I Dreamed I Saved You...

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"There" Rachel announced to the little girl she was breading her hair. The girl showed her a smile before leaving and then, Rachel had another one sat on her lap "Wow, guys... Slow down..." she chuckled. The girl simply giggled at her.

It was a tradition she had instated in Camp Half-Blood, after the war against Gaea, many years ago. Every Friday, the kids under ten years would have a sleepover. This would improve their confidence and will make them less shy around each other. At first, it was an experiment, but it worked out so well, Chiron said that once every two months, the kids will have a sleepover with the kids in Camp Jupiter, as a way to reinforce the bonds and trust between them.

This was one of them.

As the one that came up with the idea, Rachel was always chaperoning the kids. She didn't mind, because the kids were always playing nice and talking. The girls will always demand her attention, asking her to braid their hairs or asking for stories on how things happened. The boys normally played with wooden swords and metal helmets that she made Leo do specially for the occasion.

"Rachel?" the girl she was braiding, a six-year-old daughter of Apollo, called her.

"Yeah, Mel?" she answered, parting her hair.

"What should I be for Halloween?" The question took her by surprise. She had forgot about Halloween! She had promised the kids a party with the grown ups and she needed to start planing it now or there would be nothing next Saturday.

"I don't know, Mel... What you wanna be?" Rachel asked her. The girl put a thinking face, while some of the kids (boys and girls) gathered around "You guys have your Halloween costumes ready?"

"I'm going as Princess Leia!" a girl of seven, a daughter of Aphrodite, admitted. Rachel raised an eyebrow at her "But Piper won't let me use the bikini... She want me to dress like the bounty hunter..." Mental score for Piper and her Head Counselor skills!

"You're gonna get so cold!" a son of Vulcan of five, argued, logically "It's chilly to walk around like that..."

"I wanna be Belle!" a daughter of Athena mumbled, next to Rachel, a little shy "Because she likes to read..." Rachel smiled and made the four-year-old look at her.

"And you'll be beautiful besides smart..." she complimented her, earning a bright smile from her.

"Me and my sister will go as Hansel and Gretel!" a son of Apollo from Camp Jupiter announced, proudly.

"The kids who got lost in the woods and almost got eaten by a witch?" a boy from Demeter frowned at it, confused.

"But, we're gonna the the Witch Hunters!!" At this, Rachel looked up at the boy, between curious and scandalized.

"Kyler, how do you know about that movie?" The stern question made Kyler fidgeted in his place and everyone look surprise. Rachel never had acted like this "Kyler..."

"The Stolls" he blurted out and Rachel sighed. She was going to kill the Stolls later.

"You shouldn't had watched it-"

"But the Stolls called me 'chicken' if I didn't and it wasn't that bad..." Kyler defended himself.

"I'm not saying that. I'm saying that you shouldn't had watched it because Aria would had wanted to see it..." Rachel explained, in deep thinking, knowing how close were those two, even if they were from different camps "Which explains her screams at night about 'witches that want to eat her heart'..." Kyler was pale at this, though Rachel knew he was remorsed. Rachel finished the braid of the girl she had in her lap and two others sat on her, looking to cuddle "OK, which other costumes have you been thinking?"