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I was brought out of my thoughts by Grover mentioning my name.

“And this is Isabelle Olympus, she’s a helper here at camp.” Helper? Did he just call me a helper? I am much more important than a helper! I understand that it’s hard to explain to someone what my role was here at camp without telling them outright that I was a goddess here to look out for each and every demigod, but still my ego was hit by the demotion. I should at least be called a camp leader or director or something like that. I would have to have words with Grover later.

“Hello.” Percy said quietly whilst smiling nervously, but I couldn’t say that I blamed him for being a bit uneasy, he had just defeated a mythical creature that he didn’t even know existed and now everyone around him was acting as though this was a normal everyday occurrence.

“Hi Percy, you can call me Izzy, everyone does. I’m here for all of the campers so if you have any problems you can always come to me.” I smiled at him, whilst shaking his hand, hoping to help him relax.

“Yes, yes, we get it, he’s the new kid, but can we skip past the ‘how do you dos’ and all the other pleasantries that etiquette dictates we should say and get back to the real matter at hand which is this game of pinochle? So Izzy are you betting or not?” Dionysus jumped in, obviously annoyed that Percy was stealing everyone’s attention away from his favourite game. As far as Dionysus was concerned there was nothing special about this kid, he was just another new camper and he had seen far too many of them arrive to be interested in Percy. He didn’t believe that Percy was going to be anything special. When he heard of Chiron’s plan to post himself in Percy’s school Dionysus thought he was mad and I quote ‘it’s a whole lot of fuss over nothing. He’ll turn out to be just like any other kids in this dump and then you’ll all be wondering what you were so excited about’. Well we’ll soon see which one of us was right, but I kind of hoped for Percy’s sake that Dionysus was right. If Chiron and I were right, then Percy’s life was going to get a hell of a lot harder.

I was a little surprised when I looked back down at the game to see how far it had progressed without me paying attention. I must have been daydreaming and thinking for a lot longer than I had originally thought. I quickly made my bet so as not to anger Dionysus any more but my mind wasn’t really on the game. Instead it was spinning around in circles trying to predict what Percy’s arrival here at camp was going to mean for everybody and in particular what it was going to mean for the situation in Olympus.

I was vaguely aware that Chiron was trying to gently break the existence of gods to Percy but I wasn’t completely focused on them. The questions in my mind wouldn’t stop whirling around. What was going to happen now that Percy was here at camp? Who would be his father? Was he the child from the prophecy?

“Wait, you’re telling me that there’s such thing as God?” Percy asked in disbelief.

“Not God.” I interrupted to correct him. “But gods. Not with a capital g.”

“You mean like Zeus, Hera, Apollo? Those gods?” Percy asked. But before he had even finished the sentence the ground was shaking and thunder clapped above our heads.

“Young man, I would be less casual about throwing those names around if I were you.” Dionysus growled angrily. However, I don’t think that he was mad at Percy for saying the names of some of the Olympian gods, I think that he was mad that Percy didn’t mention his name.

“But they’re just stories. They’re myths that people used to explain things before science. They don’t exist. They’re not real.” Percy explained.

“Uh oh.” I muttered quietly under my breath but from the panicked look that Percy sent in my direction he had heard me. “Bad choice of words, kid.” I just knew that this would set Dionysus off. As much as I loved my dad, he was predictable. He hated that the human race had unshakable faith in its modern science. He had been around long enough to know that whenever the bright thinkers of the time believed that they completely understood something, they usually were missing some important fact that would be discovered in a few years and their whole point of view would shift. I had heard the lecture that he was about to spout so many times, the first time being when I gave an off-handed comment about how clever IPods were. He then launched into how in hundreds of years from now it will look ‘primitive’.

“Science!” He scoffed. “And tell me Perseus Jackson, what will people think of your precious science in two thousand years from now? They’ll call it primitive mumbo jumbo, that’s what! Oh I love humans, they have absolutely no sense of perspective!”

Dionysus took a pause to get his breath back and I could see that he was about to launch into another long rant about the arrogance and short-sightedness of the human race so I decided to jump in at this point and save Percy from having to endure another ten minutes of his lecturing.

“The thing is Percy, whether you choose to believe in the gods or not, they exist. And they’re going to be a very big part of your life from now on.” I stated truthfully, but I could see that Percy was still unconvinced.

“I’m sorry but I don’t believe in gods.” Percy said firmly and I had to respect his resolve and assurance in his beliefs even if he was dismissing my very existence.

“Well you’d better start believing in them.” Dionysus muttered darkly, “Before one of them incinerates you.” I gave him a stern look for that comment, telling him to back off a bit. I mean the poor kid had just lost his mother, he didn’t need Dionysus threatening to kill him on top of that.

