Here is the third chapter. I apologize for any grammatical mistakes I do try my best and my beta is away all summer long. I realized that I haven't made a disclaimer yet so here it is.
I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or any of the characters. All rights go to Rick Riordan
Enjoy!
Percy's POV
"Really Nico, we're going to go diving in the Hudson River?" I asked in disbelief.
"Well you did agree to do anything Perce, and this is what you agreed to," Nico wore an evil grin. I knew I was in for it.
"You. Are. One. Cruel. Man." Nico just laughed at me and finished putting on his wet suit. I did the same and zipped up the back my own. I slipped my mask over my face. The oxygen tank was attached to my backside. Ginormous black flippers completed the look. I looked into the water ready to jump in when I caught a glimpse of my attire.
"We look awesome!" Nico yelled. I nodded my head. Personally I thought that we looked like oversized penguins, but we looked like awesome penguins.
"Let's do this poo!" Nico yelled, diving off of the boat. I followed suit and jumped off of the side of the boat.
Bubbles formed all around me as I surfaced back to the top. I nodded to Nico who was treading water next to me and we both started swimming towards the bottom. The water was murky and dirt swirled all around the floor of the river. Trash was sitting all around gently moving with the current. Grover would have a fit if he saw all of this trash just waiting to harm an innocent animal, not to mention what he would say about what this was doing to the ecosystem. Nico looked over at me and small thread like bubbles rose from his tank and crept towards the surface. He nodded to me and we began to swim towards the west. Not many fish lived here. The water blocked out most of the light making it hard to see. No wonder the bodies took so long to find. Sharp objects littered the bottom. I had to watch where I was going for fear of getting cut on something rusty
The headset I was wearing crackled and popped to life. "Percy we were going to go to the sites where the others bodies were found. Maybe he takes them to the same place."
We swam deeper and started to veer off to the left. The light weakly filtered down through the water and cast a dim glow on the river bottom. I looked down at the water proof gps in my hand. I saw eleven different pulsating orbs. Nine were of them were red and showed recovery sites. The other two were blue and represented Nico and me. We still had a good way to go to reach any of the sites. We had wanted to be dropped off far enough away as not to arouse any suspicion from anyone as to what we were doing. Nico and I even took a regular boat and rented diving suits to create a facade that we were just regular college guys going diving.
The closest light throbbed as we got closer. I looked down at the bottom of the river as our dots reached the other one. Nothing was out of the ordinary and traces of anything were already washed away by the changing currents and the constant flowing of the river. Nico shook his head and we moved on to the next place.
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Eight sites later we still hadn't found anything. I really wanted to find something else. Something that would give us an edge. The river had washed everything away.
"I don't think that we will ever find anything down there," Nico huffed. He pulled himself up onto the deck of the boat. He threw off his diving mask. I took off my diving suit and put it back into a chest that stood on the deck of the boat.
"Alright let's get going," Nico said to the other agent that was responsible for driving us around the river. The man restarted the boat and gunned the engine. The boat lurched and we set off towards the dock.
"Man I don't think that we'll be able to find any evidence down there it's too dark and the river washes everything away. I think that we need to scout around the river to watch and see if the man shows up," Nico said.
"I agree I think that we need to tell the other sectors that the river search isn't working and that we need a twenty four hour surveillance all around the river."
"Percy do you realize how much manpower and technology that would take. I know what we're dealing with, but even we can't convince the agency to give us what could be millions of dollars of worth of equipment." The boat pulled into the dock. And we both stepped off of the white speed boat.
"Look Nico I don't care how much it takes we are going to catch this guy" I walked away. I grabbed the car keys from my pocket and clicked the unlock button. My car unlocked with a small beep and I wrenched the door open I slammed it closed and turned the keys in the ignition. I reved the engine of my Mclaren and sped out of the lot not caring about the speed I was going. I drove a freaking sports car, they were meant to go fast.
Finally, I got my rage under control. I pulled out my phone and searched through the contacts until Annabeth's name showed up on the scree.. I pushed the call button and held the phone to my ear.
"Hey Percy"
"Um.. wait how did you know it was me?"
"Percy a typical phone now in days does have caller ID," she pointed out.
"Oh yeah right," I responded dumbly.
"So what did you want to talk about?" She asked.
"Well I was wondering if you wanted to hang out or something, you know we could do something... but if you're busy that's totally cool... you're probably busy right now I'm sorry for bothering you..." I was about to hang up the phone when Annabeth laughed making me feel worse for bothering her. God what was wrong with me I was a hard core FBI agent.
"Percy I have nothing planned tonight or today. If you want I can meet up with you in a half an hour." A grin broke out on my face and I laughed.
"Yeah that sounds great. I see you then. Bye," I hung up the phone the smile still on my face. My phone began to ring again and the caller ID read Annabeth.
"Yellow,"
"Nice Percy, you hung up the phone before we could agree on a place to meet," she laughed.
"Ummmm... why don't we meet at the coffee shop?"
