Yes, I'm working on Chapter 2 so soon. I was debating being a jerk and just posting the story I wanted to (My Black Butler one) after I shut my poll, but talked myself down so I will try to get five chapters of this up. And people must think my stories will go on forever! Haha, no. Most I'll do is probably 20 chapters. (As evidenced by Supernatural & I, for which I never wrote a sequel, even though I planned on it.) And if you guys want, I will do a sequel. But I need you guys to legit tell me.

Rambling done. I do not own PJO.

Chapter 2:

"Where would we go? What did that to the librarian? Ugh, I think I'm going to be sick." I braced my hands on my knees and bent over. Holly shot the library door another anxious look before tugging on my elbow, silently urging me to follow her.

"I don't know what happened to the librarian. With any luck, neither of us will ever learn. Now will you please come with me?"

"To where? We're seriously two eleven-year-old kids who just discovered a dead body." I gripped her shoulders, slightly hysterical. "THIS IS HOW HORROR MOVIES START, HOLLY!" She calmly grabbed my hands and pried them off her shoulders before tugging me back to the dormitory.

"Pack your stuff. I know a place."

"Where?" If I was going to go with this strange girl, who was not panicking over a dead body, by the way, I sure as Hades wanted to know where we were going.

"Long Island Sound, New York."

"And how exactly are we supposed to get there? In case you've forgotten, we're both eleven. That means neither of us can drive. And unless you're a millionaire, which I highly doubt, no taxi will be cheap enough."

"I..." She paused and ran a hand down her face, looking older and more tired than she had a few moments ago. "I know a way. It's creepy as all get-out, and might give us both a couple nightmares, but at least we won't end up dead."

"Yes, because that's ever so reassuring." I drawled sarcastically, even as I dashed off to pack my bag.

Ten minutes and one packed suitcase later, Holly and I stood on the side of the road a little ways away from the orphanage. She began rummaging in one of her pockets while I kept shooting anxious glances at the orphanage.

"I've made a lot of friends there over the years. Granted, we weren't exactly peas in a pod, but I imagine it's still a little disconcerting to wake up one day and find a girl you've known her whole life has just up and vanished. Not to mention I'm going to have so many late fees for these library books I bought."

"Found it!" Holly pulled a shiny gold coin out of her pocket while I turned to her, flabbergasted.

"Oh, sure! Just ignore my heart-rending, emotional speech about how I'm leaving everything I've ever known behind, why don't you?" She continued to ignore me, (I still get agitated thinking about it.) instead opting to throw the gold coin into the middle of the road. I proceeded to try and yell at her for wasting money, but paused when she lifted both face and arms to the sky and do a chant in a language I could kind of understand. The same way you understand the world isn't spinning after you've just been sick to your stomach.

We both waited, Holly with her hands still held up in the air, and myself staring at the gold coin glinting in the afternoon light in the middle of an asphalt road.

"...Maybe it didn't work?" She muttered quietly to herself and went to scoop the coin up. Her hand was inches away when a slip of paper materialized on the coin suddenly. Holly picked it up and perused it quickly, a frown growing more prominent the further she read. "The Hades you mean 'Not accepting customers at this time'?" Holly's words were almost venomous as she balled the paper up and angrily jammed it into a back pocket. "Well..." She turned to me with the fakest grin I have ever seen plastered on her face. "Looks like we're going to steal a car."

"Do you have no morals?!" I yelled angrily, stalking behind Holly as she paced the lines of cars at an extremely convenient nearby dealership.

"Survival outweighs morals." She responded calmly, waiting until a dealer had walked past us to speak. "I applaud your morals, but frankly our survival takes precedent over petty things like 'wrong' and 'right'. Humanity has always been like that, Sarah. You lot just fail to look at the history books closely enough."

"The way you talk makes me think you aren't human."

"Ooh, look, a Hummer! If only they weren't able to run over plants so easily...Maybe a smart car?" She mused, in what was definitely not a subject change. Nope. Not at all.

"If you're going to steal a smart car, at least make sure it's fully charged." I sighed, fully resigned to my fate at the hands of this red-headed maniac. She turned suddenly with a gleam in her forest green eyes and proceeded to death-grip each of my shoulders and lean in close to my face.

"ROAD TRIP!" Holly practically screamed before dashing to the nearest smart car, yanking the door open, and proceeding to hotwire it. Once again, I sighed and ran to get into the passenger seat before she drove off and left me behind.

"If I get car sick, it's your fault."

Done! And just in time! Not that there was a deadline or anything...

2 reviews the same day I posted the first chapter?! Holy moly! Thank you guys so much.

To FanFiction'BoutPJIsLife: Ah, you liked it, I'm so happy. Thanks for reviewing, favoriting, following, all of that! Hopefully you liked this one too!

To Angel Valdez: I tried to make this chapter longer. How'd I do? Anyway, I popped over to your story and read some of it. Great work! I loved it.

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Signing off, as always,

EOM