Chapter Eleven (Leo's PoV)

I go to bed miserable. When I wake up the next day, the events come rushing back to me. I sit in my bed under the rest of the cabin floor for almost an hour. Not for one second do I even consider going to breakfast. When I'm certain everyone will be out of the cabin, I press the button on my headboard, and my bed rises up.

But to my dismay, I see my half-sister, Nyssa, staring at me.

"Nyssa, what are you doing?"

"You didn't come to breakfast. Chiron said to just wait for you to come up. You can't hide forever, Leo."

I decide to play dumb. "Hide from what?"

"Just keep telling Calypso you're sorry and you didn't do it. Chances are she'll forgive you."

Sighing, I pull on a sock. "Does everyone know about that?"

"We all know you had a fight. Calypso ran off screaming. But we don't know what for."

"Who told you? No; let me guess," I say sarcastically. The word 'Dakota' runs through my head, quickly followed by 'loud-mouthed annoying evil sneaky-peaky burned marshmallow that no one likes'.

Nyssa pushes her hair back. "I think it was one of those new girls from the Apollo cabin. The one with the short hair. Dakota. Yeah, that's her name."

Abandoning my other sock and both my shoes, I dash out of the cabin and straight to the Apollo cabin. No one is there. I try the dining pavilion, but breakfast is over. Neither of them is at the beach, either.

As a last resort, I try the forge. And lo and behold, there is one of the three triplets. Dakota sits in the back corner with Percy. Her head is on his shoulder, and she holds his hand. He looks really confused. Dakota puts her free hand on Percy's neck and pulls her face to his, but Percy notices me before Dakota can get in a kiss. Percy pulls his hand away and stands up. "Bro. I heard about Calypso."

"From who? Oh wait let me guess, her?"

Percy looks confused. "No," he says, "from a guy in the Aphrodite cabin."

Dakota looks miffed. "Only because I told them!" Then she claps her hand over her mouth. Percy starts towards me, disgusted. "Dakota, I can't believe you."

Dakota gives Percy the puppy eyes. "Percy, I was kidding. Come back. We still have cookies. And they're blue."

But Percy doesn't seem to care. He throws his arm across my shoulders and says, "No one messes with the Half-Blood Brothers. Not even an asshat like you."

We leave Dakota sitting in the floor and shaking her head, muttering, "Half-Blood Brothers?!"

"Percy that is literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard," I say once we're out of earshot. "And also, asshat?"

Percy grins. "I know. I just needed an awesome club name and a horrible insult so I could make an awesome exit. Did it work?"

I laugh. "Not at all."

Percy says, "Perfect."

We walk in silence. "Percy, what were you doing? You have a girlfriend. You leave with her for Camp Jupiter in a month. Literally. 'Cause I think today's the fifteenth."

Percy looks down. "I dunno. I was just being a friend. Dakota kept talking about her old boyfriend Charlie or something like that. Then she leaned her head down on my shoulder. She started holding my hand, and I didn't know how to stop her because she was almost crying. Then she started to lean in."

"But that time… when Dayton tried to kiss me and you and Dakota were holding hands and you didn't let go."

"Oh, Dakota and I were running from Jason and Dawson, trying to play a joke on them. But what about you and Dayton?"

"Same thing as with you: I was trying to be a good friend. I was just working on a sword, and she came over to my table. Then she started talking about how she needed to hammer her sword, and I nudged her hand over to the lava sink. And then she started leaning in, and you and Dakota saved me from kissing her."

Percy shakes his head. "Yo, they are messed up."

"Well duh. They're coming between us and our girlfriends."

Percy nods. An awkward silence ensues, and neither of us breaks it.

But after a few more minutes of walking aimlessly, I ask Percy where we are going, because lunch is in a few hours. He makes his voice all high and girlish. "To the stars, Leo. To the stars."

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(Calypso's PoV)

I spend the morning in my room. Hazel brings me a bagel with cream cheese for breakfast since I didn't show up.

She sits on my bed and tries to comfort me. "Calypso, I know Leo would never try to kiss Dayton. He's much too sweet."

I sniffle and blow my nose on a tissue. "But, Hazel, consider what's happened before. Do you remember that day when Leo and Dayton were flirting at dinner? After you left that night, Leo was here. He convinced me that Dayton was just a friend. He admitted that her hair brushed his shoulder, but only because she'd scooted over. And now this."

"Calypso, I really do believe that Leo didn't do anything wrong. If he had feelings for her, he wouldn't have admitted that her hair brushed his shoulder, and he would've kept the almost-kiss a secret."

"But that's the thing: he did." I crumple up the tissue and shoot it into the waste basket by the door. I miss. "He didn't tell me."

"But he was going to. If you really want to know what happened, use magic to see into the past."

"Does everyone know my personal business nowadays?"

Hazel shrugs. "More or less."

I groan. "Alright. Hazel, pay attention. We're going to see into the past." I extend my palm and concentrate. A misty image appears.

Leo works at his table in the forge. Dayton comes in with an Apollo camper she calls Sabrina. Dayton explains why she's there, and Sabrina leaves. Dayton comes over to Leo's table after he gives her directions on making a sword. He nudges her hand.

Hazel and I simultaneously inhale. Then Dayton closes her eyes and starts to lean in. Leo looks nervous. He starts drawing away just before the forge doors opens with a bang. Percy and Dakota enter, laughing and smiling. Leo jumps away from Dayton, who opens her eyes and blushes.

