Hahahah here I am, and yeah, it's a new chapter. I know.

Please, forgive me.

And no Alfred here. But it's all about him.

Chapter 6- Figuring Things Out

"Honey… You've been quiet for the past days." Sally suddenly said as she sat beside Percy. He was lying on his bed, a frown settled on his face.

"Mm." He mumbled.

"I'm worried, Percy. Is this about school? Your friends?" She bent a little to gaze at her son. "Come on, tell me. You know that you can tell me everything, right?"

"I do mom. I do." The son of Poseidon sighed, palming his face. "Ugh… It's, it's hard to explain, mom! For… For a long time since the day I met Sir Alfred and he became my teacher, I've been suspicious of his movements, and everything he does. He's just so…so…"

"Random?" Sally supplied, raising a playful eyebrow. "Or really, really playful. He's a teen in a man's body. Quite a nice man. Handsome…" She giggled a little. Percy brought up his head in shock.

"What in the name of Poseidon-!" He spluttered, his eyes widening. "Mom, did you just say Alfred was- was…. Was-!" He then repeated the words like a broken recorder.

Sally smothered her laughter, tapping her son's lips to stop him from his shock. "I was just joking, sweetie. You know I love your father and Paul. That was the first fun reaction I had from you. I was beginning to think to pull you out from the school. It's not doing you any good this time!"

"No mom! You don't need to. Really." Percy shook his head and sat down. "I think I should say sorry to him? Or should I not? He's… He's just so freaking suspicious yet not at the same time! Gods, I don't even want to know! He could be some powerful guy in the government posing as a normal teacher! Or a freaking astronaut!"

Rolling her eyes with his son's exaggeration, Sally sighed. "You'll be having a break, Percy. Do you think going to Chiron might clear your mind if you still don't know what to do?"

Percy mulled over the thought. It wouldn't hurt to see Chiron. Or the others.

"Yeah, sure mom. That'd be a great idea."

Percy looked at the hills of Camp Half-Blood, blinking slowly. He sighed a little, massaging his temples.

Okie dokie Perce. You can do this.

"Percy, we're here!" Sally tapped her son's head, thinking that he was sleeping. "We're here, wake up!"

"Hmm." He mumbled, still in deep thought.

"Whoa, this is how your demigod camp looks like?" Paul commented as he rolled down his window. "Impressive. It just looks like a strawberry farm! Are you sure there are death traps there? And satyrs whistling their reed pipes? And a centaur- Chiron- in that place? And-"

"Honey," Sally laughed at her husband. "That's enough."

"Sorry."

Percy stretched and reached for his duffel bag. "Well, off I go. Bye mom, bye Paul." He pecked his mother's cheek and man-hugged Paul and bade goodbye towards the two.

He jogged up the hill, said hello to Peleus, knocked on Thalia's pine tree, and passed the barrier. He sent one last goodbye wave to his parents and turned towards the camp.

"Haa…" He sighed contentedly, grinning. "Camp sweet camp! I missed this place!"

"Perce!"

Percy looked towards the direction of the voice and grinned. "Jason! Hey. How's it going man?"

"Good." The other blonde smiled a little, and Percy had a little flashback. He vaguely looked like some German dude…

Huh. Weird smile.

"Uh… Where's Piper?" He blinked, looking around. "Usually you're connected with each other."

Jason deadpanned. "Hypocrite. That's you and Annabeth. And speaking of Piper and Annabeth, there at the dining pavilion. I was just passing by because I felt someone pass the barrier. Want to come with me, or are you going to leave your things in your cabin first?"

Percy cocked his head and shrugged his shoulders. "Meh. I'll go to the DP first. Snacks for me!"

"How's school? I heard you still had to resume going to school and all." Piper asked as she watched the son of Poseidon haul another bite of blue pizza. "So far my classmates are okay with me. They haven't changed, but they told me I matured a lot."

"And got yourself a boyfriend." Percy pointed out.

"True." The daughter of Aphrodite laughed lightly. "But not about me! How about you guys?"

