SO SO SORRIES! I know, I'm terrible.. but I have a good reason!

No, I don't.

So, anyhoodles,

Part 4!

~~~Back in Time~~~

Annabeth finished her toast at Piper and Jason's wedding. Reyna had forced the reluctant Annabeth to get out of bed to celebrate the happy occasion. Hazel braided her hair and slapped a dress on her, but she refused to wear makeup. She said she feared she would cry and ruin the mascara, but they knew it was something more.

She stayed stone-faced and silent during the service. She only smiled when she was congratulating Piper and Jason.

At the reception she sat next to Hazel with Reyna and played with her food, delicately sampling a bit. But she had to appetite.

The time for a toast came. One problem.

Percy was supposed to do the toast.

"Annabeth, can you toast?" Piper asked. She nodded half-heartedly, plastered on a small smile, and stood.

"I would like to toast to my good friends Piper and Jason Grace. Without you, the prophecy would be incomplete and the giants would've won. For those who dopn't know, it's nothing," she said and raised her glass. They all cheered and drank.

"L'chaim," Leo said and everyone laughed. Annabeth sorta smiled then went back to her poker face. The Octavian (who wasn't supposed to come) did a very Octavian thing.

"Wasn't Percy supposed to do the toast? Oh right. He disappeared a month ago."

Annabeth lost it. She started sobbing uncontrollably. Thalia dragged her and Octavian out, a sympathetic hand on Annabeth's shoulder and a pinching hand on Octavian's ear. She threw Octavian out of the hotel into the pouring rain. Then Thalia took a disheveled Annabeth to the bathroom and wiped her face.

"Shh sweetie. Be brave. Look at me. Show me those beautiful eyes," Thalia said. Annabeth lifted her eyes.

"Annabeth Celeste Chase-Jackson. You are gorgeous. You need to get yourself together. Octavian's just an idiot."

"I feel sick."

"No excuses."

"I seriously do. I need a doctor, my stomach really hurts."

Thalia looked at her face. She looked so sincere.

~~Doctor's Office Later~~

"No problems it seems. No diseases. But the symptoms do point to something," said Dr. Stoll.

"What?" Annabeth asked.

"Ms. Chase-Jackson, it's quite possible you are pregnant."

Katoptris's POV

The next day at school I got driven by Nico in a black Mini Cooper. I walked out and he zipped away. He probably used shadow travel back home. Or to his latest girlfriend's house. Most likely Reyna's, since he liiiikes her.

I waved to my demigod friends Felicia and Felicity, and Rory ( ). Felicia and Felicity had their mothers black hair and their father's mischievous grin and upturned eyebrows. Their eyes are hazel and they are quite hypocritical, telling people to stop doing the wrong thing then pranking someone. Rory has his father's golden hair that swoops to the left side with his mother's enthralling kaleidoscope eyes and smile. I think he likes me… I hope so. I'm pretty good at reading expressions. Like a mirror.

Rory walked up to me and we had a normal conversation. A friends conversation. But he was blushing the whole time. Ah, 2nd grade. Leo calls it 'death toil until young love.' I just call it young love.

We walked to class (we have the same teacher, but Felicity and Felicia are in a different class) and I straightened my blue capris and white t-shirt that had little blue flowers on it.

"Hello Kat. I was looking at the roll sheet, and, your name isn't really Kat, is it?" Bess Erickson said in her snooty little voice.

"What's it to you?" I said. I felt my blue eyes change a little. I'm glad it's Bess here.

"Nothing, Katoptris." The class started tittering at the sound of my full name. "What were your parents thinking? Oh wait, you only have a mom. Well, your father must've at least been there to name you."

"My mom was thinking the right thing Bess. It means mirror in Greek. I'm fluent in Greek. And my father COULDN'T have been there. And he can't be here. He's missing."

"Sounds like he just wanted to get away from you."

"Her father would've loved her if he knew she was alive," said Rory. He scowled and his eyes turned icy blue. Uh-oh. "And he has a good reason. Percy Jackson is alive and missing, and we DON'T need your attitude. Leave. Her. ALONE."

The sea parted. I sat down next to the boiling Rory.

~~~Back In Time~~~

"Come on Miranda. PLEASE go out with me" Connor begged.

"When pigs fly," Miranda said, flipped her curly black hair over her shoulders as she walked away. He scooted in front of her and raised an eyebrow.

"Ah, but they can. Remember the boar Percy fought in the Titan War?" Connor shot at her.

"…" Miranda said. Then she grabbed him and kissed him.

"Well that settles it," he said when they broke apart.

I know, two of them. But it's important in the next chapter.

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