A filler chapter, setting the scene for the next couple ones plus Rachel pretending to be a babysitter to liberate her younger self and Piper showing Apollo how rich girls sneak out of the house. Next will be getting Jason, finding Nico and Bianca, picking up Percy and his mom, and Clarisse attempting to convince the Gods/Goddesses the Conner and Travis would need a guard stationed on them when their past selves got there.

This takes place after the SoN but they have Nico with them.

Quote of the chapter:

"There are time in which I feel as if I should regret ever talking to you people."

-Me

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Athena took the floor, "Let's start with introductions, I presume that you already know who we are," various nods, "So than who are you? And considering how many of you there are can you just group together by godly parent, we can move on from there."

Nico shrugged and went off to drag Hazel from other members of the Fifth Cohort, and after failing to get her away from her friends he stood next to her looking around for Percy. He was (obviously) standing next the group of Athena kids and talking to Annabeth who was, from what he could hear, was catching him up on recent events on the Greek side of things.

"Now then, if there are any children of Zeus, Poseidon, or Hades, please step forward."

Hazel glanced at him, she appeared anxious, "Come on." The pair walked up and fell in line with Percy, Jason, and Thalia. The three Gods seemed shocked that they had so many living children because the only ones that they knew about were either too young (Poseidon and Zeus), in the Lotus Casino (Hades), or a tree (Zeus).

"Umm, Athena, since when have we had children their age?" Thanks Dad, way to deny my existence.

"Since about ten years in the future."

The all of the Gods/Goddesses stared at Annabeth, "Ten years in the future?" voiced Artemis, "Brother, is there something that you have forgotten to tell us?"

Apollo seemed to be nervous about something, odd. "Well Sis, you know I have issues foretelling something that has something to do with a Great Prophecy." That didn't seem to calm the others down much. "Hey, which one of you got saddled with it?"

"I did."

The Percy stepped forwards again. Hermes asked, "And you are?"

"Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon."

"What?"

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After calming down the Gods when they learned their parentage, ("I still don't think its fair, both of you get two children and I get one.

"Your son is invincible!"

"It was your son's idea!"

"So? Zeus here has two children with the same Mother but with both of his forms!") Katie brought up a point, "What about our past selves?" This, of course, required another three hours to compromise on a decision that satisfied everyone.

It was settled on rounding up all the campers at Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter, Nico, Percy, Bianca and anyone else important towards the continued survival of the human race. Percy said that they should wait until tomorrow to get the other him because at that point in time he was accidently dropping his class into the shark tank (which caused many laughs and incredulous stares). So Percy and Hazel were to help break Bianca and Nico out of the Lotus Casino's spell and bring them to Olympus. Not to mention that since Percy was able to break himself out of it, he was a prime volunteer for the job.

She was going to Camp Half-Blood to round up the demigods there; Jason and Thalia were heading to Camp Jupiter to grab the younger Jason and anyone willing to go on a field trip to Olympus. Will Solstice left to go reserve the top three floors of the Plaza Hotel for everyone, Lou Ellen, Travis, Katie and Connor were in charge of rounding up any miscellaneous demigods across the country, and Clarisse was making sure that monsters were going to leave them all alone ("Who dares cross Clarisse the Drakon Slayer?"

"So you're saying that she single-handedly killed a Drakon?"

"Yeah."

"I can so believe that.").

They had a pretty good team; Zeus just wondered when it was going to go wrong.

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Piper doubted Rachel's sanity, again. It didn't have anything to do with the spirit inside of Rachel, this time, but pretending to be a babysitter? That was beyond anything that she had done before, persuading a car dealership to give her a car didn't potentially endanger any little kids, well, okay, but none as important to the future as Rachel was. And somehow she had managed to get Apollo in on it; Piper wouldn't be surprised if the younger Rachel ran off, screaming about crazies. Although knowing Rachel, she would probably be excited and go off running to meet them.

So the God, the demigod and the Oracle of Delphi walked up the mansion (there's a joke in there somewhere, there has to be, no sane mortal would say that) and rung the doorbell, without running away like any self-respecting Hermes kid would. So when the maid opened the door and saw the ridiculous clothing that Rachel insisted they wear, she let them right in.