Annabeth replied almost immediately. "Seaweed Brain forgot to call me for three months straight because he forgot about iris messaging." She answered in a teasing voice. Percy pouted and stuck his tongue out.

"I said sorry!"

"Pfft." Jason snorted a little. "Talk about forgetful."

Percy glared at his cousin. "Don't let me tell Piper about-!"

"Shut up!" Jason covered his mouth, embarrassed. Piper and Annabeth looked at the two weirdly, eyeing their respective boyfriends, trying to understand what went between the two. They gave up and rolled their eyes.

"Boys." They muttered in unison.

Percy kicked Jason on the knee who immediately yelped and sat down on the other seat. "Eh, my school was pretty swell. It was boring in the first, I mean, the first day, and well. I enjoyed going to school after meeting-" he stopped talking, realizing whose name he was going to say.

"Meeting…?" Piper raised her eyebrow.

"My teachers. They're cool." Percy continued, smiling awkwardly. "Yeah…"

"Something's bothering you, and it's a teacher, isn't it?" Piper suddenly asked. Annabeth looked at her, impressed.

"How did you know?" Annabeth nodded to confirm her assumptions.

The daughter of Aphrodite smiled, then shrugged her shoulders. "Feelings. I'm good with that."

At the notion of his teammate, Percy looked down, deciding that maybe the other two could help him with his little dilemma. "Guys… Before we- Wise Girl and I, that is- go to the Big House and talk to Chiron, can we talk about something… Really weird?"

"About a teacher… Holy Jupiter, Percy, don't tell me-" Jason frowned.

"Nothing like that, I swear." Annabeth raised her arms, shaking her head. "Anyway, are you sure, Percy? We don't actually need to tell them…"

"It's Jason and Piper. If there's anyone who's a good judge of character and someone who can think better than me, it's the both of them." Percy bit the last of his pizza and stood up. Jason bounded behind him, pocketing his hands in his pockets.

"So you admit I'm kind of smarter than you?" The son of Jupiter smirked, raising his eyebrows.

"Oh gods, shut up."

Annabeth and Piper giggled behind them, following their lead.

"Wait, wait, wait." Piper waved her hands a little. They were hanging out near the cliff edges of the island. "So all in all, after you hung out and all, you're saying you still don't trust him?"

Annabeth frowned. "It's nothing like that."

"It is, when we hear about it." Jason agreed, slinging an arm around Piper's shoulder. "Alfred hasn't done anything bad towards you guys. He really sounds like an all-around good guy who likes having fun everywhere he goes! I'd like to meet him."

"You wouldn't click." Piper said, looking at her boyfriend. "You're too uptight with new people."

"No I don't!" The blonde protested, though he faltered. "I think."

"You are." Annabeth consented. She frowned a little. "But everything Sir Alfred has done is suspicious. And our memories- I'm sure something happened that he didn't want us to remember. And I just don't know why."

Percy whistled lowly. "To be truthful, I'm okay with him. He's an awesome guy. He taught me a lot of things and made history not only bearable but cooler and livelier. I learned a lot from him. My class declared him as the favorite teacher. Even if he wasn't our class adviser. A lot of people love him too!"

Piper frowned, crossing her arms at the short declaration of the son of Poseidon. "Then what's the problem? He helped Nico. He helped your teacher that almost died from the bleachers crash. He toured you in the Empire State Building. He helped you get out of the White House alive. He helped you in your fainting spells. He bought you medicine." The daughter of Aphrodite pointed out, raising an eyebrow. "Why still go to Chiron when you yourself don't even want to go?"

"Because… Because we found this." Percy nudged his girlfriend. Annabeth opened her graphing notebook and fished out a folded piece of paper. "I- I don't remember how we got this paper. Everything is hella hazy. And I know this is from dad. And Lord Zeus."

"And mom." Annabeth added. "They were warning us with something, and then we can't remember even having this letter. Something tells me that whatever happened after we got this letter was something very important that Sir Alfred had to hide it from us."

"There's nothing wrong with that." Jason answered in a flat voice. "Every person is allowed to be secretive."

