Disclaimer: not Riordan, sadly. Though you should have realized that by now.
-After weapons training-
I watched as Silena whispered something to Beckendorf. He gave her a puzzled look, but after she whispered some more, he glanced, smirking, at me, and then left towards the direction of the Hephaestus cabin. I glared at his retreating back. Did Silena have to tell him everything? Silena stayed behind as most of the other campers left, and signaled for me to do the same.
After everyone had gone, she gestured me over to where she was standing by the lake. Once I had gotten to her, she said, "Okay, Percy, for the letter 'a', your word is 'arsenic.'"
"What?!" I asked, startled.
" Arsenic. You expect me to believe that you don't know what arsenic is?! It's a white powdered poison that-"
"I know what arsenic is! But how in Hades am I supposed to use that in a love sentence?!" I protested, "It's a poison for Zeus's sake. How…?" I trailed off.
"You know what? I quit this dare! This is ridicules! What-"
Silena cut me off "I don't know! You're the one who agreed to this! And don't forget, you know what happens if you try to blow this off…" she grinned, not-so-sympathetically, and walked off, leaving me dumbfounded.
***
I sat in my cabin during free time, glaring out the window at the Aphrodite cabin.
"Knock knock!" said a voice.
I almost fell off my bed in surprise. I hadn't even heard the door open!
"Grover! What are you doing here? You scared the Hades out of me!"
Grover was dressed in his normal orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt, his Rasta cap, blue jeans, and the fake feet that he always wore when passing off as a human.
He looked offended. "Can't a satyr just come to his friend's cabin during his free period?"
"Er…yeah." I replied sheepishly.
"No worries. Anyways, I actually came to say goodbye. Chiron got a message that there were a couple of suspected half-bloods at a boarding school in Michigan, so I'm off!"
No! I needed his help!
"No! I need your help!" I blurted out.
He looked at me curiously. "My help? Why?" Then came a look of understanding, and then a smirk. "Hah!" he bleated, "this wouldn't have anything to do with Silena's dare, would it?"
Crap! Had the story already gone around that fast?
"Eh…heh heh, yeah…"
"The mission can wait for a few minutes," he said, sitting down, "what's first?"
The story tumbled out.
"…so, yeah, the first letter, 'a', is for arsenic." I finished.
" Arsenic? What the-?"
"Yeah…"
The an evil look spread across his goat-like face. It didn't go well with his hat.
"I have an idea…"
A/N: What can the evil G-man's ideas be? Zeus only knows... oh wait, I do, too. Heh.