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After Percy got Klaus invited into Camp Half-Blood, she gave them a tour of the area.

She pointed out where the cabins were, the Big House, and the amphitheater. They walked by the climbing wall.

The three beings paused their steps as they watched demigods climb the tall climbing wall. As the skilled beings rushed to the top, lava fell from above them.

The hybrid watched in utter shock. "Is that-" He struggled to complete his sentence, so he decided to simply not finish it. "Bloody hell."

She shrugged. "That's just the climbing wall."

His eyebrows furrowed in confusion. "...With lava?"

"Yeah," Percy shrugged again. "Have you never seen a climbing rock wall with lava before?"

Klaus replied. "I guess I haven't."

Rosie looked at the lava with intriqué. "Looks fun."

Percy nodded and sent her a proud smile. "Heck yeah," she held out her hand towards the younger demigod.

Rosie high-fived her.

"Can I learn how to do that?" She pointed to the skilled demigods gracefully moving to the top.

"Yup."

The corners of her lips rose. "Cool."

Klaus was still amazed by the scene. "I'm curious as to what would happen if someone slipped?"

His question cut off as the group watched a demigod fall and get a bit burned by lava.

Medics from the Apollo cabin immediately rushed over to aid the camper.

"They get healed." Percy replied nonchalantly with a shrug.

The hybrid continued watching in awe. "And you've done this before?"

The raven haired beauty nodded. "Yeah. I barely made it to the top when I was new. But, eventually you learn how to climb to the best level without getting burned."

His eyes turned back to her. "You can do this without getting burned?" His words were soft as he regarded her adoringly.

She nodded. "Yeah." Gesturing to the climbing wall, she added, "It's actually kinda fun when you get the hang of it."

"Awesome," Rosie commented.

The trio began walking around the camp more. Percy held the hybrid's hand as they wandered around.

They walked past the amphitheater and arts and crafts station. As they continued farther, the trio arrived near the volleyball court.

A boy and a girl who looked to be about the same age as Rosie wandered over. The boy had messy blonde hair and brown eyes. The girl had thick black curly hair and olive skin. The girl was holding a volleyball.

The young girl smiled at Rosie. "Hi! I'm Clara and this is Marcus." She gestured to blond next to her, who smiled shyly. "We're gonna play volleyball, do you wanna join?"

Rosie's face lit up. She looked back at Percy for permission.

The sea green eyed girl sent her an encouraging smile. "Go have fun."

The brunette grinned and took a step towards the other two kids. Glancing back, she held out her fist toward the older demigod.

Percy laughed and gave her a fist bump. Rosie then held her fist out towards the hybrid. He gently tapped her fist with his own in response.

Cuties.

"I'll check on you later, okay?" Percy spoke to Rosie.

The brunette nodded her head excitedly, her grin not leaving her features, before she ran to the volleyball net with the other two kids.

The sea green eyed girl grinned as she watched Rosie. "She's so cute."

Klaus regarded the soft expression on Percy's face. "She is."

Her head turned back towards him.

She held out her hand to him with a cute smile. "Wanna continue exploring?"

The corners of his lips went up, as he placed his hand in hers. He'd go anywhere that she went.

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The pair continued wandering around, until the demigod spotted some of her friends talking in a group close by. Percy's face lit up and she glanced at the original beside her. "Are you ready to meet a few new people and see Thalia again?"

Klaus glanced at her friends, before bringing his gaze back to Percy. He smiled at her softly, "I'm ready, love."

The demigod looked at him happily. She bit her lip slightly as she thought of something. Her big sea green eyes looked at him with hope shining within them. "Can I introduce you as my boyfriend?"

Klaus was taken aback by the question, since he expected it to be obvious. "Do you not want them to know?"

She immediately shook her head and wrapped her arms around his neck. "No, I'd actually love to tell them. I just wanted to make sure that you were okay with it."

The hybrid's dimples appeared at the assurance. "I'm definitely okay with it, love."

A cute smile painted across her features. She leaned in and kissed his cheek happily. "They do know about you, or at least the girls do. We have a girls group chat, and I might have mentioned you a few times."

The corners of Klaus' lips rose. "You talked about me?"

She had a small tight lipped smile as a slight blush spread across her cheeks.

