Survivor (Percy Jackson Crossover) [#Wattys2014]

Chapter One

Katie Gardner- demigod

Katie sat one the grass with her knees pulled up to her chest. From where she sat she had a perfect view of the sun setting over the calm ocean waves.

She sighed listening to the horrid voices of her parents fighting in her mind again. Sometimes she wished they would just shut up. But they couldn't do that. Not even for her birthday.

so now she was alone. Unwanted. Trying not to cry. There was only one person who could make her feel better when she felt like this.

"What's wrong Katie?" She jumped a little not having heard the foot steps of her best friend come up behind her.

"Nothing." She said refusing to meet his eyes and continued staring into the ocean waves. He sighed and Katie heard the rustle of grass as he sat next to her.

"Katie." He said.

Katie looked of into the water, nodding to show that she heard.

"Katie." He nudged her with his elbow.

She nodded a little more.

"Katie, look at me." Katie steeled herself, for what it's worth. But the second she looked into her best friend's eyes she knew she was a goner. She loved his beautiful blue eyes, that looked like they belonged to a God. She loved his curly sweeping dirty blonde hair. She loved the feeling that she got whenever she was near him. She loved the way her heart raced when he laughed.

Katie loved Connor Stoll.

Katie felt a sharp prick in the back of her mind as if there was something completely wrong with that sentence. But it was forgotten as quickly as it came.

"Katie, tell me what's wrong." Connor said.

So Katie told him what was wrong. She told him about all the fights her parents were having, she told him about her birthday, she even told him how she just wanted a cupcake.

"Well, as it turns out..." Connor said smiling mischievously. He pulled a chocolate cupcake with perfect green icing from behind his back. Katie smiled in awe, wondering how he got it. "Happy Birthday, Katie!"

Katie giggled with delight. "Split with me?"

"You know it!" Connor gave her the cupcake and a lopsided smile that made her heart beat a little faster. "But first make a wish with this imaginary candle, because my parents don't trust me with fire."

Katie pretended to think then she "blew out" the imaginary candle.

Katie and Connor split the cupcake as evenly as they could (which wasn't even at all) and watched the sun sink lower into the horizon. Katie laid her head on Connor's shoulder and took a deep breath. She loved the way he smelled, as if he just walked out of a flower shop filled with roses. Connor hummed the happy birthday song quietly. Just loud enough for Katie to enjoy.

"A penny for your thoughts?" Connor said fiddling with a copper penny in his fingers.

"Just thinking about how sometimes my life seems too easy." Katie said. Suddenly there was a buzzing by her ears. She absently swatted thinking there was a fly or bee or something.

"What'd you mean?"

"Sometimes a feel like my life is a dream." Katie clarified. The buzzing came back but louder.

"That's silly, Katie." Connor laughed making Katie feel a little stupid. "Would I be a dream?"

"You just seem to always have what I want or need." Katie huffed. Suddenly she heard words coming through the buzzing, as if someone was putting a walkie-talkie next to her ear.