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Percy stares at me for a moment, and my heart starts to crack. What if he didn't have the same feelings for me?
But then he grins and kisses me, and then again, then again, until we are having a hot make out session. When we finally stop, it seems extremely hot in the room.
"I'm going to start sweating!" Percy exclaimes, then pulls his shirt off. I try (and fail) to not stare. He catches my glance and winks. Then he sits next to me and I lay my head on his chest, but then yank it up again.
"You need AC!"
"You could just do what I did." And there's that smirk.
"Okay," I follow his lead and pull my shirt off. Then it's cooler. He gets up and grabs the scrapbook of the bookshelf, and glances hesitantly at his ocean picture. Hmm… But he sits next to me again.
"Here,'' He hands me the scrapbook and wraps his arms around me.
I pretend to be surprised, but it isn't hard, because there is so much I haven't seen.
We look through the whole thing, and then we just sit, cuddling. It's late and before I know it, my eyelids start to droop.
Suddenly, my eyes snap open. I'm breathing hard and my heart is beating really fast. I know that I am on the tail end of a bad dream, but I can't remember it. It doesn't help that for a moment, I don't recognize my surroundings. Then I roll over to look at Percy, but he isn't there. I panic slightly, then I see him staring at the ocean picture and reaching out. He stops when I whisper his name. He looks at me with a grin on his face, then lays next to me. I curl up in his arms, and fall asleep feeling content and relaxed.
When I wake again, it's light out and Percy is still asleep. I look into his face, just looking and liking, until there is a loud banging on the door.
"Boss!"
I get up and fling the door open before Percy can wake up. I see the Jersey group. None of them even glance at my bare chest, just at my face. I respect them so much more for that.
"There you are. Miss Piper has called, so can you come to the video room?"
"Of course. Just let me do something first." I run into Percy's room, pull on my shirt, kiss Percy's sleeping face, and scrawl a quick note.
Then I follow the Jersey men to the video room, where I see all of my friends on the screen arguing.
"Annabeth!" Piper exclaims.
"hey, guys! What's up?"
"We have some leads to share with you, but they need to be studied up close and it would be a pain to do it over this computer, so we need either you to come back here or we to come there."
"Oh. Well, I'm sure you could come stay here. I'll have to check with Percy, but I think that it'll be okay."
"Okay! Where is he, anyway?"
"Sleeping, but—"
"Not sleeping." I hear, and turn to see Percy frowning.
"What's the matter?" I ask.
"Him!" Percy points to the corner, where I see I fat man. Closer inspection reveals it to be Seth.
"I told you to get your fat ! #$%^&* out of here!" Percy sounds mad. No, he sounds furious.
"I didn't want to go. Also, Mommy won't let me live with her anymore!"
"Get out right now before I make you get out!"
Seth hesitates, and Percy runs forward and grabs his shirt front and drags him out. The rest of us stay silent for a moment, then Valerie speaks up.
"That was forceful."
"I've never seen boss so mad." Winslow speaks up, shooting Valerie an admirable glance. After that, I pay better attention. Winslow is eying Valerie, Gibbs is eying Bella, Tank is eying Kristi, Tony is eying Celia, and Georgie is eying Savannah. Interesting... Piper notices it too and gives me a glance that says, I can't wait to get these guys together! I roll my eyes, knowing that they will probably be in love within two weeks, if not sooner.
"Okay, I'm back, sorry," Percy says as he returns.
I get right to the point. "Percy, they need to come here with their info and brief us,
maybe stay while we work on this case."
"Sure," Percy agrees easily. "I am going to go make sure that Seth isn't let back in. If he is, I am going to..." Percy's voice trails off as he walks off.
"I'll send you the location," I say.
"Send them the address of where to meet," Percy sticks his head back in. "I don't want our base address going to a bunch of girls."
"Sexist. By, Annabeth. Meet at... four?"
"Sure." We disconnect and I sneak back to Percy's room. Making sure the coast is clear, I walk over to his ocean picture. I pull sightly and the picture frame swings forward noiselessly. There is a vault behind. I put in Percy's birthday as the combo, and it opens. I grab the little velvet box and open it, revealing what I recognize as a chocolate from where Percy's mom used to word. Other than that, there are a few documents, nothing special. So why did Percy always seem a little focused on it when I was around? I start to close the picture and notice how unusually thick the frame is. I inspect it closely and see a minuscule keyhole. Hmm... I reach into my bra and pull out a thin wire. It is a special kind for picking locks. You push it in, bend off the end, and it becomes stiff. I do this, making a key out of wire. Part of the frame slides down, revealing a small space. But that isn't what catches my attention.
It's the wedding ring that lies inside.
Yay! Can anybody guess where I got the idea of the frame/vault from? It's from a certain book series.
Sorry again for the wait!
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