Her voice grew softer, "I might have mentioned you way before we even had our first kiss."

He chuckled softly. "What did you say about me, my love?"

Percy felt her heart flutter at the name. She playfully narrowed her eyes and looked away. "Just that I've been spending time with this really amazing guy who has a British accent."

Klaus struggled not to laugh again, as an amused smile appeared on his face. "I have a feeling you said more than that, my love."

She looked back into his blue eyes again. Percy shrugged slightly in an effort to escape the topic. "I might have told them about some of the cute things you do."

His teasing smirk grew even wider. "Like what exactly?"

"Later," Percy said with an adorable smile, in an attempt to change the topic.

Klaus' dimples remained on his cheeks.

She leaned forward and pecked his lips.

Pulling away, the raven haired beauty held out her hand again. Klaus intertwined their fingers.

Percy took a step towards her group of friends. "Besides, you already know Thalia, Hazel and Reyna."

The hybrid nodded as they approached the group. They hadn't noticed the demigod's presence as she crept up on them. Percy momentarily let go of the original's hand as she stood behind Leo, Piper, and Jason.

"Hi, guys," the sea green eyed girl spoke with a smile. The demigods spun around, their faces lighting up at the sight of her. Each of the demigods raced to hug Percy.

Piper, who was closest to the raven haired beauty reached her first, and gave her a big hug. The next moment more limbs wrapped around her and they tumbled to the ground. A pile of bodies laid on top of her, each attempting to hug their friend.

Leo, Jason, Piper, Hazel, Reyna, and Thalia were all sprawled out on the ground with her in a mess of bodies.

The raven haired beauty laughed. "Thanks for the welcome."

Piper responded, "We missed you."

Percy smiled, "Yeah, I missed you guys too."

No one made a move to get up off of the ground.

"Are we gonna stay here or?" The daughter of the sea trailed off in amusement.

"This is fun," Thalia commented.

The rest of the group laughed.

Percy glanced up at Klaus who was watching the group in amusement. "Well, this actually isn't a bad first impression for my boyfriend to have of all of you."

The demigods all flailed around in an attempt to get up, each knocking into each other in the process. Thalia was the first one to get up off the ground. "Boyfriend?" She spotted the hybrid. "Oh, so you and lover boy are official now."

Percy just smiled at the comment.

"Lover boy? How come I didn't hear about 'lover boy?'" Leo pouted.

Reyna replied while shrugging, "You're not in the girls' group chat."

"I wanna be in the girls' group chat. I wanna get the gossip." Leo continued.

Jason added, "Can I join the girls' group chat?" He was the only one remaining on the ground.

"No," Thalia replied to her sibling with a grin.

Percy stepped towards Jason and held out her hand to help him up. The raven haired beauty easily lifted him up off of the ground. "Hey, Jase."

He smiled and pulled her in for a hug. "Hi, Perce."

When the two pulled away from the hug, the son of Zeus wrapped his arm around her shoulders protectively.

He looked at Klaus. Before he could speak, Percy glanced up at him. "You don't have to act like a protective older brother right now."

Jason shook his head and looked at her with a baffled expression. "Uh, yeah I do. I am your older brother figure."

"I'm older than you," Percy pointed out.

He shook his head. "Doesn't matter." After a moment, he added, "I'm taller."

In truth, he was only a few inches taller than her.

"Tallness isn't age. Besides you're barely taller." Percy argued.

He was taken aback. "What? I'm way taller than you."

"Nu-uh," the daughter of the sea retorted professionally.

Jason did the same. "Yeah-huh."

The sea green eyed demigod shook her head slightly. "Ok my obvious tallness is not the point." She stepped away from him, making her way back to Klaus. She intertwined their hands and gave him a cute smile. The daughter of the sea introduced him, "This is my boyfriend." She used the hand that wasn't holding his to gesture to him.

Hazel waved at the hybrid with a welcoming smile. "Hi, Percy's boyfriend!"

The corners of his lips rose as he responded, "Hello, Hazel. It's nice to see you again." He looked at the other demigods. "And it's a pleasure to meet all of you. I'm Klaus."

"He talks so fancy." Leo commented. He turned his attention to the original. "Hey, can you teach me how to do the accent?"

