Sadly, this might be the last chapter ;(

BUT, im making a sequel, and there will deff be romance!

And jealousy.

And weddings.

And hilariousness, of course!

But for now, enjoy the Possibly-Final-Chapter. :)

They ended up outside a rather creepy-looking tunnel. Audrey glanced around to make sure Percy and Annabeth were there, too.

They all nodded, and they slowly went into the darkness.

"..Is anyone else totally flipping out with all this darkness?" Audrey asked. Five seconds later, Annabeth turned on a flashlight, and they kept going.

About thirty more seconds later, Percy tapped her shoulder gently. She jumped, glaring at him. "What?"

"You're glowing."

"...What??"

Annabeth turned around. "Holy crap, you are. You're like your own...personal sun," she said with a smile. Audrey stared at her visible body. She was glowing. A rather nice glow, in her opinion.

They kept walking, but Annabeth stopped abruptly. "Whoa!" Audrey hissed, bumping right into her, causing Percy to bump into Audrey. Annabeth sighed and rolled her eyes.

"The tunnel splits here. I'll take the one on the left, you two take the one on the right," she said before dashing off.

"Bet you ten bucks she had some kind of romantic reasoning behind grouping us together," Audrey commented dully.

Percy chuckled, then flashed a grin.

"Audrey?"

"What?"

"You really think my bod's sigh-worthy?"

"Percy, don't make me kill you."

"No, I'm serious!"

"...Maybe," she admitted grudgingly.

He shrugged. "Yours is, too."

She glanced down at herself. "...Really, you think so?"

"Oh, yeah. You're not freakishly athletic like most demigods, but you're not lazy either."

"See, that's where you're wrong. I'm reeeaallly lazy."

Oh, I know. But you don't look lazy."

"Oh!"

They were quiet, and then Percy abruptly said, "Audrey?"

"...Yes, Percy?"

"Why did you say it would never happen? You know, between us?"

She really hoped her red cheeks couldn't be seen with her glow. "Well, because...because we don't...y'know, like each other like that. Right??"

"O-oh, right."

"I mean, at least...right?"

"Yeah, totally. Soo...say, hypothetically, you liked me and I liked you. Could it happen then?"

"...If you liked me back? I-I mean, if I liked you like that, of course."

"Yeah."

"Well, then...yeah, I guess it could."

"..So, hypothetically, you weren't doing anything really important after we catch this killer. And you liked me and I liked you. Could I ask you out?"

"Hypothetically, sure. And we would do what?"

"I dunno, I don't exactly have it all mapped out, y'know."

Audrey laughed and shook her head. They were seriously having this conversation?

"Do you realize about two months ago you hit me with a door and knocked me out?"

"Do you realize two months later I still can't believe I did that? I think I'm obliged to take you somewhere now. If you liked me and I liked you."

Audrey smirked. "Are we still talking about hypotheticals?"

He smirked back. "Maybe."

Percy could've sworn Audrey's glow got a bit brighter after that.

A few minutes later, they reached another split in the cave. They stared at each other. "You take the left one, I'll take the right?" Audrey suggested.

Percy laughed. "Ha. Funny. You honestly think I'm gonna let you go in a tunnel to find some guy that wants to kill you alone?"

Audrey sighed. "Percy. Take the left tunnel."

He searched her face for a minute, then sighed. "Fine. But if you have any problems, holler."

"Oh, thanks for telling me that. I was planning on staying silent for once in my life." They laughed and went separate ways.

FIFTEEN MINUTES LATER...

Audrey hadn't been able to stop going over that conversation in her head. Call her crazy, but they so were not talking in "What if"'s. She even played a game with her mind where she would get herself a giant cookie after this if she didn't think about it for five minutes, and she couldn't even do THAT!

This was like The Game, only much, much harder. Suddenly, she nearly ran right into a door. Audrey opened it slowly, pulse pounding.

Before she even had time to react, she felt something cold and hard connect with her head.

"Unnngh..." Was Audrey's brilliant response once she woke up.

Just like in her dreams, she was bound to a chair, and the room looked almost exactly the same.

The man was there as well, sitting at his desk, twirling his kitchen knife slowly.

"Ah. You're awake. Your humming gave away your arrival, to answer your question as to how I knew you were there." Could he read minds? God, she hoped not.

Audrey knew struggling was just plain idiotic, so she decided to fumble for her lighter in her back pocket instead. "Please. Tell me who you are. Unlike Lexi, I'm going to see your face," she told him.

The man chuckled and rose out of his seat. "I'm surprised you haven't figured it out yet."

He let his hood fall, and Audrey was literally speechless. For about five seconds.

"...Roger?!" Her best friend growing up was killing off her half-siblings. Could this get any more messed up?!

