Heredity

What Should Have Been

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It spread like wild fire and almost all of the campers from Camp Half-Blood knew of the fact that somewhere in the 6 months where the Hephaestus cabin were in frantic making of the Argo 2 and everybody else's worry for the upcoming war, Clarisse la Rue daughter of the God of bloodshed and war Ares, took Piper Mclean and Leo Valdez under her wing -or under her tight deadly headlock, courtesy of the Stoll brothers.

The reason behind was probably related to the two's (Piper and Leo) connection to the past counselors of the Aphrodite and Hephaestus cabin during the second titan war. Other campers would speculate this odd occurrence and form theories while listing down similarities of the past and present counselors.

Though all speculations came to a stop when they've realized that there were so little similarities; sure Piper Mclean is beautiful and witty just like Silena Beauregard but Piper hated dressing up and putting make-up and cute clothes and getting attention like Silena did. Piper goofs off at times -especially when she's with the elvish son of Hephaestus, but she usually remains serious and a bit mature for her own age when interacting with the others. While on the other hand, Silena knew every bits of rumors and issues inside the camp and tries to help everyone when it comes to love related things and barging into someone's life to help out, with her radiant smile and easygoing attitude.

Then there's Charlie Beckendorf and Leo Valdez, besides their inventive nature everything else was totally different. Charlie was quiet and calm and composed and mature while Leo was fun times and nerves, and puns, and flirting and childishness.

So when their 'investigations' got into a dead end the campers stopped and just took things as it is and reasoned it out that it's the beginning of Clarisse's change of heart -not really, after a few many 'accidents' occurring in camp involving almost being maimed by spears and javelins in areas that are far away from the arena the campers finally got the message.

Besides, Grace was getting a bit cranky when his girlfriend is being compared to the previous Aphrodite counselor (not Drew) who had romantic relationship with Leo's-his best friend, previous cabin counselor and also the ideas of some campers that Jason was the third-wheel in the relationship just made his mood worse -though Leo had a field day hearing about this, of course he had to agree it was weird and gross (no offense pipes; none taken), since Piper was like his sister and incest is just not cool man, despite what Greek myths -gods and goddesses say and do otherwise.

No one even dared to ask Clarisse why on the sudden claim of apprenticeship -she trained the two, dragging them into the arena and teaching survival lessons in which some campers thought were more like death preparation training, even her siblings were mystified about their sister's decision. And so they went to the safer person to ask, which was Clarisse's boyfriend, Chris Rodriguez.

Though the latter wasn't much of a help either, he'd either laugh at the campers' faces, answer with a 'her internal clock must be ticking, say do you think Piper and Leo's too old to get adopted?' or some pregnancy joke that would end up with a smack to the head by something Clarisse threw at him to shut his mouth. And with a cold case like that none of the campers continued, much to Clarisse's entertainment.