Insanity.

-Annabeth-

DISCLAIMER: RICK RIORDAN OWNS PERCY JACKSON

Jason knocked the door lightly.

"Silena?"

"Come in Jason." I heard a girlish voice call.

He opened the door gently and beckoned me to follow him. As I walked in, my eyes widened in shock. The entire wall facing the door was made of one large mirror, in which I saw Silena reflected in. She had long ebony hair, bright blue eyes that were framed with long lashes and a figure to die for. Just being in the same room as her made me unnaturally aware of how messy my hair was, and how plain my outfit looked compared to hers.

"Hey, Silly." Jason smiled at her

She whisked around and slapped his arm playfully

"HEY! Don't call me that in front of Annabeth! She just met me, I don't want her to get the wrong impression of me"

"How do you my name?" I asked her.

"Sweetie, I make it my business to learn all the newbies names."

Jason leaned into me and whispered "Silena practically runs this place. Whatever you do, don't get on her bad side, unless you want to wave goodbye to your Christmas bonus."

I turned to look at her, nodding my approval. A woman is much better at organising things than a man. She smirked at me and winked, as if she was reading my thoughts.

"Don't worry, Jacey-Wacey," she said mockingly "why don't you go and say bye to Piper? I'm sure you would like to be the one to tell her that you aren't her supervisor anymore. I'll show Annabeth all her other patients"

Jason flushed and mumbled something about Christmas bonuses, as he turned and left to find Piper I'm assuming. I heard Silena giggle, as she yelled at him to tell Piper that she sends her love with her lover. Silena dragged me to the door, and together we watched Jason storm down the corridor with his hands covering his ears, in case Silena shouted anything else.

"Are Jason and Piper going out?"

"Yeah," she sighed dreamily "It's quite a scandal. There's no rule against it because the founders didn't think that anyone would want to go out with the people here. But… it's heavily frowned upon in all other psychiatric hospitals. After Jason's parents found out they disinherited him, because they didn't want their son going out with someone with 'mental issues' and he refused to dump her. So now he shares a flat with Percy's younger brother, Tyson. Speaking of Percy, do you want to meet him next? I think we should give Piper and Jason some alone time."

"Yes, that would be great." I replied. I was going to ask what was he like, but I stopped myself when I remembered that Silena was not supposed to know what he was like. She hooked her arm through my elbow, and took me along the sheet white corridor. I made two observations about Silena: number one- she liked to talk about people's love lives. She told me a little more about Piper and Jason, and a little about Luke and his fiancée Thalia (apparently they were a match made in the heavens). Number two: she gave them all pet names like 'Jasper' and 'Thaluke'.

"…And here we are. Room 73. I'm gonna go Annabeth, I don't like going in Percy's room. I'll see you at our afternoon chat session, ok?" she asked, whilst giving me a tight hug.

"It's a date!" I joked. She laughed and walked quickly back to her room, wringing her hands as she left.

I took a deep breath and knocked. I was more nervous than I had been with meeting Silena, because this time Jason wasn't here with me.

"Come in." I heard a faint voice call

I opened the door slowly and understood why Silena didn't like it here. It was a mess. A large CD and DVD rack stood to one side, overflowing with half open cases and some broken discs. My eyes floated along the ceiling and walls, on which words, pictures and what looked like jagged lines had been painted with black paint. The closer to the bed you got, the more jumbled the words and lines became. My eyes were drawn to the unmade bed which sat below the collage, on which a messy black haired boy with bright sea-green eyes was perched precariously. He lifted his hand up to wave but only got up halfway, until his hand became trapped in the soft restraints he was wearing.

"Why are you wearing them?" I asked him walking over to loosen them

"STOP!" he cried pulling his hands as close to his chest as possible

I paused "Why? What's wrong?"

"I… Luke said… I don't want…" he stuttered

Luke had wanted him to wear them, in case I got hurt. I frowned and walked over to loosen them anyway. This was not right: you should only use restraints if the patient gets into a frenzy. One of the first things I remember being taught at med school.

"I want you to be able to trust me and not for you to think I'm so scared that you'll hurt me that I'm going to make you stay tied up like that all day."

He looked confused. Why did he look confused?

"But… I'm a danger to society." He said frowning at me. The way he said that, he almost sounded disappointed to take them off

"If you want to keep them on, that's fine."

"I think I'll keep them on, just in case."

I sat down on the small chair beside his bed.

"Percy, as you probably already know I am your new supervisor. My name is Annabeth Chase."

"My name is Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase. And as you probably already know I'm your new project." He smirked at me

Suddenly he flipped his head to the side, and glared into the dark corner of the room.

"Leave her alone. She hasn't done anything yet." He growled

"But- NO, WAIT…" he yelled, tugging on his restraints hard in an attempt to cover his head "NO, PLEASE… DON'T… STOP!"

"Percy, wake up." He flinched when I spoke "Percy, who was trying to hurt you."

His eyes widened in shock.

"Can you… Can you see him too?" he asked, eyes red and bloodshot.

"No, but it- he clearly upsets you. And it's my job to help, so who was it?" I said slowly

"…"

"Percy, it's ok. I want to help…"

"Annabeth?"

"Yes Percy?"

"Please take these off." He gestured to his restraints.

You could say it might have been a bit irresponsible of me given what I just witnessed, but I leaned forward and removed his bonds.

A/N: So that's me on holiday from now until Monday so I'm gonna try and update as much as I can… Tell me if you liked/hated it/ if you have any questions in the reviews please and check out my other stories Scars and The Silver Line

MockingScout, out.