Logan
"I officially love your mom!"
Logan, Daphne, and Sarah were in Pittsburgh staying in Sarah's mom's reserved hotel room to rest for the night. "Yeah, well," Sarah said, not sounding especially enthusiastic, "I guess it is pretty nice."
"Oh come on," Daphne said, "how can you not be loving this?"
"I guess it's because I never really got to stay in these rooms with my mom." Sarah explained sullenly, "She was always traveling for competitions, so I always got stuck with my stepdad and stepsister." Logan could sort of sympathize in a way, considering he didn't have any real parents around except for when Artemis visited in a dream.
"Okay," Logan said, trying to change the subject, "let's see what we need to do next. First we go to Ohio to meet with the hunters, then we head to San Francisco to consult Nereus about Percy's whereabouts, and after he tells us we go and rescue him, assuming that he's actually alive."
That ended things on a pretty depressing note. Logan knew that Sarah, and maybe even Daphne, wanted to find Percy alive and well. Logan didn't even know this guy, but he still felt like he had to save him if he could.
"Hey, how 'bout some TV?" Sarah asked. The first channel that came on was the local news.
It wasn't good.
The reporter on the screen was standing in front of the hotel they were staying in. She said "-and the police are currently standing outside room 1012, where teenage fugitive Logan Davis and his two female accomplices are staying." Four pictures flashed on the screen: Logan's old mugshot, two sketch drawings of who Logan guessed were Daphne and Sarah, and the fourth showed video footage of 5 armed police officers standing outside their hotel room.
Daphne quickly bolted the door and wedged an arrow in the lock. "What do we do?" she whispered urgently.
Logan heard pounding against the door. They didn't have much time until the cops busted it down completely. "Window." Logan said.
"It's a 10 story drop!" Daphne exclaimed. The door was almost off it's hinges.
"We'll just shimmy along the edge to one of the other rooms on this floor and escape through there." Logan explained, nervously eying the door.
Logan was already climbing out, so the girls really had no other choice but to follow. Daphne got out and on to the edge. Sarah was just getting her first leg out the window when the door busted open.
BANG!
Sarah screamed in pain, and Logan looked to his right to see her tumble out of the window and plummet towards the parking lot below.
Unfortunately Logan's instincts managed to beat out his common sense. He jumped from the ledge and plummeted towards Sarah, tucking in his arms to catch up to her. He tackled her in midair, wrapping his arms around her waist. They looked at each other, face to face, as Logan realized that Sarah's face would be the last thing he saw before the life was crushed out of both of them.
"Been nice knowin' you." Logan said as they fell past the fifth floor. Then Sarah did something weird.
She kissed him. Right on the mouth too.
Logan almost didn't notice the arrow that whizzed past them, exploding into a large burst of puffy foam. They hit the foam puff and it incredibly cushioned their fall.
A second burst of foam exploded next to them and Daphne fell into that one. They were about to run off, but Sarah couldn't stand up. Logan finally noticed why: she had a bullet wound in her left calf.
Logan carried her to the car, resisting the urge to comment on how heavy she was, jumped in the backseat, and had Daphne drive them away from Pittsburgh.
"We need to get to Ohio." Logan reminded her, hoping that the officers that had found them in the hotel wouldn't follow them.
They sped off on the Pittsburgh highway, with Logan still wondering two things: What Artemis wanted to tell him when they got to Cuyahoga Valley, and what would it take to get another kiss.