Wow. Guys, you are just too sweet with all of your reviews! This chapter I edited a lot in the process and as you're reading this, I am writing Chapter 9. Yup, I've been writing non-stop switching from story to story. So, I hope you guys enjoy this! ~P

P.S. I do not own Percy Jackson... sadly. I'm saying this for the entire story.

Annabeth-

"Annabeth!" Chiron said, "You'll need this." He gave me a gun. I looked at him. He can't be giving me his gun, he'll need it if he's coming with me. He's practically my partner.

"No, you'll need it." I objected, trying to reason with him. He needs to be protected too.

"You're alone on this, Annabeth. I'm not an agent anymore." He resigned? Now? But he couldn't have. He was supposed to be with me and keep me safe.

"No…"

"Good luck." He said, and he left. I sighed. Alone. I sheathed my dagger and kept the gun in my hands, in the proper hold. I walked with care. Checking each hall with the gun. I noticed my vest had a microphone and earpiece. I put that on before proceeding. I heard some footsteps behind me and I turned around and pointed the gun in front of me. I saw it was just a green-eyed boy with jet-black hair. Can you guess? Of course. It was the only person reckless enough to get here.

"Percy?" I asked, pointing the gun back on the floor. "Why are you following me? I could've killed you!"

"I needed to make sure you were safe. I'm fine. I'm not the one you should be worrying about." I said, he shrugged, there was a slam of the door close by. I told him to be quiet and gave him my dagger. "Stay behind me."

"No. You'll be safe behind me."

"I told you to be safe, Percy. I didn't tell you I'd be." I sighed, "Did you call Agent Jerome?" He nodded.

"She should be here in a few minutes." I sighed,

"You do know you may be jeopardizing my mission, right?"

"Sorry, but you need to be safe."

"I have a bulletproof vest, you don't. I'm safe, you aren't." I said, sighing. I swear, this Seaweed Brain can, well, be a Seaweed Brain. He's insane. He's irrational. But I have to give him a break, he has the courage I wouldn't have if I wasn't in the FBI. I brought him to the person I could trust the most to keep this Kelp Head safe for me. I brought him to Chiron's classroom and knocked on the door. "Chiron?" He opened the door. "Keep Percy with you and don't let him get out." Percy was objected.

"Annabeth, like it or not, I'm coming with you." He said, I rolled my eyes.

"That just may be the worst idea. Besides, we have no time for this. Just get in."

"Annabeth." Chiron said, I looked at him. "Remember what I told you. Don't change. So, don't change anyone, either. It's a free country and Percy can think of himself."

"It's a stupid idea, Chiron, he might get shot."

"That may be true, Annabeth. But this job isn't the safest." I sighed and looks at Percy. I had no choice, someone might get hurt in the process, but there are just some things that I can't control.

"Stay behind me and don't come close until it's clear." I said. Then, I heard screaming. I went to that area as careful as possible to see Luke holding a girl with a gun pointing to her head.

"Let go of the girl, Luke." I said, I knew he wouldn't but it was worth a shot. He had a scar on his face and his hair was messy. His eyes told me that if he wanted to, he could kill her and get someone else. He had the eyes of a psychopath killer. "She's not your cousin." Yep, cousin. The reason why Luke was doing this is because he needs to relive it. I looked into the case more. His cousin was his first victim. Blonde, curly hair and grey eyes. Just like me. "She's not Jenny." I said,

"No! She isn't!" He said, shaking, making the girl, who was already crying, yelp. He was clinically insane and the first person he hurt was his cousin, he loved the adrenaline, the feeling of letting someone scream and die out of their deepest fears. Out of the hell of it. It started with a game of Truth or Dare. The dare was that she'd go stay underwater for a minute. She was afraid of water. When she refused, Luke snapped and pushed he head underwater, drowning her. She died seven years old. "Stop squirming, Annabeth." I realised the illusion wasn't Jenny anymore. It was me, the one that got away. The one who was brave enough to make it alive. The one who lost her mother in the fight.

The illusion was me. And I guess, now it was my fault.

"She's not me, either, Luke." I said, "She's not Annabeth, I am."

"No. You're FBI. You want to take me away and let her escape." I kept the gun pointed to his head. This has to end. But I have to try doing it without killing him. I have to prove I'm Annabeth Chase. It's stupid, and it'll get me shot, possibly killed, but I wasn't going to let anyone die in this fight. This was just about me and Luke.

"Annabeth Chase. You abducted her when she was seven years old, two days after the previous victim you killed was found dead. You killed her mother by slashing several times until she bled out. Annabeth kept screaming Malcolm in attempts of her brother to save her." I said, to prove it, I had to relive it. I had to picture I was being tortured again. After the numerous times. During an investigation, testifying in court, each time I close my eyes… I'm reliving it, but this time, to safe someone. "But she escaped, because she was brave, she fought her fears, literally, and her time was up. You pointed a gun to her head but she managed to disarm you, she shot your leg and the FBI came."

"Impossible the only person who would know that would be−"

"Annabeth Chase. That's because I am Annabeth Chase, Luke Castellan." I heard sirens outside the school. I knew it was probably Agent Jerome, back-up, and ambulances. Standard people that would come during an arrest of an armed and dangerous murderer.

