Ok so somebody, I'm not naming any names here, *cough yellow331akb3 cough* decided to mention me writing another chapter about a few things and I tried to forget about it. I really did. I even went out to Buffalo Wild Wings and went bowling, but try as I might it's still toying with my brain. Even tho I said it was done. I guess this is just a epilogue or something... Of course I don't own them! Yeesh..
"Excuse me Katrina, can I speak with Theo here for a moment?" She looked up into his eyes.
"Don't run him through with a sword. Have fun." With that she slipped into the lake to practice her skills manipulating the water. Percy sat in the spot that his sister had just vacated.
"Um... Hi Percy."
"So Annabeth tells me that you two are together now. So does Kat."
"Well... yeah. I like her. I like her a lot."
"Just because you like her doesn't mean that I approve of this. You have to be a good boyfriend for her. Tell me honestly, what are your intentions with my sister?" Theo blinked at this question. He hadn't really thought about this.
"I don't know... I just want to be with her and make her happy. I wouldn't do anything that would make her uncomfortable, you know that right?" The younger boy looked up at Percy with fear in his eyes. He didn't want to offend him at all. He'd seen the guy sword practice. He'd heard the stories. He was scared not because he was lying, he was scared because he was telling the truth and didn't know if he would believe him.
"I do now. Alright, well, now I'm going to threaten you. Break her heart and I break your face. Remember, I fought your dad and won. I can take you on. I declined being a God. The Gods thought that I was God material. I'm impervious, just like Achilles. I'm friends with the Stoll brothers. Well, I will be as soon as I get them back for what they did. I'm actually friends with quite a few Gods. Don't test me." Percy ended his strand of threats that he obviously hadn't really thought through before hand with a bit of a growl and the water beneath him began to churn.
"Got it. Completely. We're good here." Theo was sweating from sitting on a dock. This was a first for him.
"Good. I guess I'll go get my sister for you." He slipped into the water and looked around for a bit only to find her sitting in a air bubble a few feet down reading a book.
"How do you have a book down here?" She looked up at him as he began to phase himself into her bubble.
"I keep it in a bubble so it doesn't get wet and then when I want alone time I come down here, grow the bubble, and read for a bit."
"But you're dyslexic?"
"It's written in Ancient Greek genius so it's easier to read. Did you want something?" She put her marker back in the pages. Truth was that she had been trying to read, but couldn't make it past the next sentence. She was just too worried about what was happening up top. Theo was a son of Ares even if he didn't show it all the time, and her brother wasn't one you wanted to mess with even if you were the son of a war god.
"Just to tell you that you're free to date him. He checks out."
"He checks out? Since when did I ask for you permission?"
Theo had been expecting a few things, but not what he got. He'd been sitting on the dock for just a few minutes and had figured that the two would surface soon, maybe Kat would look like Ariel when she got her legs back. Slowly and romantically rising out of the depths, but no. That was DEFINITELY not what he got. Instead he got Percy being shot out of the water and onto the bank and Kat rising up with water swirling around her angrily.
"You take that back!" She was shouting at her brother and her eyes seemed to flash like streaks of lightning out across the sea.
"What'd you say?!" Theo scrambled over to Percy to help him up.
"Nothing! Just that she needed my permission to date you and that she would need my permission in the future before doing things like getting a boyfriend."
"Oh man..." Theo looked down at the ground and shook his head.
"What? What's so bad about that?"
"Um... What's wrong with Kat?" Annabeth had shown up after she heard the thud of somebody hitting the ground. Truthfully she'd been fearful that it was Theo and not her boyfriend.
"You call him Seaweed Brain right?" Now Katrina was using whips of water to grab her brother and pull him back into the lake. Percy then would try to manipulate the water and get her to calm down by pinning her arms to her sides since it was easier for her to control water when she could use her arms. What then insued was a really complicated water fight and the two on shore could make neither heads nor tails of the whole thing. They just saw a bunch of water and sometimes a random bit of either Percy or Kat.
