(A/N: Thank you to markmeorigins and tye dye tail,xAmazonWarriorxfor reviewing. Also, remember Artemis is a maiden goddess she doesn't have kids. I haven't figured out who I want Leah's parent to be, I just went with A because that had the coolest possibilities in my mind. I hope the story stays interesting for you guys. Tell me your theories, thoughts and what you want!)

Everyone was sitting around a large campfire with their cabins. That is everyone except Leah and Eric. She was dragging him over to get him to introduce her to Hermes cabin.

"No, no, just ask them yourself. I don't want to be anywhere near them, they talk too much. No," Eric was protesting trying to get his wrist out of her grasp without hurting her. He could easily get it out if he wanted, but he didn't want to snap Leah's wrist.

"They can't be that bad," she argued.

"Yes they can."

"Fine stand here and I'll be back."

"Ok."

She walked up to where all of the Hermes kids were sitting and said, "Hi, I'm Leah."

Two twins jumped up and bounded over to her. They grabbed her arms on either side of he, "Hi Leah, I'm Connor and this is my brother,"

"Travis," the other one finished.

"So I'll be staying in your cabin unless I'm claimed right?" she asked.

"Sure thing, we'll take great care of you," Travis said as he played with a piece of her hair that had come out of its braid. As he did this, Connor reached behind her and into her pack trying to grab something.

Leah smiled and wrapped her arms around their shoulders, effectively pinning their arms to their sides. With a smile she said, "I don't care if you take my stuff, I stole it anyway, but if you touch my bow and arrows I will strap you to a target and use you for practice."

She squeezed the boys' shoulders and let them go. She grabbed her bow and handed the bag to the brothers, "knock yourself out."

She walked back over to where Eric was still standing. "What are you doing? You're never going to get that back."

She shrugged, "I'll just take whatever else I need."

Sometime between dinner and the campfire Eric had swapped his vest for a black leather jacket. He looked down to Leah and asked, "Where to now since you seem to have a habit of dragging me around if I want to come or not."

Leah smirked up at him, "Why? Do you have something more important you want to do?"

He smirked back, "there are a lot of things I want to do, but the majority of them are not good, so no."

"Good, then we're going to go sit with my other loner friend."

"Is this going to turn into an island of misfit toys sort of thing?" he asked.

"I don't know what that is, but it sounds good. Come on," she said leading him over the other side of the campfire where there weren't many people.

Nico had been leaning against the bench behind him, but sat up as the two came over. He looked at Eric suspiciously, then to Leah, "what is he doing here?"

"I wouldn't be here if she hadn't brought me, so deal with it" Eric said aggressively.

Nico stood, "why don't you make me."

Leah was confused, but cut in, "Enough girls your both pretty. What's up with you guys, neither of you were acting like this earlier.

She sat down and pulled both of them with her, Nico on her right and Eric on her left. She leaned back on her hands and stretched out her legs.

Neither Nico nor Eric looked at each other. Leah rolled her eyes and asked, "What now?"

Nico responded, "Now we just sit and watch the fire."

"Ok, so how is someone claimed anyway?" she asked.

Eric was the one who answered this time, "I don't remember, I was unconscious when I was claimed."

"The symbol of your immortal parent floats over your head, like a glowing projection," Nico said.

"Well let me know if my head is glowing," she said jokingly when she saw Eric glare at Nico from the side of his eyes, "So why were you unconscious when you were claimed."

"I was on a small solo quest and something happened, I was knocked out and when I woke up I was back in camp. They told me I had been claimed," he explained without really telling her anything.

She realized that he didn't want to talk about it so she didn't press him any further. The three fell silent and a while later, Apollo campers started singing then marshmallows were being passed around. A little girl from Demeter cabin, probably nine, came up to Eric. She looked absolutely terrified, her eyes wide, when he looked at her even though his expression wasn't as hard as it could be, he was trying to not scare her. She was anyway as she set a bag of unopened marshmallows on the bench next to him before running off not saying anything.

Eric sighed and put his head in his hands for a while, Leah and Nico looked at him curiously. Finally he raised his head and grabbed the bag, "marshmallow anyone?" he asked holding it out to them.

Leah looked at the bag like it was going to bite her, "what do you do with it?"

Eric laughed sarcastically, "Are you kidding? Have you never had a marshmallow before?"

She shook her head.

He opened the bag and grabbed one of the big fluffy puffs before stuffing it in his mouth. He spoke through it comically, "you eat it. If you want you can find a stick and roast it, but they taste fine anyway."

She wrinkled her nose uncertainly, "I don't know about eating one of those."

Eric forced the bag into her hands, "at least eat one, if you don't like it you don't have to eat anymore, but I can't let you go on in life without ever eating a marshmallow."

She smiled and took one, nibbling it she said, "Its sweet."

Eric smirked and she passed the bag to Nico who took a handful. They were silent as they ate the sweets until Leah spoke up again, "this is quite a few firsts in one day for me."

Eric looked over at her, "what else besides the marshmallows?"

"First time having great human friends," she said.

Eric looked around at the empty benches around them, "is someone upstaging me?" He asked in mock anger.

This earned a small laugh from Leah, "it is you and Nico goof ball."

Then she put her arm around his and Nico's shoulders, "you guys are awesome. This is also the first time that I have to decide if I should keep running or not. In the past the answer had always been yes."

Eric looked down at her, "you have been running for a long time. From what?"

"I used to be running from child services, but now it's the only thing I know. So, I keep going," she responded.