Last time on BS: The Seven talk about Leo, and Percy and Annabeth meet an old friend.

REYNA III

REYNA WAS STARTING TO MISS CAMP JUPITER. She liked it in Camp Half Blood. She felt it had a certain charm to it. But charm fades quickly when you have to use a ping pong table as a command center.

"Do Greeks not have real tables?" Reyna asked. Frank was too polite to say anything, but she could tell he was wondering the same thing.

Piper looked around the room absently. "Oh, this is the rec room; we just use it for meetings and stuff sometimes."

The rec room. They were determining the future of their two camps, and possibly the world, in the recreation room of a summer camp. Reyna did her best not to scream.

"Uh, are you okay?" Frank asked. She nodded sharply, and gestured to the charts on the ping pong table.

"We need to decide right now what we're going to do about the shields around this camp. Chiron has put up sentries for the moment but we are entirely vulnerable to attack."

Frank looked confused. "The attack already happened."

Reyna rolled her eyes and gripped the edge of the ping-pong table. "Another attack. These woods are full of monsters, and we are virtually defenseless. Most of our fighters are wounded, the camp is in ruins, and some of the demigods still think Octavian is their leader."

Frank nodded. "Alright, well, who put up the defenses in the first place?"

Piper realized the question was directed at her. "Oh, uh, I don't know. The gods, maybe?"

Reyna swore under her breath. "Of course."

"Reyna?" She turned to look at Frank. "Are you alright?"

"What? Yeah, yeah I'm fine." She just waved away his concerns, but the fact the ping-pong table was now the only thing keeping her standing didn't help her case.

Frank went pale. "Oh my gods, are you bleeding?"

Reyna shook her head. "It's just a scratch. We need to focus."

"That looks like more than a scratch."

"We have more important things to worry about."

"Look, Reyna, we're not getting anything done. You're injured, Piper is distracted, and Annabeth isn't even here yet."

"I can still work."

"Just go to the infirmary and have them look at you. And Piper?" Piper looked up at the sound of her name. "Try to IrisMessage Leo again. I'll go talk to Chiron and the Hecate kids about the border. When Annabeth comes back we'll meet up again- if the healer says you're fit to be moving around."

Reyna wanted to argue, but the look on Frank's face told her it would be pointless. She swung an arm around his shoulder like a human crutch and did her best not to think about the hundreds of monsters that could be lurking in the woods around them.

..…..

It didn't take that long to get Reyna a cot. She figured they realized that having the- no, a Praetor of New Rome bleed out in the waiting room couldn't be good for morale.

A healer walked up to her and sat down on the stool next to her. "Hey, I'm Will. So, Reyna, what seems to be the problem?"

Before she could tell him that she was totally fine, Frank interrupted. "She got stabbed." Will nodded and wrote something in her chart before looking closer at her leg.

Reyna was glad that Frank was being more confident and assertive, really. And she only wanted to strangle him a teensy-weensy bit.

She looked at the boy sitting next to her. "What did you say your name was?"

The boy looked up at her, beaming, "Will. Will Sollace."

"Alright Sollace, let's bring it down a couple notches."

He just laughed. Then it clicked. "Wait- you're Nico's friend!"

This time Will didn't look up, and he might have been blushing. "Uh, yeah. I think."

Reyna took a second to process that. Then she leaned back in the cot, "You may proceed."

He looked confused, "I already was, but thanks."

"If you mess up, though, I'll kill you."

Will looked even more confused. "On your leg?"

Reyna rolled her eyes. "With Nico."

This time he was blushing for sure. "Yeah, uh, I don't think you need to worry about that. He hasn't even talked to me since the battle."

Reyna groaned. She was going to have to get involved. "Maybe he's expecting you to talk to him first."

Will peeked up at her, "You think?"

Reyna nodded. "Trust me on this."

Soon Will had her leg cleaned, stitched up, and bandaged.

"Don't put too much weight on it. I don't think we have any crutches left, but the satyrs are looking for some more. I'll let you know when they're done."

Reyna shook her head, "No need."

"Um, okay."

She hoisted herself to her feet, admittedly feeling much better. Feeling charitable, on her way out she told Will, "He likes you too."

Will almost dropped his clipboard.

..…..

"I thought we were waiting until Annabeth came back." Frank said, looking worried.

"Who knows when she'll be back. We'll wait for her to start reconstruction, but there's plenty we have to do first."

"Like what?"

"Like fix the border."

"Right, I talked to Chiron about that, and the Hecate cabin is working on it."

"What's the estimated time of completion?"

"I think tomorrow morning?"

Reyna sighed. "That will have to do."

"Annabeth will be back soon. We can IrisMessage her later."

Reyna looked over her list. "Well, there is still plenty for us to do."

"Except what?"

"We could take a census."

"Why?"

"As praetors it is our duty to keep thorough records, Zhang."

This time Frank rolled his eyes. "That sounds like it could wait."

Reyna banged her fist on the table in frustration, "There are people counting on me! I can't just do nothing!"

Frank looked a little shaken by her outburst, but he remained steadfast, "Reyna, if you just take a little break, it'll be okay. You're not the only one in charge anymore."

Reyna sighed. She wondered when Frank had stopped being totally terrified of her. She also wondered if it was a good thing he wasn't scared of her anymore.. "At least check that the infirmary is stocked."

"Yes ma'am."

If anyone else had called her ma'am she would have assumed it was sarcasm. But it was Frank.

Just then, Piper burst through the door, leaving it flapping on its hinges. Reyna looked up, bewildered.

"I went to go IM Leo, and- oh gods- you won't believe it!"

[AN] Wow I wonder what happened. Guess you'll have to read the next chapter. I had so much fun with this chapter ngl. Pissed!Reyna is great. (Any Reyna is great tbh) Review! Well, that's all for today.

Next time on BS: We find out what Piper's been up to.