Willow's POV

I was really glad Percy was my brother. He was really nice, funny, and super chill, like a surfer dude. I was also really glad he was dating Annabeth. Even though the girl could probably scare a Cyclops with her glare, when she wasn't angry or in a bad mood, she was awesome. I had only been in camp for a few hours but I already felt right at home. Everyone was really nice to me except for the Ares cabin. I had already gotten to know some of the campers. I liked the Stolls, Katie, Leo, Calypso, my new cousins Jason and Nico (although he could be pretty creepy), Piper, this guy named Chris Rodriguez, and his girlfriend Clarisse. Clarisse was one of the meaner, stronger, more violent children of Ares but there was just something about her that I liked. She wasn't exactly mean to me. She was more rude. But she treated her and her brother with respect. Something about an incident in the girls' bathroom when my brother was 12.

At dinner, I followed my brother. The plates and cups filled themselves with any food/drink you wanted! How cool is that? Percy walked up to the large bonfire where campers were lining up around, and tossed a piece of his steak into the fire. I looked at him like he was crazy. "It's an offering to the Gods. They like the smell of the food. Take a piece of your food, chuck it in, and say a prayer to dad. Just do it," he said. I took a few of my grapes and threw them into the fire. Thanks dad, for my brother. I then followed Percy to a table. We sat down and no one else sat down with us which kind of hurt my self-esteem Piper, Annabeth, the Stolls, Katie, even Clarisse seemed to be surrounded by people. "Why doesn't anyone sit with us?" I asked. "Oh. You have to sit with your cabin. We're the only children of Poseidon, so we sit alone," Percy explained. I then noticed Nico and Jason also sitting alone at other tables.

Just then, I saw lightning flash through the cloudless sky and thunder rumble. I saw a girl walking to the Poseidon table. She had spikey black hair, a leather jacket, ripped up black jeans, combat boots, and a death to Barbie t-shirt. She had a silver bracelet around her wrist. She looked goth and punk at the same time. She had what seemed to be like a permanent smirk and electric blue eyes. The only thing that seemed out of place with her appearance was a silver tiara she wore. No one had noticed her yet.

She walked right up to Percy and ruffled his hair. "'Sup Kelp Head?" she said with a smile. Percy looked up startled. "Thalia!" he exclaimed with a grin. He pulled her into a hug. Thalia laughed. "What are you doing here?" Percy asked. "Lady A gave me the weekend off. I'm gonna go eat now and say hi to everyone," she said and Percy nodded. I saw Thalia walk up to Jason and hug him from behind. When he turned around, I saw her kiss his cheek. "Hey little bro!" she said. Did she just call him "little bro?" Jason broke into a crazy grin and hugged her tightly. Nico looked up from his food. "Hey Pinecone Face!" he said. Thalia whipped around. "Death Breath!" she hugged him to. "Oh Annie!" Thalia yelled at Annabeth in a sing-song voice. Annabeth did a double take when she saw her. Then she jumped up from her seat and ran to her, hugging her tightly.

Everyone was noticing Thalia now. Everyone seemed to regard her with a lot of respect. Chiron cantered over. "Thalia! Good to see you! Take your seat and eat dinner. We have a lot to discuss," he said. Thalia nodded and sat down next to Jason. "Hey Perce, who's that?" I asked. "Thalia Grace. Jason's older sister. She's really cool, unless you piss her off. Seriously, don't. You'll love her. Hey Thalia! You need to meet someone!" Percy called.

Thalia looked toward us and seemed to notice me for the first time. She tilted her head in confusion before walking toward us. "Who's that?" she asked, gesturing to me. "Thalia, meet your new cousin: Willow. Turns out Poseidon broke the oath a 2nd time," said Percy. Thalia smiled. "Hi." I waved a little. "Wow Kelp Head. Who would've thought you'd end up with a baby sis. I'm Thalia, daughter of Zeus. I'm also a Hunter of Artemis. It's nice to meet you," she said. Although she called me Percy's "baby sis," she had this kind of spunk that I liked about her. She went and sat down with her brother and they started chatting. I think I was really gonna like it here.

"So what where you and Calypso arguing about?" I asked Leo. He had showed me Bunker 9 and we were hanging out there. He looked up at me. "Huh?" "Yeah. When I first got here. You were like "C'mon, it'll be fun!" and Calypso's like "No!" What would've been fun?" "Oh! There's a party some guy at school is throwing tomorrow. I thought it'd be fun but Calypso's still getting use to the world," Leo said.

"You guys go to school?" I asked in surprise. "Yeah. A lot of us do. Me, Calypso, Jason, Piper, your brother, his girlfriend... Some campers stay year round and don't go to school, but not us. We go to Goode High. Percy's step-dad Paul teaches there." "A party sounds like fun! We should get a bunch of people together to go!" Leo looked at me skeptically. "What?" I asked. "Afraid of a little party?" I teased him. He rolled his eyes. "Fine. I'll talk to everyone tomorrow and beg Calypso to come with me." "Yes!" I exclaimed. "It's past curfew. I have to go or Percy will start to wonder where I am," I told him. "Oh I doubt that," said Leo. "Why?" I asked. "Percy sneaks out with Annabeth almost every night. Not a lot of people have ever caught them. I caught them once because I was working on a project late one night. He's probably either getting ready to go or already gone." I nodded. Sure enough when I got to my cabin, Percy was absent. I just pulled my pajamas on and climbed into bed.

I woke up to the screaming. I jumped up immediately only to see my brother in his bed with Annabeth having a panic attack. She had been thrashing in her sleep and now I saw tears streaming down her face as Percy hugged her tightly and murmured something into her ear.

"I'm back in there again. Percy, I can't deal with this every damn night! I can't sleep. I can't even hear the name of that hell hole without flinching and feeling the cold, damp atmosphere of that place," she said. Neither of them had noticed that I was awake. I wonder what had happened to Annabeth to have such an effect. This was definitely not the girl I had met in the sword fighting arena.

"It's ok. We're not down there anymore. We're alive. We're together. We survived. It was only a nightmare. It wasn't real. Don't worry," I heard Percy say to Annabeth. She nodded slightly before lying back down on the bed.

Apparently after Percy and Annabeth had snuck out, they decided to sneak into Percy's cabin and sleep here, even though it was against the rules. Percy lay down next to her and wrapped a protective arm around her. I felt like I was eves dropping on a very personal moment. I went back to sleep wondering about it.

Now that I thought about it, Percy and Annabeth seemed to have a very deep connection. Every time they were together, they had to be touching each other in some way: holding hands, arms around each other, etc. Whenever the other wasn't there, they seemed nervous. I could easily see that they would gladly give their life it meant saving the other. I'll ask someone about Annabeth's episode tomorrow in the morning.

A/N: What did you think? Should the party happen? Any suggestions on what to do?