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Piper had waited.

And waited.

And waited.

Chaos, had she waited. It felt like an eternity; it was only a few minutes in reality, minutes spent pacing in front of the large, intimidating Throne Room doors. She was worried and nervous and she couldn't breathe. She could think though. Her thoughts were all negative, and they were all really focused on why weren't Percy and the group he was with here. She knew the extent- or thought she knew- of Nico's powers, and she knew that he had no trouble in getting across the gap that hindered them from making any progress. There was enough darkness and shadows all over the place, extending from here to the beginning of the road coming up to the place of danger, so that wasn't an issue. It was easy to bring that few of people for him straight up to the rendezvous, but if he really wanted to save energy, he could have just traveled them across the gap so they could walk up the hill- or run. Piper would prefer if they ran. Actually, they needed to run. If they took their damn time, they were going to hear from her.

The walk wasn't long, Piper knew because she had just walked it. She knew that there wasn't any danger coming up the road, and there definitely wasn't any stupid distractions to catch their ADHD. The place was dead. Deserted. There couldn't have been anything that stopped them- unless they encountered a god or goddess themselves. Peitho's conversation did not last long at all, and she doubted that any other god- minor or not- would hold up the people that were attempting to save them and create peace again. They would simply give advice and let them be on their way.

Unless they were halted by a god on Zeus's side. Oh Chaos, if that happened, she had no idea how they were going to get up here in time. Who would they face though? She thought of Hades. Possibly, Hades could have intercepted them in the shadows, considering he was the only that she could recall off the top of her head that had power over the shadows in order to do that. Hades was on Zeus's side and Piper doubted that he would allow the Chaos members to stop the war and help out Poseidon. But...Hades was Nico's father, surely he wouldn't go that far to deceive the man or follow orders from Zeus that blindly. That couldn't be possible. And although Piper knew it was one of the most unlikely scenarios, she was worried. Way worried. Percy meant a lot to her, and Naden and Sasa had been with her forever, had been her crew and had saved her life countless times. And Nico was quickly becoming a close friend of hers. She didn't want to lose any of them.

Losing them before the actual battle meant she failed as a leader. If she couldn't keep her team together and ready and prepared before the main fight that would honestly test all their abilities, she wasn't fit to take on the stupid battle in the first place. Her job as a leader was to prepare her team for such a situation, and to lead them into it confidently with all intentions of following it through and winning. Her job as a leader was to keep her team bonded and watch each and every one of their backs, and have them watch each other's backs. Her job as a leader was to lead all her people. If she couldn't keep track of her team, couldn't keep them alive and well, couldn't keep them together with her and each other, she was a failure.

That's absolutely not what she wanted. Failure meant that she would disappoint Chaos- her father-like figure- and Percy and her crew that put so much trust and love into her that she couldn't handle it if they looked at her like they knew she could have done better and had not done it. Disappointing Percy meant ruining any chance of anything they would ever have together; he was her shot at happiness after all the darkness she went through and all the hard times. Disappointing Chaos meant that he had put all his resources and love and care into her for nothing, for she could not get her job done well. This was the only job that she had with Chaos and if she couldn't do it, what was stopping him from throwing her out into the dark abyss of space. Disappointing her crew meant that they had risked their lives for nothing, and gained her friendship for nothing as she was going to fail them and lose them soon enough when she went out into space with no other work.

Not only that, she would disappoint herself if she was a failure. The time on Earth had developed her into a new person. She was better than she was even before Jason. Her confidence was better, not only because Percy had revived it, but because she had people believing in her and this was the first time that she completely noticed. These people surrounding her knew that she had the ability and did not waiver in the face of danger when they were with her in such a situation. This complete trust in her made her realize that she could, in fact, make the right decisions and help people. This complete trust made her trust in herself more and Percy had opened her eyes to this by so openly placing his trust in her when he knew nothing about what she had been doing, about the results of her previous jobs, about anything that before she met him the second time. Because of him, she was confident in her abilities (not completely- not yet, not with this incredibly trying battle and conversation that would come in mere moments) and that was new to her. She was becoming more mentally stable so that she could get the rest she so desperately needed to make those right decisions and hadn't gotten in a while.

