A Dream is A Wish {OPEN}

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"Mommy, how come no one wants to be my friend?" A four year old Felicity asked as she sat in the seat of a shopping cart at Wal-Mart. Her mom knit her eyebrows in thought, a trait that Felicity picked up well. "Well, you are different from most boys and girls." Her mom said as she grabbed a box of Macaroni and cheese. Felicity tilted her head, making her toddler curls bounce. "Is that bad then. To be different?" Felicity asked. Her mom read the box, trying to think of an answer. "Well, well, if it isn't Ms. Weingarten, and Felicity!" Said the approaching male, Felicitys soccer coach. Soon her mom and coach were engrossed in conversation, no one answered Felicitys question. The toddler stood up in the cart and yelled, no one noticed. So she jumped.

Suddenly she was at camp. Training, learning, having fun. Then Greeks appeared. Hundreds of them, killing campers. After the horror everyone looked at Felicity with hate, even the summoned Greeks and dead comrades. She ran. She found herself shadow-traveling. Going everywhere she had dreamed about. London, Paris, Rome. It was amazing, and no one knew about her, she was able to create a new identity, but monsters attacked. A huge black shadow crept over her, whether it was a monster she didn't know. Thunder sounded and she was struck with an object.

Felicity was screaming. She jerked herself awake and shut up. She was going to end up waking the entire camp. What was wrong with her? She was used to having nightmares, she had had them ever since coming to the legion. Yet, this one just reminded her of all the bad she had experienced. It also reminded her that no matter how hard she tried she wouldn't be able to escape it. She hated that aspect of being a demigod. Exploring the world basically became less of a dream and more of a wish. She wished she was normal and could experience high school and traveling. Oh, the places she would go.

She got out of her bed and felt underneath. She smiled as her hands touched the familiar cardboard of the shoe box. She pulled it out and opened it. Littered inside were pictures of every place you could thing of, as well as any newspaper article about them. Sure, it seemed like a pointless thing, but it kept her anchored, this collection. It was what she wanted to do most in the world, travel. Plus it reminded her that there was more then the Legion out there in the world, even if she was a bit restricted to it. She dumped the contents of the shoe box out and newspaper clippings and picture fell to the floor.

The collection seemed small to most people, but Felicity was only allowed to take what she was able to find, and what no one would miss. Besides, she loved it so what mattered? Felicity scanned the barrack, she had slept in while her cohort went on to a training session, as far as she knew she was alone and no one had passed by to her the scream which awoke her. She turned back towards her collection and gingerly picked up a newspaper article about the recent Olympic Games in London.

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The Cohorts were really quiet that night, some of the people in there had gone on special trainning missions, so the few remaining in those buildings weren't enough to make a lot of noise, not even if all of them snorted at once. In one of those buildings, in one of those beds, Lilith McKinnon, legacy of mors was trying to sleep. It is correct to say that she is trying, because she couldn't really fall asleep. Whenever she closed her eyes she remembered herself in a dark place like the underworld and her grandfather Mors talking to her, telling her that he would have only claimed her because he needed her in the future.

She rolled on her right side and bent her legs, so her knees touched her chest. She couldn't feel it, but she knew the skar that she got in Mt. Othrys war was still there. It was a reminder of why she got such nightmares. She pulled up her blanket and then grabbed her knees with her left hand while she just stared at the wall. She bit her lower lip and breathed deeply knowing that she would have to sleep someday. She closed her eyes and the silence kind of helped her at first...

"Where am I?" said a two year younger version of Lilith standing in the middle of a dark room, the only lights seen there were dim small torches on the walls that gave the room a very creepy look.
"Don't worry, it's just your grandfather, I'm Mors" Said a man all dress in black, he looked like a bit older version of Dorian Gray's portrait's actor. So elegant, his voice was soft in fact it invited your senses to quit and relax, but Lilith remained awake. The eyes of that man, better said God, were horrible to see. They had in them all the pain and solitud of death, also its peace, but still a mortal would be driven crazy only by looking at them.
"Am I dead?" The 14 year old girl asked the God, but he just smirked in the most terrifying way.
"No... you're just... between our worlds, but don't worry you'll live because I need you in the future and you'll live till then" His smile got wider and he started to laugh.

