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Annabeth POV

Annabeth looked at the camp below. Another chill ran down her back as she had yet another flash of panic tighten the very core of her being. 'What if he…'- no- she had to stay focused. She would never forgive herself if anyone got hurt because she was worried or absorbed in her constant obsession to find Percy.

"Percy…" she sighed longingly. "No, Annabeth stay focused." She reminded herself again as she walked down to talk to Leo.

When Annabeth got to the meeting room she ran into Jason who was smiling from ear to ear. 'Oh no… that is never a good sign.'

"Oh, hey Annabeth. Leo, Piper, and I just finished making the message for the Romans," he explained.

"And what is so funny about that. This is a very serious matter; the Romans you knew could have changed completely in 8 months." Annabeth scolded tensely.

"Hey, hey, hey. Calm down. It's not the message that's funny, well, not really. It's Leo."

"Enough said," she said with a tight grin.

"True. You know everything is going to be alright, don't you?" he asked truly concerned for her well being. Annabeth had to admit that she was going a little over the edge of the cliff, something she had done quite literally a few years back. "You look like you are caring the weight of the world."

"No, no that is much more painful, trust me." She swept the grey streak of her hair that was identical to Percy's behind her ear, and with that she walked into the room not wanting to explain the entire story of the battle with Atlas.

When she walked in she walked into another legendary Leo/ Piper conversation. "Supreme Commander Leo? Really?" Piper was laughing.

"What it was better than 'Repair Boy'" he countered. Leo had grease and dirt smudges covering just about every visible inch of him.

"Please tell me that you did not just make that video to the potentially hostile Romans looking like that," she said looking over some of their battle plans.

"Oh, hey Anna," he said shrugging off her plead.

Anger flashed inside her before she pushed it down with the panic and other emotions threatening to boil over. "Leo, I told you, it is Annabeth."

"What about Beth?"

"No."

"Ann?"

"No! Leo it is just Annabeth!" she snapped a little too harshly. "I'm sorry Leo. I'm just a little stressed."

"About the Romans or seeing that guy Percy again?" Leo asked absent mindedly.

If it had been anyone else Annabeth would have had her knife at their through in less than a moment. Percy Jackson was more than just 'that guy', but it was Leo. Leo was just too ADHD, even compared to Percy which was saying something.

"Leo!" Piper protested hitting him upside the head.

"OW! What?" Piper gestured over to Annabeth who was once again trying to push down the fear and panic of seeing Percy and all of the possibilities. "Oh, I'm sorry Annabeth. It's-"

"I know, I know. It is going to be ok. So I've heard," she sighed. Everyone had been treating her like she was a fragile child for the last 8 months, just waiting for her to burst at any moment with no reason. That was everyone but Chiron, Clarisse, Grover, and Thalia. They knew that she could handle it, and if she couldn't they knew she would be more likely to start hacking at someone's head rather than bursting into tears. At that moment she thought she might just do both.

"Annabeth…" Piper started.

"No really," Annabeth interrupted again, "I'm fine." She turned to Leo once she had her emotions in check. "How much longer until we land?"

Leo got the same face he got every time somebody asked him a question like this. It was very different from the face he had on any normal basis which was smiling and elfish. This face was dark and cold almost sad as if you compared the two; this was a face of a boy that was needed. "Well we just made the video so we should give the Romans and hour or two to take it all in."

"Shouldn't we go sooner? If they decide not to trust us then we are just giving them time to prepare themselves." Piper pointed out. Annabeth really liked Piper but she was really bad at the whole daughter of Aphrodite thing.

Piper was good at strategizing like Athena but she dressed even worse than a child of Ares. Her boots were caked with mud, her jeans were about 5in too short, and her camo jacket barley covered the stained "Superhero" t-shirt she wore. Her hair was braided loosely like always and anyone could tell she was not wearing makeup like her sisters, but her inherited beauty shone like the sun anyways.

"That is true Piper, but if I know Percy, which I do, than even with no memory I can't imagine that he would hurt anyone of us without good cause." Annabeth said. It felt like she had eaten a gallon of snow as she said the words 'no memory'.

"And coming into an enemy camp in a flying war ship with a flaming metal dragon's head instead of a mermaid doesn't say 'good cause' to you?"

"That is why we sent the video," Leo answered.

"Good point, but what about the fact that he has spent 8 months with the Romans. Going off of what Jason has said they are not as friendly as the Greeks." Piper asked worried.

"Jason wasn't hostile," Annabeth countered refusing to think that Percy could have changed like that. At all really.

"He had no memory at all. Percy has at least 8 months of it." Annabeth could tell Piper wasn't convinced of this but instead was just preparing her for the worst.

"I know which is why we have a plan. And a backup plan." She said almost proudly.

"And a backup plan for the backup plan." Said Piper a little annoyed.

"And a backup plan for the backup to the backup plan," Leo added with a laugh. The serious face lasted while it did and it was never very long.

"So I'm thorough," Annabeth shrugged, "Better than Repair boy," she added with the first genuine smile she had had in months.

"I told you!" Piper laughed poking Leo in the stomach.

"Whatever!"

In the distance a horn interrupted them causing all of them to grow as quiet as the dead.

"I am going to guess that they did not need two hours." Piper said.

When the trio reached the main deck Jason, Grover, and Thalia were waiting for them.

"So I guess this is the moment of truth. Bring us down Supreme Commander Leo," Jason saluted teasingly causing everyone to laugh.

"Shut up Jason and go stand where everyone can see you." Leo shot at him annoyed but still smiling which took away from the anger in his voice.

"Aye aye!" he saluted again and went to stand at the edge of the boat were everyone would get off.

Then the boat descended agonizingly slow toward the doom awaiting them.