Piper McLean was becoming stronger, and if she failed, she would disappoint herself and all that precious progress would crumble into the pieces that she had desperately searched for.

"We need to go find them," Piper announced, stopping her pacing in the split of the Throne Room doors that loomed dangerously over her. When she had been on Earth and visited Olympus for the first time, the doors were intimidating but beautiful- oh, so beautiful. The stone was polished and had intricate designs on it that gave it the god-like quality it deserved. They were lit up with torches on either side and the torches were adorned with stunning casings. Now, however, the doors were nothing like she remembered. There was no lit torches, but the flashes of lightning that shown above them gave it a sinister look. The ends were suddenly sharper and more dangerous. The doors themselves loomed over her dangerously, as if giving her one last warning to turn back and do not enter because of the danger inside.

"What?" Bailey asked. "Are you crazy? We have to go inside! We have you, and you can end this, Piper."

"Are you crazy?" Piper retorted. "We can't go inside without them!"

"Piper," Faughn said softly, "we don't have time to wait for them."

"They could be getting hurt right now!" She swallowed past the nerves in her throat. "We can't just leave them!"

"You're a good person, Piper," Bailey assured, "and a fucking amazing leader, but you need to look at the situation right now. You are our Peacemaker, they are not. If you were with them, it'd be a different story, but something terrible is brewing inside this room right now, and you are the only person we need to attempt to settle this. We have you, you have the abilities, now you just need to get your ass in there and work it out!"

"But the others-"

"Are fine. They're trained by the creator of the universe, and they're all kick ass heroes. I'm sure they can handle anything thrown at them."

"But we need everyone together for this-"

"We need you," Marcus interrupted. "You are the most important person on this mission. We" -he gestured the group forming at half circle around the Peacemaker who looked torn between friendship and duty- "are all expendable. Our job is to get you to the destination and protect you at all costs while you're attempting to do your job. We need you to do your job now."

"They're coming," Carl told her, nodding to himself with affirmation. "They wouldn't back out on us now. They need to deal with whatever's in their way and then they'll be right in there with us, protecting you and getting those stupid gods to see their wrong doings."

"Peacemaker," Faughn addressed, and she looked stern and determined. "You can do this, but you have to do it now before it's too late."

Piper took a look around at all her faithful crew and her eyes glistened for a moment as emotions welled up inside of her. Okay, so maybe she wasn't as emotionally stable as she was everything else, but she'd be damned if she was going to lose this battle with all her feelings. Choking down her gratitude and shoving away the nerves and doubt and worry, she pushed up the confidence and determination and strength she needed. A tilt of her head as she said, "I can do this," was the only order she gave as she placed both hands on either side of the split in the giant, menacing stone doors and shoved them open to reveal the chaos inside.

As expected, no thrones existed anymore. Amidst all the rubble there was the decorations that defined the owner of the throne, but all detail behind the major scene in front of them was lost indefinitely. Athena was hissing under her breath at Zeus, things that none of the Chaos men and women understood, but Zeus clearly understood them because she was in his face, although she was a good head shorter than him. His face was flushed with anger and his fists were by his side, clenched to the point that ichor was slowly dripping through the cracks of his fingers. His right hand was gripping his lightning bolt and it was incredibly large and the sparks were extending far beyond its normal (or possible) reach. Each time a spark got close to Athena, her right hand would shoot out and she would disperse it- her motions were becoming more and more common. She was wearing her battle armor, and on her left arm was her shield, Aegis, with the Medusa in the middle hissing itself and the snakes were moving around her head.

