My Sister got Me a Stoll: A Tratie Fanfic

Chapter 4 (Travis's POV)

I don't know what the hell I was thinking last night. Telling Katie about my problems. But it felt strangely, right. Like we were meant to be. Okay let me back up. I should probably tell you when me and Katie first met. It was when I first came to Camp Half-Blood, Conner and I stumbled over the hill to see the camp in all its wonder. We had been chased by hellhounds all the way. The same hellhounds that ripped my mom apart. Conner and I had been walking with our mom outside of our house. My mom, a child of Athena, had been weird. She kept looking around, like we might be attacked at any moment. Then, hellhounds sprang out of nowhere, and tried to get Conner and I. My mom was holding them off and told us how to get to Camp Half-Blood. As we took off, my mom got surrounded by hellhounds. One was about to jump on her back will she was looking the other way. I had screamed "Look out!" To my mom. She got distracted and looked at me. The hounds jumped on her and ripped her into a million pieces. My brother and I were able to make it to Half-Blood hill soon after. As we stumbled over the hill we saw two girls on guard duty. Samantha, who was seventeen and Katie, who was ten like me. Samantha was training Katie for watch duty when she saw my brother and I stumble in towards them, while being chased by hellhounds. Samantha, whipped out her bow and shot the hellhounds dead in two seconds. Katie grew vines that pulled us towards her. The vines let us fall gently on the ground as Katie and Sam walked over to meet us. "Are you two okay?" Sam asked. Conner, who at the time was nine, started crying. "Our mommy is dead. She told us to come here, to train." Sam took Conners hand and told Katie to take me to Chiron. She then started checking Conner for any injuries. Katie looked at me, bewildered. I was grumpy, sad, angry, and confused, so I snapped. "What?" Katie blushed and looked away. "You just remind me so much of myself, protecting your brother, and whatnot." I didn't know what to say. We walked towards the big house and she said "Don't be surprised okay? Chiron a centaur." "Half horse half human?" "Yes". I honestly was so tired I just shrugged. As I entered, I was hit with the sound of Frank Sinatra blaring at full volume. That was when I got the first good look at my new mentor. Chiron was compacted into his magical wheelchair. "Wow, I thought you said he was a centaur." I said. "Young man I am a centaur." Chiron then rose out of his fucking wheelchair and saw that he was a centaur. "Wow" "Indeed, it is very, wow." Chiron smiled. He and I chatted for awhile, but I never really got used to the fact that he was twice my height. "Chiron, can I ask you something?" "If it's within my capability to answer then yes." "Do you think that I'm the reason my mom died? Do you think I killed her?" He thought for a very long time about this. Finally, when he answered, I had no clue what he meant. I still have no clue what it means today. "Well, do you think your guilty?" "Um yes?" "Then why do you ask?" "Pardon?" "Why do you ask? If you already made your mind up, why do you ask? Is it important to you that people see you differently or do you want to correct people about the truth?" I sat there for a good ten minutes before I came up with the most brilliant response: "I dunno." Chiron smiled, ruffled my hair, and told me to find Cabin Eleven, talk to some kid named Luke, and get ready for capture the flag. I walked off thinking about what he said. 

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The next couple of days were rough. I got claimed as a Hermes kid at a bonfire three nights after my arrival. After the sing-a-long, I sat by the fire by myself. Conner had already been claimed the first night, so he had friends in our cabin. He walked off with them, chatting as though our mom hadn't just been murdered three nights ago. Once everyone cleared out, Katie sat besides me. "Hey" she said. "Hi" I mumbled back, lost in my thoughts. "I just wondered if you wanted to be friends." This caught me off guard. At my mortal school, I was the weirdo. Conner was always so popular. I was the one with ADHD and dyslexia, not him. He was a straight A student, I was a straight D student. So why this really pretty and badass gardening girl wanted to be my friend was beyond me. "Uhhh urm, what?" "Friends, y'know, like people who like to hangout with one another?" She seemed, annoyed almost. "Ohh uh wow I'm flattered." She gave me a quizzical look. "There's lot of more popular kids than me, so why are you flattered?" I felt a blush spread all the way to my ears. "I never had a friend before." Katie's mouth formed an 'O' and did something that was so strange and foreign, that it took me a few seconds to process. She hugged me. I hugged her back, and then I smiled. After we finished being all mushy gushy, we talked then when the conch sounded, said bye and went back to our cabins. I guess that's when I started pranking her. The next day I gave her a squirting flower, then the next I put pepper in her cereal, and then... we'll you get the idea. As I started to become more and more popular at camp,  me and Katie stopped hanging out, but I still pranked her. One day, around my thirteenth birthday, my brother asked why. I told him because it was the only way she would ever talk to a loser like me. The only way I would ever get her attention. She was beautiful and nice. I was annoying and stupid. She was so much better than me. Conner laughed at me for this. Then he saw that she was sisters with Miranda, that shut him up.

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Sorry for the sloppyness of this chapter! It's mostly filler, but also kinda important because you get to see how they meet and some of the troubles Travis is having. When I was writing this I thought, "Hmmm, did I forget something?" Yep, my first draft completely glanced over how their mom died. Oops. Two rough drafts later, and I was able to add it in. Bit stupid of me to forget, but whatever y'know? Hope y'all are having a great day!  I know mine could be better! Comment suggestions for Travis's next prank on Katie, I want to hear your guys ideas!            

                                                                 ~Tratie_for_life