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Ψ 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 Ψ

𝐋𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞, I smiled and sat with my legs to my chest saying "this is nice. Wish my mom could see all of this. Granted she almost had a heart attack seeing Damien's satyr legs..."

I laughed and played with my hands as his head turned to me "really?"

My head turned to look at him and I nodded, smiling "I'm glad she doesn't think I'm crazy."

But as I said that he tensed up. I saw his hand holding his other tightening its grip, I was confused why he was acting like that really.

"You, okay?" I asked, bumping my shoulder and he shook his head slightly. But his attitude changed as his straight face turned into a smile.

"Nothing." He claimed but I felt like he was lying, maybe I was just seeing things.

I turned back to the fire as we both heard "finally I found you two." Chris exclaimed, walking over, and sitting by us.

"So how did practice go?" he asked as he smirked at Luke and I replied "great, I kicked his butt."

Chris laughed out "really? The best sword fighter at camp was beaten by you?"

I looked at Luke and he said, "I let her win."

At that moment I punched his shoulder as he groaned holding his left arm in pain as Chris shook his head letting out a long sigh.

"You dumb idiot, you just angered a girl. I'm gonna walk away now." And with that he stood up and left quickly as I looked at him.

"You let me win? Really." He explained quickly "no offense but you are right I have years of training ahead of you. And I thought it was clear when I told you that I didn't have a weakness." He finished.

I scoffed, shaking my head as he claimed "you still did great. Believe me. All of us train every day and I'm surprised you caught on quicker than I expected."

Luke groaned and let go of his shoulder saying "you're not bad. With a couple more practices you might be able to go up against Clarisse, maybe be."

I looked at him and said "what if I'm Ares' kid? Maybe I'll have a chance."

He shook his head saying "not at all. You're nice with a hint of attitude in you."

My mouth opened to say, "and you're the one who smirks too much."

He groaned out, "no I don't."

I knew I was getting under his skin, so I laughed at his reaction "fine then, maybe I'm Hades kid."

He shook his head "All I know of is that the 3 gods can't have any more children. It's a complicated story."

No one was around so I faced my body whilst sitting to him and asked him "tell me. Please?"

"You really want to know?" He asked me to make sure and I nodded.

"Come on, at least give me something? Please?" I asked, nudging his arm as he looked at me with a smile.

He huffed out "fine." He turned to face me, and he began to speak.

"Long before we were born the 3 gods, Zeus, Hades and Poseidon all made sure to have a pact. No more forbidden kids. Each one is just as strong as the other. It's dangerous I guess you could say. The power they have for just being half a god of one of the big three."

I nodded and he continued "So they made a pact to not father anymore children. Zeus broke it when...he had Thalia. A forbidden child. They attract trouble...monsters coming in left and right, it was a constant battle for her to stay alive."

A smirk developed in my face "well then! That rules out any of them as my father!"

He laughed softly and shook his head "no, no it doesn't. You are a particular case that is known. That's why you're talked about so much around camp. The unclaimed 17-year-old daughter with a father who lied."

My smirk left quickly and said "but...that's not-rumors already? God I'm talked about everywhere I go it seems."

I huffed and he saw my reaction as I placed my head into my knees holding them to myself rocking back and forth when holding me "if you want, I'll tell them to stop. I'm quite popular around here."

I poked out my head from my legs as he looked at me concerned and I asked him "you would do that?"

He shrugged his shoulders looking around saying "yes but you owe me."

Our intense stare off occurred as we stared at one another, his brown eyes as if seemed to me...they were bright even though we were in the darkness of the camp.

All you could hear was the crackle and pops from the fire as I stared at him.

"And what do you want?" I asked quietly but managed to get the sentence out.

"For you to tell me about yourself, we don't get new kids often and because your case is rather interesting, I want to know about you." He admitted freely as I untucked my legs from my chest and crossed them leaning forward asking "and what's it you want to know that you don't already?"

He looked away from me for a second to think and as he thought I stared at him and asked, "what about Thalia?"

His face looked at mine as I shrugged "before you can ask me stuff I am allowed to ask first. What happened to her?"

I saw his throat tighten as he rubbed his palms together and began, "Annabeth, one of my loyal friends. Daughter of Athena, she was 7. Thalia was 12 and I was there as well. We ran and Thalis had bravery like no other." He stated at first.

I saw his small smile just at the mention of her name which kinda stung me, but why? I shouldn't care. That's his business.

"She fought unlike any other, she was brave and courageous. Annabeth and I made it back. Thalia didn't because she sacrificed herself for us. That's when we made it to camp."

I frowned and saw his face changed as I reached for his arm, "I'm so sorry..."

My hand held his arm as I stroked his arm with just my thumb thinking that could maybe ease some of the reminiscing pain he may have. I knew it wouldn't, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a try you know.

He stared at me as I held his arm. I didn't know what to do or how to fix what he may be feeling but...all I knew was that. My mom would give hugs. But we were still new to each other. I'm not hugging him unless he wants me to. But as I stayed lingering in my thoughts, I didn't realize I felt his hand move mine.

I felt his hand holding my own and I looked down and back at him.

"I'm sorry." I apologized again quickly but as I was about to pull my hand away, I felt him hold it tighter.

"I never get to talk about it without of course remembering it. But...with you it's...refreshing to get out the emotions." He admitted.

I smiled and stared at our hands that were still holding each other.

"We should head to bed...no?" I asked and he gave me a small nod as we pulled our hands away from one another.

And when we did that, I felt a sensation of loss, loneliness. I missed it.

Thankfully, he did as well.

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Well...seems the two of them get closer with any conversation.

But...Thalia, don't you guys remember Luke did have a crush on her-

Get ready for Dramaaaaa.