Chapter 7, Rose's POV, I discuss the future with a satyr

I woke up on a bed, in a room. First I thought it was my bed, in my room, until I saw the posters on the walls depicting satyrs and the medical cabinets. I looked over to my bedside table to see a drink waiting there for me. I knew what this was, yet I was still hesitant to drink it. It looked like iced apple juice, like it said in the book.

Still I didn't feel that much pain, I just felt like I did when I awoke from sleeping. I also didn't think I was allowed to drink it, I was just a mortal after all; at least I thought so. Either way I thought drinking it would burn me up. "You can drink it." I turned to see Greg sitting by me, "I don't think so." I said, eyeing the glass cautiously. "I know you're scared, but it's okay. You are a demigod." He said. I was curious of how he knew what I was thinking before I remembered the whole reading emotions thing "I still don't feel hurt." I said. He shrugged and said

"Well that makes sense, since you didn't really crash."

"What?!" I said sitting up abruptly, I felt a sharp pain in my head. Greg gestured to the cup and I took a sip. It tasted like hot chocolate. The kind I made at my friend's birthday party last year, it had caramel sauce, honey, brown sugar and chocolate milk in it. My friends had said it was delicious, my sister said it was the best I've made yet. It made me feel like I wasn't a screw up; that I was important, talented, and special. It made me feel warm inside, and now my head didn't hurt as much. "What do you mean I didn't crash? I was falling to my doom! Did someone catch me?" I asked, he shook his head and said "Well someone caught you, but we don't know who."

"What do you mean?"

"Well when you fell... you stopped a foot above the ground before going the rest of the way." He said slowly.

"Wow." I said softly,

"Yeah, quite an entrance, right?" he said smiling. He meant it as a joke, but to me it was a bit embarrassing "Not many people saw me, right?" I hoped, he looked at me "'not many?' The whole camp saw you land!" he said excitedly,

"Oh no!" I groaned letting my head hit the pillow, how embarrassing!

"Hey don't worry about it." He said, "We're really busy with other things right now, I doubt any one will even remember." I smiled with that thought,

"Yeah, maybe you're right." I said sitting back up I asked "So what's going on that's got everyone so busy?" He sighed and said

"Oh yeah, we're getting ready for the titan war." He said bleakly, I thought about that for a minute before blurting out "Wait, that hasn't happened yet?" he starred at me in shock, "What do you mean it hasn't 'happened yet'?" I tried to hide my face; I sighed and said "I guess- by what you're telling me- some of my books take place in the future."

His look of shock turned into a smile "This is amazing! This means you-" I cut him off with "-don't know what's going to happen." He looked puzzled,

"What are you saying?! But you just said-" he shouted exasperated, I cut him off again "-That my books take place in the future, yes I know; but think about it. I read the books and didn't end up in a mental hospital, which means I wasn't in them! Now I am in them, so that means that it might not have the same end. Any move I make could change the future!" I said waving my arms. Greg frowned

"So... in the alternate future... did we win?" he asked slowly,

"I don't think I should say anything in the risk of changing the future, but what do you think?" I said, and then he turned around and said softly to himself

"Yes!" he then turned to look at me and said "Wait a minute. You know how in books there are tons of characters whose names aren't mentioned?"

"Yeah what's your point?"

"What if you are one of those characters? That would mean that you being here wouldn't change the future at all."

"I suppose your right, but just to be safe we should keep this in between us."

"Agreed."

As I was leaving the big house a thought occurred to me. Anything and everything I do can change the future. I had to be very careful. So just as I was about to take a step outside the big house I said

"Wait! What if when I take a step I crush a caterpillar egg, and that caterpillar was going to become a butterfly, and that butterfly was going to pollinate a field of flowers, and animals were attracted to that field, and when one of our soldiers passed them they recruited them for the war; but, in this other future the solider doesn't recruit them because they're not there, that's because the flowers aren't there, that's because the butterfly didn't pollinate them and now they're dead, and the butterfly didn't pollinate them because I killed it when it was just an egg!"

He starred at me in shock before saying "I have a few answers for that. 1, all caterpillars are hatched by now. 2, caterpillars don't lay their eggs on grass. 3, even if they did people walk on that spot so much that it would be dead by now anyway!"

"Oh, okay..." I said taking a step. Before I took the next step I said "Wait! What if when I step here I leave an indent in the ground, and it doesn't go away before the war, and that would cause people coming out of the big house to trip and get injured, making them unable to fight during the war!"

"Just take a step! People here don't injure that easily!" He yelled, and I took another step. "Next time you take a step don't think of how it will affect the future, just think of how it will get you to your destination!" he continued, I took another step, "Okay then, what if I do follow your advice and start 'walking', then on my way I bump into someone, causing them not to get at their destination on time, causing their contact to get mad, making a fight break out, causing bloodshed!"

"People here are not that punctual!" I took another step,

"Wait, what if-" I started, but I was cut off.

"Oh come on! What if standing here is changing the future, and I'm supposed to be in the dining hall when we are attacked although I counter-act it with the 'power of pan' Grover talked about, but I'm not there to stop the attack because I'm here talking to you!" he yelled.

"You're right, we should get going!" I yelled and started to run, but then I stopped. "Wait! 1, the dining hall never gets attacked, and 2 in the alternate future you aren't even here since all the satyrs are out protecting the world's wild places!"

"Remember, I'm a special case..." He started to say, right before I yelled

"You tricked me!"

"I think you're a bit paranoid..."

"Paranoid? What makes you think I'm paranoid?" I said laughing nervously,

"Look you're here now! The future might change, it might not; you just have to live with it!"

"But I'm afraid I might make us..." I looked to see if there was anyone around, then whispered "...lose the titan war."

"How would you do that, you're fighting on our side?"

"I'm afraid I might do it by accident."

"So you might do it by accident, no one would know and I wouldn't hold it against you."

"Well... you might."

"No I wouldn't, look don't worry about making a mistake; if you do we'll fix it."

"What if I make too many mistakes for you to handle?"

"Then we're doomed." He said casually.

"Thanks for that." I said sarcastically.

"Don't mention it, besides if you're fighting beside us you probably won't make a mistake anyway." I still didn't feel so sure, but I said

"You're probably right."

"So what do you say, will you come on a tour of camp? Or are you afraid it will rip the fabric of time?"

I thought about it before saying "It couldn't hurt." Then we went on the tour.

So what do you think? How will they effect the future? Or is Greg right about them being in the books already? How do you think her time at camp half-blood will go? I want to know!