Piper resisted the urge the scratch at the back of her dress when she sat down on the leather couch in the first sitting room they were lead to. When they finished their rather longwinded speech to the maid ("We run something like a Camp for kids, only it's just for a few days."

"But only for the best of children."

"I still don't think that I should get Mr. Dare."

"Fine, we have to be going soon anyways, Mr. Mclean is going to be dropping off her daughter soon, and we don't want to miss that."

"Mclean? As in Tristan Mclean?"

"Yes, does that mean anything to you?"

"I'm going to go get Mr. Dare; you three just stay right there."), and she left to get Rachel's father, Piper finally began to breath more freely.

"I can't believe that actually worked."

Piper smiled, "Yeah that may have been my Charmspeaking abilities."

"You can Charmspeak? And why did you bring up the movie star? How are we supposed to get his daughter?" Apollo gave the impression of being bewildered.

Rachel giggled, "Yes, Piper can Charmspeak, she's one of the more powerful ones I've ever met. And Piper probably brought up Mr. Mclean because after this we are going to be getting Piper's younger self."

"Okay, I'll bite but how?"

"The same way all unhappy rich girls do, out the fire escape." Piper said matter-of-factly.

Before Apollo could comment on that, Mr. Dare walked into the room. "I understand that you are applying to take my daughter to a camp you three run."

"Well, she won't be the only girl with a rich father; we are going to go pick up Mr. Mclean's daughter right after this so she'll have a friend to play with." Rachel added.

"Mclean the movie star?"

Piper sighed, "Yes."

Mr. Dare seemed to be buying the story, "What are you going to do?"

"We have a special backstage tour of the Empire State building planned, a trip to Long Island and we have a about 20 suites reserved at the Plaza Hotel for the next couple of nights." Apollo answered.

Mr. Dare considered, "Well, Rachel has wanted to get out for the past week, and this sounds like a quality program, if you can wait for an hour Rachel will be all packed."

Rachel beamed, "Sounds wonderful."

An hour of mild arguing later they packed a slightly confused younger Rachel into the Sun car and one very rushed explanation that the Greek Gods exist and all Greek myths are true (so I'm not crazy?) they were in the sky heading for LA.

Piper pointed her old apartment building to Apollo, "There should be a parking garage over there, and we can just walk over to the building."

Reaching for the fire escape's ladder Piper said "Okay, the third stories second rung is creaky along with the one on the thirteenth floor." And Piper began climbing, she was followed by Rachel the younger and Rachel the older. Apollo just appeared on the top.

Piper knocked on the window, and when a younger version of her peered through the window and saw a girl that looked like she would in a few years, two redheaded girls with green eyes and a blonde guy standing on her fire escape, she let them in.

Apollo looked around incredulously, "You seriously weren't kidding about the whole rich girls on the fire escape thing."

"Why would she?" Rachel the elder defended.

Rachel the younger was explaining the main idea of the mess to Piper the younger. ("So the girl over there that looks like you is you, only in a few years."

"But how?") Then Piper's dad walked in.

"What's going on here?"

Piper the younger glanced at Rachel the younger, Rachel the younger stared at Rachel the older, Rachel the elder was glaring at Apollo who glared right back at Rachel the older. Piper the older was the one who greeted her father, "Hi, Dad."

The face is one that he would constantly try to replicate when told to act astonished. "What?"

Piper the elder sighed, "Hi, Rachel and I are from about ten years in the future, we still don't know how, but it probably has something to do with the Greek or Roman mythologies."

"Hey, those are all true, thanks." Rachel the older whacked him on the head, "Sheesh woman, stop hitting me" The younger girls giggled.

"That is Apollo the God of the Sun. Apollo Dad, Dad Apollo." Tristan Mclean made a whimpering sound. "Anyways, we want to borrow my past self for a meeting on Olympus, but she will be staying at the Plaza Hotel. It's probably only for a few days." More whimpers. "Hey me?" Piper the younger looked up, "Start packing, will you?" Piper the younger nodded and pulled out a suitcase from under her bed.

Another hour and long monologue later a very overwhelmed movie star sat down on his daughter's bed as the Greek God of the Sun pulled up a flying convertible that had barely enough room for all five of them flew off towards New York.