Hey guys! yesterday I could not update a third time because I fell asleep at the computer around 12:55. Hope you enjoy this weird chapter. I MIGHT update again today after this, but don't hold it against me if I don't. I am lacking sleep because of homework and updates, so please enjoy! and review!

"Who is the one who thinks is related to me?"She demanded it, and in seconds everyone in the room pointed at me. Her eyes were storms when she looked at me, but it only lasted a second. I heard her breath catch in her throat, her left hand covering her mouth.

Everything was silent for a few minutes, fear and confusion in the air. Then, the girl spoke. "Janus." I stood up straight. I had heard that name before.

A fuzzy memory came to me. I was being held by a woman with blond hair and blue eyes. She was singing softly to me, her greek words of the lulaby barely understandable. When she stopped singing, she pulled a strand of hair out of my face and pushed it gently behind my ear. "Oh Janus," she whispered. There was caring in her blue eyes, like it would be the last time I would see her and she see me. "How beautiful and smart you will be. Remember your Aunt Beryl for me, okay? Lovely Janus. Lovely, lovely, Janus." She kissed me on the forehead, and the memory vanished, the girl staring at me in astonishment.

I looked back at her and saw the recognition and relief in her eyes. I ran to her as she did, wrapping her arms around me as I hugged her back. "Cousin Thalia." I whispered in her ear, and I could here her breathe out in relief, her arms wrapping tightly around me, as if to not let me go. I wouldn't have cared, for now I remembered her. Everyone kept staring in silence, but I didn't care.

I felt tears land on my jacket and I heard the silent sobs against my chest. I burried my head in her shoulder, her doing the same as I let the tears fall. I remembered her, the Thalia from my aunt's horrible stories. She was the rebellious girl I was told of, the one who showed her anger when it came, but made sure it was known why she was angry. I could see it in her eyes, not knowing that I was alive, but she recognized me, remembered me. I let myself loose against her tall self, her chin as high as my lowered head.

I sat on the rocking bench on the front porch of the Big House, where I was told Percy had laid down when he had come to camp. I leaned back, Thalia's warm arm wrapped around my small build. She was tall, lean and somewhat muscular, not bulky though. Her silver jacket was next to her, where she had put it before wrapping her right arm around me, the calm warmth I got from her sitting next to me making it easier to breathe. "I held you when you were little, and you fit in my hands perfectly. You were so small, vulnerable, and it reminded me of when I had Jason, and you were only a newborn at the time, your body so tiny and your bones weak, but I held you and did my best to take care of you. My uncle hated me, even tried to get me out of the house, but I made sure that he couldn't. I threatened him, that I would take you with me if I left, and I would disappear with you for as long as he lived. He let me stay after that, but only because he knew I would do it, and I would've done it if I had not sworn to him that I wouldn't. I wanted to protect you."She whispered to me. I didn't remember any of it, but I knew she was telling the truth. My aunt had even said one time that Thalia came to see me a lot when I was younger and then she left with a boy and a little girl that hid a few blocks away from the home.

"I missed you." I whispered against her and she breathed in. "I always felt like someone I loved was missing, someone who protected me. Why did you disappear?"

She laughed under her breath. "Well, I was turned into a tree." I sat bolt upright when she said it.

"H-how?" I asked, puzzled and not entirely sure that it was the truth. She put her chin on her fists, her elbows against her thighs.

"It was with Annabeth and Luke. I had been protecting them, since Annabeth was only seven, and Luke was a bit older than me, but he protected her from seeing the worst things, and I defended them against the monsters that came after us." I felt my breath catch. Annabeth had been with her? She had been young, only seven years old, and she had run away from the monsters that chased the three of them. "One day Grover had been leading us up the hill, and the monsters came close to taking all of us, but I sacrificed myself for the others, and they made it across the borders of camp. As I was dying, my father Zeus looked down at me and turned me into a tree, so I could protect others from the same fate. Then, Percy woke me out of my slumber. My pine tree had been poisoned, and Percy went with Annabeth to grab that," She pointed to one of the branches of the pine tree, where an animal skin with a gold coat lay on. "The Golden Fleece."

"So Percy and Annabeth have been through a lot to save camp." I said, the truth settling on my shoulders as a pledge.

She nodded sadly. "They went through too much. That's why Percy's always worried about her. I guess he's more worried now that she's been acting strange." I bowed my head. It felt as if it were my fault. She had been acting normal before she had met me. Thalia put her right arm around my shoulders again. "Don't think that."

"Don't think what?" I didn't know if she had guessed or if she knew what I was doing, and thinking.

"Don't think that it's your fault, because it isn't." She must've seen my expression change to one of sadness, because she squeezed my right shoulder. "You couldn't have known that something was wrong, because you didn't know her. So don't go around blaming yourself for things you didn't even know about." I nodded and leaned against her, watching as the sun sank lower in the sky, and the call to dinner came across the camp. "Come on, let's have our first dinner together as a family. I'll introduce you to Jason, because he doesn't know anything about you." She stood up and offerred her hand. I took it gladly.

me:So, you now know that Thalia knew Jasmin before turning into a tree.

Thalia: I guess that's one way to put it.

Jasmin: but now I have to tell you what to write because you finished what you wrote a while back, right?

me: Well, yeah, but please tell me it quick or else these people shall kill me before I can update.

Jasmin: Sure, if you want I can start telling you.

me: Wait let me finish this first!

Jasmin:*chuckles* You have five seconds.

me: okay! So I might update again later if I can write the next chapter in record time. Please review!;)