Needless to say, I was upset about my current situation. Isn't it obvious? My living arrangements were pretty sweet; anything I could ever dream of wanting material wise, if I lived in ancient Greek times anyway. But really, you can't buy happiness. I really missed everybody. Jeydon… Grover… even Annabeth… and Percy. He tried to help me, to no avail, but still.

I had not even tried to leave my room for what felt like a couple days. I just sat there and cried. Only out of hunger and the desire to take a shower did I ever find out that the door was not locked and I could leave. I stepped through the doorway and saw that everything had changed to normal size. Either that or I changed to giant sized.

I wandered for what felt like forever and didn't run into anybody. I avoided the direction of the conference like room where all the gods seemed to meet and discuss things. I felt completely and utterly lost; like I wasn't upset enough already. Now here I was wandering down a freaking hallway.

"Miss." A voice called to my left. I practically jumped out of my skin when I whipped around to see a man standing in a doorframe. "You are Janine Thompson."

"Y-yeah…" I replied. He was handsome, looked to be in his thirties. "Who are you?"

"I am Hermes." He replied with a charming smile.

Jeydon's dad. I thought. "Hi." I replied in a dry tone.

"You must be famished. Come. I will bring you to where you can recieve food and drink." He flashed me another kind smile and started down the hall.

I followed in silence. The god led me through the building until we reached a grand dining hall. He whistled and a couple satyrs appeared with a tray of bread and cheese and a goblet of some kind of liquid. All were set down on the table in front of me. I hesitated a moment before sitting down and digging in.

After I was done eating I noticed that Hermes was still there, watching me. I looked up at him. "Thanks, but uh… why are you being nice to me?"

Hermes shrugged. "I'm a bit more… opened minded then the other gods here on Olympus."

I shrugged as I wiped my mouth with the back of my sleeve. "Coulda fooled me."

Hermes chuckled lightly. "Yes, well, I've been around town, so to speak."

"Huh." We fell into an awkward silence. I just sat there, staring at my plate of crumbs. I could feel him watching me. Finally I looked up at him, annoyed. "What?"

He sat down across from me at the long dining table. He leaned in with his arms rested on the table, a smile gracing his lips again. "You are just… you fascinate me, Janine Thompson. Not very many can see what I see when I look at people, this world and your own. It's a… gift. Perhaps, my one son has the same gift."

I thought of Jeydon, who he must have been talking about. "Yeah?"

"But you, my dear, you puzzle me. I cannot place it, what I see when I look into your eyes. It's something… powerful."

I cocked an eyebrow in confusion. Then I sighed loudly and stood up. "Um, thanks, but I don't feel very powerful at the moment. Uh… do you think I could have a bath or something?"

"Of course." Hermes said standing and moving to leave. I followed. "A bathing room had been provided for every room." We walked back to where I had spent the past couple days and he gestured to a door near my room. "There you are."

"Thanks." I replied. Then I retreated into the bathroom. I was alone again, thankful for it. I looked across the room, which was large, made of a swirly white marble with a giant white stone bath in the center. I sighed and began to take off my dirty old clothes.

I sat in my room again. I was cross-legged on the edge of my bed, staring at the palms of my hands that were rested on my knees. I opened and closed my hands slowly, my breathing in sync with it. I had tried to create a smoke butterfly again, but it wouldn't work. No matter how hard I tried, none of my powers worked.

"Christ sake!" I growled, falling back onto the bed. I was beyond frustrated. Not that I wanted to burn the place down or anything like that, but still it was annoying that I was no longer trusted by anybody. It really hurt. I remembered that look on Annabeth's face and felt tears sting my eyes again. I flipped over onto my stomach, grabbed a pillow and pressed it to my face. I screamed as loud as I could into it. "WHY! I didn't do anything wrong!"

I lifted my head when I thought I heard a sound. I looked over my shoulder and saw nothing above the edge of the bed. I held my breath, and could faintly hear wjat sounded like the crackling of burning wood. The faint smell of smoke wafted to my nose.

Curiously, I crawled slowly to the edge of the bed and peered over it. "Hello?" I saw nothing, but the sound and smell of something burning was getting more distinct. Under the bed. I thought.

Now I was starting to get nervous, but I wasn't scared. I crawled off the bed and peeked under it. My eyes widened in surprise at what I found. The floor had started to slowly be eaten away by fire. There was a hole, the edges glowing orange, getting wider and wider.

"Did I do that?" I asked myself. The hole got big enough that I could touch it. I reached out to it. I could feel the heat radiating off of it, but when I touched the edge it didn't burn.

I scooted back a bit away from the bed and sat up so I could think. Ok, so a big ass hole just came out of nowhere under my bed. What do I do about it? Well, I guess I could just trust my gut and jump in. I have no freaking idea why my gut is telling me that in the first place! I decided that mentally arguing with me was not going to help. Besides, I was doomed to rot here by myself anyways, so what did I have to lose?

I got up and grabbed my bag. Thankfully they let me keep everything. I ran my fingers through my head vigorously and swept it into a messy ponytail. Then I finally laid flat on my stomach and army crawled underneath the bed. I reached the hole and a wave of anxiety washed over me. I didn't retreat. I bit my lip and swung around so my legs dangled into the hole, holding myself up with my arms.

"See ya on the flip side." I huffed, before finally letting myself plunge into a dark abyss.

Yeeeah I know things were moving a bit fast in this chapter, but whatever I couldn't really think of a lot to happen on Olympus. It was boring so yeah im getting on with the story AAAAND leavin you on a little cliffy there ;) REVIEW DUDE!hhhhHH