After 10 minutes of walking, the demigods finally reached the gas station. It was literally in the middle of nowhere, all you could see was the road they had walked on and a seemingly endless stretch of grass.

"This place looks deserted." Katie commented, as Travis started to fill up the gas can.

"Well that's probably a good thing, seeing as I don't have any mortal money to pay for this." Travis replied sheepishly.

"What?! Travis, you can't just steal it. That's illegal!"

"So? You said yourself that the place is deserted. No one's going miss a bit of gas anyway. Plus, we need it or we are never going to make it to camp."

He has a point. We need it or we won't have a useable car. Katie thought. "Whatever." she replied to him lamely.

After the can was filled, they started to walk away. They were almost at the road when they heard a loud yell, "Hey where are you kids going? You have to pay for that!" The demigods turned around to see a very angry mortal in an ugly uniform walking towards them.

"Should we make a run for it?" whispered Travis.

"We can't outrun him while carrying that can." Katie whispered back.

By then the man had reached them, and Katie could see his face more clearly. He was pretty big guy. He had long, burly arms with tattoos and almost no neck. His face was slightly haggard, and his thick beard was graying. "What gives you the idea that you can just steal that gas?!" he spoke loudly, spraying them with spit.

"Whoa, dude, ever heard of a breath mint?" Travis asked while wiping the saliva from his cheek.

"Excuse me? You'd better come with me right now. I'm calling the police!" the man declared as he grabbed ahold of Travis' elbow, attempting to lead him to the building.

Before she knew what she was doing, Katie ran to face the man. She looked him directly into his eyes and snapped her fingers. "Sir, we already payed for this gas, remember? We gave you the money. Now we're leaving." she said in the most confident voice that she could manage.

The worker blinked a few times, as if he had just woken up from a very long nap. "Ah, yes. Well, thank you for choosing BP to supply you with, um, gas." he said dazedly. "You children better get to wherever you're going, it'll be dark soon."

Travis looked like he was in shock, turning his gaze from Katie to the mortal, and then back to Katie, his eyes wide. "Come on Travis, we need to leave." she said, grabbing his hand and leading him down the road.

They walked in silence. Travis seemed to have recovered from his surprise, but he never released Katie's hand as they made their way back to the car. He filled up the gas tank and then hopped into the driver's seat. He started the car, but left it idling. They just sat there for a few moments, until Travis finally spoke, "I can't believe you just did that."

"Yeah, me neither." Katie agreed. "I mean, I wasn't going to let you get arrested, or let you get hurt." A slight grin spread across Travis' face as he turned to look at her. Katie suddenly realized what she had sounded like when she had said the previous sentence. "You know, because I need a ride to camp." she said quickly.

The smile faded on Travis' face, "Oh, right, of course."

"Plus, I would feel really badly." Katie admitted, surprising herself at how honest the statement was.

Travis smirked once again, "You know you would miss me, Gardner." he said cheekily.

"Don't push it, Stoll." Katie replied, but with a smile on her face. "But just so you know, you will be going back there to pay that man for the gas, or else."

"Or else what?"

"Or else... I don't know! But you'll be sorry about it!" Katie realized how silly that sounded even as she was saying it.

The son of Hermes rolled his eyes. "Whatever you say, Katie."


Chapter 3 is complete. Thank you to the new reviews from Clefspear, Lmb111514, and writingmyfantasies. Also thank you to those who followed and favorited. You guys really make it exciting to write! I realize that there were some typos in the previous chapter so I will do my best to fix them soon. However I am still somewhat learning how to use all of the functions on this site, so bear with me, please. I also tried to incorporate some more Tratie into this chapter, please tell me how I did if it is convenient for you. I will also not be updating for a few days because I have a softball tournament all weekend, so there will be no new chapters until at least Tuesday. Please conintue to review if possible and give me suggestions. Thanks for reading!