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"Hey Seaweed Brian," I greeted as I walked down the beach to him. He was in a pair of blue swim trunks and nothing but his toned abs as a top.

"Wise Girl," he nodded back giving me a once over. I was wearing a sky blue bikini and I had to admit I looked pretty hot.

"You like what you see?" I smirked messing with him. I took a few steps closer so are chests where almost touching. I looked up at him biting my lip trying not to smirk. When did he get so tall I remember when we first met and I was actually a few inches taller then him?

"How could I not like what I see," he then leaned in and kissed me on the lips. It was great having his lips on mine; it was better then food, water, and air. It was just perfect and then…

I woke up. I blinked around the car confused to where I was and then I remembered everything. It was all just a dream, a dream that I loved and hated. Loved it because I was once again with Percy and hated it because every time I woke up I realized that once again I wasn't with Percy.

The sun was just starting to rise. I hadn't even realized that I had fallen asleep. "Are you okay?" I turned to see Jackson glancing at me. I looked at him confused and dazed.

"What?" I asked shaking my head to get back to this world, although the dream would have been preferred.

"Are you okay," he asked me again, "you're crying." At that I put my finger tips to my cheek to find that I did indeed had tears slowly running down them. I quickly wiped them away before he could see anymore of that. I felt a slight sting as I wiped my right cheek from the bruise.

"Yeah," I muttered, "its nothing." I hoped that he would drop the subject; I didn't feel the need to tell this stranger about my dream.

"Mommy," I heard from the back seat.

"Hey baby girl," I softly said to her turning around in my seat to see her. She rubbed her eyes sleepily and hugged her owl stuffy to her chest.

"Where are we?" She looked so confused and I guess I couldn't blame her I mean it must have been pretty confusing waking up in some car that you didn't know especially with what happened the night before.

"Our car broke and we are now getting a ride to New York from our new friend Jackson," I explained to her. She looked at me with her big green eyes just like her fathers. "Can you say hi to our new friend?"

"Hi," she quietly spoke hugging her stuffy even tighter to herself. I smiled at her; it was actually a big step for her to say hi, she had always been a shy child.

"Hello Ava it's nice to meet you," he looked at her thru the review mirror.

"Mommy I'm hungry," she told me. My stomach made a gurgle in agreement to her statement. I looked at Jackson to see what he had to say to this subject matter. He had to be hungry as well.

"We'll get food at the next rest stop we find," he smiled.

It only took about ten minutes before we came across a rest stop. I got out of the car and went to the back to grab Ava. As I pulled her out of her car seat I saw her sleeves pull up on her arms showing dark bruising on them. My poor baby girl, I carefully pulled her sleeves down and we all walked inside the rest stop.

When we got in there we made a B line to the bathrooms before getting food. There where a few different fast food restaurants to choice from, "What do you want Ava?"

"Donuts," I looked to find that there stood a Dunkin Donuts.

"Okay Sweetie," I looked at Jackson motioning that we where getting in line for Dunkin Donuts. He nodded and motioned he was going to hit up McDonalds. When we got to the front of the line I looked at her still in my arms, "What kind do you want?"

"A chocolate donut," she smiled at me happily, "and strawberry milk too."

"What would you like," a very bored teenage girl asked at the counter.

"I'll have a chocolate frosted and apple and spice donut," I told her. "Oh and a strawberry milk and strawberry Koolatta as well," I added.

Ava carried the donuts and I carried the drinks as we went to find a seat. "Over here," I turned to see Jackson already sitting at a table. We made our way over to him and took a seat. "So what did you two get?" He looked at me with a smile I hadn't seen a truly friendly smile in what seemed like a really long time. He was good looking for sure, dark messy hair that came past his ears; he had a nice natural tan, and green eyes. He had this certain air about him that I couldn't put my fingers on, but it was comforting. I then took notice to something; Jackson was looking at me in the same way. His eyes looked at my hair, my eyes, and then he noticed it. He looked concerned when he saw the bruised eye and cheek.

"Mommy," Ava said, "Jackson asked you something." I looked at Ava to see she was looking at me. I shook my head a little to clear my thoughts.

"Donuts," I answered, "we got donuts." After that we started eating, but as I ate I kept my mind alert. Even though it was safer for half bloods to be out in the open after the war we still had to be careful. Just then I saw a man with a dog walk into the rest stop, that didn't seem right. I looked at the dog harder and the mist cleared to show it was a hell hound and there was no man there with him anymore that was also just the mist. This was bad, I couldn't have this go down, it's not like Ava knew about any of this and I couldn't let her get hurt. Also explaining why I got into a knife fight with what he saw as a dog would be bad. "I think it's time to get going," I quickly said.

"Yeah I think your right," Jackson replied sounding a little hurried. We went out the back door and to Jackson's car. Soon enough we where driving on the road again.

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