AN: OH sorry I know you want the story. Just quick thing. I want to know where you stand on the whole Jeyna/Jiper thing. Personally I think Reyna's too good for anyone, but I'm not sure if I want to incorporate both ships or just Jeyna, so let me know your thoughts please. Okay now enjoy.

"What was that?" Annabeth practically hissed at Jason. She turned around to face him, which was pretty hard considering they were sitting in his car. She crossed her arms as Jason shrugged.

"Maybe they were truly just flirting Annabeth? Who knows maybe Calypso and Percy actually did break up and Percy's just going for the rebound."

"Ok, even if that was the case, which I'm sure it isn't. Why Piper? I mean why her?" Annabeth felt herself scowling. Jason only shrugged again.

"Well…Piper's pretty hot if you get past the attitude. And the rumors that circulate her tend to be true." Jason supplied nonchalantly. Annabeth turned her glared towards him, and he blushed under her gaze.

"What I meant to say was… maybe Percy is just trying to hook up with her. I don't know."

Annabeth tried to think though. There was no way that could be true, even if Calypso and Percy had broken up for good, Percy didn't seem like he would go for Piper's type and Piper, well honestly Annabeth had no idea what Piper would go for. The girl changed personalities and interests like the wind; maybe that's why Annabeth stayed clear from her all these years. Apparently that was going to change now.

"Or they could be trying to form an alliance, either way Jason we have to keep an eye on them."

Jason looked bewildered, which Annabeth was getting a lot of that expression from everybody today and she was kind of tired of it.

"Annabeth, I think you're being paranoid."

"Maybe I am, but think about it, wouldn't you want to know if something was going on, rather than being blind-sided? I mean think about it, if they are forming alliance it will be four of them, and just us Jason."

"So, what are you saying? We need to go befriend Hazel and Frank? Even if we do get them on our side, what it'll just be four against four and then what? I thought we were supposed to all be in this together."

"Calm down this isn't high school musical, not everyone is going to stick to the plan. I'm trying to think. First things first, we need to find out what Percy and Piper are up to and if Percy and Calypso actually broke up. Secondly, we need to talk to Hazel and Frank, get them on our side. And then we fish out anything else we can find out about the others." Annabeth thought strategically, one her many skills.

"Okay and how do you suppose we do that? We can't just follow Percy and Piper around with binoculars."

"Don't you know the expression, keep your friends close and your enemies closer, Jason. We need to get them to trust us." Annabeth mind was in overdrive thinking and she felt ten times better than she had earlier today. Thinking logically and making plans was her domain. She felt back in control.

"I don't know Annabeth, trust is hard to earn, but very easily broken. To play with someone emotions and feelings like that. I don't know if I can do that."

Annabeth rolled her eyes. She was extremely getting annoyed with Jason's constant disagreement with her. If she didn't need him as much, she would of told him to forget all about it. But she needed to know what was going on, her future life was at stake.

"Jason, are you in or out?" Annabeth questioned looking directly into his blue eyes. Jason rubbed his neck and did a long sigh.

"Fine, I'm in but I call dibs on keeping an eye on Piper." He said. Annabeth scowled, while Jason looked smug at her.

"Fine, but while you're at it you need to talk to Hazel."

"But Hazel hates me! She won't even look at me without glaring!" Jason shrieked.

"Exactly, you need to clear the air. Whatever happened between you, her, and Nico, you need to work it out." Jason flinched at the name of his best friend or ex-best friend.

Annabeth knew the feeling, the guilt that always hung around like a ghost when someone brought up a trigger. For Annabeth it was Luke, for Jason it was Nico. As Annabeth could figure from her eighteen years of living, everyone had a trigger, something that could shut them down completely if used incorrectly. Now it was Annabeth's job to figure out what each person's was. Annabeth wasn't sure how she would use it, but she'd find out soon enough because now she had a plan.

"Jason, it'll be fine just stick to plan and it'll be fine ok?" Jason nodded weakly. Annabeth hoped he'd be okay, but she could tell he was having a hard time composing himself, so she figure it'd be best to leave him be. Plus she still hadn't eaten lunch yet and they had ten minutes left of it. But lunch could wait; she had to go find Percy Jackson.