Standing behind their determined side were the rest of the gods, weapons at the ready and prepped and ready to go for battle, glaring dangerously at the god or goddess across from them. The air in the room was tense and literally sparkling with electricity and the wind was blowing angrily throughout the room, lifting Piper's braid and almost whipping her in the face. Dark, dark clouds with an underlining of green were on the ceiling, and lightning flashes were frequent; the lightning was synchronized with the thunder, and it was ear-shattering, leaving ringing behind in the heads of the incoming men and women.

Piper cursed them all the the depths of Tartarus for making her job so difficult as Zeus raised his empty hand and delivered a swift smack to Athena's left cheek. Her head swung with the force of it, and immediately Ares took a step forward with a cry of rage, raising his large and very threatening battle axe that had its blades painted with red. "STOP!" Piper cried, having the air pull her up so that she would be able to face them all in the eye at their full god size. "STOP IT RIGHT NOW!"

In any other instance, Ares would have continued with his attack and directly hit Hephaestus (or not have hit, considering Hephaestus was prepared for the attack and turned his war hammer horizontally to allow the metal staff to receive the force of the hit), but he was so surprised that someone objected to fighting the side of the men who had just his daughter who had not started anything with him. Frozen in mid-air, his eyes raging with a large flame turned on Piper who stood there with her own air creating a vortex beneath her to keep her afloat. "What the Hades are you doing here?" he sputtered, holding still as all other eyes turned on her.

"Who are you is the better question," Hera spat, crossing her arms over her chest and her eyes were meant as daggers hoping to pierce the young woman and send her away.

Eyes bright blue with the darkest and purest determination that she had ever experienced, she raised her chin and spoke loud and clear above the sound of thunder, "I am Piper McLean, trainee of Chaos himself and Peacemaker to all universes."

There was a beat of silence before someone let out a strangled laugh. "And just why," Hades drawled, "do you expect us to believe that lie?"

"I've been sent down here by Chaos to try and help you gods with your stubborn pride and stop this before it breaks out into a full fledged war," she continued, answering his question even though she paid no attention to him in particular. Her eyes roamed the room to take in each god and goddess present. Poseidon was not, which meant he was still in a coma of sorts and hidden away somewhere safe. "I know the start of this fight, and I intend to end it with little to no violence."

"You know the start of the fight?" Zeus roared. "You know nothing, girl!"

"Watch your tongue when speaking to the Peacemaker!" Bailey yelled from below her, and she sounded threatening.

Zeus rounded on her, his lightning bolt aimed at her, the length extended to its fullest. "I am the king of gods! You need to watch your tongue when addressing me!"

Bailey stared up at him in defiance and determination that she was not going to be intimidated by his menacing manner visible in his glaring features and the storm raging in his blue eyes. "Zeus, I ask you kindly not to treat my crew like they're filthy peasants under you," Piper said calmly and collectedly. His eyes flew to hers, the storm perpetual paired with his anger. With a defensive, tense, and aggressive posture, it was clear that he was itching to hurl his weapon at someone (else) and it seemed like Piper was becoming the perfect candidate. "Now," Piper continued, "why don't we just have a little talk-"

"Talk?" Ares laughed evilly. He lowered his axe- Hephaestus did not dare to lower his hammer- and turned to face her, the fire in his eyes promising pain and bloodshed. "You want us to talk?"

"There is no need to talk," Athena spat, her hand on her red, inflamed cheek as she too turned to face Piper with rage. "That monster" -her arm accompanied with Aegis was thrown wildly in the direction of Zeus (Piper was surprised that it didn't end up hitting him straight in his chest)- "nearly obliterated Poseidon for something he was guilty of!"

"I was not to blame!" Zeus defended himself, and thunder filled all silence in the room for a long moment before he continued, "Poseidon had it coming for all the years he plotted to overthrown me!"

"Is that what you thought he was doing?" Hermes asked, floating slightly off the ground with the wings on his sandals working. His caduceus was in his hand, in the form of a staff and the two snakes that had never really been Piper's friends moved frantically in the tension of the room. "Why would he do something like that?"

