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Rachel's POV

After their crumbly dinner, Rachel and Octavian walked down to his room to hang out. Rachel plopped down on his bed when they got there with a loud thump. Octavian chuckled as he grabbed a knife and a teddybear.

Rachel watched him as he cut his fuzzy little victim, Rachel loved the way he seemed to zone out into another world when he tried to read the stuffing. She thought it was cute when he through the teddybear and stuffing aside whenever it didn't lead him anywhere, he soon did that and Rachel grin at the glint of frustration in his eyes as he did. Rachel wondered what he saw or was looking for when he read the stuffing.

"Can I try reading the stuffing?" Rachel asked. Octavian looked over to her and smiled.

"Sure." He patted the spot beside him on the floor, Rachel walked over and sat with him. He handed her a teddybear and his knife.

"So you should cut a gash across it gut or slit the throat, but don't dig the knife in do deep."He told her as he traced where she should cut with his finger. Rachel nodded and cut the teddybear across the gut. The stuffing buffed out of the cut. Rachel pulled out a piece and studied it.

"So what am I looking for?" She asked him. Octavian had his arm around her shoulders and brought his hands to hers to guide her.

"It's like looking for shapes in the clouds, try thumbing it, that helps to." He told her. Rachel nodded and let his thumb lead her's she focused on the stuffing, but all she could think about was how fun it would be to paint the stuffing, how she could have her paint brush curl to the shape and the colors she could use to give it more detail. after five minutes she gave in.

"I can't do it." She sighed.

"What were you thinking?" Octavian asked. Rachel grinned.

"About how I could paint the stuffing." She told him. Octavian smiled.

"Your just a painter not a... stuffing reader? Does that sound right?" Octavian asked. Rachel laughed slightly. She glanced over to Octavian's pile of tebbybear's when she saw a teddybear that caught her eye. She reached over and picked it out of the pile.

"This one's cute." She told him as she studied the teddybear. It was a lion with a frizzy red main and green eyes, it basically looked like Rachel if she were a lion.

"It looks like you." Octavian smiled.

"Well almost, just one thing." Octavian took the lion out of her hands and picked up his knife. He carefully shaped four long cuts across its face. When he was done the gave it back. Rachel laughed.

"There now its perfect and if you ask me, its even cuter." He told her with a wink. Rachel smiled up at him and hugged the lion close to her heart. She got up on her knees and kissed Octavian, wrapping her arms around his neck. When they pulled away they locked eyes. Octavian smiled at her.

"I love you." She whispered to him.

"I love you too." He replied before kissing her again. He pulled her closer and as he did Rachel smiled. She could feel her heart race and soon she felt his heartbeat as well and could feel his heartbeat match hers. Warmth spread through her. Rachel had never felt so amazing in her entire life. That's what Octavian did to her, he always knew how to put her on cloud nine. Rachel pulled away and hugged him instead. Her ear was pressed up against his chest, Rachel listened to his heartbeat for a while. When she yawned Octavian chuckled.

"I think you should get some sleep." He told her.

"But I'm-"

"Not tired? Yes you are, plus you've had one hell of a day, you need your rest." He cut her off. Rachel rolled her eyes.

"I don't need you to coddle me." She huffed.

"I'm not, I'm just taking care of my girlfriend." Octavian insisted.

"Well she can take care of herself." Rachel retorted.

"Gods your stubborn." He sighed. Rachel shrugged.

"So are you." She replied. Octavian smiled and kissed her cheek.

"I guess we're the perfect match." He whispered in her ear, giving Rachel goose bumps.

"Yeah, we are." She smiled at him. How the hell did I so lucky to have someone like Octavian? She wondered. Oh yeah! I'm going to die soon, he's like my going away present. Rachel pushed the thought out of her mind, she was alive and she was with the person she loved and she was on a ship with her closest friends as they all travel to Greece to save the world from the earth.

"come on, I'll walk you to your room." Octavian told her as he stood up and offered her his hand. Rachel smiled up at him and took his hand. She didn't realized that she was still holding the lion tebbybear until they were at her door.

"Oh sorry, I kinda stole your lion." Rachel apologized as she tried to hand to back to Octavian but he pushed it back to her.