His laugh was the most horrible thing that a living one could listen at, but in that moment the laugh mixed with a scream in the cohorts. Lilith opened her eyes and sat on the bed, she feared for a second that her grandfather was there by her bed, but he wasn't. She frowned and got up from her bed and walked down the corridors. She felt the cold floor under her feet, but she didn't really care, she kind of like it. She looked inside some of the dorms, then she saw someone watching at some little papers and scrapped papers.

"Did you listen to that scream?" she asked and lingered in the doorway. She had seen that girl before, she thought she could remember her name. She was a nice girl, always kind to her, she wasn't scared of her like others in the Camp. "Felicity..." She remembered and waited there to see if Pluto's girl had heard something or maybe it was just part of her bad dream.

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Felicity had thought the door to her room was closed, guess she was wrong. Her back was turned towards it and her brown wavy hair cascaded over her shoulders and a little down her back. She was wearing a light blue pajama set, which seemed to accent the darkness of her hair. As she read the article describing how London was decorated for the 2012 Summer Olympic event she was startled by a noise. She didn't jump. Instead, she tensed her muscles, resisting the fight or flight reflex that overcame her when startled. As she heard a female voice she relaxed. Felicity was lucky though that her back was to the door, then the guest wouldn't see the insignia of embarrassment blaze across her face. However, her curiosity was peaked when the girl said her name, more in a question manner, but still. Did she know her? Felicity turned her head and glanced at the doorway. It was Lilith.

Felicity had meet Lilith before, it was brief, but still they had met. Lilith was a legacy and had some ability with the dead, which Fleicity was intensely curious about. She had asked if the girl had any connection to Pluto, unfortuantly none existed. Felicity sighed, if she lied about the question concerning the screaming it could cause some tension within the barracks. Her only option was to be truthful, even if it was embarrassing. Though, you would think nightmares would be common in the legion. After all, with all the horrors they face some must reach into the subconscious.

"Yep, that's me, Felicity. About the screaming, that would be me." Felicity said as she placed the newspaper clipping into the pile of paper she had dumped out. She stood up and tried to make herself look presentable, for one who just woke up it was hard to do. Still, Felicity was a centurion and she had some authority, it wouldn't be right to look like a disgrace. She ran her fingers through her hair, which tangled up at night. She would defiantly have to invest in a new brush. Her last one broke last week, resulting in very horrid hair styles. Luckily it was mainly under a helmet or tied into a pony tail.

She finally quit trying to make herself look presentable, she would try that later. "I had a nightmare, ended up screaming myself awake." Felicity said with a nervous laugh. She smiled at Lilith. "I guess it's weird to hear a daughter of Pluto be afraid of a nightmare. You're Lilith right?" She asked with a friendly smile upon her face, causing her bright optimistic demeanor over shadow the tired, just woke up one.

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Lilith only had to wait a second maximum two to know if Felicity was okay or not, maybe she needed help, maybe someone had tried to hurt her. Lilith had heard about how Felicity killed a lot of their fellow legionaries in that horrible war. more than half of the Campers hated Felicity for that, but they didn't know what it was to have such power. Sometimes the power was stronger than the one that held it and it ended up hurting the ones you most cared about. Lilith didn't hate Felicity, in fact she really started to apreciate her, Felicity was one of the few that didn't hate her only because she was Mors Legacy.

When Felicity looked at her, she smiled a bit more to the Centurion in front of her. And her words surprised her, it was Felicity who had screamed like that. "Really? it was you?" Lilith said half worried about her, half in a relief. If it had been the centurion who screamed, then it hadn't been Mors in her head, what she saw in her bed had been only the beggining of that horrible dream that she always had.

Felicity seemed to be trying to brush her hair with her fingers, but she wasn't being very successful at that. Lilith tilted her head and smiled at her, maybe she had lost her brush or simply she wasn't going to go for it in that moment, so she just stood there and smiled. Then she informed her that she had had a nightmare. Liltih frowned for a second, maybe there was something in the environment that was making them to have such dreams. She smiled at her slight laugh and then sighed. "It's not that weird, so I kind of understand you."

