Anne Rose Prior

A/N: In this chapter, you all get to know a little bit more about Anne! :) I hope you guys like her...also, Percy's "funeral" is in this chapter ;) And a bit of Percabeth...no, I'm just kidding...it's Annabeth being in denial.

Enjoy the next chapter of 'Love and Hate's Daughter' :)

Previously in 'Love and Hate's Daughter':

What's going on?" I ask Silena.

"New camper," she replies excitedly.

I'm shocked. Our numbers are decreasing. We haven't had a new camper in forever. This is great news!

People were swarming the barrier as I push past them all to see who it was. My eyes widen; it was a little girl, probably about eight years old. She had wavy red hair and startling green eyes. She looked very scared as she scanned the faces of suspicious campers.

"Hey!" I call out to the campers so everyone can hear me. "Can't you back off a bit; can't you see how scared she is?"

They back off as I move forward and lean down to the girl's level as she looks at me gratefully.

"Where am I?" The girl squeaks warily.

"You're at Camp Half-Blood," I say soothingly to the girl. "What's your name?" I ask her.

"A—Anne." She manages to get out. "I'm Anne Prior."

Lina POV

After the poor girl says that, she faints.

"Lina," Chiron asks me. "Would you mind taking Anne to the infirmary?"

"Oh, no, of course not." I tell him. The campers start to disperse back into the Camp borderline.

I lift Anne, as light as a feather, over to the infirmary and Chiron walks—no, trots—beside me.

"She reminds me of someone, do you know who?" Chiron asks me.

"No..." I trail off.

"She reminds me of Annabeth and yourself. You were—"

"I was only six years old and she was turning nine." I tell Chiron. I get to the infirmary and gently put Anne on one of the beds. I sigh and study her face for a moment before leaving the infirmary.

"Lina, someone sent you something." Lacy says.

"Hmm?" I say, looking up from my position in my bed, where I was looking at random pictures of Luke, Thalia, Annabeth, and I on the run. I was planning to not think about that for a long time, but the sight of Anne brought that back into my mind.

Lacy tosses me a bag of chocolates. "Who are they from?" I ask her.

Lacy pauses. "Anonymous."

"Do you think it's the same person who sent me the anonymous Valentine?" I ask her.

"Maybe," she says.

"Well, let's not eat them. Someone could have put a poison potion in there." I state.

She rolls her eyes. "Gods, Lina. Sometimes you can be so paranoid. Here, if you don't want them so badly, I'll take them." I toss the bag over to Lacy.

Someone knocks on our cabin door. "You get it," Lacy tells me, flopping back on her bed.

"Why do I have to—" I grumble as I get up and walk over to the door.

I open it, and a boy from the Apollo cabin stands outside, I think his name was Will? "What is it?" I ask him.

"The girl, Anne, is awake." Will says.

"Oh," I say, concerned. "Is she alright?"

"She's fine. She's just really confused and she was asking for you." He tells me.

"For me?" I repeat, not sure whether to be confused or flattered.

"Well, actually she was asking for 'the nice girl who greeted her at Camp.'"

I chuckle. "Well, I'd love to go see her. Wait one sec."

"Hey, Lacy!" I call. "I'm going to be gone for a while; I'll see you at dinner, probably?"

"Okay!" She calls back.

I head over to the infirmary to where Anne was. I open the door and I see her. She was glancing nervously around the room, bolt upright in the infirmary bed.

"Hey," I call softly to her. "Are you okay?"

She looks at me. "Okay, yes. Confused, yes."

I laugh a little. "I don't think I got to introduce myself. I'm Lina Quimby."

"Oh," Anne giggles a little. "I guess I will have to call you Lin-Bean then." She declares.

I furrow my eyebrow at the girl. Two can play at that game. "I guess then I'll have to call you Anne-Banana." I tell her.

She pouts a bit at the nickname, but changes subject immediately. "Where am I and who are all these people? I swear, the person who was at the borderline had a horse's butt."

"You're at a Camp...how did you get here, Anne?" I ask her.

She immediately breaks down into tears. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to," I add quickly, rubbing her back.

