This is my first fanfiction ever and after years of reading other's fanfiction, I finally decided to give this a go. All ideas and suggestions are appreciated.

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or HOO, Rick Riordian does.

Frederick Chase's POV

I never really had had the best relationship with Annabeth, she reminded me too much of Athena. However, I still loved her and her running away from home at the tender age of six made me feel really guilty. Annabeth had returned for a short while when I wrote a letter to her when she was ten but she left because camp was her true home. Miraculously, Annabeth had tried to improve our relationship again when she contacted me by letter when she was twelve. Even then she was driven away by the upcoming war with the Titans and all the monsters that were chasing her.

Then after the end of Titan war, she had contacted me to tell that they won the war. Now about a year and half after the Second Titan War she contacted me again to tell that she is in San Francisco. I invited her home to spend some time with her family and she agreed but said she will bring along a friend from camp.

Now, my wife, Helen is ensuring that the house is cleaned, dinner is cooked and the kids are dressed to welcome Annabeth. I straighten the collar of my shirt to remove any wrinkles and look at the clock. Annabeth will be here any minute. Just then the bell rang alerting me that Annabeth is probably at the front door now.

I opened the door to find my seventeen year old daughter and a familiar-looking young man along her side, who I presumed was Annabeth's friend. Annabeth suprisingly hugged me and I returned it glad to finally meet my daughter again, and shook hands with the young man who introduced himself as Percy Jackson. The name brought back a memory of three years back when this young man, then just a boy knocked at my door asking for help to rescue Annabeth.

I led both the teenagers in.

Bobby and Matthew both burst into the room and hugged Annabeth immediately, excited to finally see her after so long. They were excited to know about Annabeth's life as a demigods as they recently learned about the gods from Helen and I. Annabeth winced at their touch at first but hugged them back.

"Good to see you too, Bobby and Matthew", she said standing rather close to Percy.

I asked Annabeth all about how she had been, and she told me about how she alongside with Percy had won the Titan War. She told us about the new prophecy which had Percy, her and five other people, however she didn't go into much detail only talking about her friends mostly. Her eyes looked dull like she had seen too many things that someone her age was not supposed to.

I studied Percy, he had grown from the small, lanky boy to a tall and muscular man and his sea green eyes held pain and misery, much like Annabeth's did. We made small talk and he mostly talked about his family in New York and about camp.

Helen yelled from the kitchen that dinner was ready and we all went to the dining table. Helen went to hug Annabeth and smirked approvingly at her after looking at Percy. Dinner was served and everyone made small talk. Percy even offered to help Helen clean up after dinner. Bobby and Matthew asked Percy and Annabeth a lot of question about their demigod life. I noticed that Percy and Annabeth paled at a few of their questions about the most recent quest, so I changed the topic by offering to show Percy his room for tonight. Percy and Annabeth both paled a lot at that.

"Is something wrong?" I asked.

"N-no", Annabeth squeaked out sending an almost pleading look to Percy who averted his eyes from mine at that. He retreated to his room and Annabeth went to hers.

Later, around midnight I woke up to screams from Annabeth's room and rushed to see what happened. I opened the door to room expecting to see a monster attacking her but was surprised to see Annabeth screaming in her sleep, but before I could enter the room Percy ran and hugged Annabeth whispering about how she was safe now and he was okay, and that they were out of that place. This seemed to calm Annabeth down a bit and she relaxed against Percy, still crying which was odd because Annabeth was a person who never gave into any hardships that came her way and always fought everything with a tough face. I wanted to enter Annabeth's room to check on her but Helen appeared by my side and assured me that Annabeth would be alright and that Percy had it all handled. I was worried about Annabeth but figured that she needed space right now so I went back to my room.

Later the next morning when I asked her about it, she told me all about what had happened in the last few months -how Percy and her were together, they were issued a new quest, Percy was kidnapped, they had to travel across the world and how they fell in Tartarus. I was ashamed that my daughter didn't trust me enough to tell this to me but proud of her to face it and save the world again. Also this experience allowed me to understand the magnitude of love and faith Annabeth and Percy had for each other.