A/N: All right. So I noticed how rudely I forgot to thank my reviewers last chapter so I'll do that now. Thank you, for those of you who reviewed, subscribed or who added this story to their favorites.

Last Chapter: Octavian met Jason, and they became friends. Octavian also became the augur of Camp Jupiter.

Two Years Later

Octavian was in the Jupiter temple doing his duties as the augur of Camp Jupiter; gutting stuffed animals. Today was not a good day for him, the gutting's were basically all telling him about the temperature in Alaska. Why would he are about Alaska's temperature? Then Octavian found the teddy he was looking for. When he gutted it he immediately knew it was important. The teddy bear's stuffing gave the message 'The important recruit is arriving tomorrow' or was it 'Ducky will lay an egg tomorrow'. Octavian decided to go with the first one and ran off to see the praetors.

Praetor Emily was having a rather peaceful day, having finished all her paperwork she retired to the sofa at her house and sipped on her cup of black coffee trying to take things off her mind. She and Tom fought the last evening. They both knew it was the year that the important new recruit would be arriving. Tom said that the important new recruit was Abigail, a daughter of Ceres who happened to be very flirtatious around Tom. Of course Emily wasn't jealous. She was just worried about Tom; it would weaken him greatly if someone tore his heart up. A small voice inside Emily's head said that what she was thinking was complete bull-

"Emily!" A familiar voice awoke Emily from her thoughts.

"Octavian! What brings you here and how in the name of Jupiter did you get into my house?" Emily said quickly.

"This isn't just your house." Another voice answered.

"Tom?" Emily asked.

"Mhmm, that's my name." Tom said putting his keys back on the hook by the door.

"Anyway what brings you here, Octavian?" Emily questioned.

"The important camper will be arriving tomorrow." Octavian announced proudly. Emily wore a triumphed smirk and Tom bowed his head down.

"Thank you Octavian. Now if you don't mind leaving… Tom and I have some unfinished business to attend to."

The Next Day

Octavian slept peacefully in his bunk in the first cohorts barrack…wrong. He was awake the whole night tossing and turning thinking of when the new recruit would be arriving. Finally he couldn't take it anymore. He pulled on a Camp Jupiter shirt and a pair of blue jeans. As he strolled down to the Little Tiber he saw a flash of movement and sooner than he could say 'augur' a knife was at his throat.

It was love at first sight. The girl had dark curly hair that cascaded beautifully up to her waist. Twigs and leaves were beautifully embodied into large tangles in her untamed main, it all fit he look but that wasn't what Octavian found most fascinating. Her eyes were colder than ice at the South Pole but still managed to look the warm brown of Hot Chocolate. Her arms and legs had large black bruises all over and where there was no bruise there were shallow still-red cuts. But the best part about her was the smell of the woods, dirt, breath mints and water of the Little Tiber. He inhaled her totally awesome scent.

"Are you sniffing me?" The girl said, totally shocked allowing emotion to flood into her beautiful face.

"Wha-What of course not!" Octavian managed to stutter out. "Lets go get you set up." He said before he could embarrass himself anymore. They walked in silence to the praetor's house. Octavian knocked but there was no answer so he took the spare key from on top of the doorframe and opened the door to the house.

When he stepped into the house he immediately noticed all the lights were on and on the couch were Tom and Emily resting their heads on each other's shoulders. He coughed and the praetors were up with a jolt.

"I hope we weren't interrupting anything, praetors" Octavian sneered.

"Why are you here at this time of the night? It is long past curfew." Tom said calmly.

"I was getting to that," Octavian said hastily. "The new recruit has showed up. I'm absolutely sure she is the one."

"Interesting, take her to the Jupiter Temple immediately to get her augury read." Emily commanded.

"My pleasure, I'll leave you to…whatever you were doing just now."

Reyna was wondering if coming to his camp was the right choice. The boy who she had met by the river was really quite rude. Gawking at her as if she were an alien. And sniffing her, really, she now understood why Circe turned men into Guinea Pigs; at least they would look cute sniffing.

Reluctantly, she followed the boy she'd met by the river out toward a glowing temple. "I'm Octavian by the way." He said and put out a hand for her to shake. She just stared at him, her eyes bearing no emotion. The way Hylla said made her look like an unbreakable statue. "Well, here's the Jupiter Temple." He said motioning her toward the temple.

It was thundering inside the Jupiter temple. The lights would flash every once in a while. It was beautiful enough to compete with Circe's Island. The boy, Octavian, grabbed a Stuffed animal Frog and slit its stomach open, digging through the stuffing. Weirdo, Reyna thought.

"Yes you may join camp, Reyna daughter of Bellona." Weirdo said. Reyna wasn't surprised or even impressed. Some of the girls at the island could have done much better. "Well, it's nearly breakfast time. Allow me to escort you to the mess hall." He held out his elbow, as if expecting her to actually touch him. She couldn't help it anymore she burst out laughing. Octavian furrowed her brow. "Why are you laughing?" He asked sounding hurt.

"You! You are the single most stupid boy I've ever met! You expect me to actually touch your arm." She said immediately stopping her laughter.

"What is your problem? Are you like insane or something? Hygiene Freak."

"Boys! That's my problem. Boy's ruined my life. Its all your fault you Weirdo!" Reyna yelled and she broke off into a run towards where the crowd was going.

Octavian slowly walked towards the mess hall. Yes that Reyna girl was mean as Pluto, but that was just another factor that made Octavian love his future wife more.

"Sup." The very familiar voice of Jason Grace said behind him.

"Oh nothing much. Ijustfoundtheloveofmylife." Octavian said very quickly.

"Really! Who? Is it Amanda Benett from Fourth Cohort? Didn't you once ask her out and she said no and then you said nevermi…" Jason rambled.

"No! Not Amanda I don't like her that way! And you know very well that you dared me to ask her out." Octavian responded.

"You two sound like a bunch of girls gossiping together." A boy from second cohort snickered. Jason and Octavian decided to shut up before they could be humiliated any further.

When they finally got inside and sat at their table in the corner Jason got up and walked towards Reyna, who was sitting alone at a table in another corner of the mess hall. Jason said something to her and she glared at him angrily but followed him anyway. Soon Reyna was sitting at their table.

"Hi." Octavian said.

"Oh its you again." Her voice was cold.

"Yeah…" Octavian said awkwardly while blushing. With that, the table ate their lunch in silence, except for Jason who was trying to make small talk.

Octavian really liked Reyna. Reyna was warming up to him as well. Unfortunately, she was warming up to Jason as well. She was warming up to Jason very much. Octavian would catch Jason telling Reyna some stupid story and her cracking up and punching Jason. Sometimes Octavian wished he were Jason. Jason got it all. He had friends, a bunch of girls in love with him, popularity, good fighting skills; he could fly and was son of the king of gods. That's how everyone knew him, everyone but Octavian. Octavian knew he had flaws just like every other person, Octavian knew Jason was a very insecure person. He always tried to do things that made others approve of him. If Jason got on the wrong side of Octavian, he could smash Jason into tiny particles of dust