When I woke up I couldn't remember where I was for a moment, all I knew was that I was feeling horrible and I didn't want to get up. I let my head fall to the side and I saw Hermes on an IM with someone. They were talking in hushed tones so that they wouldn't wake me, but who was he talking to?

"Hermes," I said starting to get up. "What's going on?"

"Bella," Hermes said quite clear and turned to see that I was awake. "Good to see that you are awake."

"Who are you talking to?"

"Apollo."

"Hey Bella," my half brother called from the IM."How are you feeling?"

"Where's Edward? He was here wasn't he?" I remembered last night in a rush, and quickly started to wonder if Jake would ever speak to me again. "What happened with Jake?"

"Don't worry about that right now Bella. You caught a flu from somewhere and you need to rest," Apollo told me.

"Your friend Jake is trying to figure everything out right now," Hermes informed me. "That Edward boy is downstairs with Aphrodite trying to make some soup."

I started to giggle at the thought of my sister who can't really cook and a vampire who hates human food making some soup. "Was that the best idea?"

"I told Aphrodite to heat up soup like you would heat up water. Edward is just there to keep him busy."

I fell back onto the bed and looked up at the ceiling again. I really didn't want to be here. I heard a scream from downstairs wand pushed the covers off me so that I could make my way to see what the noise was.

"See ya later guys," Apollo called before the IM disappeared. Hermes handed me my bathrobe and I put it on so that I wouldn't get yelled at before we headed down stairs.

When we got into the kitchen we found Aphrodite and Edward covered in soup, along with the walls and the stove. For a moment I wondered how Aphrodite could possibly do that before I started to laugh. Hermes soon followed before we were faced with a very angry goddess.

"I hate cooking," she proclaimed. "I've never been good at it."

"Why don't you go upstairs and shower off," I suggested between laughs. She ran up the stairs and before I knew it I heard the water running. Edward had found a towel and was starting to wipe his face off when I stopped laughing.

"How could she manage to do that," he wondered aloud as he wiped his face clean.

"If you find out," I said calmly, "let us know!" I went into another fit of laughter, but this time Hermes joined me. I then looked at the clock, it was 10am. Wow, I was late for school. (I now had to go to school because I was in Forks and legally required to do so.) "Hey Hermes," I said as I watched him laugh, "do you have any nectar with you?"

He nodded and handed me some that he took from his pocket. It was a small clear vile so I just drank the small amount and was instantly feeling better. I ran off to my room to change, so that I could take my truck to school and wait out the day there. From there I would withdraw myself from Forks high school and be on my way back to New York.

The school day was boring. I just wore some random shirt that Aphrodite gave me as she left and day dreamed through all my classes, rejoicing whey they were over so that I could go run around in the hallways a little before heading to my next class. The only slip up I had was in English when I was told to read, but I just watched as the letters blurred together and suggested that someone else read. At the end of the day I saw all of my old friends, they asked me where I had been for the last almost two weeks and I just said that I was in Florida. I added into my story that my mom wanted me to move down their so that I would have family around. I said my goodbyes and went to withdraw myself from the school.

When I got back to the house Edward was there, but his eyes were topaz again instead of the coal black they had been. I assumed that he went hunting; it was a normal day in Forks with the slow drizzle outside. We exchanged short greeting before he asked me why I went to school.

"Legally I have to," I responded. "Now I don't go to any school and I'm free to go back to camp half-blood. The only connection that I'll have here is this house."

I headed upstairs to pack what little I still had here in some boxes that Hermes had left for me. When I was done my room was clean and everything was like it had been when I came here about a year ago. As I walked downstairs I saw that Edward had found things to do himself. The fridge was cleaned out, the whole downstairs was spotless, the AC was turned off along with the heat, and the water was shut off. I felt my mouth drop due to the sudden burst of clean, how did he manage to do all of this?

"Ready to go," he asked turning off the TV. He apparently had been watching a random show on channel 5, but was up and ready to go as soon as I was in the room.

"Yeah, I just need to stop by the post office and open a PO Box for the mail that'll come here."

"Do you want me to get what you're bringing to the camp and bring it out to the car?"

"No. It usually will find its own way to camp," I said with a chuckle and looking up towards my bedroom.

"I think that we should take it with us." I watched him run up the stairs and within moments standing right next to me as I stood at the doorway looking at the house. Something just seemed empty about it, but didn't it always when you were moving away? I closed my eyes and I almost heard Charlie's laugh, telling me that I needed to stop tripping when I was young.

