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Katie Pov
We'd been sitting here for nearly two hours. We'd thrown Percy in and sat down, and you could hear Annabeth's prayers all the way across the room.
I was leaning against the wall. Conner was across the room, trying not to scratch, while Travis was pale and shaky, with his head between his hands.
It was our fight that got Percy hurt. Will and Pollux had gotten involved, and Thalia had pulled her bow out.
And Percy had been shot.
I could see Clarisse and Chris leaning against the wall, silently talking.
Annabeth was sitting with her legs in the water, never taking her eyes from the bottom of the pool where you could see the faint outline of Percy's body.
The spells that Professor McGonagall had tried to cast on him hadn't worked, we'd had to carry him through the castle corridors and into a HUGE bathroom, and we had slid him in the water.
And waited.
I looked around, trying to find something to distract me.
Will was pacing back and forth beside the water, but avoiding Annabeth.
McGonagall had conjured a chair from thin air and sat down in it ages ago, her face white.
No one had dared mention to Annabeth that normally the water healed Percy by now. He was the Hero of Olympias, he can't be...
I wouldn't allow myself to think it, let alone say it. Unless Percy had hit his head and he was uncouncius, water normally healed him.
When I was thirteen, and he had first come to camp and was playing Capture the Flag, he's been attacked by a hell hound, hurt way worse than this.
But Will had yelled something about an artery in the shoulder being cut, and gods-only-knows- how many times I heard that during the war with Kronos after one of the Apollo kids had examined a camper.
Thalia was next to me, her head on my shoulder. I tink she was crying earlier, I'm not sure.
Piper and Leo were sitting on the towel racks, and Leo was fiddling with Will's broken Ipod 4.
Piper was just sitting, not really doing anything except sitting.
Will really needed an HI-POD, the Ipod was traceable by monsters...
Pollux was reading a book. While his friend was possibly dead, he was reading The Hunger Games.
Jerk.
Just because he wasn't dyslexic doesn't mean he has to play it up all
the time...
Nico was sitting in the corner, making the shadows around us push and pull into weird shapes. One minute there would be a skeleton dancing on the wall, the next Persephone's flower garden.
And scenes from the war. People fighting, and after a while it seemed to be playing Travis and mine fight, and an arrow shooting through the air...
No one had talked for at least an hour, because Annabeth's glares where enough to scare Hades.
But still, we were all human (Or very nearly, but no one cares) and we had to move a little...
Dang ADHD made it worse.
There was complete silence in the room after a little bit. No one really knew what to say. It felt like a funeral.
Annabeth STILL hadn't moved from her spot. I guess all that time reading a book for hours paid off.
And it still felt depressing and more like a funeral the longer we waited.
And it might just be that, if Percy didn't come up. I mean, there hadn't been any bubbles, but he was the Son of Poseidon.
And if he died, it would basically be my fault.
Oh, and Travis, but I'm not keeping track.
I was nearly dozing off after a while.
And when Annabeth screamed, it scared the crap out of me. I jerked upright, and Thalia slipped off of my shoulder.
Annabeth leapt up and grinning, she pointed at the dark shape in the water.
3...
2...
One?
Percy's head broke through the water, then his neck, shoulders...
"And he's alive!" Will shouted, fist bumping Pollux, who had thrown his book on the ground and jumped up grinning.
Percy blinked, wiping his face as he treaded water.
"Where am I?" He muttered, swimming closer to the edge. "Your, well...In a bathtub..." Frank said.
He'd been sitting in the opposite corner the entire time.
"How...Arrow. Thalia, Stolls!" Percy said wincing. "Yep, are you OK?" Annabeth asked breathlessly.
She leaned over the water a little as she spoke, and Percy grimaced. "Better than I was, but couldn't you have thrown me in the lake?"
Annabeth glanced over at McGonagall. "Well, someone said it was too cold, so we took you here"
He rolled his eyes at her.
Percy hauled himself over the edge, standing up quickly. Piper walked over with a towel she jerked out from under Leo and gave it to Percy who shook his head and dried himself with his super-Son-of-Poseidon Powers.
Travis came to stand beside me. He acted a little scared, standing closer than he normally would to me.
I looked away as Percy kissed Annabeth lightly for a minute, then jerked my head back to him as he said, "Thalia!Next time I'm near a high place, I'll shove you over, and Katie, when we go back to Camp, I'm getting weed killer!"
"Sorry! I'm sorry! It was an accident!" Thalia said. She looked like she was trying to make herself smaller some how, scrunching back against the wall.
"Its cool, I've had worse" He replied.
I gotta say it for Percy, he's a pretty nice guy when he's not a complete monster killing machine.
"Are you okay, Jackson?" Professor McGonagall asked, striding forward.
Percy looked fine to me, just a little tired.
"I'm OK, just need some sleep" Percy said, and smiled lopsidedly at Annabeth.
We walked across the room, laughing a little as Percy tripped and grabbed Annabeth's arm for support.
McGonagall looked at the watch on her wrist. "A prefect will be patrolling the corridor out side in about a minute, he or she will escort you to Ravenclaw and Slyhering common rooms, and I will escort you all to Gryffindor Tower"
"Ravenclaw sounds like Rapunzel, Oh! Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair..." Leo said quietly, grinning a little.
"Yeah, I'm sure Rapunzel was a dead ringer for you" Piper said.
Most of us had to crack a smile, those who didn't quickly did when Piper punched Leo, and he squeaked like a girl.
Even McGonagall cracked a smile, her thin lips quirking up at the corners. She turned back to the door.
"Ahem, follow me please" She said, and turned the door handle.
We filed out, Travis still very close to me. His hand kept brushing mine, and I kept moving away.
"Katie!" He whispered urgently as professor McGonagall stood in the corridor tapping her foot and looking at her watch.
"What?" I muttered back.
Look, it was 12 am, and I needed sleep, apparently we STILL have to do out regular training schedule.
"What if he's mad at me?" Travis whispered, standing behind me.
And by behind me, I mean he was practically spooning me, and I couldn't move away because Thalia was directly in front of me as we waited.
"He's not mad, shut up and move away" I whispered back, barely moving my lips.
I felt Travis move away slightly, and I backed up a little, trying not to step on Thalia's Converse.
But, being the clumsy Demeter girl I am, I tripped on air, - BACKWARDS- And onto Travis Stoll.
"Ooomph!" I grunted as he caught me under my arms.
Blushing, I righted myself, and avoided peoples eyes as I adjusted my shirt, which had ridden up when I fell.
"Thanks" I said to Travis, mortified. Why am I always so clumsy? One minute I can be all confident, and then as soon as Travis gets near me I turn into the stuttering, clumsy, strawberry girl.
"She is late, we will need to check up with her" Professor McGonagall said after about five minute of an awkward silence that had only been interrupt when a boy came and took Clarisse and Chris to the Slytherin common room.
"Stay here, I will find Miss Patil and get her to escort you to Ravenclaw Tower" She said, and marched down the corridor.
As soon as she turned the corner, we all burst out laughing.
"Th-The British accents are t-t-too much!" Piper giggled, leaning back on Leo.
"Blimley, have you tried the lamb stew?" Conner mimicked. "I say, you'll need some cotton knickers, you will!" Percy said to Conner, and we laughed again.
It felt good, knowing we were all safe for the time being.
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