Turns out Annabeth didn't see him until seventh period. She saw him milling around the front of the Ares training center, doing nothing in particular. He kept fiddling with something in his pocket and kept his head down looking at his black converse. Annabeth figured he was waiting for Calypso to get out of track practice, but considering they didn't get out until six in the evening today, Annabeth had no idea why he would be there. He could technically go home and come back, but maybe he just had nothing better to do.

Usually Annabeth spent her seventh period in the library to do her homework, even though she could technically go home. She just liked doing it there at school because there were fewer distractions, plus if she needed help with something (which wasn't often) the teachers were there to help and she didn't have to wait. Unfortunately, today's homework was going to have to wait as she took a deep breath before heading over to the raven-haired boy.

"Hi." Annabeth said to him. Percy barely glanced her way as he muttered a hello back. He seemed very distracted as he kept fiddling with his pocket and constantly running his hand through his thick hair.

Annabeth hadn't expected this. She expected a cocky and arrogant response, not to be ignored because he was too deep in his own thoughts. Annabeth tried to think up a conversation.

"So, are you waiting for Calypso?" She asked. Annabeth noticed his posture stiffen as he paused for a second.

"No, I'm not." He practically hissed at her. So maybe they had broken up. Even if they hadn't, his response was an indication that they were not on good terms at the moment. Annabeth knew she was headed into dangerous territory, but she needed to press for answers.

"Oh. What happened?" Annabeth asked. However as soon as she asked the question, she immediately regretted asking. Percy's head drew up almost mechanically, but there was nothing automatic about the anger swirling in his eyes. He took a step forward to her, which made Annabeth take a step back in fear.

"If it was any of your business, I would have told you." He sneered at her. Annabeth only nodded mutely. She hated to admit it, but Percy was kind of being terrifying and it made her more than a little scared that no one would be here to witness if he hurt her. However, they good news was that Annabeth had found his trigger. Ironically it would be his girlfriend. Or was it ex-girlfriend? Annabeth decided that it had to be the latter.

"Sorry." Came a softer voice. Annabeth looked up to see Percy had backed away from her now, although he still wasn't paying attention to her and focused back onto his shoes.

"I'm waiting for Coach Hedge, he said he needed to speak with me." Percy pursed his lips like he knew what the conversation was going to be about and wasn't looking forward to it. Annabeth was still stunned by the fierceness of their interaction, and now that Percy was calmer she still didn't know what to do.

"Um…ok. I'm waiting for Jason." She felt herself responding. Percy only nodded in thought.

"Are you and Jason like a thing?" He questioned. Annabeth almost wanted to roll her eyes at the question. Instead she forced out a laugh.

"No, Jason's more like a brother to me. Besides he's got a thing for Reyna." Annabeth blurted before covering her mouth. Percy glanced in her direction and raised an eyebrow. He smirked.

"Reyna, you say? Tall, black hair, resting bitch face Reyna?" He asked. Annabeth frowned, why had she just told Percy that? Jason was going to have her head, if he found out that she told Percy that. Percy didn't think much of it though as he shrugged.

"I guess she's pretty. Seems like she takes things too seriously though."

Annabeth frowned harder, but she didn't say anything about it. Instead she was going to get to the bottom of the Percy and Piper situation.

"You know who else is pretty, Piper." Annabeth gazed at Percy to check for a reaction. Percy didn't do much except shrug, which was not very helpful for Annabeth.

"I guess. Seems pretty spoiled to me."

"Aren't we all?" Annabeth muttered as she crossed her arms. Percy heard it though and chucked a little bit.

"I guess you have a point."

For a few seconds they stood in comfortable silence. Annabeth checked her phone they still had thirty minutes left for seventh period, technically Jason was going to stay until the end of track practice, but Annabeth figured she could slip through the crowd of students without Percy noticing.

While Annabeth checked her phone, she felt Percy's gaze on her. She huffed and turned to him.

"What?"

He shook his head and muttered nothing.

"No, what is it?" She glared at him, but it didn't seem to deter him. All he did was smirk back at her.

"Nothing, just you look like shit. What happened to Miss Polished Princess?" He inquired smugly. Annabeth glared back up at him and grit her teeth.