"But memories tampered?" Annabeth pressed, her mouth clipped into a thin line. "I'm trying to research more people who could match Alfred's personality in Greek Mythology. I just know he seems to have the ability to change people's memories and replace them with new ones."

"Maybe you just forgot about it?" Piper suggested. "Maybe it wasn't even him who tampered with your memories. For all we know, it might have been some weirdo dude or some god. Or that letter is just a hoax."

"Yea- no." Percy shook his head. "Impossible. We forgot it after the outing. I don't want to doubt Sir Alfred, he's done nothing bad to me ever, but… We just can't ignore the gods' reminders, can't we? He swore to be a hero… And he always has been. But-!"

"The gods, right." Jason nodded, understanding. "And memory tampering, okay. Another suspicious thing he does?"

"He went to me directly at school. Does that count?" Percy asked, raising his eyebrows.

"There's nothing- wait, the first friend you gained in school was the teacher?!" Piper gasped. "That's, that's… That's unusual."

"See?" Annabeth waved her hands downwards. "Exactly what I've been saying!"

"How could you befriend a teacher, Perce?" Jason asked, furrowing his eyebrows.

"You ask them to be your friend." Percy deadpanned. "You know, so I can get higher grades."

"Percy!" Annabeth scolded.

"Heh, sorry." He grinned, watching Piper laugh at Jason's dumbstruck expression. "What I meant was he doesn't look like he's old enough to be my teacher. He looks younger! Like, the type of he shouldn't even be out of university yet but he's there type of teacher!"

"Young teacher, mind-tamperer, thought-twister, government-friend. All-American, history specialist, hero wannabe, McDo addict." Jason recounted on his fingers. "Wow. What else? Army general? Multi-lingual, bi-polar, strong guy?"

"That reminds me, his really strong. He stopped the mini-jeep we were riding with his bare hands." Percy commented.

"Are you kidding me?!" Piper exclaimed, aghast. "How does one even-"

"See?" Annabeth repeated once again.

"He's multi-lingual too, I think. He knows English, Italian, German, and I think Spanish?" Percy rubbed his chin. "Yeah, I think it was Spanish. Or Mexican. Or Filipino. Or Brazilian. I don't know. And he says certain things that always could be connected to me but not."

"Right." Jason's eye twitched. "Just tell me if he's bi-polar or an army general, okay?"

"Sure." Percy nodded. Maybe...

"Well, from that, I… Still don't see what's so suspicious about the guy." Piper shrugged. "But it's your choice guys. If it puts your mind to rest, then go."

Annabeth and Percy looked at each other, unsure.

In the end, they decided to go to Chiron and settle their worries once and for all.

"What if Chiron doesn't know too? I mean, you're really smart, and you know a lot, but Chiron…" Percy muttered, pacing around the few steps towards the Big House.

"I'm flattered that you think so highly of me Seaweed Brain, but Chiron has lived far more longer than me and therefore wiser than me. That means, we still have to talk to him and ask him. Hopefully he could shed some light on our subject."

She raised her hand to knock, but Percy stopped her. He looked at the opposite side, hiding what he felt. After a few moments, he asked, "Wise Girl… why are we doing this?"

"Huh?"

The son of Poseidon looked down, ashamed of what he wanted to do initially. "I- why are we doing this? I don't even know why. I know there's something weird with Sir Al, but I don't really think he's a bad guy! He's always been a good guy from the start, like Piper told us. Jason's right too, there's nothing wrong with being secretive."

Annabeth watched her boyfriend break down before her eyes, and she hugged him. "You really like him, don't you? You treat him like a best friend would."

"It's hard not to." Percy answered honestly. "You know that too, right?"

The daughter of Athena nodded, smiling lightly. "There's something about him that makes me want to be his friend, yes." She looked at him straight in the eye. "Let's see. We're not going to ask Chiron about Sir Alfred anymore."

"What?" Percy looked like a happy puppy, though he looked confused. "I mean, that's great! Then what are we still doing here?"

