Disclaimer: No. No. NO! I don't own it! I do not own PJO, the song, or any references to reality used!
Hello PJO world. Guess who's back?
The song in this chapter is dedicated to all the StarKids out there, especially to BornLucky101. Thank you so much for what you did~ I am still so amazed by your work!
So you should all go up and listen to the song, and pay close attention to the lyrics in this version.
StarKid FTW~
Chapter 12 – Gardner Danger
You couldn't blame them. They were teenage boys. Their curiosities were surely to be piqued at the news of an all-girl party. It was not for any highly sexual reason that many might think of… Of course not! Not to mention, all these boys were being led by the Stoll bros, who had decided that to let loose during a horrid singing competition, their answer was to invade this specific all-girl party.
Also, the girls were completely horrible in hiding the part news of course. Honestly, what did they think of them? Idiots?
They were probably right.
But moving along from that, they had to think of how to actually sneak inside this party. They could've gone and acted like a secret agent – James Bond type of thing – or they could've done that sweet Mamma Mia entrance with the whole Tarzan like moves.
None of those plans were really thought out.
So then they decided with the worst yet most tempting plan of them all. It was what they called… Plan C.
And they went on ahead with it.
Never did they know it would turn out like… that.
Oh if they knew… They would've done it earlier – scratch that. They were supposed to be good.
But everything was oh-so-bad… A type of good-bad, but still pretty bad.
But; they'd still try to enjoy it while they could. They probably wouldn't remember anything during the morning anyway!
..O..
Total chaos.
The two words that could describe the one Hades of a party he was in…
Woweewow wow!
He didn't know it was going to work.
It was his stupid older brother's ingenious idea of course. (Was that a compliment?) Moving on… He set out the entire plan, or what they liked to call Plan C… C meaning, it was after Plan A (the James Bond one) and B (the Mamma Mia one that he really wanted to do). It was a pretty good collaboration between the pair of them. One of their best, since they only had… two hours to make it and do it. Yes, it could probably go up there with the legendaries, like the Golden Mango and the Easter Bunnies. Bravo!
But all he could really say was… wow!
He actually didn't think it would work. But here he was, admiring a wonderful collaboration from a pair of geniuses. (There he was again, spouting of compliments. What was wrong with him?)
..O..
He started skirting his eyes around the room, looking for some intoxicated pretty lady to woo with his charms. Sly blue eyes scouted left and right, seemingly on the hunt for his prey. Then he found it, or should he say, her. But… there was a… slight problem or two with his choice.
She wasn't ugly. He could actually say she was beautiful, if beautiful was a word in his dictionary. No, it wasn't anything about her appearance, but really, who the actual girl was.
Brunette locks cascading down her back while placid bottle-green eyes scanned the room for someone that she could be with. Oh gods, that sounded very clichéd. Like something that came out of a love-sick fool. And out of him and his brother, it was clear who the love-sick fool was.
So it was very bad that he felt a jolt or some sort of feeling rise within him at the sight of this one little Demeter daughter. Wasn't it a rule in the Bro Code that he shouldn't go for a girl if someone else was going for her? Hmm… he should probably check that out in his own copy later.
But it was even worse that the guy going for this girl was brother.
Oh gods, was Aphrodite honestly trying to torture or kill him? He made a mental note to ask Silena that question later. Maybe she had something to do with it.
He could really use a drink from the mini-bar. That might clear his thoughts out for a bit.
..O..
Katie immediately knew something was wrong the moment she stepped into the mess hall later than anyone else.
For starters, there were a whole load of guys in the perimeter of an all-girls party. Last time she checked, these guys weren't girls, unless they secretly hid their collection of Rom Coms and stacks of Seventeen under their cabin bunks. (Reminding herself that it was these specific guys she was dealing with, she wouldn't be surprised if it was the truth.)
Other than the completely inconspicuous (note the sarcasm please) guys loitering in and around the mess hall, it was the girls' behaviors that tipped her off once more.
