Oh man! It's been quite some time since I decided to write some fanfiction. Don't worry, though, I have been doing some writing, and it's revolving around Percy Jackson too! I've been role-playing on a Camp Half-Blood forum, and I'm excited to say that my writing has improved! Greatly, actually. I hope you guys are still with me on my story. I've changed up the plot a little, so things that I wrote in the AN before might differ a little.

Percy walked towards the forest, deeper. He knew his way around here, as he frequented the forest before the highway was put in when he was a kid. He made his way towards the familiar clearing he loved to go to when he needed to think. Percy thought to himself how this place wouldn't be sacred to him anymore. He was bringing someone he had kidnapped there. When he imagined it before, he imagines lucious green trees, green grass and small yellow flowers. It was peaceful, a safe haven. Now, it wasn't that anymore. Taking Annabeth here ruined the image of the clearing. He was hurting her by taking her away from her home. That's one emotion he never associated this place with before: pain.

But, Percy needed the money so desperately. His mother, Sally Jackson, was a recovering drug addict. She was doing better, but that took her out of work. Percy, only being 17, needed to be able to continue school, but also needed to provide for both himself and his mother. His father, Poseidon, left Sally and his son when Percy was just a baby. It wasn't fair to him, but Sally was left with the impression that it was for an important reason. Now, what that reason was, the two of them had no clue.

Percy kept walking forward, adjusting his torn shirt. He didn't realize it was stained with blood. He had been pretty scraped up by the glass, more than Annabeth had, though. He stopped walking for a moment, and waved his hand, so Annabeth would walk faster and in front of him. What a very gentlemanly gesture! Perhaps chivalry isn't dead!

Annabeth rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest, her lip curling into a pout. She didn't want to be here, especially because she was KIDNAPPED. Whatever was lurking in these forests couldn't be good. There could be dangerous men, some more dangerous than Percy. He didn't bother her too much, she wasn't too scared of him. She had trained in the art of self defense all of her life, at her mother's request, so she could take care of herself in cases like this. Obviously, Athena hadn't prepared for it to come to this.

Annabeth did what she was instructed, and walked ahead of Percy. Subtly, he checked her out as she walked forward. Annabeth turned around and shot a glare at Percy, while he cleared his throat and shoved his hands in his pockets. Annabeth walked for about a mile before she came across a small clearing with a makeshift tent in it, a large tarp hung from two branches and a few sticks propping it up. A circle of rocks that appeared to be a campfire sat in the middle of the clearing, ash from burnt newspapers still in the middle. The sun was already going down behind the trees, orange sunlight peeking through the branches.

Percy walked behind her, tossing his leather jacket on the mat in the tent, very suggestively, too. A terrible thought creeped into her mind. Images of young, beautiful girls flashed across the news channel. Murdered, bodies found in the forest, raped, bruised. Gang members, pedophiles, young, mad teenage boys looking for their fill, bored with life.

'No, no no. Annabeth, don't do this to yourself. He has shown no body language or otherwise suggested anything of that level. You are okay,' She told herself, somehow hoping to convince herself that she was ok, that she was safe. But she couldn't be so sure.

So, school was pretty rough before I let out for the summer, and I recently moved to Hawaii. Enjoying it here so far. Was on the cross country team, I'm first chair flute player, and I got a 3.83 GPA. Gah, so close! Everything is great, though. Hope all of you are enjoying your fall weather, because I won't. :V

Reviews make me happy, flames will be used TO STRIP YOU OF YOUR HONOR. (Sorry, I was watching ATLA while writing this and I totally ship ZUKOxHONOR.)