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Miette

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"I'm just saying, Gwen, I don't love this." Reyna stood beside the blonde, her arms crossed.

"Sean! Keep your elbow up more! There ya go!" Gwen was watching some of her younger siblings in archery practice, "Rey, I think you may be worrying a bit too much."

"She's closing off. Go talk to her, you can see it in her eyes, in her face."

"She seemed fine last night. Diona! Are you aiming for your target or Sheila's? Come on girl! Focus!"

"Even last night, it seemed like something was up, but today she's worse, go talk to her, see if I'm wrong. She's walking around with a short temper and her fake smile on. You know the one she gets when she's trying to act like nothing's bothering her but it is. If you and Kota go talk to her and think I'm completely paranoid, ok. I'm worried, though. You remember last time she closed off when something was going on? She went and-"

"And nothing. You've no proof for what you were about to say!" Gwen grabbed Reyna's arm and pulled her farther away from the archers. "Don't go talking out of turn about things like that."

"And we never got any proof that that wasn't what happened! Come on Gwen! I'm just saying. That whole situation is still a bit sketchy, if you ask me. It was never resolved to my satisfaction. I know you had your own questions about that that didn't get answered."

"Either way, it's over and done. It's a little late and odd timing otherwise to be bringing that up. Besides, you seem real comfortable around her for someone you suspect of being a traitor."

"I don't know. I just don't want a repeat."

"Do you have any legitimate reason for thinking there will be one?"

"Just a feeling. All I'm asking is that you come talk to her with me. It's some of the same reasons as before, they were sound enough to raise your suspicions then."

"Alright, just talking. Then, we'll see."

"Thank you. You'll be done here in-?"

"15 minutes, I'll meet you at the Nidus in 15. Don't say anything to anyone else for right now."

"Of course. You know it's because I care about her, right? I'm worried for her, and the rest of us, too. I'm worried for everyone that's supposed to go on Monday, whether I'm the last or Bobby is. I am worried for her, though. She's like my sister as much as she is to you or you are to me. You know as well as I do that it's all part of her-"

"Fatal flaw, yes, I know. I know you care, too. I didn't think you were just attacking her. 15 minutes. I'll see you."

Reyna gave Gwen a small smile and ran off, her smile widened as she heard behind her, "Seriously Diona? If it weren't for your singing and guitar I'd swear you were misplaced!" Reyna felt bad that it was her suspicions that had put Gwen in a bad mood, causing her to be extra hard on Diona, but the girl was the black sheep among her brothers and sisters when it came to archery.

"Diis gratias!" Lou stepped out of the Nidus and startled the three older girls standing outside of it with their heads together.

"What's up, Alouette?" Dakota tried not to act as though they were hiding something.

"Something is wrong with Bia, I was just going to come find you guys."

"See?" Reyna glared at Gwen and Kota.

"What?" Lou looked confused between the other three girls.

"Rey came to me just a little bit ago worried about Bia, we were going to go talk to her."

"Well," Lou looked around, "Come on. You probably don't want to talk to her at the moment if you value your life, or your hearing. She's been yelling half the morning." The other three followed her to the same boulder on which Bia had sat hours earlier in the first light of that morning. As they settled into seats, Lou began to tell them about Bia's unlike her behavior. "She's been anxious since she came back from the Greek Camp, she told me she'd been having awful dreams, but she couldn't remember a thing about them when she woke up. She just woke up really really upset."

"That's odd she couldn't remember the dream," Kota said thoughtfully.

"I know, I think that's part of what upset her, but also the dreams themselves, whatever was happening in them was really upsetting her. Last night when she came in, I'd fallen asleep with the terrors and Josephine and Ant, I'd been reading to them. Anyway, they woke up when Bia came in and she was talking to the kids about the book. I-" Lou took a deep breath, she was getting ready to almost admit that she thought her own sister had been a traitor. "The book I was reading was one she'd started reading to them before she left, it's the second book in her favorite series."

"Narnia." All three girls smiled remembering how much Bia loved the books. They were pretty sure that she would go live in Narnia if she could.

"Right," Lou was glad she wasn't going to have to go into too much explanation, this was tough enough. "Do you remember The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe? Edmond Pevensie?"

"Yes, he's the youngest boy, right?" Rey asked, at little confused.

"He's the one who betrays them all to the White Witch," Gwen's words came out as soft rush.

"We got to the part in book last night where Edmond was rescued from the White Witch, and the kids have very definite, negative opinions on Ed. They were talking to Bia about it, and she seemed very, I don't know, not happy with how they felt about it. After they left she wouldn't talk to me, she just sort of sat quiet for a few minutes then went to bed. I heard her wake up real early this morning, I was still half asleep, it was crazy early, she must have gone for a walk or something, she came back, and she's had her mask on ever since. Something is wrong, I don't know what, but it's something."

"Lou," Dakota took a slow breath scripting her next few words, "I know you love Bia, we all do, do you think there is any way or any reason she would have gone with Andy of her own free will? She wasn't kidnapped like everyone thought?"

Lou bit her lip, the action almost the same as her sister. Briefly she fought within herself over if she should lie to the three officers, but that side of her lost, she'd already started this planning to tell them what she feared. She nodded, unable to actually form the one word to answer their question and possibly condemn her sister.

"I told you," Reyna said quietly, she didn't seem too pleased to have been right.

"I'm sure she would have had a reason, though!" Lou hastily said, "and-and she came back! That counts for something. She helped in the end."

"Of course, honey," Gwen put a comforting arm around the young daughter of Vesta, glaring at Reyna. "Of course it counts for something. We will figure out what's going on with Bia and what happened during the war."

"Are any of the kids at the Nidus?" Dakota asked, rising from her seat.

