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"I didn't mean to!"

"What, you didn't mean to shoot an arrow through his shoulder? 'Cause that's what you did!"

I stood outside the infirmary, my back to the wall as Thalia yelled at me, fists clenched and her eyes shooting daggers. A frown remains plastered on my face but I flinch as thunder roars above us.

"Seriously Angie, what were you thinking?!"

"I was thinking about you, Thalia! Your safety! Your vow! You promised Artemis-"

"-That I would forever remain without the company of men," she cuts me off, frowning dangerously as lightning flashes behind her. "Gods, Percy isn't my boyfriend Ang! He's a friend. A really great friend."

"Phoebe said he was a really good friend,"I say, looking up at the roof.

"Trust me, good is an understatement."

It's quiet for a moment until Thalia sighs and puts a hand on my shoulder. "Out of all the things you could have done, you decided to almost kill Seaweed brain. I have underestimated you. You really are a badass."

I stare at her and scoff, shaking my head. "I wasn't really planning on shooting him. It kind of just happened. Years of training with you guys and it's become an instinct."

She gives me an almost strange smile before turning her attention to the person who has just stepped outside the infirmary doors.

"How is he?" the daughter of Zeus asks. A satyr with curly hair nods and gives her a shrug. "He's Percy. A little arrow to the shoulder isn't going to kill him."

Thalia sighs, relieved, and I am surprised to hear myself join her. "Can we come in?" she asks, and the satyr nods again. He looks at me and cocks his head, turning to Thalia. "Who's this?" he points.

"This is Angie, one of our hunters. Fairly new, fairly old. She's a daughter of Apollo," Thalia shrugs and enters the infirmary. I am left outside with the satyr and scratch the back of my shoulder sheepishly.

"I'm Trevor," he says after a moment, smiling softly. "Are you the one who shot Percy in the..."

"I'm coming, Thalia!" I say, interrupting the satyr from finishing his question and entering the infirmary as well. No way was I going to get mixed up in that awkwardness.

Inside, there are cots lined up with clean white sheets and large, fluffy looking pillows. I take in the area and notice how relatively empty it is. No one with any serious conditions here, just some girl bruised from a spearing accident and a kid with a nose bleed. Nothing too intense, except for a boy at the end of the row of beds, laying down and drinking up a golden liquid handed to him by Thalia herself. As I walk near his cot, Thalia, the boy, and another camper turn to me, eyes wide and mouths open.

"I..."

"Hello," the other camper, a boy with curly brown hair and dark emerald eyes interrupts me, and I tilt my head a bit.

"H-hello. I...I came to...to apologize to..." I bite my lip, not able to let the words slip out. The boy on the cot, Percy Jackson, sits up a little, pushing the drink gently out of his mouth, making Thalia move it away.

He stares at me for a moment, but unlike the first time, his eyes are not fearful. Instead, they hold a kind of light to them, and his lips form into a tiny smile. "It's alright. I get hit on the shoulder by arrows all the time. It's a regular occurrence," he chuckles gently, but I flinch as he starts to cough. I begin to move closer, but stop myself before I actually do.

I nod and bite my lip. "I was just scared of Thalia getting hurt. I didn't mean to hurt you. I'm so used to bad things happening that I..."

"Scared of Thalia getting hurt? Love, if anything, you should be scared of Percy getting hurt. Which, is actually what transpired," the green eyed boy said, laughing and shooting me a wink. I clutch Hekatos inside my jean pocket and can't help but glare at him.

"I'm not your 'love'," I state, my voice low. The green eyed boy stares at me for a moment, his demeanor never changing as his smile resembles that of a Cheshire Cat, giving me a mock bow. "Apologies, my lady. I suppose I was a bit too forward." I stay silent but I can hear Thalia snicker. "My name is Harold Dawson. But please, call me Har."

"Har?" I question, brows furrowing. "As in har-har, you're such a joke?" I meant it to be an insult, but Har ends up laughing along with Percy and I am left awkwardly standing in silence.

"Yes, that is exactly it. Mother would have laughed at that one."

I raise a brow. "And who is your mother?"

He grins and straightens up. "Aphrodite, goddess of love." Har wiggles his eyebrows and I have to keep myself from flying at him. No wonder he was such flirt. Kid of the goddes of love made a whole lot of sense.

"What's yours?"

I turn away from Har and look at Percy, surprised that he has ignored the fact that I had almost paralyzed him not but an hour ago, and is actually talking to me. "Umm, Apollo, he's my father," I say, nodding and still fiddling with Hekatos in my pocket.

"That's nice," Percy says and smiles a bit, "But I meant your name."

My cheeks redden. "Angie Prescott."

He hums and nods and continues to stare at me while I shuffle around and look at Thalia. She moves her gaze from me to Percy and smirks. "Angie, meet me outside near the lake in a couple minutes. Bring the Hunters."

I stare at her in confusion, but before I could say anything else, she grabs hold of the curtain around them and closes it, keeping me out of their sight.

I did as I was told. I gathered all the hunters and took them near the lake, waiting patiently for Thalia who took more than a few minutes to meet us there.

"So you shot him...in the shoulder?" Dayi asks for the millionth time.

I sigh in exasperation. "It was an accident! You tell me what you'd do if you thought a guy was hurting your friend."

"I wouldn't shoot him in the shoulder, that's for sure."

I growl and ignore her, picking up a rock from the ground and throwing it into the water. A couple seconds later, I hear footsteps behind me and I turn, satisfied.

