It's only been two weeks and I'm updating! Wow, what a surprise! I've had more time to type because I've been sick a lot. Oh, and last time I updated, I forgot to say Happy New Years, so, happy late new years.

Oh, and thanks to Hunter of Artemis 140, and thanks to ILoveWillRiker for reviewing! I really appreciate it!

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Thalia's POV

I woke up to the sound of thunder and rain.

I sat up quickly, and I realized that the pain in my shoulder was gone, but it had moved to my head. My head felt like it was going to split it two. I clamped my hand on my forehead and rubbed it, trying to stop the pain so I could think clearly.

I heard a small cry escape my lips. Wow I've turned into quite the crybaby lately. I used to be tough and never cried, except when Jason …

No, don't think about him, Thalia. No, no, no… I told myself. I still felt bad about not telling Luke that I had a brother. It was too hard to explain how he went missing. Heck, I didn't even know how to explain it. I didn't want to think about it, so I put in the back of my mind.

My headache was gone. I got up on my knees and crawled outside. The wind was blowing the rain into my face. I stood up quickly and brushed the mud off of my jeans.

"Luke! Where are you?" I called.

Luke climbed out of the tent. He had our backpacks.

"Thalia, we need to get out of here! The tents aren't going to hold that much longer!" Luke yelled though the wind. As he said it, the tent we had just been sleeping in blew over.

I looked over at the tent and caught his eye. He shook his head.

"We have to leave it, unless you want to get soaked!" He yelled towards me, but I could barely hear it. " The warehouse I told you about is close, we can make it."

I nodded my head because he probably wouldn't hear me over the howling of the wind. He tossed me my backpack and I got my rain jacket out, but it probably wouldn't help me now- I was already soaked to the bone- but I put it on anyway. I ran to catch up with Luke, who had already walked a few yards away.

"So lead the way," I told him over the howling of the wind.

"That way," he pointed into a deeper part of the forest.

We walked into the forest. I looked around to see if there were any monsters in there, but I couldn't know for sure.

We had found out a few weeks earlier that hellhounds can turn into shadows. I guess that's an underworld trait.

Ever since I ran away- no, even before I ran away- underworld monsters have been trying to kill me every chance they get. See, I wasn't supposed to be born. About fifty, sixty years ago, the three powerful brothers, Poseidon, Hades, and my father, Zeus, made an oath to never have any more children because of prophecy saying that one of us might destroy Olympus. So, as I said, I wasn't supposed to be born. When Hades found out about me, he was enraged. He sent his monsters after me, and ever since, I've been a monster magnet. What a nice family I have, huh?

Anyway, Luke seemed to be reading my thoughts.

"I hope there're no monsters here," he said, "if we're lucky."

"We usually aren't," I told him.

He looked at me. "That's why we said if we're lucky, we can hope. Anyway, let's go faster, we're getting soaked." He gestured at our hair, which was matted to our heads.

He jogged ahead of me, and I followed behind him.

I'm usually the one who leads. I thought to myself. I realized how hypocritical I sounded. That's what I do to Luke all the time; go somewhere and expect him to follow without telling him where I was going. Now Luke was doing the same thing.

I realized I was falling behind Luke. I ran to catch up with him and came up next to him.

The woods were a lot thicker now. The trees almost stopped the rain. All that I felt now were a few drizzles of rain on my forehead.

"So where exactly is this warehouse?" I asked him.

"It's in the city." He told me without looking at me.

"What? We can't go into the city!" I said, panicked, "What if a cop sees us? He'll want to why two twelve and fourteen year old kids are by themselves!"

"That's why we're going to go in the warehouse when nobody's around" He told me.

"Yeah, but-"

"Thalia, its fine, we won't be caught." He told me. By the tone of his voice I could tell he was starting to get annoyed.

"You don't know that for sure!" I told him.

"Thalia, can you just trust me for once, okay!" He yelled, turning towards me angrily.

I looked up, startled. I rarely saw Luke lose his temper, usually it was me who lost my temper, but when Luke lost his temper, it was scary.

"I'm sorry," Luke told me, his voice softer, "It's just… I don't want to argue."

"I'm sorry, you're right, I should trust you more." I told him without looking up.

"That's not what I was trying to say, Thalia," He mumbled to me, "I'm sorry, really, I am."

I didn't say anything. I could feel his gaze on me but I didn't meet it. We spent the whole trip through the woods in silence.

What he had said had really got to me. I saw the truth in the words he had just said. I really didn't trust him completely. I hadn't even told him that I had a little brother, or that my mom had given him up to my immortal stepmother to please her. But, he hadn't told me everything, either. I knew it had something to do with his mom, because whenever I brought up the subject, he would always clam up, like I did when he would bring up my family.

Finally, I was the one who broke the silence.

"So, is it close to a lot of houses or what?" I asked him.

My question startled him so much, he jumped. "What?" he asked.

"I said, is it close to a lot of houses, or what?" I repeated.

"Some, but there isn't a lot of traffic nearby, so we'll notice if a cop is coming," He said, sounding relieved that I was talking to him again.

We walked for a few more minutes and I noticed that the forest was getting thinner. Once we reached a clearing, I could clearly see that the rain had slowed down, so that I could see into the city now.

There was an old red brick building at the corner. It had peeling letters on the side, and as we got closer, I could make them out. They said: RICHMOND IRON WORKS.

"Come on Thalia." Luke gestured me towards the warehouse.

I followed him inside. It was cold and wet, mostly because there was a hole in the ceiling in the corner. The only source of light came from that hole, and the door I left open. Luke reached up and tugged on a chain coming somewhere from the ceiling. I heard a click and the room flooded with pale light. Then I heard a pop and the lights went out again.

"Well that sucked." I said.

"Yeah, it did," Luke told me glumly, somewhere off to my left. "There's some dry wood in the corner, maybe we can use that."

"Do you have matches?" I asked.

"No, but there's some here." He told me.

"This place has everything." I said, amazed.

"Well, mostly everything," Luke told me, "I mean, it doesn't have a shower or anything, but I guess we can't have everything."

"Yeah we need a shower, but let's get the wood first." I told him.

I felt him get up and I followed him. He went to the corner and picked up a log of wood. He handed it to me, and I prayed that no bugs would crawl out of it.

Once we had piled the wood in a reasonably dry spot, Luke walked over to a corner and picked up something off the shelves. I watched as he dropped the matches on the wood.

"Is your sleeping bag wet?" Luke asked me.

I pulled my backpack into the fire light. I unzipped it, and I saw that all my clothes, my jacket, and my food was all ruined. I groaned.

"I take that as a yes?" Luke said, and his eyebrows rose.

"Yeah, and everything else," I held up my sandwich.

"We can share my sleeping bag. Here, have half of my sandwich," Luke told me, holding up his sandwich.

I took the sandwich hungrily. After we had eaten, I laid out my wet sleeping bag and wet clothes by the fire while Luke rolled out his sleeping bag. I crawled in next to him.

"Goodnight, Thalia." Luke whispered.

"Goodnight" I whispered back.

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