THALIA

Never, in the 8 years I had known Annabeth, had I seen her like this. Pacing back and forth in her room, muttering random words under her breath, her hands picking at the scab on her left arm... I'm honestly quite sure she's developed a mental illness in the 8 months Percy's been gone.

"Annabeth", I say in most soothing voice, "it's going to be alright, were almost there."

"I know, it's just the not knowing that's killing me, ya know?. I mean if I knew he was OK, that he didn't have a new girlfriend and that he remembered me, I wouldn't be stressing out about it, but now I am because I don't know that yet!" she rambled on.

I'm no therapist, but thanks to "Freaky Friday" , I know to just nod my head once in a while and let her talk.

"Thalia", she says, "are you even listening to me?"

Ack! She knows me to well!

"No", I admit, "but I know that Percy isn't stupid enough to be able to forget someone as unforgettable as you!"

She just sighs and continues to pace and mutter. Seriously, I need to take her to a mental doctor about this.

When I just can't take it anymore in here with Ms. Crazy, I head out on the deck to see when we're landing. Just then, Leo's voice comes over the speaker installed in the walls, thanks to our friend in the Hepheastus cabin.

"Alright my peeps, Supreme Commander of the Argo II here to inform you we'll be landing in 5." he bellows.

As soon as he gets off the intercom, Annabeth plows through all the people on the deck, causing a few cries of pain and sending kids tumbling over each other like dominos, out to get to the rail of the ship. When she caught her first sight of Camp Jupiter, her breath caught in her throat. I want to see to, so I follow her path of destruction. I gasp when I see it, it's so amazing. It was like a mini Rome, with temples of white marble and a coliseum to, right smack in the middle. There were also hundreds of little campers in togas that looked like ants. They would have been kind of comical, if you could ignore all of their pointy weapons pointed at us, ready to spear us if we were deemed dangerous.

I glanced over at Annabeth to see her face pale and clamy. I looked around to do a head count; Piper, Nico, Annabeth , Grover, Clarisse, Travis, Connor, Leo, wait, LEO!

"LEO!", I screeched, "WHO'S DRIVINGTHIS TIN CAN!"

"It's a little thing I like to call AUTOPILOT! Don't yell at me!" he retorted.

"Oh", I say sheepishly.

Annabeth, sensing my embarrassment, tried to change the subject.

"Uh, guys? Where's Jason?"

We all look around, trying to locate him. Then, suddenly, I know where he is. I don't know how, I can just sense it.

"Wait right here guys, I'll be right back."

I race to the front of the ship to find him sitting on Festus' head looking at Camp Jupiter. I just stand there watching him for a moment before slowly coming up behind him. He hears me coming and has his coin out of his pocket and flipped into a sword before I could even scream.

"Okay! I surrender!" I cry mockingly with my hands up in the air.

"Oh, it's just you." He replied dismissively.

"JUST ME! Don't you meen your lovely, wonderful, talented sister who took time off to be here to support my little brother? Let me tell you, Artemis was NOT happy when her head Hunter had to take time off for family reasons!" I exclaim.

When I see my humour hasn't made him laugh, I decide to try a different approach.

"Jason," I say soothingly, "what's wrong?"

He sighs then says "I like Piper a lot, but I love Reyna! And what if my friends hate me for being gone so long? I can't live if they are!"

"Look," I reply, "I know it's not much help, but you gotta do what your heart tells you to do about Piper and Reyna. And don't even try the whole Betty-Archie-Veronica thing, that would be unfair to them and you. As for your friends hating you, if they blame this whole thing on you when it was out of your control, you know then they really never were your friends."

He just sits there for a while, letting what I just said sink in. I then realize that we'll be landing soon, so I get up and say goodbye then walk back to the front of the ship just as I hear the THUD of the ship hitting the ground.

Here we go! I thought, now or never.