They were acting… wilder than usual, and in camp standards, that was a truly horrible sight to behold. Here, there and everywhere; the girls she knew were smart, calm, cool and collected during the day had suddenly morphed into crazy Chihuahuas.
Trying to use the excuse that they were at a party, she pointedly ignored everyone as she pushed through one of the most rambunctious crowds she'd seen in her life.
After a couple of minutes of hard struggling, she found herself to have ended up at the mini-bar tucked into its tiny corner. The most peculiar thing about it was the sheer amount of people crowding around the structure, attempting to get their hands on some type of beverage.
Shrugging off the nagging moral voice of reason (which somehow resembled her mother); she strode over to the front of the mini-bar. After a few more pushes, she managed to get there. Feeling triumphant, she grabbed a random glass off the countertop and chugged it all in one fell swoop.
She didn't mind the fuzzy feeling that entered her system after that. She just grinned giddily before grabbing another glass to drink from, completely ignoring the annoying conscience of hers that screamed for control.
..O..
Travis was happier than he had been for a while.
He had officially decided that for one night, and one night only, he'd forget all the romantic troubles he'd had with Katie that the lovely Aphrodite had given him to solve. On that wonderful night, he was the past Travis. The mischievous, devilishly-handsome and ultimately player-like Travis that had disappeared from his persona ever since the whole 'falling-for-Kaite' incident.
He felt quite refreshed. He was the old Travis once more. He hadn't realized how much he missed his old self until he actually regained that part of him which went into a deep slumber.
He strode around the room, feeling very proud of his accomplishment. They only had at least two hours to plan. Could he say… That it was entirely his fault that it was actually happening? Because it was. No absolute help from anyone else.
Did he forget to mention that the old Travis was a bit up himself?
Probably not. Old Travis wouldn't want to be seen in a bad light. It was bad to his appearance, especially with the ladies.
As Travis moved around the dance-floor, dancing with each beautiful lady he found one-by-one, he managed to reach the mini-bar. To his absolute delight, he could spot his favorite liquor drink sitting on the counter, clearly being ignored by the occupants of the mini-bar.
Grinning widely, he marched quickly to the mini-bar, holding his hand out to grab the drink.
Much to his annoyance, a random hand just fell out of nowhere and grabbed the drink a millisecond before he would.
Fuming in anger, he spun around to look at the body that the arm belonged to.
From the moment he examined the arm, he knew that it was a girl. Darn it. He wouldn't be able to beat the crap outta the guy.
He then trailed his eyes up her arm. At the sight of brunette hair, he frowned. A brunette girl huh? That cut down a lot of the suspects. He also noticed the dress she was wearing. It was an emerald-green, keyhole halter dress…
Not that he actually knew what the kind of dress she was wearing. He just… saw it in one of Connor's Seventeen magazines! Yeah! One of Connor's… Yeah…
Pushing that aside, he felt an awful sense of foreboding, as if he would absolutely rue the person that owned the arm and hair. Pushing those nerves aside, he met up to gaze at her face.
And locked eyes with a certain 'innocent' minx.
His blood ran cold as he watched the certain girl stare back at him before flashing an exuberant grin and hollering for another drink.
There were two things that made the whole picture wrong.
Katie would never grin at him like that. She wouldn't even grin at him any day. The other part was her hollering for a drink. That in itself was horrible.
That's when he felt new Travis trying to take control once more. The strong desires to grab Katie and take her the hell away from there and kiss her senseless was overpowering, but old Travis stood his ground. A single night where he could be a gallivanting Romeo was what he wanted, and damn it all, he was going to get it.
But he couldn't keep his thoughts away from Katie. Even old Travis had to admit it. There was something drawing him to that specific Demeter girl. It was as if he were falling for her all over again.
And he found that a horribly bad thing.
He also felt the sudden urge to break out into song. Damn singing competitions. No matter how hard you object, you'll end up singing one way or another.
