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I do not own the PJO characters.

"J-Jamie?" I asked, hoping I heard him wrong.

"Yeah, he and Nico were the only two who believed you were not dead," Damian explained. Tears came to my eyes.

"No," I whispered, trying to hold tears in.

"I'm sorry Trish," Damian said.

"NO!" I yelled. I could feel the blood rushing to my head and I knew what was going to happen next. I ran at Damian and pulled him as close to me as possible right before everything around me disappeared into ashes and chunks.

"What the Hades?" Damian whispered, "what happened?"

Damian was at least a foot taller than me so my head was at his chest. "I exploded," I mumbled into his chest.

"What?"

I backed up a bit. "I exploded," I repeated shyly.

"Well I can see that," Damian said looking around at the mountain which had a huge chunk missing out of it. "But why?"

"I tend to explode when I'm stressed or upset. It's kind of like how everything becomes dark around me, except that happens when I get angry."

"What?"

"Yeah, when I'm stressed my body sends a signal to my curse and it lets out a whole bunch of energy all at once. I used to not be able to do that without passing out so I'm surprised I'm still standing."

"Well, you stored a bunch of energy for over five years so I'm not surprised."

"Great I was just starting to forget about that," I said sitting down.

"Hey it's not that bad," Damian said.

I stared at him, I know he was just trying to make me feel better but I couldn't help but yell at him. "Not that bad? NOT THAT BAD!" I yelled, "Jamie is dead, I missed most of Coral's life, she's what, seven? And holy crap I'm twenty!" I looked down at my arms. "I don't feel twenty, but yet here I am! I missed five years of my life! Five years I can never get back!" I started crying once again.

"Hey," Damian said wrapping me in his arms, usually I would protest but I didn't give a crap right then. "I know I shouldn't have said that, I can't imagine what you're going through but we have to get back to Camp, they need you." He hugged me tighter which kind of felt comforting.

"Fine," I said pulling away from him, "where are we, we're obviously not in Thrace."

"No we're not, we're in the Netherlands, the giants kept moving around so it was even harder for us to find you."

"So how are we going to get back?" I asked.

"I have just enough money to buy us two plane tickets," he said.

"Oh no, we are not taking a plane, I am not a fan of flying."

"Well there's always by boat but that would take way too long."

"I might have an idea," I said, I walked over to where I had placed Stygian and gripped it in my hand.

"What is it?" Damian asked.

"Well the Lord of the Underworld kind of favors me," I smiled. I flipped Nico's sword over and slammed the blade into the ground like I have seen Nico do a few times before. Instead of a crack opening like usual, a large dark figure began to form in front of us.

"Glad to see you awake," Hades' loud voice boomed.

"Me too," I smiled.

"What do you need, child?" Hades asked.

"I was wondering if you could get us to camp, we need to hurry," I explained.

"No problem."

Hades snapped his fingers and we plunged into darkness.

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-Lou Ellen and Sydney