"No!" Luke shot and I shot him a millisecond later, there were screams and everything went blurry. I knew Luke was dead, because I felt a sense of relief in the room. Alarms went off in the school, officially, the lockdown was over. Luke shot my neck, I should be dead, I was holding out. I needed too. For my mom. I ccan't let myself die, if I barely lived yet. I can't die without graduating high school as Valedictorian. I can't die without being an architect and designing something that could stay in this world forever. I can't die without having a future. And I know, this would be so unlike me to admit, but I can't die without telling Percy how I felt about him.

They say your life flashed in front of your eyes. Everything you love. That's when I realized that even if I liked it or not, I loved Percy. My blood was going out. I felt it. As I hit the cold tiles. People were rushing to me, but I only saw a familiar pair of green eyes.

"Oh god." I heard him say, "Annabeth?!" I didn't have power to respond. Too much blood loss. I could feel my body shutting down. "Stay with me. Keep your eyes open." He said,

"Oh my god." I heard Thalia say.

"Is she dead?" I heard Nico ask. Agent Jerome felt my pulse.

"She's alive."

"Luke's gone." Agent Morgan said. I heard the girl crying, the girl that I saved,

"She saved my life. Annabeth Chase saved my life and if she dies, it'll be my fault." I wanted to tell her that it wouldn't be, Agent Jerome did it for me. I realized I was holding Percy's hand, I would blush I had any blood left, but I didn't. I squeezed his hand in confirmation.

"I think she agrees." Percy confirmed for me. The paramedics put me on a gurney and brought me to the ambulance, I could die knowing I did something good in my life. But I just didn't want to right at the moment. But as I told myself I could make it, everything went black.

Thalia-

She was shot. My best friend was shot in her neck. It's a miracle that she's still alive. Or if she lived out that long. Long enough to hear me if she could, just to let her know I cared.

We all went to the hospital right after the principal said we could. We heard that Annabeth was in surgery right now. I remember the last time we were are the hospital. She rushed over here in the middle of the night because she heard I was here after I dropped a knife and it hit some major arteries. She knew no one would drive her here, so she ran.

I was eating pudding on the bed when she walked in my room, she was wearing a black tank top and a jacket along with some black jeans and boots. She was wearing all black because it was the anniversary of the incident.

I remember it like it was just yesterday. Really, it was almost one year ago.

•Flashback•

She was at the door way, leaning against the doorframe. I smiled and she did, too. Her hair was in a ponytail.

"You're here? At the middle of the night?"

"What kind of a friend would I be if I didn't show up?" She asked me, and she sat down on the couch beside the bed. She crossed her legs. "I didn't know someone could be such a klutz could you be to drop a knife and hit some major arteries? My dad practically went red when he got the call from the hospital and I asked him to let me come here." She laughed, I did too.

"Hey, you're going to be on this bed one day because you were really klutz-y." I said, we laughed. Annabeth was never a klutz, we both knew that it would be unlikely. "Did you bring me some clothes so when I get out, I won't be in this lousy gown?" She laughed.

"That's the Thalia I know. She accidentally cuts herself in the middle of the night and asks her best friend if she brought clothes." We bother laughed. "But yeah, I did. You forgot some clothes at my place when you slept over. I brought your jeans, wolf tank top, and your leather jacket. I'll let you borrow my black converse." She offered, I smiled.

"Thanks."

"No problem, Thals." She said, smiling back at me as I took another spoonful of pudding.

•••

I pulled Percy away. I saw how he looked. He looked broken and concerned beyond anything. That was kind of dead giveaway.

"Are you okay?" I asked,

"I'm fine… I'm fine." He said, "How about you? You were−are her best friend."

"I'm fine. I mean, I've been better…" I sighed. And we both looked at the doors to surgery. We were bother worried about her. I looked at Percy. "Do you like her, Perce? Honestly. You look concerned beyond anything." He sighed.

"I don't know… I don't know how I feel about her. I mean… it's complicated."

"How do you feel about her?"

"She's smart, she's pretty and she can sure as hell prove a point. She doesn't hold back and she always tells the truth. Her eyes are amazing and her curls−" I smiled.

"Look, I'm not one to be sappy, nor am I good at the love game, but when you talk about someone like that, you do more than like them. It sounds like you can go hours talking about her and not get bored. You love her, don't you?"

"No. Yes. I don't know, Thalia. What if she likes someone else? What if−"

"That doesn't matter. I think you should tell her. She wouldn't have told you to stay safe if she didn't like you. She didn't tell me that, she didn't tell anyone but you. And if there's anything about Annabeth, is she may not know, but she gives secret meanings in everything she does and says." I said, as we went back to the group.

The doctor finally came. We all stood up. As we heard the news.

"She's out of surgery. It's a miracle that it didn't hit any major veins or arteries, one millimetre more to any direction, she would've died. She's stable and she could wake up anytime soon. Her vocal chords have not been affected whatsoever. It's really a miracle she's alive. But there was one complication." He said, we all listened intently, a complication? "She flat-lined, four times, each time for around three minutes." She said, we all gasped. "We find it best not to give her any stress, but other than that, she'd be out of here in no time." He said, we all sighed out of relief and we all hugged each other.

"Thank you." Agent Jerome said, the doctor nodded and left.

"She's alive." Piper sniffled, and giggled.

"If you don't mind, can I go in first?" I asked, "I'd like to talk to her." They nodded and I made my way to her room.

Gandhi once said; "I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent." -This is for the drama in the next chapter... or was it for the sixth chapter. I hope that gave you an idea of the drama that will happen two chapters from now.