Even though Danny and Katie were sitting together, they initially didn't say anything to one another. Even though they need to cooperate, they were having difficulty doing so due to their quarreling and fighting. At least Katie decided to break the ice.

"These are some lovely buildings," she said, looking at him.

"I guess they are," said Danny, but his head was turned from her.

"Why do you hate me so much?" said Katie.

"I don't hate you," said Katie.

"Then what is it? The moment you and I came to camp we were trying to kill each other," said Katie.

"I believe someone started that fight," said Danny, turning his head to face her.

"Look, I'm sorry for starting this whole fight, but now I just want it to end," said Katie.

"It's not because of that, well not all the way. It's because the children of Gaia are mortal enemies of the children of Zeus. You're the sky, I'm the earth. You like flying, I like staying on the ground. Our two families have been fighting since time itself," said Danny. "So naturally, we're not suppose to be friends."

"Well, let's start over. Hi, I'm Katie," said Katie, giving out her hand. Danny hesitated at first, but then he inched his hand closer until they were shaking.

"Danny," said Danny. "so, Katie, what do you like to do?"

"I like to go surfing?" said Katie. Danny laughed.

"What's so funny?" she asked?"

"A New Yorker surfing?" said Danny.

"I know it's weird, but I only go surfing in places with warmer water," said Katie. "So what do you like to do. You said dirt biking, but what else?"

"Killing monsters," said Danny,

"At least we have something else in common," said Katie. "Where did you get Seismos, Lithos, and Pithos?"

"I made them," said Danny.

"You made them by yourself?" said Katie, astounded.

"I had some help from my mom with the magical parts, but I made them by myself," said Danny.

"That's impressive," said Katie.

"Where did you get Static and Jolt?" said Danny.

"They were a gift from my dad," said Katie.

"They're really good weapons, although I was in the receiving end of them," said Danny.

"I'm sorry about that too," said Katie.

"So who's your mother?" said Danny.

"Her name is Sarah Sky. She's an electrician. That's how my dad and her met, and then came me. You?" said Katie.

"My dad's name was Gerald Stone. He was geologist. One day, while he was studying ancient rocks in a cave in the Appalachians he met my mom. They hit it off really easy from there, then I came along," said Danny. "She's a really nice person, but it's the majority of her children that gives her a bad rep."

"Like Typhon, the father of all monsters?" said Katie.

"Exactly," said Danny.

"So that means your related?" she asked.

"Unfortunately yes. Some of the gods are okay with me, like Poseidon, but the others are not so sure since they think I'm going to try and overthrow Olympus. Your dad really doesn't like me because of that," said Danny.

"How is your dad anyway?" said Katie. A look of grief came across Danny's face.

"I don't like to talk about it," said Danny. Katie decided to avoid the question.

"So does this mean that we're okay?" she asked.

"Sure, I guess the feud's over between us," said Danny. The bus stopped at the Arc de Triomphe.

"You wanna get off?" said Katie.

"Sure," said Danny. They got off the bus along with the tour group and tour guide to see the structure. It was huge, carved with the names of French soldiers who served in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars on each pillar. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier stood under the arch, the eternal flame blazing away in it's place at the head of the marble slab.

"Could you ever build something like this?" said Katie.

"It would take some time, but not long. Why?" said Danny.

"I saw you using your powers during the wedding when you were making the pillars and arches. They looked really beautiful," she said.

"Thanks," said Danny. Once they were done sightseeing the tour guide asked those who wanted to go back on the bus, Danny and Katie going with them.

"So which gods besides my dad are on your bad side?" said Katie.

"Just Athena and Ares, but Athena really doesn't mind about me much, she only does it because of Zeus. Ares doesn't like me because one of my brothers stuffed him in a jar during a fight," said Danny.

"That sucks," said Katie. They both laughed from her comment. As they recovered from their laughter they noticed that Katie's hand was on his hand. They pulled away quickly, slightly blushing.

"So, where are we going to next?" said Katie.

"This place called Les Invalides. It has something about the tomb of France's greatest heroes," said Danny.

"That would mean that Napoleon's Tomb could be there," said Katie. Danny thought about it, then his face lit up.

"You're right. We should check it out there now to see if there's anything out of the ordinary," said Danny. "You're pretty smart."

"Thanks," said Katie.

"For a blond," Danny added. Katie gave him an evil look.

"Kidding," said Danny.

"Don't play with me like that, you don't want a daughter of Zeus as your enemy," said Katie.

"True, I still got the mark to prove it," said Danny, rubbing his chest.

"I'm sorry about that too," said Katie.

"It's okay," said Danny. "Do you know about your cousin Thalia?"

