A/N: Hey there all you demi gods and goddesses! I am sososososo SORRY for not updating till now! I swear I wasn't letting my "daughter of Hades" side show! Schools just been dominating my time lately...and sadly not every class can be taught by Chiron... well anyways I just wanted to say sorry for the update time laps. and since I made you all wait so long I find it only fair that I warn you about a slight cliff hanger at the end ;D MWAHAHA. Luv ya all! ttyl 3 –Jessy

Disclaimer: We don't own any PJO characters, just the plot, and in a few days, a copy of House of Hades!

Julia

She couldn't believe it. Julia just couldn't believe what she just saw. Jessy had been dead for about two and a half days now, but here she was, opening her eyes. Julia saw Jessy's chest raise as her lungs filled with air, coughing a little as she tried to sit up. But before she could even get her head a foot off the pillow, Julia and all the other girls rushed forward and engulfed her in the biggest group bear hug in demigod history.

"Whoa, guys chill. What's all the excitement about?"

They all exploded as they tried to explain to Jessy what had happened. But none of it seemed to surprise her.

"Aren't you surprised?" Julia asked. "Or scared..?..."

Jessy simply shook her head and began to explain why. Apparently when she died, she was brought to her father, Hades', castle in the underworld. She'd asked him why he hadn't sent her to the fields of asphodel, and he said it simply wasn't her time. Julia felt kind of bad for Jessy, if she had died and been brought back within a few days, Julia would be SERIOUSLY freaked out.

'But', she thought to herself. 'That does explain why she didn't look as bad as she should have. Being dead and all'.

The girls all backed away so Jessy could get up. She got up, but stopped dead in her tracks. Julia followed Jessy's eyes to where she was staring, and found herself staring a little too. She and everyone else had been so caught up in Jessy coming back that everybody had forgotten Slayer was there.

He was standing in the back of the room; the look on his face… well Julia didn't know what to make of it. It was almost like it shifted every few seconds, like Aphrodite; going from sad, to disbelief, to happiness, and then back again. He and Jessy's eyes were locked. They all just stood there, waiting for one or the other to make a move. No one moved until a loud clap of thunder shook them back to reality.

"Hey Jess", called Evey. "Why don't you take Slayer up on deck and talk for a bit?"

"Sure", Jessy replied. She walked over to the stairs by Slayer. He shakily grabbed her hand and the two of them headed up to the main deck.

"Why'd you send them on deck?" Julia asked Evelynn. "It's raining".

"Eh, Jessy loves the rain", replied Evey.

"And besides", said Erika. "I think we need to discuss what happened over the past few days".

"Yeah, without accidentally offending those two", chimed in Alyssa.

They all took their places around the dinner/meeting table.

'We're going to have to make room for Slayer at the next quest discussion', Julia thought to herself.

"So", she began. "Let's think out all that's happened".

"Well we found slayer", said Erika.

"And, then...Jessy died", added Alyssa.

"But then Slayer brought her back", noted Hannah.

"So, now the question is", said Julia. "Why did we need to find Slayer in the first place? There must be another reason we need him. If the only reason we needed him was to bring Jessy back to life, we simply could have avoided the island all together".

None of them seemed to know the answer. Outside the ship the rain continued to fall. Not hard, but it kept a steady drum on the hull of the ship. Julia could faintly hear the sound of Jessy laughing up on the main deck, and she swore she even heard a laugh from Slayer too; that would be a first. They sounded like they were having fun though, and Julia decided that finding out the reason for finding slayer may not be necessary. For now…

A/N: Thanks for reading please review/follow/favorite! Thanks!

Hey guys! So confession time… I've had this chapter just sitting in my email for a while now, but I just haven't had a chance to post it! As Jessy said, school is dominating my life right now. Speaking of school, last chapter's question of which grade we are in was only answered by one person! Thanks for your guess, VirtualViola03 (one of our most loyal readers!), but you weren't right :/ try a bit older(: Yes everyone, there are groups of fangirls in high school if that is any help(: Well that's all for now! I'll try to update ASAP! Bye! -Hannah