.
As soon as Justin saw that Katie had walked far out of earshot, he pulled out a walkie-talkie from his cargo pants and spoke to it. "Okay guys, Katie's got the blood on the shirt and she's making her way to our cabin now! Over and out." He looked back at Katie, seeing that she had almost made it back to the cabin, and smiled to himself and carried on his field work.
Katie had finally reached her after that exhausting walk in the sauna like weather. She was so tired she almost missed the neat letter that had been placed in the pin-point center of her bed.
Katie walked over to it cautiously, expecting it to explode or something, but finding that it was just a simple letter with the fanciest cursive print she'd ever seen. She carefully picked up the letter, as if the delicacy of it and the fragility of it- it would just crumble to pieces.
The daughter of Demeter looked around her cabin to make sure no one was lurking around. She found no one so she proceeded to examine the envelope. She ran her slender fingers along the front of the delicate envelope. It was the colour of cream quite opaque, the texture was smooth with a few ridges here and there. The print on the front was elegant cursive wording her name and it's frame was small- assuming the letter to be short.
Katie proceeded to open the envelope, turning it around onto the back of the envelope, she flipped the cover up and took the small piece of paper from the opening. But before Katie opened the paper, she eyed it. Waiting for it to do something. To turn into Greek fire, to disappear with a poof, or to explode in her hands releasing a stink-bomb. But it did nothing, just sat Inbetween her forefinger and thumb, she then flipped it open to find the messiest and most disgusting hand-printing known to man; Travis' handwriting.
Go to your dresser mirror and they'll be another letter awaiting you - T, C, J, P and A.
Katie stared at the letter dumbfounded, 'Who the hell is T, C, J, P and A? What kind of sick-twisted game is this?!' Katie thought as had put the letter down, after reading it a numerous amount of times to get it memorized and implanted into her cranium, and made her way to her dresser.
She indeed did fine another letter in the crevice of the mirror and the wooded frame. She pulled it out, ripped off the envelope letting the remains of it falling to the ground, she had had about enough with this, but then she remembered this was a test, and she didn't want to lose Travis over some stupid game, but she was determined to figure this puzzle out.
Katie started wide-eyed at the letter. She felt tears trickling down her cheeks, the salty liquid clouding her eyes. What kind of game was this truly?
Remember when we used to play together? When we were 7? Remember how I loved to pull your hair and tickle you stomach? Remember how you just liked to live and how you were so carefree, remember how I used to love that about you? Where did you go Kate's? I need you here with me physically, you're here with me but not presently. As if your spirit and soul had drifted off and left you with a hollow, empty shell. I think it's time you learned what really happened to you during your childhood - Travis, the one who REALLY loves you