Percy laughed softly while the hybrid was slightly taken aback by the question. "It's easy," the raven haired beauty replied in a bad British accent. "Pip pip cheerio. Biscuits and tea."

Klaus laughed and brought his gaze back to her. "I don't sound like that, love."

She playfully grinned at him. "Yeah, you do."

His dimples didn't leave his cheeks.

"Can you say Rippahhhh?" Percy asked with an adorable smile.

With his eyes full of amusement, Klaus spoke, "Rippah."

She immediately started giggling.

"Aw they're cute," Hazel commented, despite not knowing the significance of the word 'ripper.'

Reyna nodded in agreement.

Leo snapped a picture with a camera he made and stepped forward. "Hey, I'm Leo."

"And I'm Piper," Piper introduced herself.

Jason sent Klaus a smile, "I'm Jason."

"It's great to finally meet you," Piper added with a wide smile. "Percy talks about you all the time."

The raven haired beauty opened her mouth to defend herself. Klaus looked over at her with a smirk. "I didn't know you talked about me all the time, my love."

He said 'my love' again. Percy thought to herself happily.

Percy tried not to get distracted by his attractive smirk. "Psh, nah. What? That's crazy."

The hybrid's smirk widened farther. "You're a terrible liar, my love."

Ha! I'll show him my impressive skills.

The demigod pointed to something behind him. "Hey, look behind you! A distraction!"

Klaus turned his neck to look behind him. When he heard the last part of her statement, he brought his attention back to her with a teasing smile. "That was a nice try, love."

Grinning proudly, she replied, "Thank you!"

Jason looked at his watch. A smile spread on his features, "It's dinner time!"

Thalia's face lit up.

Food!

The group started to walk towards the Dining Pavillon.

Leo spoke, "Hey, what's that on your faces?"

The raven haired beauty raised a confused eyebrow and moved her hand across her face. "What do you mean?"

Klaus' eyes scanned over her face, until his eyes landed on the small faded pink hearts on her cheek.

He sighed slightly. "I believe he's talking about the pink hearts that you drew on our faces."

Percy's eyes widened and her jaw dropped slightly, as she struggled to stop herself from laughing. Her eyes locked with his.

With an amused grin, the raven haired beauty faced her friends. "Hey, you guys can go ahead. We'll catch up."

A chorus of byes ensued as they began to leave.

"I think the hearts are cute," Hazel commented with a cute smile.

Percy smiled at her, "Thank you, Hazel."

The other demigods walked back towards the dining pavilion.

The raven haired beauty bit her lip to hold back her laughter. Her eyes locked with his again, as she wrapped her arms around the back of his neck. "You okay, Nikkie?"

The hybrid sighed. "I would prefer that your friends' first impression of me didn't involve me having things drawn on my face."

Percy moved her hand to gently caress his cheek. "I'm sorry. I honestly forgot about that."

He raised an amused eyebrow. "It didn't jog your memory when you looked at my face?"

She shook her head. "I'm not good at paying attention to things." The daughter of the sea leaned forward to press a featherlight kiss on his nose. "Besides you didn't remember either."

He leaned his forehead against hers and spoke softly. "I know."

The original kissed her. She kissed back.

When the kiss ended, she added, "Maybe I should do whatever you want this time." She was referring to their conversation when she drew the hearts on his cheek in the apartment.

Klaus raised an amused eyebrow. "Hmm."

His arms pulled her in closer. She watched his dimples appear on his cheeks as an idea struck him. "I want to spend an eternity with you. That's what I want."

There was a playful look in his eyes, but the seriousness of his statement shined through in his voice.

Percy felt like her feet didn't touch the ground. She was floating, metaphorically of course, with pure joy.

Smiling genuinely back at him, the raven haired beauty responded, "I think I could make that happen."

His expression of happiness grew. "You think so?"

Percy nodded. "Yeah, it should be really easy actually." Her thumb caressed his cheek again as her sea green eyes stared deeply into his dark blue ones. "I was already planning on doing that anyways."

After hearing her sincere words, the hybrid pulled her impossibly closer and their lips crashed together.

And in that moment, they both knew what if felt like to be completely and utterly happy.

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The group ended up spending a lot of time telling embarrassing stories about Percy to Klaus.

Rosie was at another table with a few friends that she made while playing volleyball.

