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Welp, I guess I owe you guys this one...i did CHB after all.

When I finish Chiron's Camp Tales, would you guys be interested in a Mortals at CHB fanfic?

Danica White (mortal)'s POV

Our car was cruising through the Caldecott Tunnel in the Oakland Hills when our tire burst.

My dad somehow managed to get to the side of the road, without incident, while me, my mom, my stepbrother Damien, and his girlfriend, Claudia, held on for dear life.

When we finally stopped, we were all relieved beyond measure.

"Well, we've blown a tire and that was the spare one too." Dad sighed. He and Mom started discussing solutions to the problem.

I turned to Damien and Claudia. "So...what now?"

But they weren't listening. Instead, Damien was talking with Claudia.

"Do you think Frank and Hazel would mind..?" he was asking.

"They don't know us, stupid." Claudia retorted.

"Yeah, but they're friends with the guys at camp, plus I heard they're really nice."

Claudia snorted. "Suit yourself. I'm not burning your shroud if you die. Besides, what about you family?"

Damien was grimacing.. "It'll be fine, Claudia." He turned and tapped our parents on the shoulders. "Hey Dad, Mom, I think I know what to do."

Dad raised an eyebrow. "Would this have any connection to your friends at Camp? Because they're in New York, son."

"Actually-well, yeah, but they have a sister camp here. Sort of, anyways. I mean-well, just gimme a second." Damien climbed over Claudia and got out of the car, jogging some distance down the tunnel, before reaching a maintainace tunnel, which he turned into. And didn't reappear for several minutes.

"Uh, where'd he go?" I asked.

Claudia sighed. "To play negotiator. I swear to Olympus-"

Just then, Damien came back, as well as a tall, buff, Chinese dude wearing a purple shirt with gold letter spelling out SPQR. Claudia rolled her eyes, and got out of the car. THe rest of my family and I followed suit.

"Dad,Mom, Danica, Claudia, this is Frank Zhang. He kind of heads the other 's coming out to fix the car right now, too." Damien introduced.

Frank held out his hand to my father. "Hello, sir. It's nice to meet you."

Dad awkwardly took the teenager's hand, eyeing him over and probably wondering how he could lead a camp when he didn't ever look 18.

"You're lucky, Leo and Calypso are in town so they're coming out right now. Leo's 17 but he prety much built a giant ship that actually worked, as well as a dragon automaton that's fully functional. He's starting up his own repair shop in Manhattan soon, too." Frank grinned, as a curly-haired Latino and a blonde girl in a white blouse came up.

Damien fist-bumped the guy. "Hey Leo, great to see you again."

"Sup, Damien. Hey Claudia. Didn't expect you guys here too." Leo laughed.

Calypso rolled her eyes. "C'mon, Repair Boy, let's get to work. You guys'll all see each other all summer at camp anyways."

"No problem, Sunshine." Leo smirked, bening to check the tire. "Yup, completely blown. Got a spare, Mr. Koi Fish?"

"That koi was an accident...but yes." Frank groaned, going into the tunnel and coming out with a tire. Leo took it, and started working. "Got anything else, too, Mr. White? Engine tuneup, mileage increase...?"

"Just do whatever, long as it doesn't blow up." Damien said. Dad gave him a weird look (Mom was echatting with Calypso and Claudia), but didn't push it.

Leo changed the tire in record time, before opening up the hood and poking around for a bit. He, Frank, and Damien were joking around as Leo worked. My stepbrother seemed to have complete faith in the guy.

I was just hoping the car wouldn't explode.

Finally, Leo was done. Dad got in and turned the car on. The engin roared to life as Leo explained everything he'd done.

"Fixed your tire, upped the gas mileage a bit, patched a pipe that was close to failing, and some other stuff I don't remember but Iknow I did it. If you need me, just ask Damien or Claudia to give me a call."

"They don't have cellphones though..." I wondered.

Leo winked at me. "We got ways, sweetheart."

Calypso came ove rand punched Leo in the arm. "Leo, you have a girlfirned. Me."

"Oh, I know, Sunshine." Leo smirked. "Anyways, great seeing y'all but we gotta run. Time waits for no man-or dragon. Seeya!" he called, as he and Calypso disappeared into the maintanance tunnel.

"I should get going too. Bye Damien, Claudia! Nice meeting you!" Frank called, heading after the couple.

Damien and Claudia got int othe car, and I hesistantly followed. "So...you sure this thing won't blow up? he barely spent 5 minutes on it!"

"I agree. He probably did a sloppy job." Mom said.

Damien and Claudia just smiled knowingly. "You'll see." they replied in unison.

Dad carefully maneuvered onto the road again,and we soon discovered Leo was, in part, a genius, because whatever he did made our car go much smoother and the gas mileage was doubled what it'd been before.

Although I still wanted to know why the three teenagers had come out from a maintainance tunnel if they were from Damien's camp's sister camp.

This wasn't suposed to be a "mortals meet"...whoops...ah well, reviews please!