Chapter 4

Tom stretched himself on his new bed; it was against the wall in, what he was told, the Apollo cabin. Eva, the girl with those gold eyes, she seemed nice. He got a new shirt, and pants, and other stuff like toothpaste and tooth brush. They haven't touched his sword yet, which was okay with him, he kept it with him at all times since the troll incident. He sighed then looked up at the bottom of the top bed. This place is nothing like I ever seen, he mused. He put his hands behind his head and closed his eyes. Might as well get some sleep, he thought. He shifts to his side and he drifted off to a light sleep.

He looked around the café; his light blue eyes scanned the crowed room. He was looking for someone, her face popped up, black hair, brown eyes. I can't wait, he thought. He hasn't seen her in years. He felt a light tapping on his shoulder, he turned.

"Violet," He tackled her in a bear hug and swung her around. She laughed then hugged back.

"Oh, I've missed you Justin." She said into his chest. He hugged her. Suddenly there was shaking of the cement and two guys came up from the ground. One was brown haired with blue eyes, the other had black hair with violet eyes.

Violet looked at them alarmed. "What are you doing here?" She asked the man bared his teeth in a crude smile. He had two long K-9s.

"I got my eyes on you, I have been. Remember that daddy does care for your safety. Now, Violet, come to daddy." He held out his arms in a hugging jester. Violet shook her head and grabbed Justin's arm tighter.

"No. I know what you are. I can see you, I can see right through you. You don't scare me anymore." She muttered. He laughed. The other man looked at Justin.

"How about you my son, do you see through our disguises to the mortal?" Justin bared his teeth, putting his other arm protectively over Violets. "Of course I do. You're just blind to see that I do." He felt some one shaking his shoulder. Tom opened his eyes, what was that? He thought. He shook it off, it was probably nothing. He looked up, Elsa, a little girl that had black hair and caramel colored eyes was looking at him, she had a smile on her face.

"Dinners ready," He nodded and rubbed his face. "Thanks, I'll be down in a second." She nodded back then ran off. Tom stretched and yawned. Scratching his head he went out, the bright light of the sun set greeted him. Better than rain, he thought and chuckled. He walked down to where there where picnic tables. He picked out a few faces that he knew, Eva was sitting alone at a gold-yellow table, playing with her food, and Annabeth was at Athena's table. He decided to sit with Eva. As he got down, suddenly a girl blocked his way. She was about twice his size; he came from, what he thought, was the Ares table.

"Uh, can you move out of the way please?" He asked nicely, she chuckled. "A little newbie asking me to move out of his way? Well then, you are new, and I'm going to make you learn the hard way." She sounded like she was forced to rhyme. She made a face when she said that. She pushed him, she was way stronger than he expected. He fell to the grounded. Eva stopped eating and looked up. She frowned as Tom scrambled up.

"I don't want any trouble." He said, she laughed; the entire Ares table did to, they where all looking at him. "'I don't want any trouble'," She imitated in a voice nothing like Tom's.

"Yeah, well I don't care." She looked at him and smirked, "Newbie." She shoved him down again, harder. He crashed to the floor and hit his head just enough to make his head spin a little. Eva stood and went over to him, she held out a hand.

"Need a hand?" He grabbed it and she helped him up. "Thanks." She nodded then crossed her arms, looking down. Tom tilted his head to the side.

"What's wrong?" She shrugged, looking up at him. "Nothing…I was- I was just thinking. Are you going to Apollo's table? There over there." Eva pointed to a table that was twice as long as the others.

"No, I was going to sit with you, you looked alone." Eva looked down again, this time shaking her head.

"You can't." Tom tilted his head. "Why?"

"I don't know, you can ask Annabeth, but she said that you can't switch tables." She sighed then started to walk back to her table. Tom frowned to himself, something wasn't right; he was going to find out.

Eva walked back to the table from where Tom was looking at her. She couldn't shake the feeling of that dream. That girl, Violet, it felt like she was connected with her somehow. She shook her head and sat down. I'm going crazy, she thought, moving her elbows and tomato juice around on her plate. One of her favorite foods, but even that couldn't shake that weird feeling. She saw out of the corner of her eye a movement, she shook it off until she heard a thud in front of her. She looked up, Jess. She was grinning impishly. Eva tilted her head.