Annabeth smiled mischievously. "We're going to describe Chiron what Alfred is like and ask him afterwards if he knows someone like that. Deal?"

Green eyes met gray eyes.

"Deal."

"Sit down, sit down!" Chiron invited. "Hello, Percy my boy! How is school? Did you have fun? How're your grades? I hope you're not failing them like you were when you were my student!" The centaur joked, making Percy red in the face.

"Hey!" He stuck his tongue out and rolled his eyes. Annabeth giggled a little, covering her mouth. "Besides, I'm still your student, Chiron." He then hugged his former Greek teacher and sat on one of the poker chairs.

"So, pleasantries aside," the centaur flicked his tail and looked at them. "What do you need me for? Assuming that you need something from me." He read his students' faces. "Or perhaps, you need to ask me about something?"

Annabeth smiled at Chiron's wisdom and deductive reasoning.

Percy was just like, whoa, how'd he do that.

"Chiron, I… Was just wondering." Annabeth started, looking everywhere but at the centaur himself. "We had met an individual that peaked my interest, and he's… Very unique."

"Hm? Peaked your interest?" Chiron raised an eyebrow. He looked at at Percy in question but Annabeth rolled her eyes saying, no, not like that. "Continue."

Annabeth turned to look at Percy, who encouraged her with a nod. She continued, "He is what you call an All-American. Blond hair, blue eyes, two inches taller than me, sounds fully American, loves McDo, and even has a little U.S. flag pin on his clothes."

Percy looked at Annabeth. He does? Whoa. Oh right. He does.

"Don't forget the bomber jacket he sometimes wears." He added, smiling. "With a fifty on the back, a star on the left part of the chest, and an airplane on the left bicep. It looks really new, but he told me it's old. He has other jackets, both most of what I've seen had a number 50."

"Right, and don't forget the weird part of his hair."

"Yeah. Weird, gravity-defying hair. And he has glasses, I forgot to tell you that."

As their conversation continued, nobody noticed that Chiron's eyes had widened a fraction, already knowing who said person they were describing. Quickly schooling his features, he smoothed his expression to his usual one, not giving any sign of recognition.

"He has incredible strength for a mortal, if I would guess, like…" Annabeth made a disgusted face. "Hercules. Or Atlas, but I don't know."

"He knows history so much, and knows the president too!" Percy informed, looking energetic. He turned to look at Chiron. "Do you know him?"

Chiron shook his head, not betraying any of his thoughts. "If it was me, and I got those description, I would have told you- what's his name? That superhero?" He palmed his beard. "Hmmm…"

"Sir Al does have a hero complex. He saved a lot of people or helped a lot of people because he wants to be a hero…" Percy muttered under his breath.

"Chiron." The daughter of Athena deadpanned, watching her mentor browse mentally for comic book heroes.

"I think it was either DC or Marvel. I think I watched the movie with the campers. They were six of them in the movie. Hm…"

Percy raised his hand. "Maybe Marvel, sir?" He suggested.

Chiron snapped his fingers. "Oh yes! Captain America, Marvel. I would have thought that you were describing Captain America."

Percy choked at his teacher's declaration while Annabeth sighed in exasperation. "I knew it."

Chiron laughed a little. Phew.

"So… You don't know anything, Chiron?" Annabeth skeptically asked, raising an eyebrow. Hm… It must be just the knowledge of the gods then. But is that history teacher so well known throughout the gods but kept a secret to the lower ones?

"For the mean time." The centaur closed his eyes. "I will tell you if I remember something about a young man like that or not." The mentor of both demigods mentally sighed, patting himself on the back with his… Erm, excellent evasion skills. He opened his eyes and smiled lightly at them. "But don't stress about it that much, okay?" He asked.

The two nodded.

"That's great. Anything else?" He asked. Annabeth turned to look at her boyfriend, who signaled her to leave first, and she complied. As Annabeth left and bade goodbye, Percy turned to the centaur in front of him and breathed slowly.

"Chiron… I… That guy that we described to you? He's a friend that I've been suspicious with for the last months. I think he's hiding something, you know? But then, we're friends. I did something and that I think severed our friendship."

