This was an idea that popped into my head one evening and wouldn't leave me alone. I'm terrible at updating, ask anyone who's ever read one of my fics, but I will my best with it. I just don't see the point in writing if my heart's not in it, but I think I'll stay rather interested in this idea as there are lots of twists I could add in. As always, I'm open to suggestions. :)

This takes place shortly after The Last Olympian- None of the events in Heroes of Olympus took place, but I will still use the characters. Everybody goes to Goode and I'll explain how the Greeks know the Romans later on.

I don't own the Percy Jackson Series.

Annabeth:

Every sixteen year old girl wants to be famous, right? They want the glitz and the glamour, the money, the endless luxury. They want people to look at them and feel lust or envy, to be the pin-up on somebody's wall. To become a role model for doing nothing but relaxing in a luxurious house with a hot pool boy all day, listening to themselves on the radio or watching themselves on television.

I wanted a lot of things, but fame wasn't really one of them. I'd never been one of those girls that sought out riches and admiration. I wanted to be the girl that saved the lives of her loved ones, the one that had trained forever to be able to do that. To swing a sword, throw a knife, or wield a bow. To be a hero, because otherwise why had I wasted my time preparing for those moments?

I wanted to quest, and find adventure. Above all else, what I wanted was your typical half-blood life. Not a reality show, uncomfortable fame, failed friendships and rocky romances. Not betrayal, backstabbing and bitchiness. And I most certainly didn't want my world as I knew it to come crashing down around me with three simple words:

Goode Goes Global.

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"So, what are we doing this afternoon?"

Travis Stoll sat at the head of our lunch table. We let him do it because it made him feel special, but we were always quick to knock him off his pedestal if things got too out of hand.

"We're not doing anything." Thalia snorted. "Nobody likes you."

We all laughed at the mock tears Travis pretended to cry. We were a large group, taking up more than one table. It consisted of me, Percy, Thalia, Nico, Travis and Connor Stoll, Grover, Katie Gardner, Rachel Dare, Piper Mclean, Jason, Reyna and Leo.

"Aw, Thalia. You broke his little black heart." Katie joked. We were a close group, Greek and Roman camps combined. Although I always said it was dangerous to have too many half-bloods in one unprotected place, it was worth it to attend Goode with my friends from the two camps. Even Thalia had managed to convince Artemis that a little schooling wouldn't hurt the young lieutenant.

"But seriously, what are we going to do?" Connor Stoll asked.

"Yeah, it's a Friday. We always hang out on Friday afternoons." Percy added. Our large group consisted of different ages and very different personalities. Sophomores, juniors and seniors were our ages, with most of us being juniors. We weren't popular, but we didn't care. We were happy, content to hang out with each other and only make casual small talk with the rest of the Goode population when necessary. We weren't up ourselves or proud or anything- just after all we'd been through together, we preferred to spend time with each other.

We had discovered the Roman camp shortly after the titan war. We were supposed to be enemies, but they were just like us Greeks. Over the last few months, they had become true friends to us and we wouldn't change that over some silly old tradition of sorts.

"We could just chill by the pool at Piper's place?" Jason suggested, squeezing her hand. Everybody agreed that that sounded like a good idea, and we made plans to meet there an hour after school finished. It may have been November, but we were going through an intense Indian summer that had us all sweating buckets.

"Want me to pick you up?" Percy muttered in my ear. My stomach did a flip, and I held back a small smile.

"In Paul's old hoof dented Prius? No, Percy. I'll pick you up." I smirked. Okay, so it wasn't exactly a traditional relationship- but who cared? We were happy.

"Attention students." The principal's voice crackled through the speakers. "I have an important announcement. Here at Goode, we pride ourselves on the excellence of our students. It seems like America is wishing to take note of that, and we have been personally selected by MTV to be the subject of a high school reality television show."

A ripple of excitement ran through the cafeteria, especially from Travis and Connor. Okay, I'll admit it. Originally, I was kind of intrigued about being on a reality show and perhaps a little excited myself.

"Filming begins on Monday, and students will be selected as the main features of the show. Visit the auditorium Sunday morning at eleven to audition for one of these roles. And please remember to be on your best behaviour when the cameras are here, because that will be when Goode Goes Global."

The students cheered, and my friends and I were caught up in it too. It was new and interesting and exciting- so long as they didn't catch us killing any hellhounds or whatever.

…

It was six o'clock and the sun was only just beginning to set. Lounging around the pool in Piper's backyard was incredible- her house was amazing. I could never comfortably live in a place like this, but spending an afternoon or two there was definitely appeared more than once on my weekly 'To-do' list.

"So who's going to audition then?" Nico asked. He was sat at the poolside, his feet dangling in the water. The reality show had been the topic of conversation for the first fifteen minutes of us being at Piper's, but that had ended when Grover fell in the pool and almost broke his leg. Upon learning he was okay, we had laughed our asses off.

"Eleven in the morning? No." Reyna scoffed. She was a strong personality, but for a fierce Roman leader she really hated mornings.

"I think I will." Jason nodded. "It could be real fun."

"Give me a ride?" Thalia asked her little brother, who rolled his eyes in response. We all knew he would give in to her though, he always did.

"I think my life already has enough drama, thank you." Piper laughed, and I agreed with her.

"Well, Travis and I are obviously auditioning." Connor grinned from the shallow end of the pool, where he was splashing Katie and Leo.

It was decided that Jason, Thalia, Connor, Travis, and Rachel would audition. I said I'd give Rachel a ride- I liked her a lot more now that she was the oracle. For me, Grover, Percy, Piper, Katie, Leo, Nico and Reyna it was wasn't really our thing. We'd still be on the show, we decided, just not as features.

"Not auditioning?" I asked Percy, leaning back against him on the sunbed. His skin was warm and his hands sent heat through my body as he placed them on my hips.

"Can you imagine me on a reality TV show?" He grinned.

"No." I laughed. "Like seriously, wholeheartedly no."

The sun dropped lower and it wasn't long until we were curled up under blankets in the living room. We covered the seats and floor and had ran out of pillows, but we didn't mind.

"What movie shall we watch?" Piper asked, sorting through the collection of DVDs that didn't have her dad in.

"'We're the Millers'!" Leo yelled, but was quickly shot down as we had watched that last week.

"How about 'Avengers'?" Nico suggested, but nobody liked the sound of that either. Various suggestions flew around the room but we finally settled on 'The Hunger Games', a group favourite.

The movie was great, but around halfway through people started to fall asleep. This tended to be how our afternoons and weekends ended- some or all of us would have a fun day together and end up asleep in each other's living rooms. It was second nature to us, we were like a family. A large, annoying, dysfunctional family. And now, we were about to go global.

I hoped you all enjoyed the first chapter and that you want me to continue this, because there are literally so many different plots I can run through here and I'm quite excited. :)