"No," she sniffles. "I think it's better if I do. You see, yesterday was supposed to be one of my best birthdays—"

"Happy Birthday, Anne-Banana." I say softly. "How old are you this year?"

She sniffs and tries to glare at me for the nickname, but it just looked adorable. "I just turned eight. Anyways, I went to school yesterday, it was my last day, I don't like that place, and I had no friends there. But yesterday, my daddy promised me a big surprise after the last day of school! So when I got home from the bus, I was really excited! But then—a bad thing happened."

She starts to sob and I comfort her. "I came home and I found my daddy dead on the floor. Someone killed him. I—I was alone. So I just packed a bag and ran out of the house as fast as I could until I found the Hill, I lived very nearby this place. And here I am."

Silently thankful that Anne didn't have to run through states or live on the streets for eight months as I did, I pull her into another hug. "Hey, it's alright, you're safe now. You can stay at Camp Half-Blood as long as you like. People stay here both for year-round and summer."

"But which are you, Lin-Bean?" She asks me, sniffling. I look at this girl. Unlike me, she was living the good life, with a single, loving father. But that had all been ripped apart just yesterday, and now she's at some Camp with no clue what's going on. It suddenly occurred to me that her mom must be the godly parent if she had a single dad.

"Just summer," I sigh, thinking of Harry, Ron, and Hermione at Hogwarts with me.

She looks upset by this fact, but then asks me: "What's this place, and who are all these people?"

I decide to explain it to her: "Anne-Banana," I say. "Have you ever heard the word demigod?"

"Oh, yes." She says excitedly. "I love Greek myths, Lin-Bean! They're so cool! I wish I could be a hero...like Perseus!"

I frown a bit at the nickname.

A tear comes into my eye. I always liked the story of Perseus, but where the Hades is Perseus Jackson right now? He better be alive, along with Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson, or else I'll go into the Underworld and personally bring them back here!

"You're not going to believe me, but what I'm telling you is the full truth. All these Greek myths you read...they're real." I explain to the little girl.

"Wow! Really! That's so cool! So Perseus—and Hercules—" She trails off. "But I can't read them very well, I'm dyslexic."

"All real," I tell her. "Anne, you're at Camp Half-Blood. It's a Camp...for demigods. You know your dyslexia? Those are your battle reflexes. I have it too, but I wear these glasses to help me." I tell her.

I still wear my dyslexia glasses, but only when absolutely necessary. Like, when I need to read books and labels. Not, like, when I'm with friends or...about to fight a battle or in war games.

"Wait, Lin-Bean, you're a demigod?" She asks.

Also a witch...eh, I'll get to that part two months later when I really have to, I don't want to confuse Anne even more.

I nod. "So are you."

"Wow! That's so cool!" She exclaims. "So this is a camp for demigods?"

I nod. "And the guy you said had a horse's butt? Well, that's Chiron, our camp director and a centaur."

"Is he named after the Chiron who taught—"

I cut her off. "Anne-Banana, he is the Chiron who taught all those ancient heroes."

"Wow..." Anne says in awe. "Can I see what the Camp's like, Lin-Bean?" She says eagerly with wide green eyes, bouncing on her bed.

By now, we had used the nicknames so many times that it just became second-nature.

"Well, I'll have to ask Will if you're allowed to leave the infirmary and I'll take you on a tour of the Camp. I have to warn you, on this tour, there is a chance of loss of limb." I tease.

Anne's eyes widen. "I'm kidding!" I tell her.

"Oh, good." She says, relieved.

"Hey, Will!" I call; he was at the other side of the infirmary dealing with someone else. "Can I take Anne out?"

He nods. "Yeah, she's pretty much healed."

"Alright then, I will take you on an official Camp tour then." I tell Anne as I help her up.

I decide to take Anne to all the cabins first and explain to her what they are. "These are the cabins in which we sleep," I tell her.

"Which one do you sleep in? I want to go to that one, Lin-Bean." Anne says.

"Anne-Banana, you can't choose the cabin you sleep in." I tell her. "It depends on who your godly parent is. Until you find out, you have to go into the Hermes Cabin."

"Do you know who mine is?" Anne asks.

"Well, I know it's your mom, since you used to live with a single father." I tell her.