"What?" Jess started to talk when Tom came and sat down next to Eva, "I don't care what they say, I'm sitting here." Eva just looked at him. Jess looked at him to, and then nodded in agreement.

"Wait, who are you?" Tom ate a mouth full then looked up, chewed, then swallowed. "Tom. New here." Jess nodded then looked back at Eva who was still looking at Tom.

"Me to, any ways," She coughed, "I have the power… of healing people entirely." She said dramatically. Eva looked at Jess with a confused look.

"You have the power of what?" Jess shook her head in disappointment at Eva.

"I said that I had the power of healing…completely." She stretched out the word 'said'. Eva kitted her brows. That's pretty cool, she thought. She took a bite of her now cold elbows and chewed thoughtfully.

"Hmm. When did you learn this?" She asked. Eva had to say, she was curious. Jess smiled at her friend's sudden interest.

"Today, I helped almost everyone there. Besides this one kid who was actually not sick. He just wanted to get out of training when—" She stopped abruptly when there was a blinding light to their side. The whole dinner looked right. Even the loudest kids looked. A man with light brown hair and gold eyes walk towards Eva, Tom and, Jess. He stopped then flashed a blinding smile at every one who was staring. The girls giggled, mostly Aphrodite's girls. He doesn't look half bad either, Eva thought. The man was wearing a light grey suit with a white shirt and a yellow tie on his built figure.

"Hello." His voice was silky and low. He walked slowly, taking his time, to Eva and her friends. Eva sat with her jaw slack. She know who this was, she was surprised that she didn't realize it before. He stopped before her, smiling.

"Hello Evelyn." He said looking into her eyes.

"Dad," She said. Almost every one gasped. Then she heard there whispers.

"I thought he was dead."

"He doesn't look a day older than 30."

"I wonder what happened." Eva ignored the talking and focused on her dad. Her dad that she only seen only twice in her life, once at a picnic that was when she was 5 and the most recent, when she was 12 and saw him talking to her mother, and then left without saying good bye. But that was when she didn't know she was a demigod that was when she had a reason to love him more than now. She pushed away the feeling that where threatening to settle. She flicked her eyes down and shook her head. She looked back up and glared up at him with sudden anger. The kids around them could feel the tension, mostly because of Eva. He had a calm, happy, warm aura. Like nothing bad would happen to you. She could feel it ebb away her anger; the other kids could feel it to. Helios eyes flickered to Tom, then to Jess, he looked back at Eva who was still staring at him.

"Don't I get a hug?" He asked opening his arms. She stood up. You could hear a pin drop around them. Eva didn't like the silence, it seemed to haunt her, and if she made the wrong move she would have a mob after her. Well that's what it seemed like. She hugged him he closed her. She could hear the relief; even her dad seemed to relax more.

"I know you're mad, I'll talk to you later I need to talk with someone first." He whispered into her ear. She nodded into his suit. They broke away and Eva sat down. She could feel her face blushing as the adrenalin from the surprise went away; she now knew how many kids where watching. Helios smiled at his daughter then looked to the crowd.

"I need to speak to Chiron does anyone know where he is?" Annabeth stumbled out, but Eva saw that she was shoved. She straitened, smoothing her cloths, then went up to Helios.

"I-I do. Come with me." He nodded and started to follow her; he paused and looked over at his shoulder, looking at Eva out of the corner of his eye.

"Oh, and I gave a little present in your room, hope you don't mind." He winked his golden eyes mysterious, giving away nothing. Eva tilted her head, looking after him as he caught up with Annabeth who was keeping her head tilted down and walking stiffly. I wonder why, Eva thought, and then she remembered that she thought he was 'dead'.

Oh well. She looked back at her friends who were staring at her. "Wow, that was your dad?" Jess asked in disbelief. Eva nodded a little. Tom smiled, "That was awesome."

Eva smiled shyly and pushed a strand of hair out of her face and behind her ear. "Hey, I'm going to my cabin to see what he gave, want to come?" Then nodded quickly and jumped up and Eva started to move towards her cabin, wondering what the gift was.

So! I actually had this just lying aroung waiting for me to put it up on fanfiction. i keep forgetting, geezes i have ADAH for writing. Anyways, hope you like it!

-Livi