-Shattered-

Hey, no super enthusiastic greeting for you guys today.

Honestly doods and doodetes,we go through all that trouble to make a long ass chapter for you, which is basically unheard of from someone like me, and what do we get in return? Ten reviews.

While I'm definitely not complaining about what i got and I'm not about to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I kinda expected a little more, seeing as I could have jsut as easily split that chapter into probably four different chapters and gotten probably five times the reviews, but no, I wanted to give you guys something special for having had to wait so long for the chapter.

Seeing as you don't respond too well to long chapters, we're going to return to the shorter ones, because clearly, those are much better received.

Hope you don't mind.

Well on the bright side, the next chapter is already written and will go up whenever i deem the response is appropriate :p

#hatersgonnahate

BAI!


Zoe groaned. She couldn't remember anything that had happened.

She felt exhausted. Her back lay flush with the bed underneath; her legs were raised a few inches from the rest of her body. She was covered with a warm blanket. Her eyelids felt heavy, she had no mood to open them unless absolutely necessary.
She tried to squirm into a more comfortable position, hugging her pillow tighter; its rhythmic up and down movements comforting her.
Her eyes fluttered open. Last time she checked, pillows weren't supposed to move. Her vision was greeted with the bare chest of a male, whom she was clutched onto. Panicking, she attempted to recoil away from the body, fearing the worst. She was in an unknown bed with a shirtless boy, unable to recall any past events. Had she been drugged? She had no idea.
Surprisingly, she felt her movements restrained. Her gaze scanned lower, only to be met with strong arms wrapped around her waist.
She began to hyperventilate, what had happened? She was in the embrace of a random boy and her memory was failing her. She began to squirm, trying her best to get away from the near-naked form of the person beside her.
What was her lady going to think? Zoe was appalled at even the thought.
After a bout of fitful movement, the boy began to stir. His grip loosened.
It was the perfect opportunity, Zoe rolled away from the bed, landing on her back on the soft, carpeted floor.
Her vision was trained upwards. The roof of wherever she was looked incredibly familiar. She was in a tent and not a building, which was the first thing she observed. The shade of the white, sloped roof seemed to be at the tip of her tongue, but she couldn't quite place where she had seen that roof before.
She heard a groan from the bed she had just rolled off of. Suddenly on high alert, she shot to her feet, only to double over in pain.
"Zoe!" The voice seemed to be so very familiar. Coughs began to erupt from her dry chest.
The same tender voice spoke up again, closer this time, "Here, drink."
Her vision was blurred out; she could make out the vague silhouette of the man who was obviously the one who was talking to her. She didn't know what came over her, she opened her mouth like an ass and let the possibly, maybe rapist pour a liquid into her mouth.
She instantly felt better. It was nectar. The sweet liquid soothed her wounds as the taste of coffee washed through her system. Her vision began to clear. Blinking rapidly, her vision met with the man before her.
She blushed heavily, it was Percy. Zoe looked around; she was in the hunters' infirmary. She breathed a sigh of relief; she hadn't been kidnapped, drugged, and/or raped.
Her memory began to return to her.
She remembered the lake, Her, having lost her way from Phoebe and being attacked by some sea monster, Percy saving her, Him being eaten by another beast that was at least ten times as large as the one before. Then her memories began to grow fuzzy, she remembered screaming in rage, and then two hands made of water ripping the monster in half. Was that her doing?
Zoe began to feel a cool draft of wind brush against her skin.
She blushed when she realized that she wasn't wearing any clothes, save for her silver undergarments, consisting of a silver sports bra and black boxers.
Her blush intensified when she realized that she had been in bed with Percy, both being practically naked. While she knew deep down that nothing had happened between them ("yet", her mind supplied), she couldn't help but wonder what it would be like... To lay with the boy in an intimate way.
"Zoe, are you alright? You look kinda red." The huntress shook her head violently to clear her dirty thoughts. Nope. She was not thinking straight. She was a hunter of Artemis; she wasn't supposed to be thinking such thoughts. '

And you weren't supposed to fall in love either, look where you are now. Her mind supplied to her once again.
"I-I'm fine. What happened?" Percy gestured for her to take a seat on the bed, a request that she complied with.
"When I was," he cleared his throat, "Swallowed by the monster, you uh- controlled the water around you and managed to kill it. I uh- wasn't the one to see you do this, because I was in the belly of the monster, but Artemis saw you make two hands out of the water and rip the monster in half." Percy rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, avoiding her gaze.
Zoe remained quiet, so it hadn't been a dream. She really did end up killing the monster by controlling water.
"Um - Artemis said that she was going to check with my dad, if he had done anything." Zoe nodded, that made sense, Lord Poseidon was the lord of the seas, and of course he would save his only half blooded son from being eaten. "So uh... yeah."
Zoe noticed that the boy was finding in quite difficult to frame proper sentences. The hunter had no clue as to why that was.

Another breeze hit her exposed skin. Oh yeah...
"Um... here are your clothes. Put them on."
Zoe smirked. It was teasing time. "And you waited until now to give them to me? Did you like what you see that much?"
She didn't know what came over her, but she ended the sentence with a wink, which made Percy's words get stuck in his mouth. "Th-That wasn't the reason!" He choked out, "I just uh... forgot..."
Zoe raised an eyebrow.
"In case you have forgotten, I was just recently eaten by a sea monster. My memory isn't that great yet."

Zoe rolled her eyes, what did being eaten have to do with memory loss. "Just admit it Jackson, you're just like all the other male pigs in this world." Zoe pretended to scoff, she knew, of course that Percy was just so much better than the other men in the world, but she felt justified a little teasing here and there.
"Wa-What! No!"
Zoe laughed at his flustered expression.
"Alright you two, if you're done flirting, You're just in time for lunch, chop-chop."
Zoe's head snapped towards the source of the voice. It was a snickering Phoebe at the entrance of the infirmary.
"We weren't flirting!" Zoe and Percy said at the same time.

Phoebe rolled her eyes, "Whatever you say, you two." She walked away from them, leaving the two near-naked hunters alone in the tent once again.
"We should probably put out clothes on…."
Zoe nodded at the suggestion, "Yeah, we should."

Percy mumbled a thank you, and scrambled away as he scrounged for his clothes. Zoe looked toward him to see if he kept his eyes off of her, but the action seemed futile, with how much time they had spent together undressed. In the deep and dark recesses of her mind, she almost hoped that the boy was looking at her, but she did not allow this thought to eat away at her. The thought sounded wrong. Shaking her head to clear her mind, she fully focused herself on reacquainting herself with her hunters' parka.

After they re-dressed themselves, they escaped from the infirmary which was getting a bit claustrophobic for her taste. The open Canadian air which filled her lungs was far more towards her tastes.

Zoe heard her stomach grumble, she hadn't eaten since before the lake and she was completely famished.


B/N

This chapter was all Josh. Like all of it. We were kinda disappointed in the count of reviews. We made the time to pump out over 5000 for you, too! During AP testing for me! :( Oh well.

Thanks SilentSniper05 for the compliment. ^-^

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