Chapter seven is up. Thanks to the people who reviewed my last chapter. I am really gonna try to make this chapter more exciting. No guarantees.

Disclaimer: It is safe to say that I am not a boy and since I have not published any best sellers or books...yet...it is safe to say that I do not own Percy Jackson. It was only by luck that I owned Jamie. Enjoy the chapter.


We left at first morning's light and crept in the shadows. Then, we started running. My legs worked as fast as they could be sadly, I wasn't a very fast runner.

"Jamie, can you run?" Annabeth asked me, concerned.

"Of course I am," I snapped but instantly regretted that snub," Sorry. Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little tired, you know?"

"Who wouldn't be," Percy put in," I mean, you faced three dozen monsters, Luke, had Kronos enter your mind, had Gods almost kill you and bought plane tickets in a length of thirty six hours. That is very impressive, Jamie." I thanked him a million times in my mind. I regretted ever saying that he was an idiot...wait, no I didn't. He will always be an idiot but now he was a tolerable idiot. At least more tolerable then usual. I bit my lip to hide my laughter. Gosh, what the hell was wrong with me.

"Jamie, I think that you should go to sleep,' Annabeth said hesitantly.

"What? No, no ,I'm fine." I swayed slightly where I stood and my legs struggled under my weight," I'm fine, really. Just need some water to splash on my face." I gave a mad laugh that scared even me. The reason that I was so afraid to sleep was because I didn't want to be haunted by Kronos in my dreams. I still shuddered whenever I thought of what had happened the first time. By now all of my friends had stopped and were giving me concerned look. Well, Annnabeth was concerned; Percy was wild; Thalia was bored; Clarisse just growled and Nico was...well, Nico. He spared me one look of utter blankness and turned away again. Sometimes I think that he was avoiding me because of what had happened at MacDonald's last night.

"Really? You don't sound fine," Nico said loftily," You probably need some sleep." I was desperate. I couldn't face Kronos so soon.

"But my father might try to contact me soon," I said, hoping that Nico had gotten the hint. Apparently, he had. His mouth thinned a little.

"Oh? Your father is a God? Which one?" Annabeth asked, altogether too curious.

"You probably wouldn't know of him," I mumbled," He's...uh..not mentioned on Mt. Olympus much." I could said that much with truth because none of the Olympians would ever mention their villainous father. My father, I thought and cringed inwardly at the strange thought.

"Oh, I know all the Gods. Which one is he?" Annabeth asked again. I changed topic hastily.

"So, where are we suppose to go? I mean, how are we suppose to get there?" I corrected myself. Anything to get of the topic of Kronos.

"Well, we should continue to head out and try to stay west. We could travel in a boat if it wasn't for..,"

"If it wasn't for Me and Nico," I finished off coldly. Surprisingly, my voice was completely cool yet so cold, Annabeth flinched. She ran a hand threw her hair and tapped her Yankees cap nervously against he leg. She seemed to be thinking about this harder then necessary. What was so hard about apologizing? Oh, yeah. Any spawn of Athena would rather be burned alive then admit that they have a flaw.

"I'm not gonna pretend that this journey wouldn't be easier if you or Nico weren't here. Actually, Nico would be okay but.." Me and Annabeth had always been on rough grounds because her mother hated me. This time, I actually almost snapped. Actually, I took a step forward and Annabeth lept back.

"So, basicly, it's all my fault?" I asked.

"I never..,"

" My fault that Luke wanted t talk to me instead of you."

"He wasn't..,"

"That the only reason that we are still here is because of me." Annabeth chewed her lip.

"I won't deny that it would be faster and easier without you here." She said at last. I huffed angrily and turned on my heel, walking towards the waft. I forgot momentarily that I hated the water and sat down at the dock, swinging my feet against the wooden boat on the water. Damn Annabeth! The worse thing was that I knew she she was right. I sighed and flipped back my hair. Now that my sudden anger had vanished, I realized something. I was lost.

I had no idea how to get out and I didn't know this city. Fabulous. Just perfect. Just my luck. And I was freezing! Add that and when I saw Annabeth again, I would have t apoligize. Urgh! I do not aporgize. Essecially to Annabeth. She is stuck up and no good and always had to be right about everything. No wonder Luke left.

