Where we were not supposed to be (Bella)

[Eowyn Oppedyk]

The lives of demigods were dangerous, they always had been. Bella and Eowyn went back quite a bit, though neither had told the other what they were. Eowyn had not spent a lot of time at camp, before this year it had been one and a half summer. The first was the half year after her claiming just around her birthday and the other the following year. Since she was now fifteen this was her second full summer at camp. She mostly stayed holed up in her own cabin but for once she wanted to be different. She wanted to get to know people and build some bonds and friendships. It was that time and it wasn't like she could deny her heritage any longer, even less so with the monster attacks that had been increasing over the last year. Maybe she was starting to resemble her mother a bit much?



What she had not expected as she went to the strawberry fields to steal some strawberries was to see a familiar face she had not expected to see within the confines of camp. It didn't take her long to recognise her childhood friend Bella, and even less to rush towards the girl despite the shock of seeing her here. "Bella?" She said as she made it close enough to the other girl. "What on earth are you doing here?" She said, the joy mingling with disbelief into a messy sort of pudding. She was dying to hug the other girl but didn't want to risk getting knifed accidentally. That wouldn't make for a very pleasant reunion. Not that she knew what weapon Bella preferred. She hadn't even known the other girl was a demigod until now!



Bella Donna

[Bella Donna]

Bella was late. She hadn't meant to be but she got so caught up talking to one of her fellow campers during her sword fighting class that she lost track of time. That seemed to happen a lot around her. But she had so much talking to do. She had spent most of the last year in the middle of some forest with her parents and film crew that she had almost forgotten how to talk to people her own age. Shocking really. So obviously she needed to catch up on what she had missed while she was away during the year. And then she may have gone on a slight tangent... and carried on.

And now she was late.

Her siblings would not be impressed.
This was their one major responsibility in camp. Maintaining the strawberry fields. Helping them grow. Making them that little bit special to keep customers coming back for more.
They would never guess the secret ingredient was godly magic. That the children of Dionysis and Demeter who had been blessed with the powers of Chlorokenisis encouraged the plants to be slightly addictive.
I mean after all, these were stories from myths. Legends. Definitely not true. And if it were why on earth would it be in America? On long island of all places.

The smell of strawberries floated through camp as Bella rushed towards the field. You would think that after a while it became too much but Bella loved strawberries and the sickly sweet smell never bothered her. To be honest she had smelt a lot worse so it was quite nice to smell something so pleasant all the time.

Bella ran into the field she was supposed to be working in, almost tripping over one of her siblings in the process. A startled noise followed by the frustrated sound of her name followed but Bella didnt stop, instead shouting a quick "Sorry!" As she carried on running.
Soon she was at her patch. She sighed and slowed down. You could barely tell the difference between her area and her siblings. They would never be able to tell she was late.
Slowly, humming slightly, she sent a small tendril of power towards them, enough to encourage her plants to grow a bit more. Enough to turn the green berry into something slightly red, then a bit more and a bit more until the strawberry was at perfect ripeness. Once that was done she moved onto the next one. And the next one and the next.

The sun shone down on her, warming her back and arms as she carried on, lost in a daydream until she heard a noise behind her.
She redirected her power, sending a thick green vine towards whatever was coming to disturb her, ready to defend herself as she turned around. Then she heard her name. She stopped the vine inches away from the girl who had almost snuck up on her. Eyes wide as saucers she just stood there in disbelief as Eowyn Oppedyk carried on talking. "What on earth are you doing here?"

This was impossible. There was no possible way that she was here right now. Bella was imagining things. Eowyn wasnt a demigod. She couldnt be. No way. But here she was. Stood in front of Bella. “Eowyn?” she asked, her voice cracking slightly. Then, inexplicably, her eyes started to tear up.

Everything suddenly felt cold. The world turned upside down. This could not be happening. But maybe this explained it. Explained everything. The feelings that Bella had had towards the girl. They weren’t real. It was just some supernatural sense towards the girl that they were the same. It was a survival instinct, to want to be close to another demigod.

Bella took a step back. Allowed the vine she had almost grabbed Eowyn with shrink back to the plant it was growing from. And then she blinked the water from her eyes and put on a small smile. “I imagine the same as you.” The words sounded flat coming out of her mouth. She wanted to jump and cry and embrace the girl. She wanted to gush and talk until she couldn’t anymore. But if she was right then everything she had felt wasn’t real. Eowyn wasnt really her friend at all.

[Eowyn Oppedyk]

Luckily for Eowyn she was not aware that Bella was sneaking up vines to strangle her. That would be a horrible way to die. She preffered to do the strangling herself with her wires. It was a very intimate way to kill but Eowyn would simply consider it revenge for any injury she'd received from the monster prior to her victory and consider it compensation.

