I couldn't look at Lee without tears coming.

His face and hair so similar to Jonny's it made me want to scream my lungs out.

Finally, Chiron gave me something to do. With Lee again. Luckily, other campers would be going too. Vivienne, and a boy named Travis Stoll, one of Lee's friends.

I once again picked idly at the guitar.

When we arrived, Chiron paired us up. Boy and girl. I was with Lee again. It was negative 17 when we arrived at a run-down garden store.

"Aunt Em's Garden Emporium." Lee said. We were dropped off at a different site than the other two. The frigid wind blew, and I caught whiff of a terrible creature. Not Medusa that usually resides there.

It was Echidna.

I gripped Lee's hand. Butterflies erupted in my stomach.

The last time I fought Echidna, I was nearly killed. I was scarred so badly , even two hundred years later I was still finding scars from her fangs.

"Don't let go of my hand. I am ready to drop dead of fear any second now."

"I wouldn't plan on it." We knocked our bows, letting go for only a moment. He kicked the door open. I wouldn't let him get attacked first this time.

Around us were a thousand statues of Medusa's victims.

Echidna's stink enveloped me.

Then, with only a statue to knock over, she struck. Her mouth wide open with fangs dripping poison, I didn't think.

I wouldn't let Lee fight her.

I stole his blade from his waist and jammed her mouth open with it. She began to sizzle away, but not until a hundred arrows marked her. A hundred scars of mine.

Echidna exploded in shower of gore, leaving our weapons. I only received a slice above my eye and below it. Nothing too permanent.

I turned to Lee, unscathed and perfect. He wiped the blood from my face. But his hand didn't leave my face.

And then it happened. As suddenly as his grandfather before him befriended me, Lee's lips crushed to mine.

And I didn't pull away.

I let him kiss me, his untainted breath hot in my mouth. I let his hands pull me closer as I kissed him in return.

I could hear my goddess' voice in my head telling me- no begging me to punish him for his actions. But I couldn't.

I loved Artemis, but right then, I loved Lee more.

I snapped the Link.

I knew that when Artemis was saved, I would not be.