"No, that's your teddybear." Octavian told her. Rachel smiled down at the teddybear lion with stuffing puffing out of its face slightly.

"You know what, oddly enough, a cut up teddybear is actually the most amazing first gift from a boyfriend, or at least my boyfriend." Rachel told him. Octavian smiled and leaned down to kiss her. There she was again, floating up to cloud nine.

"I love you." Was ll he said before leaving, not even giving her the chance to respond. Rachel walked into her room, Hazel wasn't there, She changed into her pajamas and headed back for her bed. She fell asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

The next morning Rachel woke up to someone shaking her shoulder. Rachel opened her eyes to see Hazel.

"What?" Rachel grumbled.

"We have visitors." Hazel told her.

"Who?"

"Leo-" Before Hazel could finish, Leo jumped in front of her, making Rachel jump and scream slightly.

"Good morning Rachel!" Leo cried before hugging her tightly.

"LEO!" Rachel screamed as she tried to push him off of her. Leo laughed as he let her go. Rachel glared up at him as he laughed. When he wasn't expecting it, Rachel punched him in the gut. Leo let out a high pitch cried as he doubled over.

"I'm going to sit over here." Leo muttered as he went over to sit on Hazel's bed.

"...and Octavian" Hazel finished what she was saying earlier. Rachel glanced across the room until she saw Octavian sitting on the floor near her, leaning up against her bed smiling up at her. Rachel blushed and smiled back.

"Hi..." She mumbled.

"Hey." He grinned.

"Hey Rachel, what does your shirt read?" Leo asked, squinting at her chest. Rachel looked down and saw that she was wearing her white shirt that read "Never mind." in white letters. Rachel crossed her arms around her chest.

"Leo! Stop looking at my chest!" She yelled. Leo realized the idea of the shirt and looked away, snickering.

"Dude!" Octavian cried. He glared at Leo who like he wanted to run away now. Rachel looked to Hazel helplessly But Hazel was glaring at Leo as well only she was just being playful unlike Octavian.

"Okay! An non-female organisms in the room. Get out!" Rachel cried as she pointed to the door. Octavian chuckled and stood up. He kissed Rachel goodbye, telling her that he would be in the kitchen before leaving. Rachel turned to Leo and saw that he was still sitting on Hazel's bed, fiddling with his fingers or something. How the hell does he lose interest so fast? Rachel wondered. Rachel and Hazel both stared at him to many long moments until he finally looked up and saw them staring at him.

"What was that again?" Leo asked her.

"Get out!" Rachel yelled. Leo jumped up and ran for the door. Hazel and Rachel began to laugh when he was gone.

"Haze, I know you love him and all, but Leo is a dumb ass!" She told her. Hazel shrugged.

"I know, but he's a great kisser." She told her. Rachel scrunched up her nose.

"TMI, my friend, TMI." Rachel told her. Hazel gave her a funny look.

"TMI? What does that mean?" Hazel asked. Rachel kept forgetting when Hazel was born, Hazel just seemed to fit in so perfectly in this century.

"Too much information." Rachel told her. Hazel nodded.

"Cool, hey I think I'm going to go back to sleep, I'm still tired." Hazel told her. Rachel nodded.

"Okay." Rachel got up and went to get dressed. Before she left she turned back to Hazel.

"Remember, we'll be in Greece by this afternoon." Hazel mumbled an encouragement and Rachel left. When she got to the kitchen Octavian and leo were there eating cereal. When Octavian saw her he smiled and gestured for her to sit beside him. Rachel sat down with him and he passed her the box of cereal. Rachel pushed it away.

"I like eggo's." She told him. Octavian rolled his eyes and laughed.

"What?" Leo asked.

"Its just a stupid joke." Octavian told him as Rachel got up to toast herself some eggo's. When they were done, Rachel just ate them with her fingers.

"Where's Hazel?" Leo asked.

"Your just full of questions this morning." Rachel commented. Leo just shrugged.

