A/N: Hi again! Sorry I haven't updated as fast as usual, my internets been down for a few days:(Anyway, better late than never, right? You've all been brilliant with the reviews and since I'm on 95 it'd be nice to get to 100 before the end, so if you can please do let me know what you're thinking! So yeah, here it is, the last chapter *sobs*.
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Chapter 10
"Are you sure about this?" Katie fretted, biting her lip nervously. They were crouching behind the Hermes cabin waiting for their victim to emerge. Katie had been plotting this prank with the Stoll's for what felt like forever but she still couldn't shake the feeling that this was a bad idea. Travis on the other hand was bouncing up and down like a kid on Christmas.
He turned to her, his blue eyes alight with that familiar excitement he always got when he was up to something, "relax Katie-Kat, it'll be fine. I know what I'm doing," he reassured her. For some reason that didn't fill her with confidence. Under different circumstances she would have felt bad about helping a Stoll prank somebody; she knew how it felt and she was not a hypocrite but even Katie couldn't argue that Leah didn't have it coming. Although she would never give Travis the satisfaction of admitting it there was a tiny guilty part of her that got a strange thrill from pranking and she could understand why he loved it so much.
Katie looked over at Travis, who was grinning in anticipation and wondered absently if he was her boyfriend now, they hadn't really talked about it but she guessed he was. Wow, that was weird if you had told her two months ago that she would be date Travis Stoll, well you'd be eating through a straw right now. But it was different now; she had actually discovered that Travis Stoll had feelings, can you believe it?
Katie wasn't really paying much attention; she figured that was part of her ADHD. Anyway she hadn't even noticed when Leah walked out of the cabin until Travis elbowed her in the ribs, hard. She glared at him, but he just smirked and tossed her a water pistol. They were big fancy ones; Travis said they had a name but she couldn't remember, they were a present from his dad. Travis looked at her and counted down from three on his fingers. Three. Oh Gods. Two. No turning back now. One. Travis dove out from behind the cabin and Katie scrambled to her feet and followed.
Travis yelled, "hey Leah!" His half-sister turned and her eyes widened in horror as she glanced between the two vengeful demigods before her gaze rested on their weapons. Katie felt an evil grin spread across her face; poor girl still thought these guns were filled with water; how naive. Before she even had time to scream or run away Travis ordered, "NOW!" Katie pulled the trigger on the gun and watched in delight as a fountain of sticky hot cheese erupted from the nozzle and hit her target with a satisfying splat. Leah screamed as the thick orange goo sprayed her from both sides. By the time both of their guns were empty Katie and Travis were both in uncontrollable hysterics. Katie relished the adrenaline coursing through her veins; it was nice to be on the other side of the prank for once. When she calmed down enough to look up and examine the damage she could no longer see Leah; however what she could see was a large, vaguely human shaped, mountain of cheese. Katie gasped; the daughter of Hermes was completely covered in the cheese, it was smeared across her face, stuck in clumps in her limp brown hair and almost absorbed into her clothes. Lots of campers had now come out to watch the events unfold and even from here Katie could see that Leah was trembling with rage. She lifted her hand and wiped the cheese from her eyes before she began to slowly walk towards them.
Katie knew the plan; stay put until the last minute, but she was getting really close now. "Uh, Travis... maybe we should..." she trailed off anxiously.
Travis shifted a little, she could tell he wanted to run; it was his instinct, "no, not yet... any minute now," he squeezed her hand reassuringly but she could hear the edge of panic creeping into his voice. Leah was so close now that Katie could have reached out and high-fived her and she could have sworn that she could actually see the steam coming out of her ears. Katie was just about to ignore Travis and make a run for it when, thank the Gods, somewhere out in the pavilion Connor released the mice.
About eight mice suddenly scurried hungrily across the camp towards the group of demigods. A few of the Aphrodite girls screeched in terror and ran away. Leah turned around just in time to see the mice launch themselves at her face licking and nibbling at the cheese on her skin. She screamed and ran around in circles thrashing and trying to whack the mice, unfortunately that just seemed to make the rodents more determined. Even from across the camp she could hear Connor laughing, clearly pleased with himself. Katie turned to Travis, she could feel herself gaping and she saw her own shock reflected in his face. She just couldn't believe this had actually worked, she figured the Gods were smiling on them; she had tossed some of her food in the brazier for Aphrodite last night, she suspected that the goddess had helped them out a little before, maybe that had helped. Unfortunately when they had been planning this there was one thing that they didn't count on: mice weren't the only creatures at camp that liked cheese. Mrs. O'Leary came bounding out of the forest, as always the size of a house and before anyone could even react she had pounced on Leah and tackled her to the ground licking the cheese off of her with a tongue the size of a table and barking happily. Leah screamed and cursed but no one was in any rush to help wrestle the 20 foot tall black mastiff off of her, besides Mrs. O'Leary would get bored of it eventually.
Katie turned to her boyfriend and for a moment they just looked at each other, stunned before they burst out laughing. After a long time Katie took a deep breath and managed to calm down a little and wipe away the tears of laughter that threatened to spill from her eyes. Katie took one last look at Leah and decided that they should probably leave before she managed to get up. Travis slid his arm around her waist and walked her back to her cabin.
"You know Katie, you could have actually made a good prankster in another life," he told her, "that is if you weren't such a goodie-goodie," he added with a smirk.
Katie snorted, "Laugh it up Stoll but I hope you remember our deal; I prank with you and you garden with me," she said evilly.
Travis pouted, "Come on Katie-Kat! You know I hate gardening!" he complained.
Katie grinned, "Oh no, no way are you getting out of this, anyway you swore on the Styx" she reminded him, enjoying herself.
Travis sighed dramatically, "I never realized that I was dating an evil genius!" He teased her.
Katie laughed, "Look on the Brightside Travis; you get to spend more time with your awesome girlfriend!" She said with a wink.
They were outside her cabin now and Travis stopped and looked at her, a calculated grin on his face, the same one he got when he was plotting a new prank, "Ok, I'll garden with you." Katie beamed at him, "on one condition," he continued.
Katie groaned, she should have known; with Travis there was always a catch. She arched an eyebrow, "what would that be," she asked him suspiciously.
Travis grinned, "How about, hmmm... a kiss?," he told her with a cheeky smile.
Katie smirked, got up on her tiptoes and pressed her lips to his.
THE END
A/N: So there you have it! It's all over, I'm actually going to miss writing this But don't worry because after such a positive reaction to my first fan-fic I am going to continue and write more stories, so if you liked this make sure you read them! Hope you enjoyed the story, loveyouuuu all!
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