A/N: There are going to be three more parts to this AU after this, and I will keep posting on Mondays until the AU is completed. I would love to talk to you about this AU, and you can either send me a PM on this site or leave me an ask on my tumblr. The link is on my profile. I would be more likely to answer an ask on tumblr, but either one is fine.

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Annabeth had called his cell phone seventeen times already. He hadn't answered at all.

This was ridiculous. She had gotten a phone call from Travis almost eight hours ago telling her that he had lost Percy at the airport in Denver. Annabeth had grit her teeth angrily and hung up on him. She would have to deal with him later.

But she knew that Percy would end up doing something stupid like this. She knew that she should have sent Jason to Denver to meet them and make sure that Percy got to Seattle. Except she hadn't been able to spare Jason at the time. She had needed him in New York.

Damn, she should have just brought Percy with her. Having him wait in the car would be a hell of a lot safer than having him somewhere in New York that she didn't know about. Especially now that he wouldn't answer his phone.

What the hell was he doing?

Annabeth slammed her fist down onto the table. They were in an empty warehouse a few miles from their office, and they were trying to pinpoint Castellan's location. Several shipments from last night had gone missing, and Annabeth needed to get them back and get rid of Castellan and his team before her own business was corrupted. They had suffered economically (really what they had lost was just pocket change, but Annabeth didn't like people stealing her money) for the past six months because of Castellan sapping their shipments. Once the threats had started pouring in two days ago, Annabeth had called it. She had grabbed Percy and headed to Miami to get out of the way while she sent two of her guys to infiltrate his group. But it hadn't worked. Piper called and told her that they hadn't heard from the guys she had sent it.

It was all a big mess, and Annabeth had just decided to meet them head on and deal with it herself. That's why she wanted Percy in Seattle. She didn't know what kind of game Castellan would play, so she wanted Percy to be out of the equation. She couldn't risk losing him.

Which was… strange. Annabeth had spent years distancing herself from people. It made her work a hell of a lot easier. If she kept her emotions out of it, she could work better and more efficiently. But she was getting older, and for appearances sake, she needed a husband.

She had no idea that she would start to actually care about Percy. She had picked him because he was the same age as her, and he worked as an assistant at a company that Annabeth dealt with a lot. She had ran a background check on him, and she had some of her guys watch him for a few months before she brought him down to the office and "persuaded" him to marry her.

He had resented her at first. He had hated her, and he had avoided her at all costs. There were some moments where Annabeth felt guilty about forcing him into marriage, but business always came first.

But over the past few weeks, they had grown closer, and Annabeth was actually starting to like him. She had tried so hard to keep him at an arms distance, but he had worked his way closer until she couldn't deny it.

She loved Percy. She just hadn't told him yet.

And now, she couldn't find him. What if something happened and she never got to—?

"Annabeth," Piper interrupted, making Annabeth look up to the brown headed girl. "We got a trace on Percy's phone. He's at the office."

She sighed in relief. She was going to kill him when she got him back. She said, "We're going to get him right now. Anything on Castellan yet?"

Piper shook her head as they headed toward an armored car parked inside the building. Annabeth climbed into the passenger seat, while Jason jumped into the driver's seat.

Piper kept talking from the backseat as they pulled out of the warehouse, "A black SUV was spotted three miles west of the office heading in the opposite direction. We're not sure if they've been to the office yet, but there isn't anything there. All of the files were burned, and we have all of the computer hard drives. Even if they broke into the building, there wouldn't be anything that they could take to reveal the shipment schedules."

Annabeth nodded to herself and tried to call Percy's phone again. It rang twice before it went to his voicemail.

Hey, sorry I missed your call. Leave me a message, and hopefully I won't forget to call you back.

She threw her phone down at the sound of his voice.

What had he been thinking? Why couldn't he just get on the plane to Seattle like she had asked? Did he have to come looking for her? He could have put himself into so much danger coming to New York.

When Jason pulled up at the office, Annabeth jumped out and sprinted to the door, keying in Percy's birthday on the number pad and sweeping inside.

"Percy!" She yelled. "Are you here?"

Jason and Piper entered the building just as Annabeth spotted her office light flipped on. She pulled her gun from the waistband of her jeans, and she raced down the hall to her office.

She could hear Jason and Piper behind her, and she held her gun up when she walked into the room.

Which was dumb. Someone could have been inside, and she could have been killed right then. But with the possibility that Percy was sitting at her desk, playing a game on his phone or surfing the internet on her computer, she didn't care.

The room was empty.

Something felt wrong though. There had been someone in this room. Her office chair was sitting at a different angle. Her computer monitor was turned slightly to the left. A pile of magazines on the side table beside the couch had been shuffled. The two chairs in front of her desk had been shifted away from each other, like someone had pushed through them.

"Jason," Annabeth said. Her voice was colder than normal. "Pull the security cameras and check them."

He nodded and set off toward their command center that was set up in the lock room. Annabeth walked further into her office, ignoring how wrong the room felt. As she rounded her desk and looked down, she saw Percy's phone sitting on top of a handwritten note.

Careful, Chase. Now I have a bargaining chip. You wouldn't want anything to happen to your precious husband, would you?

Annabeth was frozen. Her head was spinning with emotions, and her heart was beating too fast.

"This is weird, Annabeth," Piper said, putting her gun back into her holster at her hip. "We've checked everywhere for Percy. You and I both know the only option that's left."

She sighed and leaned against her desk. Her hands were shaking, and she felt sick to her stomach. She picked Percy's phone up and put it in her back pocket before she handed the note to Piper.

"Oh," Piper breathed.

"Annabeth?" Jason called from down the hall.

She looked up at Piper, and they both made their way down to the lock room where Jason was checking the cameras. He was leaning over the desk, and when they came into the room, he frowned.

"I pulled the tapes from when Piper and I left the office earlier today and fast-forwarded through them. About two hours ago, a black SUV pulled up at the back door, and three men tripped the keypad on the door. After that, they searched the building, but they didn't find anything. I think this is Castellan, and he was in your office for a long time on the phone. But barely forty-five minutes ago, Percy came in through the side door too. This is the footage from the hallway and your office," Jason said, turning the computer screen toward her.

Annabeth's breath caught in her chest.

Percy stumbled inside the door and turned in a circle. Once he spotted the light on in her office, he grinned and ran down the hall. His lips formed her name, and even though she couldn't hear him, his voice hurt her heart. She switched her gaze to the next camera when Percy turned into her office. Castellan was sitting in her office chair, and he turned around to see Percy. His mouth was moving, but Annabeth was staring at the back of Percy's head. As Castellan was talking, a bigger man moved behind Percy, and hit him on the head with a gun. Percy collapsed against the floor.

Annabeth reached out and paused the video. She pointed to the bigger man first and then Castellan as she said, "I don't care about seeing the rest of the video. Piper, Nico is still trailing this SUV?"

"Yes, they've stopped at an abandoned warehouse that we used to use to get shipments," Piper said, looking up from her phone.

Annabeth frowned, "I want that warehouse surrounded up to three miles out. There's no way that they're getting out. Send everyone into position, and we will meet them there once we restock weapons."

"Annabeth," Jason started. His blue eyes were wide. "Shouldn't we negotiate with them since they have Percy?"

She shook her head and straightened, "No. We don't negotiate. When we get there, those motherfuckers are mine."

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