"Umm, a few," Lou dashed a few tears hastily from her eyes, "Bia was going over declensions with some of the kids."

"Alright, why don't you grab them, and we're going to go talk to Bia, ok?" Dakota tried to smile reassuringly at Lou, "everything will be fine."

"The girls are up to something." Bobby stepped onto the Argo II where Jason, Leo and Piper were expending anxious energy by going over the ship yet again. Leo was happy for the excuse to show off for Hazel who had joined them.

"What makes you say that?" Jason took in the look on Bobby's face and quickly recanted his question, "Ok, the girls are up to something. What?"

"I'm not sure," Bobby came to lean against the rail where Jason and Piper were standing. "Rey was really quiet, worried about something when we went back to our tent last night. She, Gwen, and Kota have had their heads together on and off all morning."

"Hazel!" Jason turned to where the daughter of Venus was looking at something on the ship that Leo was animatedly explaining to her.

"I didn't do it and I don't know anything about it!" She called absently over her shoulder.

"I didn't accuse you of anything or ask you anything yet."

"Lutum! Umm, I was just covering my basis."

"Hazel-?"

With a sigh and a glance at Leo and Piper, she dropped into Latin, speaking rapidly, "Rey is worried about Bia, she's suspicious about something. Bia has been really odd today. You know that look and attitude she gets when she's trying to act like nothing's wrong? She's been walking around like that all morning. I heard she even yelled at a couple of the Nati today. You know she never does that. Yell at one of us? Sure when she's in a bad mood, but no matter how frustrating they get, I've never heard her yell at one of the Nati."

Jason played with the coin that was the portable form of his weapon as he considered what Hazel was saying. He ignored the curious looks of Piper and Leo, not understanding the Latin words Hazel spoke.

"Would that something have anything to do with the alternative theory about that thing that happened a few months ago?" Even speaking in Latin, Jason kept his words cryptic in case anyone from the Schola walked up at an inopportune moment.

"Yes." Bobby frowned as he spoke, not happy with all of this potential drama and stress. The last thing they needed with a new quest and enemy in front of them was to revisit that past, recent past though it was, that was supposedly over and done. Too bad demigod life was never that simple.

Bia stormed around the tent, muttering under her breath as she rearranged stuff, fighting the urge to toss it around. She hated this feeling, this out of control feeling. The truth that everyone knew but barely spoke was that Bia could deal with any problem with any other person, but she could not handle one drop of any stress of her own. It was a big part of why she helped, and fixed, and fiddled with everyone around her. She could help other people, handle things she could help and fix, and she could box up and lock away her own stuff. Until it boiled over. She was glad when Lou came back from her brief disappearance and insisted on taking the rest of the Nati and leaving Bia to her own devices. She'd been short tempered with the children all morning, even snapping at a few of them and felt guilty. Though, now that she was alone, she had no choice but to think of what was causing her stress. How could she admit to her friends the truth of what she'd done during the Titan War? Even if they understood and forgave her, they would never trust her again, rightfully so. If she was going to tell them she should have admitted it at the time, and she simply wasn't that courageous. The kids were right last night, even though they were discussing a fictional character at the time, what they said applied to her, too. There should be no forgiveness for treachery like she'd committed. With a frustrated cry she chucked the pillow in her hands across the Nidus.

"What did that poor pillow ever do to you?" Gwen smiled as she walked in, flanked by Dakota and Reyna.

"Don't you guys have things to be doing?" Some part of Bia felt a little guilty for snapping at her friends, but not that guilty at the moment.

"Yes, right now, that is talking to our friend that has done a 180 from the good mood she was in to acting like I don't even know what." Dakota sat on the floor, folding her legs to either side of her, "come sit." She patted a spot on the floor next to her, as the other two girls sat in chairs near her.

"I've got stuff to do, I don't feel like sitting and talking."

"Sit. Down. Bia." Reyna made each word its own sentence, ignoring the glare she was receiving from Gwen, as she gave Bia a glare of her own.

Bia looked between the other three girls, usually it wasn't in her nature to argue, but when her temper got the best of her, it well and truly did. Right now, her temper was rather raw. "I have nothing to talk to you guys about!" Bia shouted at her friends.

"Really? We just had a really interesting conversation with Lou." Gwen spoke quietly, not rising to her feet. "Are you sure you don't have anything to discuss with us? She was really concerned, something about dreams you've been having and the possibility that Andy didn't actually capture you during the war."

Bia looked at the three girls, opening and closing her mouth a few times as her face quickly went from pale white through several shades of red and back to a pale unhealthy white. "Get Out!" She shouted at her friends, feeling something inside of her crumbling, "Outoutout!"

The three children hiding behind the Nidus looked at eachother, very unhappy. Bia had told them that if they kept listening to conversations not ment for their ears, one of these days they would hear something they didn't like, they hadn't known how right she would be.

"Bia did an Edmond?" Kiki asked quietly looking between her brother and her friend.

"Sounds like it." Drew replied equally quietly, the look on his face showed that he didn't quite believe it.

Mica didn't say anything, her mind racing, there had to be an explanation. The three Nati had never liked Andy, even before Bia got sad, before he left, before everyone knew of his part in the Titan War. To think that Bia had gone to help him was unbelievable. Sometimes he would act like he was the only person who cared about Bia, like he was trying to make her feel like her other friends didn't care or love her, Mica didn't think that was very good thing for someone that really cared to do, but sometimes she didn't get the older people, especially the boys. "We'll figure it out." She grabbed her two friends' hands, "come-on."

"Where are we going?"

"What are we doing?" The twins spoke in unison.

"Just come-on, we need a new friend."

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Miette