He'll just accept it. At least he's not singing as the cross-dressing wimpy Slytherin in the song. But then again, he was singing the part of a dopey, sidekick Gryffindor. He actually didn't know what was worse.
And then new Travis was suddenly hurling insults at him for bad-mouthing one of the greatest musicals of all time.
Sucks for him then. He wasn't the one that was going to sing about his stupid feelings at the moment.
Travis: Here I am, face to face
With a situation, I never, thought I'd ever see
Strange
How a dress
Takes her finesse
And makes her nothing less than
Beautiful to me
What the Hades was he saying? He sounded like such a… such a… such a douchebag. He really didn't want to be a douchebag, because being a douchebag sucked.
He was never so… intact with his feelings. New Travis was sniggering at his confusion. He was old Travis. He was never meant to feel like this. He was never meant to fall for any girl, especially her.
It seems like my eyes have been converted
They've been changed to see what's real
I don't know why
I wasn't alerted
This could mean
Danger
And it wasn't just a tiny bit of danger. The danger was huge. He was losing himself entirely to a single girl. What had honestly happened to him over the course of a year? How could his personality – which he'd had for over a decade – suddenly morph into something all because of a single girl?
He didn't know the answer, and it not only confused him -
But frightened him as well.
I'm falling in love, falling in love, falling in love
I think I'm falling in love, falling in love, falling in love
With Katie Gardner
..O..
His mind was racing but his heart was beating faster.
It wasn't supposed to be like that.
It was never meant to happen!
Was it all some part of Aphrodite's cruel, sick reality TV show that she controlled with a wave of her hand?
He just hoped that the love goddess couldn't read minds, because then that would make things a whole lot more crap for him.
He sighed once more, raising his hand up to get another drink from the rookie bartender. He needed something to clear his head out a bit. Maybe something strong. He needed to forget everything that he's felt over the course of that night. It wasn't right to fall for her.
But that didn't stop his aching desires.
He groaned irritably as the drink he asked for was slammed in front of him. Mumbling a 'thanks' he gulped the drink in one single shot. He let out a refreshing sigh before getting off his bar stool and heading out to the dance floor. Somewhere in the far-off distance, he could see his brother muttering to himself.
Ironically, in the middle of the two brothers, he could see Katie tearing up the dance floor with a bunch of her friends.
He suddenly felt the sick urge to sing a part of a song.
Not bothering to reject the feeling, he opened his mouth and went along with the flow.
Connor: What? What the hell is this?
D'you expect me to sing about her
I don't care about her
It's just a little make up
Connor wake up!
I'm mistaken
She is the HOTTEST GIRL I'VE EVER SEEN
Now, because she's like a girl I've never seen
Dunno why I'd ever be so mean
This could mean
Danger!
I'm fallin' in love, fallin' in love, fallin' in love
I could be fallin' in love, fallin' in love, fallin' in love
With Kaite Gardner
..O..
Unbeknownst to the two brothers, they were about to harmonize with each other in a song they both desperately didn't want to sing, yet reflected their current feelings.
Somewhere on Mt. Olympus, Aphrodite was chuckling evilly. The love goddess found the whole situation entirely amusing, in a very cute sense. These two boys… so oblivious to their feelings; and now they're entangled with a single girl.
Love's just so wonderful, right?
..O..
The two boys, at two ends of the mess-hall-turned-night-club, and a single girl in the middle; it was a spell for disaster.
Travis: I wanna let her know
Travis gazed forlornly at the girl in the middle of the dance floor, who was dancing with many more intoxicated girls, and a couple of intoxicated boys who seemed to be purely enjoying the dance with her. He sighed. Love was too complicated. He wished to be one of those boys who didn't have a care in the world.
Why did Aphrodite hate him so?
Connor: I mean no malice!
But I can't let it show
Connor mimicked his brother's actions, gazing at the carefree Katie.
It was a crime for him to feel that way, and he knew it. He knew that deep down – somewhere in the bottom reaches of his heart – that all he felt for Katie was infatuation.