“Wait. You’re a god?!” Percy asked clearly shocked, and I couldn’t blame him. Dionysus didn’t exactly act in the way you would expect a Greek god to act, he was much more childish and moody but then again who am I to talk, I’m probably the most ungodly goddess there ever was!

“Well, duh. I’m Dionysus, you’ve probably heard of me.” Dionysus said arrogantly. Percy seemed to have lost his voice due to this revelation and merely nodded silently with wide eyes. “And whilst we are revealing the deities in the room, you might as well know that Izzy is a goddess too.” This caused Percy’s wide eyes to swing around to me. The poor kid looked like he was going into shock.

“You won’t have heard of me as I’m relatively new to the whole goddess thing. I’m only eighteen, unlike that fossil over there who is closer to eighteen hundred.” I joked lightly whilst pointing in Dionysus’ direction. I was hoping to break the tension and make Percy feel more at ease as he was clearly uncomfortable with the new-found information. And I think it worked as I saw a small smile flicker onto his face. “I’m the goddess of heroes and training so when I said I’m here for all the campers, I really meant it. It’s my job to look out for you lot, so if you ever need me, just give me a call.” I added on seriously, wanting Percy to know that he could come to me if he ever needed help and I had a feeling that he was a demigod who was probably going to need a lot of my help.

“I believe I win.” Dionysus said enthusiastically as he laid down his cards on the table. I had almost forgotten that I was still playing the game, Percy had once again stolen my attention, but when I looked down at the table, I couldn’t help but smile to myself.

“Um I don’t think so.” I corrected him whilst laying down my own hand which comfortably beat his, enjoying the disgruntled look that passed across his face. “Sorry dad, but I believe I win this round.” I said whilst chuckling quietly.

“Dad?” Percy said, once again confused. I felt sorry for him, ever since he had met us we had probably only given him more questions rather than giving him any answers.

“Yeah, I’m a . . . complicated child. With an even more complicated family. To put it simply I’m the child of every one of the Olympian gods. Don’t ask me how as I don’t really know the details, all I know is that it involved magic.” I tried to explain but I could tell from the look on his face that he was still confused.

“I’m tired. I’m going to take a nap before the sing-along tonight. But first Grover, come with me, we need to talk about your less-than-perfect performance last night.” Dionysus said sternly. I wished that there was something I could do to help Grover, he was such a nice satyr, but he had messed up twice now and the council weren’t going to be kind on him. “Jackson, you’re in cabin eleven and mind your manners.” After that Dionysus left the room with Grover trailing after him.

“Annabeth, why don’t you show Percy to his cabin?” Chiron suggested. “Annabeth here nursed you back to health, Percy.” Percy smiled and waved but instead of getting a similar greeting in reply, Annabeth just said

“You drool when you sleep.” I had to try and contain my laughter when she said that, it was such an Annabeth thing to do. It was clear from her expression that the fact that he had defeated the minotaur meant nothing to her, she was still indignant that she had had to wipe the drool off of his face earlier and feed him whilst he was unconscious. But then there was also the possibility that she was thinking. And that was dangerous. When Annabeth thinks about a puzzle, she almost always solves it, and as we don’t know how much of mine and Chiron’s conversation she had overheard, her thinking was a very worrying thing.

Once the two of them had left the cabin I turned to Chiron not really sure what to say, and by the look on his face, he wasn’t sure what to say either. It was possible that the most important demigod in the last century, perhaps even the last millennia, had just walked out of this cabin, but then again it was also possible that he was just a normal demigod. Maybe Dionysus was right, maybe Percy was just like every other kid here. But then he defeated the Minotaur all by himself with no training whatsoever. Surely that means he’s special, right? No average demigod could do that. I’ve been training campers for years to get to the level of skill that Percy showed last night. And it wasn’t just his skill that impressed me, it was his instincts. His natural ability to know what he had to do in a fight was unlike any I had ever seen in an untrained demigod before. I couldn’t wait to get him into the arena and find out what he could really do.

“Well, we can’t just sit around here all day.” Chiron said whilst standing up out of his wheelchair and stretching out his real legs. “We’ve both got jobs to do. This camp may be able to run without one of us but we can’t both take time off, otherwise Dionysus would be in charge and who knows what would happen then.” Chiron chuckled.

I hated to admit that Chiron was right. As much as I would like to spend my time obsessing about Percy Jackson and what his arrival meant for camp, I just couldn’t spare the time. There were other demigods here who needed my attention. With a sigh I heaved myself out of my chair and made my way back to my cabin to grab my schedule for the day before setting off to work.

When I opened the door to my cabin, I was surprised to find Alex lying stretched out across my sofa, with his hands behind his head, starring at the ceiling and I couldn’t stop the smile from working its way onto my face at the sight of him.

