A Willing Hostage

I do not own Percy Jackson

Percy put his keys into the ignition and put his foot on the pedal, his car was packed with the summer essentials, everything from sunscreen to an extra shield. The only free spot was shotgun and that was reserved for his girlfriend, Annabeth.

It had been one year since Percy turned sixteen, but it felt like it had been forever ago. He had dreaded it since the day the whole matter was brought up but the thoughts of what could've happened still haunted him. Every time he went to Olympus for some complicated reason he actually didn't have anything to do with but somehow got involved he had to think, "I could've destroyed all of this."

It took three hours before he pulled up in front of Annabeths house, well actually her dad's house. She had attempted to live with her dad again after the final battle. And in a moment Percy was about to find out how that had gone.

Within moments Annabeth walked outside dragging two suitcases behind her, and she seemed to be struggling. Percy jumped out of the car and came to her aid, "Hey, need help?" Annabeth kept walking towards him, "I'm fine, Percy, I can handle them mysel…" Percy cut her off by planting a kiss on her; he took the suitcases and put them in the trunk.

"Just for the record I could've done that by myself." She told him while getting into the passengers seat. Percy slipped into the car a moment later and said, "So, how was living with your dad?" Annabeth shot him a dirty look, to which he responded, "That good?"

"I'm not going back, Percy. I'm putting all of them in danger." She leaned back into the leather seat and continued, "A fury showed up, tore a hole in our roof and nearly tore the boys out of bed."

Percy cringed, he remembered how horrible it was when his mom had been in a very dangerous position because of him being a demi-god, and it was horrible. "They think I'm coming back in two months, Percy, I feel like such a liar." Percy took her hand, "You're doing the right thing, wise girl." She smiled half-heartedly and Percy stepped on the ignition.

AT CAMP HALF-BLOOD

The moment Percy and Annabeth walked through the enchanted gate to camp half-blood that familiar feeling washed over the both of them. This was home, but they both knew they wouldn't be training for long. Each summer, they always ended up going on some crazy quest to save the world. And just because the worst was over didn't mean it was the end.

"Percy! Annabeth!" They turned around to see an armor-clad Grover running towards them. "Grover, how're you doing?" Percy asked, initiating their classic greeting, "Not bad, not bad." Annabeth pulled Grover into hug, "I'm taller than you, Annie." Grover said with a huge smile, "Gravity does horrible things to the mortal, Grover." She replied, laughing.

"I'm glad you guys finally got here, Chiron's been a mess all day, Rachel came up with a prophecy this morning and I have a feeling its bad." Annabeth groaned, "Already? We just got here." Percy laughed a little, "Oh the irony," He picked up his bags while Annabeth got hers, "Tell Chiron we'll be there soon." Grover nodded and added, "Annabeth, bring Malcolm, he'll need to be there too."

AT THE BIG HOUSE

The Cabin leaders sat around the large table in the camps main building, Chiron and Dionysus sat at the two ends, both of them looking very distressed.

Percy sat between Travis Stoll and a boy from the Hermes cabin. Travis had been more sullen since Connor died a year earlier, they were each others other half, but oddly enough he and Clarisse had been getting closer since they both had lost their best friends in the so-called final battle.

"Sorry to be calling a meeting so soon, but we received some rather disturbing news this morning that we must attend to." Chiron began, "Our Oracle has delivered another prophecy that refers to an upcoming revolt. Although all gods now have a cabin here, there are a few Demi-gods who still want to rule Olympus."

Dionysus raised his hand, "I hate to interrupt brother, but a few? We have an army of Demi-gods set on destroying Olympus and they are going to aim for Camp first." Judging by the looks on everybody's faces there wasn't that much surprise; it was more disgust than anything. "It isn't all negative though, we have a spy within the anti-god camp who has agreed to help us."

Percy knew there was a catch to this, just by Chiron's tone. "So what? Now we get this spy to go back in and get more information? Won't that be suspicious when all of a sudden he's sneaking around instead of training?" Clarisse spoke up; Chiron looked down and held his breath.

"What's the catch, Chiron?" Malcolm asked, Chiron looked up. "Our spy, Ethan Nakamura, will be taking one of our campers with him. And they will pose as a hostage."

Percy expected one of two things to happen. Everyone would start screaming questions or they would be dead silent, it seemed this time it would be option number one.

Dionysus slammed his fist on the table to regain control and at that moment the room went silent. "We are not shooting blindly, we have a plan!" He bellowed. "This hostage will be under the care of Mr. Nakamura, and in total honesty, will be in great danger. This is so our spy will have an alibi and we have a second contact inside enemy lines."

It was quiet for a minute before Annabeth spoke up, "I'll do it." Percy, who had been quiet for the most part stood up. "Annabeth there is no way I'm letting you do that."

She completely ignored him and turned to Chiron, "You're going to need a strategist down there, Chiron, Ethan's an amazing fighter but he's not going to be able to come up with a plan on moments notice if needed."

"Annabeth, no." Percy said, "You could die down there, it's too risky." Annabeth turned her attention to Percy, she had a lifeless quality to her, yet determined. "I can hold my own in a fight, Percy, you know that." Percy couldn't argue with that, but he didn't want his Wise Girl going into this with Ethan, a former traitor. "She's right Percy." Chiron said sullenly.

Percy shook his head rapidly, "No, no, no…" "Annabeth," Chiron started, "You will act as Ethan's hostage."