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And the events of the show might be a bit out of order here, but I'll do my best.

"Jackson, you're up!" The la-cross coach, Coach Hedge, bellowed at me. "Get to the goals."

I bit my lip so hard that I thought I was going to draw blood. I suck at goal-keeping. Grover put a hand on my shoulder. "You'll do great dude, you're a werewolf remember?" He whispered that last part, a teasing tone in his voice. I glared at him and he grinning, shoving my onto the field.

Coach Hedge threw the keeper's helmet to me, and I put it on as I jogged to the goal square. Standing in the defensive position, I held my la-cross stick up and nodded for my team-mate to shoot.

My muscles tensed as the player pulled his arms back and flung his stick forward, the ball hurtling at me with incredible speed. On their own accord, my arms shoved my stick to the left, and I stared incredulously at the ball. I'd stopped it. I'd actually stopped it!

Everyone in the crowd was utterly silent; Coach Hedge, the rest of my team-mates, Grover, Rachel (who'd come to watch Luke), and Annabeth too. I guess Rachel had told her how shit I was at keeping.

Suddenly, Hedge clapped loudly. "Great job, Jackson! NEXT!"

I threw the ball to the next shooter, and once again, I stopped his shot. I blocked the balls, one after the other. No matter how fast, how low or how high, they never made it past me.

And then it was Luke's turn. I saw him narrowing his eyes at me under his helmet, I saw the speckles of darker blue. That's weird, I thought. I'd never noticed that up-close, let alone from a hundred yards away.

Luke walked back for a run-up and I gulped against my will. Luke was the captain, and was the highest scoring player in the league. I'd never even made it to first line.

As he ran forward, time seemed to slow down. I felt the vibrations from his footsteps, heard his heavy breathing as he sprinted full speed. He pulled his arms back, but I sensed when he was going to release the ball. When he was twenty yards away, he flung the ball.

And I reached out to block.

Everyone gasped. Even I did. Luke stared at me, open-mouthed, and dropped his stick in surprise.

Grover yelled in happiness, and I saw Annabeth get to her feet, pulled Rachel up with her.

"Who is that?" She asked.

Rachel looked at me. "I don't know... why?" I can't say I wasn't a little bit that she didn't know my name, even though we'd been in the same school since pre-school.

"He's in my English class." They continued at stare my way for minute, before Rachel turned back to Annabeth.

"I'm having a party this Friday, wanna come?"

"I can't," Annabeth withdrew her gaze. "Family night this Friday."

I grinned. Yeah right.

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"It was around here somewhere," I said, and seeing Grover's unbelieving expression, added, "I swear."

He rolled his eyes. "I should've known you were messing with me, its a total 'Percy' thing to do."

I threw my hands in the air. "It was right there, man! Honestly!"

Grover raised his eyebrows.

"Look, I had my house key in the pocket of my jumper, and I dropped it here when I tripped over the body." I fell to my hands and knees, hoping to find my key to prove to Grover that I wasn't lying. Plus... I kinda needed that key.

"What do you think you're doing?"

Grover and I both scrambled back, nearly tripping over each other. Standing a few yards was a guy, maybe a couple years older than us, with dark hair, dark eyes and a pale complexion. He was really buff, and had a line of stubble alone his jaw.

"I-er... we were just... ah, um." Grover stuttered so much I might have laughed if I wasn't about to shit myself from fright. Not only had that guy snuck up on me and startled me, but he was seriously scary lookin'.

"Whatever, just get off my property." The guy said. He tossed something to me and walked off. Catching the object hurtling through the air, I saw that it was my key. I waved in front of Grover's face.

"See, dude? I told you I left it here." I said smugly, putting the key in the pocket of my jeans.

Grover ignored me. "Percy, that was Nico di Angelo. His entire family died in a fire a few years ago but him and his sister." A/N: Lol, Nico's buff and older than Percy in this story, haha! Sorry, I had to say that.

I remembered the di Angelo's. Mom used to be good friends with Nico's dad. I thought they'd all left, but apparently not.

"Come on, we'd better get outta here." Grover said.

I nodded. "Yeah I gotta get to get to work."

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When I was sure my boss had left, I went to the staff bathroom of the animal clinic. Standing in front of the mirror, I lifted my shirt and peeled off the dressing I'd put on the bite.

As the bandage came away, I gasped, my eyes widening in surprise. The wound was gone. Not even a mark remained.

I jumped suddenly as there was a frantic knocking sound from the front door. I let my shirt fall back over my stomach and walked into the waiting room, rolling my eyes as I thought, Can't people read these days?

But I reached the door, I opened it immediately. It was Annabeth, drenched from the pouring rain, knocking like there was a monster behind her. And to add to that, she kept looking over her shoulder as if to make sure that nothing was following.

"What is it?" I asked.

She ran her hands through her wet blonde hair. "It just came out of nowhere- I took my eyes off the road for a second and then it was just there-" She started rambling.

"Where is it?"

She took a deep breath. "In my car."

I followed her to the carpark and she opened the boot of her Hyundai. As the door opened, the dog inside started barking loudly. Annabeth took a step back. "She hates me now." She said sadly.

"No she doesn't," I said, sounding a lot less nervous than I felt. I'd never dealt with any injured animals by myself. "She's just scared."

Leaning down, I looked the dog in the eye. Suddenly, she stopped barking. She let me carefully pick her up, and I carried the dog into the clinic, Annabeth in tow.

"Thank you for doing this, Percy, like, after hours and stuff. You probably don't get paid for this, right?"

"It's no problem, really," I said, putting the dog gently on the examination table. "I have a spare shirt in my bag, if you want?" I noticed that she was shivering in her drenched long-sleeved shirt.

She hastily shook her head. "Oh, no. I'm fine."

I ignored and handed her the shirt. She stared me down for a minute, but when I didn't give up, she sighed and took the shirt, walking into the staff bathroom to change.

By the time she came back out, I was making a splint for the dog.

"I'm really sorry. I totally freaked out." She said.

I shrugged. "So what? I would've freaked out."

"No, but I was acting like the biggest girl ever."

"You are a girl, though." I pointed out.

She rolled her eyes. "I was acting like a girly girl, and I am not a girly girl."

I tried to hide my smile. "Well, if you makes you feel better, I would've freaked out like the biggest girly girl to ever walk the earth."

She laughed, her voice ringing through the room. I liked her laugh, and her smile, and her beautiful eyes...

"Uh, you have an eyelash on your cheek." I said, which definitely ruined the moment.

Annabeth grinned. "From the crying," She wiped her face, but didn't quite get it.

Before I realised what the hell I was doing, I reached out and touched her cheek. She froze in shock, but didn't pull away. Using my thumb, I brushed along her cheekbone, clearing away the eyelash. "There."

Annabeth stared into my eyes. Hers were so intense and calculating that I almost wanted to look away, but I didn't. Thinking of what I saw in her eyes, I wondered what she saw in mine. A nerd who's been warming the bench since I started playing la-cross? Or some mysterious boy that no one paid attention to?

"I think she'll let you pat her now." I said, breaking the silence.

Annabeth raised an eyebrow, but hesitantly placed her hand on the dog's fur, brushing it softly with her fingers.

Watching her, I summoned all my courage and asked, "So, uh... you wanna come with me to Rachel's party Friday night? You don't really have family night do you?"

I saw her eyes widen as she tried to figure out how I knew about 'family night', but when she spoke she didn't tell me off for 'eavesdropping'. "Family night was a total lie," She looked up.

"And about the party, definitely yes."

Ooooh, Percy and Annabeth have a date!

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