She shrugged and then nodded when she asked if she had her name right. "Yes, I'm Lilith." Then she walked a couple of steps into the room, she hadn't been invited to get in, but for some reason she thought that Felicity wouldn't mind as long as she didn't force the situation too much. "I also had a nightmare and it mixed with your scream, that is why I got up, so... well I think all of us have some messy heads lately." she grinned at Felicity. then she looked at the papers behind her. "May I ask what is that?"

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Felicity didn't know what to say at Liliths realization that it was indeed her that screamed. Was it really that odd to think of the daughter of Pluto to have a nightmare. Gods, why did she have to scream? Why was she cursed to have that nightmare. IT was unfortunate to be a demigod for the sole reason of having nightmares. They were more vivid then mortal nightmares. You can feel the emotion, remember the expression, feel the pain. It was horrible. Though, Felicity had enough reason to have nightmares. She caused a blood bath in camp the last year, then it was the battle of Othrys, then all the times she ran into darkness. It was a wonder how she wasn't insane yet. Most normal people would have stayed out of the live light and sunk away into a lonely life. Yet, Felicity wanted to prove she was more then that. She fought hard for her role of Centurion, she worked hard to clear her name of the past tragedies. That was why she was always optimistic. She hid everything behind her cheerful demeanor.

Felicity smirked when the girl said she understood. Well, at least someone did. "Yeah, I guess all Demigods just get plagued by nightmares." Felicity said in response to her admittance of also having a nightmare. She wasn't going to ask about, because then it may lead to Lilith wondering of her own nightmare. Felicity was not eager to share that dream. It was personal, and horrible at the same time.

At the question regarding the strips of newspaper and photos Felicity sighed. She didn't like showing anyone them. It was her personal collection, her anchor to her life. It was also her dream. She wished she could magically make them and Liliths curiosity go away. Yet, she had already seen them and questioned about them. Felicity knelled down and started to collect the strips. "Just my collection. Newspaper articles and photos of different countries. I like learning about places outside of camp. Reminds me that there is more then Camp in the world." Felicity said with a soft smile and she gently laid the pile of strips and photos back into the shoe box. She didn't put a lid on them though, it would have been rude. She got back up again with box in hand and showed it to Lilith. "I've been collecting since I got here seven years ago. It's not much but I love it." Felicity said with a friendly smile on her face. If Lilith wanted to ask more about it there was a possibility Felicity would share more, though, not much on the reason as to why she had the strips. Yet, she would explain the different countries that she had.

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Lilith smiled at Felicity when she mentioned that demigods had a lot of nightmares. She nodded and lost her smile for a second. A slight second was all what her brain needed to show her again the whole nightmare, the dark room, the torches on the walls, the cold evil voice of the god, his eyes looking at her not letting her even breathe. His warning about her future, all of it in her mind once again just in a slight, flat second. "yeah... we all have them... I just wish I didn't have mine... or at least... have a different one..." she shivered as she closed her eyes trying to get rid of her nightmare at least for a while so she could talk to Felicity as a normal person, as normal as a legacy could be.

Lilith noticed that Felicity was a bit annoyed maybe, by her question about the pieces of paper on the floor, maybe she had touched a fiber that Felicity wanted to keep hidden and safe from the common knowledge. Not that she would be going to tell everyone about it, yet she knew sometimes people wanted to keep in the shadows their most private secrets. But after some seconds of thinking about it, Felicity decided to tell Lilith about the scrapped papers. She told her why she got them. Lilith smiled and then looked at the small box where Felicity had just put the stripes of paper.

"Well, I think it is amazing you have a dream, those papers help you visualize your dream and keep it alive, so... I'm glad you have them" she said and then looked at the box again. She didn't feel it was her right to even touch that box, it was something almost sacred to Felicity and she was going to respect that. "I only know a little town in Scotland. I lived there for two years, but besides that, I know nothing else from the outside world." she felt kind of awkward talking about that. Being a Legacy was difficult, she had been born in New Rome, grew up there, moved to the outside only for two years, lost her parents and went back to the Camp. her life was there, but also her hopes and desires, maybe that was why she was almost always so gloomy, not just because people always looked her down, but also because she didn't have the idea or dream to go out someday. "I'd love to know more about it... what places do you know?"

