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I flung water in the air. "Oh Iris, Goddess of the Rainbow, accept my offering!" A drachma sailed through, and "CHIRON at CAMP HALF BLOOD!"

Chiron blinked, and turned around, seeing me and the boys with Argus. His eyes widened. "What in Zeus' name happened?" I felt tears of guilt run down my face.

"We were attacked and I tried to take it out by myself. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" I fell into awkward racking sobs and Chiron frowned. "What happened then?"

A hand landed on my back and I heard Jack speak. "Argus ran and tried to stop the chimera after Tigris retreated, but it opened fire on him. He'll be fine, I think. Tigris can heal him once she's recovered. I'm not sure that Argus will be okay, but I think that we can drive…" We all heard the hissing and looked around. Chiron blanched as we all saw the chimeras. I squeaked out a healing prayer, reaching a hand out to Argus and seeing it work.

We all stood up, Argus standing in front of us as the spell took effect.

"You need to go, now!" He shoved us towards the van, and glared at us. "I can hold these off. You have to head east!"

I grabbed his arm. "No freaking way. We don't want to leave you and we don't know which way east is!"

He shook me off, with a scary expression. "DO AS I TELL YOU!" He pointed towards the road. "Follow that until the sun rises. You have to go now!"

I sliced at a chimera with my claws, and Argus pushed me towards the van. "Go, quickly!" The boys pulled me into the van and Connor pushed me into the passenger seat, while Jack strapped me into the seat. I slammed up against the window.

"Argus!" I saw him holding his own against the chimeras as Connor started up the engine, and he was lost to the dust as we sped away from the battle. I tried to fight against Jack, who was holding my arms back so that I couldn't undo the seatbelt, but to no avail; I was stuck in this van for a while.

…

After I had calmed down to a reasonable state where I no longer threatened Jack with disembowelment and blinding, he let go of my arms and motioned me to the back of the van.

"You're tired, Tigris. You need to rest." He produced a sleeping bag from his backpack and Connor sighed heavily.

"A knight in shining armour, huh?" We saw him rolling his eyes in the rear-view mirror, and Jack glared at him. I wasn't quite sure what they were on about, but I did know that Jack was right. I'd worn myself out with the hysterics and needed sleep so desperately. My eyelids felt like lead, and I couldn't actually concentrate on anything that was being said.

I think I fell asleep round about then.

…

Jack looked down at Tigris, blonde hair falling around her face and a softer expression, which made him smile. She was kind of adorable when she was asleep; it was like all the fierceness left her. He was called out of his thoughts by Connor saying his name.

"What?" he asked him. Connor sighed, a smirk worming its way onto his face.

"I said it's creepy that you're watching her sleep. Also, you're smiling in a really weird way which, believe me, does not help your situation."

Jack blushed bright red. "It isn't like that at all!" He tried to fight the inner voice warning him that Connor's smirk meant he shouldn't have said anything.

"Your loss, dude. If you don't want to go out with her then I might just stir things up a bit." The Hermes boy grinned devilishly at him, causing Jack to go pale.

"What does that mean?" he asked him nervously. Jack really didn't like the look of that smirk. Connor just shrugged.

"You'll have to wait and see…" he sang in a mocking tone, causing Jack to shiver and place a hand on Tigris' shoulder.

Worst. Idea. Ever.

…

I tried to shake Jack's arm. "I'm sorry; I really thought that I had told you!" Jack kept his eyes trained on the book, and replied without looking up.

"You threw me across the van; therefore I will not forgive you."

I honestly had not meant to. If someone shakes me awake, I'm fine with that. If they try to do so softly, I'm afraid I try to harm them in any way possible. I wasn't even conscious when I threw him across the van, and I woke up when I heard him screaming and Connor laughing his head off.

It wasn't a very masculine scream, either. Pointing this out really hadn't helped me.

I smiled at him hesitantly. "I promise that I'll try not to do it again!"

He closed his book and showed me a purple bruise on his arm, which I promptly healed.

"I didn't want you to heal it! I wanted you to see what you've done!" Jack huffed.

I sighed. This was going to be a long journey…