A/N: I didn't know if this was even allowed, because I copied words from the book. If it isn't, please PM me.

Wow, when I edited this . . . I found there were plenty of mistakes. Probably a lot more, but I am *currently leaving it like this.

Disclaimer: With the exception of my own plots/OC's, etc.; Rick Riordan owns the rest (quotes, characters, etc.).

Warnings: Slash, Pernico (Percy/Nico) pairing, spoilers for BoO

I: PERCY

Trouble Right Over the Hill

When Percy and Annabeth were discussing about New Rome and college, the son of Poseidon covered his nervous thoughts with a "whoop".

Annabeth laughed at the reaction, but Percy was secretly upset, because he wanted to stay in Camp Half-Blood. Plans were made around already—like Clarisse and Chris getting married in August. Travis asked Katie out and they were dating. Percy didn't like change, but it was spreading rapidly around Camp Half-Blood. Even Piper and Jason were planning to spend the school year in Los Angeles with Piper's dad.

"Hey! Look!" A voice shouted.

Percy scanned around, spotting the Stolls a few feet from them.

"It's a book!" Travis cried out to the interested demigods.

Annabeth cocked her head. "Huh? What book?"

"It's called The House of Hades," Conner reported. "But there's some pages missing."

"Can you read it?" Percy wondered. He was definitely curious. He and Annabeth walked over to the Stolls.

"It starts on page 278." Travis scanned the page. "Luckily it's in Ancient Greek. Annabeth, will you do the honours? I mean, you are the only bookworm here."

"Shut up, Stoll," Annabeth grumbled. She took the book, and began to read.

"Jason wasn't sure what Favonius wanted, but if facing the god of love meant forcing Nico into some sort of confession about which girl he liked, that didn't seem so bad.

'Nico, you can do this,' Jason said. 'It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter.'

Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like he was going to be sick. But he squared his shoulders and nodded. 'You're right. I—I'm not afraid of a love god.'

Favonius beamed. 'Excellent! Would you like a snack before you go?' He plucked a green apple from his basket and frowned at it. 'Oh, bluster. I keep forgetting my symbol is a basket of unripe fruit. Why doesn't the spring wind get more credit? Summer has all the fun.'

'That's okay,' Nico said quickly. 'Just take us to Cupid.'

Favonius spun the hoop on his finger, and Jason's body dissolved into air."

Annabeth paused. "I'm not sure about this anymore. It seems kind of fishy to—um, explain about them."

"But Nico likes a girl!" Percy couldn't help but whine. "I wanna know who she is!"

"Us too!" the Stolls said in unison. The two brothers each had identical mischief grins plastered on their faces.

Annabeth glared down at the book, like it was a ticking bomb. "It's . . . it's none of your business. This is Jason's and Nico's private journey. In fact, I am going to destroy it."

"No!" the Stolls begged.

Annabeth ignored their pleads, and tossed it in the river, right where the nymphs were in.

The nymphs stared at the book curiously, and then dragged it underwater with them.

Percy stared at the fallen book, even more interested. Was there something Annabeth knew?

"Seaweed Brain," Annabeth called. "I'm going to go check on Rachel. Can you explain to Will that I need some Ibuprofen?"

"Yeah, sure." Percy heard laughter from the water. As he entered to the edge, one of the nymphs threw him the book. He caught it, figuring what Annabeth wouldn't know won't hurt her. So, he opened the next page, right where it said: XXXVI Jason.

Then he began to read.

The House of Hades: Page 280