"I never knew my mom." Anne says. "Daddy told me that she walked out on him."

"Yeah, it's your mom." I tell her.

"Who's your godly parent, Lin-Bean?" Anne asks.

"Aphrodite, goddess of beauty. I got claimed a year after I came here." I say.

"So I might have to wait a whole year?" Anne pouts.

"You don't if you get lucky, my best friend Percy Jackson got claimed after like, a week." I tell Anne. "And don't worry; the Hermes cabin's pretty nice."

"What are the big ones?" Anne asks.

"Zeus and Hera, they're empty right now. Hera only has kids with Zeus. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades are the Big Three. They can't have any children. But that didn't stop Thalia, Percy, or Nico from being born." I grin.

"So, they're like forbidden?" Anne asks. "But why are their cabins empty, I mean, if they have one child?"

"Well, Thalia was and still is like a big sister to me. She joined the Hunters of Artemis last winter. Nico...I never really knew him. Hades doesn't have a cabin. He's not here right now." I decide not to tell Anne everything about the oaths and what happened last winter.

"As for Percy...he left on a quest four days ago with my other best friends Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson. I have no clue where they are." I sniffle. "Anyways, do you want to see the arena?"

Her face brightens. "Yeah!" She exclaims. Anne and I walk over to the arena, where a battle was taking place. Well, it was more like a Clarisse was pounding someone and obviously winning sort of battle.

"Who—who's that?" Anne says, shrinking behind me for a moment.

"That's Clarisse." I tell her. "Daughter of Ares, the god of war, and pretty much ruthless. I hate her. Just don't challenge her and you'll be fine."

One day, I had made the mistake of challenging Clarisse when she got my temper flaring up. I regret that day...

"That's one thing I won't do," Anne says, watching Clarisse beat up the son of Apollo that challenged her.

The bell for dinner rings. "Hey, Chiron, can Anne sit with me for the time-being?" I ask.

"Just this once," he calls back. Anne and I grab plates and get food and drinks.

Anne and I take seats at the Aphrodite table. "Guys this is Anne." I introduce her to my siblings. "Anne, these are my siblings." She shrinks behind me for the moment. "She'll be sitting with us for today."

"Hi," they all chorus and turn away. Silena and Lacy move their plates of food towards me.

"Anne, these are some of my best friends at Camp, Silena and Lacy." I introduce.

"Hi," Anne says meekly. I notice how bubbly she is around me and how shy she is around everyone else. Everyone starts to get up for the food sacrifice.

"Come on," I say, grabbing Anne's arm gently.

"Where are we going?" Anne asks.

"We're sacrificing our meals to the gods." I tell her. "Most people sacrifice it to their godly parent. I remember on my first day. I was even younger than you are now and all I did was sacrifice to my godly parent to tell me who they are."

Anne nods. "I think I will do that."

She walks up to the brazier and scrapes some of her chicken in there. "To my godly parent," I hear her announce. "Please tell me who you are. Honestly, I hope you're Aphrodite. Then I can be with Lin-Bean."

Honestly, these words broke my heart. I hope that Anne is a daughter of Aphrodite as well. She doesn't strike me as a daughter of Demeter or Athena. All of Athena's kids have blonde hair and grey eyes like Annabeth. Anne had red hair and green eyes. Artemis is out of the question, she's a virgin goddess. That leaves, well, Aphrodite.

"To mother," I say, when it's my turn, scraping some of my pizza in there. "Please tell me that Percy, Annabeth, Grover and Tyson are alright."

With that, Anne and I walk back to the Aphrodite table.

"Attention!" Quintus says. "We have a new camper today, Anne Prior!" He bellows over the noise.

Everyone turns towards Anne, who buries her face in my shoulder.

As soon as they turn away, I mutter: "Be glad Mr. D wasn't the one saying that. He always gets everyone's name wrong."

"Really?" She asks, laughing.

"He introduced Percy Jackson as Peter Johnson. Also, last time I checked, my name isn't Lena Quo." I tell Anne.

"Where is he now?" Anne asks.

