Yes, here's another one. -.- I was so excited publishing the first one, and the Minotaur had a wonderful idea for the second theme, Love.

This one-shot is set in the future, and it pretty much ignores any plot twists that might happen in that time. It's about Jamie and Sean, now both fifteen, and Sean confessing his love for her. ;D

~*~*~Chapter Two, Theme Two: Love~*~*~

How should he tell her?

Maybe it was a question that plagued his mind every day. Or, at least, every day since he had first arrived at Camp that year and saw her.

For once, Sean O'Cathain was lost. He normally knew what to do . . . or just jumped into something on an impulse, making a split-second decision. He was good at confronting his feelings . . . but sometimes times, not good at voicing them. Outwardly, he was happy, outgoing and joyful. Sometimes, inside, he would yearn for someone else to be the peace keeper, for someone else to sit by and comfort him. It was, of course, selfish, but desires were desires. And sometimes, he would inwardly argue with himself about things, the littlest things.

This matter, however, was not little. Not in the least.

How could he tell her that he loved her? This didn't have a resolution to it, even a small one. He had liked her ever since he had first met her . . . ever since she had asked for his phone number, and he had been so flustered that he had momentarily forgotten to give it to her. Then his face had gone hot when she had asked for it again . . . That was two years ago, they had been thirteen.

Sean sighed and looked over at Jamie, who was sitting on the dock beside him, humming a song that she had written. Their other friends had gone off somewhere . . . most likely to a party that the Ares cabin was holding for winning the Capture the Flag game. It had been Ares, with their allies, Apollo, Hephaestus, Hermes, Aphrodite, Hades and some minor god cabins, including Sean's very own, Tyche, against the Athena cabin and their allies. A good game, and it came very close, but in the end, a Hermes camper had just crossed the line with the flag, a minute before an Athena camper from the other side had.

Arra had told him that Jamie liked him too, that they had been flirting. But was that really true? He didn't think that Arra would lie, but did Jamie really like him? She had so many other guys to go for . . . guys that were better at fighting and were more muscular and more handsome. She had her picks of guys, he was sure. So why would she choose him?

Sean sighed quietly, and looked over at Jamie again. She looked over at him when he had sighed, and their eyes met for a moment before Sean cast his back down, to the water of the lake that was glittering with lights from the far off cabins and the moon.

"Something wrong?" Jamie asked in a voice that was so casual that Sean almost believed that nothing was wrong for a few moments.

"No," Sean said, with a little stutter to his voice, and shook his head.

Jamie tilted her head a little, shrugged, then looked out over the lake. "Okay."

Sean sighed again, relieved. Jamie looked over at him again and knit her eyebrows. She gave him a weird look, for about a minute until he looked at her.

"You okay?" Sean asked jokingly with a smile.

Jamie giggled and nodded. "Yep, of course."

Sean nodded and looked across the lake again. No one was around . . . this was the perfect opportunity, right? Yes, surely. But how could he do it? How could he tell her that he loved her? Was he just supposed to come out with it, and say it, "I love you". Or was he supposed to give hints to it, hints to the facts that he loved her? Not entirely say it, but wait for her to figure it out? Somehow that didn't seem right . . . but coming out with it was very hard.

"H-hey, Jamie," Sean said quietly, but she still heard him. She looked over at him.

"Yeah?"

"I - " Was he really going to do it? At this moment? This time? Maybe . . . no . . . yes . . . no . . . yes . . .

What am I going to do? Sean thought desperately, then looked up at her. Her eyes . . . ever changing in shades of brown, were now a light light amber, happy and glinting. He smiled shyly at her. Her skin seemed glowing in the moonlight, and her new hair style, now long than when she was thirteen, and layered, still dyed black, but now with blue streaks. She wore just the right amount of make-up, an amount that high-lighted her face perfectly. None of these little details came to his mind, but all he could see was how beautiful she was, especially right in that moment . . . not many things were perfect, he knew, but Sean couldn't help thinking about how Jamie broke that law with one look at her.

"You?" Jamie asked with a playful smile tugging at the corners of her mouth.

"I . . ." Now. It was now or never. "Jamie . . . I love you."

For what felt like an agonizing eternity for Sean, they just stared at each other, amber eyes meeting green ones. Jamie's mouth opened a little, revealing a little curvy line, but not an "O". There was a silence, but not eerie, more of a calm silence, one in which none of the rest of the world mattered but those two, right there, at that moment. Even the crickets and the monsters that occasionally were heard fro the woods seemed to quiet. Even the celebrating campers by the cabins seemed to hush their voices. Even their booming stereo seemed to lower. The song was slow, an American tune that Sean didn't recognize, though if Jamie said something good, it would definitely of fit the moment.

Sean felt his face flush and looked looked away. Silence was never good. "Sorry, I - "

Then, Jamie smiled, almost giddily. Sean saw it out of the corner of his eye and looked up. The flush of his face turned into happiness. Smiling was good, right?

Jamie leaned closer to him, so their faces were almost touching. Sean could feel her breath on his face, ever so light, smelling of . . . Dr. Pepper? Oh, who cared. There eyes met again, this time staring for what seemed like endless minutes to Sean, while he waited for her to do anything else.

"No need to be sorry," Jamie whispered, smiling wider, her initial shock now gone. "Because I love you too."

And then, their lips meant, in moments of complete bliss for both of them. The time of that was too short, so meager compared to the excruciating wait of her answer, that it seemed almost nonexistent to Sean.

But that didn't mean it wasn't one of the best moments of his life.

When the kiss broke apart, Jamie rested her forehead on his, smiling widely, perfectly.

Sean didn't know what to say, like he normally did. One of those conflicting times again, one of those times in which he seemed almost useless. Was he supposed to say anything at all? That normally helped him, Sean just being the person he was.

If possible, Jamie's smile turned larger and she pulled her forehead off of his, then grabbed his left hand, the hand that was closest to hers. Jamie swung both of their hands in between them, that smile still on her face, and she began to hum. It was a love song, an older one that Sean actually recognized. Slowly, he picked up her tune, and the two sat there, until the end of the song, humming, with the moonlight pouring down on them, the water beneath them, and the sounds of Camp floating everywhere around them, in many perfect moments.

Hehe . . . fluff. XD

Yet again, Jamie is owned, and will forever be owned, by the Minotaur. Mino also came up with the idea for this theme, Sean and Jamie older in love (because at the moment they only have crushes on each other), and I just wrote it. So, thanks, Mino! :D Sean is owned by me. :)