Hey guys! Shadow here. I'm aware, I'm aware, I haven't updated since, like, last year, but I'm back for now and I have a little bit of time on my hands. I know alot of you have been waiting for an update...so without further ado, here it is! Chapter seven, Camp Getaway!


After detailed plotting, shrewd analyzing and countless hours of planning, the trap was set. Surprisingly enough, Percy came up with the whole idea; I began to see why so many teachers were weary about the troublemaker now.

Jack began to aviod me like I was the Black Plague, and I couldn't complain. However, he took to talking kindly to Percy around camp, and oftentimes Percy would spend lot of time around Jack, which bugged me greatly. It wasn't as if Percy actually liked it though; it was all part of the plan. Seaweed Brain and I had to keep our distance, anyways; we didn't want word to go around camp that the two new kids were going out.

Mr. T had a certain liking for me and Percy as the new kids in camp, but for some reason he didn't find Rachel as sweet and obedient. This cheered me up greatly. Not only was an acheivement in my book, but it would help when it came time to put our plan in action.

Percy had to pretend to keep in close contact with Rachel; apparently, she had not yet figured out that I had seen her night out with Jack, and we aimed to keep it that way. And me? Well, let's just say, I had my own part to play...


"Jack, I'm so sorry."

"...What?"

It was a little before lunch, and I had stopped Jack on his way to the mess hall.

"I'm sorry that I got mad at you before," I admitted, "I was really jealous of Rachel, and I couldn't bear to see her with another guy."

Jack's eyebrows furrowed. "Really? I thought you were really mad at me for cheating on you."

I rolled my eyes. Clearly, some guys did not get the whole don't-question-the-apology-thing. "I'm not mad at you anymore because I realized that we weren't really going out in the first place."

"And, you want to go out with me now?"

"No," I said rather quickly, "I actually like another guy. I was just wondering if I could help your relationship with Rachel. I'm so good with romance-y stuff, you know, that it's not even funny."

Just as I calculated, Jack did not expect anything. "Well," he sighed, "Rachel's always talking about her artwork, but for some reason she refuses to show me." His face took on a dreamy expression. "If only I could see those beautiful pictures my lovely Rachel paints...then my life could be complete."

"Well," I smiled deviously, "I know of a way to let you complete your life."


"Tonight."

"No, you're kidding, right?"

"I'm not. Jack's coming tonight; we don't have another chance."

A brief pause of hesitation. "So this is it?"

"Chill out, Seaweed Brain. Just go with the plan, and you can't fail. You sound like you're going to take on Medusa again or something."

"Chill, right," Percy sighed as he skipped another rock into the creek, "Give me Medusa any day. This plan makes it seem like the only way to overthrow Kronos."

I smirked as I stood up and brushed myself off. "You never know, it could be."


10:35 p.m.

"It's really nice of you to help me out like this, you know. I even forgive you for making a fool of me in the cafeteria!"

"Well, it's in my nature to help out others. It's nothing really, just a day-to-day thing."

"You know, if I wasn't dating Rachel at the moment, I would certainly be dating you. You're such a sweetheart."

I resisted the urge to slap him on the spot. He probably thinks that I find him irresistible, I thought glumly, but if only he knew...

"Well, here we are!" I exclaimed as I opened the cabin door and flicked on the light switch, "Cabin Brune, at its finest."

"I've never been in a girl's cabin," Jack explain with an increasing amount of awe as he examined the lamp, the bed, the dresser ect ect. "Now that I see it, I realize it's not so different from a guy's cabin. Except for, of course, the smell." He chuckled heartily to himself.

I gave him a forced smile. "Her sketchbook is over here," I told him, pointing towards a box underneath Rachel's bed, "You can look through it, if you really want to see her art."

He suddenly exhaled noisily. "Is this right?"

Caught off guard by the question, I could only reply, "Wh-what do you mean?"

"I don't think it's right to be snooping around in Rachel's stuff without her permission."

I breathed again. This was going to make my job a whole lot easier. "Do you want me to go get her? I doubt she would refuse to let you see the artwork, anyways, since you're already here."

Jack smiled warmly. "Yeah, that'd be great, thanks." He went back to fumbling around in our cabin.

I spun on my heel and wrenched open the cabin door, greeted by a blast of warm air. "Don't poke around on the right side of the cabin," I said over my shoulder as I hopped into the soft grass. I heard a faint "Sure" from the inside of the cabin, and then, satisfied, took off towards the creek.

Part one of the plan was set and in action.


And that concludes Chapter 7! I hope you enjoyed, and I will try to post the next chapter as soon as I can. Well...reviews are greatly appriciated, so I would like to take this time to thank all the people who kindly reviewed my story. :) Thank you!

Until next time, ~ShadowedTear~