[center][h1][color=#EEE8AA]Ezekiel Kel[/color][/h1]
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[I][color=#EEE8AA]Location:[/color][/i] Beach -- Camp Half-Blood
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	Were all women this infuriating? Nancy was yelling at him about things that were so far past the point. He wasn’t expecting a hero cookie for dating a guy or a child of Zeus for that matter. He was pissed that Nancy had disregarded Demetri like he didn’t matter. That he wasn’t involved in this as much as the two of them were. If she didn’t want him hearing her pain, fine but he had a name and a purpose in this quest and it wasn’t to be Nancy’s punching bag. 
	[color=#EEE8AA]”You can tear into me all you want Nancy but you have no right to tear into someone you don’t know. Your pain doesn’t give you the right to cause others pain! And me, kiss ass Diana? I thought you were going to run to your tent and write Apollo a letter expressing your gratitude when he came down and bestowed whatever the hell that gift was! He wasn’t there for you Nanc! None of the gods were!”[/color] Apollo. Diana. The gods in general were a sore topic for Zeke and one sure fire way to get Zeke to lose it even more than he already was.
	Nancy pulled away from Ezekiel, which he wasn’t surprised about but he had felt compelled to do something. She was probably right about the Lotus Hotel being indestructible but that didn’t matter. That place had broken Nancy and that had always bothered Zeke, even now.
	[color=#EEE8AA]”Let it come back! I’ll burn it down again! Let that be my eternal death for all I care. As long as I get to see it burn and no one else has to go there.”[/color] It was irrational and purely emotional but Zeke had wanted to do something since he first learned of it from Nancy. He was emotionally hot, angry, frustrated, hurt and sad. All of it revolved around the person standing in front of him and they continued to feed into each other’s need. Maybe it was what they needed?

	Now he just listened to her, the things she could say and the things she couldn’t say. Ezekiel still didn’t really understand the prophecy or what she had seen but Nancy was adamant about not going. Zeke wondered if she was telling him that or begging him. He stepped closer to her, hands raised, wanting to take her shoulders but he clenched his hands and dropped them back down again so she wouldn’t pull away from him once more. 
	[color=#EEE8AA]”If you don’t need to be there, then I don’t want you there, Nancy. You went in alone, didn’t you? If I’m going with Demi, maybe we’ll get each other out but you need to tell me what to watch for. They make you think you’re happy? Okay, do you remember how? You broke the spell and survived… clearly not in a good way but you did. You’re the only one I have Nancy to talk to. But we can take our time, okay? I’ll tell Chiron so if I have to and it can just be you and me talking while we fire arrows, whatever. Your friends too if you need them but this is unfortunately something you are going to have to talk about. Unless you really do want me to just figure it out as I go. Most of the time we have even less than this to go on for quests.”[/color] Zeke was being pushy, sure but there was a bit of a time crunch with these things. He was being as attentive as he could at the moment but unfortunately, like most things, the gods didn’t care about trauma or the person they were sending into peril. When they sent you a prophecy to do something, it meant they wanted it done. Now.