Tratie

" Hey Myranda have you seen Katie?" I asked.

She looked up from the small garden they had outside her cabin. " Oh. It's just you Travis." She went back to work on her garden.

" Oh yeah it's just your sister boyfriend where is she?"

" Where's who? Rosie, Marilyn, Liliana, Olive, Fredricka, Violet, Clare, Janet, Katie? I've got a lot of sisters so you need to be more clear with the word she."

I groaned. " Katie. Where is Katie?"

" Oh thank gods. I was scared you meant Olive or Rosie for a scary second. She should still be in the strawberry fields. Hasn't left since the fire." Myranda said.

" Thank you." I quickly left and almost ran towards the field. I got there and saw that it was deserted. Not a soul in sight. I ran towards the Demeter cabin again to confront Miranda.

" Alright where is she?"

She looked up again. " Well Rosie is at the lake right now. Claimed she needed to get a tan and I think Olive went to the arena for a little sword-"

" If I wanted to know about Rosie or Olive I would have asked. There was no one at the strawberry fields. Where is she?" I asked again. I was getting very frustrated.

She stood up and shook the dirt off he hands. " Marilyn should be with Rosie and Clare is taking a nap right now. Fredricka left for town a littwe but ago but should be back soon. Janet and Liliana went to visit their boyfriends. And most of my other sister are in school. Since it is Septemeber."

I banged my head against her cabin. " Do I have to write it in the sky? Where is Katie? Not Rosie, Olive, Marilyn or any of your other sisters. Katie. Katie Gardener. Where is she?"

" Oh you mean Riley?" She asked. She was smiling at my visable frustration." Alright go ask Riley. She's by the creek in he woods. She might know where Katie is."

She went back inside her cabin. I ran to the creek looking for her sister Riley. Maybe I would get a straight forward answer as to where Katie was. I got to the creek and found Riley. She looked similar to Katie just darker hair.

" Riley do you know where Katie is?"

She looked up at me and scowled. " I last saw her with Isabel form the Apollo cabin."

" Thanks. Uh before I go. What does Isabel look like?"

" Tan, dark hair with red highlights and bright blue eyes. Now get out of sight Stoll before I make poison ivy grow around your legs." She snappd at me. I quickly walked away and headed to the one place all Apollo kids are. The archery range or the beach.

I got to the archery range and found a beginners class taught by Will which only meant she was at the beach and she was. She was laying on a towel with sun glasses on throwing a bright yellow ball above her head.

" Are you Isabel?" I asked.

She stopped tossing the ball above her head and toke off her sunglasses. She sat up and said. " Well I don't know a Isabel but I know a E-saw-bell." She said.

" Okay E-saw-bell. First thing first. What is that ball in your hand?"

She laughed. " It's a softball. You play with it in softball games. There kind like baseball games but better."

"How?"

" They just are."

" Alright. Second thing. Do you know where Katie is?"

She gave me a quizzical look." Katie who? I happen to know a lot of Katie's."

" Katie Gardener. From Demeter cabin. Where is she?"

" She told me she was going to be with Riley."

I sighed. " I was just with Riley and she was by herself."

She put her us stood up and started to dig through the bag she has. She smiled. " That sneaking little Gardener."

" What?" I asked.

" Katie. She toke my knife. And I have archery in about two hours."

" What's so importantabout that knife?" I asked.

Isabel stood up. " It has a button on the hilt that will turn it into a bow. If you find her tell her to find me immedetly and give it back Stoll."

" Wait. Why would she have your knife?"

" She was saying that she needed a knife. When I asked her why and she didn't answer. That's when she said she going to see Riley. She seemed a bit upset though. Did you guys fight or something?"

" We had the smallest fight ever over the stupidest thing and that's why I need to find her like now."

" Oh shit. We need to find her now." Isabel began to quickly pack up her stuff.

" Whoa whoa whoa. Why would we need to find her like now?" I asked. I was getting pretty confused.

" You idiot. What would a person do with a knife that are very upset or depressed?"

" Oh shit." I said.

She nodded her head and picked up her bag. " Yeah and there's a special button on it that releases hemlock."

" Hemlock?"

She rolled her eyes. " Hemlock. The poison that Socrates was forced drink as penance for destroying Athens youth and refusing to stop. It worked quickly and was highly effective. Although some still question how poisonous it really is. But believe me it can still be a bitch to cure. You would nobe believe how many times a camper comes to me asking if their going to die. And I have to frikin' cure them beside they don't know how to handle my knife-"

" Alright more about that later. Let's go find Katie."

" Fine. Let's check the woods."

" No I'll check the woods. You look around the beach and cabins."

" Alright. If you find her and she's already you know. Give her this." She dug through her bag and handed me a small vial. " This should counteract the hemlock and than pour some nectar over the wound. Than take her to the infermary as soon as possible."

" Alright bye." I shouted. I didn't even bother asking why she had something like that on hand.

I ran into the forest. She wasn't going to go some where obvious where people could find her. So that would cross of the creek, bunker 9, and Rachel's cave. I ran to the back of the woods where only idiots would go and I've been called one enough to know I cargo there. I found this tiny cave hidden in a bunch of greenery.

" Katie? Are you in here?" I shouted out.

I heard no response. I walked inside. It wasn't really dark and could see a bit in front of me but not much. The deeper I went into the cave the darker it got. " Katie where are you? I know you're in here."

I heard a slight moan and almost ran. Than I heard someone walking. So I ran. The deeper I got in the cave the darker it got. I stepped in a puddle and stroke a match, I looked and saw it was a tiny puddle of blood with the knife Isabel was telling me about near by. Katie what have you done now?

I grabbed the knife and ran. " KATIE! KATIE STOP NOW!" I shouted. I heard her fall. I went off her groans and moans of pain to find her. I knew I had found her when I could hear the moans right under me. I hit another match and lit some near by plants on fire.

I could see she had stabbed herself in the stomach. Her hands were covered in blood and her face was palling.

" Oh gods Katie. What have you done?" I whispered. In the terrible light I could see her pupils were dilated to the size of needle. I toke the vial and quickly got her to drink it. I than poured some nectar over the knife wound and carefully picked her up. And just a quick side note I left the plants burning and almost set the whole cave on fire. But I also found a certain person jumping off a clif and having someone jump to get her. Here's a clue: Jasper/Jiper. Anyways back to the important stuff. I ran Katie into the infirmary and Isabel was there waiting. She quickly got more of the anti hemlock stuff in her system.

" She'll be fine." Isabel said. It looked like you had gotten her the anti-hemlock just after she had ingected herself with it. It's late. Go to bed and I'll keep a watch on her. Than you can keep a sharp eye on her tomorrow."

" What will I tel her siblings? That she just happened to get a knife wound and hemlock poisoning at the same time? They already think I'm insane but I don't need them to personally admit me to a mental ward."

" Just tell them there was an accident at a k ice throwing class and she got hit in the stomach. Now go." Isabel and kicked me out. And I headed back to. To my cabin.

A/N Hello everybody! So sorry about this being so depressing. I was watching My Sister's Keeper for the firsyet ime and yeah I'm balling my eyes out as I type it. So yeah I kinda got in a depressing place and wrote a story about Katie trying to commit sucide which is a common theme for Tratie I guess. The next one shot I write for Traite will be the sqeual.

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