Disclaimer: I only own the mortals and plot. All of the other characters and stories belong to Rick and the CW.
"Are you sure I have to come back today?" Percy asked his step-father, Paul as they drove to Goode High.
"Percy, you've been out of school for months now, you need to go back some time. Plus, don't you want to see your friends again?" Paul replied.
"I guess so," conceded Percy. "But I still wish it didn't have to be-I don't know-so . . . school-ish."
Ever since Hera "helped" Percy by magicly kidnapping him, Percy had not been in school. He had never had an easy time at school, so he wasn't exactly excited to be going back. After all compared to high school, saving the world was a pic-nic.
When the duo, English teacher and student, arrived at Goode, there were still a few students loitering on the steps of the building, but most people had already gone inside and were talking at their lockers and in the hall.
Percy was searching for a familiar face in the crowd of students when he heard a voice shout, "Percy Jackson! Where the hell have you been!" behind him.
This voice happened to belong to Chloe, a petite girl with light brown hair and pale skin, who had one of Percy's best friends at Goode before he had been spirited away. Surrounding her were several other people, most of which Percy's best friends. There was Tucker, Percy's teammate on the Goode swim team, and a tall-ish blond girl that Percy didn't recognise.
"Hi . . ." Percy greeted tentatively. He wasn't sure what expect after getting shouted at by Chloe. A chorus of "hey"s and "hi"s greeted him back.
"How and/or where have you been?" inquired Chloe. "How can you just randomly disappear and then just pop up at school today like some it's just normal day?"
"Good. I was traveling with my family." relied Percy. He and Annabeth had decided that was the most accurate way to explain his absence without actually telling people what happened. "What about you guys?"
"We've been fine, but the important thing is that you're going to be on the team now that you're back, right Percy?" demanded Tucker. Percy was the best swimmer in the school, and without him, the team hadn't won a single meet.
"Of course I am." Percy assured his friend, and they high fived. Annabeth was not a big fan of Percy showing off with swimming, but seeing as being a demigod usually sucked, Percy figured he should be allowed to enjoy one of the rare perks.
A loud "hem, hem" came from the blond girl, who up until then had been standing quietly a little ways away, and Chloe smacked herself on the head. "Oops! Sorry, I completely forgot for a second. Percy this is Rebekah Mikaelson. Rebekah, this is Percy Jackson." Chloe quickly said.
Precy waved at the new girl. "Nice to meet you, Rebekah."
"Charmed," the blond responded casually.
"Wait! you're British?" exclaimed a confused Percy, who had not expected the accent.
"Yes I am, however could you tell?" asked Rebekah sarcasm dripping from every word. For the entirety of the time she had been in Goode everybody felt the need to ask her about her accent, and she was getting a little tired of it. Hadn't any of these kids met a British person before?
"Well you ha. . . Oh." Percy responded. He had thought it to be a legitimate question until he saw Jules and Max laughing at him. "So, when did you move to the States?"
Rebekah smiled. "I've been here a while; I just haven't lost my accent yet." Honestly she had been in the states for a very long time, but somehow the accent just stuck with her everywhere she went.
"Rebekah started Goode about three weeks ago." Chloe informed Percy.
Percy had maths first thing in the morning and was basically brain dead by the time it was over because he had missed a lot of material, seeing as saving the world does not allow for much study time, so he was very relieved when he saw his next class was ancient Greek. When he entered the classroom, he saw the only empty seat was next to the new girl, Rebekah. She raised her eyebrows expectantly at him, seemingly asking him why he wasn't sitting down. He hurried to sit before he could look even more awkward because by now the whole class was looking at him while he stood in the doorway, almost late for class,
Once he had taken a seat at the desk next to Rebekah, the teacher, Ms. Connor, started taking roll. When she arrived at Percy's name, she did a double take when he responded "Here!" She had never had him in class before because of his recent absence and was nervous that he would not be able to catch up. After all Ancient Greek was a very difficult language for most children, much more difficult to learn than Latin, the other classical language the school offered.
"Since we just had our test on declining first and second declension nouns into the main five cases, we will be doing a fun little mini unit as a break before moving onto more verbs conjugations. We will be doing a unit on the ancient Greek religion and vocabulary that applies to it," announced Ms. Connor.
"This is going to be easy," Percy thought. "It's not like I've saved their Olympian behinds twice."
"Can anyone tell us who the main twelve Olympians are?" Ms. Connor asked. "Perhaps, mr. Jackson?"
Percy rolled his eyes. He hated cold calling, but for once he actually knew the answer. "Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Artemis, Apollo, Hephaestus, Ares, Aphrodite, Athena, Demeter, Hermes and Dionysus."
