Jason, Calypso, Leo, and Piper stood outside cabin three, asking for the door to be opened.

"Percy! Melody!" Jason yelled, pounding on the door of cabin three, "Hey! Open up! We're sorry!"

"Maybe they're sleeping, Superman." Leo suggested, "They were when I came to get them earlier."

"Percy? Melody?" Piper called, her voice thick with charmspeak, "Come open the door."

There was still no response..

"Why don't you open the door?" Calypso asked.

"Common courtesy, ese." Leo told her.

"Well, if you're so worried," Calypso reminded him, "Go ahead and open it."

"She does have a point." Piper admitted.

"Fine, but if the Aquatwins get mad, I'm blaming you. We're coming in!" He announced, opening the door.

The four stepped inside and gasped. There was one Jackson on either side of the cabin, both curled up in fetal position, shaking and whimpering.

Immediately Jason said, "Get Annabeth."

Piper nodded and ran out, heading for cabin six, hoping Annabeth was there. She nearly bowled over Nico on her way.

"What's so urgent, Piper?" He asked.

"Percy and Melody are acting weird," Piper informed him, "So I'm on my way to get Annabeth. Speaking of her, do you know where she is?"

"Dining pavilion," Nico replied, "What kind of weird?"

"We asked them to play poker with us earlier, and they got all defensive, and now we came to check on them, and they're out cold curled up on cabin three's floor."

"You asked them to play poker?" Nico asked, "Idiots! Don't you know anything?"

"Well I'm sorry, your highness," Piper snapped, "Next time you pick!"

"No it's not that- Forget it. Annabeth's in the dining pavilion. Go get her."

The two parted ways and Nico shoved past Jason, into cabin three, asserting himself to the situation.

"Calypso, I need you to gently shake Melody, and tell her to wake up. Speak quietly."

Calypso nodded and walked over to Melody, doing as Nico had asked, though not entirely comfortable taking orders from him. Leo started walking over to help, but Nico stopped him.

"No. It needs to be a girl. She'll be scared of a guy."

"Why?" Leo asked.

Nico ignored him and walked over to Percy, shaking him softly.

"C'mon Perce. Wake up."

"What are you doing here, Nico?" Jason asked.

"I ran into Piper. Don't you remember why the twins hate poker?"

"No. Should I?"

"Trauma. Remember?"

"Oh. I should have- I'm so sorry… I didn't remember-"

"Yeah." Nico snapped, "You should have."

"Should have what?" Percy mumbled, coming to.

"Jason should have remembered not to mention poker around the two of you," said Nico, helping his cousin stand.

"Mel!" Percy cried, once standing, able to see Calypso waking his sister as gently as she could.

"Hmm…" Melody mumbled, "That was bad…"

The daughter of Poseidon opened her eyes slowly and flinched slightly, seeing so many members of the opposite gender in the room. When her tired mind registered it was her friends and family, she calmed.

"Sorry for overreacting earlier," she said sheepishly, "I suppose we're just tired."

"It's okay." Jason assured her. "Sorry for pushing you so much. We should have remembered you hate poker. And why."

Just then Piper returned with Annabeth, who immediately strode over to Percy and held him in a tight hug.

"Are you okay?" She asked, her voice no higher than a whisper, in his ear.

"I am now." He replied, leaning into her embrace.

"I'm sorry I took so long," Piper apologized, "Annabeth had made herself scarce from the dining pavilion by the time I got there."

"It's okay," Percy told her. "At least she's here now."

Nico walked over to Melody and asked her quietly if it would be okay if he gave her a hug as well, as he knew she could be uncomfortable around members of the opposite sex after a panic attack. She nodded and her embraced his cousin.

"I'm so sorry." He said.

"It's not your fault. It happened a long time ago."

"That doesn't make it right."

"I know."

The room was nothing quiet embraces and near silent apologies for a few minutes, aside from whispered words of reassurance and love. Leo and Calypso had long since stepped out, and it hadn't talked long for Jason and Piper to follow. Now it was Percy and Annabeth, holding each other close; and Nico and Melody, the latter sharing in the comfort of the former's embrace.