Annabeth's POV:
After the first five minutes of class, Annabeth already was drumming her fingers on the desk. The teacher droned on about some dude named Fredrick Douglas. Even I don't know who the hell he is, and I quite frankly don't care about him. After the war with Gaea, the seven decided to go back into mortal school together. Although no one knew that they were half bloods, she got the feeling that people still thought they were strange. One time, Jason asked Percy if he could use a pen during class, so naturally, seaweed brain decided to give Jason Riptide. As you can imagine, Jason took off the cap and screamed when it grew into a fully sized bronze sword. Of course since the mortals couldn't see anything out of the ordinary about the incident, it just looked like Jason took one look at the pen and threw it across the room for no good reason. Gods how much wanted the period to be over."Psst!" someone hissed behind me."Yeah you custard cap" I turned around to see Blair Campbell looking at me with a smirk plastered onto her doll like face."Be quiet Blair before you get one of us in trouble."I hissed back at her. Not that she would care. She would absolutely love it if I got detention. Mrs. Kirkland looked up at me before giving me the evil eye."Miss Chase and Miss Campbell, is there something that you would like to share with the class?" Blair imminently perked up before replying in her valley girl like tone "Mrs. Kirkland! Annabeth is passing notes to me." Mrs. Kirkland gave me a glare before asking "Is this true Miss Chase?" I knew that Mrs. Kirkland was on Blair's side. "Yes Mrs. Kirkland, I was passing notes to Blair." Mrs. Kirkland was going to say something, but was interrupted by the bell. Everyone got up and headed to the door. I was packing my bag up, when Percy strolled past me and winked. The 7 all agreed that we should keep the fact that Percy and I dating a secret at school, just in case any monsters were to notice, which seemed strange to me, considering that the monsters could smell us, rather than keeping tabs on who we were dating. But it was Piper's request. On my way to the door, Mrs. Kirkland gave me one last glare before going back to shuffling her papers.
Percy POV:
I was waiting for Annabeth in the hallway. She was taking sooooooooooo long. Maybe Mrs. Kirkland was chewing her out because that retard Blair got her in trouble. As I crossed the hallway to Mrs. Kirkland's room I heard it. Someone crying. It sounded suspiciously like Annabeth, and sure enough, when I peeked around the corner, I saw that arrogant excuse for a girl Blair. She had girls, just as freakish as she was, griping Annabeth by her arms, so it was impossible for her to get her Ivory dagger out. Annabeth has tears leaking onto her shirt, and she was clearly in pain from the tight grip of the two girls. I ran in, riptide in sword form ready to strike. Of course the bronze blade would go right through them, but I wanted to look imitating enough to scare them away. The girls imminently lost their grip on Annabeth, and she wobbled a bit before getting her blade out as well. I walked towards them slowly before saying "GO!" They ran away screaming something about bad mushrooms and left. I helped Annabeth to her feet and said "Are you OK?" "Yeah, I'm alright, sorry about having you to come and rescue me back there, it's just, they were so strong!" she exasperatedly huffed "Even stronger than Clarisse!" We met the rest of the 7 outside. "What took you so long!" Leo exclaimed "I had enough time to make 4 new updates to the Archimedes sphere, ya hear me? FOUR!" "Why do you need any more updates on that thing?" Frank questioned "it's a murder machine!" "Zhang" Leo said in a irradiated tone "I've had to answer enough complicated questions for today" "And.."he added with a huff "it is not a murder machine!" Piper rolled her eyes. And with that the bus pulled up and we made our way to Long Island Sound.
Annabeth POV:
Well now I feel like a complete idiot. I didn't even fight the big moron! Ever since Percy and I fell into Tartarus I've been feeling weak, hopeless. Dark thoughts crept into my mind, and I could tell Percy was going through the same things. Our dreams have been getting more vivid, more horrific, to the point that each morning we were both covered in a thick sheet of sweat and screaming our butts off. The only way to make the nightmares go away somewhat is if we slept together each night. Percy had experienced much worse things than I had in the pit (the gorgon's blood for instance) therefore, sometimes when Percy was reminded of a particularly dark thought, he would go into a kind of seizure, where his body would collapse on the floor and twitch uncontrollably. During this he would have these "flashbacks" where he would re-live the most horrific moments in the pit. The longest one of these went on was about 3 hours. This happened 5 times already. But after this he didn't seem to be physically injured. But still, we enjoyed the much needed sunlight and continue to have a smile on our faces. On the bright side, we had just arrived at Camp half blood. Jason merrily whistled as we passed through the branch arc, but soon stopped as we halted when we saw Chiron standing a few feet in front of us with a perplexed look on his face."Come with me children" he said in a anxious voice "we must discuss some things."