Dakota mentions dinner before intertwining her fingers with Percy's. He doesn't let go, and everyone leaves the forge.

"See, Calypso?" Hazel doesn't sound smug, she just sounds kind. "Leo wasn't insinuating anything. It was all Dayton."

"But what about when he nudged her hand?"

The door to my room opens. I realize that the cloudy illustration of events is still playing. I wave my free hand through it and cut the picture off.

Chiron steps into the room. "Hazel, Calypso, good morning. I would like to introduce you to a new camper." He steps aside and a girl who looks no more than fourteen steps out from behind Chiron. She has blue eyes, pale skin, and dark hair that hangs down her back in waves.

Chiron nudges her forward. The girl blushes a deep red and says in a quiet voice, "My name is Brie. I'm new."

"Her dad is Zeus," Chiron says, "and I would like you two ladies to show her around." Interesting hair for a daughter of Zeus; she looks more like a child of Hades, I think to myself. Jason's a son of Jupiter, and he has blond hair. But Piper's shown me a picture of his sister Thalia, and she's a daughter of Zeus. Maybe Brie just got her hair from her mother

Hazel nods. "Ok. Come on, Brie. Let's take a tour of Camp Half-Blood."

I smile, but then say, "But Chiron, shouldn't we get Piper too? I've been here for only a little while, and Hazel lives at Camp Jupiter."

Chiron absentmindedly nods his head. "Miss McLean would be very helpful indeed."

Hazel, Brie, and I walk out of the Big House and over to the cabins. "These are the cabins," Hazel says. "You'll stay in the cabin of your godly parentage, which is Zeus. That means Jason is your brother. That cabin over there, that's Zeus's." She points to a cabin with bronze doors and heavy columns. "And over there," she says, pointing at the Hades cabin, "that's where I stay when I visit. My half-brother Nico lives there too. You stay in your cabins with your half-siblings, but I'm not sure how many demigod children Zeus has. That's what we are. Demigods."

Finally, Brie speaks up. "You said you visit. Where are you when you're not here? The horse-man Chiron said that this is the safest place on Earth for half-bloods aside from another place."

"I stay in the other place. It's another camp for half-bloods. It's called Camp Jupiter, and that's where the Roman demigods live."

Brie looks really confused. "Romans?"

"It's a lot to take in," I say.

We walk over to the Aphrodite cabin. Piper opens the door when we knock. Her eyes are puffy and red, and she holds a tissue. Sniffing, she says hi to me and Hazel before asking who the girl is.

"This is Brie. She's a new Zeus camper. She's got Jason for a half-brother. Piper, what's wrong," I ask.

Piper sniffs again before bursting into tears. Another girl comes up behind her. "She just found out that Jason ran off and that the Dawson girl is missing too. Oh, and I'm Lacy," she says

Piper starts crying all over again. "He's been hanging around her a lot. I mean a lot a lot. Jason and I haven't even kissed since before they came here. She's just taking him over, that bitch!"

"At least she hasn't tried to kiss him yet," I say without thinking. Piper stops crying and Lacey stops patting Piper's shoulder. "Oh no," Lacy says, "Dayton didn't try that, did she?"

"Yes. She did." Piper's tears set me off, and I find it strange that I'm able to cry. I thought I'd cried myself out in the past day.

Hazel and Lacy look at us sadly. Brie stands off to the side, looking as if she doesn't want to be here, yet she knows what we're going through.

Piper is still crying. "Why can't they see the triplets for what they are? It's like our guys are… brain-dead."

Agreed," I say sadly.

Piper looks up at me. "Well, I think we should start a club."

I laugh weakly. "Deal."

Piper looks up at the cabin ceiling for a bit.

Brie speaks up. "The BBC. Brain-dead Boyfriend Club."

Piper motions for Brie to come closer. "If you've been through this before, then by all means, you're in the club."

Lacy clears her throat and says, "Isn't BBC a TV network in Britain?"

Brie takes a cautious step forward. "Yeah, BBC is a British TV network. They make Doctor Who. Doctor Who is my life. And right before I came here, I found out that my boyfriend of eight months was cheating on me the entire time we dated. With one of my best friends, Samantha."

Piper mutters, "Guys are assholes."

Lacy says, "How old are you?"

"Fourteen."

Piper pulls me into a half hug and holds out her other arm to Brie. "Welcome to the club."

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A/N time! Hey y'all! Little Defiance here bringing another chapter of Gone. I hope all you demigods like it! And now the chapterly stuff!

~I present to you another OC!

~Next update: September 22nd. I just have a lot of stuff going on: volleyball, the 45 minutes of algebra homework every night, continuing to write this, even though I currently am suffering from writer's block.

~The sample chapter of About a Boy is up now! Y'all should go check it out. R&R's are awesome. If you want me to make it a regular thing, leave a review. If I get enough, I might continue it.

~Truth: Doctor Who is pretty amazing. I can't decide who my favorite doctor is, Nine or Ten.

~I love reviews! Every single one of the 1,209 views make me smile!

~I may make a sequel one-shot to my previous one-shot, Yes (The Mortal Instruments series).

~Truth: when making s'mores, I set my marshmallow on fire. Apparently, Leo isn't about that life; he's golden brown all the way.

I think that about sums it all up for this chapter. Keep writing reviews!

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-Little Defiance