Ms. Connor nodded. "Good. Miss Mikaelson, can you tell me the names of the god of love and the goddess of revenge?"
"Nemesis and Eros," Rebekah answered. She had been around long enough to be fully versed in most of the world's religions, and as she once told Stefan, other cultures fascinated her.
"Correct. Now . . ." As Ms. Connor kept talking, Percy shuddered at the thought of Nemesis and Eros. Both of them had been less than pleasant during the quest. As he dwelled on the gods, he was accidentally staring at Rebekah.
He continued to stare at Rebekah until she whispered at him, "Do I have something on my face, or are you just struck by my beauty?" She widened her eyes at him and gave him a look.
Percy quickly looked back at Ms. Connor, but his blushing cheeks gave away his embarrassment at his own somewhat weird/creepy behavior. The class ended without any further embarrassment for Percy, and both he and Rebekah started to walk to lunch after the bell rang.
At lunch Chloe chatted away about some blond new girl, and how everyone was talking about how pretty and smart she was. Apparently Chloe really wanted to get to know her.
"Chloe, do you even know her name?" Percy asked his friend. Chloe often enjoyed gossiping without knowing any of the facts, but she rarely ever spread malicious rumours; she just liked to know what what going on.
"No, but I do know she takes all advanced classes and has these really cool grey coloured eyes," Chloe informed the others.
Chloe's answer caused Rebekah to snort and raise her eyebrows at her friend's lack of information, but then again she was used to Caroline's amazing talent for gossip and omniscience. "I think her name was something like Annabell or Annabeth." Rebekah supplied.
"Wait! What!" exclaimed Percy. "I can't be," he thought. "It can't be my Annabeth."
"Yeah, I had Maths with her this morning. What's the big deal?" asked Rebekah. As far as she knew, this girl was new to the school, so why was Percy reacting like this? Then again, he had been acting strangely the whole day. Maybe strange was just his default.
"Yeah, what's the big deal, Seaweed Brain?" teased a familiar voice behind Percy.
Percy whirled around, and was shocked at what he saw. Standing before him were Annabeth and Nico!
"What are you guys doing here?" he said as he stood up. He was very excited to see his friends, but he was worried that they were there because something really bad had happened and he was needed for a quest.
"Learning. What do you usually do at school?" asked Annabeth in a sarcastic manner, her electric blue eyes sparkling with amusement at his confusion.
"Both of you?" Percy asked in disbelief while waving his arms around to further establish his point.
"Yep,both of us," replied Nico, rolling his eyes. Annabeth and Will had forced him to go to school in order to assimilate, but Nico would much rather be hanging out with the dead or practicing in the arena with Will.
"I'm sorry," Chloe interjected with a confused look on her face, "Percy, how do you know these people?" The Rebekah and Tucker nodded in agreement with her question. She had said what they had all been thinking.
"Oh yeah, sorry. These are my friends from summer camp who for some reason transferred here," Percy explained. "This is Nico." He pointed to Nico as if someone would be confused between Nico and Annabeth.
"Are we saving the best for last?" Annabeth teased her boyfriend.
"This is my girlfriend, Annabeth." Percy said with a smile on his face. "This is Tucker, that's Chloe, and that's Rebekah."
After everyone exchanged the necessary pleasantries such as "Nice to meet you," and "I love your hair," the demigods all sat down and lunch continued in a somewhat normal fashion.
"Pay up," Chloe quietly demanded of Tucker. The latter groaned and dug a five dollar bill out of his pocket to pay his friend.
"What are you two doing?" Rebekah asked skeptically. She had known the pair for a while now, but she still was not used to them.
"He bet me five dollars that Percy was lying about having a girlfriend, but here she is, so I won," Chloe explained. She rubbed the bill against the corner of the table in an effort to smooth it.
"Why did you think he was lying?" asked Nico. Percy and Annabeth, or Percabeth as some of the more devoted campers called them, were a legendary pair. It seemed strange that anyone would doubt their love.
"Cause he always said he had a girlfriend when girls asked him out. I just kinda figured he was just trying to turn them down without hurting their feelings. Plus, he always said it like he was panicking; it made it seem like he was lying," explained Tucker, whose expression made his annoyance at losing the bet very clear.
Everyone except for Percy started laughing at the thought of Percy panicking and trying to explain that he had a girlfriend when girls tried to ask him out. While they were laughing, the bell rang, and everyone rushed to their next class.
