AN: So, so sorry for the few-week wait between this chapter and the last – I've been busy, again (read: doing absolutely nothing of any importance and just hasn't been bothered to write the next chapter) – BUT thanks to the recent reviews I've decided to log back into the website and write! Hurrah!

Before I begin, I'd like to say thank you to those who have favourited/followed the story (43-44 now!) and to the four reviews since the last chapter: the Guest (the sex parts are hard to describe in more details because I've already completely trodden on the line between M and MA fanfiction), the two reviews by Luminescent Rainbow Veins which made me smile (indeed, I shall try to get some more Percy/Annabeth time but Percy with a bunch of other girls is very fun to write) and finally to the very, very kind review by 'piper' (7/5 isn't too bad – hopefully I can get that up to an 8 :P).

I shall try to update this more regularly, but it is drawing to its end :( and I'm trying to postpone that for as long as I can. Thank you and I hope you enjoy chapter thirty-eight:

Valentina's PoV

I was thoroughly scared. I could, of course, decline, but I did need those points if I were to challenge the likes of Percy, all the way at the top. I looked Clarisse dead in the eye, breathed in deeply and exhaled heavily: I couldn't besure what Clarisse would want me to do (something sexual, no doubt, or something embarrassing). I looked her up and down: those menacing eyes, the hair flicked back into a ponytail, the face of a warrior: the final face many a monster has seen in its final moments – I was but a mere dragon, trembling at the wrath of my terrible, merciless enemy. To refuse to do this dare would be cowardice and to do it would be the wreckage of my dignity.

I nodded. "Fine," I told her. "what do you want me to do first?"

A twinkle floated to the surface of Clarisse's eye like bubbles to the surface of a lake and a grin graced itself upon her face: a rare sight but one that, when seen, suited her in a menacing, dreadful way. Percy probably saw her like this all the time but, under her stare, I quailed.

She took a moment to ponder, or made it seem like that, before holding out a hand for me. I took it, feeling the rough knuckles and jagged fingernails, and took a step towards her, thinking she was going to be moving away to another cabin. But I seemed to be mistaken. She brought me close to her, and her mouth parted. I drew my ear to her lips but heard nothing. Her hands clapped to my face, spun it around and drew it close to hers.

I wrinkled my nose, expecting a pungent smell to erupt from between the two brutes she called lips but it instead smelled of rose. Her lips drew to mine, three centimetres away, two, one and then, just as they were about to touch, her hands, which had been placed on my sides, pushed me backwards into Leo.

He wasn't ready, and I stumbled, tripped on a piece of wood that was sticking up from the floor and fell, sprawled into his lap. He drew in breath; I realised why, my hand was gripped to his crotch, his naked, beautiful crotch. Clarisse had approached us by the time I had gathered enough sense to withdraw my hand. He had stripped naked, then, whilst my back was turned. Clarisse probably made him with her vile facial gestures whilst I was looking at her.

Her hands pulled me upwards and she, along with Leo who followed her lead after she kicked his shin, began taking off my outer clothes until I stood in the cabin in just my pair of pink knickers and bra. Clarisse seemed to smirk at them.

"Ple….please don't." I muttered.

"Say that again." She teased.

"Please…please…" I begged.

"Sorry?"

"Please!"

"Please what?"

"Please don't take it off!"

"What off?"

"My pants!"

"Please don't take off my pants, who?"

"Please don't take off my pants, Clarisse."

"That's better." She smirked.

She laid me down upon a chair and put a cover over my body, protecting it from the view of the others but not shielding it from the judging eyes of my captor. She took off my bra, not looking at what lay below. I said nothing, not daring to bring up the conversation we had just happened. She then pulled off my knickers and drew over my legs a pair of boxers, Leo's boxers. She pulled off the cover and my hands fled to my upper half. She took me by the elbow and propped me up, much as I would have preferred to have laid down.

She took me over to Leo and pushed me down upon his lap so that our faces were turned towards each other. She came to the side of us, blocking the others from view and raised an eyebrow at us. Leo, despite the shock of me coming back onto him, understood immediately what she wanted and drew his lips to mine. His hands flew to where mine were and removed them slowly, his eyes gazing down at the treasures beneath where my underwear normally was. He stroked them gently and I, getting the gist of things, moved my hands to where his boxers normally were.

Leo stopped stroking me in a matter of seconds and I looked at him questioningly. He nodded gently and I turned to see the others gathered around us. I stopped stroking him but my hands were still wrapped around him. And he was certainly aroused.

"Dam….if only Annabeth would do that to me." Percy joked. She hit him.

"I guess that's your dare over then." Leo said, disappointed.

"If you don't want me." I said and stood up, got behind the cover, and got changed, chucking Leo's boxers at him.

I turned into the middle and spun the bottle: Travis. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare."

"Let Katie do to you the stuff I did to Leo." I said kindly.

Katie, winking at me, knelt down in front of the already naked Travis and brought her mouth and her hands closer to his privates, working them. A groan or two would emanate from that corner of the cabin. When the two had finished, Travis spun the bottle: Conner.

"Truth or dare?" He asked.

"Dare." Conner responded.

"Tomorrow, at lunch, do nude modelling for the arts club at camp."

"What?"

"They're looking for a nude model, they asked me, of course. Didn't they ask you?"

"Errm…yes, yes, of course!"

"Well, go on then."

"Well, I did throw away the letter – when do we meet?"

"At 1, go into the cabin and wait there naked. They observe from the outside."

"Okay, sure."

Travis's PoV

I waited outside the dining pavilion and moved closer to the building where I had told Conner to go. There was a small gap in the wood surrounding it and there was a clear view into the middle. Conner was standing there, his clothes in a pile on the side, with just his bright orange trunks on: he obviously wasn't totally sure about my lie. His hands were clutched to his front, trying to adjust himself before a big reveal.

A few minutes later and I watched as a troop of girls marched over to the building and swung open the door. It was the 'appreciation society' and each week something was put in the middle of the room and the girls would examine it. They would also experiment with it. Just after breakfast, I had sneaked out a sword, casting my eyes about the room littered with old bits that remained from past experiments, and returned it to the fighting arena. When the girl entered, she let out a low whistle.

"Who put this there?" she grinned.

"Oh, hey!" said Conner. "Are you the nude artist club?" He pulled down the trunks and stood there, proudly.

"Oh." Said one of the girls, blushing.

They moved down towards him and circled him, moving closer and examining him, touching him in places he really wouldn't like.

"Are you…going to start drawing now?"

"Drawing?"

"Yeah, the nude art club."

"What? We're the appreciation society."

"And you are our experiment."

I heard Conner three minutes later when he burst through the door, butt-naked, with his clothes gathered in his hands, clutching his back. "They tried using a Bunsen burner on me!"

I laughed at him. "You'll want to get some clothes on."

When we were gathered in Jason's cabin that night, Conner reached into the centre and spun the bottle. It landed on Jason.

"Truth or dare?" Conner asked.

"Dare."

"Hang yourself upside down by your feet for the next round."

"That's too easy." He replied.

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