Zeus scoffed. "Because Poseidon has always wanted my title since I got him out of Kronos' stomach!"

"Doubtful," Aphrodite said, rolling her eyes. She was checking the cuticles of her right hand, but even she was in battle armor and had a dagger hanging limp in her left hand. She probably didn't know how to use it besides looking at her reflection, Piper thought bitterly, but wiped those thoughts as her [evil] mother continued, "Poseidon has always been more level headed than you. He's not power-hungry."

"What are you talking about?" Zeus demanded, gritting his teeth. "Poseidon is against me! He just wants to claim my spot!"

"Get your head out of your ass, Zeus!" Apollo demanded, and if Piper was still a demi-god his gold armor's shine would have nearly blinded her. He waved his bow around in his right hand as he continued, "Not everyone is against you!"

"Really?" Hades drawled, sounding bored, but Piper knew a lot about posture and body language. He was ready to attack, ready to defend. It made zero sense to Piper why he was on Zeus's side, but then again, it wasn't her business to determine motives, just the stupid fight. "It seems to me like all of you are against him now."

"Oh shut it," Triton snapped, and Piper had never met Percy's half brother, but she had to think that they had a resemblance. "No one cares what you think."

"You're just upset that daddy dearest couldn't handle a little pain?"

"A little pain?" Asclepius repeated, and he sounded very upset and stunned. "A god nearly died because of what he did!"

"And you should be upset too!" Aphrodite hissed. "He's your brother!"

"Who has done nothing for me!" Hades answered, and he planted a foot forward, demonstrating that he was getting seriously upset. "Why should I care when he has never helped nor cared for me!"

"And what has Zeus done for you, Hades?" Piper asked, raising an eyebrow. "Poseidon helped get you a proper place on the council. Zeus objected it. Zeus shoved you down into the Underworld and took Persephone away from you. Personally, no matter how much I would hate both siblings, I would go towards Poseidon because he has been kinder."

"Poseidon visits you all the time in the Underworld when he has time," Athena announced. "I know because he comes back and asks me for help on strategies to improve the conditions down there."

"He does what?" Zeus and Hades exclaimed, and Piper knew she had hit a nerve.

"Poseidon wants you, Persephone, and any other children you may have with her to have a better life," Athena said, her posture softening. "He wants you to be able to enjoy your job and he was trying to get you more time on the surface."

"There's no way," Hades denied, crossing his arms over his chest and withdrawing his leg back so they were together. Defense, Piper thought, but also uncertainty and guarding himself against disappointment. "Poseidon would do no such thing."

"But he did- he does," Aphrodite muttered. "He cares, really, he does. He loves you."

"For all this talk, maybe it would be best if Poseidon was king of the gods," Apollo grumbled. "He certainly seems to care for all of us more than Zeus ever did."

Immediately, the room burst into agreements as all gods and goddesses named different grievances or insults about Zeus and his way of running things- or they were defending his choices and staying on his sides (though those were few and far in between). People began switching sides as the arguments continued, although Piper had no idea how anyone understood what the other person was sharing because so many voices were speaking at once and all the voices flowed together. Zeus himself stood in the middle of the room, blinking in a stupor because of how quickly things changed for him. Piper herself was surprised at how quickly things spiraled out of her control- although it wasn't like anything was in her control in the beginning. Peitho was right on how difficult this was going to be for her. The gods had deep-seeded issues that had not been worked out in millennium and probably never would. Such conflicts instilled deep dislike and hard feelings in them and it was going to be difficult even to bring up the ideas of what made everyone hate the other person.

Sometimes Piper felt her job was too much like a therapist's.

