Chapter 4: The Infirmary

Connor's POV

I dreamed about Phoebe last night. I dreamed that I got to kiss her and she could still be a Huntress. But then the weirdest thing happened, Artemis showed up in my dream and spoke to me.

"It will happen soon enough Connor, it's not just a dream." She smiled.

What does that mean? Then I woke up. It was dark and raining outside the window. (Chiron and Dionysus started letting rain in.) When I looked at the alarm clock in one corner, it said 6:00 a.m. Good enough for me, I'm going to see Phoebe. But I should get flowers first. She was looking at the roses when Travis and I were hanging out with Katie. Roses it is. So I got up and tiptoed over the other kids to get my jacket and shoes and go outside. I grabbed my jacket and put on my shoes and socks. I was ready to go, but someone stopped me.

"Where are you going?" Travis asked.

"Out." I replied.

"Where?" He questioned.

"To see the girl you poisoned." I responded coldly.

"You're not seriously going out into that down pour." Travis seemed shocked.

"Yeah, and I'm getting flowers too." I retorted.

"Connor..." Travis started.

"Jerk..." I left and slammed the door.

I later found out that Chris stopped Travis from coming after me.

"Let him go, he likes her and you poisoned her." Chris stopped Travis.

I walked through the rain to Demeter Cabin's nearly invisible rose garden. I picked a bunch of big bright red roses and tied them together with a string I had in my pocket from an old prank. Then I walked to the infirmary and knocked on the door. Will answered it and got the weirdest look I've ever seen on his face.

"What are you doing here?" Will asked.

"Can I please come in?!" I begged.

"No, it's 6:30 a.m., and you'll scare the patients." Will denied me access.

"If you don't let me in, I'll scare you and your cabin for a whole month." I threatened.

Will turned pale and let me in. I walked over to Phoebe's bed and sat down next to it with the flowers. I forgot to take the thorns out, so I started picking them off one by one, and I kept going like that until she woke up.

Phoebe's POV

I woke up and thought I was still dreaming because that Connor was there. Then I realized that it was real because the burns didn't hurt when I was sleeping.

"Ouch." I winced.

Connor looked over at me and smiled. Then he handed me a bunch of roses. I think there were about twelve. They were beautiful, and they smelled pretty too.

"You got me flowers?" I croaked.

"Yeah, but be careful because I'm not sure if I got all the thorns." Connor warned.

Then I noticed that his hands were bleeding in a couple of places and he was all wet even with a jacket on.

"How long have you been here?" I was curious.

"Since 6:30, and it's about 7:00 now." He answered.

Then I noticed all the thorns on the floor.

"Connor, get out! You'll contaminate the patients with that blood!" Will practically screeched.

"Dude, there's blood all over the floor from the patients, and all I need is a band-aid. It's not like I've been letting it drip on the floor." Connor seemed annoyed.

"Out!" Will yelled.

"No, I want him here." I whispered.

Will's eyes widened, then that girl Silena Beauregard came up behind him.

"Will, why don't you leave them alone. I'll take the next shift, and you can go to bed." She suggested.

"Okay." Will's eyes looked glazed over.

Then he walked out and didn't come back.

"What was that?" I voiced my curiosity.

"I have charmspeak. And I want to be a doctor, so I work with Will." Silena explained simply.

"And you helped us why?" Connor asked.

"Because you like each other. And plus, unlike him, I actually attend to the patient's reasonable wants." Silena giggled the first part.

Connor and I turned red, and Silena walked to another patient's bed to check on him.

"She's blunt, I'll give her that." I broke the awkward silence.

"Yeah, but that's not always a good thing. You should've seen how fast she ran when Annabeth tried to kill her." Connor got a small smile.

"Why did Annabeth want to kill her?" I questioned.

"Because Silena teased her after she saw Annabeth kissing her pillow and muttering 'Percy' in her sleep." Connor was trying not to laugh.

I started giggling. I feel bad for Annabeth, people are always teasing her because of her obvious crush on Percy, that Percy never seems to notice, even though he likes her too, and she still hasn't noticed. And they call her the smart one.

"You should've seen her when she got a crush on her boyfriend though." Connor grinned evilly.

"Why, what happened?" I wondered.

"Okay, I'll kick you out if you tell the story again." Silena clamped her hand on Connor's mouth nervously.

"So you can talk about that stuff when it's other people, but we can't talk about you?" Connor teased.

"Fine, but only because you two are cute." Silena rolled her eyes.

She walked to another patient and Connor and I blushed again.

"It was funny because she stared at him while she was walking and ran into a flag pole. Clarisse helped her up, after she laughed her ass off. Not to mention that Drew told me about when Silena started kissing her pillow and whispering 'Charlie'. At first, I thought she was lying, but then it was confirmed because I heard Clarisse teasing her about it." Connor laughed.

Wow, of all people, Silena Beauregard was more head-over-heels than Charlie, and I heard Charlie was almost as bad. I giggled and we kept talking about stuff. I didn't even notice that Connor stayed so long until the dinner horn blew a long while later, but he still stayed saying that we had time before curfew. I ended up falling asleep as Connor was getting ready to say goodnight.

Connor's POV

She suddenly fell asleep.

"Goodnight Phoebe." I risked kissing her on the forehead.

Then I got up and left thinking about coming to see her tomorrow. I think I love her.

Silena's POV

He's so cute. They'll end up together one way or another, so I just hope it works out. I haven't been in here all day, but I'm pretty sure he was.

"Silena, it's time for my shift again." Will said.

"Okay, remember that I won't be here tomorrow." I said as I left.

Instead, I'll be giving Kronos fake information that he'll think is real, and giving Chiron real information without Kronos knowing. Being a double agent sucks.