*Waves awkwardly* Hi. So, a lot of you thought this was a one shot, but it's not. I'm going to add the reactions for when they come back from Tartarus, so, that's fun. This chapter consists of the reactions for Athena, Frederick, and Sally.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, all rights go to Rick Riordan

Athena POV

Apollo's news came like a slap in the face.

Annabeth. In Tartarus. With Seaweed's idiot son?!

I honestly never truly understood that relationship, I mean how did that even happen?! How did they fall in love in the first place?

I of course knew the answer, I knew everything. I'm the goddess of wisdom!

They fell in love after going on quest after quest with each other. Ugg, love is weird.

How are they going to survive Tartarus?! It's Tartarus! The only mortal to ever survive was Hades' son, and even then he had to be captured in order to survive.

My daughter is extremely smart, I don't doubt that, but if something were to happen to Perseus? Oh she would just shut down, I don't think she'd be able to handle it.

I recall during the meeting Poseidon had blamed me for all of this. And… he was right.

I had been so caught up in myself and didn't even think of the price my actions would cost her.

And now she was in Tartarus.

Even though I knew it was my fault, I was infuriated at Poseidon when he blamed me. So, I blamed his son. Any idiot could tell this wasn't Percy's fault though.

I had started crying right in the middle of the meeting, and I never cry. But this was all my fault.

Two demigods were going to die because of me! And, as if Poseidon didn't already hate me enough, he was going to absolutely despise me now.

When the realization that one of them would have to stay behind hit me, I felt even worse. How can this be happening?

Annabeth. Annabeth! My child, in Tartarus!

Even the fates couldn't devise a fate so cruel.

The sounds of sobbing snapped me out of my thoughts. I looked up and was somewhat surprised to see Poseidon, flat out bawling, on top of his throne.

I had already known that Poseidon loved Percy, but I never realized how much he loved him.

This made me feel, if possible, even worse.

I had only just recently revealed that one of them would be forced to stay behind. Nobody had spoken since my comment.

Hades decided to say something at that moment in order to silence the deafening sounds of Poseidon's sobs, "That being so, I believe that the two of them have… a better chance than most, to get out of this together."

This comment wouldn't have meant much too some people, but a put a spark of hope in me. A tiny spark. But still, a spark.

They had a chance. They would live to see the light of day.

They had to.

"When are you going to tell their mortal parents," Zeus asked quietly.

The sentence hadn't quite sunk in yet. Frederick, I realized, I had to tell him. He had as much of a right to know as I did. But then… why should I tell him if it would only worry him?

Assuming they made it out alive, Annabeth would just tell him. He'd find out when she wanted him to.

"Is there really a need to worry them," I asked innocently.

Poseidon looked at me incredulously, "They have a right to know!"

I sighed Poseidon was right twice in one day. What are the odds?

"Fine," I said. "But, we have to tell them together."

"Why?"

"Because I, just… it would too difficult to tell him myself, okay," I spat at him.

A bit of sympathy flickered in Poseidon's eyes and he seemed to soften a little, "Fine."

And with that we both flashed out of the throne room to tell our previous lovers.

I was suddenly at Frederick's door. I was about to knock, but it seemed a lot easier in my head.

"You can do this," Poseidon said softly.

I finally gathered up the courage and knocked on his door. I heard the sound of two, seemingly young boys, running towards the doors.

The door flung open the next instance and I was faced with, as I suspected, the twins that Frederick's wife had with him.

"Who're you," one of the boys asked suspiciously.

"Are your parents home," I asked the boys.

"MOM! DAD," the other boy yelled.

"Boys," I heard a woman's voice from another room, "Whose at the door?"

She suddenly stepped into the room and saw us, it took her a second, but she seemed to recognize us. She looked a bit distraught, "Frederick, will you come in here?"

"Hmm? What is it, honey," he stopped suddenly when he saw me.

"What's going on," one of the twins asked impatiently.

"Boys, why don't you go play for a second ok," Frederick's wife told her boys.

"But we wanna' stay," they whined.

"Boys, now," Frederick said somewhat harshly.

They both sighed and walked out of the room.

After a moment of awkward silence, Frederick said, "Umm, please come in."

We entered the house and Frederick's wife went to go get some tea for everyone, but I stopped her, "No that won't be necessary."

"Oh, well. May I ask what this is about?"

I was about to tell her, but the words caught in my mouth. Poseidon, upon seeing this, decided to help me out, "Well, as I'm sure you know, Annabeth recently went on a quest along with 6 other demigods to stop Gaea from rising."

