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Stealing from the boss? Yeah that sounds great…

I walk through the forest I may have looked very confident with Kim and Annabeth just now, but just between us, I'm terrified. What if Cray catches me. He's been like a uncle for me. He took me in when no one else did. I may not be too crazy about him, but he did save my life, gave me a way to survive. I am as silent as I can because I'm actually not allowed to leave my post, but that also gives me an alibi if Cray might ask, which I don't expect. I sneak into camp from the backside. Cray's tent is all the way in the back so I'm already close. I listen very closely, I don't hear anything. I carefully lift the piece of fabric that covers the back of Cray's tent. It's empty, well there are no people. It's full with stolen stuff. All kinds of stuff, necklaces, bags of money, a sword, shield and armour. I walk silently towards the jewellery and pray that Cray hasn't brought it to his guy yet. I look through some bracelets. It's so tempting to take more than one, but I manage to keep my fingers to myself. That is until I, to my big relieve, spot Annabeth's bracelet. I snatch it from between the others. Then I freeze. I hear voices outside the tent, Cray's voice, I've got to get out. I shoot through the tent and past the fabric in the back. Just in time behind me I hear Cray come into his tent. I smile, he's too cocky to even think someone would try to steal from him, and that's in my advantage. I speed back to my tree, Now let's wait until it's dark.

Kim's POV

I cannot believe this guy. Why does Calypso have to like him? Why can't she just treat him like every other stranger. Bite his head of our something. And the guts of that guy, he steals the dagger right out of my belt! Now I've got to admit, he has skills, the wrong kind, but I honestly didn't notice he stole my dagger and I took my eyes of off him for maybe two seconds. We're riding back to the castle and Annabeth is happy, she seems to have full faith in the fact that Jack will bring her bracelet back. I know now I am supposed to tell my brother and have him set an ambush for Jack and have him arrested but I have the strong feeling I'm not going to. He is risking his neck for us. I may have acted like I don't care, but I don't know what Cray would do with a boy that steals from him. But I know for sure it's not going to be nice.

When we arrive at the castle everything is fine, it's quite a quiet day. No lords coming to visit. No wars broken out, all and all a good day. We spend the rest of the day wondering around the castle. Visiting the stables and the garden and just wondering around through the castle. Annabeth interrogates me about my meeting with Jack and I tell her. Slowly it gets dark. I can see that Annabeth slowly is getting nervous. If Jack doesn't get it, she's going to have to tell her dad tomorrow. After dinner with my father, brother and mother we sneak out of my room and to the castle gate. We wait for a few minutes when Jack seems to come out of nowhere as he steps out of the shadows. He did something similar in the woods. I guess that's a good thing to be able to do for a thief, seemingly random disappear and appear out of nowhere.

When I look at him I notice he has a bruise around his right eye. That wasn't there this morning, I'm sure of that. 'I got it.' He smirks. A smile breaks through on Annabeth's face, but I'm still looking at his eye. 'What happened?' I ask him. He looks at me, estimating if he can trust me. Which he can. 'I had a…' he pauses. 'discussion with a friend.' He tells me, his face unreadable. 'Did it have something to do with my bracelet?' Annabeth asks him. He shakes his head. 'No not really, he thought he could steal from me, I made clear he can't.' he says he seems slightly angry. It must be hard living amongst thief's.

He reaches in his bag that is slung over his shoulder and pulls out a small velvet bag. He hands it to Annabeth with a small nod of his head. She smiles, and opens the bag. As she holds it upside down her bracelet slides out. 'Thank you Jack.' She smiles at him. 'No problem.' He reaches out for her hand and she gives it to him, letting him fasten the bracelet around her wrist. Even I have to admit that's very gallant of him. Maybe he has some manners in him. I can see Annabeth's blush even though it's dark. Jack has noticed it too, he smirks. 'Anything else milady?' He grins. I shoot him an angry glare. 'No thanks go back to your "friends".' I tell him with a clear look at his eye. He laughs. 'I'll see you.' He winks and disappears back into the shadows. As he turns around I see a bow on his back. I didn't know Cray told his students to shoot.

