A web of fates | Percy Jackson and the Olympians

II| the people who matter

Daphne was doing her usual routine, hanging out with the Camps dragon when Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson returned to Camp.

"Hey, Peleus," Annabeth said. "Keeping everything safe?"

"Wow, thank you for greeting the dragon before me." Daphne said sarcastically.

Annabeth smirked. "Well, you barely wrote back to me since Christmas."

"I've been busy." Daphne told her, half a lie.

The girl had been keeping herself busy but she still had time to reply back to all of the letters has she just picked up a pen and a piece of paper.

The daughter of Hermes had changed since Christmas. She had grown taller, wore more makeup and cared more about her appearance.

Before, she usually let Valentina do everything for her but now she cared about herself a lot.

Annabeth looked over her, then her eyebrows furrowed together. "Is that my brother's top?"

Daphne blinked at her, she had completely forgotten that she hadn't told Percy or Annabeth about her and Theo.

After they shared a kiss on Daphne's birthday, the pair of them had avoided each other for two weeks until Ellis and Valentina had dragged Theo back to Camp with Oliver snickering at the sight.

The three of them had forced Daphne and him in the same room to talk about things. Short story: Theo ended up asking Daphne out and she ended up saying yes.

"Perhaps?"

Annabeth gasped. "You bitch! I want to know every single detail. Hold up... I take that back. Not every single detail but the PG details."

Being as oblivious as ever, Percy blinked - trying to calculate what the two girls were on about. "Huh? What's happening?"

Daphne just laughed at him. "I'll explain, come on."

Below them, Camp Half-Blood looked peaceful- fields, forest, shiny white Greek buildings. The four-story farmhouse we called the Big House sat proudly in the midst of the strawberry fields. To the north, past the beach, the Long Island Sound glittered in the sunlight.

Still..something felt wrong. There was tension in the air, as if the hill itself were holding its breath, waiting for something bad to happen.

They walked down into the valley, Daphne telling Annabeth and Percy the mini love story, and found the summer session in full swing.

Most of the campers had arrived last Friday. The satyrs were playing their pipes in the strawberry fields, making the plants grow with woodland magic.

Campers were having flying horseback lessons, swooping over the woods on their pegasi. Smoke rose from the forges, and hammers rang as kids made their own weapons for Arts & Crafts.

The Athena and Demeter teams were having a chariot race around the track, and over at the canoe lake some kids in a Greek trireme were fighting a large orange sea serpent.

A typical day at camp.

"I need to talk to Clarisse," Annabeth said. "And my brother."

Percy stared at her as if she'd just said she need to eat a large, smelly boot. "What for?"

Clarisse from the Ares cabin was one of his least favorite people.

"We've been working on something," Annabeth said. "I'll see you later." Annabeth glanced toward the forest. "I'll tell Chiron you're here," she said. "He'll want to talk to you before the hearing."