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Felicity knit her eyebrows. Did the girl want Felicity to ask about her nightmares? It seemed too personal for her taste really. She never shared anything personal with anyone, save maybe her crush to Charlie. Other then that Felicity kept mainly to herself, and her trusted lares. She didn't see the reason as to why she would even have to tell people her personal business. Sure, she would reveal little stuff, but big things, if you count nightmares big, she kept to herself. She didn't want to appear weak, yet at the same time she didn't want to appear rude either. Life was a fickle thing to live. Felicity fidgeted a little before sighing. "Uh, do you want to talk about it?" Felicity asked. She was a centurion and suppose to watch out for campers but she never really had to take that part of the job into being. No one sought her out for help. It was different to have to play the older, caring position. Especially since she really had no idea how to play as she never had a figure like that in her life.

Felicity lightly smiled at Liliths statement about her dream of traveling. Yeah, it was nice to have them. Especially after a tough training session with her cohort which resulted in her wishing they were all dead. It helped calm her to see these sights. Felicity closed the lid to the box and set it on her unmade bed. "It helps to have them on those days when life become unbearable." Felicity said before her eyes became wide. Lilith has been to Scotland!? Felicity was jealous. She turned towards her with excitement in her eyes. "Where in Scotland? What was it like. Oh, I so want to go there one day. It's ranked number twenty-three on my places I want to see before I die list. Granted its a long list since I want to see every place but..." Felicity said ending in a shrug. She still had a bright smile on her face, it helped brighten her up and seem more awake. Maybe this morning won't be too awful after all.

When Lilith admitted her curiosity about her cut-out she smiled. Felicity grabbed the box and opened it again and emptied the contents for a second time that day. She motioned for Lilith to come closer. "A majority is about London. Thats the main place I want to see. Plus, with the past Olympic Games being held there I was able to secure more articles about it. Same with Beijing, since the prior one was there." Felicity said as she pointed them out to Lilith. She smiled as she continued. "That picture is Australia, that one if Russia, oh and this one is Scotland." Felicity said as she picked up a picture of Edinburgh, Scotland. That capital city of Scotland. The picture showed a street with little traffic and a clear blue sky. In the center was a clocktower and other buildings outlined the photo. Felicity looked at Lilith. "Do you ever want to go back?"

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Lilith was still thinking of the words that Mors told her in her nightmare when Felicity asked her if she would like to talk about it. Lilith looked at Felicity into her nice bright eyes, she really seemed to be worried about her. But with a sweet smile shook slowly her head, knowing that no matter what happened she should never tell her about it. If Felicity knew about it, if she knew about the things that Mors was ordering her to do, she wouldn't consider Lilith her friend anymore. She would rise a whole army of corpses to destroy her. "No, I'm fine... I just need to go to the mess hall and have something warm to drink and go back to bed." She smiled a bit more then looked back at the small box where she kept those scraps of paper.

She saw how Felicity opened the box again and put all the scraps on the bed, Lilith looked at all of them, she said it was a small collection of scraps, but it was more than Lilith have from the world in the outside. She looked a lot of places that she didn't know at all. Suddenly when she told Felicity she had lived in Scotland, she seemed to be so excited and started asking a lot of questions about it. Liltih bit her lower lip because she didn't remember all of it, she didn't know if what she remembered was going to be enough to satisfy Felicity's curiosity, but she was going to tell her all what she could remember about it.

She looked at the picture of Scotland that Felicity showed to her. She smiled in a mixure of sadness and happiness. It was Edinburg, she didn't need Felicity to tell her so. It was the last place where her parents had taken her to spend her birthday. she sighed and smiled a bit more. "This place was amazing, I spent my last birthday with my parents in that place..." she said tracing the shape of the buildings with her index, then she put it back with the other pictures and looked at Felicity.