I sighed and leaned back. I was lost but I was lost in the good part of town. Despite myself, I was actually very tired. I wanted nothing more then to sleep but sadly, I couldn't. Not unless I wanted to have nightmares about nightmares. Wait, did that make sense? Well, I really don't care. I watched the sky for a while then I heard the voices.

"Jamie! Jamie?"

"hey, where are you, scum?"

"Hey, where did you run off to?"

".."

"Hello," A voice said beside me. I jumped up.

"Gah! Oh, Nico! You nearly gave me a heart attack! And will you quit that?" I said it all in one breath, trying to slow down my heart rate.

"I could but it's really fun to see your face every time it happens," I scowled and aimed a blow at his head. He dodged it easily and was suddenly behind me. I scowled.

" Will you quit that?"

"No, it is my only joy in life," he said in a monotone. I waited for him to burst out laughing. When he didn't , I burst out laughing.

"What's so funny?" He asked.

"You...happy- joy!" I choked out. He looked confused for a moment. Then, a ghost of a smile crept up on his face. He looked rather sweet when he smiled. I was so surprised that I froze.

"What? Do I have something on my face?" He asked.

"No! I mean...did you just smile?" My voice was more disbelieving then I had intended. I hoped that he wasn't insulted. Thank goodness, he had a sense of humor.

" What, did you think that I was an emotionless bark?"

"..." Nico rolled his eyes at my bold statement.

"You've got a lot of nerve insulting a son of Hades, you know. He can make the underworld excruciatingly painful for you. I imagine that he wants to boil Percy in an acid fountain for all eternity. I wonder what he would do to you." He was thoughtful for a second, all serious again.

"Well, Annabeth has a lot of nerve insulting a ..d-daughter of K-k-kronos," I stuttered out the word," I can make her life be so fast that she won't be able to take control. Or I could slow down all the bad times in her life. Yeah, that would be fun..what?" I added as Nico shot me a look I couldn't read. He sighed and crossed his hands. I patted the ground next to me.

"Come on. Sit down. I don't bite," I added.

"No, you slow down the bite," He grumbled but sat down nevertheless. He was silent for a while.

"You know that Annabeth has had a hard life." He started and I froze up.

Great, now he wanted to talk about Annabeth!

"Her father remarried and she feels like she can't have a normal life. Then, she runs away from home then meets Thalia and Luke. And then, she finds out that she is a Demi-God and gets claimed by Athena. You can imagine the shock, I believe? Then, when she feels like she has a family again, then disaster strikes. Thalia gets turned into a tree because she wasn't smart or strong enough to protect herself and Thalia payed the price." He paused then continued," Then, it is only her and Luke and soon she meets Percy. When she finally has happiness again then Luke betrays them. That must have been emotional for her. Then, she finds out that Luke is working for Kronos and is convinced that it was her fault that Luke or Thalia had gotten hurt. She still can't stand it when somebody insults Luke. She is still that protective of him. Her mother is the wisdom Goddess so she has to know what is the smart choice, not what is the correct choice. If she had to decide between saving her friends or herself..well. she knows that she should save her friends but she always choices to save her own life and feels guilty afterwords. Understand now?"

I was silent for a while.

"yeah, I get it," I said bitterly.

"You do?" He says, surprised. I stood up.

"Yeah, I get that you all care about precious Annabeth so much and I get that you all are trying to protect her! You say that she has no family, look at her! She has friends and she has people who are about her! Everybody at camp loves her and all the people who meet her are all thinking that she is perfect! She has never had it rough! In fact, she had everything and she was throwing it all away for one boy!"

I breathed heavily." I've lived with my aunt since I was two years old. I never go to see my mother and my aunt never cared about me. She only cared about her own daughter, Pami. I was a throw away that she didn't want. And the only reason that she took me in was because she cared about my mother like she would never care about me. Pami came first and she was given all the new things and I got her old stuff. A-A-And then she got a boyfriend so she is never home and Pami is always bringing over her Friends who mock me and ..and my aunt would not listen to all the proof I have that Pami isn't that little girl she use to be. She thinks she's had it rough! What I just said wasn't even half the things that..that...,"

I hiccuped and gave a shaky laugh.

"I am getting so emotional," I muttered," For..forget I ever said that." I sucked in a deep breath. I knew that I was gonna regret not getting any sleep last night. I turned o my heel and started t walk away.

"i need to cool off. Nico..don't come after me. You guys can go ahead and cross by water. I'll stay here." I began to stumble blindly across the bank of the river.

