December 12th
It was now December 12th, and all the demigods had met up in the Big House that afternoon to clarify that they had indeed bought the gifts. Now, it was time to give them!
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Will decided that the best way to deliver his gift, was to drop it off before he went to Nico's cabin. So, he took the gift he had carefully wrapped, and walked over to the Ares cabin where Hazel and Frank were sleeping.
Quietly, he leaned his ear against the door to make sure no one was moving around. No sound. Will slowly opened the door and saw that nobody was there. They must have stayed in the Big House for a bit longer.
Will took the present and placed it on the dresser at the foot of the bed. He stepped back to make sure no one could trace the gift back to him, and then he was off to Nico.
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Annabeth knew that the only way to not be seen by other people, was to go early. It was also good for her that she knew that Thalia and Reyna had decided to take a run in the woods.
"I'm going to deliver my present!," Annabeth told Percy. Since Chiron was gone all day, and Coach Hedge wasn't there to tell them to put their pants on, they had decided to share a cabin for the night. They weren't going to do anything, of course, but it was nice to be in her boyfriend's company.
"Alright," Percy said. "I should probably do that too."
"Wait till he's asleep, Seaweed Brain."
"Good idea," Percy said, with a yawn.
Annabeth smiled and left the Poseidon cabin to go to Artemis'. She reached the cabin and paused for a second to make sure they were gone before she opened the door. Once inside, she decided to place her present under her bed. Then, she slipped back out like she was never there.
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Nico knew right away that there was no way he was waiting a few hours until delivering his gift, so at ten 'o'clock, when all his friends were sound asleep, Nico opened the window by his bed, and quietly slipped out before Will could wake up.
He walked around the back of the clearing to the Poseidon cabin, and opened the window next to Percy's sleeping figure. He gently lifted the glass outlined in wood, and placed the little fish in a bowl wrapped, in thin wrapping paper.
"Be sure to be quiet," Nico told the fish.
"Okay!," the fish agreed.
Nico carefully closed the window, and started walking back to his cabin.
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Grover couldn't wait a second longer. He was sitting in the Demeter cabin so that he could have a place for his Secret Santa to put his gifts, but his worry had intensified, and he just needed to do it.
He opened his door and walked out into the cold night. He started towards the Apollo cabin, when a figure walked in front of him. He and the figure crashed together, sending Grover to the ground.
"Are you okay, Grover," the voice of Nico di Angelo asked.
"Is that you, Nico?" Grover asked.
"Yeah, it's me."
"What are you doing out here?"
"Delivering my present. What are YOU doing out here?"
"Delivering my present."
There was grave silence for a few seconds.
"Is your person Will?," Nico asked.
Grover was too tired to come up with a lie, so he just said, "Yes."
"I can give it to him," Nico offered. "We're sleeping in my cabin."
"Thank you so much, Neeks," Grover said gratefully. Nico helped him up and he gave him Will's gift.
"See you tomorrow," Nico said, starting to walk towards Will's cabin.
"See you tomorrow," Grover replied.
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"Get up, Percy," Annabeth said, shaking him awake.
"I don't want to do this anymore," Percy wined.
"Go deliver your present."
"Fine."
Percy got up from his warm comfy bed and grabbed his gift for Jason, on his way out. He walked outside and started off towards the Zeus cabin, but stopped short when a familiar person appeared.
"Jason?" Percy asked, feeling too tired to look or think clearly.
"Percy?" Jason asked. "Where are you going?"
"I'm delivering my present," Percy said with a yawn.
"Me too," Jason told him. "Good luck."
"Yeah, you too," The bros walked in different directions, with Jason heading to Artemis's cabin and being happy to see that no one was there, and Percy stumbling off to Zeus's cabin where he let the gift drop somewhere.
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It was Piper's time to get out and deliver her gift, so she walked out of the Aphrodite cabin and tiptoed over to the Athena cabin where, as she expected, Annabeth wasn't there.
She placed her perfectly wrapped gift on one of the beds, and decided to leave it be.
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"Thump!", Leo heard something out of his window. His instincts were pretty sharp.
"Thump!", he heard again and suddenly sat up. He looked out of his window, but couldn't spot anyone there. He shrugged, thinking it was some random person.
As he was already awake, he decided to deliver his gift to Nico.
Leo watched from his window for a while, and noticed that Nico had left his cabin and gone back a while ago, and knowing him, he was definitely asleep already.
Leo snuck out of his cabin and tiptoed across the clearing, surrounded by cabins, and snuck to Nico's window. He opened it up and realized that there was a curtain blocking his view. He assumed it was the one by Hazel's bed so he pushed the box through the window.
He heard a grunt and quickly shut the window.
Shit.
Leo scurried away from the Hades cabin and into the safety of his own.
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Reyna and Thalia had been running around for an hour now, and were ready to head back to their cabin. They had wanted to let their friends deliver their gifts first, so they decided to get away from the cabins and just jog around the woods.
Once they got back, they headed to their room, where each of them saw a gift for themselves under their beds. They grabbed their presents, and Thalia ran off to the Demeter cabin where Grover was snoring away. She had wanted to draw on his face, but that would have given her away.
Reyna walked to Piper's cabin and stealthily tiptoed in to placed the present on her nightstand. Piper rolled and groaned in her sleep, making Reyna jump, but after that, it was smooth sailing back to her cabin.
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Frank had to do it now. He wanted to sleep and couldn't do that until he gave away his present. Taking a deep breath, he walked out the door and into the snowy night.
He walked delicately to Leo's window and was glad there was a small table there to set the present on. He placed the gift down and that's when Leo sat up in bed.
Trying not to scream, Frank dove under the window and crawled to the back of the cabin before Leo could see him. He waited a few minutes, shivering in the cold, before he heard the window shut and he felt it safe to return to his cabin.
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Now that Frank was gone, Hazel quickly took out the bag Hecate had given her a few months ago when she had offered to train her more, and pulled out the arrow. She still had a bad feeling about the guy in the store, but she had already bought the thing anyway, so why not use it?
She shoved the arrow in a cardboard box under the bed she was laying on and went back to pretending to be asleep before Frank came back in.
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Everyone had delivered their presents, and now, it was time to sleep and wait for the morning to see what's inside.