The next morning was very dull. My mom was in the kitchen, filling in a crossword puzzle. Paul still had to teach (high school wasn't over yet), so we were alone.

"Is there anything about last night in the paper?" I asked groggily.

My mom shook her head. "Not yet, but they're probably will be tomorrow or on the news tonight." I walked over to where the remote laid and turned on the TV. It didn't say anything about last night, so for now we were safe.

"There's cereal if you're hungry," she informed me. I nodded, and scoped out the pantry until I found a box of Cheerios. When I was done, I sat across my mom. "Do you plan to go to camp this summer?" she asked.

I shrugged. "I wasn't planning to, but with all the recent attacks I may have to." I was hoping to have a quiet summer - meaning minimum attacks - with Annabeth. Find a job, maybe maybe move in with her... "Why?"

"What about Annabeth?" she asked, completely ignoring my why.

"What about her? I don't know if she's going to back to camp or not. We haven't exactly had the chance to talk about it."I fidgeted in my seat. We were probably going to end up going back to camp whether we liked it or not. Don't get my wrong, I loved Camp Half-Blood, but I also liked pretending I was a regular Mortal with a regular life. It'd be nice to make a life with Annabeth without having to worry about being murdered every two seconds.

My mom sighed. "Percy, I know you want to settle down with her. Honestly though, hun, settling down will always involve the gods no matter what you do. Maybe that's not such a bad thing either. At least you'll always have a bed time story for when you have kids." She smiled at me. The mention of kids caused my cheeks to heat up. "It may seem tough now, but, Percy, I promise you it'll get easier. I'll always be there for you when you need me." She squeezed my knee under the table.

"Thanks, Mom." I tapped my fingers against the table, leaning my chin in my other hand. "What am I supposed to do? Look for a job?"

She smiled at me. "You can probably wait a bit before you have to do that."

Someone started knocking on our door. When I went to answer it, I expected it to be Annabeth - the door man let her up without having to check with us first - but instead my best friend stood on the mat outside our door. "Grover? What are you-"

"No time for that, Percy. You have to come to camp now. Like right now." He spoke in a rushed tone, tumbling over each word. Grover grabbed my wrist and started towing me out of the apartment.

"Whoa, slow down, Grover. What's happening?" He shook his head, pulling me out of the apartment. "Uh, Mom, I got to go!" I shouted over my shoulder. We got the lobby after taking the stairs three at a time. "What about Annabeth?"

He made a bleating sound. "She's already in the car."

"Where did you get a car?"

"It's the camp car, get in!" Recklessly pulled up against the curb was the camp van. I pulled open the door to find more than just Annabeth. Along wit her sat, Will Solace, the Stoll Brothers, and Rachel Elizabeth Dare. All of them but Rachel looked a bit out of it. Annabeth was in pajama bottoms, a tank top, and Ugg type boots, the Stolls' hair was wild, along with their facial expressions, and Will wore hospital scrubs. Rachel sat fully clothed with a smile.

They each mumbled sleepily a "Hi, Percy" before slumping against each other again. Before I could even buckle, Grover took off.

"What's going on?" I asked Annabeth casually. This really didn't surprise me, I'd seen a lot worse.

She shrugged, laying her head on my shoulder. She still had bed head. It was surprisingly cute. "I don't know, Grover won't tell us anything. I think he's trying to abduct us, 'cause Juniper broke up with him or something, and he's lonely."

"Yo, G-man, what's going on? What's so important?"

"Chiron told me to come and get you guys immediately. He didn't tell me why though. Sorry, Perce." Grover stumbled over his words, trying hard not to hit anyone at the same time.

"How you been, Jackson?" Connor Stoll asked. His Power Ranger shirt was hard not to laugh at.

"Uh..." I thought about the question. "Alive."

Travis laughed. "Well, that's a relief. I thought I was talking to your ghost for a moment."

"Yeah, and no one thinks a few monsters can kill you! I mean, after Gaea?" Connor motioned with hands that it was nothing.

Getting complimented was still awkward for me. "I'm not invincible, guys... At least not anymore."

"Filthy Romans," Connor and Travis said in unison.

"No need to be like that," Will said, speaking up for the first time. "We would have lost the war if it wasn't for them, even if you are just joking."

Connor gave a dramatic sigh. "And then we would all be Gaea's servants or dead. I like dead better, but she's not that kind." Travis nodded his approval at his younger brother. I never got used to them being Luke's brothers.

"Well, that depends where you end up," Rachel cut in. "I mean, would you rather be Gaea's servants or spend eternity in the Fields of Punishment?"

"Let's just be glad we didn't have to pick one." Annabeth stared at her hands. "Let's just be glad we're all still alive."

"Annabeth's right. I've come close to death so many times... I probably shouldn't be alive right now," I said to them (specifically the Stoll's). "And this conversation is starting to depress me, so can we please change the subject?"

"What have you been up to lately, Will?" Annabeth asked him. I gave her a grateful smile for changing the subject.

"Oh, I just graduated med school, so now I'm a part time 'doctor' at Urgent Care. I'm probably going to start being an actual doctor at the hospital soon, though," Will explained. I noticed he looked a lot older than the 22 year old I'd seen a few years ago. He didn't used to act older than me.

The girl inside Annabeth asked, "Anyone special?"

A blush rose to his cheek, making him look a lot younger than 26. "Actually one of your older sisters... Anna Blue."

Connor burst out laughing, causing all of us to look at him. "Two Athena's named Anna and Annabeth?" He went into another set of laughing.

"Why is that so funny?" Travis asked him, giving his younger brother a weird look.

He shut up instantly. "I have no clue." His expression was so embarrassed, that all of us started to laugh.

"G-man, are you listening to this?" I yelled to the front of the van.

"We have bigger problems, Perce." It was then I noticed the van was stopped, and all around us were monsters.


YAY I updated, love me now. And before you ask, Anna Blue is Siobhan's OC who dates Will Solace in our awesome imaginary world. THERE YOU GO, SIOBHAN

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