He Stoll My Heart - Connor Stoll.

Ch.5: Brina Bianchi.

A/N: This chapter takes place during TLO, ch.4 ("We burn a metal shroud")

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"Katie! What the hell!?" Rose shouted the moment they were out of earshot of the other counselors.

"What!?" Katie said.

"What's going on!? Why would you accuse the Stolls like that, out of the blue!?"

"Luke was a son of Hermes!"

"If they were the spies, then don't you think we would've had Kronos' forces after us during our entire quest!? Considering we were four, and not three, I'd say the number of encounters we had was meek at best!"

"They're not the only children of Hermes, Rose!"

"And Luke wasn't only friends with his Cabin mates!"

"You're just like Travis! Why can't you just be rational—"

"I'm the most rational demigod of Camp Half-Blood!" Rose yelled. "Don't talk to me about rationality! If everyone starts accusing everyone, everything will fall into chaos! Gods, Katie!"

Katie was turning red with fury. "I called you in because I needed support from my sister, not another person to yell at me!"

"You had no right! No right!"

"I was just raising a concern—"

"Well, you're in the wrong! What the hell happened with Travis!?" Rose shouted.

Katie clenched her fists. "I... I only suggested that maybe... I wasn't accusing him or Connor of anything, I just—I didn't expect him to blow up!"

Rose buried her face in her hands. "Of course, he blew up! What were you thinking!?"

"Just—Just stop, Rose. Please."

Her voice was small. Katie knew she screwed up.

Rose sighed and dropped her hands. "Katie, you'll need to apologize, this can't..."

"I know. I swear, I didn't mean—"

"Whatever you meant, you sent a different message."

Rose observed her sister as Katie wrapped her arms around herself and shook her head with a sigh. She wrapped an arm around Katie's shoulders.

"You need sleep. Come on."

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The next day was inspection day, and Katie had put Rose in charge of leading the others in organizing the Cabin, as she usually did. Except that this time, Katie spent her time moping in the bathroom, instead of helping out.

Violet got her first taste of "Rose's Organizational Mania", as her siblings called it.

She found it Terrifying.

When Annabeth and Percy came along, they got an immediate five out of five. Rose thanked them and proudly praised their efforts.

Miranda dropped to her bed, exhausted from the Rose-induced morning workout, and messed up her bed again, making Rose's eyebrow twitch.

Rose went to knock on the bathroom door and Katie came out looking frazzled.

"Come on," said Rose, "let's take a walk."

As they crossed the common area, a fight broke out between the Ares and Apollo cabins. Some Apollo campers armed with firebombs flew over the Ares cabin in a chariot pulled by two pegasi. Soon, the roof of the Ares cabin was burning, and naiads from the canoe lake rushed over to blow water on it.