"Jamie...,"

"I'll be back!" I yelled over my shoulder. My head started to point as I ran to the old abandon park I had passed. I twas a bad headache and it pulsed and throbbed. I pushed the undergrowth out of the way under the slides and curled up, my eyes closed. I needed some sleep. Especially now.


Nico P.O.V

I found the others by the new park that had re-opened. Clarisse was the only one no sitting around a fire even though it was the morning and mosquitoes were still buzzing in the air. When I looked at Annabeth, I tried to figure out what had led Jamie to think that Annabeth had a perfect life. I mean, she seemed miserable and she lept up when she saw me.

"Did-you-find-her-and-is-she-okay?" She asked in the same breath. I blinked and backed away from her sudden movement because right now, he was right in front of me.

"Eh...yeah, I saw her and she's fine. She just wants want to be alone for a while. She also says that you guys can travel by sea if you want to and she can stay here.'

"Oh, don't!" Annabeth suddenly wails, startling Percy who fell," I-it was all my fautl! I've lost anothe friend and..I-i have to go and fix things. Was she terribly upset? Is she mad at me? Please, tell me that she isn't crying!" This was the reason that I avoided Annabeth. Sure, she was a cool girl, and an amazing fighter but when it came right to it she was just too...emotional. Hello, Son of Hades. Hates feelings. But I guess that it had never accured to her. Weird girls. Both of them. All of them.

" I..well, she wasn't crying," I managed out the truth but only by a little bit. Annabeth didn't look convinced but she sat down willingly enough. She nervously ran a hand threw her hair, accidentally knocking off her Yankees cap. It stopped and rolled at Percy's feet and he picked it up.

"Really, Annabeth, isn't it suppose to be me who's all freaked out and you are the level-headed one?" He asked. He placed the cap back on her head. Annabeth managed out a smiled before her hand smacked out and hit him.

"Who says that I am not level-headed, idiot?"

I struggle not to roll my eyes. Clarisse seemed as bored as I was and she was the one who spoke.

"So, who do you think is her parent?" The mood changed. For them, it had lightened. But for me, it darkened slightly. I had promised Jamie that I wouldn't say anything. This was heading in a very weird direction.

:I really don't know," Annabeth said, distracted and her nose wrinkled at not knowing something." I..have a few people in mind but I might be wrong,' She added at Percy's hopeful face. There was silence.

"Well, punk?" Clarisse growled. Thanks a lot, Clarisse. Thank you so much. I crossed my hands and leaned back.

"Well, I thought maybe Zeus...," She trailed off.

"What? But Zeus hates her guts!" Percy snorted.

"I know," Annabeth said, flustered," But not all the Gods like all of their children! And her personality and Thalia's was so similar and ...why the hell are you rolling your eyes, seaweed brain?"

" Whatever, now what's the other guess," Percy said hastily. I silently sighed on the inside. If Annabeth's guess were as far fetched as that, then Jamie's secret would be safe for now. Unless...that had been the most unusual and the others ere actually well thought of. Now, we...she...had a problem.

"Well,' She said," I thought maybe...oh, I don't know...Hermes?"

"What? You think that she is Luke-s half sister?" Percy said. Annabeth turned a litle red and she scowled.

"Well, I thought that it made sence," She said, sullen," It would explain why Luke is only talking to her and why the Gods don't like her. They don't want another one of Herme's kids getting loose...,"\

"Oh, please," Percy snorted," You just say that to geel better about Luke choosing to talk to Jamie instead of you! You thought that if they were siblings that it would make sence for Luke to be hanging around her so much. You think that to heal your wounded ego. You are jealous..."

"Percy!"

"...of Jamie because she has Luke's attention and you..."

"Percy, don't you dare finish that!"

"...like Luke and are feeling like he has betrayed you. Am I correct?"

There was silence and Annabeth turned even redder.

Of course. That explained so much...why Annabeth didn't like Jamie...why Annabeth always got up in a temper whenever somebody insulted Luke..it all fit.What insulted me was that it had been no brain Percy who had figured it out. I felt like I should be insulted but I wasn't. In fact, I was rather glad that the topic had changed from Jamie's parentage to Annabeth's little not-so-little crush on Luke.

"Well-that's not...I am not...I have nothing to be jealous about." She finally managed to say without blushing. Again, weird girl.

"Are you serious? Oh, I dunno. She is pretty smart and she is kinda pretty..don't you think, Nico?" My head snapped up.

