We're soooo close to 75 reviews, guys! Is it possible we might even reach 100 for this chapter? :D (Well, for these two chapters actually because they're both pretty short ones...)
Anyway, congratulations to AnnabethChaseForever and Icestorm238 for figuring out the pattern! If anybody else does, tell me in a review! I have virtual pies and cookies just waiting to be virtually claimed and enjoyed... ;)
Disclaimer: The plot is mine. Travis and Katie? Not so much.
Her preparations:
Katie was pretty sure that the drugstore manager ripped her off with the sling and splint (thirty bucks? What scam was he trying to pull?) but she was too desperate to argue, as she was sure the man could tell. Besides, she wasn't the type to get into unnecessary trouble – except when it came to stopping Travis from pulling his ridiculous stunts. She'd never known why, but she had this weird idea that if he ever got punished for anything, it was her fault because she hadn't been able to convince him to stop. By extension, she tried to convince him to stop as often as she could. But if he didn't listen, for whatever reason – taking, for example, the giant-chocolate-bunnies-on-the-roof trick – he faced not only Chiron's and Dionysus's anger, but hers too (especially when the prank targeted her campers). He never enjoyed that part of pranking. Katie had thought all of this while she'd browsed the store looking for the sling and splint. She'd found what she needed soon enough, but as she'd been walking towards the counter after picking them up, she'd seen a few other items that she couldn't resist buying either. They were an extra ten bucks, but whatever. She needed them too. They were the perfect first stimuli to try on Travis Stoll. Her heart significantly lighter, she started the mile-and-a-half jog back to their makeshift campground, perfectly prepared to fix Travis – in more ways than one.