Clovis climbs into his bed in cabin fifteen while Drew gets comfortable in the bed right next to him. Aphrodite pulls up a comfortable chair that Butch brought in for her. Since the Hypnos kids are always in bed asleep, they have no need for chairs. Hypnos connects the two of them using EEG wires.
"This will allow you to communicate during your sleep without Glaucus knowing anything is going on," the god explains, as he places the ends on Drew's forehead.
"What exactly are you hoping he'll do?" Drew asks.
"All he has to do in communicate with you. What I want you to do is notice everything, everything you see, smell, and hear all of it matters. The more you can notice the better," he tells her.
Drew nods her head that she understands.
"You're going to do great," Butch tells her then gives her a kiss.
"Now you need to get out of here. I can't have you falling asleep," the god tells Butch. Butch nods and goes to stand outside the cabin with his backpack.
"I'm ready Dad," Clovis says, as he puts his head down on his pillow.
Hypnos goes to his son's bed and gently sits down. "This is what you have been training for. I believe you're ready. I know this type of work isn't as exciting as sword fighting and monster killing, but it can be just as important."
"I won't let you down, Dad," Clovis says, as he gets a hug from his father.
"I know you won't." Hypnos then goes over and turns on the Lethe fountain which slowly starts to flow through the tubes surrounding the room. It doesn't take long before both campers are getting very sleepy.
"I'll be right here the entire time," Aphrodite tells her daughter then kisses her nose.
"Thank Mom," Drew says then closes her eyes.
"Now we wait," Hypnos says standing between the two beds.
Percy and Piper arrive at the cabin just after Clovis and Drew doze off. They wait outside with Butch since they know the power of Lethe water. After about twenty minutes they have all taken a seat at the base of a big oak tree that shades the front of the cabin.
"So you and Drew," Percy says making small talk.
"Yeah, it's a recent thing," Butch tells him.
"So are you responsible for the change in Drew or are you dating her because she's changed?" Piper asks her sister's boyfriend.
"A little of both, she came on to me at the wedding. At first I wasn't interested, I mean we hooked up but after that I wasn't looking for anything. She begged me to give her a chance. I told her to get rid of the make-up," Butch explains.
"That was a great call, I mean she looks tremendous without that crap on her face," Percy says, "Don't tell my wife I just said that." Butch smiles while Piper makes a locked sign in front of her lips.
"She washed her face and I started teaching her to ride. She told me about Glaucus and we just went from there," Butch continues. "She was different when she got to camp, scared and open. She said she would change to be whatever I wanted her to be. I just want this to be the real Drew."
"I don't think anyone but Drew can say for sure that she has changed for good, but it feels genuine. I haven't noticed her charmspeaking, and I haven't caught her faking it. If she can be real with me 24/7 then I think she's different," Piper tells him.
Hypnos takes a seat on the edge of his son's bed while they wait for something to happen. "So you're still with that hothead Ares?" he asks casually.
"Actually I haven't talked to him in a couple of weeks," she admits.
"Is that a record?" he asks with a chuckle.
"Maybe," she says smiling.
"I just never really got the connection. Love and War aren't supposed to go together," he tells her.
"What can I say, opposites attracted, and he's unbelievable in bed."
"If you say so," Hypnos says.
"I've been thinking about taking a break though," she tells him.
"From sex or from Ares?" he asks with a smile.
"Ares," she confirms, "I could never give up sex. I've been considering what I might be missing."
"What you've been missing?" he asks, "I thought you always went for it, how could you be missing something?"
"I just spent a week with my husband in Greece," she tells him.
"No shit!" he says shocked.
"I invited him to go at Leo's wedding and he agreed. We didn't have sex, but we saw the old sites, we talked, we held hands as we walked around the Acropolis. I never knew my husband had such a sense of humor. It really is a shame I am not the least bit sexually attracted to him," she continues.
"I thought you went for anyone with a penis," he says with a laugh.
"Not quite," she smiles.
"But if Hephaestus isn't going to satisfy you sexually?"
"I have other options, in fact I have been exploring a future with an old love," she tells him.
"Anyone I know?" he asks.
"He's mortal," she says.
"Mortal!" he says, "You know that will lead to heartbreak."
"But it could be shear bliss while it last," she argues.
"If you say…" Hypnos" is stopped by a vision from his son.
So you finally had to give in to sleep," the man says.
"Where are we?" Drew asks.
"Like I would tell you, you had your chance girlie," he says with his back still turned to her. Drew can hear something that sounds like a whimper, but she doesn't see anyone else there. Her mind remembers to start look around and take it all in. It looks like a cave. The walls are gray like slate. The floor is dirt, but it looks a thousand years old. The air is very musty.
"Where is Jennifer? Where is my sister?" she asks.
"She's here," Glaucus says then steps aside. Drew now sees that Jennifer is sitting against the wall with her hands and feet bound together and a gag over her mouth.
"You had better not have touched her," Drew says angrily.
"Or what?" Glaucus laughs.
"Don't think I can't do anything about this just because I'm a girl," Drew warns.
"Being a girl isn't what makes you weak. Being a daughter of Aphrodite does," he tells her.
"Aphrodite might be a lover and not a fighter, but she took you down," she says watching her sister instead of him.
Glaucus, pissed at the last statement, gets right in Drew's face, "Watch that tongue or your sister will pay."
"You smell like pigs," she says. "There's a pig farm in my dad's district and you smell just like it."
"I know where they are," Hypnos says then rushes from the cabin.