Sorry, people! I know you all have waited months for this, I'm just kind of tired of it. This chapter is dedicated to aphroditeathena, who encouraged me to continue writing. Sorry, I actually promised to update this a few weeks ago, but I kind of forgot about it. Anyway, here's the next chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO

Katie's POV

"Oh, I'm a goofy goober, yeah! You're a goofy goober, yeah! We're all-"

"Dylan!" I shouted. "Shut up! We're walking down a dark street all by ourselves to meet some creepy guy in an alley and you're singing songs from Spongebob!"

He snickered. "Sorry." We were almost there now. I was curious as to what we would find out from this mysterious man. What could Mom have been hiding from me? I wasn't sure, but I knew it would have to be out of the ordinary. Why else would I be able to read Greek without even learning but not read English?

We made our way into the alley and I looked around. I couldn't see much from the dim street light, but I was pretty sure we were the only ones there.

"Maybe they aren't here yet?" Natalie questioned, her voice raising a pitch higher. I heard a sound behind us and we all turned. Standing ten feet away from us were five creatures that made my eyes widen. I pinched my arm, knowing I must be dreaming. First, Dad comes back from the dead, then I can read something in Greek, and now this? But I knew I wasn't that creative and the fact that the pinch hurt confirmed that this was really happening. I must be going crazy.

Annabeth's POV

"I'm so sorry," I whispered as I hugged my husband. He'd just told me his story and I couldn't believe how much he'd gone through. We were sitting in a booth (on the same side; neither of us wanted to lose physical contact with the other) at a burger joint. I'd offered to take him somewhere fancy, but he was so hungry that he said he just wanted something greasy.

"It's all right, Annabeth," he replied, stroking my hair. "It's not your fault. I should be apologizing to you; I should have been more careful. You had to raise our daughter on your own and go on thinking I was dead."

"You were very brave to save Clarisse like that, you know." He was about to respond when my phone started ringing. I'd always had one in case of emergencies, but I hadn't used it before yet, and I had left it at home when I was picking Katie up. After what happened this afternoon though, I realized carrying it would be a good idea. I sighed and pulled away from Percy as I pulled my cell phone out of my purse. I looked at the caller ID.

"It's Grover," I said and he grinned. I realized then that I hadn't told Grover about Percy yet, but this wasn't something I could do over the phone. We could always just surprise him later with a visit. I pressed talk and put the phone to my ear.

"Hello?"

"Annabeth! Where are you?" He rushed through the words and I knew something was going on.

"At a burger place. Why?"

"Is Katie with you?"

"No, she's at home."

"Oh no, this is not good"

"What is it, Grover?" I was worried now. Percy must have noticed because he put his arm around my waist and pulled me close.

"I smell monsters."

"What?" I jumped up and scurried out of the booth. "Where?" I asked as I ran for the car. Percy caught up to me and was at my side.

"On a few different streets in the center of the city. I think they're trying to confuse us."

"All right. We'll take the east side, you take the west."

"Wait a second, you said we. Who's with you?"

"I can't talk right now, Grover. Let me know if anything new pops up."

"All right. Bye." I hung up the phone and got into the driver's seat of my car.

"What's going on?" Percy asked as I drove out of the parking lot as fast as I possibly could.

"Monsters." I answered and then realized checking on Katie would be a good idea. I pulled my phone back out and dialed our home number. It rang a few times, then went to voicemail. That's not a good sign. I'd always taught Katie to answer the phone when I called so that I'd know she was all right whenever something like this came up. Of course, she didn't know monsters were involved, but she knew she would be grounded if she didn't pick up the phone.

"Who are you calling?" Percy asked.

"Katie." I said as I redialed.

"Is that her name? Our daughter?" I loved hearing the sound of him calling Katie our daughter, but I couldn't think about it much at the moment.

"Yes. Katlyn Danielle Jackson."

"That's beautiful." he said dreamily. "Do you think she figured out who I am?"

"Percy, please don't take this the wrong way, but at the moment, we have other worries."

"Sorry. How many monsters?"

"I'm not sure. Grover said he thinks they're trying to confuse us by running down different roads."

"What do you think they're doing here?"

"I'm not sure, but they're probably up to no good."

"As usual." I saw a few figures in the distance as we went down Oak Avenue. I counted eight, five of them obviously not human. I sped up and pulled over when we were just a few feet away.

"You have Riptide?" I asked and watched as Percy pulled the pen I hadn't seen in so long out of his pocket. I opened the car door to get out, but then I realized I didn't have a weapon. I had long ago packed my dagger away at home; we hadn't seen monster activity in years. Percy was already out, fighting one of the monsters. I looked around for something, but there wasn't anything that would be useful.

There was a scream and I knew what I had to do. I ran out of the car and towards my daughter. What she was doing here, I had no idea, but there was no time for questions. Katlyn handed something to me and I looked at it. It was my dagger. How did she get this? I heard a roar and turned back to the monsters.

A few minutes later, I killed the last one and watched as it turned into a pile of dust. I looked over to Percy and saw that he was covered in green goo from one of the monsters. I saw his gaze was on something behind me and I turned to see my daughter and her friends staring at us with shocked expressions. Oh, great.

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