Once Ares began to get rambunctious and stared heading towards someone on the other side with obvious intent to smash their head in, Piper used all her power to send a very large, very powerful and forceful blast of wind throughout the room, lifting the hair of all the women and obscuring their view while it swayed all the clothes present in the room. Silence was an automatic response as it died down and they all turned their heads towards Piper who was still in her mini tornado that kept her at their eye level. "Enough," she announced, and her voice was stern and unyielding.

"Who do you think you ar-" Ares started, clenching his fist as he glared at her, the fire in his eyes flickering angrily.

"I am the Peacemaker, and I will be damned if you continue acting like a bunch of high schoolers," she replied, narrowing her eyes at them. "You are gods. You have lived for centuries beyond centuries and you are wise- no matter how many people believe otherwise. All of you have experienced all sorts of things- all of you have battle expertise, life expertise; all of you have contributed to the life of mortals that thrives below us." She paused and looked around to see who was where before she continued, thankful for the break as it gave her a time to collect her thoughts, "All of you are important to society- to the start of mankind. But for that to have happened, you have endured those millennium together. As friends. As sisters, as brothers. As wives and husbands. As daughters and son, as mothers and fathers. You have endured everything thrown at you immortals as family. The bond you share is beyond petty events and grudges, beyond all of your fights and arguments. You may not be the perfect family, but you support and care for each other."

"Zeus doesn't care," Apollo grumbled.

"Zeus is an odd man," Piper admitted. "He shows love and care for you in different ways. Demeter, when you were so broken up about losing Persephone, he made a compromise with Hades to allow you to have your daughter back. Artemis, he has allowed his only daughter to join your ranks because he trusts you that you will keep her from harm and that she will protect you from the same thing. Zeus simply cares and shows it in a non-productive way."

"Except he doesn't. Zeus doesn't care," Athena snapped angrily, shaking her head. "He wouldn't attempt to blast me with his lightning bolt if he did care."

"Everyone gets out of control sometimes. Name one time you were so incredibly angry at someone and managed to keep it under control." She looked pointedly at Athena, who was after all, making the comment. "What about that one time when Medusa was being taken against her will in your shrine? You transformed her into a monster amidst your anger."

"Stop trying to defend him!" Artemis screamed. "He is the monster in this situation. If Poseidon had not taken the blast, Athena may no longer exist!"

"I'm not defending him," Piper told her. "His actions in no way are excused. He still is an egotistical person. But he does care, and realizing this will be the first step in getting your problems with him, and each other solved so you can live in harmony."

"You are not a therapist for the gods, McLean," Dionysus barked. "You actually have no reason at all to be here."

"My job is to keep innocent people safe from higher powers' problems and arguments, so yes, I should be here. I'm not trying to be a therapist, I just don't want the mortals to get hurt."

"Who cares about the stupid mortals?" Erebus snarled, lingering in the shadows. "We are immortals. They are of no importance to us."

"You have kids with mortals," Bailey pointed out, shaking her head softly at the absurdity of her words. "Do you not care about your mortal children at all?"

"You be quiet, girl!" He reappeared in front of her, among the rubble of a throne that scattered close to the doors (or perhaps it was the debris of a ceiling above the doors that was almost non-existent) and he was in mortal form as he grabbed Bailey's throat. "No one was speaking to you!"

Piper fell to the ground immediately and wretched his hand away from Bailey's throat as her crew members pointed their weapons at him, growling. "You do not touch any of my crew," Piper hissed, and her voice was a deadly calm while her eyes were red with the anger and threat she wanted to convey.

"You think you're so tough," Erebus retorted, and his voice was bitter. "You are nothing compared to the immortals in this rule, especially the gods who have been awaiting your return considering this entire argument is your fault."

"It is not her fault!" Bailey yelled, standing beside her, and her face was flushed from the momentary lack of air and the rage that was fueling inside her. "Zeus and Poseidon went and broke the pact with their wives themselves!"