The look Bella gave her hurt a little, Eowyn was willing to admit. She'd been a little rude though so she couldn't fully blame the other girl. For a moment they simply stood there, staring at each other like they were phantoms. Moments later the awaited reply came out and Bella deadpanned her. A small sarcastic smile spread across Eowyns face before she stopped caring.

She rushed forward and almost tackled the other girl in a fierce embrace, hugging her close and burrying her face in the locks of the older girl, breathing in the familiar scent that she associated with love and friendship. "I've missed you so much." She softly muttered into her hair as she burried her face in both the hair and the nape of Bella's neck. Perhaps it was odd or inappropriate but Bella was Eowyns favourite person in the whole world.

She pulled back a little and wiped a tear from the corner of her eye, overwhelmed by emotions. "I didn't know you were a demigod!" She then stated in a half-accusation. It wasn't like she had told Bella about her heritage so it was hardly fair to throw blame. It made sense, but Eowyn felt awkward about getting emotional and was taking it out on her friend a little. "Nemesis, by the way." She stated dryly as she begrudgingly stepped back out of the embrace she'd forced the other girl into. If only she could have made it last longer for some reason...

Bella Donna

(Oki, so maybe no WIP but sorry if it short and full of spelling errors cuz on phone)

[Bella Donna]

Bella froze as Eowyn threw herself at her.
She didn’t know what to do. How to respond. She didn’t know what was going on.
Slowly though she relaxed, bringing her arms around the other girl and releasing the breath she hadn’t realised she had been holding.
A warm fuzzy feeling crept through her as Eowyn told her that she missed her. She squeezed Eowyn slightly in response, completely unsure how she had gotten here.

Maybe this was a dream. It felt like a dream. It would make sense. Bella dreamed about the other girl sometimes. Eowyn had crashed into Bellas life 5 years ago and somehow kept on reappearing. Was it possible to be linked to someone like this? Fated to constantly run into each other over the years? Entertainment for the gods? A punishment for something unknown to either girl? Bella wasn’t sure coincidence and Eowyn Oppedyk belonged in the same sentence as one another.

But she was really here. It wasn’t a dream. Eowyn was real. And here. And holding onto Bella like she wouldn’t ever let go. Bella wished she wouldnt ever let go. But as soon as the thought crossed her mind it left again. Whatever this was, whatever her feelings had been, clearly there was a third party controlling it all. And as Bella had already decided, it wasn’t what she had thought. Just a survival instinct. To be close to her own kind. Even if she hadn’t felt that towards any of her other fellow campers.

Eowyn pulled away before Bella was ready to let her go, wiping a tear from her face. Saying she hadn’t know. And then she stepped back completely and all the warmth was once again sucked out of the girl. “Nemesis by the way,” Eowyn had said. It took Bella a second to clock on but she realised that the other girl was talking godly parentage. Thankfully they didn’t share the same parent.
“I’m one of mr.D's. Dionysus, that is,” Bella said grinning and gesturing to the field around her. She wasnt sure how much Eowyn had seen of her power usage when she crept up on Bella.

[Eowyn Oppedyk]

Things changed, but others didn't. Eowyn realised instantly that their dynamic was going to change because of this entire both being demigods thing. Obviously Bella was the stronger and more powerful one. Eowyn was just a side character when it came to that kind of a story and she knew it. Minor Goddess as a parent meant you simply didn't matter all that much in the bigger picture. Not that it mattered to her, she'd already figured out the ways she wanted to explode when her part in the grand picture would eventually meet the predictable but untimely end. Bella? She stood a chance out there, she had the power to fight and probably the will to do the same. Eowyn didn't really manage to care about much to begin with, except her own obsession with knowledge about all things electricity. Perhaps that ought to have been her career if she lived long enough to get the education for it.

Bella was spacing hard though, as she was silent and didn't really respond at all to Eowyn, something that kind of annoyed the daughter of Nemesis. What was going through her head? Nothing changed with what they were, did it? They were still very much the same people, just more aware of themselves, each other and what the world around them actually looked like. She shoved Bella's shoulder, perhaps a little harder than required. "Yo Bells, you know I adore you but if you keep spacing out you're going to miss the entire big reunion thing we are supposed to have going on!" She chided the other girl, perhaps a little bit annoyed. Why was Bella suddenly acting differently? She didn't understand! Had she done something? Would be rather typical.

But Bella returned, or at least for the most part, by naming her own heritage. Eowyn chuckled and a mischievous grin spread across her face. "Are you spacing because you're drunk? Does Mr. D let his kids booze it up?" She asked, half serious and half teasing. Somehow it all made a lot of sense. The girl and the poisonous plants. Mr. D had a talent for things alcohol related so it kind of made sense that Bella would have picked up on the fact that alcohol was technically speaking just a low key poison to the human body. She looked her friend up and down for a moment, smiling ever so slightly. Where Eowyn certainly had grown more extreme in her style the thing that stood out most to her was how beautiful Bella looked. She seemed to be thriving in this particular environment. Well, Eowyn certainly did not do that brilliantly. "You look gorgeous." She said, completely unaware that it could be considered flirting. She plucked at a lock of Bella's hair. "Did you get different shampoo? Your hair smells crazy good!" She complimented, grinning slightly. She wanted her friend to know... but she wasn't quite sure what... What exactly was she trying to communicate? Probably just a compliment on how well Bella seemed to be doing in camp. That made sense!