“It’s a sad state of affairs when a boyfriend has to break into his girl’s house in order to see her for the first time in two weeks.” Alex said, whilst still starring at the ceiling. Immediately my good mood that had appeared when I saw him disappeared. I know it was my fault that we hadn’t seen each other lately and I felt really guilty about that. It was just that I seemed to have no free time anymore, I was always doing something. If I wasn’t working with the kids here at camp, I was talking to Chiron about the campers or I was thinking about Percy and the whole master bolt disaster. I seemed to have no time left to see Alex.

“I’m so so sorry. I know that this is entirely my fault. I’ve just been so busy lately and when I get back here all I can think about is my bed and how much I want to sleep and I feel bad that I never get to see you so I promise myself that I’ll Iris message you later on but then I end up falling asleep on the sofa and I never get around to calling you which only makes me feel worse.” I babble on, finding it hard to stop myself once I’ve gotten going. During my long and seemingly endless sentence I had moved to join Alex on the sofa, sitting by his feet. “I know that I haven’t been a very good girlfriend recently as we haven’t even talked to each other in ages let alone actually seeing each other. I understand that you’re probably really mad at me and I take full responsibility for that as I should have made more of an effort-”

I was cut off mid-sentence by Alex’s hand covering my mouth.

“Will you stop talking for one second?” He chuckled, not removing his hand from my lips. The fact that he was smiling really confused me. Wasn’t he angry at me? “Calm down. Relax. It’s fine. I understand that you have obligations here at camp and I’m not mad at you. How could I be? You’re a brilliant goddess who is dedicated to her role and to those in her care. I admire that.” He said removing his hand from my mouth and resting his forehead against mine. My eyes fluttered shut as I breathed in his familiar scent and I couldn’t stop myself from falling even more in love with him.

“Really?” I asked quietly under my breath, too scared of his answer to say it any louder. He couldn’t mean what he was saying, could he?  It had to be some kind of act, right? They just don’t make guys as perfect as him, it must be an act. I knew that it was because of Connor that these thoughts were running through my head. He had filled me with so many insecurities so that I just didn’t see myself as good enough for a great guy like Alex, therefore he couldn’t be as great as he was pretending to be. But deep down I knew that Alex wasn’t like Connor. He really meant what he was saying. He wasn’t the type of guy to mess around with a girl’s heart. I knew that he really loved me. And because of that, I really loved him too.

“Really.” Alex confirmed, pressing his lips lightly onto mine. The kiss was short and sweet but it was filled with emotion. When Alex pulled away, he had a mischievous glint in his eyes, that had me immediately suspicious. “I’m not going to lie and say that I’m not a little bit jealous of your bed seeing as how it’s the only thing that you can think of when you get home. But I think I can live with that as long as it’s only the bed that I have for competition.” He joked playfully.

“There’s no competition.” I said whilst looking him straight in the eyes, loving the soft smile that he wore as he looked down at me. “The bed will win every time.” I grinned as I added that on the end.

“Oh I’m going to make you regret that.” Alex said with an evil smirk stretching across his face. Before I even had time to react Alex had lunged at me and tackled me so that he was straddling me on the sofa, and he began tickling me. I could barely breathe, I was laughing so much.

“Stop! No! Alex, stop it!” I pleaded between my laughter.

“Tell me you love me more than your bed.” Alex demanded, grinning.

“Never! I shall never betray my bed like that!” I shouted defiantly.

“Fine, have it your way. I can do this all day.” Alex laughed.

“Ok, ok! I love you more than my bed. Are you happy now?” I said giving in.

“Yes. Very.” Alex grinned, leaning down to peck my lips once more. “So what are we doing today?” He asked getting off of me and sitting on the sofa again, like a normal person.  I instantly lost my good mood, I had to work, I would have to reject him again.

“Alex, I’m really sorry but I’m working today. I can meet you later on, but I can’t leave now, I said that I’d help Chiron.” I muttered, feeling guilty. I really was the world’s worst girlfriend, Alex deserved so much better.

“Honey, I know. I meant what are we doing at camp today?” Alex chuckled, whilst looking at me as though that was the most obvious thing in the world.

“You don’t have to spend your day working, you should be off relaxing and doing what you want.” I said feeling bad that I was going to be ruining his day. I had to try really hard to ignore the voice in my head that was telling me to just shut up, so that I could spend more time in his company, but that wouldn’t be fair. This was my job not his, he didn’t have to do this.

“But I want to. I have the whole of eternity to relax. I want to spend the day with my girlfriend. And to be honest the kids here are pretty great too.” Alex said smiling and I couldn’t stop myself from kissing him, he was so sweet.

“So it looks like you’re sticking with me today.”