"Finally! You said a couple minutes, not a whole..." I pause as I come face to face with a girl who was obviously not Thalia Grace. I frown. "Who are you?"

"Hello to you too," the girl says, a smug grin on her face.

Melissa rushes to my side, examining the girl and giving her an awkward smile. "Umm, hi. Are you friends with Thalia?"

"Not hardly," she says and and fixes her glasses. Her long black hair sways behind her as she turns to me. "But I am friends with the guy you shot in the shoulder."

I glare at her, my patience running thin. "Okay, enough. Who are you and what are you doing here? It's suppose to be Hunters only."

She clicks her tongue and looks me over. "You're a Hunter? Seems like they let anyone in nowadays." The girl laughs but I clench my fist, Melissa putting a hand on my shoulder. "Ana Watson, daughter of Athena at your service."

"Alright 'Ana Watson', do what do we owe this pleasure?" I say sarcastically. Dayi crosses her arms as Ana grins. "Oh boy! Pleasure, eh? Mind telling Theodore that?"

"Who?" Dayi asks, but before anything else could be said, Thalia finally marches up to us, Percy and Har by her side.

"Attention sisters, I have an announcement to make." She takes out a piece of paper from her pocket and unwraps it, holding it up for all of us to see. "Percy Jackson has told me about an issue arising. The Garden of the Hesperides is being threatened. As you all know, if The Garden is in danger, the Tree of Immortality will die and the gods would all but fade away. We need to protect the Garden and fight off those determined to destroy it. All of us will be joining him in this quest, along with several others who were chosen by Chiron himself."

"That's me," Ana whispers to Melissa proudly, and I roll my eyes.

"Hold on, others? Who are these 'others'?" Dayi asks and Percy nods, understanding.

"Seems like you met Ana. Like her mother, she is wise and posses knowledge about The Garden of the Hesperides. She'll guide us in locating it."

Ana grins and pumps her fist up in the air, shouting excitedly. Others around us, including Percy, laugh, but I find no humor in it. Everything we know could be thrown away, and this girl was acting like this was a party? Where is the logic in that, daughter of Athena?

"Harold will be joining us as well. Angie, you know him." All eyes are on me now and I can't help but flush at the attention. Har shoots me another wink and I frown, making Dayi chuckle.

"Is he a good friend of yours too?" she asks teasingly. I ignore her and turn back to Percy who has not noticed my red face. "Also, Theodore Roden."

"Son of Ares," Ana pipes up, and their's a slight sparkle in her eyes. I make a mental note to meet this Theodore guy. She had mentioned him before.

"And Nate O'Connor, son of Tyche," Thalia says and Dayi beams.

"A brother of yours," I tell her and she nods.

"Can't wait to meet him.

"Wait, so we're going to be traveling, with four boys?" Lena Michelson, one of us Hunters, says, and everyone around her begins to mumble.

"No way!" someone shouts from the back.

"What about the vow?"

"They're just going to mess things up!"

"We're better off alone!"

"Sisters!" Thalia demands, and everyone stays quiet. She puts the paper, a picture of The Garden of the Hesperides, back inside her pocket and puts her hands on her hips. "Listen up, this is Percy's quest, and he has decided to let us join. It is an honor, and I am certain that Artemis would understand. Now, enough talking, we leave tomorrow at dawn. I don't want to hear anymore complaints, understood?"

Everybody grumbles out an answer, but I just stand there, trying to process everything. So the Garden of the Hesperides is in danger, and we need to stop the tree of Immortality from dying, or else all the gods would disappear? And here I was hoping for another juicy steak and a nice nap.

"Back to the Cabin. We shall rest until tomorrow," Phoebe announces, and everyone but a few us does as she says.

Ana, Dayi and Melissa have stayed behind along with Thalia, Har, Percy and I.

"Chiron gave you this quest?" I ask Percy. He bites his lip and his sea blue eyes lock with mine. "It's not my quest. I...I fibbed. It's...it's not a quest at all. This, umm...actually came to me in a dream," he reveals, and his eyes look even deeper as his cheeks brighten.

I shake my head, snapping out of my thoughts. "You fibbed? Meaning there is no quest or certainty that the Garden is even going to be attacked. You just dreamt about it?"

"Okay, now that sounds bad when you say it."

"Hold on, I'm confused," Melissa states and Ana laughs.

"Seriously? You don't get it? It's fairly easy to process. Percy's a liar and has his head in the clouds, that's all."

Percy groans as Thalia chuckles and the rest of us just stand there like a bunch of third wheels.

"Ladies, may I say that you are all quite extraordinarily beautiful? Because really, you all are." I turn to see Har hitting on Melissa and Dayi and I grit my teeth in annoyance. That boy needed to be tied up in a leash. I just met him a moment ago and he was already getting on my nerves and flirting with my friends.

"And may I say that I could roundhouse kick you, shoot an arrow through your chest, and still make you spin your own wheel of torture? Because really, I can," Dayi says, pinching and wiggling the boys cheek teasingly, eyes threatening yet taunting. She walks off to the direction of the cabins and Har stays behind, rubbing his cheek, green eyes following her. "Hey wait!" he calls, and runs after her.

"What a fool," I mutter, and I jump in surprise as Percy chuckles.

"It's in his blood. He can't help it," he states.

"Being a fool?" I ask, an eyebrow raised.

He shakes his head and locks eyes with me once again. "Being in love."