I woke up in cold sweat, fear coursing through my veins, fast and raced as jet planes. For a second, I had to clench my teeth to keep from screaming.

The dream was faint and fleeting, like one of those nightmares were the fear haunted you, while you had no idea what the dream was about. Except I had a vague idea of what my dream contained.

Squeezing my eyes shut, I relived the more recent part. Percy and I were standing over looking a cliff. Below us, a valley held to separate places burning to ashes. "The camps", My dream self said. Percy pulled his arm up as to drape them over my shoulders, when the land beneath him seemed to swirl and twist until he was sucked it.

I lounged for his sinking body, but it was to late. He was gone. And I was alone, again.

"Don't despair.", came a enchanting voice that seemed to come from all around. "I don't need to break you anymore, it seems you have been crushed, over and over again. You can have him back."

With that, Percy was back. But instead of being the same, he had a more regal, broad posture. A true Roman. Worst of all, snuggled up in his arms was none other than Gwen, a girl I would have no problem strangling.

"Your worth a thousand Annabeths", he said with a scary confidence.

I shouted out. But before a word was formed, black enveloped me and I awoke.


After composing myself, I got ready quickly for the day. By 7, I was completely ready, and forgetting about the dream. But before I could go down to breakfast, I had to wake Piper. Not as if she was a late sleeper, but normally she should of meet me on the beach a half an hour ago.

After knocking on her cabin door several times, I jiggled the knob. It was unlocked, so I opened it slowly and walked inside. It was a model of my room, just decorated different. Painted on the left wall was a large dove, where as an owl took that position on my room.

Nestled in the corner was Piper's bed, and in it, laid Piper. She seemed to be having a nightmare, for her hands clung to the red covers tightly, as if to hold her in place.

"No! Jason, catch me!" she suddenly shouted, and started to cry.

I raced to her side and shook her shoulders.

"Piper! Wake up!" I commanded. Slowly and dazed like, Piper opened her eyes.

"Annabeth? Why are you in my cabin?" She exclaimed, wiping the still falling tears from her eyes.

"You were running late, so I came to check on you." I answered. "But when I got here, you were having a nightmare. Something about Jason. Do you want to talk about it?"

"No." Piper said flatly. I wanted to know more, but Piper made it clear she didn't want to say another word on the subject.

"Go to breakfast without me. I'll be there shortly." Piper said, pushing me out of her cabin. I just nodded and did as I was told. I had a feeling she was charm speaking me, but I would've done so without it. She needed some space.


After breakfast, I sparred with a few Romans from Hazel's legion. They weren't hard to beat, but many seemed rather crushed to be bested by me. Probably a Roman pride thing. After a few more successful rounds, I decided to try and search for Percy. Namely to make sure he wasn't with Gwen.

I found him near the ocean, skipping rocks along the water. He seemed lost in thought. I was about to shout his name when someone beat me to it.

"Percy!" None other then Gwen yelled. I froze mid-step. Percy looked up some what resentfully, and nodded briefly.

"Yeah, Gwen?" he questioned, dropping the stone he held in his hand.

"I need to find Bobby. Any ideas? I checked the 3rd legion, with Dakota, except he won't talk to me 'cause he was too busy lip locking with Hazel. Renya wasn't very helpful either." Gwen chattered on. I had just seen Bobby climb a tree in the forest on the way here, and it seemed he was hiding out up there.

"Sorry, haven't." Percy said, cutting her short of what was now a rant about missing weapons. "Try Jason or somebody." After he said that, Gwen's face brightened as if she never thought of that.

"Great idea! See ya Perce!" She called, turning around and jogging away.

Percy breathed out deeply, as if he was holding his breathe throughout this whole encounter.

"I don't think that girl runs out of things to say" He said, shaking his head. I chose now to walk closer, or up to a point where he could hear my foot steps on the shore.

"Hey Percy." I called. He spun around so fast, if he had longer hair it would've given him whiplash.

"Oh hi... Annabeth?" He said, using my name as some sort of question. I tried not to let it get to me, and sat down on the sand. I patted the ground next to me, as he walked out of the water.

"Yeah, I'm Annabeth." I said softly, looking down as Percy sat to my left.

"So, um... what exactly did you come out here to see me for?" Percy questioned, skeptical of my motives. I'm not going to lie, it hurt. But I put on my most used mask, and let out a sigh.

"You don't remember me, do you?" I said as more of a statement then a question.

"Well," Percy started. "there is a girl that keeps cropping up in my memories that looks like you exactly".

"Really" I said, trying to keep my voice from betraying any emotion.

"Yeah. We went on a lot of adventures together, I know that. And, she is awfully afraid of spiders." He continued. Great, of all things, he remembered the spiders. Or maybe it was at dinner the other night, a spider crawled onto the Minerva Table, and nobody except me flinched. I stayed frozen until someone took their napkin and squished the evil critter.

"That's all?" I questioned.

"Well, all I can sum up out loud." Percy said, getting up. "Is that the lunch bell I hear?" He said, pulling me up too.

"I think so." I chocked out, because it felt so good to have him hold my hand for however brief the second lasted. "Let's go" Percy said, running off to the dinning hall.

I followed at a much slower pace. "That's not a lot to go on" I said to no one in particular. This is going to be a long week.


I know you all hate me for taking forever to update, so here it is! Again, don't own nada.