The sea green eyed girl would occasionally cover her face with her hand. But besides that, the stories didn't really affect her. She was too consumed with happiness from being with her boyfriend, that nothing could bring her down from her place of joy.

The pair eventually broke off from the group again.

They found Rosie practicing archery. She held a bow and arrow and pointed her weapon at the different boards set up around her.

Rosie did a running start and shot arrows at all three boards, each one landing directly in the bullseye.

She came to a stop and directed her bow and arrow at one of the boards in particular. Raising her chin up, she fixed her position. Each of her arrows hit the same spot on the board, directly in the bullseye. The arrows went through each other, cutting through the previous arrow, when the new arrow arrived in the same spot.

Wow.

Suddenly an image of a sun with rays made of arrows appeared above her head.

"Apollo," Percy muttered under her breath.

The brunette held the bow down at her side. She turned around and spotted Percy. "Hi!"

The sea green eyed girl looked at the symbol again.

Rosie made a confused expression, before looking up. She saw the glowing symbol above her head. "Woah."

The young girl reached her hand up and jumped in an attempt to touch the glowing symbol. It didn't work though.

Percy stepped towards her and crouched in front of Rosie. "You're the daughter of Apollo."

Usually kids weren't claimed this young, but Rosie was.

"I learned a little about the god stuff during my time here, but, uh, what does that mean?"

Percy replied, "Children of gods acquire some of their abilities. Apollo is the god of the sun, healing, light, archery, poetry, music, prophecy and truth."

"How do I know what abilities I have?"

The sea green eyed girl replied, "You'll discover them during your time here. It's clear that you have skills with archery, and children of Apollo always have skills with healing."

"That's weird," Rosie commented. "I never really liked doctors."

Percy chuckled.

The brunette questioned, "Who are you the child of?"

"Poseidon," the raven haired beauty responded.

Rosie's eyes widened in recognition. "Oh! Someone said that he's one of the tall three."

Percy smiled softly, "Big three, but yeah."

Rosie nodded. "Yeah, same thing."

The sea green eyed girl couldn't argue with that.

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Percy led them to the pegasus stables.

They walked past the different Pegasi, some of them greeting them.

They came to a stop in front of Blackjack. "Hi, Blackjack!"

The pegasus stepped forward. Hi, Boss.

"How have you been?"

Good. Who are they?

Percy gestured to the original. "This is Nik," she then directed her hand toward Rosie, "And this is Rosie."

Blackjack looked at the young brunette. She's cute.

The demigod smiled. "Yeah."

Klaus raised an eyebrow. "Who are you saying yeah to?"

Percy gestured to Blackjack. "I can talk with Pegasi since Poseidon is the one who created horses." She said it like it was no big deal.

"What?" The hybrid questioned.

The raven haired beauty laughed.

Rosie commented, "Cool."

The tiny one is cool, Boss.

"Yup." Percy replied.

Blackjack glanced at Klaus. Am I being replaced?

The demigod laughed. "What? No."

The pegasus wasn't convinced. He began making shady comments in an attempt to seem cooler than the hybrid. Boss, his hair is funky.

Percy raised an amused eyebrow. "No, it's not."

Klaus and Rosie looked at each other with confused expressions.

Thou artless common-kissing dewberry.

"A what?"

I'm roasting him, Boss. With my spear shake.

"You mean Shakespeare?"

He nodded his head. Yes, of course, Boss.

How does he know Shakespeare?

Percy shook her head, dismissing her question.

He seems suspicious, Boss. Blackjack commented.

The sea green eyed girl shook her head. "No, he's not."

Blackjack eyed the hybrid again. But Bossss.

Percy raised an eyebrow with a small amused smile. "What?"

I don't like him. He smells weird.

The raven haired beauty remembered when Nico once said the hybrid wreaked of death, and chuckled to herself.

"You're not being replaced, Blackjack. I promise."

The pegasus made horse noises.

He glanced back at Klaus again. Fine. I approve of him, Boss.

Percy grinned and brought her gaze back to the hybrid. "He likes you." She then glanced at Rosie. "And he thinks you're cool."

Rosie grinned. "Thanks, Mr Pegasus Sir."

Blackjack appreciated the name and bowed his head. She's nice, Boss.

Percy nodded. "She's awesome."

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