Chapter 1

The rain was pounding mercilessly. Every drop that hit the roof arose me from sleeping. After a few minutes of constant pitter patter on the house I rolled around in bed. Initially I was just reaching for the lamp chain on the night stand, instead I found something else. A hat. As soon as my fingers graced it my arm quickly jerked itself back, almost as if it had a mind of it's own. I guess it was just my subconscious trying to keep memories from flooding back into my head.

I pushed back all of the covers concealing my body and pushed myself up out of bed. my eyes darted around the room in search of the alarm clock. It was only 2:47 in the morning... "How am I ever supposed to get any sleep?" I thought to myself. Stepping towards the mantle above the fireplace I caught sight of a picture and grabbed it. This was my favorite one, it was sitting there nonchalantly waiting for my nightly routine to start. The picture
was a reminder of the greatest day of my life. My wedding day. I stared at the photograph as memories overwhelmed me.

We were up on Olympus, everyone was there, Gods, Mortals, and Half-Bloods alike. Mom, Dad, Paul, Tyson, Annabeth's family, and every other familiar face possible. Dionysus was making and pouring drinks, Nico was discussing the lack of black at the wedding with his father Hades, and sister Hazel,Jason and Piper were talking to Aphrodite about college, Frank and hazel were getting a tour of Olympus from Chiron, and Coach hedge, Grover and Juniper were laughing with Rachael. It was something else...I sat the picture down and sighed beneath my breath.

When Ann passed away a lot of people up and left. I like to think that it was just there way of handling things. Chiron was so distraught he gave up his seat as camp assistant to Jason. Frank, and Hazel moved to Port Rico with Leo, and Nico went off to Brazil with his new girlfriend while Dionysus was finally able to return to Olympus. I walked to the kitchen deep in thought. I flicked on the light and walked over to the mini bar we had built in. Every once in a while we would invite everybody over for a few drinks, but since then the Jackson home had become..."Less" lively. More than I had usually liked. I walked over to the counter and decided to grab a bottle from the shelf above my head. A couple of drinks couldn't hurt me could they? I poured myself a small glass and the night carried itself on out.

I awoke to a pounding on the door. Looking around I see and empty bottle on the floor next to me.
"Great." I mumble to myself in disappointment.
Pushing myself up of the floor I walk down the hall to the door, the bottom of my pajama pants scuffing the hard wood as I do so. I approach the door handle and turn the knob.

There Jason and Piper stand with smiles on there faces.
"Hey guys." I invite them in.
"Your not even dressed up yet!" Piper chides.
"Am I supposed to be?" I reply.
"You obviously forgot that today is the day that Camp gets inspected Percy." Jason breaks in.
"It's fine." Piper smiles at me. "We came over to make breakfast before the day starts anyways."
Jason and Piper shuffle in through the front door and head straight for the kitchen.I follow them intently thinking that breakfast sound perfect right about now.
"So..." Piper states. "We had some more to drink last night I see."
My head slinks down so i'm in perfect sight of the paneling on the floor. We've talked about this quite a few times before. It's not one of my more favorite discussions. It hasn't become a real problem yet but it's been slowly getting there.
"Whoa!" Jason butt's in. "Give the guy a second to wake up." He walks to the mini bar and sighs while picking up the empty bottle. "Ya could have at least invited me he jokes.
"Jason..." Piper warns.
"It's a joke." He smiles at her with white teeth showing. He walks to me and puts an arm around me. "Lets get you cleaned up man. Do you mind cooking this morning Pipes?" He turns around and asks.

We walk to my room and Jason shuts the door behind us. "What are you doing Percy? How are we supposed to keep the camps united and make good examples of ourselves when we can't even take help one another?"
I rub my eyes and look up at him. "I'm trying. It's not easy...I lost her Jason."
"I...I know Percy, It's just...We don't want you to form any bad habits. You still have responsibilities to this camp and it's campers. Everyone dealt with Annabeth in there own way, we still are too. We get that it's harder for you though man."
"I'll do better." I reassure him. I walk to my closet and pull out a whites dress shirt, a blue tie, and some slacks hanging on a hanger. "I promise."
"I hope so." Jason looks at me with some worry in his face. I'll let you change now, We can talk about today in the kitchen." He leaves closing the door behind him.

I sit down at the table to a five star meal, Piper always knew how to cook. Bacon, eggs, and hash browns covered all three of our plates. We say a quick prayer to our parents and I slip in something for Annabeth, then we dig in. As were cleaning the dishes Piper starts "We've been preparing for this state representative to preform her inspection for a couple weeks now, so were pretty much set."
I sigh thankfully at our efforts. You see, went Dionysus left the strawberries dwindled. Camp Half-blood is supposedly a summer program for troubled teenagers. Every year an inspector from the state comes down and gives us the okay to open our "gates". We have to make it as normal as possible.
"I just hope we did a good enough job."
"Of course we did!" Jason smiles.
"Plus, there's a new inspector this year. So, we don't have someone looking for the same mistakes we made last year." Piper adds.

I thank them for the positive encouragement and walk towards the door."Say, Jason?" I mutter as I grab my suit jacket off of the coat hanger. "You said we had a new inspector this year? What's his name?"
"It's a woman." Piper chides. "And her name is Ms. Granger."
"Hmmm." I hum. "Well lets get going."