A/N: Hey guys, I'm so sorry for the wait. It's been a month I know, and I've been trying to stay on top of things, including the story, but high school gets the best of all of us. Also don't forget to read the Author's Note at the end of the Chapter, it has some info on a new story I'm writing. Anyway, here's Chapter 16. Enjoy.
Stella's POV
"Olivia!" Wen yelled. I looked over to where Olivia was sitting. She was shaking, and looked paled, paler then she usually did.
"Oh my Gods! Olivia!" Mo yelled, she looked back at Charlie and me, "Her nose is bleeding, like badly."
I crawled across the flat bad, saying her name over and over again. She fell back, and I caught her, her head in my lap, I moved the hair out of her face, she smiled up at all of us crowded around her, then her eyes closed.
"No, no, no, no!" I said, "Please tell me she's just unconscious! Someone check for a pulse!" I yelled. Mom grabbed her wrist and held it with two fingers; a sigh of relief came out. "Oh Thank Gods!" I exclaimed, than a thought ran through my head, "RAY!" I yelled.
Jessica hopped out of the back, and ran to the front of the truck. She came back, "Ray's out cold, his nose is bleeding to."
"This must have been why Ray was so worried about the sun travel." Charlie said, looking down at the unconscious Olivia, holding Mo's hand.
Grover burst out of the front of the truck, "Everyone alright?" He asked hurriedly.
"Olivia's out." Wen said looking at the satyr.
"Yeah, so is Ray. Is there anything else? Ray's got bloody hands, and we don't know how he could've gotten those."
Wen's eyes got wide, he pushed open Olivia's hands, to see them covered in blood, her blood. She had two giant gashes on her hands, from where she was gripping the back of the truck. "CRAP!" Wen yelled. The one part of the truck that he couldn't fix was the back, where the protective plastic was.
"Wen, what is it?" Mo asked, putting a hand on his shoulder, trying to calm him down. He looked like he was about to break something.
"The plastic on the back of the truck, I couldn't fix it, and now Olivia and Ray's hands are bleeding, and it's my fault."
"It's not your fault." Mo said. She put her arm around his shoulder comfortingly. If there was one person we could count on for comfort, it was Mo, the girl never failed us.
"First things first, we need to get them both out of here, somewhere we can heal them." I said looking down at my best friend's unconscious body. Her favourite dress now torn and covered in dirt and blood.
"Grams!" We all exclaimed.
"Olivia gave me a spare key!" Wen said. He reached into his bag and pulled out a small silver key with a lemon keychain.
"Nice dude." Charlie said, smirking.
"Whatever. Grover drive." Wen commanded looking at the satyr.
"Sure thing buddy, where to?"
"Grams." I said looking over at him.
"You got it." He banged on the side of the truck. He told someone to hold onto Olivia, so she wouldn't slip around and injure her and Ray more. Wen instantly took that job, holding the unconscious body of his girlfriend. Well that sounds morbid.
"We'll heal you up Liv." I said.
Jessica's POV
Oh My Gods. The things I have seen in less than 24 hours, truth be told, it's scary as hell. But, also kind of fun. I mean travelling by sunlight, cool. Olivia and Ray both passing out because of it, not so cool. I just hope I can help them. Percy tried to warn me, tried to make me go home, I'm starting to think I should have listened to him. NO! Jessica, you get a hold of yourself, if you back out now, I swear to God I will dress up as a seal and jump into an orca tank.
"Jessica? You okay?" I looked up to Stella.
"Yeah, just, wow, in the past 24 hours I found out my cousin was the Son of Poseidon, seen a guy with goat legs, and travelled by sunlight. I'm a little freaked." I said staring down at my hands.
"Hey, at least you didn't have to kill a hydra. That was freaky." Charlie said.
"Or go up against the Roman God of Choices." Mo said, she then shook her head, "Believe me, this is new for all of us. You're not alone in the weirded out department."
"I'm glad to know I'm not alone." I said looking up and smiling at everybody.
"Try being on a field trip to the local horse ranch and being attacked by an angry centaur." A quiet voice came from where Wen was sitting. We all looked up, it wasn't boyish enough, so it could only be one person.
"Olivia!" Wen said/yelled.
