"why are you acting this way?" walker shouted at leah. "everything is changing so quickly, and i know you're upset with me, but our friend is in trouble, and i really need my best friend to on my side during all of this, okay?"

"i'm on your side, seaweed brain! i just can't believe you would-" leah stopped short, her breath catching in her throat. 

"wha-" walker turned around slowly and his breath hitched. there, on the forest floor a mile away from the cabins, was kaitlyn, blood seeping through her white dress from a wound in her stomach. she held it with shaky hands and eyes squeezed shut, gasping for air.  he rushed to her side. 

"what happened? who did this to you?" he cupped her cheek in his hand briefly, feeling the temperature of her skin. burning hot. he moved two fingers down to the base of her neck to check her pulse. 

"that tickles." she whispered, lips barely moving, trying to keep a laugh from escaping. of course, if there's one person who can't hold in a laugh during a serious situation, it's walker. a snort escaped from his nose as a smile grew on kaitlyn's face. a second passed. they both started howling with laughter.

"and cut!" a director said, rubbing his temples. "that's the seventh take."

"sorry." kaitlyn said quietly, getting up from the ground and fighting a smile as walker stifled another snort. "walker, kaitlyn, i need you to be serious. this scene wasn't in the books. we need to show the audience that it's necessary and not just a filler scene. this scene shows silena in a vulnerable position and will make her loss in the fifth book hit harder as we see percy and annabeth's bond with her. it's the first time percy calls annabeth his best friend."

"awww." said kaitlyn. the director ignored her.

"and walker, the line is 'grover is in trouble' not 'our friend is in trouble'. we'll try again tomorrow. kaitlyn, you're done, leah and walker, we need you by the lake. everybody take ten."

as walker and kaitlyn made their way back to the trailer, shoving each other and giggling, an unusually annoyed leah stormed past them, shooting a glare in their direction. kaitlyn felt a pang of guilt. leah had been putting in a hundred percent all day, and she and walker couldn't stay serious for more than five minutes.

"i do feel bad." walker said, voicing her thoughts. "i won't laugh next time. i'll pretend you're actually injured. the fake blood is pretty convincing."

"it's my fault for making you laugh." kaitlyn apologized. "and for getting up after every take. maybe if i'd stayed on the ground, it'd make it easier to believe that i'm hurt."

"not your fault." walker shook his head, holding the door to his trailer open for her as she walked through and closing it behind them. "i'll listen to a lot of sad music before we film again tomorrow. i think i can do it if i just focus." he kissed her forehead. "but in a scene with you, it's pretty hard."

"yeah, because all of this makeup making me all sweaty and pale and bloody is sooooo cute."

"oh, that's makeup? i thought that was your natural skin tone." he teased. she shoved his shoulder. "don't even. i'm a beautiful bronzed goddess."

"none of those words even remotely describe you." walker deadpanned. she stuck her tongue out at him before pulling out her phone. she'd been on it all day, walker noticed. more than usual. and she'd seemed distracted all week - filming today was the first time she'd seemed normal in a while.

"everything okay?" he asked. 

"yup." she looked up and flashed a smile before plopping down in a beanbag chair, fingers moving rapidly across the screen.

"wanna hang out later?" he tried.

"no, sorry. i- i have an appointment." she grabbed a makeup wipe and started taking off the makeup with one hand while texting with the other. "we can get breakfast before filming tomorrow?"

"sounds good." he said, looking at her, taking in her features as he often did. a faint smile was etched into her face. there was a fading scar on her chin from tanner accidentally smacking her in the face with a nerf gun last week, and there were still leaves in her hair from the forest floor.

he suddenly remembered something from his birthday last year. he'd been having a party at his house. it was after midnight, with only his family was left downstairs, and kaitlyn had taken him upstairs to give him his present. she had been wearing a short, flowy white dress much like the one she was wearing for filming today, and a little grey cardigan hung loose around her shoulders. there were leaves in her hair from having just been in the backyard. she sat on his bed, holding a gift bag in her hands. they were exhausted, but happy.

he couldn't remember what the gift was - only that it'd been one of his favorite gifts that year - but he remembered what happened after he'd gotten it. after opening it, he fell silent, just standing across from her and admiring her, too tired to pull his eyes away like he usually did.

"it doesn't really-" she cleared her throat. "the gift is kind of lame for how much you mean to me." 

something about those words, simple as they were, made walker's heart catch in his throat. he held his arms out, and she stood up on her tiptoes and wrapped hers around his shoulders. he hugged her tightly, and they probably stood there for at least five minutes, both too comfortable and happy to let go. he remembered how fast his heart was beating in that moment, and then he realized - that right there, that was the moment he'd truly fallen for her.

"stop staring, creep." kaitlyn joked, pulling him out of his daydreams. he grinned at her. "hey, remember last year when-"

"sorry, i have to go." she sprang up from the chair, interrupting his sentence. she gave him a quick peck and tapped her phone. "appointment time. see you tomorrow!" she called.

"oh- okay!" he said, looking back at her through the doorway as she walked towards the parking lot. she was never on time for appointments, was never even keeping track of time when she and walker were together. cutting him off midsentence to go somewhere was incredibly out of the ordinary.

something was up with her, and he was going to find out what it was.

kaitlynbright welcome to the site of my (silena's) almost-death! ⚡️🐂🔱
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welcome to set! ⚡️🔱 

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user5 DID ANYONE SEE THE ORIGINAL CAPTION?? SILENA ALMOST DIES???? 
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leahsavajeffries i'm done being mad at u bc this forest pic is pretty
⮑ kaitlynbright YAY I'M SORRY LEAH WE'LL LOCK IN TMR

iamcharliebushnell kaitlyn fix the caption this is not ur spam..
⮑ kaitlynbright oopsie i tom hollanded 🤷‍♀️

walkerscobell help the caption is so me
⮑ kaitlynbright pov u when u tagged aryan in five percy jackson tiktoks saying "R we gonna film this scene" before rick released the cast and had to delete them all
⮑ aryansimhadri HELP I FORGOT ABOUT THAT
⮑ user1 I ACTUALLY REMEMBER SEEING THOSE

walkerscobell flip the camera it'll be way prettier 😉
⮑ kaitlynbright stop rizzing me up in my comments

user8 nb actually cares

dior.n.goodjohn KAITLYN THE CAPTION
⮑ kaitlynbright lowk thought that scene was in the books and it wouldn't be a spoiler
⮑ dior.n.goodjohn DELETE UR REPLY TOO OMFG

iamcharliebushnell u are stupid
⮑ kaitlynbright lies

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finally updated who cheered!!!!!!

last happy ish chapter for a min! angst on the way YAY!
what is kaitlyn hiding?? 🤨🤫🧏‍♀️

also walker's memory of him and kaitlyn is based on a dream i had last night i'm so creative