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Bianca's heart stopped. "W-What do you mean?" she stammered out, trying to get over her shock. The last thing she expected was for Percy Jackson to tell her-after a huge fight with Annabeth- that he was thinking about her rather than his problems...Or maybe she was a problem and that's why he was thinking of her. That thought lowered her hopes and made her sad. That had to be it. He was probably thinking that if he didn't bring her here then he wouldn't have to had fight with Annabeth. It was obvious that fight had hurt him if the tears in his eyes told her anything.

He shifted in the tree, thinking about how to tell her that he was thinking about her hair and her face. "Well I was thinking about you," he answered, hoping his blush didn't show. He's been praticing to hide it.

"What about me?" She hid the sadness pretty well considering she was feeling horrible. Then she realized she didn't want to hear the words come out of his mouth because they would only hurt her more. "You don't have to say anything, Percy," she rushed out before he could answer. "I get it." She started to get up as Percy snapped his head towards her. "It's fine, really." She dropped from the branch, grabbing onto it with her hands and landing swiftly on the bottom one and repeating the process.

"Bianca!" Percy exclaimed, following her example, not understanding the sudden change in events. What does she mean she gets it? Can she read his mind about how pretty she is? He's pretty sure it wouldn't be like this if she had. "Bianca wait up!"

But Bianca was already halfway to Camp when he reached the bottom since she was leaner and could land on smaller branches. She didn't want him to tell her that she was the cause of his problems. Her heart would hurt too much. Maybe she should just go to Nico and tell him that she's going back to the Underworld with Hades for her next mission. Yeah, that's what she'll do. "Bianca," Percy pleaded, grabbing her wrist making her stop in her tracks. "What's wrong?"

She shrugged, trying to hide her feelings. "Nothing."

"Bianca," his voice harder and more of a command as he spun her around. "Did I say something wrong?" If he did, he would kick himself for it. He finally had a chance with an amazing girl and he ruins it the first few minutes that he realizes it. Can his life just be nice and smooth for two whole seconds?

She shook her head. "You didn't do anything, Percy, really. I've just got to back to my dad for my next mission."

His eyes visibly saddened at the lie and Bianca almost took back what she said just to make that beautiful spark come to his eyes again. "You can't stay for a little longer? I was looking forward to catching up and you know?" He rubbed the back of his neck, hoping he wasn't blushing. "Hang out."

She hesitated. It didn't seem like he thought her of as problems. He wanted her company so maybe she was the opposite. "What were you thinking about?" She needed to know rather than give up a chance at his friendship and maybe eventually more.

The urge to blush deepened. "You."

"What about me?"

He tried to think of a way of saying, "Well you know? Your hair and eyes. Not to mention the fact that if you weren't here that I probably would've either taken Annabeth back or destroyed her on the spot." That would be a little more describtive than he wanted to be at this point in their friendship. He didn't even know if she was single. Much less if she liked him. Just need to take things slow. "How you affected my decisions earlier," he replied.

Her face fell and she turned around, bringing her arm with her. "Yeah, I got to go."

"No wait!" He grasped her elbow to keep her from leaving. "I didn't mean it as a bad thing."

She snorted. "Really?"

"Yes, Bianca, listen, how I reacted today with Annabeth was because of you. I don't know why exactly, but if you weren't there I probably would've either taken her back or killed her. You kept me calm."

Her hopes rised. "I didn't do anything."

"You stayed by my side instead of backing up." He tugged her back and she turned around a littler closer to Percy then she would've liked at the moment. They locked eyes and Percy's hand slid down to her own, interlacing their fingers. "You didn't leave."

She blushed at the closeness of him, but smiled softly anyways. "I never really left, Percy."

He returned her smile, his spark back in his eyes. "Thanks."

Before she could reply, his watch beeped, digital words coming across a small screen. He scowled at the bad timing and gave her hand one last squeeze before looking down at it and back up at her. "I'll see you at dinner. You're not leaving so soon, right?"

She shook her head. "I'll be here for a little while."

He grinned and nodded. "I'll see you later then." He turned on his heel, his attention now on his pager and walked a little forward. Bianca took a deep breath she didn't know she needed until Percy wasn't standing so close to her. She breathed for a few seconds before turning around herself and heading back to Camp.

"What?" Percy hissed, Jaden showing up in Chaos's cabin on a mini hologram projecting from his pager watch in perfect detail, down to the last sweat drop on Jaden's forehead.

Jaden smiled sheepishly. "Bad timing?"

Percy rolled his eyes. "No not bad timing."

"Sorry about that."

He sighed. "What do you want?"

"Chaos said we have a spy out in the enemy lines."

"What'd he say?"

"The spy or Chaos?"

Percy took a deep breath, running his hand through his hair. "The spy, Jaden. The spy."

"Oh. That they'll be here in two days time. Three the most."

"Have you told Gerry and Ver?"

He nodded. "Vernica's telling Poseidon right now, but I told her not to give too many details since we're holding a war meeting tomorrow."

"Do you know how big the army is?"

"Roughly 5-6 thousand maybe."

"Monsters? Demigods? Aliens?"

"Monsters. There were cyclops, a few giants, hell hounds, drachnae, all that good stuff. Tons and tons of spiders."

"Athena and her kids are out of the fight then."

"There's some Hephateus and Ares kids in the army too."

"Roman or Greek?"

He rolled his eyes. "Geez, Percy, I don't know. Hephateus and Ares mean anything to you?"

"Well are you sure they're Greek?"

"As far as I know. We'll check in with Chiron, Dad, and Hephateus tomorrow about any missing kids or some that aren't at Camp."

"Romans will be harder to fight."

"We shouldn't need the Romans for this one though."

"Maybe she's attacking the Roman Camp too."

"Hmm, I see where you're going."

"How is that they always manage to get rid of the fighters we need the most?"

"We're the fighters we need the most."

Percy waved his hand. "You know what I mean."

"Are you coming back for dinner?"

"Is it dinner time already?"

"No you have some time, but I figured you would want to talk to a few old friends."

"Thanks, Jaden."

"Anytime, Percy."

Percy pressed a button on his watch and made sure the image turned into water vapor and his video chat thing was off before sighing and running a hand through his hair. Heading back to Camp, he thought about the whole war thing going on. He was going to need the Athena kids to stay far, far away from the fight if he wanted to take anyone down, but knowing Athena she wouldn't leave a fight that easily. Though, he is more powerful than her and she has to take his orders now. What does Arachne even want with them? Probably to get back at Athena. Wouldn't be surprising.

As Percy continued walking and thinking, he ended up bumping into Thalia and Nico. Literally. They all fell to the ground from the encounter and picked themselves up, Percy fixing his throwing knifes that Chaos insisted he carried even if he couldn't do archery for his life. He stood up and held out his hand to his two old friends, saying, "Hey guys."

Thalia grabbed his hand and pulled herself up, punching him in the arm with as much immortal force she could muster, knocking him back down. "Where the hell have you been, Jackson?" she hissed.

Maybe he should've stayed in the woods.

I completed my goal so I'm pretty pysched right now. I might even update tomorrow on some stories, maybe if you know? I get enough reviews...

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Sorry for the OOCness, but yeah some insight on war and devolping romance. Good stuff right there.

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