Chapter 3 (2nd part)

A really loud sharp knock on the door woke me up, 'Who the hell is it?'

"Annabeth, can I come in?"

Oh, joy. Piper woke me up from the greatest dream I had in a while... Wait, it can't be just a simple dream. 'It was a vision, so Percy is alive and will come back to me.' At this thought my heart raced and I jumped out of bed and threw open the door for Piper to come in.

She had time only to make one step into the room, 'caus I gave her into bear hug. Smile wasn't fading from my face.

"Piper, Percy is alive! We need to tell everyone! need to have a quest to find him!" I finished talking and tugged my friend on the hand to go and tell everyone good news. But Piper just kept standing on the spot not letting my walk out of the room. Then she closed the door and tried to make me sit back on the bed.

"Annabeth, I understand it's hard for you, but you need to realize: Percy is in Tartarus alone. He's got a really small chance to even stay alive. It's impossible for him to get out of there with Doors closed and-"

"No, you don't understand,Piper," I stood up from the bed and started pacing. "He is alive. I talked with him in my dream. He promised he'll come back to me... Let's go, we need to tell everyone..." I marched to the door, but Piper put a hand on my shoulder stopping me.

"Annabeth, look into my eyes. You need to calm down. We can talk about everything later, when we are back at Camp. Ah... And by the way, we'll be there in 15 minutes. I'll call you then."

I instantly obeyed Piper's words and sat on the bed.

Suddenly a thought stuck me: Piper used her charmspeak on me. My all consuming happiness changed into the anger. 'How dare she do that? But I don't have time to dwell on it, I need to make a plan to help my Percy...'

So the plan started to form in my mind.

Camp Half-Blood

The first thing I said to Chiron when Argo || landed and we got off the ship was:

"Chiron, we need to have a counsellor meeting."

"Yes, I think so, my child. I'll go and notify everyone." With that said he galloped away, so I made my way to the Big House.

Big House, Counselor meeting

"Everyone attention please. We have some serious business to discuss." Chiron demanded trying to silence everyone in the room.

"That's better. The rebuilding of the cabins is nearly finished. I need someone to supervise the moving of younger campers there. But this matter can wait for a while," he sighed and turned to me.

"Annabeth... Percy... we hadn't made and burned his shroud jet; we were waiting for Argo || to arrive. But now it's better be done sooner than later. And we hadn't informed Sally of everything that happened, so I wanted to ask you, as the closest person to her, to-"

I stopped him and stood up, "No, there's no need to make his shroud. He is alive. He'll come back, but we need to help him. So I'm asking you to give me the quest to go and find Percy." I looked Chiron dead in the eyes and saw only sadness and pity in them. No assurance. No understanding. No anything I wanted to see.

Someone put a hand on my shoulder, I turned around and looked right into electric blue eyes of Thalia.

"Annabeth, you need to calm down. I know it's hard for you to accept the fact that Percy is... not with us. Heck! It's hard for all of us. But you need to live, to move on, not to dwell on everything that happened... I know Percy wants it for you."

At this moment I saw red, shoved off her hand from my shoulder and yelled, "You don't understand! He'll come back, he promised me. But we need to help him." I looked around the room; no one was convinced with my little speach and they had only pity in their eyes. "You don't belive me..." I whispered.

" Annabeth... You need to relax, have a good sleep maybe." Chiron started talking, but I wasn't listening to him
I rushed out of the Big House and to the top of the Half-Blood hill. I hadn't heard screams of my friends behind. Only one thought kept pounding in my mind: 'I need to get out of this place.' And I kept running.

When I was running along the huge road, another thought appeared in my mind, 'Where should I go?' I had my bag with some necessities such as my laptop, some blueprints and a little bit of other things, but there was only some dollars on me, barely enough to get a cheap taxi to New York, so the option to go to my dad is out. Going to the hotel is out of question too.

'So where? where?'

Something clicked in my head. Sally. What if I ask to stay with her for a while? Furthermore, I still need to tell her what happened with Percy and everything.

I and Sally had some heart to heart conversations during the time Percy was missing. I already liked Persy's mom even before that, but now I think of her as my own mother. Not by birth, but by soul.

'And I really miss little Lissy...' I mused.

So it's decided. I'm going to Sally.

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