Rebekah thought this whole business was more than a little strange. What were the chances that they would all go to the school? The new kids all seemed normal enough, but she wasn't sure. Something was just. . . off, but she decided to disregard this feeling. After all, she had come to New York to be normal, and suspecting your classmates of having supernatural and/or murderous intentions was not normal behavior; it was Klaus behavior. There were many things in life that Rebekah was not sure of, but she was very sure that acting even remotely like Klaus was not at all normal.
Just as she made this decision, Rebekah walked into gym class. Despite appearances, Rebekah quite liked physical activity. She had even looked forward to gym in the few weeks she had been at school. Rebekah went towards the bleachers to put on her gym shoes and overheard some interesting conversation with her enhanced hearing.
"DId you see Percy's face when you surprise him? It was priceless. I was tempted to take a picture and add it to the orientation video!" said Annabeth. Rebekah raised her eyebrows at this. What orientation video? She thought.
"He would kill you if you did that. By the way, what did you think of his friends?" replied Annabeth.
"They seemed ok. You are taking forever to put your shoes on!" said Nico in a rather exasperated tone.
"Yeah, let's go," said Annabeth, and the two left the bleachers. Rebekah soon followed them out to the gym to wait for the teacher. While she was waiting Rebekah looked around and saw that all of Percy's camp friends and Percy were in the class as well. This was again very strange, but Rebekah just put it down as good luck.
"Listen Up!" the gym teacher, Mr. Philips, shouted. "Today we're going to be playing dodge ball, but first everyone run ten laps to warm up!" Most of the class groaned, but Rebekah just started running. She was very careful to maintain a humanly possible speed as to avoid suspicion, and Percy and his friends started to pass her. Rebekah decided not to engage them in a competition instead of a warm up, so she just let them pass her. She did notice that they did not seem tired in the slightest, but none of them looked out of shape so she shrugged this observation off.
"Hey! Jackson!" Mr. Phillips hollered at Percy. When Percy turned to look at him, Mr. Phillips beckoned him over. "Get over here. I wanna talk with you for a minute!"
Percy paused his conversation with Tucker and walked over to his teacher. "Yeah, Mr. Phillips?" If it were any other teacher, Percy would be very nervous at being singled out, but Mr. Phillips was the swimming coach at Goode, so Percy was pretty sure he knew what Mr. Phillips wanted to talk about.
Mr. Phillips pointed a finger at Percy. "Now, Jackson, Am I right to assume that you will be joining the swim team again, now that you're back at school?" Percy was a very important part of the team, and Mr. Phillips was eager to have him back.
"That's right, Coach," Percy replied. He was excited to get back to competing.
"Glad to hear it." Mr. Phillips turned back to the rest of the class. "All right. Your teams are on the whiteboard," Mr. Philips announced, "Red team on this side. Black team on that side." Rebekah was on the black team with Percy and Tucker. Nico, Annabeth and Chloe were all on the red team. The game went quickly and eventually just Thalia, Percy and Annabeth were still standing. Will was not still standing because Annabeth got him out.
"You're going down, Jackson!" shouted Annabeth as she paced back and forth with a ball in each hand. She threw one of the balls at Percy and just barely missed him.
"Missed me!" Percy taunted as he threw a ball at Nico. This ball hit Nico, and he had to go out. In retaliation, Annabeth quickly threw a ball at a girl on the black team named Jules and did not miss this time, so Jules had also went out. Finally, Annabeth fired at Percy, and her aim was true to its mark. Percy went out, so it was just Rebekah and Annabeth facing off.
"Let's go," Annabeth challenged Rebekah. Rebekah simply raised her eyebrows in response, so Annabeth kept going with her taunts. "What's wrong? Worried you'll chip your nails if you throw the ball?" she taunted. She was normally more civil in competition, but Rebekah had smirked at Annabeth everytime she got a member of Annabeth's team out or dodged one of Annabeth's balls.
Annabeth was so preoccupied with her own hubris, that when Rebekah threw a ball she didn't react in time and was hit by the ball.
"Would you look at that? I didn't chip my nails after all," Rebekah announced with false sweetness and Annabeth glared daggers at her.
"All right, all right, hit the showers y'all!" Mr. Phillips interjected before a full out argument could start. He had taught high school long enough to know when things were about to get ugly. Rebekah smirked at Annabeth one last time, and they both went to go change.
Thank all of you for reading. This a rewrite of my previous story that I will be continuing to write as I write this story. I just wanted to try out something different with this story and will be making a lot of changes to the plot and style. I have a little game. I use the names of chapters and episodes from fandoms I love to make my chapter titles. The first person to comment with the fandom that the chapter name belongs to will win. Thanks again for reading. I will update soon.