"We lived in a island of Scotland, it was called the Isle of Mull, it was on the West cost of Scotland. In that Island there's a small town called Tiroran, it's up North Loch Scridain, sorry Lake Scridain." she still remembered the names in Scottish more than in current English. "I remember little from it, but... It had a cottage and from there you'd have to take a one way road to get to the lake." she closed her eyes trying to remember the place. She smiled when the image popped in her mind. "On its left there was a beautiful forest and on its right part of the town and over it on the horizon you could see the Lake. Our house was by the lake. it had blue roof and white walls, a small fence..." she stopped and opened her eyes looked at Felicity.

"It was a nice place, next time we have a mission, maybe we could go there and I'll show you the place." Her parents had taken her there to keep her safe, She didn't know back then that Mors had already tried to turn her father into a traitor, and also told him he would use her to achieve his plans. They died because of that and someday in the future, Lilith would also discover that, but not that night.

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Felicity smiled. A warm drink actually didn't sound all that bad. Though, with it being fifty-five degrees she might come to regret it later. Even though she had been leaving at camp for seven years she still wasn't use to the year-long heat that came with the environment. She had grown up in the mountains of Colorado, it actually snowed in winter. That had to be one of the things she had to miss a lot more then she should. She loved snow and missed it dearly, even if her snowmen looked horrible whenever she had to make one. Gah, she had to stop thinking of the past, all it did was bring up bad emotions, sadness and hate, things that were not good to have as a Roman soldier. The ideal one would be completely emotionless and follow orders like a pro. "Sounds like a good idea. Though, I'd probably opt out of going back to bed. I need to get this cohort up and going." Felicity said with a smile.

Felicity smiled as Lilith traced the outlines of the buildings. Still, she could sense that Lilith was a tad sad at the sight. Felicity just had a way of recognizing peoples emotions. It wasn't a demigod power or anything. She had just been around enough people to understand their emotions. "It must have been amazing! Especially to witness it on your birthday. The most I got was a trip to Chuck E. Cheeses." Felicity said with a bright smile aimed towards her friend.

The Isle of Mull? Sounded like a great place. Felicity listened happily, nodding occasionally to show that she was, indeed, listening. It sounded like a place you would read about in a book. A magical place. Heck, it was an island with a cottage. What else was she suppose to think about concerning it? The place seemed like such a better place to live at the beginning of your life, instead of the ranch Felicity grew up on. Plus, she didn't even have a horse so how was being on a ranch suppose to help at all? "It sounds magical Lilith. You are very lucky to have grown up in such a place." Felicity said with a smile. She hoped jealously wasn't written all over her face, that would just give her a bad image.

At the mention of maybe visiting it Felicity sighed and frowned. "Yeah, maybe. However, being a child of the big three I tend to not be able to spent too long outside of camp. Two hours was the longest I was able to stay outside of camp before monsters attacked me." Felicity said looking down. "That's one reason why I have this box. It's my way to see and travel the outside." Felicity said with a tear tempting to fall from her eye as she is once again reminded that her life will not enable her to live out her dreams.

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Lilith looked at Felicity when she said that probably she wasn't going back to bed. She was an amazing Centurion, she had heard some comments of the people that were in her cohort and she was amazing, she always tried to listen to their comments and suggestions, always nice to them unless they really bothered her, which was highly unprobable. She didn't know why her centurions can be like she was, they seemed to be a carbon copy of Remus, and that wasn't fun at all. They always wanted her to train her fighting skills when she didn't want to be a warrior, she wanted to improve her voice's skills so she could help fighters through that, yet, they forced her to train more.

