This how you do an Author's note right?

This is my first story to be published anywhere, ever. I will try to update at least twice a year. Reviews and related paraphernalia are very much appreciated. I do not own anything recognisable and I drew inspiration from HoneySim's Stuck in the Past, which you should go check out. I decided to publish this after my friend, Archer, published her story (a web of love) to Quotev, which you should also go check out. Sorry for not doing this before, I didn't really know how. Thank you to the reviewers so far and thank You for reading this.

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A Suspicious Lack of Hamilton

Kronos wasn't stupid. As he was a titan of time but not a titian of prophecy he could see most of the outcomes to a situation but not the most likely or even all to the outcomes. He could see that while many of the outcomes of the war would be in his favour there were a few, just a few, in which the gods and their campers won the war. He could also see that in almost all of the futures in which he lost it was because of Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase.

Which is why, when they approached him in the final battle, he started whispering a spell of his own creation. The spell enchanted two objects to send back whoever was holding them when the objects touched to the year of their birth. The objects he enchanted were Percy's sword and Annabeth's hat.

He wouldn't have created a time-spell if not for the fact that all of the other time spells were only for one person and he needed to send them both back.

The reason he chose the year of their birth was because he knew that if anything saw its past self then it would cease to exist in that timeline. He also knew that it was a piece of knowledge very few people were in possession of and therefore that even the girl did almost certainly not know it. He hoped, but did not know, that sheer human curiosity would lead them to try and find themselves in the past.

The spell did not come into action until five years later. Annabeth and Percy were both twenty one years old and happily engaged.

They had been sparring before they went to the past. It wasn't anything particularly important to either of them and as such neither of them were trying particularly hard. It was really more of an odd form of flirting then it was a sparring session. This explains why Annabeth chose to parry one of Percy's weaker thrusts with her hat, instead of with her dagger.

She soon wished she had not.

The second the enchanted objects touched there was a flash of something akin to lightning and they were thrust into something that felt… It is something almost impossible to describe, which is not helped by the fact that very few people have been on the receiving end of a time-spell and even fewer have lived to tell the tale. One of the many useless phrases that barely brush the very edges of describing a time-spell is to say that it lasts both an instant and an eternity.

When the journey ended they found themselves somewhere in a forest. Neither of them knew where they were but they did know that the forest they were in was similar to the one that bordered camp half blood. They began to walk as they hoped, desperately hoped, that they had merely travelled in distance and not a horrible alternative.

After a full day of walking in which they stopped only for water and a handful of blackberries they were forced to concede defeat as they had found no trace of camp half-blood. Or, indeed, anything other than the forest.

Working as quickly as possible, as darkness was impending, Annabeth created a crude shelter and Percy a small fire. Tired but not yet exhausted they watched the sun set before falling asleep in each other's arms.

The next morning they stripped a nearby blackberry bush of its berries and talked as they worked. They discussed their situation and what to next. Percy suggested that the thing that had brought them there could bring them back but he was incorrect. They talked through many plans but in the end decided to stay where they were, so long as it was a suitable place.

Percy looked for the nearest water source and Annabeth examined all the nearby animal tracks. Percy found that the water source was a little further than he would have liked but he didn't consider that to be something bad enough to move as it meant the risk of flooding was minimal. Annabeth found no animal that would pose a major threat in the area she checked, but she did find some small carnivore and omnivore tracks. She also found several tracks for herbivores of various sizes.

When Percy came back he helped her build a couple of traps within walking distance (all of the unabated variety) and collected more blackberries while Annabeth found some mushrooms that she identified as edible.

When they had enough food to make a decent meal Percy started preparing a meal of the berries and mushrooms while Annabeth checked the traps and fetched some water. Neither of them particularly believed that the traps that had only been set that morning would have sprung but the last time Annabeth had tried to help in the kitchen she had burnt water and they did need some water anyway.

While Annabeth was trying to get the water to stay in the middle of the largest leaf she could find it occurred to her that there was probably a water nymph and that the nymph would know where (and perhaps when, though she didn't like to think of that) they were.

Approaching the water she greeted the nymph. She got no response on the first try but stubbornness insisted that she try again. This time she said that she was sorry for disturbing the nymph but she needed assistance and felt that the nymph would be the best person to turn to.

A rather unusually dressed nymph did climb out of the water at that point. She was clad in the long white dress of nymphs that had been practically unchanged for thousands of years. That was not what was unusual. It was the way her hair was pilled upon her head and the fact that she appeared to be wearing a corset.

She looked at Annabeth as though she had not seen anything stranger but she did offer Annabeth assistance, as she had asked politely. Upon seeing the nymph Annabeth changed the question she was going to ask from 'where am I?' to 'when am I?' She also asked the nymphs name.

The nymph, who was called απο ΜΗΧΑΝΗΣ ΘΕΟΣ, told Annabeth that they were on long island in the colony of New York and that the year was 1693.