His brother probably felt the real thing.
Well then, what was he to do?
Travis: She'd laugh poor Travis
Both: Come on
Travis: Travis!
Connor: Connor!
Then how about he just tease his brother for just a tiny bit? It wouldn't hurt, right?
Both: You gotta let it go!
You gotta let it go
And as if it were destined to be, both brothers took a step forward towards the still oblivious girl, both with one goal in their minds; to get her.
Travis: Here I am, face to face
With a situation, I never, thought I'd ever see
Strange
How a dress
Takes her finesse
And makes her nothing less than
Beautiful to me
Travis grinned, despite himself, thinking of all the wonderful things that could happen between him and Katie. He didn't think of all the negatives, since they were probably a more realistic take on what would happen.
Connor: What? What the hell is this?
D'you expect me to sing about her
I don't care about her
It's just a little make up
Connor wake up!
I'm mistaken
Connor smirked, thinking of his brother's outrageous expression if he ever even dared to touch Katie. What he was going to do equated to something like death. Maybe he should ask Nico what Hades' palace looked like, since he might be visiting sometime soon.
Travis: It seems like my eyes have been converted
They've been changed to see what's real
I don't know why
I wasn't alerted
Connor: She is the HOTTEST GIRL I'VE EVER SEEN
Now, because she's like a girl I've never seen
Dunno why I'd ever be so mean
They both reached her at the same time, both with identical grins plastered on their faces. They were both oblivious at the presence of the other, but Katie wasn't. At the feeling of two people closing in on her, she stopped dancing and turned to look to her left and right.
She had a confused expression straight after, as if she were seeing double (which wasn't so farfetched from the truth).
Both: This could mean
Danger!
Both brothers then realized that their older/younger counterpart was there and glared at each other competitively. They weren't going to back down from the challenge.
I'm falling in love, falling in love, falling in love
I think I'm falling in love, falling in love, falling in love
With Katie Gardner
And to the surprise of the brothers, Katie turned to Connor and giggled –
Just before she placed her lips right upon his.
Songs Used:
Gardner Danger - Written by BornLucky101
Original Version: Granger Danger - Team StarKid
So, once again, I'd like to say hello! I hope you didn't miss me too much~
I apologize SO EPICALLY MUCH! I mean, I had exams (which sucked crap) and then after that, I suffered one of the worst writer's blocks for this story that I'd ever had in the entire Sing It/SIOMT history.
But moving on; if you noticed carefully, I was going on a bit of a slump with the past chapters. This time, I decided to review my writing, and go back to basics. Let's all focus on the light-hearted stuff, then shock you all with the wonderful drama. Just like that wonderful cliff-hanger you see over there.
I liked the chapter, I think. Don't blame the boys. Everyone's curious once in a while when they're a teenager. Some more than others.
Oh. What else to say... Yeah! Thank you for all the reviews! I think everyone was desperate for me to update on some level, and that flattered me a bit. I didn't know how much you all loved the story~
One more shout out to the amazing BornLucky101~ My fellow StarKid/PJO/RedVine lover~ You were totally awesome! I loved what you did with the lyrics~
Also, Happy Belated Birthday to ummiuno011 and DracoGraceKane. I hoped you both liked the chapter~
What else... Oh! To ThatSuperHotSexyBookWorm; thank you for answering the weekly question the you posed yourself. Enjoy many more pavlovas~
Now, for a weekly question. I am an idiot. Like seriously, I should have made this one of the first questions to ask you all. But shoving that aside...
What is your favorite song of all flippin' time?
Looking forward to your answers~
Also, no more teasers from this point onwards. I don't know... Maybe I like the fact that all of you would be waiting in suspense for another week... Or maybe I'm just too lazy to put them up. Who knows?
So have a happy week~ Sit tight for the next update~
P.S. Did you all know that the Dance in Sing It and the Party in SIOMT both started in Chapter 11? Interesting, huh?