Ok, my friend HazelBiancaHazel, created a contest to make a short story where a PJO character falls in love with a character based on yourself. So here's my entry!

Time: After The Lost Hero, right before Mark of Athena

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Kat's POV

This is what I get for leaving a trip wire there.

I was going to play a revenge prank on the Stolls. After exploding my breakfast on my 2nd day of camp I think I have an excuse. It was all set up in the armory, for when they went to get their stuff for capture the flag. Then I made the numbskull move of accidentally tripping it, while trying to get MY stuff for capture the flag. And now I am hanging upside down like a bag of meat, my dark chocolate brown hair in my face so I can't see anything. Good thing I took the net out of the design.

"STOLLS IM GONNA KILL YOU!!" I screamed to myself, thrashing about. My grey-blue eyes were wide with craziness and it probably looked like I was having a convulsion. I still hadn't been claimed by my parent and I didn't have any skills that could help me. I had a pocket knife in my boot, but if I took it out, with my luck I would drop it on my face.

"What the heck are you dangling from the ceiling?" A male voice asked. I quickly swiped my bangs out of the way. A Latino guy with brown eyes and curly black hair stood in front of me. Gods he is hot. I mentally smacked myself.

"I tried a revenge prank and I'm now tied up," I sighed, wriggling around. Finally my boot (which was a little big) gave out and I fell to the floor, face first. I groaned and spat out some blood. My favorite boot was now dangling from the ceiling. Better than me.

"You ok?" The guy asked me. I nodded, silently cursing that my face probably looked like crud.

"What's your name?" I asked. He studied me. Not in a creepy way but just curious.

"Leo Valdez. But my friends call me Mcshizzle," he said with a goofy demeanor that made me crack up.

"I'm Kat. Just Kat," I said. He smirked.

"We'll just Kat, I'm guessing you want to uh, clean up?" He said eyeing my scratches and bloody face from falling. I nodded and walked out of the room, silently hoping I could talk to him again.

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I finally was able to get a clean change of clothes and fix my cuts. When I got back I realized that with the combined time of being tied up and fixing myself, I had missed capture the flag. I cursed myself for being clumsy and hoped there was time to join the camp fire. I sat down with the Hermes cabin since I was unclaimed and breathed a sigh of relief. I wasn't late.

"Hey Kitty Kat," my friend Travis called. He called me that ever since I told him my name was Kat.

"Hey Travis," I say. I'm trying not to punch him for the exploding my breakfast debocial. It is becoming increasingly harder. He faked being hurt.

"I'm Connor not Travis," Travis said. I rolled my eyes.

"No. Connor is over there flirting with some Aphrodite girls. And your dating Katie," I stated. Travis laughed.

"Your too smart for me kitty," he said. I gritted my teeth and sat down.

The campfire was as it usually was. We did the sing along and this time I didn't burn my marshmallow into carbon. I even caught Leo's eye. He winked and gave me a finger gun.

Afterwards I sighed. Another night I wasn't claimed. My life sucks.

"Kat!' I heard a voice call. I turned around and saw Leo jogging up to me.

"Hey," I said, a bit of disappointment in my voice.

"What your not happy to see me?" He asked. I rolled my eyes. As you can see I tend to do that a lot.

"Nah, I'm not," I joked. He clutched his heart.

"You just killed me." I laughed really loud. "I like it when you laugh."

"Y-you do?" I stuttered. Way to go Kat, way to go. I could tell I was blushing. And soon he was slightly blushing too.

"Yah I guess." I don't know what compelled me to do it. I barely know the guy after all. But I reached up and pecked his cheek gently. He looked like he was gonna pass out.

"Thanks for that," he muttered. I blushed a violent shade of red. He looked scared suddenly and I cursed myself.

"What? I'm sorry," I said quietly. He shook his head and pointed. I suddenly noticed I was swathed in a bronzish colored light. above my head was a glowing caceadus. And I knew what that meant. Chiron had taken notice by now.

"All hail Katherine McCassia, daughter of Hermes."

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The next morning I was awoken by the most unpleasant thing ever. The Stolls decided to pull the classic, whipcream-in-the-palm-and-a-feather prank. Only it had food coloring in it. So now my face was stained green. I was very tempted to strangle them but the breakfast conch blew. Afterwards I headed to cabin 9. I wanted to see Leo. If anyone could make me feel better I knew it would be him. I knocked on the door of Cabin Nine. His sister, (I think her name is Nyssa) opened the door.

"Leo's at Bunker Nine," she replied apon seeing me. Hr eyes widened when she saw my face (which was still green) She quickly gave me directions and closed the door. I sighed loudly and trudged on.

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I approached a huge limestone cliff. I quickly checked through my memory. Had Nyssa give me the wrong directions? I felt stupid knocking on a cliff but I did it anyway. Not the weirdest thing I've done. To my surprise, it opened. Leo's head popped out.

"Oh hey Kat!" He said surprised to see me. He open the cliff door move allowing me to come inside. I marveled at the size of the place.

"Wow. You really take the phrase 'go big or go home to a new level' don't you?" I said in amazement. He nodded. I finally noticed the huge Celestial bronze ship. "What the heck is that?" I asked.

"Kat, may I present the awesome, ARGO II!" Leo said. I could tell he was proud of it.

"And you built it?!" I asked in disbelief. He nodded. He began finishing up some ballista.

"A few more things and it'll be finished," he stated. I was at a loss for words. Finally my vocal chords started working again,

"What are you gonna do with it?" I asked. Leo's face turned ashen.

"Before I tell you," he started. That was never good. "I wanted to say last night but I didn't get a chance. You know 'Oh my gods she's claimed' ordeal."

"Just spit it out Valdes." He grinned.

"I like you Kat." My heart leapt out of my chest, did a cartwheel, then 2 flips. Best. Day. Ever.

"I like you too," I choked out. He smiled and to my surprise, gave me a hug. I do not usually like people touching me, but let it slide. When he pulled away, he looked like he was gonna cry, which for him was extremely weird. "What's wrong?" I asked. He looked sadly down.

"I have to go on a quest. That's what the Argo II is for. And I might not return. We have to fight Geae and pick up the other 7 of the prophecy," he said sadly. I understood. Chiron had explained the prophecy to me in my first day. Finally I understood what he meant completely.

And my heart fell 3 stories.

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Yah I know, it's so bad that I hit my characters like that. I might do a sequel, just depends.