Chiron raised his eyebrow. My country is his friend? Percy doesn't know how special Alfred is then. Alfred must've known and is just being a hero. Silly. Both of them.

"You think?" Chiron repeated. "You're not sure?"

"He became annoyed at me." Percy frowned. "I didn't appreciate his help."

Percy proceeded to tell what he felt, what he wanted to pour out that he couldn't say to the others, trusting his teacher to understand. In the end, he looked a little red-faced from his rant. He huffed a little.

"Are you done?" The centaur asked, quite amused and worried for his student.

"Yeah. What… What do you think?"

"Well, he's an individual that you are suspicious with. The first thing that enters my mind from everything that you said was to ask you this." Percy stared intently at the face of Chiron.

"Are you sure you truly are friends?"

Chiron waited for twenty minutes before he sighed. He looked at the corner of his eyes and flicked his tail.

"Mr.D, I believe you can show yourself now." He thoughtfully said out loud. A grumpy scoff was heard in the corner of the room, revealing a bored wine god.

"So they wanted to see him, ey?" The camp director sniffed in annoyance. "Gee. I wonder what the kid did now."

"He's a good person, and we all know that. If he wasn't, where would we be today?" He pointedly looked at the god. "Yet you speak to him as if he's still a kid, Mr.D." Chiron teased.

"He is in my eyes."

"But technically-"

"Bah, technically, schmecknically," Dionysus rolled his eyes. He conjured up a small wine glass and filled it with his favorite drink. "I hate that word. Removes all the fun out of things. We should ban that word."

"Mister D…." Chiron warned. "You know Lady Athena does not like hearing things like those."

"Eh, whatever. What's she going to do? Make me an owl?" Mr. D yawned. "Good thing I told you to prepare yourself about whatever Perry Johanson and Angelina Chancy was going to tell you. What would have you done without me?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

Chiron looked at the opposite place where the wine god was sitting. "I would have been okay, done the same thing, but thank you nonetheless. I would have appreciated it more though if you told me that they were going to ask about our dear country, for Olympus' sake. I had to think about that movie we watched..."

"Psh. You talk like it's been a long time." Mr.D griped. He then looked questioningly at the centaur, earning a raised eyebrow from the latter. "It was just a month ago, geezer-horse."

Chiron laughed amusedly. "Mr.D."

"What?"

"That was just last week." He pointed out.

The camp director paused. "Wait, that was last week?"

"You seem awfully happy there, Perce." Jason observed, crossing his arms over his chest.

Indeed, Percy was happy. Chiron didn't know who the guy- my teacher is, meaning he was not an Ancient Greek individual or something! This is great. Heh, now I can look at him peacefully! Yes!

But I still feel guilty for being like that to him. Two weeks of ignoring him and failing his classes. Kicking him out my house when he wanted to help me! Ugh. Way to keep up, Percy. Now what're we going to do?!

And that last question of Chiron… Am I sure we're friends?

Damn it… Why is it so hard.

Piper and her boyfriend watched as Percy's face varied in expression, understanding that he was probably having an internal debate. It continued for several minutes before Piper had enough and lightly slapped the son of Poseidon's cheek.

"Wha- what?" He stuttered, eyes wide.

"Welcome to the land of the living." Jason sarcastically said, looking pointedly at his cousin. "Great."

"Just a lot on my mind."

Annabeth, who was silent the whole time, stood up from her previous position and showed the others her notebook. "Percy, I don't think anything adds up."

"What?!" Percy exclaimed, looking annoyed. Even Annabeth looked startled by his outburst. "Oh come on, Wise Girl! Can't we just, you know, drop the subject or something! This thing is getting old!"

I don't want to doubt my friendship with Alfred anymore. I'm the one that seems to be the bad guy, not him…

"Percy, how about that incident with the text?"

Percy shook his head. "No Wise Girl, I told you that was a mistake. The one with Gilbert, and some dude with IB as initials, okay?"

"Then are we going to drop this subject?" Annabeth asked, raising an eyebrow. Just like that?

