Set between The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian.
Princess
Her favorite Disney princess was always Belle. Not because of turning a vile beast into a handsome prince, but because of where it was placed.
France.
She always loved the French language. Her father was part French and therefore taught the language to her from young age. It was her dream to go there. To see the Eiffel Tower, walk down the Champs-Élysées, and to have a French man call her, "ma belle."
Then she went to camp. It went from turning a beast into a prince, but killing the beast instead. This went against her fantasy, so when others trained and fought, she sat by the lake doing her hair and makeup. She sat there pining over the son of Hephaestus that she knew had better things to do than like her.
When she became friends with Clarisse things changed. Her fantasies of going to France changed. Now she wanted to go to the Pont des Arts and put a lock on it with someone special, she wanted Clarisse to show her the best local café, and she still wanted a French man to call her, "ma belle."
She never got called "ma belle" by a French man, instead, she got called "belle" by Clarisse, who was trying to cheer her up. She never went to France and saw all the sites, and she never did meet a French man that called her "ma belle."
It's okay though, she found a place no one knew existed, she found unlikely friendship, and she turned a vile beast into a loving prince. And she found him again in Elysium.
She got her Disney princess story the way she wanted it, almost.
Ma Belle- My Beautiful