Okay! So I'm obsessed with Tratie at the moment, so there will defiantly be more updates on this story. I will try to update all my other stories as soon as possible. I hope you enjoy this chapter and remember to review. I'm starting to write longer chapters now, yay! Thank you to all my reviewers, favouriters, and alerters.

Disclaimer: No, I don't own PJO. Stop rubbing it in.

Katie's PoV

The rustling of the leaves grew louder and louder, all other sounds in the forest seemed to have seized. Travis was standing in a defensive manner in front of Katie. She didn't want to lose him like she had lost Lauren. Sure he annoyed her most of the time, and pulled pranks on her cabin 24/7, but she still wasn't ready to lose him. Sounds to me like someone's in love. A sweet voice whispered in her mind, Aphrodite! I am not in love with Travis Stoll. She thought back, angrily. Umm hmm, you can't hide this from the Goddess of Love, Katie sweethear, I know you like him, and denial is the first step, did you know Paris was in denial with Helen in the first place, and look at what happened to them. Aphrodite's voice spoke in her mind. Umm, they died? Katie responded to the Goddesses' question. Oh, Katie, this is why you and Travis are such a good couple.

Sighing at the Goddesses' stubbornness and strange antics, Katie gave up trying to reason with her and tuned out Aphrodite's babbling, and instead focused on helping Travis. She took of her flower shaped necklace and pressed the center of the flower. It grew into a celestial bronze sword. A sword wasn't Katie's first choice, but she had left her daggers I her cabin, so she would have to make do.

She also crouched into a fighting stance and braced herself for whatever she was about to face. If she was going to die, she might as well go down fighting. The rustling grew louder and immediately stopped. From the bushes out walked Percy followed by Annabeth, who froze at the sight of Katie and Travis with their weapons, and the pair immediately pulled out their weapons, before they recognized each other and put their weapons away.

Annabeth gave Katie a huge hug, as she heard what had happened in the summer, but she had been in San Francisco during the summer time, spending time with her family. Percy also gave Katie a hug, and then he did the weird handshake guys do with Travis, and began talking about something Katie didn't bother listening to. She and Travis stood chatting with the couple till the conch shell blew, signaling the end of the first lesson. Katie was relieved that they hadn't come across any monsters during the whole hour.

Together the four walked back to camp, and finally reached twenty minutes later, after getting lost a few times in the dense forest. Then the two groups separated as Percy and Annabeth had archery (much to Percy's protests) and Katie and Travis were to spend time on the climbing wall. Apparently Chiron had made it much more challenging since the last time anyone had climbed it.

Walking towards the climbing wall, an awkward silence engulfed Katie and Travis. Both were deep in thought. Upon reaching the wall, Travis turned to Katie, and with a mischievous glint in his eyes he said,

"I bet I can reach the top before you can, Gardner." His challenging tone brought Katie back to the present, and made her smile at him. She shook his hand as an acceptance to this. And on the count of three, both the demi-gods began making their way to the top of the wall. More and more lava seemed to be pouring from the cracks in the rocks, and small animals and monsters popped up randomly, trying to slow them down. In frustration, Katie swung her sword all around her, its weight slowing her down.

Travis was a bit ahead of her, and he stopped to look down at Katie and wink at her. No way was Katie going to stand up in front of everyone at dinner and say "Travis Stoll is the best, I wish I was him, he's much better than me". No, Travis was going to say those words, replacing his name with hers and he wouldn't prank her cabin in a week.

Gritting her teeth, Katie forged ahead. Travis was too busy monitoring her slower-than-his progress to notice that a monster was just about to attack him from above. He saw the terror in Katie's eyes and looked up in time to see the monster slash across his face. He swung his sword at it, causing it to turn into dust, making her cough, and continued going upwards, blood dripping down his face. Katie picked up her speed and managed to reach the top at the same time as Travis.

The pair glared at each other for a second, Katie a bit distracted by the bloody gashes across his face. Suddenly, there was a loud applause at the bottom of the wall. Looking down, Katie saw Chiron, and a few other campers standing at the base, cheering loudly. Apparently they were the only two who had managed to reach the top on the first go, and it such little time. Chiron promised to put up a picture of the two in his office.

As everyone turned to leave, Katie faced Travis again and said,

"So, I'm guessing I won then. I managed to get up here without any casualties, that stands better for me, it shows that I'm more concentrated and focused than you at this."

"Ha! I should win since I did get hurt, and I still managed to get up here, that should deserve some sort of a Nobel Prize." Came Travis' retort. "And I'm not the only careless one am I?" he finished by pointing at Katie's arm, on which there was a long, deep, bleeding cut which looked really painful.

Flushing, Katie held out her hand and said. "Fine then Oh, Travis Stoll the Great, it's a tie, happy?"

"The Great Travis Stoll never ties with anyone." Travis said, trying to sound dramatic by referring to himself in third person, but he took her hand nevertheless. "I will defeat you once and for all, Gardner!"

Shaking her head at him, Katie started to climb down the climbing wall, with Travis close by. Upon reaching the ground she said,

"The Great Travis Stoll can defeat me once and for all after we visit the infirmary." Katie laughed, pulling a pouting and bleeding Travis Stoll along, behind her. When they reached there, a couple of Apollo kids help the two out. They gave Travis some nectar and did some Apollo mojo on his face, and BAM! Travis was as good as new, except for a very faint and almost invisible scar on one side of his forehead, which couldn't be seen as his brown hair kept flopping over it, keeping it hidden from view.

They gave Katie a small piece of ambrosia, which tasted like strawberries, and did the same thing to her arm, as they did to Travis' face, except there was no scar on her arm. Not that she needed any more, she already had a big collection, and she did not want to add any more to it. At least her face was scar free.

The two were told to sit tight for a few minutes while the Apollo kids went to do Gods know what, and a silence engulfed the two once more, as each were in their own little world. Suddenly the door of the infirmary burst open to reveal a blonde girl, who launched her self at Travis, sitting in his lap and kissing his face.

"Ohmygods! When they told me you had gotten hurt, I nearly had a heart attack. I ran all the way here. How are you feeling? Does it hurt? Oh, you're so brave…"

This girl was obviously a daughter of Aphrodite. She had straight beach blonde hair, which reached half way down her back. She had an amazing tan and beautiful sky blue eyes. Her legs were really long and that was emphasized by her short shorts. She wore a tight shocking pink t-shirt, and matching high heels. She was beautiful.

She finally realized that Katie was in the room, and shut up. She looked at the girl in front of her, and Katie immediately felt self conscious. What did she look like compared to this girl? But the girl gave a big smile, which showed off her perfect, white teeth. She held out a well manicured hand, with matching nail polish, and introduced herself.

"Hi, I'm Jemma Stone, daughter of Aphrodite." She had a sweet voice, and didn't seem anything like Drew.

"Hey, I'm Katie, daughter of Demeter." She took the girls' hand and shook it.

Still smiling at Katie, Jemma resumed her spot on Travis' lap. Smiling and looking really happy, Travis looked Katie straight in the eye and said,

"Katie, Jemma's my girlfriend."

Welll…. I hope you enjoyed that. :O Travis has a girlfriend…and she seems really nice :O poor Katie. Please review! And I don't want any of those one word reviews. Please tell me what you think.

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