"Yea. What'd he do?"
"He said that Kat needed his permission at all times for boyfriends." Annabeth face palmed.
"This makes a lot more sense now." Everybody who knew Kat knew that she was very VERY feminist. When she first got to camp she probably would've joined the hunters of Artemis if the chance had been given to her. Apparntly Percy had never gotten the hint that she believed in woman power and having to consult somebody for permission about boyfriends seemed rather ridiculous and infuriating to her.
"You know, he probably shouldn't have said that when they were both in the water." Theo and Annabeth decided to sit down and watch since they both knew there was nothing they could do and if they tried they'd probably end up getting drowned.
"That really wasn't the smartest idea. Who do you think is going to win?"
"I probably should say Percy since he's my boyfriend and he's more powerful, but 'Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned'."
"How very true. I'm just glad that that's not me."
"True that. I feel like we should have popcorn or something."
"How much longer do you think that they're going to keep this up?"
"Well Percy has the mark of Achilles so he's got more stamina, speed, strength, and power than a normal demi-god but they're both in their natural element which gives them both more strength and it's going to take a while for them to tire if they tire at all."
"So basically... a long time?"
"Unless one of them manages to get the upper hand... or gets distracted... I've got an idea!" Annabeth sprung up and ran away through the camp only to return around ten minutes later with the Stoll brothers.
"What're you doing Anna... What the hell is that?" Both boys stopped dead in their tracks and stared, open-mouthed, at the giant churned water ball that had developed around Kat and Percy.
"Katrina and Percy. They're still going at it?"
"Yep. Percy almost got her a few times too. I just keep wondering why they're still above water. Isn't keeping that ball of water up a little tired and wasting some good energy?"
"She's too mad at him to think about that and he's too focused and not getting beaten by his little sister."
"That's Katrina and Percy?!" The boys spoke in unison again. "How do we get them to stop?"
"You. Hey Percy! I know you can hear me! I've got the Stoll brothers here and the perfect plan to get revenge on them!" The ball of water spasmed and churned a little faster.
"Do you really think that's gonna work?"
"Annabeth has a plan to get revenge on us?"
"ANNABETH has a PLAN?"
"Why are they freaking out so much?"
"Daughter of Athena. Goddess of battle strategy. I'm a good planner. Don't worry guys. It's not physically painful for you."
"Oh great..." And then miracle upon miracles, the ball peeled back and opened up to reveal both Kat and Percy completely dry and standing calmly.
"Are you two good now?"
"Yep." They responded together and then Percy dove off the platform Kat was keeping up and swam to shore. Kat just sat down on the water and watched the little group on shore as Percy popped up and Annabeth helped him onto land.
"So what's your plan Wise Girl?"
"You'll see. C'mon boys." And with that the four of them took off towards the cabins. Well, two of them took off. The other two were being dragged. As soon as they were gone from sight Theo called up to his girlfriend.
"Are you going to come down any time soon?"
"Wasn't really planning on it."
"Well, then I'll just have to come up there then."
"I'm sorry what?" But he was already in the water striking towards her little pillar of water. "Teddy! You can't just come up here! You'll drown or something!"
"You'll save me." He was now treading water at the base trying to figure out the best way to get up to the top.
"You're impossible." She laughed and lifted him out of the water and up to her. She laughed even more when he screamed at the unexpected movement.
"Don't do that!"
"You don't want to be up here? Well then I'll just put you back-"
"Not what I meant! Don't just decide to move me places when I'm in the water without me knowing about it."
"What like this?" And then she began to move him around on the pillar. In a slow circle around her and then zig zags here and there and a loop-de-loop.
"Stop!" But he was laughing with her at he little game. He kept trying to stand up to try and move of his own volition but she kept knocking him over.
"Fine I'll stop." And she did. "One more?"