"Go away, fool." Erebus shoved Bailey to the side and stepped a foot closer to Piper, his nose almost touching hers as he turned his head down the slightest to scowl down at her. The shadows lingered around him, and they seemed impatient as if they desired nothing more than to swallow her up. "You don't fool me, McLean," he spat and his voice was low and dangerous. "You don't fool any of us gods. You are nothing, and it irritated you so much that you needed our attention so you went missing, knowing that Zeus would take any chance to be an absolute bastard and cheat on his wife even after him and Poseidon promised their wives they wouldn't cheat. Of course, your little boyfriend has no idea of your devious plan, otherwise he would have left you long ago, knowing you were the one who got his father almost killed."

Piper did not waver, although her insides were trembling and a pit to Tartarus was forming in her stomach. She kept her face blank, her eyes still a dark red that appeared brown at a quick glance, and her fists were clenched at her sides. Her entire body was tense and she wanted nothing more to punch this god in the face and watch ichor pour out of his nose and down his chin. She was so angry, yet all she said was, "You're wrong."

Erebus smirked, and the low light on his face made him look nothing but evil. "I'm not, because you really are nothing. Nothing of importance to anyone, and you never will be, especially after Percy finds out about your plan."

"I have no plan. This wasn't my fault. It was Poseidon's and Zeus's."

"But it wasn't. You were so selfish and an attention whore when you left. You may think you are nothing like your mother, but you are exactly-" His sentence ended abruptly as Bailey tackled him to the ground and held a dagger to his throat, her eyes betraying her fury clearly- though her body language did that clearly as well as it was trembling and her jaw was clenched so hard that Piper thought she was going to dislocate it.

"You will not speak to my commander like she is nothing," she snarled, and the words came out biting and harsher than Piper had ever heard before.

Erebus continued to smirk, his hands trapped under Bailey's knees. "You are a feisty one. Maybe Nico did have something to worry about when I said I would-"

The Throne Room doors opened at that moment, and the sound of the stone scratching the floor filled the empty room. It was enough of a distraction that Erebus dissolved into the shadows that extended towards the edges of the room caused by the doors, that fell on his and Bailey's form and he appeared right behind her, quickly disarming her and pressing the dagger to her throat as he picked her up and placed her back against his chest. The shadows locked her wrists together and he held her mouth with his free hand as Piper yelled out for Bailey. "Welcome to the party, dear brother," he stated slowly as Nico and the remaining Chaos members walked in. "We were just speaking about you."

"Bailey!" Nico exclaimed upon seeing her, and Piper glanced back at him. The shadows danced dangerously around him as well, but the way he strode forward his hand pulling out his sword was the indication that Erebus was going to regret his decisions after Nico finished with him (which would be after Piper pummeled his sorry ass for messing with her best friend).

"Nico!" Hades said, surprised, and it was obvious he was not counting on his son being in anyway involved in this.

Nico did not pay attention to him. "You put her down, you-"

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, di Angelo," Erebus warned with a smirk. He cut the slightest into Bailey's neck and the ichor that dripped down her throat was startling in comparison to her pale skin. "Wouldn't want her to lose her neck, would you?" Nico stopped. "Now, your friend here is trying to play therapist, and I want her to stop so that the gods will know who is in charge and who isn't."

"You just want bloodshed," Piper said, narrowing her eyes.

Erebus laughed, and it went on longer when Bailey struggled. "No, that's Ares's department," he said as he threw Bailey's head against a wall to get her to stop struggling. "I simply want everyone to know that Zeus is the king of gods and no one has to worry about what he's doing because he's in charge."

"That's right!" Zeus announced, straightening his back. "I don't have to explain myself to you people."

"Zeus, shut the fuck up," Nico snapped loudly, his eyes focused on Erebus and Bailey. "Erebus, what the fuck do you want?"

He gasped in mock shock. "Only for my little brother to stop using such foul words!"