"You are a great Centurion, I'm sure your cohort thank you for what you do for them." she smiled at Felicity and then looked back at the paper scraps. The picture of Edimburg was the one that triggered some emotions in Lilith, emotions that she would have liked to keep deep down hidden in her black little heart. Emotions that other legionaries would think of them as weaknesses in a camper, emotions that for Lilith were painful and joyful at the same time. Felicity told her how lucky she was of having spending her birthday in that place. "It was spring, so it was all green and full of life..." she said but then frowned a bit. "But maybe we shouldn't have gone there"

She sighed and then nodded at Felicity's comment, yes Isle of Mull was beautiful, seeing at it was like looking at a post-card, being there was like being in a romantic novel, or maybe you could also close your eyes and with the sound of the lake you could imagine yourself in a medieval story. But it also had a very special secret in it. "The Isle of Mull was like that, was magical... it has a very ancient nereid living in the lake, so monsters get confused when demigods live there, they don't know if they are demigods or if it's the energy of the nereid what they sense, even more if the demigods aren't children of the great three"

She said remembering a conversation between her parents, they talked about how it was good for them and for Lilith to be in that lonely, peaceful Island. Maybe if they hadn't taken her to Edimburg, maybe they would still be alive, living in New Rome. But no... they were dead and she was there, end of story. "I only lived there for two years, not that I really grew up there. From the time I was born to my 8th birthday I lived in New Rome, then two years out there and then here from my 10th till now" she smiled at Felicity. But she felt the slight aura of sadness covering Felicity. being a child of one of the big three should be a huge thing on their shoulders, so she was sad she couldn't help her.

"Well... two hours... then we can plan something... maybe an Iris message, we can ask her to help us that way you could see the place without being out of here" she shrugged and smiled at her, she just wanted to help Felicity to achieve her dreams, before she had to betray all of them.

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Felicity smiled at Lilith. She sure did know how to make her day better. In a way they could relate to each other. She was a daughter of mors, literally the equivalent of the grime reaper in roman mythology. Liliths grandmother worked for Felicitys father. It would cause a bit of a headache when thought about but for a demigod that seemed like a common occurrence. Felicity shook her head though. Her cohort actually didn't think her. True, she had Clare in there who was one of her friends, but besides that everyone still acknowledge her as the daughter of Pluto who killed off so many campers. Even after all that hard work she didn't receive the respect she deserved. "I only wish they felt the same as you do. I caused a girl to cry yesterday as I made them train against some spartan warriors. They were dead and under my control, I didn't understand the reason for fear from my cohort. Apparently I was wrong." Felicity said with a shrug. Her cohort probably wasn't going to like her today either. She planned on having them go through the obstacle course and then fight one on one with someone of equal strength and them before dinner they had to beat her with her army of undead. It was going to be a rough training day.

Felicity knit her eyebrows together when Lilith said that perhaps they shouldn't have gone. Why would she think that? It sounded like she had enjoyed the birthday adventure. "Okay, no lying. What happened on that day? You seem so upset about it. You can tell me anything." Felicity said in a caring voice. She meant it too. Lilith was like her younger sister. There was no way in hell she would betray her.

When Lilith continued to tell about the Isle Felicitys hopes started to rise. There was a place outside of camp where she could be free? Then came to mention that it was easier if you weren't a child of the big three that it was easier. Felicity could feel her heart drop. Again, no place but this forsaken camp was going to ever be safe for her. Sometimes she literally hated her life. Still, Felicity dawned on a smile. "Sounds wonderful Lilith."

Living in New Rome and then moving. That seemed odd. It was different that was for sure. Most people did the opposite, live somewhere else then move to New Rome. Felicitys mind was trying to make sense of the puzzle that was laid out in front of her. "Why did you all move out of New Rome? Tired of all the military life I guess." Felicity said with a light laugh in hopes of not making the subject too awkward. Their was some awkward tension in the air, but not enough to make both people squirm uncomfortably. If anything it was awkward that they were talking to each other in their pajamas.

Lilith was really trying to help Felicity. She could feel that. Still, she wanted to see the place in person. Not through pictures or Iris messages. "Thanks, but I think I'll keep training so I can leave this horrid camp. One day I will. In fact when I do I'll send you a postcard and on the back in big handwriting will be the words: I did it!" Felicity said excitedly with a huge smile on her face. The dream was still alive. You could tell by just seeing the determined look in her eyes. Being a child of the big three was a pain in the butt sometimes but that didn't mean it should block her goals. She would do it, the plans were still being formed but Felicity believed deep down that it was possible, somehow.

