"Did you get them?" An elderly lady with sharp gray eyes and dull gray hair spoke with no emotion in her voice. She was addressing the person across from her.

"Yes." A young man replied, seemingly nervous about the conversation.

"And you are sure no harm came to them?" The elderly lady asked her sharp gray eyes narrowing.

"None at all. They are in the medical ward." The young man responded seemingly with more confidence.

"Good." Was the sharp reply that he was given.

At that moment a young women with brown hair and grass green eyes approached them. She addressed the elderly lady with just as much unease as the young man had. "The carrier has woken up."

The elderly lady nodded but the young women was not finished. "Only..."

"Only what?" The elderly ladies sharp gray eyes became steal and her voice glass.

"The carrier has gone into early labor, we think it was brought on by the sleeping drug."

The young man paled as the elderly lady's eyes found his.

Turning back to the younger woman the elderly lady set her jaw. "Make sure the subject lives." The elderly lady didn't need to remind the young girl what would happen if the subject didn't live.

The young woman hurried out of the room with her head down, relieved she hadn't been blamed.

The young man however wasn't to be so lucky.

"I wasn't the one who drugged her I..." The young man was practically groveling at the elderly women's feet.

"Lets make a deal." The elderly lady's voice cut him off as easily as scissors through paper.

"The carrier is going into labor three months early. If the subject lives after it has been injected you get to live. If it dies well... you know what happens."

The young man nodded weakly. He knew he didn't have a good chance of living much longer, not after they gave the child the injection.

The elderly woman spun around rather gracefully for a woman her age and walked out the door. Outside the door there was what seemed to be a guard. She barely glanced in the guards direction as she walked by. Only giving a simple order to him as she went.

"Kill him."


The elderly lady hadn't gone far before she once again entered a room. This time however the room was decorated to look identical to a normal hospital room.

Not that it would matter for very long how the room looked but it was always best to keep up appearances. The room was not what the lady was looking at though, her gaze was on the woman in the bed and the doctors that surrounded her. The woman was currently in labor and breathing hard and did not notice the lady as she entered. Only moments later there were infant cry's echoing through the room. One of the doctors held the baby and keeping up the act handed the child to the mother after making sure he was healthy at first glance. "Here you go Miss. Jackson, you have a healthy baby boy. What will you be naming him?"

The woman, who's name was Sally Jackson smiled down at the baby in her arms, "Perseus Jackson."

"What a unique name." The doctor said holding his arms out for the baby once again. "However we do need to make sure he is healthy."

Sally willingly handed over little baby Perseus to the doctor. Not knowing what she was handing him over to at that moment, not knowing that she was being tricked to giving up her one and only son.

"I'm sure he is healthy. He is going to be a strong young man when he gets older." Sally said confidently beaming as she gazed at her son again.

The older woman still watching this go on from a distance chuckled as she walked up to Sally, passing the doctor on her way to the bed. She whispered, "Take him strait to the injection room." into the doctors ear as she passed him. The doctor nodded and walked out the door with the subject in his arms.

"Miss. Jackson?" the elderly lady asked once by her bed side.

The exhausted woman looked up, "Yes?"

The elderly lady held up a clear plastic medical bag she had in her hand, "I need to give you this it helps you fall asleep easier."

"Alright." Sally said not knowing she was agreeing to her own death as the clear fluid started to make its way up her blood stream and eventually stopped her heart.

On the opposite side of the building young Perseus Jackson started crying in the hands of the so called 'doctor', the doctor not sure why he was crying shrugged and kept walking.

Percy however had just experienced his first emotion, sadness for deep down he know he had just lost someone important to him.