People always say that when you are close to death, your life flashes before your eyes. I had never believed it. I had come close to death dozems of times during my various battles with monsters and the war. Never once had my life replayed for me. That is until the near drowning incident.

While Apollo was busy fishing me out of the water and getting help from my brothers, I was busy replaying memories of forgotten days. I saw some of my happiest memories unfold in front of me all over again.

My mom kissed my head and passed me a cookie still warm from the oven, Travis and Conner taught me how to break into the camp store without getting caught. Lynn and I flipped a boat and wound up sitting on top of it waiting for someone to come and give us a ride back to shore. I battled the Ares cabin with nothing but a jar of Nutella and a whoopee cushion. I saw the caduceus floating over my head again. Every single one of these memories replayed, in the amazing quality. I could feel the smoothness of the wooden boards on the boat. Taste the melting chocolate. Hear Katie's angry shouts as we ran from the store. Feel the burn in my muscles as we raced away from her.

As suddenly as the memories started they were over. I was surrounded by complete darkness. Then the voices started.

"She's breathing again," a deep voice said.

"I wonder what happened," another, this one sounding more feminine.

"Probably a dare gone wrong or something," the first voice said.

"I don't know, all I know is some guy dragged us down to the beach and said she has been under for a while and that she was still alive, by the time we got the water out of her lungs he had disappeared without a trace, we didn't even get his name." I strained to open my eyes. To find out who they were talking about. For some reason, I could not get my eyes to work. It was like I was nothing more than an observer in my own body. The affect was terrifying.

"Did her finger just twitch?" the second voice asked again. Someone shushed everyone else.

"Laura, can you hear me, it's Travis." hearing my name made it so I had the power to open my eyes. A bright light shone in my face and I was forced to squint. Something hard threw itself on me and squeezed my shoulders hard.

"I thought you were dead," Lynn exclaimed. "What happened?" I shook my head.

"I don't remember," I lied. In actuality I remembered everything. Something told me not to tell everyone what had happened. Like a voice in the back of my skull, whispering that it needed to be kept a secret.

I was in the infirmary. The beds around me were completely empty. The sun was shining bright outside. It had been setting last time I had seen it. Around my bed stood Lynn, Travis, Conner, and Will Solace.

"So your saying you don't remember anything?" Will prompted. I shook my head and he gave me a look that said he did not believe it. "I didn't heal any head wounds on you, your memories should be fine." I shrugged.

"I must have blacked out," Will eyed me critically before nodding.

"That seems like the most likely idea, I have to run and make sure my cabin makes it to lunch but I'll be back in a bit to check on you, come on Lynn, you laying on her won't help, you can come back in the morning." Lynn made a face at Will, who rolled his eyes. The two have always been close. Closer than most people are with their full siblings.

After they both left Travis and Conner sat down in either side of me amd shared a wicked smirk.

"So who were you with?" Conner asked.

"I don't remember." I tried to lie again. After all, dad warned me to stay away from Apollo, and I knew my brothers would tell him, if they thought it was for the best.

"Why are you lying to us?" Travis asked. "Did he try to hurt you? Is he the person who almost drowned you?"

I shook my head quickly.

"I am not lying to you. No one was with me on the beach."

"Then how do you explain the blond pretty boy calling for help?" Conner asked, raising his eyebrow suspiciously.

"He must've seen me struggling or something." Travis rolled his eyes.

"Listen, sis, we know he wasn't just a random passerby. Just tell us who it was."

Being children of the god of trickery makes us nautral liars but by the same card we can almost always tell when someone else is lying. I am usually good at tricking the two of them, but today they are too suspicious to be swayed it seems.

"I don't remember who it was," I said. Travis slapped his leg in exasperation. "I never saw his face, all I know is that my leg got tangled in something when I went for a swim. As I was about to black out I saw him swim toward me."

"So you really don't know who he is?" Conner asked still disbelieving me. I nodded.

"So, tell me what happened? How did you guys find me?" I asked quickly as to divert questions away from why I had been swimming in the first place. Travis put his hand on my shoulder.

"Well, dippy," he started, "while you were busy drowning we were on a frightful quest, one of pillaging and danger, of-"

"So you were raiding the Ares cabin, continue." I said with an eyeroll. Conner feigned hurt.

"We would never-" he started just as his brother said.

"It was the Demeter Cabin." I laughed.

"So, anyway, we were busy doing what we do best when this blond, roid raging, freak comes running up, screaming that there was a dying girl on the beach." Travis waved his free arm wildly to demonstrate his point.

"So, we followed golden boy down to the beach," Conner continued standing up and walking with his arms swinging loosely at his sides, almost like a beauty queen would. "And when we got there we saw what looked like a pile of black seaweed."

"As it turns out the pile of disgustingness turned out to be you," Travis finished for him. The three of us all started laughing. It was not funny, what had happened, but the laughter was more out of relief than anything else.

After about a half hour of just goofing off my brothers left, promising that the next morning they would come to take me back to the cabin, even if Chiron told them no.

Once they left I bundled up in my blankets and started to doze. I was just about to let sleep claim me when a blinding golden light filled the room. Once it dulled a single peice of paper fluttered onto my bed. On it was written a haiku.

You are not a fish

You breathe air not water, doll

Sunrise waits for you

A/N So this was kinda a fun little chapter. Please tell me what you thought I love reading your feedback

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