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Lilith looked at Felicity and frowned when she told her how her cohort felt about her leadership. She knew that the roman way was to train everyday and if it was possible all day long. but when she told her about the training she gave them, she tilted her head and thought even when it was excessive, it wasn't that crazy at all.

"We romans must train that much if we want to survive, if your cohort can't get it then they don't deserve to be here" She smiled at Felicity and shrugged at her. Definetely she'd love to be in her cohort. "my centurion seemed to not care that much, he take us to the obstacle curse and then to Mars field everyday, we must fight to each other and that's it. I feel we're not well trained" She sighed.

Felicity seemed to be really concerned about her, about why she remembered so saddly about that birthday, also why her family had left New Rome. Lilith breathed deeply and bit her lower lip, she wasn't sure to tell her, in fact she hadn't told that to any other camper before. Her Centurion knew it because it was part of his job to know everything about the members of his cohort, but telling others about it would reflect some weakness, right? "Thank you..." she said about her comment of how magic was the place where she used to live in Scotland.

She sighed again and then looked at Felicity, she had always been so nice to her. so it was only fair to her if Lilith told her the truth behind the reason they left New Rome. "Ok... I don't know if you know... i think you don't..." She bit her lower lip and then breathed deeply. "When I was 8 my best friend died due hellhound's saliva... everyone there blamed me for that" She shrugged, and continued. "My parents thought it wouldn't be good for me to grow up in a place where people were afraid of me and... wanted to kill me everyday..." She looked at the Edimburg's picture.

"We moved to Scotland, to the Isle of Mull and everything was good, quiet life, normal life. My mom worked as an editor and my dad worked in a funerary" she smiled. "But when we went to Edimburg monsters smelled us... Apollo demigoddess, Mors demigod, and me... they attacked us there, my father got injured but we escaped. Then back in the island, they followed us. they end up killing my parents, a hellhound saved me and took me to Lupa." she said and then breathed deeply trying to hold back the tears. "people still remembered the hellhound saliva, and me... so since I was a kid they got away from me, and well... now you know all about me..."

She smiled at Felicity and then sighed, she hadn't told her about Mors threatening and blackmailing. Still she felt that she had to do what Mors told her, now to protect Felicity too. She had told her why she was so quiet and shy, she had given her a powerful weapon against her if she wanted to use it. "I've never told anyone about it..." then Felicity told her that she would train and go on her own. "I'd love to get that post card from you, I know you'll do it."

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Felicity bit back a statement about pointing out how she was in the fifth cohort so they kinda were under trained. Then again, Felicity was only in the fourth. Granted it was more likely because of her fathers genetics within in her. It wasn't far for the camp to be so segregated about that. She was Plutos daughter, nothing else? She still had to learn to control her powers and train with the legion. Felicity was like all the other people here. So why was the camp so set against her? Felicity shrugged though. Perhaps it was true, her cohort didn't deserve to be here. She could only hope to train them well enough so that they can live on their own after their service is over. If they couldn't at least do that then what good was she doing as a centurion?

"I just need to prepare them for life outside the legion. That is all I am aiming for." Felicity said with a smile. "Each centurion has his or her own way of training their cohort. Sometimes it works and other times it doesn't." Felicity stated with a shrug. Besides, it wasn't like the members of the cohort could just go and change the training regime. Though, granted, the centurions still needed to take their legionnaires opinions to mind. Well, if they were nice centurions that is.

Felicity listened intensively as Lilith told of her horrible birthday. A few of the Romans had dead families. Felicity was one of the lucky ones. Her mom was still alive and kicking. However, what was saddening was the fact Felicity had two younger siblings she has never met. They had to have been starting school this year. Felicity wondered what her mom told them about her. Guess it didn't really matter since Felicity would probably never see them anyway. Some older sister she was.

Felicity pulled Lilith into a hug. "Oh Lilith. I'm so sorry to hear that about your parents. Really, I am." Felicity said as she pulled out of the hug. "You keep training and make them proud. Of course I bet they are smiling in the Underworld at how their little girl has become a strong woman." Felicity said with a smile. She hoped her words were going to help her friend out. Felicity wasn't really skilled in consoling but she seriously hoped that she was helping Lilith out.

