A/N: Okay, I am sorry about the lateness and shortness of this chapter. I'm not any good at travelling/ in-between bits. But I promise, there will be longer chapters with some actual plot in them soon!

HAZEL

AN UNNGODDLY HOUR IN THE MORNING TWO DAYS LATER

They rented a van. That was a mistake. Because Leo insisted on driving. He drove like all the hounds of hell were at their heels. As they drove down the highway, Hazel wondered where on earth they would start looking. Schools? Debate club? She sighed. In truth, none of them had any clue. But what she was really wondering was why, of all things, Peitho had needed a troop of demigods to find her own daughter. Couldn't she just as easily have used her special goddessness to track her down? Piper had said that Peitho had already tried, but couldn't she have just made a little image float above the mysterious Scarlett's head, or send a Satyr? She shrugged off those thoughts. A sudden crushing tiredness weighed upon her mind.

She woke up and found that the car had stopped. She blinked the sleep out of her eyes, and looked around outside. They were at a gas station. Frank was getting gas, Reyna and Annabeth were still in the car, and everyone else seemed to be inside getting snacks. It looked to be a little past noon. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. Leo came bounding out of the store holding a bag that looked suspiciously like Fonzies, but instead said "Twisties" on the bag instead of "Fonzies". He took Percy's seat, and Percy got behind the wheel with a blue Icee. Annabeth passed around a giant bag filled with little Halloween-sized candies. Calypso picked out a bag of Pop Rocks, put some in her mouth, and her face looked like it was about to explode.

Frank climbed in next to Hazel, and they drove on. Hazel read, as she Annabeth, and Reyna seemed to be the only ones who remembered to bring books. They landscape sped by. Soon(ish) they were in Portland. They split up to cover more ground. Annabeth, Reyna, and Jason went to go look for some kind of hotel. Hazel, Frank, Percy, and Leo went to go explore the north of the city, and Nico, Will, Calypso, and Piper went to the south.

It wasn't long before the Northern group came across a school. Leo, Percy, and Hazel squinted at the sign above the door. Percy looked pleadingly at Frank. He looked at it and read off "Stoller Middle School." He paused, and continued, "Would a 14 year old be in middle school?"

Percy piped up, "Well, maybe? She could be in 8th of 9th grade. 8th is in middle school, 9th is in high school."

Leo shrugged, "Well, let's see." He turned on his heel and headed toward the door. Percy bolted after him. Frank and Hazel exchanged glances and headed in. Hazel took a second to bend the mist and make them unnoticeable.

They walked towards a bulletin board on a wall to the left. Taking up almost its entire space, was an enormous glossy poster. Its background was black, and it read in big gold letters at the top "Summer Debate Club Final. September 14."

Hazel worked out the days in her head. "Wait as second," she said, "today's the 14th."

Frank swiveled his head to look around the empty main lobby. "Hey, where are Leo and Percy?"

A/N: Something very off-topic here, but who watches Being Human? UK, not US.