Percy POV
"Were too now?" The sun was setting and we had just enjoyed a nice dinner in the Dining Pavilion, and I was ready to go.
"We need to see Jeb." Fang said staring at me like I was supposed to know something, even though I didn't.
"Who's Jeb?" I asked.
"He's the one who made Dylan. Well anyway he took DNA and stuff like that to make him." Fang said, stretching his wings out to relax. Rachel gasped, I forgot she still hadn't seen Fangs wings.
"He's a science project." I told Rachel. She continued to stare at Fang's wings with her mouth open.
"How do we find Jobe?" I decided that was his name after trying to remember what it was.
"Jeb, and all you have to do is follow me. I know the top three places he'd be." Fang pulled his wings down and flew up a little, then back down. He probably figured we'd need alternate transformation, since we couldn't fly.
"That taxi you haled with a coin and words awhile ago, can we use that?" Fang asked, looking over my shoulder at Nico who was doing something Nico-ish. I agreed to that and got the Fates Taxi quickly, Fang wrote the address down and handed it to the one with the eye, since it was written down, I couldn't read it with my dyslexia.
We flew down the street, quickly, passing through traffic. It became dark and Nico and Fang were discussing how people always call them emo, and Rachel fell asleep on the window. I just sat there thinking about Annabeth and this other Bird Kid. Why did he need Annabeth? I thought about how Athena said she didn't like my friendship with Annabeth, and that saving my loved ones was my Fatal Flaw. I wondered what my fate would be. If this would be the end, or if it was just another quest, were everything would end happily. Chiron had been right about the prophecy being big. So I had my possibilities.
I fell asleep about fifteen minutes later, to the soft humming of the motor, and the Fates bickering about the eye and tooth. I woke-up when my face hit the seat in front of me, and one of the Fates screeched, "We're here!" I wiped my eyes, and got out of the car. I was staring at a little house that was held up by stilts, and there was a kid on the front porch holding a small ball, wait, a small bomb I backed up to the taxi, but it was already gone. The boy with the bomb put it down after seeing Fang. He ran in the house and yelled something, and two girls came running out, one completely jumped off the porch snapping out her wings and landing gracefully next to Fang and I.
"Fang," she said, she swallowed hard, and calmed herself down. "What are you doing back so soon? According to you're letter-" She stopped and looked at Nico, Rachel and I. She raised her eyebrows, shooting Fang a look that he seemed to understand, because he looked back at her with a different one. I understood now why he looked at me like a was supposed to know something, with his great communication on the home front, he was used to it.
"Gazzy, Angel, and Total left with him." She said, staring down at her feet, and sniffing.
"I'm Percy," I said, "and this is Rachel and Nico."
"Hi…?" The girl looked puzzled, "and you're here why?" Fang glanced at her. "Jeb is still here, he's upstairs, oh, and my name's Max." The girl, now known as Max, said. Fang told us to wait here. He went up to the house and Max introduced us to everyone. There was a girl about twelve or thirteen named Nudge, and a boy my age named Iggy. Max was also my age and kept staring a Rachel, no wait, Rachel's hair. She was giving it some kind of death glare, like she wanted Rachel to be bald.
Fang POV
I went upstairs, and found Jeb. He was writing something down and murmuring something about Dylan. I dissolved into the shadows and ease-dropped on his conversation with himself.
"Ok, and his father, was, er, Zeu-" he stopped and looked toward the ceiling. "Gotta' be careful with names. And mother was mortal Lila Gimmerson, not even quite sure who that is…" He scratched something out on a paper and muttered something like, "random woman". I thought hard about what Percy had told me. He had told me about half bloods, and so had the horse-man Chiron. They had given me every detail, and somehow I remembered one called Zeus, but Jeb had only said Zeu, maybe he had a reason. Now would be a good time to confront him,
"Who's Zeu." I asked. Somehow I figured he wouldn't tell me, and would give me a puzzling fraise I would have to figure out on my own, and then I would go crazy like Max used to. Max. What was I going to say to her. I left her and now I'm back hoping she'll help me. She probably hates my guts. Ugh, sometimes I think I can be such an idiot, I was thinking of my plan when Jeb finally turned around.
"Huh?" He seemed to cover his papers up with his elbow, and shuffled them together quickly, sliding them under a large book.
"Doing some paper work on Dylan, are we?" I tried to sound like I was on to him, wanting him to admit to me who Dylan was related to. Wanting him to confront my biggest fear about Dylan and who he was.
"Dylan… oh uh, Fang hi…" A pause. "Ah, you heard how much?" It sounded so totally out of character from Jeb.
"Dylan's a half-blood isn't he? You created him to save the world because you thought Max couldn't do it? Well you're wrong. She's a lot more capable than him, because if you haven't noticed he left, and he's on the wrong side" I emphasized the words, and Jeb just look at me and said exactly what I thought he would.
"How do you know you're not on the wrong side."
Max POV
The girl with the red hair was standing next to Percy, she was looking down at the ground avoiding eye contact with me because I had been giving her my best you-die-if-you-even-look-at-Fang look (Not like I had practiced in the mirror or anything when Fang had dated the Red Haired Wonder…) I hated red heads. First Fang dated them, then me, then left me, and brings one home. To my home. It isn't his home anymore, he has to make his own flock in case he forgot! Max, you need to cool down. I took a deep breath, and tried for hospitality, "So, were ya'll from?" (Yes, I tried a Western approach.)
"New York." Percy said, gesturing to Rachel and himself, "but Nico's not so sure, he was put in the… Let's just say he's older than he looks." Nico laughed and Percy smiled a little. I had to admit, Percy had a little charm to him.
Fang walked into the living room where we were, he gave one of his famous can I talk to you looks. I excused myself (gladly) from Rachel, the Red Haired Wonder, and then just normally from Percy and Nico. We walked into the kitchen were we wouldn't be seen or heard, and closed the door.
"Seriously, a red head?" I told him. He gave me one of his signature smiles that made me want to kiss him, of course I didn't because I was also really mad at him. But he didn't even try to kiss me, I must have had a look in my eyes that he remembered, the look I had before he kissed me, during the times when I didn't kiss him back. The times I ran away. The look of love fear, and he knew me well enough to know what I wanted and didn't want. I had always loved that about him. He told me about the random kids in the living room. He explained about Dylan, but what I didn't understand what was dangerous about Dylan. He was the son of one of those god people, what was his name, Zeus? That would explain his rugged good looks, but what did that mean for Angel, Gazzy, and Total who went with him. What did that mean for Annabeth, the girl he kidnapped?
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