"She went back to bed." She told him. Leo nodded. After breakfast. Rachel and Octavian went down to the training room well Leo went to check on Hazel. When they got there Frank was nowhere to be seen. (Thank the Gods!) They walked over to the punching bag. Rachel held it in place as Octavian beat the crap out of it. With every plow it became harder for Rachel to keep the bag from swinging into her and knock her teeth. Octavian was strong. Rachel felt safer knowing that if Frank came for him. After a while Octavian suddenly stopped.

"Why'd you stop?" Rachel asked.

"Because its your turn." He smiled. Rachel felt a little uneasily, She wasn't one for punching, unless of course it was Frank's face. In fact, she wasn't one to do any kind of fighting when it wasn't for her life and she had very little practice. At camp she had just painted in her cave.

"Okay." She tried to sound confident but she feared that she had failed. If Octavian had noticed her distaste, he didn't comment on it. They switched positions and Rachel put her fists up.. She threw her first punch and it made next to no impact. Octavian looked at her with a confused expression.

"What?" Rachel asked.

"Nothing, I just didn't expect you to be so..." He trailed off, unable to come up with a word.

"Weak?" Rachel filled in with an arched eyebrow and a smile. Octavian grinned and let out a small laugh.

"Uh, yeah." He muttered weakly.

"I'm sorry, I'm just not as fit as everyone else. I'm only strong when my life is on the line." Rachel told him.

"You don't have to be sorry, at least you're strong for when it matters." Octavian told her. Rachel smiled and threw another punch at the bag, it was better then the first but still not enough. She continued to punch and by the fifteenth punch, Octavian had to place one foot behind him to stabilize himself. When he did that Rachel stop and smiled in triumph. Octavian smiled as well and let go of the punching bag and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"That's my girl!" He cried as he lifted her up slightly. Rachel laughed and wrapped her arms around his neck. When Octavian put her down he kissed her lightly. When he pulled away Rachel smiled up at him.

"Come on, lets get back to work." She smiled. Octavian nodded and got back behind the punching bag and held in steady, waiting for her to throw the next punch. And she did. She punched the bag until she felt something warm slip down her hand. She stopped punching and saw that her knuckles were bleeding.

"Shit." She hissed to herself.

"What?" Octavian asked.

"I'm bleeding." She told him, showing her her hands. Octavian chuckled.

"I guess you took it a little too far?" He asked knowingly. Rachel grinned and nodded. They headed back to her room to grab some mortal nectar. When they were at the door, they suddenly hear sobbing. Rachel quickly opened the door to find Leo houlding Hazel in his arms as She sobbed.

"What happened?" Rachel cried as she rushed over.

"Th-they have them." Hazel sobbed.

"Who is 'them'?" Octavian asked.

"Everyone!" Hazel screamed. Leo held her closer to him. They all waited as she slowly calmed down.

"Gaea, she has everyone we care about that are dead, she's torturing them."

"Who exactly?" Leo asked her.

"There were too many to see all of them and I only recognized a few and others.. well I figured out who they were."

"Okay, well tell us who you know and describe the one's you didn't." Octavian told her.

"My mother, Sammy, Nico, Leo's... mother." She choked on every name and glanced to Leo as she mentioned his mother.

"And the others... I only really saw three others. A bulky boy that was holding this girl, a beautiful girl-" Rachel choked as she realized who it was, out of the four she was the only one who really know them and the thought of the brought tears to her eyes.

"Beckendorf and Silena." She whispered. Tears streaked down her cheeks. She was one of the last people to ever see Beckendorf before he died in the boat explosion, he had actually been there to see her kiss Percy, but she wasn't thinking about that at the moment.

"Beckendorf and Silena." Leo echoed. Rachel glanced up at him. Tears were spilling from his eyes as well. Beckendorf and Silena had been his and Pipers older siblings. Rachel realized that Leo was taking a big hit as he heard these names. His grandfather, mother and his older brother were all being tortured in the underworld.

"There was one more person that I recognized." Hazel whispered. She turned to Rachel

"And I recognized him from you're paintings. Rachel's breath hitched.

"Luke."

That question!

If you could rename:

A) Rachel.

B) Octavian

C) Hazel

D) Leo

What would you name them?

(This question may come up more then once only for different characters.)