He laughed. "You always were slow to believe those close to you could betray you."

"That's because it's not supposed to happen!!" She snapped fiercely.

He raised a hand as if to strike her, and she flinched. "Don't raise your voice at me."

"Screw you," she shot back venemously.

He grabbed her arm, and she felt the pain again. Audrey made little noises, trying to fight it, and he laughed. "See? I can always break you, just like that."

Oh, that was it. That was SO it.

"Why?" She asked. "Why, Roger? You used to be one of my closest friends."

"Hmm, let's see. I befriended you to destroy you. Your father? He knocked up my mom, and my little brother was born. But guess what? My mom couldn't take it. She packed up and left. And we remained helpless and unclaimed, living a miserable life. But before she left, I overheard her telling my aunt everything. I vowed to find one of his other children, and bring him down where it hurts; kill his own spawn. And then I met you."

Audrey finally got her lighter rightside-up, and coughed to hide the noise of flipping it open.

"You were different, Audrey. It's not hard to see why that Percy kid likes you so much. I learned to harness my powers, and got extremely gifted with ending people's lives after a couple practice rounds."

PRACTICE ROUNDS??! Roger was sick.

"But...I was weak. I had known you for too long. So, I let you live a while longer. Which worked in my favor, because now I can kill off the son of Poseidon and daughter of Athena; two other Olympians who were careless regarding their mates and children. Three birds, one knife."

"Roger, there's only one problem with that," Audrey commented, clicking her lighter to life.

"And what's that?"

"You forgot about Old Charlie. I still have him," she replied before shooting up and punching him square in the jaw.

"Ouch," she commented softly before grabbing the chair and breaking it across his back. She grabbed her by the ankle, and pulled her to the ground. She hit her head, but fought against the pain.

She remembered what Percy said, and screamed.

FIVE MINUTES LATER...

She heard footsteps pounding the ground behind her, slowing to a stop. Audrey sighed shakily with relief.

"...About time."

She had cuts all over her, her forehead had a knot, and Roger lay on the floor with a couple of burns.

She watched Percy take in the scene. Audrey turned to look at him. "..I-I had no choice. It was me or him. ...I'm not a murderer...am I?"

She felt her legs give way, and he caught her carefully. That's when she broke down.

"No, Audrey, you're not. You're not." She cried for herself, for Roger, for his brother, for Lexi, for the siblings she'd never know, and for the father she was scared to meet.

He stroked her hair comfortingly. "You're in shock. Come on, I'll help you out into fresh air, and then you'll feel better. Annabeth's out there waiting. She called the police. It'll be alright. You'll be alright," he assured her.

God, he knew just what to say. She wished she could tell him the right things too, but instead, she nodded into his chest weakly.

Annabeth was so sick of waiting. She was so nervous. The police were on their way, along with an ambulance.

She was about to go look for them herself, but then she saw Percy. Annabeth then saw a limp Audrey in his arms, and shot up to help.

"What the hell happened in there?" She asked worriedly. Audrey looked so small and weak, all cut up and red and bruised like that.

She noticed that the fleur de lis was now gone, and all that remained was a tiny burn mark.

Percy sighed, and she helped him set her down on the ground.

"Well, I found her. She had battled it out with the killer. She was in shock, it was scary...she mentioned that she knew him, his name's Roger. That, and something about wanting a giant cookie. Then she was just so tired that she passed out, so I got her out myself."

Annabeth sighed too. "At least it's over. Maybe now things can go back to normal."

"As normal as life can be for a demigod, you mean."

Annabeth smiled. "Yeah."

EIGHT HOURS LATER...

Audrey awoke in the middle of the night, in a hospital room. She glanced around frantically, making sure she was safe. Roger was nowhere to be found.

Audrey couldn't believe what had happened. During the struggle, she had managed to...burn him..with similar beams as the ones that had helped them out in Philly.

Could that really have been her??

She smiled slightly. Percy was snoring peacefully on the couch to her right. Annabeth and Grover could be seen talking in the hallway.

"Hmm...about time I got some decent sleep on this road trip from hell." And with that, she closed her eyes, trying to ignore te dull pains she felt.

Although...hearing her name being mentioned in the middle of Percy's snoring just then was pretty nice. And she noticed a giant cookie on a nearby table, waiting for her to be strong enough to grab soon.

I guess it all balances out.

Awww! Well, that's it, everybody! A new sequel will be coming out ASAP, so just look for my profile to see if I've made it by the end of this week, or I'll just update THIS story and put the title and such below this closing line. Alright? Sound good? Please review! I'd like to know all this fun writing wasn't in vain!

xD

Youre welcome, Aphrodite!

More romance to come in the sequel, i promise!