Felicity grinned. "Well I'm glad you told me. Don't worry I won't tell anyone though. If you ever need someone to talk to remember that I am here for ya." Felicity said. Her smile got brighter at Liliths comment. Felicity would make sure that Lilith was at the top of the "To send a postcard" list. "I just hope you get it one day." Felicity said with a smile.

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Lilith listened at Felicity. She was really commited to her responsabilities as a Centurion and that was why she was so good at his job. Lilith remembered what other campers told her about the events when Felicity rised that Army of corpses, how she killed many using them. But she knew that her friend would never hurt others just like that out in the blue! Felicity wasn't a murderer and now that she talked to her about how she worked as a Centurion, she understood that she would also do it to make it up to the rest of the campers, she would have them better trained. "I'm sure they will thank you when they have to face the horrors of the world out of this place." She smiled gently at Felicity.

When Felicity said how bad she felt for her parents' death, she smiled at her, saddly but with a soft smile, trying to tell her that she was glad that she hadn't taken that information in the wrong way. "Thank you... they just... well they died as heroes, like they lived." she smiled a bit more. although when Felicity told her that her parents would be for sure feeling very proud of her, she frowned less than a second, it had been as if Felicity had stabbed her with a hot celestial bronze sword right in her heart. And she could tell how it felt because it had been the mayor wound she had in the Mt. Othrys battle.

She knew her parents wouldn't be proud of her. She knew that if her parents could see her, they would know that she had just agreed to help Mors to get what he wanted from the camp and the mortal world. she would betray the Camp and would turn in what her parents hated the most! She knew she wasn't the daughter of the year and she would never be, not after all what they did to keep her alive, but well... she knew that she must do it, she knew it was her destiny and she wasn't going to run away from that fate.

She got back her smile in less than a second and smiled at Felicity again. "I just hope they at least love me there, I'm not looking for the prize of the best daughter of the year." she smiled at her. then she told her she could trust her and her words were another wave of pain, how could Felicity be so nice to her? How could she keep going with that? She didn't want to hurt Felicity! she should stay away from her! "thank you" she said keeping herself in character. when she mentioned that she would for sure get the postcard, she smiled at her, still with a shade of sadness in her face. "It is a promise, ok?" A promise that in some time would be less worthy than a piece of snot, she knew that very well and it hurt her deeply.

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"It's better to remember them for their greater aspects then for their negative ones" Felicity said with a smile in reference to Liliths parents. Besides, that was probably better than thinking of all the negative times. Or, was she just saying all this because she was a trying optimist, even though some pessimistic thoughts creep into her mind. That was probably due to her childhood when she had close to no friends. She didn't understand why at the time. She was friendly and smiley. Who wouldn't want to be friends with her? Finally when her father, Pluto, claimed her she knew why. Pluto wasn't accepted into his society of immortal beings so that trait was passed on to his daughter so that she wouldn't be accepted into her double society of mortals and demigods.

Felicity grinned. "I don't think any of use would win best child of the year. If you have a mortal parent then you have abandoned them. Then all we do for our immortal part is give the, food and prayer. Sure, if you had a good family history as a legacy then perhaps you could have gotten to associate more, though you still end up abandoning them to join the legion for ten years. None of us are ever close to being the best child in the world." Felicity said with a huff of angry air. Why was she being so defensive of the subject? Probably because she was jealous of the sudden appearance of Mars, Cupid, and other deities and them having the opportunity to associate with their children. Felicity just wanted to see her dad once. One time would be enough to last her a lifetime.


Felicity held her hands up defesnsivly. "Hey, no promises. I will try but if it doesn't happen then there was a good reason for it." Felicity said with a smirk. She glanced at the clock she had in her room. She still had a few minutes to sit and talk but soon she would have to say her good-bye and make her cohort ready for the day. Felicity didn't really feel like making them do any hard fighting work. They had been doing that all week. They deserved a break. A day of learning Latin and exploring Roman history. To Felicity this sounded like an easy and excited day. Of course that could be due to the fact she was a slight history geek and she could actually talk to some of the dead emperors or legion commanders. She was just awesome like that.

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