"Hey." The small whisper came from the fragile girl, we all crawled towards her. We all bombarded her with questions, until I had had it.
"Hey guys, the girl just woke up, give her some time to breathe." I said.
"Sorry," they all said in unison.
"It's alright, I'm fine." Olivia said, she wasn't letting go of Wen.
"Good." Wen said. He bent down and kissed her, it was kinda awkward for the rest of us, but Stella had a mischievous grin on her face.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Stella asked Olivia, after she and Wen broke.
"Yeah, I'm fine. A little broken, but fine." Olivia said.
"Great. Well then…..PDA!" Stella screamed and threw her sweater at Olivia and Wen. "PDAAAA!" Stella started singing PDA multiple times.
"Stella, stop!" Olivia said laughing, and hitting Stella's leg.
Stella and Olivia then started laughing, followed by Wen, and the Mo and Charlie, and then me. This made me think of my friends back home. Stella reminded me of Heather, not afraid to say what was on her mind, and the large amount of crazy. I pulled out my phone, thinking about texting her, but there was a little problem. "Oh you've got to be kidding me!" I yelled when I pulled out my phone.
"What?" Charlie asked looking at me.
"My phone is fried! This thing is like brand new!" I dropped my phone, then thing was warm.
"Oh yeah, I might have forgotten to mention that." Olivia said.
"So are you telling me all our phones our fried?" I asked.
"Yes. Sorry guys." Olivia said pulling out her now fried phone.
"Good thing I got the extended warranty. Doubt the phone company will believe 'Fried when I was travelling by sunlight.'" I said. The others all broke out laughing.
"We're here!" A call came from the front seat.
"Where are we?" Olivia asked.
"Grams, we're going to get you and Ray all fixed up." Wen said, "Charlie can you help her. I have to unlock the door."
"Sure thing. Liv can you walk a little bit?" Charlie asked looking at the blonde.
"A little, why?" Olivia asked. Charlie then got up and opened the back of truck and hopped down, and bent down slightly.
"Can you walk over here." Olivia, struggled but was able to walk over to the end of the flatbed. "Hop on." Charlie said looking back. Olivia grinned.
"I'm so glad I'm wearing shorts under this thing," She said as she placed her hands on his shoulders and hopped on his back.
"Where to Madam Olivia?" Charlie asked in a really bad British accent.
"To the door Sir Charles." Olivia replied in the same bad accent. They then broke out laughing. The others and I all looked at eachother. "Inside joke." Olivia said, "Giddy up Charlie!"
Charlie's POV
I did a small gallop, making sure Olivia was alright. It was fun to be able to do this, just be teenagers again. We're always worrying about monsters, and this quest. It was fun to just be teenagers, to be best friends, and not warriors. Olivia's head rested on my shoulder as I stopped galloping and started walking.
"Thanks Charlie." She said.
"For what?" I asked looking down.
"For this. Thanks for making me feel like a teenager again. I haven't felt like this for a while."
"Well your welcome. Any time you need a reality check, you come to me, you got that?" I said.
"Got it," She said, laughing. She wrapped her arms tighter around my neck, in an awkward, piggy back, hug, type thing. I smiled.
I wondered what was going to happen next. The prophecy said that someone would be lost fighting for their friends. What if that was Liv. I don't know what I would do if Olivia wasn't here for me. She was my best friend. Sure Wen was my bro, and Mo was special to me, and Stella was awesome, but Olivia was just there. Whenever I needed someone to just talk to, Olivia was there. I don't think I've had a better friend then Olivia, and that's saying a lot, cause I've only known her for a year.
"Charlie." Olivia shook me from my thoughts.
"Yeah?"
"You just walked past the door."
I looked around me, "Oh Gods. See, this is why I don't think." I said. I made a face, Olivia was laughing, "Okay, I didn't mean it like that. Olivia stop laughing." I said, than I started laughing. I walked to the porch, Olivia and I almost dying of laughter.
"Everything alright you two?" Mo asked us, looking at our faces.
"Yeah, just Charlie said the funniest thing." Olivia said as I put her down, her face was almost red from laughing.
"What did her say?" Stella asked.
"Well he walked past the porch, cause he was thinking, and after I reminded him…"
"When she told me I walked past the porch, without even considering it, I just said 'See, this is why I don't think.'"
