I was inspired to write another chapter after going through this story's traffic stats. After viewing the large amount of people who read the story over the years, I just sort of got into the mood of writing again. (Yes, I know, I'm a freak, please don't judge.) Maybe the fact that the next Percy Jackson movie is coming out played a part in my sudden mood to write.

Oh, and we have a new character that I chose from the previous contest selections. Everyone, please congratulate Annabeth-Kahlan-Alanna-Cara, for her lovely character.

Honorable mention (that I might still use, just because I can):

Makana345786

Freshberry4ever

And, I would also like to mention that I used part of Sportygirl247's character description. Or at least the catchphrase. I hope that's okay, Sportygirl! :)

She's Got Love Like Woe

Nico scowled. He had arrived at Camp Half-Blood around noon, figuring that if everyone was busy eating, no one would bother to disturb him. Then, he would be able to sneak into his cabin and (hopefully) avoid everyone's attention for the next few hours. Maybe he'd get lucky, and no one would realize he was there until the next few days. Shouldn't be too hard, as long as he stayed in his cabin.

Though, his calculations didn't exactly figure in some random boy, sleeping at the base of his cabin's door.

"Dude." Nico nudged, (not kicked!) the boy with his shoe. "Dude, wake up. Creeper stalker boy. You're sleeping in front of my cabin."

Creepy stalker boy, as Nico had christened (well, he was in front of his cabin), simply snored.

Fine.

Nico could deal with creepy stalkers.

He smirked.

"Don't say I didn't warn you."

"OW!" The boy rolled on the ground, while Nico stood smirking, holding his cabin door open. "Hey, Emo-kid! Not cool! Let a guy nap, all right?!"

Nico shrugged. "Your fault. You were in the way. Next time, choose someone else's cabin to sleep in front of. Not mine."

"Excuse me? No one owns that cabin. The only son of Hades hasn't been around in months, so it is a perfectly reasonable place to take a nap. Do some research the next time you harass an innocent."

"The only son of Hades hasn't been around in months, huh?"

"Yeah. So you couldn't actually claim that cabin as yours anyway." The boy, now newly dubbed as annoying short freak, compliments of Nico, replied.

"Right. Except that I actually am the son of Hades."

The annoying short freak sighed. "Get real. Do you realize how utterly idiotic that sounds? Please. If you really the son of Hades, I swear on the River Styx that I'll do anything you want me to do."

The sky rumbled.

"All right. I like this bet." Nico rolled his eyes, smirking. "I guess I'll just prove it to you." Then, he furrowed his brow, closing his eyes. He could feel the tiny skeletons underneath the earth, almost wiggling toward his power and ability to make them move again.

The boy laughed. "Dude, you look really dumb. Are you trying to achieve a new level of stupid?"

Nico cracked one eye open. "Really?" He asked smugly. "Because I think you're the one who looks stupid. After all, I'm not the one with a skeletal tarantula on my back."

The boy's scream echoed throughout camp.

"Ugh, I hate taxis." Percy grumbled as he walked through Camp Half-Blood's entrance. "Especially their stupid advertisements promoting stupid vacations for stupid romantic couples. And I hate stupid relationship counselors who claim that they can solve any problem, and then proceed to call the loony bins after I tell them what's wrong. They're so stupid."

Percy was having a bad day.

"Wow, your grammar is horrible."

And it was about to get a whole lot worse.

"What do you want, Clarisse?" Percy groaned.

"For you to go die."

"That's real creative."

"Your face is real creative. Who arranged it, a three-year-old?"

"..."

"Why are you here?" Clarisse demanded. "Just leave her alone."

Percy immediately perked up. "Annabeth's here?"

"No, your sister is."

"...I don't have a sister."

"Hey, idiot, your idiot face is on. The one that screams to the world, 'I am an idiot. Please toss me in a meat-flavored sack and feed me to Artemis's wolves.' No shit. Of course Annabeth."

"Clarisse, I am exhausted, and I want to sleep. If you feel like insulting someone, please look in a mirror and then say your insulting things to what you see. I guarantee that whatever dumb thing you say to the reflection, it will be true."

Clarisse growled. "Do you want to die?"

"No, I'm going to go sleep." And with that, Percy dragged himself through camp until collapsing on his bed. Sigh. It was good to be home.

A little while ago

"Hey, Thalia?"

"Yes, Annabeth?"

"Do you want to go to Camp Half-Blood with me? Clarisse said that she was heading back there, and Chris said that both Connor and Pollux are there too."

"Annabeth?"

"Yes, Thalia?"

A sigh. "Do you think that this is the right thing to do?"

"What do you mean?"

"Making Nico and Percy jealous. What if that just drives them away?"

"Thalia," Annabeth said gently, "I fought with Percy before the war, during the war, and after it. I wouldn't jeopardize all of that just to get back at him. I honestly think that this will work, and that it will be okay. And I'm positive that I'll still fight with him years later."

"Well, it's great that you've got it all figured out, but what about Nico?"

"What about him?"

"I really, really like him, Annabeth."

Annabeth smiled. "He might be infamous for holding grudges, but I'm sure that he loves you. Who knows? He might be at camp pining for you right now."

"Quit smiling. I can hear it in your voice."

"Right, right. But seriously, you have nothing to worry about. If you see him, it'll probably be a little awkward, but you guys'll probably be holding hands and arguing in no time."

"But you know about his grudges."

"And both you and I know about how he feels about. Just because you guys had a fight doesn't mean everything's changed; all it means is that you hit a speed bump in the road of life. When you get back together, you'll be closer than ever, because you guys will understand more about each other."

There was a slight pause. "Man, you sound like one of those sappy romance books."

Annabeth laughed. "What can I say? Would you believe me if I said Percy was a fan?"

"Only if it's true. It'll be more blackmail material for me." Thalia smirked.

"You're terrible."

"Thank you. And Annabeth?"

"Yes?"

"This conversation never happened. I'll meet you at the bus station in an hour. That's enough time for you to pack your girly things, right?"

"Sure. Just like an hour's enough time for you to pack some condoms for Nico."

Thalia hung up the phone.

Lalalalalala! Wasn't that just beautiful? I'm actually really, really happy at the way this chapter turned out. Oh, by the way, as for the new guy Nico met, that's one of the new characters. I apologize that I haven't actually released his name yet, but that will all change soon. ")

I kind of have a question for you guys. Do you think my writing style's changed? I haven't written in a long time, but I've been reading tons of other fanfictions, so I'm not sure if that's affected the way I write. Just curious.

And one more thing: For my ever loyal and amazing readers, I would love for you guys to help me come up with a new title for this story. I changed the summary, but I REALLY want to change the title. So PLEASE give me a few title ideas in your reviews. If you guys could do that, that'd be awesome.

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Signing off!

Luna Rivera528