"No way in hell do I like her!" I exclaimed, feeling insulted. I would not fall for a human girl. Well, daughter of Kronos but whatever!

"Oh, I dunno," Thalia put in," I think that maybe you do like her. And you two make such a good couple!" I rolled my eyes and scowled.

"Go back to gossiping about Annabeth and Luke," I said," And leave me out of it.'

"Thanks, Nico," Annabeth scowled,' Thanks a lot."

"Your welcome."


3rd person P.O.V

Oh, no, no, not again, this can't be happening again!

That was Jamie's only thought as she began to descenddown into the darkness. There was a new change to the atmosphere. Candles. Black and red candles that held no warmth, no heat. And they were everywhere. They were on the tables, perched on the window panes and suspended above the ground. They dripped wax and made an odd sheen cast upon her reddish-brown hair. It felt like a funeral pyre. And everything was icy cold and the whole place was eerie and unfamiliar.

Teh room wih the golden coffin was dripping with even more candles. They were cold and they did not flicker. They held their shape and did not stir. Hundreds upon hundreds filled the room. And it wasn't just that. There were more people here then she had remembered, almost filling up the entire room. She didn't really fear them but it did make her unease. Especially when one of the Demi-Gods , Ethan, started to check her out. That made her mad.

"And what are you looking at , idiot?" She hissed forgetting where she was.

"Hmm, nothing, I don't know why Lord Kronos wanted us to meet you. You aren't anything special. What can yo even do?" That was scorn if she had ever heard it. And it made her mad that Kronos had yet to tell his followers that she was his child.

"Oh, really? Tell me, Ethan, would Kronos call me here if I wasn't important?" She asked coolly.

"I never said that you weren't special. I just said that you aren't nothing to look at," He smirk. That was it for her self- control. With a loud and sudden smack, her hand connected with his nose. It made a satisfying 'crunch' in between her fingers and it started to gush out blood.

"Don't ge cocky with me, one-eyed." She snarled. At that moment, the horrible voice was inside her head.

Oh, Jamie, He said amused, can't you keep your temper for more then ten minutes?

" I could but with him here, then he should be lucky that I don't rip his head off,' She spat.

Hmm, well, even so I can't lose a warrior yet. Try to keep your temper in check.

"What the hell am I doing here?" She demanded.

I wanted to see your reaction at being claimed. Not at all what you had expected, was it?

She scowled.

"How did you and my mother meet?' She demanded.

Ah, Ciara, he said, Yes, she was rather special. It was a shame that she wasn't very good at dodging attacks by magic form Hecate here. He sounded so amused it made Jamie seeth with anger.

"Hecate killed my mother?" She spun around and spotted the silky black hair of the witch queen.

"You...you witch! How dare you kill her!" She spat. Hecate glared at her with distaste but out of respect for Kronos, kept her mouth shut. Jamie took a deep breath and turned back to Kronos. Kronos enjoyed baiting his daughter a little too much.

"So what am I doing here? I thought that you were gonna leave me alone from now on." She had to admit thtat she kinda liked being down here. It felt...natural.

Oh, why would I do that when the real journey is still ahead? No, you still have your uses yet! He projected his thoughts to the room. Everybody but Jamie and Luke winced.

I have called you here to see the only person you are not to touch during or after the journey.

"No...," Jamie whispered.

My own flesh and blood. My youngest daughter, Jamie.

And that was when she woke up to the sound of the awful laughter still ringing in her ears. Now the entire underworld knew.

The real journey is still ahead. What had he meant by that? Jamie couldn't find any answers. She stared down at her shaky hands and slowly started to make her way back to camp.

"Jamie! I am so sorry!" Annabeth flung herself against Jamie.

"It's okay, Annabeth. Sorry that I freaked out." She took a deep breath." But I think that we should travel by sea. It's the safest way."

"Are...you...crazy?" And the person she had least expected to protest was standing there. Percy. And Nico.


Urgh! I am sooo sorry if this chapter sucked. This really wasn't how I had imagined this chapter turning out but I didn't plain for this chapter so I guess that it was okay. But it is your views that tell me if it was okay or not.

Just to clear it up, Ciara is Jamie's mother and I will mention how she died in later chapters.

Thanks to all my faithful viewers and to the people who comment.

I promise the next chapter won't be so..random. Bye

-Tenshi