They both looked confused and, frankly, a little embarrassed, "Uh, no actually. She never told us," Frederick said.

Now it was Poseidon's turn to be confused, "Oh, well… she was retrieving the Athena Parthenons from Arachne and—"

"Whoa, what," Frederick's wife asked, startled. "The Athena Parthenons?"

I smiled a little, "Yes."

"But isn't Arachne, like, a giant spider? She's terrified of spiders," Frederick said in a concerned voice.

"Yes Frederick, I'm aware."

"But," he seemed confused, "She's ok right? She's not…"

"Oh, no! No! She's not dead. She's not dead," I was reassuring myself more so than them and I knew it.

"So…"

Poseidon gestured towards me, "Well you see… the thing is," I stuttered, tears welling up in my eyes a bit, "Annabeth fell into Tartarus with Percy."

Their faces looked blank at first, "Tartarus?"

"It's the place where monsters go when they die," Poseidon said with sadness in his eyes.

They both gasped and started crying, "Oh Annabeth," Frederick sobbed.

"My baby!"

The comment angered me, but I didn't say anything.

"Is there anything we can do," his wife asked.

Poseidon jumped in, "I wouldn't worry, Percy and Annabeth are very strong demigods, especially when they're working together."

They nodded and continued to cry.

"Well we must be off," Poseidon told them, about to flash out, when they stopped him.

"Wait, you're both leaving so soon, why?"

Poseidon looked down sadly, "We have to go tell Percy's mother."

Frederick nodded in understanding and looked at me, "Do whatever you can to help them, please."

I nodded, with tears in my eyes and we flashed out, prepared to go tell Sally the news.

Frederick POV

I was lying under a mountain of guilt.

I had been such a horrible father, so horrible that she ran away at the age of seven. Seven!

And now, she was going to die. Oh, this is all my fault.

How could this be happening?

My little girl. She had had such a horrible life and I didn't do anything to help her.

She had put half the monsters in Tartarus down there, and now she was in their domain.

Oh this is horrible. Annabeth would survive though, if she didn't survive…

No she would survive. Please let her survive.

Poseidon POV

I had never really thought much about Annabeth's past, but now that I am, my opinion on her is very different.

She had a horrible childhood, but she still amounted to great things and never even considered joining Luke.

My thoughts came to an abrupt stop when I found myself standing in front of Sally's door. Sally.

She was going to be devastated. But she had a right to know.

I knocked and was surprised to see Paul open the door. His smile faded when he saw me and he looked concerned for a moment. "Sally, umm. Poseidon's here…"

"What," I heard her say as she entered the room. She stopped dead when she saw me.

Paul was the first to recover, "Please, come in."

Sally finally snapped out of her daze and asked, "What is this about, Poseidon?" She then gasped, "Is Percy okay? Did something happen?!"

I wanted so badly to be able to say that nothing happened and I just came to say hello, but I couldn't, I had to tell her. "Well, you know, of course, about the prophecy of seven and the quest that he's on to stop Gaea from rising," she nodded and urged me to keep going, I hesitated, "Well Annabeth went on a quest to retrieve the Athena Parthenons and when everyone was hooking the statue up to the ship, she started to fall through the cracks in the floor… which lead to Tartarus and… Percy grabbed her hand and… they fell together."

Sally had started crying the second I mentioned Tartarus, now she was flat out sobbing. "No, no!"

Paul had started crying to, but was clearly trying to be strong for Sally. A horrible thought had just occurred to me, what would happen to Sally if Percy didn't come back? Would she even be able to handle it? I'm not entirely sure.

Sally POV

My baby. My little boy!

Percy was down in the deepest pit of Hades with all of the monsters he'd ever killed. They were probably out for revenge and wouldn't waste a second to kill him in horrible nasty ways.

My sobs grew louder. I vaguely felt Paul's strong hands around my waste, but none of that mattered right now. Nothing would matter until Percy was back here in this apartment, alive.

"Sally," I heard Poseidon start, "Sally, they're going to be ok. You know how well they work together. They're going to survive this. They have to," the words didn't mean much.

What would I do without Percy?

Oh, Percy!

My baby was in Tartarus!

"Is—isn't their s-s-something you can do," I stuttered out.

Poseidon looked depressed at the comment, "No," he said in nothing more than a whisper, "No, Sally. I'm sorry, I can't. I don't have any control over that place."

He was completely alone. No one could help him.

But he did have Annabeth. And… as long as he had Annabeth, he'd be ok. Right?

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