Fall Into The Sky
(a hundred moments, a single love)
6: hours
Silena worried at her lower lip with her teeth, her fingers drumming out a rhythm on the table.
Where are they...?
And that was the question. Quintus's challenge was over; everyone had returned...well. Everyone but them.
She huffed in a decidedly unladylike manner and rested her chin in her hand. Chiron and the rest of the camp were running around like chickens with their heads cut off, and nobody but Silena was even stopping to think about where Annabeth and Percy had been for the past hour. She rolled her eyes. Gods, but these campers were stupid sometimes.
A tall, blond boy from the Athena cabin came to a stop in front of her. His head was swiveling around so fast it was practically on a wheel, and his gray eyes were wide and wild about the edges. "Silena," he panted, "why aren't you helping look?"
She shrugged, flicking an imaginary piece of dust off of her shoulder. "Look, they clearly don't want to be found. Why waste effort?"
He glared. "They could be dead or dying and unable to call for help! One of them could be unconcious, and the other could be incapacitated, or they could have fallen down somewhere and we just can't hear them, or - "
"Or they could be frantically necking in a tree like two hormonal teenagers," she suggested innocently. "Because, y'know, that's what they are. But let's go with that more cheerful 'dead-or-dying' option, yeah?"
"Wait...what?"
"Aw, did I break your poor love-challenged brain?" she teased. She stood up, brushing some left-over dirt from her jeans.
"Okay, listen you."
She quirked an eyebrow. You?
"My sister," he said, his face a ferocious, angry red, "would not ever go necking with that...that...thing!"
"Man, heads up: you are one of those many things that we females refer to as men. And frankly," she said cheerfully, dancing towards him, "you really should embrace the horrible, horrible truth that your sister is quite interested in making out with that thing, as you so tactfully call him."
She threw an arm around his shoulders, taking in his horrified face. "Now that you've seen my reasoning, let's point out another fact. Percy and Annabeth are clearly hot for each other. They have some time alone. Together. And now they're missing. Together."
He paled.
Silena swooped in for the kill. "For hours."
A/N Ahah. Hahahahahaa...y'know, I was sitting here wondering why Fall Into The Sky hadn't gotten any new reviews, and then I realized...I didn't post the freakin' chapter. God, am I intelligent or what?