Percy shook his head. Not really. "Let's just- can't we just focus on other things in life, like, um, why'd I haven't been attacked for the past six months or so?"

Now it was the turn of Jason to look incredulously at Percy. "What?! You haven't been attacked for the past six months? Y-You're joking."

"Nope." Percy shook his head. He inwardly smiled though. Yes! Talk averted!

"That's- that's impossible!" Piper added. "I was just attacked a week ago, and I'm just a part of the seven. Only Aphrodite, in fact. You though, one of the Big Three kids, one of the Seven, and arguably one of the most hated demigods by the monsters and other villains in history, isn't attacked by monsters?"

"It's true." Annabeth confirmed. "I'm surprised as well, and I never thought that there would even be a demigod his status would stop attracting monsters. I understood his home- but at school? At least once, but nothing."

"My status?! Don't be like that, Wise Girl." The son of Poseidon pouted. Annabeth rolled her eyes, thinking, so humble.

"Maybe the monster's just waiting for the right time to strike, like Mrs. Dodds, or Doc Thorne." Percy shrugged. "But I'll still try my best to defeat the monster, as always. Sheesh, if I don't put my guard up, I might get attacked."

"True." Jason agreed. "A demigod should always be alert."

"Always." Piper nodded.

Percy shrugged. "Not that I don't like it, it's a nice change. Not jinxing it as well."

It was too late.

"Leaving already?" Chiron asked, eyes twinkling. "I think it's still early, don't you think?"

"Nah. I've been here for a week, and I think it's high time to get home already." Percy grinned, shouldering his duffle bag. "Bye!" He saluted, trudging down the hill.

A week after his coming, he had to depart from his precious camp to once again return to school. Annabeth had headed earlier already, being in college already (which sucks like heck, because he was still in senior high, but whatever, at least it's not THAT nerve-wracking).

He was about to step outside of the barrier when his name was being shouted. He turned back in confusion, and consequently bumping with… Rachel?

"RED?" He said in a confused tone. "What?"

"So, uh, hi again, I know we just talked with each other yesterday but don't worry I'm okay-"

Percy nodded.

"-and I'm glad that I caught up to you before you left. Anyway, I had developed a habit of recording myself on random times of the day, or specifically, when no one's with me." Her red curly hair swished in the wind as she fished out a tape recorder from her pocket. "It sucks that we have to use really, really, really old technology, I mean, eff that, but-"

"Rach? What do you really want to say? Because you sound like me. You know, rambling." Percy raised his eyebrow. "Hurry up. I mean, sorry, but could you be a bit faster? Mom would kill me if I'm late again."

The oracle rolled her eyes at the statement. "Right, Sally's too nice to kill you. But they do say mothers have the capacity to bring you to Earth but also eradicate you from it."

Percy stuck his tongue out.

"Anyway, I'm pretty sure this is you, because it had your face on it-"

"My face was on your prophecy?!" The son of Poseidon exclaimed, eyes wide.

"No, moron, I was in the process of painting you guys- the big three kids, okay- and then I did my oracle thing-"

"Green mist spit-"

Rachel made a face. "Seriously? Do I spit?" Her face contorted into a frown. "Wait, don't answer that, and stop leading me away from the subject!"

"Okay." Percy nodded in assent.

"Here goes- I think it's a minor one, you know, for everyday prophecies and such, like a quest-" she played the cassette, and this was heard:

The son of sea and land acquaint

Ancient secrets discovered with restraint

Forceful tugs of persuasion

And constant bouts of suspicion

Leads to country's aggravation

Decisions made will execute an outcome

High and low powers demise'll be spun

The cassette tape ended, and Rachel looked up into stormy green eyes. He looked pale, though his expression held nothing.

"Okay." The oracle rubbed her head in apology. "That sounded like it was meant for the president and his actions with the government… But to you…That didn't sound minor, did it?"

"Nope." Percy muttered with wide eyes. "No it didn't."

That's a wrap. I hope you liked it guys… seriously. It was like a not-really filler but filler.

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