HI! This is a filler chapter for today. The next chapter will be Houston! But I want to do that chapter in Piper's POV, so I can write her reaction to Leo. I will do the same for Leo in Oklahoma. I will do at least one chapter on Houston. But I would like to thank all my readers for reading my story. I am really happy for having lots of readers. But you don't want to listen to me rant, so Chapter 23!

-SAVE THE NARGLES

When I woke up, my head hurt. I tried to remember what happened, then it hit me. Monsters. I felt around my waist. My tool-belt was gone.

"PIPER!" I yelled. Where is she? I tried to sit up, but someone pushed me down.

"Shhh. I'm all right."

I looked up. Piper was hovering over me. A gauze was taped over her cheek, but she looked fine.

"Calm down. I need to clean your cut." Piper said.

"What about ambrosia and nectar?"

"It helped a little bit, but the cut has not closed. It only slowed down the bleeding for me to get you out of the park and away from other telkines. I think it need stitches also. Lay down."

"I'm already laying down, Beauty Queen." I said with a grin.

Piper frowned and gave me a deluxe I-really-am-disliking-you-right-now-glare.

I felt her cut my shirt off with her knife. I felt it peel off near an area above my hip. Piper held it up. There was a nasty blood stain near the bottom and it was cut open about three inches in the area.

"It's already ruined, so I will use it to starch the bleeding. This really needs medical help, and it might ruin your car seat." Piper said.

"WHAT! You are doing the surgery in MY car! Put a plastic sheet over the seat! RIGHT NOW!" I exclaimed. I felt with my hands and I now realized that I was sitting in the back seat of the car. The windows were covered and the hood was up too. But I did not want blood in my car. It's leather!

"Fine, I'll put some plastic underneath the cut. But I think your well being is more important than the car's well being." Piper grumbled.

"Hmmh."

Piper balled up the shirt and placed it on the cut. She pressed it there.

"Here, eat this." She handed me some ambrosia. "The edge of the cut should numb, but this will help."

I placed it my mouth, and I felt spicy chili burn in my throat. Piper kept the cloth there for a couple of minutes. After about ten pain-staking minutes. (That's a long time of waiting for a ADHD kid like me.) She pulled the shirt away.

The cut was pretty deep, and it was a long one too. But it looked like it had stopped bleeding. There was a some dirt in it. But I could look at it without fainting, though it was a close one. Piper looked worried. But she put on a smile.

"I am going to clean the cut. It may hurt a bit. But stay calm." Piper soothed. She must be charm speaking to me, because I felt calmer. Piper pulled out some tweezers from a little red bag and plucked some of the bigger dirt pieces. She then took some water from a large water bottle and she mixed it with soap, and poured it on the wound. I winced as it stung. Piper looked at me.

"It's fine. I won't get back to my original level of awesomeness without you cleaning the wound." I told her.

She smiled. "I'm glad you are cheerful." She poured more water on my wound. She them pulled out a wash cloth and started rubbing on the wound. I saw it started bleeding and it REALLY hurt. I cried out in pain.

"I don't want to do this, but you have to do it to clean the wound. It will be over in a second." She charm-speaked to me, but I saw she was trying to stop herself from crying. After it stopped, she gave me some ambrosia and nectar.

"You are doing a good job.I am not a healer. I am only doing what Will taught me to do." Piper told me.

"You're doing the hard work. And you have not even started on the stitches." I exclaimed.

"Well, you could help me. I will get some fishing line from your toolbelt, and maybe can you summon some fire so I can sterilize the needle."

I placed the small needle in the palm of my hand and heated it up till it turned red, then let it cool down. Piper came back with some fishing line. She cut off a piece and put it though the needle. She picked a spot about a fourth of an inch away from the edge of the cut closest to her and stuck the needle though the edges of the cut. I felt a slight sting, but like Piper said, the edges of the cut went numb. She tied the suture and continued doing them, going farther away. She gave me pieces of ambrosia throughout the process. After about half an hour, she was done.

She breathed out. "It's done."

Piper cleaned and put away all the supplies. She climbed over the seat and into the driver's seat. She pulled off the covers off the windows and opened them a bit. She had the keys in hand and she started the engine and by now looking out the open windows, drove out of a parking lot that was in the middle of nowhere. She drove onto Highway 10. I felt a sick feeling in my stomach grow. I re-lived the night that changed my life. After about two hours, I saw the place I wanted to forget about.

Houston.

Well, hope this was a good filler chapter. I would of posted earlier, but I was writing the pre-chapter/prologue (It's too long to be a prologue,but it really is not the start of the story) for a story I was thinking of posting. I'm not sure of posting it now, but I might do it today or tomorrow. I can't think of a title. Oh well, it will come to me. But here is the usual. Review. I would like 166 reviews for today. See ya peeps!

-SAVE THE NARGLES