Chris' pov:

Finally we broke apart, both gasping for air, overjoyed grins on our faces.

"Wow." He said, grinning.

"Yeah." I said, smiling ecstatically, as I inspected my hands which had become slightly burnt when Leo got a little over-excited and his hair caught on fire.

"Once more?" asked Leo hopefully.

"OK." I replied, leaning in for one more chaste kiss.

"Oh. My. Gods." Came an astonished voice from behind us.

My head whipped around quickly at the same instance as I leapt away from my possibly-maybe-hopefully soon-to-be boyfriend.

"Layla, 'Cesca, what do you want?" I snapped, glaring at my two blonde friends.

"We were going to look for you." Said Layla amiably, making no attempt to wipe the grin off her face. "But it appears that you were busy" she continued, giving her eyebrows a playful waggle.

I gritted my teeth and made a mental note to get her back for it later.

"Come on, we should get them to the infirmary." Said Francesca, doing a better job at holding in her laughter than our friend. "You take Chris, I'll take Leo to Piper and Jason, they've been tearing their hair out with worry."

So, as 'Cesca walked calmly over to Leo, Layla bounced over to me a malicious grin covering her evil face.

"So, you and Valdez huh? Not bad babe, not bad at all. And there I was thinking you'll die alone after all your friends and family had realised what a bitch you really are." My supposed friend sniggered.

"Oh shut up." I snapped back as she playfully bumped her shoulder against mine.

We finished the journey in relative silence, Layla occasionally snorting in laughter, I glowering at my boots.

"If you tell anyone." I whispered to the daughter of Apollo as she guided me to one of the infirmary cots.

"Whattya gonna do?" questioned Layla playfully, as she began to clean the numerous cuts and scrapes covering my body.

Searching my mind desperately for a threat that didn't involve physical violence, as she was a much faster runner than me, I finally came up with a plan. "I will drug you and sign you up for the huntresses of Artemis." I replied, smirking even more evilly as her.

"You wouldn't dare." She replied, reeling back, shock written plainly on her face.

"Watch me." I replied through gritted teeth, doing my best to mask the laughter I felt when I looked at the look of over-exaggerated horror on her face.

"Well I guess I better not tell then." She said, laughing.

"Tell what ?" questioned a deep, gruff voice from behind me.

"N-nothing Archer." I said a little too fast, whipping around to see my favorite brother. "Sorry I lost the competition." I continued, trying to draw his attention away from that topic.

"No problem, so long as you're OK." He said, obviously annoyed that I had screwed up the competition. Just thank the gods he didn't catch Leo and I swapping spit.

"Who's the last pair anyway?" I asked, making a mental note to put the victors on our cabin's 'People to beat up' list.

"Jason and Piper." Said Layla, then she whispered the next sentence into my ear "So at least one of your boyfriend's friends would have won."

"Shut up!" I shouted back.

"I didn't say anything." protested Archer holding his hands up in mock surrender.

"Oh, not you." I snapped back, crossing my arms across my chest.

"Well someone's annoyed." Said Archer "That dumbass partner of yours been pissing you off?"

"Well he's definitely done something to her." Said Layla, mischievously, ducking my blow. "Now, come on, now that the last of the partners are back, Jason and Piper are gonna have to fight it out." She continued. "It's gonna be epic!"

"Fine." I said, trying to decide whether being in the same general area as Leo was a good thing or a bad thing.

The arena was jam packed, the Gods sat high in a newly-built booth, while us demigods sat or stood on the stone benches, arranged roughly into our different cabins. I bounced easily through the crowd towards my cabin, following my huge bro who easily cleared a path through the melee, throwing everyone else to the side.

I sat down smiling happily, after all Leo had just kissed me, and I was about to watch a fight (always a happy occurrence). I was content, that was, until I felt my Father's piercing gaze beating down upon me. I looked up nervously to see his fiery eyes glowering at me viciously.

He looked angry. Very angry.

Oh gods, what if he had seen us kiss? I'm dead! No Chris, calm down, if Dad had seen he would definitely have killed either you or Leo by now. He's only mad because one of his kids didn't win. Besides, that's his normal face anyway, I thought in a desperate attempt to console myself.

I felt a light tap on my shoulder, which caused me to jerk around instantly, fully expecting someone from my cabin to scream at me for kissing Valdez.

"Wanna place a bet?" asked Connor Stoll jovially, waving a notebook in one hand and a jangling money box in the other,

"Five drachmas on Piper." I said, handing the gold coins to the somewhat annoying son of Hermes.

I had carefully weighed the odds on our walk to the arena; although Jason was obviously the better fighter somehow I just didn't think he was the type of guy who would beat up his girlfriend (although I would like to see what Aphrodite would do to him if he did). No, she would probably cry her way into somehow beating him.

Maybe I could even learn something, after all you can't always get your way by violence and blackmail (though that sure as hell was the most entertaining way)

Yeah, I kinda had writer's block, I think it shows.
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