"Well, seeing as he's the god of wine and Zeus sent him down to the Camp as a punishment...I'm guessing he's busy with...godly stuff?" I say. I don't even know where he is, seeing as the summer session officially starts like a week before I leave Hogwarts.

"Anyways," I say. "Now's the campfire. You're going to love it, Anne-Banana."

Anne and I head to the campfire with Silena and Lacy. "So," I turn towards Silena. "Have you and Beckendorf done anything yet?"

"I could blackmail you at any time Lina," Silena warns me.

"Sure..." Lacy and I turn towards each other.

The sing-along starts, some campfire song that I forgot about. Honestly, no one cares how many bottles of milk there are on a wall...

Anne starts singing as loud as possible to the music and Silena, Lacy, and I laugh. Suddenly, our laughter ceases. A flock of doves make their way throughout the campfire and they perch themselves on Anne's arms.

"What—what is this? What's going on?" Anne exclaims, frightened.

I smirk. "Aphrodite," Chiron and I say in unison. "Hail Anne Prior, daughter of the love goddess."

"Cool!" She exclaims as everyone kneels before her, including me. "Wait, what does this mean?"

"It means we're half-sisters." I tell her, grinning.

Anne was adjusting to the camp pretty well so far. She always sticks around and trains with Silena, Lacy, and I. It's been two weeks since the Quest Group left and one week since Anne's arrival. It's only been a week since Anne got here and I already feel like she's a little sister of mine.

I was with Anne one day when a girl walks up to me. "Lina, you're needed in the Big House." She says.

"Alright," I say.

"Can I go with you?" Anne asks.

"Yeah, sure." I say. "I hope its news about the quest group, I've been worried sick."

When Anne and I open the door of the Big House, I see Chiron trying to comfort a sobbing Annabeth.

"Oh, my gods, Annabeth!" I exclaim, giving her a hug. "What's happened? Where are the others?"

"Oh, L—Lina." She sobs. "I—I failed the quest."

"What do you mean you failed the quest?" I ask her.

"I mean—that Grover and Tyson are somewhere still in the Labyrinth, they're stuck down there." Annabeth says.

I'm sure they'll turn up," I tell her optimistically, ignoring the tears in my eyes. "Hey, where's Percy?" I ask her.

She sobs even harder on my shoulder. "Lina, I think Percy's dead. There were lots of monsters, and he made me leave Mount St. Helens. Then—it blew up."

Soon, both Annabeth and I were sobbing, mourning for Percy, Grover, and Tyson, who might all be dead. Anne tried her hardest to comfort me but it was to no avail.

They might all be dead.

Stupid Labyrinth.

It has been two weeks since that day we found out Percy was dead. There was this instinct in my brain that kept telling me that Grover and Tyson were alive, but I didn't know about Percy. Annabeth and I spent the entire two weeks grieving for Percy. Anne, however, helped me keep in touch with my happy side. I couldn't just spend every single day just sitting in a bed and grieving.

We were having a funeral for Percy. His shroud looked beautiful. Annabeth, Juniper, and I had created it, and Anne added a couple of her own decorations that made the shroud come to life.

"It has been two weeks since Percy has gone missing. It has been even longer since he left for the quest in the Labyrinth with his fellow companions." Chiron says. After such a long absence and the circumstances of what happened, we can only assume that Percy Jackson is dead. Annabeth," Chiron says. "Will you do the honors?"

Annabeth takes the torch from Chiron as I start to sob again. As soon as she lit the shroud all hopes of Percy being alive left me. This is it. He's dead. We're demigods, we live short lives. What do you expect? I start to sob. Anne puts a hand on my back.

"I'm going to be okay, Anne-Banana." I tell her, sobbing. "I'm going to be okay."

"He was the bravest friend I ever had." Annabeth sniffles. Then her face turns to horror. "He's right there!"

"What!" I exclaim and Anne looks up. I shoot my head up to see Percy himself standing at the amphitheater entrance.

My grief turns to anger. I run over to where Percy was and wrap him in the biggest hug, sobbing on his shoulders. I let go.

"I'm okay, Lina." He promises me with a smile.

"Not for long, Kelp Head." I growl and slap him on both sides of his face.

"Ouch," some of the campers say.