Jack's POV

That afternoon after the robbery on the cart I had a little run in with one of the younger guys. I saw him, Malcom, sit by his group of friends, with a bow. As I came closer, I recognized it as my bow. My bow, the little snot stole my bow. I came up behind him and his friends swallowed and pointed to me. He turned around. Face to face with me, I doubt I looked very nice. 'What are you doing with my bow, you little idiot.' I sneered at him, the question was more of a formality. To see if he would admit it. He tried to hide his fear but he failed. 'I found it.' He told me. 'O than it's okay.' I told him, I reached out for my bow. Relieved as he was he hands it to me, big mistake. 'Where did you find it exactly?' I asked. He tried to think of an answer but I continued. 'Did you maybe find it, I don't know. In. My. Tent.' The last words I growled more than I spoke them.

He knew he was in trouble. Before he could do anything I had lashed out with my bow and hit him straight across the head. And to my, and his own surprise, he hit me. I felt my eye. My face Eddie described as stone cold and very dangerous. He already started to apologize but before he could finish his sentence. 'You probably shouldn't have done that.' I told him and in no time I had him in a chokehold, he grabbed my arm trying to get it loose. Let's just say it didn't work. I hissed softly, slowly and very threatening in his ear: 'If you ever, ever touch anything of mine again, I will not let go before you stop breathing, got it?' trust me as I say, he was terrified. His friends were still on the ground just staring. Probably trying to figure out how things had escaladed so fast. Bows were only for the older boys, the ones that earned them got them from Cray. I turned out to have a talent for archery, unlike some, who had it more like a trophy. Otherwise they had more chance of shooting a friendly than an enemy.

I let him go as he nodded. He fell on the ground trying to breath. I looked around, multiple people were staring. 'Let this be a warning.' I yelled. 'Do not touch my stuff.' I said simply. They seemed to understand. On my way to Kim and Anna I was trying to get my anger under control, which proved to be a lot harder than I thought. I was, in my opinion, a real gentleman. Of course Kim decided to ask me about my eye. But for the rest I fastened the bracelet around Annabeth's wrist, I could see her blushing even in the dark. These kind of girls are always good for my confidence. They don't call me Pretty Boy for nothing, let's just say that, plus I can be very charming if I want to. Mark those last four words. I wink at Kim just to make her pissed at me and I disappear back into the shadows.

When I get back at camp I immediately know something's wrong. Everyone is out their tents and running around. I stop the nearest person to me. It's Jason. 'Jack! Where have you been?' he asks me as he recognizes me, it has started to rain and my dark hair is hanging in my eyes. 'Why what's wrong?' I ask, not answering his question. 'Someone stole that bracelet you got from the lady from Cray.' I force myself to act shocked. 'What? Who?' I ask, letting my eyebrows shoot under my hair. 'He doesn't know that's why it's such a chaos. He's making The Bows search all the tents. we didn't know where you were. Go tell Cray you're here. Be careful though, he's furious.' I nod. 'Thanks Jas.' The Bows are all the boys who Cray has given a bow, that means he trusts us more than the rest. He lets us help him with stuff he doesn't trust the others with.

I hurry to Cray's tent, this time I enter through the front. 'Cray?' I ask before entering. 'Yeah.' I hear his voice, it's lower than normal. That's never a good sign. I step inside. While walking here I thought of an excuse. 'I'm so sorry I was gone Cray. I had to get away, otherwise I would have ripped Malcom's head of.' I say softly. He looks up at me. His bright blue eyes shining with anger. 'Yeah, I heard what happened. It's fine, go help the others.' I turn around to walk away. 'Jack.' I turn back to him. 'Find it.' He tells me. I swallow, and nod. I walk out and head straight to Chris who seems to be in charge. Normally it's me, but I was… occupied. 'Chris. Where do I start?' I ask him, pretending I wasn't gone. He works with me. 'Well I would say Malcom, but I have the faint idea that would be bad.' He grins at me, I try to hide my smile, I fail. 'Take the young boys, first Caleb and then Toby.' I nod, and give him a thankful smile. They may be thief's but some are good guys. Everyone shares a tent. I share mine with Jason. Caleb is with Peter, Toby with Liam. I walk towards Caleb's tent.