"Fine, but just one more."
"Ok." And then she bit her lip and moved him one last time. She moved him towards her so that they were only inches apart. When she abruptly stopped him he nearly fell on top of her. He looked into her eyes.
"How was that one?" She whispered as she was caught in his gaze.
"I like that one." And then he closed the distance between them.
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"Hey! Anybody home?" Annabeth was knocking on the cabin for Aphrodite.
"Annabeth! Are you finally coming to say that you're giving up Percy? Or are you finally giving in to the makeover?" It was a girl who answered the door. She was beautiful, of course, with long curly blonde hair and perfect make up adorning her face. Her skirt was approaching being just a piece of cloth instead of an actual piece of clothing.
"The makeover part." She jumped up and clapped her hands. "But not for me. For them." She turned to reveal Travis and Connor who had conflicting emotions on their faces. One was happiness because they were about to be surrounded by beautiful girls and the other was dread because they had pulled many a prank on the Aphrodite cabin and knew that they would be mericless in their 'makeover'.
"Oh, we would love to get our hands on these two. GIRLS! We've got a couple people who are in need of a makeover!" Instantaneously girls filled the doorway and grinned evilly as they saw who it was that they would be making over. "C'mon boys. Let's get started so that we can be done in time for dinner!" And then many manicured hands reached out and grabbed the brothers and pulled them into their cabin.
"Well that takes care of that." Annabeth smacked her hands together in satisfaction. "They've agreed with me already that if I ever got them the Stoll boys that they would spell the makeover to make it last until at least after the bonfire but it won't last longer than a week at the most."
"Have I ever told you that you're hot when you're evil?" Percy reached forward and looped his fingers into the belt loops in her shorts and pulled her up against him.
"That would be a first." She giggled as he lowered his head to her neck and just let his head sit there. She wrapped her arms around his neck. "C'mon, let's go..."
"Not here."
"Exactly." She laughed as she spun around to lead her boyfriend somewhere more private to find that he just wrapped his arms around her hips and kept his face buried in her neck.
"Your hair smells really good."
"I knew bringing you around the Aphrodite cabin would be a bad idea." They always had love magic out for Percy. Always.
"You know that no sort of magic could make me love anybody but you. They just find it funny when it amplifies what I want to do all the time." They were slowly making their way towards the woods. The going was slow when one was attached to somebody else. Annabeth laughed again.
"Oh screw it, come here." She spun around in his arms again and crashed her lips into his. She could feel him smile as he began kissing her in return and she wound her fingers into his shaggy black hair.
"I love you Wise Girl." Percy didn't even bother seperating their lips. He just spoke into her.
"I love you too Seaweed Brain."
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Life was good at Camp Half-Blood. Katrina and Theo were still closer than they had been before, which was saying something. Every day the pair would go down to the docks and Theo would play his guitar and sing songs for his girlfriend as Percy either taught her more control over water or just messed around with her in the water since both could breathe underwater. It was fun for both of them and helped them to bond as brother and sister. They became close too and whenever either had a nightmare instead of waking the other up they simply climbed into the bed with them. It always calmed them down to somehow know that they weren't alone. During their afternoon water sessions Annabeth would usually appear after a few minutes to sit in the middle of the dock and look things up on her laptop or do some paper work. The Stolls kept pranking people and people kept getting revenge on them. That first night when Camp felt like home to Katrina they showed up to dinner in ball gowns, wigs, and full make up. They wobbled every three steps because they'd also been forced into high heels. It had lasts for five days. Five days of hell for the boys as they still had to do all the normal camp activities like try (and fail miserably) to climb the rock wall, and sword practice with Percy. Everything was perfect until the day that Percy disappeared but that's a different story for a different time.
Am I done now? Please tell me I'm done. I love this story. I do, but I have no idea where it would even go next. I'm just going to declare this the official end. THE END. NO MORE. EL DONEZO. We clear? :P
