"That's a great shot- but next time try and aim a little higher above the ground. That way you can avoid shooting Julia's foot…" I said to Gertrude, a 7 year old camper I was training that day. I will never cease to understand why in Hades Chiron put me in charge of archery. The last time I held a bow I nearly shot Grover and I've had 14 years to learn how to do it. You would think that the son of Poseidon would work with water all day and all night, but instead Clarisse takes campers down every day to go canoeing with the different campers. I've begged her to swap with me but she 'insists' that she needs to broaden her horizons. That and the fact that Annabeth is probably paying her.

"Gertrude- why don't you take Julia to the Apollo cabin- see what they can do. Get back here as soon as possible." I said, and Gertrude nodded sadly as she walked off, Julia following behind hopping on her foot while trying not to cry. I tried not to laugh, but it's not exactly easy.

"Percy!" I heard Piper call, after tending to another couple of Aphrodite girls.

"Hey Piper- what's up?" I said and she looked worried. I've learnt to understand a type of look I get a lot. I call it 'the brave look'. It means someone is hiding something bad for the good of the other person while at the same time, has no idea what the hell is going on. Annabeth gives it on a daily basis to me now, and only recently did I figure out exactly what it was.

"Um- nothing really, so don't freak out. It's just that Annabeth sort of- well- she kind of lost consciousness for a minute…" she said slowly, and my head began to spin. The next minute I was sitting down, not really understand the situation. Piper looked at the campers smiling at them, trying to hide the fact that their teacher was having a mental breakdown.

"Let's go." I said, getting up and storming towards the entrance of camp, Piper rushing hurridly behind me.

"Percy no! She told me not to tell you- she didn't want you to freak out over nothing." She said, trying to catch up to me. Fortunately over 4 years of chasing down kids that got into stupid fights about who would win in a WWE match gave me that little extra speed. "Grover" she called behind me, and the next thing I knew, my half-man, half-goat of a best friend bowled me over, taking me with strength I didn't know he had.

"Get off!" I yelled, or tried to. He was sort of sitting on my face, so whatever noise came out of my mouth was muffled through his course goat hair. I really hoped he wouldn't fart. Eventually Grover got off and stretched, though not before I took a couple of helpless punches at his torso.

"Thanks Grover" Piper said, as he shrugged.

"I don't like this…" I said, wiping off some leaves that had stuck themselves on me. Campers walked past with a dazed look on their face.

"What?" Grover asked.

"This- alliance- you two have formed. Just because you're friends and have a mutual hate for me, doesn't mean you can just tackle me whenever." I said and they both laughed.

"We don't hate you." Piper said, with a little twist in her voice. I can never tell if she is using her charm or not.

"Yeah- we just don't like you." Grover joked and I rolled my eyes, getting up and beginning to walk towards the barrier again. This time I made sure to walk at a pace that Piper could catch up to, in partial fear of getting tackled by my best friend again.

"Percy there's nothing to worry about. She's fine- she just coughed a little too hard and hadn't slept much, so she just, lost focus a little." Piper said, but I ignored her.

"I knew I shouldn't have come here. They really don't need me, and besides, why purposely buy a house outside of camp half-blood, only to spend all of your time at camp half-blood." I said, and Piper took my arm.

"Are you kidding me- you spend all of your time at home. You literally come here for an hour each day." She said, and I looked away.

"That's not true." I said stubbornly.

"Percy-" she said, looking at her watch- "you literally got here 40 minutes ago." She said, and I grabbed her watch. She was right. I got here at 9:00. It was now 9:40.

"Gods" I said, taken aback. "Maybe I shouldn't come here anymore- at least not until the baby is born." Piper bit her lip as I looked up at her, hoping for an answer.

"No- you should- you're sort of driving Annabeth insane. You worry too much." She said, and I frowned. It took me a minute to realise she was right.

"Well- can I at least see her now?" I asked, and she laughed, nodding.

"For someone that's 23 Percy, you're really a big baby." She said, and I rolled my eyes, trying to ignore the fact that she was right. "I've already organised a cab for you- it's waiting at the bottom of the hill." She said, and I was taken aback.

"How did you know I would go?" I said, and she just laughed.

"Please." She said, as I turned my back jogging down to the car. "Oh and Percy- don't worry about your archery class- I've got it covered. Thanks for asking!" she yelled after me and I cringed. I had completely forgotten I had a class on. The drive in the cab took what felt like forever to get home. To be fair, I was sort of egging him on. That's probably why he had to make a gas stop. When I finally got to our little apartment, I almost forgot to pay the cab driver. Hopefully I won't have to see him for a while.

"Annabeth!" I yelled, knocking on the front door. There was silence on the other side of the door. Maybe she was still asleep? "Annabeth!" I yelled again, ready to knock down the front door. "I'm breaking down the door in a minute." I yelled, trying to hit her weak spot. If there was anything she hated most, it was me targeting the walls that she designed for our house.

"No!" I heard a feeble voice from inside. "Don't come in." she said and I rolled my eyes.

"Don't be such a baby." I said, and I could practically hear her roll her eyes.

"In case you hadn't noticed seaweed brain- I'm growing one inside me!" she said, and I laughed. Then the handle slowly opened (after undoing what seemed like 30 different locks) to open onto a very green looking Annabeth.

"I know I'm over obsessive and clingy, but do I have to go to camp half-blood every day?" I asked, and she sighed.

"Fine- but don't come crying to me when we run out of milk and you have to get it rather than Piper." She said, and I smiled like a kid.

"Great." I said, and she smiled. I leant down for a short kiss, and see gave me a quick one on the cheek. "Oh come on- is that really all I get, after being your night in shining armour." I said, and she walked into our room holding her hand on the door about to shut it.

"Percy, I've thrown up about 3 times today- maybe 4- do you really want to taste last nights dinner when you kiss your beloved girlfriend.

"On second thought…" I joked, as she shut the door in my face, trying to hide her laughter.