JADE’S POV
I don’t look up as I hear the familiar footsteps down the hall. Over time, they turned from silent to almost comforting. Even though we had only known each other for a short time, I could tell from the raggedness of his breath that he had been looking for me, and that he had to tell me something.
“What’s up?” I ask, not moving my eyes from my blade as I spun it on my knuckles.
“I just saw Aphrodite.”
“That’s why you smell like perfume”I joke half heartedly. He doesn’t answer. “Was she looking for Kelly?” I ask. He shakes his head slowly. “What did she want?” I ask turning my attention to him.
“Nothing” he answers, looking at his hands. It must’ve been pretty bad. He probably wouldn’t have told me even if it had been important, he probably would never tell me what he was thinking or what has happening.
“fine, whatever. But you know at some point you're going to be in trouble and-” the train car lurched sideways and the lights went out. The both of us were on our feet and sprinting down the hallway before you could blink.
“Anything suspicious?” I whisper to him while silently jogging down the corridors. People were coming out of their rooms, looking at us funny. Both of us had our weapons, I had my dagger, and nico had his wicked black sword, but if the mist was actually working they probably wouldn’t notice that. No one screamed bloody murder so I took that as a good sign.
We turn a corner, and I could immeadetly feel the drop in temperature. “Ah, princess, so kind of you to visit me again, but did you have to bring your boyfriend” a voice says behind me. Instead of turning around and losing time, I launch my arm backwards where I estimated the moro to be. It screamed and appeared in front of me. Its red eyes gleaming, and his fangs in a snarl, but at least there was a deep wound in his right shoulder.
“What do you want from me?” I ask, bending my knees and raising my dagger, preparing to fight if needed to.
“There is a price on both of your precious little heads, the titans will pay much for a child of the three” he snarls, disappearing and reapearing beside me. I snarl and lunge my dagger into his side, but I barey knick him before he evaporates again, and appears above us.
“What do the titans want with us?” Nico snarls, and the moro takes a few stepes back, the prince of the dead can be quite scary need be.
“You have more power than any demi god could dream of, whether to use you as ransom, or to force you to work for their side, or what have you, I care not. But if I were to bring you to them, I would be king of the world! They have promised”
“You're delusional if you think the titans are going to share their power with a meager little demon like you!” I spit. The demon snarls and lunges himself at me, I roll out of the way and nico lunges his sword at the spot I was a second before, he could have killed me if he hadn’t known exactly what my next action was going to be. He hit the demon square in the side and it disappeared snarling.
It reappered again, along with three others that looked exactly like him. “Are you going to split the world four way now?” I taunt, lunging at the one closest to me, but it vanishes before I could hit it.
“Silly half blood! Your precious blood will be spilled on the burning ground when the titans vanquish your meager gods and take control again”
“Not going to happen!” Nico says, and lunges his sword so fast at a demon next to him that all I hear is the beginning of a scream before it evaporates into dust.
The first moro snarls and lunges himself at me again. This time I duck, spin on my feet, and lunge my dagger straight into its rib cage. It evaporated into a gold dust before it could make a sound.
Nico yells duck, which I do, and thrusts his sword into one that was about to jump at me. I roll underneath his feet as he jumps over me, get up one knee, and throw my dagger at the last one, turning into a cloud of dust that lazily falls to the floor, covering the dirty carpet with a delicate golden blanket.
We both stay silent for a moment, breathing hard. He offers me his hand and helps me to my feet, brushing some dust out of my hair. I laugh shakily and brush some off his shoulders. I instantly notice our proximity and tense up, he notices me tesne up, and tenses as well, but neither of us move. We stand inches from each other, our gazes locked, our chests grazing each other when we breath.
He moves his hand from my hair to my cheekbone, slowly rubbing some dust of it, keeping his eyes locked on mine. I hold my breath as he slowly lowers his face towards mine, keeping me locked tight where I am. I could feel his breath on my lips, and was about to close my eyes when a door slams open.
“what the hell happenend in here!” Kelly yells, looking around, both of us jump back shocked before she could notice our proximity.
“Moros, four of them” Nico answers her. I feel his dark blue eyes trained on my face, but I lower it and don’t make eye contact with him.
“Wow, you dealt with them just the two of you? They’re a doozy, vanishing and appearing like that. Anyway, I got our stuff, imagine we should probably get off since theres so much trouble” she says, holding up mine and Nico’s bag.
“Good thinking kelly” I say, quickly stepping forward to her and grabbing the bag. I sling it over my shoulders keeping my face low.
“What happened between you two?” she asks, eyeing us both.
“Nothing” we both answer at the same time. She looks at us both again before shrugging her shoulders and letting it drop.
“Used charm speak on the conductor, he's letting us off in ten minutes at the next stop somewhere in New Mexico, then we can take a series of buses or something to get to San Francisco. Think we can stay alive for that long?” she asks us. Neither one of us answers. “Fine whatever don’t talk to me, lets just stick together and scram as soon as we can”

“I didn’t know you could charm speak” I tell her later when we had gotten of the train and were walking through the cold dark streets of Wichita Kansas.
“Gift from aphrodite, most of her children have it, some more than others, chiron has been helping me since I was little, and since I’m one of the few year rounders, I got a lot more practice” she answers. I let it drop after that, enough girl talk for the day.
“Wheres the closest bus stop” Nico asks, I don’t know who exactly, but one of us. We both just shrug. He sighs as if he can’t believe he was stuck with us, we both glare at him, he rolls his eyes, and then leaves to go ask someone for directions.
“how far is Wichita from Los Angeles?” she asks.
“Depending on how we get there, it could be at least a day.” I answer, looking up to see if I could tell the time, but the smog and the clouds block the sun.
“Theres nothing” Nico says, steping outside with us and brushing some snowflakes from his shoulders.
“you're kidding!” Kelly grunts. I roll my eyes and step inside, never trust a guy.

Notes

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