A/N: Hello again. I can't really think of anything to say here, so please review and

FRANK

All was calm. After forty-five minutes of struggle, one adult man, eight battle worn demigods, and a magic super being had managed to restrain two rowdy children. So, Percy, Annabeth, and Nico were telling the present company about the Battle of Manhattan, causing Annabeth's dad to turn green with shock upon hearing that his daughter had been stabbed. They were all sitting around a little living room, enjoying some cookies and milk. Night was falling, and shadows streaked across the room. Frank had his arm around Hazel, and she was starting to doze off, and was leaning into his side. Suddenly, Nico pitched forward out of his chair. Hazel stiffened and sat bolt upright. The siblings' eyes met, and they gasped in sync, "Reyna."

Nico leaped to his feet and vanished. Frank looked at Hazel. She let out a sob. "Reyna's dead." She whispered. Frank's blood turned to ice. It looked as if no one else had heard her, but they weren't naïve. They got the idea. There was a moment of sickening silence.

There was a crash at the door. Frank ran down the stairs in front of everyone else, and saw Leo and Nico bursting into the hall, carrying a pale, bloodied, still, semi-open eyed Reyna between them. Leo was murmuring, "I was too slow…too slow… I should have warned her… why didn't I help…" on loop, and any healthy glow Nico had gotten back, had vanished. Whether from the shadow-travel or shock, Frank didn't know. They lay her down on the wooden floor, and Will came surging forward, a bag of nectar and ambrosia in hand.

Mr. Chase started searching for a phone, but Will snapped his head around, and uncharacteristically barked out, "No! We don't have time to wait for an ambulance! If there is any chance of reviving her, we need to do it fast. Someone help me get her into the spare room." Leo and Will dragged Reyna into the bedroom at the side of the hall, and lay her down on the mattress. Frank's memory blurred for about an hour after that.

When he came back into focus, he found himself and Hazel sitting alone together on the staircase. He could see through the windows on the door that night had fallen. Hazel was asleep, with her head against the stair railing. Her face was tear stained. Frank got up and crept down into the makeshift hospital room.

Will was sitting in a chair near the bed, facing the far wall, away from the door. He was singing softly. Frank figured it was a healing hymns. He went quietly to a chair in a dark corner of the room, not wishing to disturb him. He looked at Reyna. The blood had been cleared from her head and back, her skin was far paler than it should have been, and she was still. Frank felt a breeze by his shoulder. He turned his head. Ye gods. He saw a beautiful woman standing there.

Actually, she was more than beautiful. She was beauty personified. She looked like a cross between Hazel and Beyoncé, to the power of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Frank was temporarily stunned into silence, but managed to stammer, "V-venus?" She turned to him and put her finger to her lips. "Shh," she said, "the boy can't hear me, but he can hear you. And actually, I'm Aphrodite." There was a creak from upstairs.

Frank mouthed "What are you doing here?"

"The girl's not dead yet."

"What!" he mouthed again.

"Her heart did stop briefly, but it started beating very slowly again soon after. But, she will die soon, if not helped, which is why I'm here."

"How will you help?" more mouthing.

"I can direct love energy." What? "Now be quiet. It's about to happen."

The door opened, and Nico entered the room. He pulled up a wooden chair beside Will. "How's she doing?" he asked. Will turned and looked at Nico. He whispered, "I… I think… there may be…" his voice cracked, "there's nothing I can do. I managed to make her heart restart, but that will last, at most, five more minutes. Then that's it. No more Reyna." Nico looked down, "Maybe I can help?" Will shook his head mournfully. They both turned their heads at the same time, and their eyes met. There were a few seconds of tense silence. Frank looked at Aphrodite, and she seemed drained from concentration. Nico and Will leaned forward, and they kissed.

Energy reverberated around the room, and everything happened at once. Aphrodite's hair stood strait up. Frank blinked and she was gone. Reyna's eyes opened, and she sat bolt upright, and took a big breath of air. Will and Nico were at her side in an instant. Will started asking her rapid fire questions, but she wasn't listening. Her eye had caught Frank trying to slink unnoticed out of the room. He shook his head and made frantic hand gestures, trying to convey the message, "No! Say nothing! I was not here, I am not here, and I am leaving, got it?" She smiled and focused in on Will.

Frank sat back down by Hazel. Her face seemed lighter. He picked her up and brought her up the sofa they had been sitting on before. He lay her down and pulled a soft blue blanket over her. Then, he put some cushions on the floor and made himself comfortable. What should I tell everyone in the morning? He wondered. He contemplated it, and decided to say that he passed the room and caught a glimpse of Aphrodite through the door, since if he said he was inside the room, he would have to admit to seeing Nico and Will. And, he didn't really want to spoil a moment of what they had thought was privacy. He would leave it up to them to tell that part.

He found himself unable to sleep, so he counted backwards from 100. 99, 98, 97, 96…