Edward locked up the house while I slowly walked to my truck; we were going to take it with us because if we didn't I wouldn't be going anywhere. My bags were in the back of the truck, the small drizzle was refreshing to me as I walked away from the house and to the truck. It was as if I was replacing my old life with the new; Charlie always said that he just wanted me to be happy and to one day go back to my original family. He had died with the secret about the Greek gods, and I was going to honor his memory for as long as I lived.

I heard a growl from the tree line, and looking toward the woods across the street I saw a large wolf. My eyes grew wider than they could ever be on a normal day as my hand inched toward my necklace.

"Where are you going," Edward asked from behind me. I dropped my hand and began to look from one to the other.

"What," I asked confused. The wolf howled before running back into the wood and within moments Jake came out of the wood in just a pair of shorts and barefoot. I asked my question again, "what?"

"Bella," Jake said coming closer to me, "where are you going?"

"I am moving Jake. Renee wants me closer to her, so she bought me an apartment."

"Then why is he here," he screamed pointing at Edward. "You told me what he did to you! I saw what happened to you after he left! Why are you going back to him?"

"I don't have a choice," I whispered. "I never knew, I just- I didn't want to go back. It was like a sink hole, once you get in, it's hard to get out." This was only half of it, part of me did want to go back, but part of me just said that I couldn't. That was when I realized that it was time to partly tell Jake the truth, "I wouldn't have gone back if I didn't have to."

"Then what made you go back? What happened while you were gone? Bella, what happened?"

"I can't tell you that," I said more confident. "That's one thing that I know, I can't tell you. I wish I could though. It would be so much easier. I have to go, " I spun around and got into the truck; Jake was at the door in only a moment, telling me that I should stay.

"You can tell me anything Bella," he said holding open the door.

"I can't Jake. One day I may be able to, but right now I just can't. I'm sorry." Tears streamed down my face; a sob escaped my chest as I drove away. I knew that Edward would clean up after me, doing something that would make Jake just let me go.

I opened the PO Box and waited for Edward outside leaning against my trick. He arrived quickly, saying that he and Jake had a fight over me, but I murmured what else is new and asked how we were getting back.

"Let's just start driving and we will get back eventually," he said opening the passenger door and standing aside for me to get in. Instead I walked over to the driver's side door and got in to start the engine. "You always let me drive," Edward complained still standing outside.

"Yeah, that was then; now I'm more independent like any other demigod and I can take care of myself."

"I still don't want you to get hurt Bella," he said getting into the truck and turning to me, "you are my life, and I wouldn't ever forgive myself if something happened to you."

"You keep saying that," I said looking away, "but do you really mean it?"

"I will always mean it love."

"Is that the truth, or is it just another lie?" For the next two hours we were driving in silence listen ting to the radio that I had set on a classical music station.

Somehow when we got to New York Edward and I were a form of a couple. He was still overly protective, but I was able to do more. I still didn't know what the matter with Jake was, but I let it go and started to go over the to-do list that had to be done at the camp before Edward and the Cullen family was to arrive.

Make them all armor

Clean the guest rooms

Find a way to get them not to sparkle in the sun

Get new strobe lights for the warehouse

As we drove down a street that was filled with only stores I saw an appliance store and asked Edward to stop. I went in and bought the strobe lights, they were cheap, but they would work. I asked Edward if he could give me a ride to the warehouse but took me there all the same.

When we got to where I was leading him we were at an old broken down warehouse; I had bought it when I was about 13 in my mother's name and the camp used it for a 'club' for the older teen campers. We got to come here when Chiron was out; music would play and it would be just like a normal club, just with younger people.

When this place was empty the whole place was just strobe lights, decorations, other lights, and a DJ set so that we could play music. I was able to repair the strobe light that needed to be replaced while Edward wandered around; luckily it kept him busy and I didn't need to worry about him watching me to make sure that I didn't fall.

When I was done I thanked him and said that I could just walk home from here; it truly wasn't that far if I ran, and he wasn't to find the camp yet if it could be helped.

"Where are you going," he asked me as he walked next to me as I headed back to camp.

"Camp," I said looking to my side, not suppressed to see him there. "I have to go there some time."

"Is someone going to pick you up or something? Why don't I come with you, just to make sure that you get there safely?"

"That's against the rules Edward. You can see the camp in about a month, but you aren't allowed to see the camp before then."

"I want to make sure that you get there safely." He had a hand on my shoulder, insisting that he come, but I couldn't let him.

"I have no way around the rules; sometimes I do, but this time I don't. I have to go now." I turned and ran; I knew that he would follow, but at a distance and enough so that I could loose him before I got to camp.

So that's that chapter! Please review, and I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while!!!

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