"Excuse you? Mr. I'm-so-rude-to everyone, I've been dealing with a lot lately and I don't need you judging me or how I look!" Annabeth yelled at him. Annabeth was usually more calm and collected, but she was having a bad day already and she didn't need this jerk ruining it anymore.

Percy seemed taken back by her yelling, and then put a hand on her shoulder.

"Annabeth are you okay?" He seemed genuinely concerned for her wellbeing. He probably thought she was loosing it. Annabeth simply scowled and shrugged his hand off her shoulder.

"I'm fine. I don't need your pity or sympathy." She snapped at him.

"Fine." Percy raised his hands in surrender. "I'm sorry I asked."

"It's fine, I'm sorry I snapped at you. I'm just so exhausted." Annabeth found herself surprisingly sharing to him as she rubbed her face and pushed the stray hairs out of her face.

"Makes sense. Have you been having nightmares too?" Percy whispered. He glanced around nervously, but no one was around, everyone was probably inside of the training center. Then he fixed his green eyes on Annabeth, waiting for a response.

Annabeth nodded.

"Yeah, I've been getting nightmares. It's mostly the same thing. Him falling from the window, me replaying things in my head to see if there was anything I could of done differently…" Annabeth trailed off. She was about to mention Luke and the nightmares with him, but she thought better of it. The last thing she needed was Percy inside her head with knowledge of her worst fears.

For awhile, Percy didn't say anything. To Annabeth surprise, it helped. She just needed someone to listen, someone to understand, not anyone to try and help her find a solution to her problem or try to relate. Annabeth felt more relaxed now that someone knew what she was going through.

"What are your plans for this weekend?" Percy broke the silence. Annabeth glanced over to him.

"What?"

Percy repeated the question slower. Annabeth shrugged.

"I have Reyna and I's sleepover on Friday and then studying for AP Exams—" Annabeth supplied, before Percy started fake snoring.

"I'm sorry were you done?"

"Excuse you?" Annabeth retorted to him.

"You're life sounds so boring, so planned." Percy responded to her. Annabeth opened her mouth to respond, that she actually enjoyed plans, but Percy beat her to the punch.

"Come to New York with me this weekend." He blurted. Annabeth stared at him and he seemed to become flustered and ran his hand through his hair again.

"I mean…I have an extra ticket to go see Imagine Dragons, since Calypso can't come, maybe you would like to?" Percy finished nervously making it sound like a question.

Annabeth still gaped at him, it wasn't that she wasn't flattered and plus she loved Imagine Dragons, but the idea of spending a whole weekend away, alone with Percy Jackson, made her more than anxious. She realized that Percy was still rambling at her.

"I mean it wouldn't be like a date or anything and I know it's weird to ask you now, especially since we didn't get along before, but consider it like a peace offering. Although I don't want to force you, it's cool if you don't want—"

"Percy." Annabeth cut him off, he looked down and Annabeth could see the blush on his cheeks. For a minute Annabeth thought, he looked cute, but she quickly shook the thought out of her head.

"Thank you for the invitation, but first off I don't know if my uncle will even let me go. And then Reyna's sleepover, she'll kill me if I miss another one of those. Plus where would we stay? And how are we getting there? And I've got a major project to do for Economics. I just don't know…"Annabeth bit her lip as she trailed off. Not to mention, that she did not want to get on Calypso's bad side by going out with her ex. Annabeth didn't want to be in any more drama than necessary.

"Oh, okay. Well if you change your mind, let me know by Wednesday. It'd be cool for you to come." Percy said, as the bell for school rang and students poured out onto the quad to head home. Some people brushed by them as they were leaving gym from the training center and they gave them some weird looks, probably wondering why the two most opposite people in the world were talking to one another. Annabeth just rolled her eyes at them.

"Well, I should get inside to talk to Coach. I'll see you later, just text me to let me know." He said as he started towards the door.

"Hey, Percy actually I'm in. I'll ask my uncle, but I'll come with you." Annabeth blurted out before she could stop herself. Percy turned around and grinned at her before waving a goodbye. Annabeth felt good for a moment and then sick, was she really going to do this? Go all the way to another state with a guy she could barely stand? Of course she was, because she had to stick to the plan and there was no other better way to show trust than going off to some far off place alone.