Chapter Four - Nico -
I was thankful there were spare shirts in the back of Percy's car, for when he was doing stake outs, and we roamed back into the cafeteria. Everybody was talking about us, like 'Did you see their abs? -Dreamy sigh-' or 'I bet I can sleep with the raven haired boy before you can with the obsidian black haired kid.' Wow people were that low. We grumbled as we walked to the back of the lunch hall and took a seat at an empty table, I pulled out my lunch and kicked up my combat boots onto the chair opposite. I saw Percy shooting glances at Annabeth and Luke every now and again, until their eyes met. Annabeth blushed but Percy kept his stare on her, shifting it to Luke who was laughing at something Ethan said. I pulled out my phone the Agency gave to us and started telling Chiron about our first half of the day, seeing Luke and Ethan, Luke having a girlfriend who is oblivious to his double life, until Percy kneed me from under the table. I glared at him and looked up to see Grover, Luke, Annabeth, Thalia, Jason, Piper and Ethan heading over to us, grins on their faces.
"thought we should give you guy's some company. You seem pretty lonely." Thalia stated as she sat beside me.
Annabeth sat opposite Percy, smiling at him slightly. He just turned away from her and took a sudden interest in his food. I frowned at him and glanced at Annabeth, who was giving me a confused look. I just shrugged at him as I tuned back into the conversation Thalia and Grover were having. They were talking about what just happened with us.
"Who do you think would steal your shirts?" Annabeth wondered, she stared at me for a second and a little longer to Percy, something hidden in her eyes as she blushed a tinge of pink, who was still looking at his food.
I noticed she kept sneaking glances over at Percy while he just glared at his bag. Oh boy, I know that look. I jabbed his leg and nodded subtly to the door when he looked at me, anger, hatred and. Was that jealousy in his hard gaze? He got the hint and stood up abruptly, pulling his bag with him and striding towards the car park doors. The conversation stopped mid sentence,
"What's wrong with Percy?" Luke wondered.
"Probably having one of his episodes he doesn't like people touching his stuff, so when he gets pissed off he just grunts and looks like he's going to hit something. It could also be about the fact that he wasn't really loved any where, neither of us were. Where ever we went, we were hated and then now we're loved because of how we look. If I'm guessing correctly..."
I was cut off by the sound of a V8 Engine leaving the car park and roaring down the street, "Yup. He's about to go do something he'll regret." I sighed as the others just looked at me quizzically. So much for day one of the assignment.
"I'll see you all tomorrow, I gotta go calm him down." I sighed. Thalia just looked at me curiously and I brushed it off. I stood up after collecting my bags and walked off towards my locker. I placed my duffel bag in there and all my books from this morning. I was about to leave when I saw Thalia and Annabeth standing behind me, determined looks on their faces. I raised an eyebrow at them.
"What's really up with Percy?" Annabeth asked, concern in her eyes and a mix of some other emotion.
"I'm telling the truth but to be honest even I don't know what's up with him at the moment. He's looked like that ever since period two." I told them as I walked over to my bike. I heard a low whistle from behind,
"Nice bike." Thalia complimented. I smiled as Annabeth asked something,
"Where's he gone then if you said he's going to go do something he'll regret?" Again concern and worry in her eyes. Why did she care so much about someone she just met?
I sat on the seat and started the engine, the bike rumbling to life, "back to camp." I lied. I know all to well where he is going. Back to the safe house to beat up and slash the dummies. I grinned at Thalia as she smiled and waved,
"I'll see you tomorrow, tell the others I said bye." Thalia smiled and nodded, before she said,
"Try not to kill yourself death breath." She smiled playfully. I just blinked, confused, as did Annabeth. I hummed in response as I pulled out of the car park and onto the main road, following the road back to the safe house. what's with the nickname? is that a thing that girls do to friends? Yeah that must be it. As I reached the safe house I saw Percy's mustang carelessly parked in the garage. I sighed and walked into the door to find Percy hacking at the dummies with Riptide. I turned the music down that he was blaring,
"DUDE!" I yelled, he turned around his gaze still hard, "WHAT WAS THAT ALL ABOUT?" I continued. He huffed in annoyance and threw the bowie knife at the dummies face behind him without looking. He dropped down on the sofa, head in his hands,
"I have no idea. I have never felt like this on an assignment before. What ever it is, it's not meant to be there." He mumbled into his hands. I sighed and sat next to him,
"You like Annabeth don't you." He was about to deny it but I beat him to it, "Don't even think about lying to me Perseus, we have been friends since we were four years old, when that sort of thing was whipped out of us. We aren't meant to feel compassion or love, we are meant to be robots. A new breed of Agents, prototypes with the whole healing capabilities and such. I saw the look of jealousy on your face." I glared at him to challenge my word, but he only sighed.
"I think it's worse than liking her, I think I've fallen for her. I mean how is that even possible? Less than twenty four hours of knowing her and I've already fallen for her. Now I know she is with the fucking assignment, I just snapped. I need to report this to the Agency and tell them I can't do this assignment." he was about to make a move for the main secure phone line, but I pulled him back into the chair.
"Your not alone in this you know. I think I've fallen for Thalia." I told him.
Cliff hanger. Well not really, but meh. Next Tuesday will be 5 and 6. Tomorrow and Friday, will be one chapter for Internet Dating.
