Honesty

Again I'm really sorry this took so long, but here you go. I don't own PJO

Luke

He sighed and turned left, Annabeth had called him at five in the morning crying that she wanted to come home from her dad's house so Luke had stolen the camp van, and driven six hours to southern Virginia. Here he was, he pulled up to a white colonial house and Annabeth flew out the door and into my arms, her back pack on her back.

"I'm all packed come on Luke let's go!" She shouted.

"Wait, Annie I need to talk to your dad." I said. "Go wait in the van." She nodded and I went up the steps.

"Ah you must be Luke." Mr. Chase said.

"Yes I am. You must be her father." I said, my jaw set.

"Yes I am, now we love Annabeth-"

I cut him off. "Shut the hell up." He was clearly pretty surprised that a sixteen year old had told him this.

"Young man-"

"No! Don't even start, Annabeth is nine, she doesn't need to be called a freak by her own family! She doesn't need to hear the whispers about her between you and her step mother." I shouted.

"You are not her father! How could you know what she needs!" He shouted.

"I am more her father then you are! She may be smart, but she's still nine! A nine year old should have to run away at seven because she knows her family doesn't want her, she shouldn't have had to call me this morning, because she should have been with her family!" I shouted.

"Oh and you know what she needs?" He yelled.

"No I don't pretend to be her dad, but I am more of a fatherly figure to her! I understand what it's like to be hated by your family, to be neglected and I think you ought to consider yourself lucky she even called me she could have just left here and gotten killed!" I turned and walked out the door, slamming it behind me.

I climbed back in the car and drove out of her neighborhood, Annabeth looked at me and yawned. "Luke?"

"Yeah kiddo?" I asked.

"Let's go home." I nodded, we rode in silence for a few hours, she was reading her book Harry Potter the ancient Greek version Chiron had given her. We were about half way there when she look up at me with tears in her eyes.

"You okay kiddo?" I asked. She shook her head and I pulled over and got out, she fallowed me. I knelt down to her height. "What's wrong."

Her lip quivered. "I miss Thalia." I bit my lip and she started to cry, I hugged her tightly.

"I know, I do to." I whispered. She cried for a few minutes. "You ready to move on?" She nodded. We got back in the car and drove on.

"Luke?" She asked.

"Yeah?" I said.

"Did you love Thalia?"

"Yeah, Annie, I did. I loved her more then I've ever loved anyone else." I said.

"Luke, did you love her like a Daddy should love a Mommy?" She asked.

I decided to be honest with her. "Yeah, I did."

"Do you love me, Like a daddy should love a little girl?" She wondered.

"Yeah, Annie I do." I nodded.

"I love you too Luke." She muttered and leaned against the window and fell asleep, and a silent tear rolled down my face.

Luke, you t-take care of her. B-be the d-dad she never had. Thalia's voice rang out in my head.

"I love you Thalia." I whispered, but her voice was gone.