tratie oneshots

{ tell them pt. 1 }

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"Trav, we can't keep doing this," Katie whispered as she was gently dragged behind the Demeter cabin, "We can't keep hiding."

"Well then, let's tell people. But they've waited a while, they can wait a bit more," Travis fluttered kisses down Katie's neck before stopping at her collarbone and raising his head to let his lips meet hers.

Katie tried (and failed) to ignore the shivers that rushed down her spine at Travis's gentle yet firm touch, but simply couldn't.

They had been secretly dating for around five months, and Katie wouldn't have traded them for anything.

Being with Travis felt...magical. He made her feel like a queen, when she was feeling like a peasant.

She had only recently become comfortable confiding in him about things like her self-esteem issues and diagnosed anxiety and depression. She knew he could be trusted, and that, even though he was a joker and a player on the outside, he was really very kindhearted on the inside, but for some reason she hadn't been able to tell him. The worrywart part of her mind, which, unfortunately for her, was the majority, listed at least twenty possible ways the situation could go wrong.

He could laugh at her, it could all be a prank, or any of all the other fears that chased her relentlessly, day after day.

He didn't laugh at her. It wasn't a prank. Instead, he pulled her close, as if he never wanted to let her go, and whispered in her ear how beautiful and amazing she was.

It was cheesy, and she shouldn't have enjoyed it, but she did.

So, standing there, behind the Demeter cabin just as stars were starting to sprinkle across the sky, Katie's anxiety didn't attack her like a torrential rainstorm at the thought of people knowing about her and Travis. Instead, it came like a light drizzle, noticeable, but not insufferable.

The drizzle almost completely stopped when Travis pulled her into a tight hug, as if knowing exactly what she was feeling, but it didn't go away. Katie wasn't sure if it could ever go away.

A slight nod of her head was all it took for Travis to beam at her with his amazing smile. His eyes brightened, his cheeks pinked slightly, and his eyebrows quirked up, making him look like a five year old who just got a lollipop. Katie wouldn't trade it for the world.

Correction, she wouldn't trade him for the world.

When she looked up again, the wide smile had been replaced by a devilish smirk, that months ago, would have made Kate wince away from him and rush to protect her cabin from the Stolls' tricks. Now, as much as she hated to admit it, it was endearing to her.

"Why are you smirking like that, Stoll?"

"Well, I was just thinking-"

"Then don't."

He placed a hand on his chest in mock offense and scoffed at her, "I like to think my brain is one of my top-five best qualities, Katie-kat. I mean, how else would I have come up with my ingenious plan to woo you?"

"Don't call me that," Katie grumbled, but it was obvious her heart wasn't in it as she reminisced the day when she had actually agreed to go out with him.

It hadn't even been that different of a day, Travis constantly showering her with stupid pickup lines, and her brushing them off as simply ways to get under her skin.

But then he'd pulled her aside, out of the public eye where they had to play everything up for the constant crowd of demigods, and had an extremely serious expression on his face when he'd said, "I'll be yours forever. Just tell me when to start."

That was the moment that she had started to even consider that maybe his pickup lines weren't just a joke, and that some of them were sincere, no matter how cheesy they often were.

She hadn't even officially said yes, just kissed him lightly on the cheek before walking away to contemplate her life choices. They had both mutually decided that they didn't want people to know, just yet, so they had started meeting behind each other's cabins, alternating night after night, to go on dates and just be in each other's presence without having to argue for a crowd.

A delicate sigh escaped her lips, and Travis glanced at her, one eyebrow raised in question, before seeming to understand, and hugging her even more tightly. This time, however, it wasn't a hug of comfort, but one of remembering. They were both remembering that fateful day that had lined everything up so perfectly for them both.

"Would you like to know what your genius was thinking of Katie-kat?"

This time she didn't even try to contradict her about her nickname, and simply blushed at how he had said 'your genius' without a second thought.

"Almost never, Stoll. But I'll make an exception this time."

"Alright, so my idea was-"

But Katie didn't hear the rest of his sentence, or anything else he said, for that matter, because the world suddenly started to spin around her, before going completely black.

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uhhh so I don't like that a ton.....

part two coming...relatively soon but I just spent seven hours taking notes and studying for a test I have so there's not much I have the brain power to do right now other than lie around

the next one might not be part two, because I've had an idea gnawing at my brain for foreverrrrr and I want to write it before I lose motivation but idk

bye!

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