"Oh wow." Mo said.
"Dude, you've got to be joking." Wen said.
"Nope. Just flat out said that." The others are started laughing.
A grunt came from the middle of the driveway. "Hey, if you guys are done laughing, can we get a little help here. This guy is really heavy!" Christine called from the driveway. We all looked at eachother. Wen looked at me and titled his head towards the others. I grabbed Olivia and nodded.
"Everything alright?" Mo asked.
"Yeah, Wen's just going to help the others with Ray. Since he's super strong and stuff." I said.
"Oh yeah." Mo said. Wen got to the porch, caring Ray over his shoulder.
"Oh my gods, what my neighbours must be thinking right about now." Olivia said.
"Yeah, I'm sure the Fletchers are really worried right about now." Stella said.
Olivia started dying of laughter, "Guys, you're going to make me pass out again."
"Who's gonna take this guy, cause I've got to unlock the door." Wen said.
Christine and Jess took Ray off Wen's hands. Wen unlocked the door and held it open for everyone.
I walked Olivia over to the couch, and helped her sit down. "Okay, you can put Ray in the guest room. Percy can you heal him up in there. I think the bathroom is right across the hall."
"Okay." Everyone did what they needed to do.
"Okay Charlie. Heal me up."
Mo's POV
I walked over to the kitchen and opened the fridge and started pouring out some lemonade for everyone. It was a good thin Grams always made big jugs of the stuff. Christine walked into the kitchen looking for something to eat. "I'm starving!" She said. She kept looking around until she went into the fridge and saw the cheese and butter. "I'm making grilled cheese! Who wants one?" A chorus of me's came from the whole house. "Mo, you want a grilled cheese?" Christine asked.
"Yeah, sure." I continued pouring the lemonade into the coloured glasses. Not soon after I heard the sizzling of butter bread on a hot pan. I figured I would wait until she was done with the grilled cheeses before I brought out the drinks. "Hey Christine?"
"Mm"
"Are you okay? You know with the whole Scott thing. I didn't know what was going to happen. If I knew about you and Scott-"
"If you knew about me and Scott, it wouldn't have made a difference. I see the way you look at Charlie, it's how I look at Scott, with love. You really care about him, and I knew you were going to pick Charlie. I tried to keep myself calm, honestly I did, but, there are some things that you just can't control." Christine's eyes were focused on the sandwiches.
"Hey, look I know it sounds crazy, but I know he's out there." I walked over to where Christine was standing, "I'm a Daughter of Aphrodite, I can sense love, I can make love. I can feel your love for Scott, and I've never felt anything like it. It's so strong, so pure, I don't know how I never felt it before."
"Great so you sense that I have feelings for a dead man, that's, that's wonderful. Please ignore the sarcasm in my voice." Christine said as she flipped a sandwich, the bread a perfect golden brown. She pulled her long blonde hair into a high ponytail.
"No I sense more than that. I can also sense his love for you. Its faint, yet strong. Like he's reaching across oceans to tell you that he loves you. If I can sense that, then he's still alive."
Christine turned to me, "You think so?" she asked, her eyes softening.
"I know so." I said.
She then did the most unexpected thing, she hugged me. This girl who had built up a hard shell made of steel, had finally let her guard down. I then smelt something, "Um Christine, you might want to watch the sandwiches."
"Oh Gods! Thank you." She flipped the sandwiches, and threw them on a large plate. "SANDWICHES!" Christine yelled.
"LEMONADE!" I yelled.
A chorus of cheers greeted us as we walked into the living room.
A/N: So about that new story I'm writing. I figured you guys might want to know. So here's the information on my new story IRON MAN IS MY DAD?!
Tony Stark has never been the parental type, and he never planned on it, but when a sixteen year old girl shows up on his doorstop with a suitcase containing her whole life, nothing matters more than keeping her safe. But can he do so? After all, he is Iron Man. Some slight pairings of Tepper/Pony and Clintasha, and a slight bot of XOver with X-Men: Evolution in the beginning, but not substantial.
Hope you guys will check that out. It's an Avengers fic, so there will be the whole team involved. Its pretty good if I do say so myself.
Anyway, thanks for the continued support.
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