I open the, let's call it… door. The two boys look up, their faces pale, they've never seen a search before. 'Relax boys.' I tell them and Peter smiles thankful at me. 'You didn't take it did you?' I ask and they shake their head so hard I think they could fall off. 'Then there's nothing to worry about.' I smile at them. Plus I know no one is going to find it, because it's safely around its owners wrist. I search their tent, looking under their beds, between clothes, besides spiders and dust I find nothing worth reporting. 'It's okay boys.' I tell them as I walk to their door again. 'Thanks Jack.' Caleb says. I grin at him. I walk to Toby's tent, I go through the same routine. Nothing either, well a knife under Liam's bed but I throw it towards him pretending I didn't see it. Technically he's not allowed to have a weapon, but I understand. Camp can be dangerous. So I ignore it.

I walk back to Chris, Jerry and Milan are already back too. 'Hey Jack nice of you to join us.' Milan grins at me. I grin. 'Just making sure I wouldn't really strangle Malcom.' He laughs. 'I would have strangled him with my bow.' Chris tells us and we laugh again. 'These boys have so little respect.' Milan says, narrowing his eyes at a group that is staring at us. They keep looking back. That's until I turn around, then they're all gone. I laugh. 'Well you certainly made an impression with your little stunt with Malcom.' Eddie says dryly as he joins us. We're still waiting on Jason, who is now at his last tent. He comes out and shakes his head at us. When he reaches us we automatically stand in a full circle. Even though Chris lead the search they look at me when Milan asks: 'What do we do now?' I look at them. 'Someone has got to tell Cray. Anyone want to volunteer?' I ask hopefully. Chris raises his hand. 'My search, I tell Cray.' We all nod, it's fair. 'Good luck.' I tell him as he walks away.

Camp slowly calms down again. Boy's go back to bed, I see Malcom who quickly turns around when he sees me. 'You scared him good yo.' Jerry grins at me. When Jerry isn't confused he usually says "yo" or "woah". He's a bit, well, weird. Still a great thief, fast as hell. After maybe ten minutes most of the guys are in their tents and Chris returns. We're still waiting for him. 'And?' Milan asks. 'He was pissed, but at least he knows we tried, he thinks the lady hired someone to steal it back for her, maybe a farmers boy.' He tells us. I nod, this looks good for me. If they see her wearing the bracelet they'll just assume Cray is right. Cray never even suspected me, and somewhere in the back of my mind I feel guilty, but right now, I'm just really happy Cray did not find out. My eye is throbbing slightly, but I can deal with it. For now. We go to our tents Jason yawns and falls asleep quickly, I can't. I stare at my bow for a few minutes, I think of Malcom, I should have hit him harder. I smirk. Maybe tomorrow. I slowly doze off thinking of punching the boy who dared to touch my bow.

Kim's POV

The first thing Annabeth says when we get back in my room is: 'He likes you!' she screeches. I'm confused. 'Who likes me?' She looks at me like I'm the stupidest person she has ever met. 'Jack! Thief boy!' she yells at me. What? Jack likes me? Sure. 'Yeah sure Annie, I don't think so either.' I tell her rolling my eyes. She pulls up her eyebrows. 'O come on Kimmy you can't be that ignorant. Jack likes you, trust me.' She says seriously. I'm waiting for her to yell "got you!" or "I can't believe you fell for that." But she doesn't. I laugh nervously. 'Of course he doesn't, are you crazy?' I ask her, honestly why would Jack like me? She's insane, but she just looks at me. 'Just wait and see.' She smiles secretly. Then she lies down on the extra bed that was put in my room. She quickly falls asleep, but I am awake for quite a while. Would Jack like me? Why? Every girl in the village has a secret, or not so secret, crush on the thief. I guess a bad boy is something girls like. Is slowly doze of thinking about Jack and his black eye. His "discussion" with his "friend" bothers me.