"Yes. I've only seen her a few times, why?" said Katie.

"I ran into her on my way to New York with the Hunters," said Danny. "Luckily I didn't bother them much so they let me go. Artemis doesn't trust me too much because another one of my brothers tried to force her to marry him, but she let me go off on a friendly note."

"That's nice, at least she can forgive and forget," said Katie. The tour bus stopped at the Les Invalides. The guide gave them thirty minutes to look around before the bus would pull off to their next destination. Danny and Katie immediately took off for the tomb while the rest of the group went off in random directions. They came to the Napoleon's tomb, gazing at it from the deck above.

"So what does it mean, this is Napoleon's tomb right?" said Katie.

"Yes, but I son;t know where Napoleon would put it. Annabeth is good about figuring these things out," said Danny.

"Do they mean the walls?" said Katie.

"For all we know the gem could be anywhere in Paris. The catacombs of Paris are filled with thousands of skeletons, and Paris is sometimes called Napoleon's Tomb," said Danny. Katie put her head on the railing.

"This is going to take forever," she said.

"We still got three days. We can figure something out. First we need to plot out all possible locations," said Danny.

"Okay," said Katie.

"In the mean time we can still relax a bit," said Danny.

"Now that I can enjoy," said Katie.


The two half-bloods spent the rest of the day looking at famous sites and touring around Paris. They bought some French pastries to cure their raving hunger for a moment before they would get dinner at the hotel. Katie was starting to like Danny more and more on each passing minute. Sure they had opposing views on music, such as Danny favoring rap, hip-hop, and reggae over rock, heavy metal, and country. Katie and him did like songs by Irish bands and groups, which they thought was filled with a lot of passion and harmonious singers, and it also told the struggles the Irish suffered.

They even liked to tell jokes to each other, from stereotypes to yo momma jokes.

"Yo momma is so nasty, she got more clap than an auditorium," said Danny. Katie busted up laughing from that.

"I got one. Yo momma is like a television, even a two year old can turn her on," she said. Danny had to lean against a building so that he wouldn't fall to the ground from laughing.

"That was good. You know, even though we're opposites, we have a lot in common," said Danny.

"You have a point, I guess we're not so different after all" said Katie. They took a seat at a table next to a Parisian cafe.

"So, do you have a boyfriend?" said Danny.

"No. Most of the boys I know are not the kind I like. I like a boy who likes me for me, someone who's always there for you, and always supports you even through some of the worst moments of your life. I want him to be, different, like doesn't act like most normal people and just be's himself all the time. What about you? Do you have a girlfriend?" said Katie.

"No. I've dated a lot of girls, but none that I found interesting or good enough to go in a serious relationship. There was this dryad that I knew, but she was into everything about nature and I couldn't handel that. She evn wanted me to sleep in a tree!" said Danny. "So I broke it off with her. I did get her to find a nice satyr though."

"Sounds like you haven't met the right girl yet," said Katie.

"Well, when she does come I'll know," said Danny.

"Yeah right," said Katie.

"What do you mean?" said Danny.

"Boys are clueless when it comes to finding who is 'Mrs. Right'," said Katie.

"You do have a point, but how would you think girls know who's 'Mr. Right'?" asked Danny.

"We just know," said Katie.

"Most of the guys girls say are the ones are thugs who leave you on their doorstep pregnant," said Danny.

"Okay, you have a point, but some of us know," said Katie.

"Sure you do," said Danny.

"It's a fact."

"In what time period?"

"Now."

"That must be another way of saying never."

"Shut up, you're so immature," said Katie, laughing a little. Danny smiled.

"So you wanna head back on foot? The hotels only a few blocks from here," said Danny.

"sure it's getting late anyway. What time is it?" said Katie. Danny placed his hand on the ground.

"About 6:49," he said.

"How did you know that?"

"I feel the Earth when it's rotating, and then I feel what the position it's in," said Danny.

"That's a cool trick. Let's go," said Katie. They started walking back to the hotel. The sun was beginning to set in the city, the lights starting to turn on.

"This place is such a mystery. It had so many things happen in it's past, yet it always maintains it's position as the most beautiful city in the world," said Danny.

"It does still have that inner beauty I don't see in too many cities, and I've been to a lot. The worst was L.A.," said Katie. "It felt like it was.."

"Too chaotic?" said Danny.

"Yes. I guess because the Underworld's right under it," said Katie. "So where have you been around the states?"

"All of them. When you're born from an Earth goddess you can get anywhere easily, except if you have to cross water like the oceans," said Danny. "Otherwise I would have taken you anywhere you needed to."

"How do you travel?" said Katie.

