Author's Note: Time for Chapter 7!

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Thalia's POV

After Percy and Annabeth had finished talking privately down in the Underworld, they'd been acting unusual. First of all, Annabeth didn't usually stare at Percy like that. And she'd looked... incredibly happy. That's an understatement. She had looked... blissed out. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with her being happy, but happy in the Underworld? That just wasn't right. And she looked at Percy differently. She looked at him almost dreamily, as if he was the best thing that'd ever happened to her. I've never seen her look at anybody that way, besides Luke.

And Percy, he's easy to read. It's obvious that he's hiding something. When I'd asked them what they'd been doing, I'd expected him to say smoothly, "Just talking." But instead he'd said, "Um, not much. Just talking," and he'd sounded nervous. Obvious sign that something's up.

I wasn't really sure what was going on between those two, but I was going to find out.

"You two are acting really weird," I told them. "It's obvious that something happened down there. I'm not really sure what, but I will find out," I threatened, walking off towards the Big House to greet Chiron.

As I walked through the strawberry fields, inhaling the aroma of strawberries baking in the sun, I couldn't help but calm down. This place held a lot of memories for me.

"Thalia? What a surprise!" Chiron spotted me from the Big House, playing pinochle with Mr.D.

"Hi, Chiron. Mr.D," I greeted, running over.

"Hello, Trisha. Er, you're the pine tree, correct?" Mr.D greeted in an unfriendly tone.

I ignored him. "Percy and Annabeth have been acting strange lately," I complained, taking a seat next to Chiron.

Chiron seemed slightly interested. "Strange in what way?"

"Well... Annabeth keeps on staring at Percy, and they've both been acting nervous lately. As if they're hiding something," I explained.

"It seems as though I've won again, Chiron. Hurrah," Mr.D muttered, looking bored.

"Di immortales," Chiron cursed under his breath.

It didn't seem like anybody was going to listen to me here, so I got up to leave. "See you later," I muttered, walking down the stairs of the Big House.

I wasn't really sure where to go or who to talk to, so I took a walk on Half-Blood Hill. The outdoors always comforts me. I wondered what the rest of the Hunters were doing right now...

"Thalia," a familiar voice said. I looked up to see Nico Di Angelo, leaning his back against my pine tree, stroking a contented-looking Peleus.

"What's up, Nico?"

"I'm leaving," he said hurriedly. "I can't stand that camp. Tell Percy and Annabeth I'm gone, okay?"

"Sure," I muttered. "But where did you shadow travel to? I haven't seen you since the Underworld."

He frowned. "China. Shadow traveling takes lots of practice; you guys were lucky that you ended up here. After China, I tried again, and I ended up here, next to Peleus. Good thing he likes me."

"Yeah, good thing," I agreed, trying not to roll my eyes. "See you later, Nico."

"Later," he agreed, and then ran at full speed toward a tree next to mine. Right before he should've crashed into the tree, he disappeared behind the shadows.

I was suddenly lonely, so I turned and sprinted back into camp. I knew who to talk to.

I searched everywhere until I finally found my favorite satyr, walking around with a couple of his satyr buddies in the strawberry fields.

"Grover!" I called.

He turned. "Thalia!" he ran over and I hugged him.

"Thalia, I can't believe you're here! What's up?" he smiled.

"I just took a little trip with Annabeth, Percy, and Nico, and we just got back. So here I am," I said.

"I hardly ever see you anymore! So how've you been doing?"

"I've been good. Listen, I need to talk to you about something..."

He frowned. "What's wrong?"

"It's about Annabeth. Annabeth and Percy. You see..."

Author's Note: Ha! Another cliffy! Sorry, not much happened in this chapter, I know. I promise, the next chapter'll be more eventful. I'll update again soon... as long as I get lots of reviews! Thanks for the idea, PartyPooper845!

~Percabeth4ever98

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