Maisie really is going to throw up. Probably. The curly blonde picked his wiggling, still moving, hand and just kinda reattached it. Gross. After all that work she just went through to unattach it.

The fake calm was back, making her whole reality seem a bit surreal, almost like a demigod dream, where everything feels so real and not at the same time. Those suck the most of all. It felt like she was suffocating at the hands of her own slow heartbeat. Maisie hated it. The two monsters stared down at her with curiosity. It made her sick.

"You're very strong." The curly blonde, she really needed to learn their names (or at least make some up), remarked. The fact that that was a compliment registered somewhere under the fake calm.

"You're very freaky." She bit back without much malice. It was hard to muster up enough of any emotion, much less aggression.

"Are you okay?" The bronze haired one asked. Is she okay? What even is okay. She's feeling like she's underwater. Like she's a spectator to this interaction rather than a participant. The urge to answer layered over the fake calm.

"I am.." She shook her head. "Fuzzy."

That seemed like a fitting word.

"Whatever you're doing to me, the fake calm. I hate it." She informed them. Her tone complacent as she stood there. Why is she standing there like some barbie doll. What she wanted to do was rip their hands, maybe their whole arms off, again. Only she couldn't. Not really. "Also I don't know what to call you."

The bronze haired one waved to the curly blonde, and suddenly it's like the world focused. She fell back into herself, acutely aware of her surroundings. The fake calm was gone.

"I'm Edward, and this is Jasper." He introduced. "It's nice to finally meet you, Maisie."

"I never told you my name." She remarked. "Who are you?"

She already had a pretty good guess, all things considered. The boys wouldn't tell her anything about anything, but from what she gleaned, these were the Cullens.

"You're right." Edward replied, "I'm Edward Cullen, and this is Jasper Hale."

"What the fuck?" The words slipped from her mouth immediately. In fact, her brain for the past ten minutes had just been screaming 'What?'.

"Oh, they didn't tell you. I read minds." He shrugged, "Yours is.. fuzzy, but if I concentrate I can get a general idea."

"Yeah, they don't tell me anything." She grumbled back. "Anyways, I guess I won't kick your asses, but I am going to leave now."

"Kick our asses?" Jasper repeated with a southern twang. As if the idea was laughable. As if she couldn't.

"Excuse me?" She arched a single eyebrow.

"He just thinks it's funny that you think you could." Edward smirked, not unkindly, though it was clear he agreed.

"Oh." She paused. "I changed my mind. I'm going to eviscerate you."

Both of them blinked in surprise. Behind her, Seth stepped out of the woods smiling. "Don't worry guys. The threats just mean she likes you."

"An absolutely deplorable notion, Seth. I hate them from the pits of my irredeemable soul." Maisie turned to the younger boy with a feral grin that wasn't entirely friendly. Seth was the one wolf who she really actually liked. He treated her like a person, and joked with her in a way no one else would. His easygoing naivety made him hard to hate.

"I personally would hate to be eviscerated." Edward interjected, to which Maisie replied, "I didn't ask."

"You are a menace. Making friends with the local vamps, Jake will be so disappointed." He faux sighed.

"I'm not making friends. I'm going to brutally murder them. They interrupted me while I was trying to dramatically run away." She challenged. Seth's eyebrows furrowed and he looked slightly hurt.

"Run away?"

She sighed, "For your own good, really. Trying to protect everyone from the mistake that's trying to protect me."

It was a poor mistake of a friendly rebuttal, and only sounded sad leaving her lips.

"Protect you from what?" Jasper leaned in, obviously interested.

"Oh, you know.." Maisie waves her hands around in a noncommittal gesture.

"Whatever it is, we can protect you." Seth pledged.

"You could die trying." She shrugged. "And we're acquaintances. What kind of acquaintance would I be if I let you do that." Her voice broke a little at the end, but she cleared her throat and composed herself.

"I thought you were gonna stick around." Seth replied.

"To help with Victoria, though it seems you have that covered." She replied dryly.

"About that..." Edward interjected. "You might want to stick around a while longer, we're going to need all the help we can get."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Seth asked wide eyed.

"It means we're over by your border because we need to speak with Sam. Alice had a vision." Edward said gravely.

"Ominous." Maisie replied. "I want to be at this meeting."

Her curiosity was piqued, and the feeling that made her stick around in the first place came back. That feeling that something was wrong and she had to fix it.

Gods damnit, now she's have to have an awkward talk with Paul. What's she going to say? Sorry I had a slight lapse in mental stability and decided to run away. I'm not doing that anymore? That doesn't really cut it.

Hey Y'all! Thank you so much for all the follows and reviews! Okay, to answer some of your questions:

Guest: I didn't plan for Maisie to turn into a vampire. With the themes of immortality present in PJO I just don't think it would fit. THANK YOU SO MUCH THOUGH IM GLAD YOU LIKE MY STORY.

oooSilverWolfooo: I'm glad you're excited about the Cullens. They might be a bit of bc I feel like SM had so much potential to explore the fact that they think they are/they are monsters and didn't? Like I really wanna write them as the interesting characters they could be.

Cynder2013: Your review is much appreciated. I know I should spell check but like,, too much work.. Anyways, Luke is leading the Romans because Kronos is leading the whole rebellion. At the point where Maisie joins the Titans, it's pretty late in the game. Like isn't Luke anymore, he's Kronos and I think that he would be able to shift to Saturn like the gods shift between. I've thought about the Roman demigod that becomes Krios (because it was Krios Jason fought at Mount Othyrus) and how he would've been pulled to Luke in their mutual anger and how the titans would've inconspicuously merged roman and greek before Hera did in HOO (plus that gives Hera the idea, ya feel?) They would've met, like fate. I might explore that a bit but I'm not sure.

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