"I think of where I want to go, then I jump into the Earth. It's like going through a tunnel filled with the sounds of the Earth, like tectonic plates crashing together, magma chruning under the crust, and then I'm there in a few seconds. It drains a lot of energy from me though," said Danny.

"It sounds fun," said Katie. "How old are you?"

"17," said Danny. "You?"

"I'm 16," said Katie.

"You don't seem like it," said Danny.

"I get that a lot too," she said. "What grade are you in?"

"I'm a junior," he said.

"I'm a junior too," she said.

"You skipped a grade?" he said.

"Yes, I was ahead of my class in first grade, even though I was dyslexic," said Katie.

"You must be really smart," said Danny.

"I am. I have a 3.8 GPA," she said.

"Well that beats my 3.6.," said Danny. "My favorite subject is History and Earth Science."

"I could tell. Mine's English and Art," said Katie.

"You draw?"

"Yes. I'm really good at it."

"Well, we're almost there," he said, pointing ahead to their hotel. They walked in, the clerk smiling and waving at them when they got in.

"Did you enjoy the city?" he said.

"Oui, beaucoup (Yes, very much)," said Danny. The clerk smiled and waved them goodbye. They got to the door, where Danny put the key in the slot and the door opened to their room.

"Wait, I just noticed that Percy and Annabeth didn't show up. They're still here," said Katie. She went over to the door connecting to their room.

"I wouldn't go in there if I were you," said Danny. Too late, she opened the door and her eyes went wide. Annabeth was riding Percy, the couple oblivious to the fact that Katie was standing in the doorway. The room, Katie thought, smelled like sex everywhere. Annabeth was riding Percy like a bronco, balancing on his shoulders as he was grabbing her by her hips and bringing her down every time he thrusted up to meet her. Their bodies were drenched with sweat and they were moaning and groaning as their oragsms approached. Katie slowly walked back into the other room just as Annabeth and Percy out as their orgasms hit, Percy still thrusting into her as he pumped his seed into her with each pulse. Annabeth slumped onto him, the couple still breathing hard from their encounter.

Katie stood by the closed door in shock. Then she turned to Danny demanding an explanation.

"Okay, Percy wanted us to leave so that he and Annabeth could do that while we were away," said Danny. They did just get married two days ago."

"You still could have told me," she shot at him.

"Would you have went anyway?" he said. She opened her mouth, but then thought about it for a minute.

"I guess you're right," she said. "I'm about to go take a shower." She got her night clothes from her bag and went in the bathroom, Danny getting out his clothes too. Since the bathroom was across the room from the foot of the bed it gave them a parallel access to it. He got on the bed and began to read The Lord of the Rings:The Return of the King. He could hear the shower running, so he kept on reading, inclining to himself he would shower when she was finished. As he read he saw that the door was partially open. A part of him was telling himself to go and peak in there, the other part saying it wasn't right.

"You know you want to see her."

"No I don't, now shut up."

"Come on, one peek won't hurt."

"Yes it will."

After much debating with himself he listened to the voice that was egging him on.

"I guess one peek won't hurt," he thought. He edged slowly towards the door, making sure to stick to one side so that he could see through. As he looked he felt his breath catch in his throat.

"Katie was downright, fall off the bed, gorgeous. Her skin shown like the sun as the water poured on her. Her breasts were large, but not large so that they looked like airbags, but large enough to make her look like a goddess. Her nipples were pink and bright, and her belly was flat as the water cascaded down it. There was a small patch of neon blond hair above her womanhood, but that didn't mind him in the slightest. She turned around, giving him a good view of her butt and back. Her butt was just the right size, not small but not big. It was perfect, and her back was as smooth as marble. He hungered to go in there, but something told him that that was enough. He went back onto his bed, thinking of what he had just seen.

Five minutes later Katie came out of the bathroom, wearing a tank-top and a pair of black panties. Danny mentally told himself not to stare at her as she passed by him and went into her bed. Danny got up and got his clothes and went into the bathroom to take his shower.

Katie heard the water falling, and then it stopped. Danny came back out into the room, his pajama pants still on but his shirt wasn't all the way on just yet. Katie couldn't help but stare as she saw his muscles rippling, still semi-wet from the shower. Danny got his shirt on and saw that Katie was staring at him.

"What is it?" he asked.

"N-nothing," she said. He got his shirt all the way on and climbed into his bed. He turned the lamp off on his side and slowly went to sleep. Katie followed shortly after, but she had trouble as she couldn't help but stare at Danny as she slowly fell to sleep.

Meanwhile, Danny wasn't asleep just yet. in his mind the same question kept repeating into his head like a record on a old radio.

"Am I attracted to her?"