Me: Hey GURL!

Finn: … Please don't say that again.

Me: Oh, I won't.

Finn: Do you want to tell them about your dentist appointment? –snickers-

Me: SHUT UP! –whacks with celery- Not really.

Finn: I will!

Me: No you won't! –tases-

Finn: Hah! I'm wearing a special vest and so I can't get tased!

Me: What about tickled?

Finn: What?

Me: -attacks-

Chapter 22

Sad Kat's POV

I woke up in a cloth tent, filled with a few people milling around. There was a huge wooden table in the middle and couple of battle-ready people surrounding. Most were wearing armor, some had guns, and others had swords. The one called Legolas had a bow and arrow.

"Force them around the sides of the school and then we can attack from there," Finn said, standing in the middle of the crowd and tracing the motions with a dagger. I sat up and peered over to see what they were looking at. It was a map of a school.

"I have King Leonidas covering the front with his Spartans, Kat's ex-husband with all Hunger Games tributes over here…" he trailed off once he saw me.

"Hey, uh, Kat!"

"Uh, hi Finn." He looked surprised.

"Do you remember anything?" I shook my head.

"You introduced yourself yesterday." He nodded.

"We're just going over battle plans."

"Question," a man said, raising his hand. "Where are we?"

"You all happen to be on this side. The Lord of the Rings army is in the back here. Demigods and gods are taking care of this point here. Who wants to be assigned to protect Kat?" he asked. A few looked around, but no one volunteered.

"Thanks," I grumbled.

"I don't think it's because they don't like you. They love you. Literally. It's just you're who Candice wants to kill."

"I would," the man who asked the question earlier said, looking at me expectantly.

"You command an army, you can't leave your post," a vampire girl said. He nodded and looked back at the table.

"I will," Taffy said. I glanced at him. He straightened up and I noticed he was carrying a bow and arrow as well. Finn nodded.

"Taffy, you are the protection detail to Kat. Keep her safe until the battle is over. Okay?" Finn announced. Everyone nodded. They all shifted away from the table, but Taffy lingered near the exit, guarding me.

"Are you always a military leader?"

"No, not really," Finn chuckled.

"It seems like it."

"Well, it's usually you. You'd probably have a better plan. I don't know which army is the strongest or not, so I'm just throwing people out there."

"What I would do," I said, leaning over the table. I grasped for some memory of battle, anything at all that could be used right now. For some reason I kept thinking of Surge, this strange person who was in my memory.

"Surge forward?" I tried. Maybe it made sense military-wise, but Finn gave me a strange look.

"A what?"

"Don't take the enemy around the sides. They could surround the whole building and we'd all be in for it. Keep them to the front. Have some people in the sky, knocking the bigger ones down from the sky." I took a pencil and began scribbling something that would probably make sense when my hand was finished.

"Um…?"

"Bring all armies to the front, lined up, and neat an orderly. All this way," I drew a long line from the front of the school. "Really long so that no one gets around it."

"Okay…"

"Have an army in the sky as well. I'm certain there are a few flying enemies, right?" I asked. Finn nodded.

"I'll be over here, in the middle of the yard with Taffy." Finn nodded.

"How do you know that?" he asked. I shrugged.

"I don't. My hand does." And I walked out of the tent. I ran straight into the man who volunteered to protect me.

"Master Kat," he said, bowing.

"Do you always do that?"

"Yes."

"Oh. Um. Okay."

"Do you know who I am?" he asked. I shook my head.

"Theseus."

"Oh. Nice to, uh, see you again, Theseus." He looked at me sadly before walking away. I hated how everyone treated me differently because I 'wasn't all there'. Taffy hovered around me the rest of the day, making sure no one came near me. I was that important.

"When is this battle going to happen?" I asked Taffy before bed.

"I do not know. But I guess it will come tomorrow." I shook my head, worried about how these people were all going to live if the war came tomorrow.

Finn POV

"She's coming back!" someone hissed in the vague light. The leaders of the individual armies were in the bunker room underneath the water fountain. Theseus, King Leonidas, Percy Jackson, all the gods, Legolas, Dumbledore, Jason Grace, Katniss, and myself were all crowded into the room. Loud whispers filled the room at my sudden announcement.

"Yes! She's coming back at some point!"

"Mentally," Apollo said.

"Yeah, mentally."

"What makes you think that Kat's recovering?" Percy asked.

"She drew out this battle plan after you all left." I spread out the map that she had scribbled on and tried to explain it the best I could.

"That is something she would come up with," Katniss agreed. Everyone nodded. I assigned everyone to their particular area.

"Camp Half-Blood will be in the sky," Percy volunteered.

"I think Camp Jupiter should. We probably have better fighters and archers," Jason pointed out.

"Better fighters," I corrected. "Which is why I need you on the ground. Out of the question."
"The archers should be in the sky," Legolas argued.

"I'm obviously a better archer!" Katniss exclaimed. Everyone started arguing at once.

"STOP IT!" I yelled, but no one heard me.

"We have magic!" Dumbledore yelled.

"We are gods!" Zeus roared.

"SILENCE!" Theseus yelled. Everyone shut up.

"I don't care if you are better archers or not. I don't care if you have magic or you're a god. There's a special reason why your army is in a specific place, and I want Camp Half-Blood in the dang sky!" I said forcefully. Everyone grumbled but no one voiced their opinion.

"Thank you," I said tiredly. "Class dismissed."

It was morning again before I received any more news. Frank Zhang had been scouting the school with Hazel and Ares. He returned that morning.

"Finn! The enemy has been spotted!" he exclaimed. "They're going to be here in a few hours!"

"Go tell everyone! Practice for battle NOW." He ran off to go tell everyone. Taffy came in, carrying a sleeping Kat.

"Uh?"

"She is recovering."

"She is?"

"Last night, she woke up in the middle of the night and asked me, 'Taffy what're you doing here? You know I like being alone', and I said 'yes, but I don't know if you've changed your mind', and she said, 'please. How long have we known each other? Forever.' then she fell back asleep and won't wake up," Taffy explained. I jumped up to help set her on the cot in the tent. She woke up as we were setting her down.

"Uh?"

"Kat!"

"Hi? Why am I in a cot? I should be back in my tent where Taffy's guar… oh. Nevermind. We're all here. Is the battle thing starting today?"

"Do you remember me? What's your favorite color?"

"Uh… blue maybe? I think purple. Purple is a pretty color, now that I think about it." I sighed. Taffy looked dejected.

"Not purple then? Orange maybe? Oh, I know! Pink! No? Oh, okay, um…"

Me: Shame I don't remember my favorite color.

Finn: Exactly. The color is green.

Me: GREEN IS AWESOME. –ahem-

Finn: Over reaction.

Me: My ex-husband is going into battle? He better come back alive!

Finn: You control what happens.

Me: -gasp- That's right!

Finn: You forgot about your powers?

Me: Uh, no. Effect dear. Overly dramatic.

I have special eyes.

Look. Look with your special eyes.

My brand!

Finn: Um?

Me: It's from the 1-800 Contacts commercial! Does anyone remember that commercial?

Finn: Doubt it.

Me: THINK!

Read and Review? You've read. Now you review. Or you read the reviews. Whatever you prefer. Does anyone really remember that commercial? Or just me? Probably not just me. Shut up, Finn. Or should I say… LAWRENCE? Ha, shuts him up every time. You never thought someone could hate their name that much. Have an enthusiastic Character Academy Monday! Alfred the Potato says hi. And for those who care: someone very special that you've most likely forgotten is coming back soon. To a Fanfiction . net near you.