Bailey slammed her head back against Erebus and for a moment it got the desired effect of surprising him enough that she could escape, but she only made it a step before the hand on her mouth- which she had obvious bitten many times by the small flinches that Erebus would occasionally give- yanked her back and he cut her collarbone. "Such a feisty girl," he mused as Piper thought quickly on how to get her friend out of this while Nico raged. "I had no idea you had this type of girl in mind, Nico."

"Just let her go," Nico demanded.

"Not going to happen. I'm waiting to see what your precious savor from Chaos will do."

Nico looked at Piper and in those few seconds they maintained eye contact, they had come up with a plan. It would have been executed perfectly had there not been a crash behind them. Whipping around, they found Percy in a new pile of rubble and a dent in the right Throne Room door. Ares seemed pleased with himself. "Damn, have I always wanted to see that happen to the little punk." He saw Piper eyeing him with absolute anger and raised his hands in defense. "I didn't do it though. I wish I had, but I didn't."

"Father, what the absolute Hades are you doing?" Artemis snapped angrily as mortal-sized Zeus headed towards Percy with determination in his shoulders and his lightning bolt completely alive.

Some of the Chaos members were helping a very dazed Percy up, and the others formed a wall between Zeus and them. "Something I should have done long ago," Zeus answered, and there was a bite to his words.

"You should stay away from him," Carl remarked from the middle of the line. "The Peacemaker doesn't like when we have to attack the people we're supposed to be working with."

"Not that I wouldn't mind hitting you, personally," Faughn said nonchalantly. "You're an asshole."

Zeus moved to shove them out of the way when they expertly put a wall of solid rock between them. "What?" Zeus laughed, and Piper was becoming convinced that his hunger was power was way out of control. "You think that this will keep me out? I am the king of the gods!" He raised his lightning bolt at the wall, and Piper gritted her teeth.

She hated the gods.

So I think this chapter could be a lot better, personally. I mean, it took me like two months to write because I just couldn't find the right rhythm for it, or how I wanted the characters to be or whatever. I don't know. I rewrote it like eighteen times. I'm way happier with this one than the others I wrote up though. I don't know if matches the rhythm and flow of the other chapters in this story (personally I don't think so) but I've found my writing style has changed a little since then. And- and- and I still have not read anything beyond Son of Poseidon, which is like the saddest thing ever. I've been playing a lot of video games instead of reading, which is bad, but Mass Effect and Dragon Age have me in their clutches like Percy had me before the Heroes of Olympus. I promise to read them soon! Anyway, I hope it's at least satisfactory for those still reading this story.

Speaking of which, I apologize. I apologize. I apologize. I apologize. I apologize. I APOLOGIZE. Geez, I'm a terrible person for going against my word. I said I was going to work on updating, and I didn't. But then again, so much shit has happened for me, it's fucking crazy. I've been staying in hotels for the past six months so my internet has been iffy (some hotels are amazing, some there was no hope). 2014 is not a good year for me, it's turning out. But it's summer, so I've been fucking up my sleep schedule and not doing anything productive with my life. Summer homework, though, is an absolute bitch. I hate it.

Anyway, I hope any of you are having an AMAZING SUMMER. I mean, come on, it's summer, go out there and enjoy yourself and have a ton of fun. I heard that some people are still in school- for those of you that are, I am so sorry. You can do this. Summer will be coming for you. Tell me what you've been doing this summer- maybe you've seen a really awesome view from a hike or you got a license or a car or a boyfriend or girlfriend or went camping or read a good book. If you review, let me know what's up.

I LOVE ALL OF YOU. Seriously, life has sucked lately, and each time I get a review reminding me to update or a story favorite or follower, I smile because you guys are just great. I cannot thank you enough for sticking with this story, or if you're new here, hey! It's currently 2 in the morning but when I wake up at 2 in the afternoon, I'm going to continue on the next chapter before I lose my good streak of non-writer's block (that I've been stuck with for like a year) and forget to keep writing.

Well, anyway, thanks! I hope you're having an amazing summer!

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