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I was glad we where putting as much distance as possible from us and the rest stop that held the hell hound. It had been a close call really and I was so glad I didn't have to fight it, to be completely honest I had lost some of my practice in fighting over the years. The last time I had fought a monster it was when I was at the park with Ava. She was two years old at the time and we had gone out for the day just the two of us. She was sitting in her stroller when a women came up to us and started to admire her at first I thought nothing of it lots of people admire the cuteness of little kids but then to my horror she plucked Ava right out of her stroller. Then she began to say how she was so excited to get the chance to eat the child of two well known demigods. That's when I put two and two together to figure out it was Lamia, who likes to eat children. Of course I didn't let that happen. I'm not even sure if Ava remembers that day.

I looked to the back seat to find Ava had once again fallen to sleep I guess it was her now full stomach and the boredom of being in the car. That girl never had a problem with sleeping.

"So how's that eye of yours?" I turned to see Jackson looking at me questioningly.

"Better," I muttered. Why did this stranger even care I mean I guess he had to be caring since he is driving us to New York, but what did it matter to him if I had a bruise on my eyes and cheek.

"I know it's not really my business or anything," he mumbled, "its just I mean I for some reason have this urge to protect you Anna…I mean I know you can probably protect yourself but there's just something about you…I know its corny…"

That is when I stopped him, his rambling was kind of endearing but I feel like if I hadn't he would ramble all the way to New York. "Shhh…it's cool," I assured him. "I can take car of myself but obviously I do need help at times…even if I hate to admit it." There was something about him that I liked maybe it was because he reminded me of Seaweed Brian with the rambling, god I missed him.

"So if you don't mind me asking what happened?" He glanced at me shyly as if I would bite his head off or something.

"Umm well my lets just say my Ex wasn't the best guy," I told him hating admitting it aloud. Not that I hated thinking of him as a bad guy because he was but it was more the fact that I was so stupid and didn't leave right away, that it took my daughter getting hurt by him before I decided to leave. "He had been hurting me for a while but then he laid his hands on Ava and that's why I left."

"Ava's dad," he questioned. I felt a pang in my heart from someone else mentioning her father even if Jackson didn't know him.

"No," I replied quickly, "Thank god Benny wasn't her father. It would have made leaving way harder." I wouldn't have known what to do if Benny had been her father because then I would have to go with the custody battles and such. Not to mention taking her from her dad would have been hard, but in reality Ava knew that Benny wasn't her dad and more recently had realized even with her six year old mind that he wasn't a good person even before he had laid a finger on her.

"Well it must have been hard for you being a single mom and having an abusive Ex," he told me.

"Yeah," I sighed. "It's been hard. I hadn't seen her dad since before I realized I was pregnant."

"What happened to him?" Jackson asked sadly.

"I don't know," I admitted, "he went missing one day. It's been a little over six years now."

"I'm sorry to hear that," he told me sincerely and patted my knee comfortingly.

I needed to get off this subject or I might just start crying which was something Jackson didn't need to see. Just then Jackson yawned. "Hey pull over," he looked at me, "let me drive for a while you need some rest and it's the least I can do." He went to argue but I gave him a look and he pulled over. I got into the drivers seat and began to drive. Soon enough Jackson was asleep and his soft snoring started up.

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