"Sounds good, see you then," Annabeth hung up the phone and I came back to my senses. I was parked outside of my apartment building. I got out of the car and locked the doors. I walked inside the building and immediately my good mood was ruined.
"Hey Percy," Drew purred. I rolled my eyes, but she took no notice of it.
"So do you want to go somewhere tonight my schedules free and you've seemed really stressed lately. Maybe a nice dinner would be good for you."
"Um sorry Drew, but I've got a date tonight," It wasn't a total lie. I didn't know if it was a date, but if it kept Drew away then it was a date.
Her face fell, "Come on Percy don't play coy if you really were going on a date you would be telling me everything about this mystery girl,"
"Okay then her name is Annabeth and I spilled coffee on her, ruined her laptop, and she's pretty awesome, " I smirked walking towards the elevator. Drew humphed and walked off. I rolled my eyes and hit the button to call the elevator. Maybe Drew would leave me alone now.
Annabeth's POV]
I hung up the phone and looked down at the history book that was sitting on the desk in front of me. Studying could wait. Besides Percy was kinda cute when he was rambling on. God what was happening to me? Studying always came first in my book. I had missed so many things for studying so what was different now?
"Thalia I'm going to be going out, so don't eat all of the Oreos without me," Thalia poked her head around the corner of her loft and smiled.
"Well when you put it like that, it seems as if you are going to have fun and leave poor little me all alone by myself. So I don't see any point in saving you any Oreos," She laughed and then rolled her desk chair to the other side of our room and grabbed the box of oreos from off of the top of our black mini fridge. She opened them and began to eat them. I rolled my eyes and went over to my tiny, two foot by two foot closet that occupies the far right corner of the room. I opened the door and looked inside. Mostly there were skinny jeans and t shirts, but a few dresses were in there as well. I decided to just wear dark blue skinny jeans and a green v-neck t shirt. Thalia was still munching on her Oreos, while working on a calculus assignment. She sat under her loft bed eating and getting crumbs everywhere.
"Where are you going anyway?" she asked mouth full.
"I'm going out with a friend," I replied defensively.
"Really is it just a friend, because next week you have a test in government and right now you would most likely be chained to your desk. Who is it that can make you just drop everything on a whim and stop studying. Personally I want to meet them," she grinned.
"Thalia he's just a friend really. In fact I met him in the oddest way. He spilled coffee all over my laptop and then he bought me a new one."
"Well I'll let you keep your secret about you're just friend, for now, but I will pull it out of you eventually," she laughed evilly and I rolled my eyes.
"Honestly Thalia, use a napkin you're going to give us ants, and he is just a friend no matter what you say or do" I threw her a napkin and she begrudgingly set her Oreo cookie down on it. I smiled and grabbed my leather jacket off of the back of my purple swivel chair. I slipped into it and bid Thalia farewell. I closed the door behind me and began to walk off of campus. It really was pretty in the summer. Only one or two dorms were still open for this time of year. Me and Thalia were staying at Brody Hall for the summer. It was one of the oldest dorms on campus so the architecture was beautiful. All of the rooms had twelve foot ceilings and crown molding. I really loved living on campus.
I finally got my head out of my thoughts and concentrated on where I was going. I turned left and arrived at the coffee shop. The window displayed lots of cakes and sweets. I opened the door and walked inside. My eyes scanned the room for Percy, but I couldn't find him anywhere in the cafe. Sighing I walked over to an empty table and sat down. My fingers absently tapped a rhythm on the table top.
"Hey," a voice sounded from behind me. I turned around and saw the annoying coffee shop guy who thought it was okay to write his number on my cup.
"Um... hi," I was annoyed, didn't he get a clue the other day?
"You're name's Annabeth right?" Since when did I tell him my name.
"How do you know my name?"
"Oh, you said your name when you were walking out the other day after that guy spilled coffee on you," he replied nervously. Well that's odd.
"Hey Annabeth," Percy was walking in the door. I smiled at him and greeted him.
"Hi Percy," the guy next to me stiffened at Percy's arrival. Good maybe he'll leave me alone.
"Ready to go?"
"Yup," I responded. I got out of my chair and Percy followed me out of the cafe. The other young man was glaring daggers at Percy's back. As soon as we were out of the shop Percy asked,
"Man I don't think that, that guy really likes me,"
"Yeah he kinda creeps me out," I confided, "it's a good thing you came when you did or else I would have had to keep talking to him."
"So where do you want to go?" Percy asked.
"I don't know, you're the one that called me,"
"Well, we could go to the movies,"
"No the only movies out are stupid chick flicks,"
"Well those are the best kind of movies, you can just make fun of all the characters and stuff, like that movie about that vampire and the girl who's always biting her lip."
I laughed. "No I think that I have a better idea about what to do."
I hope that you all liked it. I will try and up date in a week or two. Oh and about the campus I don't know if Brody is and actual hall at Columbia but it is a dorm at MSU (the college I live by). Please review they are appreciated. Hope you liked the story.