"That's for making us all think you were dead," I growl and stalk over to where Anne was.

"So that's Percy?" Anne asks.

"Yep." I tell her.

"And you just slapped him in the face?" Anne asks incredulously.

"He got off easy. Have you seen Annabeth and I for the past two weeks. We thought he was freaking dead and then he appears here all of a sudden!" I tell her. I realize Anne hasn't seen this side to me yet.

My fiery side; my feisty side.

It was bound to happen eventually. The only reason that it hasn't happened yet is because people like Draco Malfoy aren't here to trigger it.

"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" Annabeth shrieks. She pulls Percy into a hug. "I thought you were dead, Seaweed Brain."

"I'm sorry. I got lost." Percy says.

"He got lost?" Anne asks innocently.

"Just, ugh—he's just—" I tell Anne, but I wasn't annoyed at Anne. I was annoyed at Percy.

"LOST?" Annabeth yells. "FOR TWO WEEKS? Percy, where—"

"I think we should discuss this elsewhere," Chiron says. He pulls Annabeth and Percy on his back.

"But I want to go—" I start.

They were already off.

"Of course," I mutter to Anne. "You'd think this whole Camp wanted to keep secrets from me."

"Lin-Bean, can I ask you something?" Anne says, tugging my arm as we walk back into the cabin for the little time we have left.

"Sure, Anne-Banana, shoot." I tell her.

"How old were you when you came here?"

"I was only six." I tell her.

"And you are now?"

"Thirteen on July 24th." I tell her.

"Oh, that's coming up!" Anne exclaims.

"In maybe, a month," I tell her.

"How did you get here?" Anne asks innocently.

I take in a deep breath and was about to tell Anne what I could when a fuming Annabeth storms in the cabin, making Anne flinch a little.

"Annabeth, are you alright?" I ask her.

"Chiron and Percy want to use a mortal who can see through the mist to guide us through the Labyrinth because of something Percy heard from Hephaestus!" Annabeth exclaims furiously.

"Okay, so..." I trail off.

"I would have been okay with it if it wasn't for that Rachel Dare girl!" She says, glaring at the wall.

"Who's she?" I ask innocently.

"She's Percy's 'friend'". Annabeth snarls.

"Anne-Banana," I tell the nervous girl. "Why don't you go on off to your sword-fighting lesson, alright? I need to talk to Annabeth alone."

She nods and scurries off.

"So..." I say as soon as Anne's gone. "She's Percy's friend. Don't you think it's a little possible that you might sort of be jealous of this Rachel person?" I back away nervously.

"It's just I'm so irritated with Percy!" She fumes.

As a daughter of Aphrodite, I know what will happen soon, but I just sit back and let her rant.

"I think he was on Ogygia!" Annabeth says.

"Where's that?" I ask innocently.

"All you need to know is that some Titan girl called Calypso lives on that island. They were probably kissing—or doing something romantic." Her eyes narrow.

"I think you like Percy." I tell her.

"I don't like Percy, Lina! I don't know what the Hades you Aphrodite girls are thinking, I don't like him!" She insists.

I start to break down into giggles. "Sure."

"I mean it Lina, I don't like him!" Annabeth snarls at me before slamming the door to the Aphrodite cabin.

Percy, Annabeth, and I stand at the top of Half Blood Hill.

"I don't like this." I say finally after a moment of silence, crossing my arms, glaring at the grass. "I don't like it at all."

"Lina, we have to do this." Percy says, trying to get me to look up at them.

"We'll come back, Lina, we promise." Annabeth assures me. She sneaks a glare at Percy.

"I know." I sniffle. "What you start, you have to finish."

I pull both of them into a double-hug. "I want Grover and Tyson with you when you come back."

"We'll do our best." Percy says.

With that, I watch them go down the Hill towards the van.

They'd better come back alive.

A/N: How did you like the chapter, and more importantly, how did you like Anne's character? :) I know, she's a bit dependent on Lina right now but she'll grow out of it ;) Anyways, the next chapter is the Battle...I wonder how Lina will react to finding out that Luke is Kronos's host, hmm...you'll have to find out...

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Please R&R :)

-Ana