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If you like Friends, you'll probably enjoy this chapter for the references and two of our guys being Friends fans. :P Minor spoilers for those who haven't read CoG or CoFA from the Mortal Instruments.

11. The Fight, The Frenaissance and The Duel

Nico slapped Percy on the head, "Way to ruin the moment, Perce."

Percy rubbed his head, looking confused (as usual). "What moment?"

"Morgead's moment of awkwardness and embarrassment," Ash said. "I just wish that I had a camera. That was a priceless moment."

Jace gave them an iniquitous smile. "Oh, I have something even better."

"Yeah? And what's that?" Ash asked, raising an eyebrow.

Jace answered with a self-satisfied smile, "My memory. See? I'm replaying it over and over in my head right now."

Morgead's face turned brightest red and he made as if to charge at Jace, but Jesse held him back.

"Just ignore him, Morgead. The fact that he's imagining you and your zipper, what do you think that says about him?"

"HEY!" yelled Jace. It was his turn to go crimson. Morgead let out a bark of laughter, thanking the Big Guy that Jesse was not dead.

"Jesse! I thought you were on my side," Jace protested, "not his!"

"Oh yeah?" Morgead crossed his arms. "Who said so?"

"I said so!" Jace said. "You know, because I'm amazing and all."

"That's not fair."

"Life isn't fair, get over it, Vampire Boy!"

As a last resort, Morgead turned to Jesse. "Jesse! Jace is being mean to me."

Jesse blinked. "Now, Jace-"

"No, stop right there!" Jace shouted. He jabbed a finger at Morgead. "He got his chance, we're equal now!"

"He just told me life isn't fair!" Morgead told Jesse.

"That's because life isn't fair!"

"But it is!"

"It's not!"

"Now look-" Jesse said, trying to stand between the two boys. "We all have different opinions."

"No, no, no, no, no," Jace cut Jesse off. "He," he pointed at Morgead, "got a happy ending with his soulmate, while I," he pointed at himself, "died, came back alive, and will have to suffer with the evil inside me for two more books, then I'll hate myself for the rest of my life." He crossed his arms in front of his chest. "Now YOU tell me life is fair."

"Oh yeah? Well I...I..I...Jesse, you're suppose to help me!"

Meanwhile, Percy and Shelly, Peeta and his Apron sat on the beach, watching Jesse's futile attempt to mediate (haha, Mediator) the fight between Jace and Morgead.

"Popcorn?" Percy offered.

"Where did you get popcorn?" Peeta asked wonderingly.

Percy shrugged. "I found it in Jesse's Cowboy pocket."

"God, I love Jesse's cowboy pockets," sighed Peeta, grabbing a handful of popcorn and shoveling it into his mouth. It had been a long day...a long, long, long day, and none of the islanders had had anything to eat (unless you counted spiked cookies), or drink (unless you counted seawater) and had not had a wink of sleep. Percy and Peeta watched as Jace and Morgead wrestled each other into the sandy ground. Jesse was now so distressed that he was yelling at the two boys in Spanish.

As the baker and the Fish Boy laughed at the spectacle, Nico di Angelo came up to them, an odd look on his face. "Are you guys, like, on a double date?" he asked, gesturing to Shelly and the Apron.

"What? No!" Percy and Peeta sprang apart. "We were just having a... frenaissance," Percy said.

"What in the Hades is a 'frenaissance'?" Nico asked, raising an eyebrow.

Percy looked at him in shock. "You don't know what a frenaissance is? Oh my gods, Nico. Where have you been?"

Peeta also looked confused. Percy noticed that and said, "Not you too, Peeta!"

"A frenaissance is when friends hang out together to renew their friendship! Like Joey and Pheobe from Friends."

Nico and Peeta stared at him blankly.

"Please tell me that you've watched Friends," Percy asked desperately, searching for some recognition to the word Friends on both of their faces.

The two boys shook their heads. Percy was speechless.

Ash, who was idling around the palm trees, walked by casually at the mention of Friends.

"You watch Friends?" he asked, his expression unreadable.

"Yes!" Percy said proudly. "I have the box set! I watched every single episode of it twice!" He threw a disdainful sideways glance at Peeta and Nico and gratefully at Ash, glad that at least someone knew Friends.

Nico nodded comprehensibly to himself, though he still has no idea what the hell Friends was. Peeta just decided to drop the Friends conundrum and started murmuring to his Apron.

Ash shook his head at Percy's response.

"Just twice? I watched it three times," Ash said, smugly.

"Well, watching it three times doesn't mean you know everything about it," Percy shot back.

"Oh yeah?"

"Oh yeah."

"How about we have a Friends duel?" Ash proposed. "I will say a quote and you have to say which episode and season it's from, then you say a quote. How does that sound?"

Percy cracked his knuckles. "Bring it on!"

Percy and Ash stood back-to-back solemnly, cocking the thumbs on their right hands and sticking out their pointer fingers to make guns.

"To the death, Perseus Jackson."

"To the death, Ash Redfern."

"Wow, okay," Nico said, staring at the two boys. He looked at the other side, where Jace and Morgead were combating with each other on the sand, with Jesse yelling loudly in Spanish, still trying to quell the fight.

"Count off!" Percy shouted, then they both walked away from each other, counting paces.

Nico looked back at Ash and Percy, now standing ten paces away facing each other, each holding their hand guns with a stoic expression. Now he realized what took the boys so long to get off the island, if they were ever going to. Oh well. Might as well enjoy yourself. He sat down next to Peeta.

"Peeta, popcorn?"

"Draw!" Ash shouted.

"Take all you want," Peeta offered. "Fire!" He yelled for Ash and Percy.

"'How do you expect me to grow if you won't let me blow?'" Ash went first.

"Season two, episode nineteen, The One Where Eddie Won't Go." Percy answered right after Ash finished the sentence. "From Rachel to Ross. Now it's my turn."

Peeta and Nico clapped and cheered. In the sand in front of them, Nico had written "Team Percy". Peeta was arranging pieces of popcorn to spell out the words "Fish Boy FTW".

Ash eyed them, and his gaze stayed there when he saw what Peeta and Nico had written.

"Stop!" Ash yelled just as Percy was beginning his quote. "Time out!" He rushed towards the audience and pointed at the words in the sand.

"That's not fair!" complained Ash, who had no one on his side.

"Sorry, bro," shrugged Nico, "but he's from my fandom."

"Fine," Ash accepted, "but what's your excuse?" he growled, glaring at Peeta. The baker shrugged.

"We just had a frenaissance. Can't betray a bro right after a frenaissance."

A few feet away, Jesse had given up trying to separate Morgead and Jace. Partly because his voice had given out after yelling so loudly in Spanish, partly because he had noticed a figure in the distance...the unmistakable figure of...a girl.

"Dios," he murmured, his eyes trained on the figure, which seemed to be unconscious. "Morgead. Jace."

But they weren't listening. Jace was too busy trying to pour sand into Morgead ears while Morgead was grabbing fistfuls of Jace's hair and trying to pull the other boy away from him.

"Get OFF me, you testical!"

"I am NOT. A. TESTICAL! Eat sand, vampire!"

"HEY, LOCOS! THERE'S A GIRL HERE!"

That caught their attention.

How's that for an ending? ;P

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