Through Time

Nico

We walked back to the town in silence. Annabeth was talking to herself about how stupid Leo has been and other things about Percy too. The town looked a lot different since the last time we left. The houses were freshly painted and everyone was out. We walked into the pub and Annabeth asked the man at the bar, "Did the boys come back?"

"Excuse me?" He threw down a glass cup.

"Percy and Leo? Ones about this tall black messy hair and sea green eyes?"

The man grunted, "Never seen him in my life."

"Ok well here let me show you," Annabeth pulled out her phone "Hey I'm not getting a signal."

"What's that?" The man eyed Annabeth's phone.

"My phone."

"But there's no cord!"

"I know."

"I've never seen that before."

Annabeth's face turned white. "Have you've seen a boy with curly brown hair and likes to talk a lot?"

The old man smirked, "Now that's someone I know. Came in a few hours ago, and tried to break into my house too."

"You happen to know where he went?"

"Lost him in the crowd. Now beat it I have customers waiting."

We scurried out onto the street wondering what to do. Annabeth tugged on her shirt making it loose in the front giving it a scrumpy look. "We have to get out of here. We don't belong."

"I know we've been trying to. And, I'm sorry for all of this and-" Annabeth placed her fingers over her mouth. Her eyes full and open.

"No I mean we have to get back to our own time. Don't you see it, Nico?" I looked around and wondered how I couldn't have noticed before, the clothing choice was similar to what I would wear back in my own time. Kids and other adults we never saw before full of happiness and fear.

"How did we get here?" I asked.

Annabeth ruffled her eyebrows together, "I don't know but we have to go the same way we entered."

"What about Leo?"

"We have to-"

"Annabeth no. We can't leave him here." Surprise appeared on her face that I snapped at her. "Look I know your thinking about Percy but we have to get our team together first."

"Well, what do you think we do?"

I scanned the crowd to try and find some familiar faces. Minutes past and nothing helped. Then I saw a red head girl, a girl that looked exactly like the person Leo was chasing after. "Over there!" I pointed. We went into a slight jog avoiding any of the crowds that swarmed the streets. I tapped her shoulder and she jumped skyrocket into the sky. "So sorry to scare you but I wanted to ask if you've seen our friend." The girl recovered from her scare and wore an expression of pure irritation. Her eyes shown no vibrant color, her hair fell limp. Like she was full of joy before we showed up.

"You must be friends with Leo I presume?" Her tone was soft and low

"Yes have you've seen him?" Annabeth asked in a suspicious voice.

A small hint of a smile hung below her lips, "Yes he is staying with us. You can come and see him." I didn't know I could trust her but she knew Leo's name. I nodded and started to follow. The whole time up the road Annabeth gave me the 'what do you think you are doing' stare. The trees open up to a large house like the one we just left in our time but only this one wasn't destroyed. The holes no longer visible but instead had fresh paint on the outer layer of it. It smelled of fresh flowers and bread. This couldn't be a trap, right?

A woman with jet black hair that was slicked back into a tight bun sat on the porch with her white thin hands crossed over her knees as she listened to Leo's story. Leo seemed to be unharmed and didn't look like he was in major danger except for the fact that he was caked in dirt and mud. When Leo saw us approach he gave us a grin. I just couldn't take it. I swung my shoulders over with a clean motion and pushed my knuckles into Leo's gut with force. I felt the air get sucked out when I made contact.

"What the hell?" I yelled at Leo while he recovered. "You made us travel through fucking time after you and all you do is smile?"

"Language." The red head said.

"This is none of your business." I jabbed my finger in her direction.

"Actually it is. You're at my home with my family."

The woman came between us with energy. "Well, that was intense. Why don't we talk about this over dinner shall we?"

"Look, ma'am, I don't mean to be rude but we just came here for our friend. We are in a bit of a rush." I knew Annabeth was talking about Percy.

"It will be quick I promise and you don't want to be going out in the dark do you?"

"But it's-" I spun around and looked at the sun as it descended from the sky out of view.

The woman stepped forward once again and stretched out her hand, "I'm Miss Peregrine."

Once again I didn't read through this chapter either nor did I check it over. So sorry for the mistakes and errors but it was getting late and I wanted to get this out. Sorry for how short it is.