Random Person with No Name is considering a name change. What do you think about I am Clarisse daughter of Ares? I don't know. . . I like both of them.

Mood: Bored

Song That's Stuck in My Head: Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen.

Diss: being bored.

Prompt: book

I looked at her as she climbed down the rope ladder. There were two guys and a girl other than her. The girl was pretty, but nowhere near as pretty as she was.

She held a book in her hands, probably to keep them from shaking. It wasn't working. The book was trembling along with her arms- all the way up to her shoulders.

"Hey." The boy with blonde hair and blue eyes the same as Thalia stepped forward. "I am Jason Grace, former Praetor of the Twelth Legion Fulminata."

"Oh, dude, sorry about that." I grinned sheepishly. I saw her flinch, and the girl and the other boy- Is he a Santa's elf?- went over to comfort her.

"No problem. I traveled here with Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite, charmspeaker and head of Cabin Four, and Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus, fire user, builder of the Argo II and head of Cabin Nine. Oh, and a psychotic faun, he's inside watching MMA fighting. Keep him out of the way. I think you might already know our last companion." Jason half smiled at me which I returned with a nod.

I walked forward silently, until I was right in front of her.

"Annabeth?" I said softly. "C'mon, baby, look at me. You're scaring me."

Her head snapped up, but still wouldn't look at me. "I'm scaring you?" That was the wrong thing to say. "I'm scaring you. Wow Percy. You've been gone all this time, eight months! I had no clue where you were, and then Grover finally manages to contact you through your empathy link, and you're asking me if I was real-"

"In my defense I was asleep for six." I held up a finger so Annabeth would stop. "I had no clue where I was either, and all I knew was you were out there somewhere. You would help me. I came into camp being chased by gorgons, and the first thing I did was ask around for you. You were the only thing I remembered!" I was yelling now. "And then when we're finally back together, face to face, you won't even look me in the eye!"

And then they did. Her eyes bore into mine.

Thunk. The book slid out of her hands and onto my foot.

"Ow." I mock glared at her. "You did that on purpose, Wise Girl."

She rolled her eyes. "Seaweed Brain."

I couldn't help it. That conversation ended with Leo yelling at us to get a room, Frank and Hazel busting out laughing, and Octavian looking like he was trying not to pee himself because the guy who was elected Praetor instead of him was now kissing a Greek in front of the entire Roman Legion.

But hey. I have an amazing girlfriend. I might as well be proud of it.