Bella Donna

[Bella Donna]

Bella didnt mean to come across as weird and spacy as she was doing. She just had a lot going through her mind all of a sudden. There was so much to process and think about. The monster attacks and the attraction towards Eowyn. But Eowyn was the child of a minor god. Her scent wouldnt be as strong to monsters... so they were definitely after Bella and not Eo. Bella wondered how long Eowyn had known for, how long she had been coming to camp. How long she had been here for this time, if it wasnt her first and she wasnt a year rounder. She had so many questions. But she suddenly didn’t know how to ask them. Barely knew how to speak

But then Eowyn, in typical fashion, interrupted her thoughts, asking if she was spacing because she was drunk. Bella couldnt help but laugh at that. “I’m not actually sure I can get drunk. I’ve not really tried though. Sixteen remember. Also, cant imagine my parents would be impressed with me if I did. Not that I would ever really get access to alcohol in the middle of nowhere.” She grinned and rolled her eyes jokingly. Her mum and dad wouldnt mind Bella having a drink every now and then with them at dinner or something. As long as she was with them and they knew what she was drinking they didnt have a problem with it. But at Sixteen Bella wasnt really all that interested in booze, especially not after she had seen the way her real dad was. She did not want to turn into that. Ew.

Eowyn interrupted Bellas new thought path again when she complemented her, telling her she looked gorgeous and smelled good. Bella didnt think she’d ever gone so red so quick. But then realised Eowyn obviously meant it in a friendly way rather than any other way Bella was thinking of. They just hadn’t seen each other in a long time. Things were obviously going to feel a bit strange and they were obviously going to say some silly things until they got their normal dynamic back. So, not thinking too much on it Bella replied, “I think it’s the magic. And camp. But mostly the magic. I mean obviously it drains you using too much of it, but right now I’ve only just really started out for the day and ripening fruit to perfection barely used anything anymore. But I think that’s what the smell is too. Magic. If that’s a thing? Or it could just be the fields. I use the same shampoo as everyone here really. Camp store special, or whatever is left in the shower blocks... but yeah. Nothing special. Just...magic.”

Bella couldn’t help but smile at the other girl while she spoke. Eowyn had gone more extreme since she last saw her, and shed definitely grown a bit but she still looked like Eowyn. And that Eowyn made Bella ramble. She couldnt help it. She talked a lot on a good day, but it usually made sense. With Eowyn she wasnt sure what she said did. She could barely think with the other girl looking at her like she was, so speaking was always an extra challenge. Bella took a breath to calm herself down, to remember to chill out and for God’s sake be normal. “So, nemesis huh? That’s cool?”

[Eowyn Oppedyk]

Eowyn wasn't too sure if Mr. D upheld the same rules for his own offspring as for the rest so it was good to ask anyway. She wasn't too interested in getting drunk or whatever and it didn't really click in her head to see Bella as a raging alcoholic. Bella confirmed that by mentioning she didn't plan to disappoint her parents by getting drunk too early. Seemed like Eowyn would still be causing more trouble between the two of them. It was to be expected so the daughter of Nemesis didn't mind. In a way she felt as though it was her nature.

Then followed magic rambling. Eowyn didn't actually have any specific powers that she knew about, unless one counted her sarcasm as superpower but it seemed like a lame kind of thing. "Magic..." She said dubiously before shrugging carelessly. "I wouldn't know. I got no magic powers that I know off. I don't exactly get out often enough to try but I don't really want to take big risks. My cabin doesn't have much of a butterly reputation." She shrugged as it didn't really matter to her.

She was far more curious as to why Bella had gone so red with a single compliment. Things had changed, as she didn't really remember this being a thing last time. She just mostly remembered talking as much as possible, sending too many letters and sometimes a text or two when she could get away with it when with her parents. A lot of their recent interaction hadn't been face to face, so maybe that was why things were a little different?

She smiled and looked at the berries in the field. "Can you like, grow them or something then?" She asked curiously. "Because that is totally awesome!" She grinned as she stole a strawberry and stuffed it in her mouth. "They even taste better when made by you." She said with a wink. It was just a friendly joke right? It didn't have to mean anything! She was just happy to see her friend again was all.

"Yeah I guess? I mean.. yay revenge?" She said with a shrug. No getting mad, getting even. An eye for an eye. Nothing is free type of mentality. It wasn't the kindest place to be and calling somebody lucky was kind of an insult. Odd people, she and her siblings, but maybe that was okay? Bella hadn't run screaming yet at least. That counted for something big to Eowyn.

Bella Donna