Disclaimer: I can only dream of owning PJO or HoO. *sigh*

IMPORTANT! READ IF YOU'VE READ HOH!

A/N: I did read HoH yesterday! Yay! *SPOILER ALERT AHEAD ON THIS NOTE AND PROBABLY NOW ON* I now know none of the seven died closing the doors. Bob…:( Let's pretend Frank died killing a giant even though he got the blessing of Mars. Now use your imagination to figure that out. :)

Hazel enjoyed cooking. Apparently she was a good cook too, though she knew she could never be better than Sally Jackson-Blofis. It had taken Hazel a minute or two to get used to the new technology but most of it was self-explanatory. Like when Sally asked her to take the cookies out of the oven and turn it off. She took the cookies out simply using the giant mitten and stared at the buttons on the panel before seeing the 'cancel' button. Easy enough.

But alas, not every piece of technology was a simple. For example, the mixer was harder. It had even numbers on the side with a switch. Did that mean minutes? Or hours? What? Why couldn't people just mix cookie dough by hand.

Now, you're probably wondering, "Didn't she just take cookies out of the oven?"

Yes. She did. And she voiced that thought. Sally replied with a simple, "Percy eats. A lot," and continued making sauce for the spaghetti.

Hazel just shrugged and continued trying to figure out the mixer. Sally had told her to turn it on to 4. She pushed the switch to under the four and the whisker started mixing. Hazel jumped back in surprise, a blue gem popping up out of the ground next to her.

Sally turned to look at her, "Are you okay?" Her brow furrowed, "Is that…a sapphire?" bending down to pick it up.

"No!" Hazel shouted and Sally jumped back, "You shouldn't touch that. It's…cursed."

"Cursed?"

"Err, it's a long story. That started a long time ago…" Hazel said.

"You don't have to tell me," Sally told her.

But Hazel felt like she did, Sally was so nice to her and she deserved to know. After all, she was going to be living with her for who knows how long. So she told her, everything. How she died in 1942, how her mother had been possessed by Gaea. How she had the cursed gems and how she was bullied. How Sammy and Leo were related and how they were to her. How she had come back to life.

Everything.

And she felt better afterwards. Having someone else know was a burden off of her. She didn't like keeping secrets from people who cared about her. It was rude.

And Sally was a good listener. She managed to cook and nod or give the right expression at the right time so Hazel would know she was listening.

By the time Hazel finished her story, the food all done and Sally pulled her into a hug.

"You're always welcome here, sweetie. Don't be afraid to ask me for help," and with that Sally smiled at her and called the others for lunch.

Percy and Annabeth brought Leo in and he had a look of 'help me!' that made Hazel giggle.

Percy immediately dug into his food and Sally and Annabeth looked at each other and rolled their eyes.

Annabeth started eating at a normal pace and Sally warmed a bottle of milk for Leo and handed it to Hazel. Leo's nose scrunched up in disgust but Hazel said, "Too bad." He glared at her but continued sucking from the bottle.

Ummm yeah…so there wasn't much Lazel in there but I needed Sally to know for no reason except that there are more things Hazel still doesn't understand. I'm honestly surprised I got any inspiration for this because I just lost inspiration, found this a few months later, and voila! A new chappie! So I'm thinking of writing a Jasper story. Who wants it? And who even likes this story in the first place? Please review. Give me ideas or something. Pretty please? With ambrosia on top?

Love,

Lady Loophole ^.^