Hey! I have returned!

Something you should know is that Penny moved in the day that the Titan's Curse started.

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Emily Snippet.

Percy left that night. Sally said that he had gone to see a friend and would be gone for awhile.

Five days later, Penny sat playing UNO with Paul Blofis, Sally's teacher, who had been invited over to dinner. Sally was in the kitchen fixing chicken casserole.

"Uno!" Penny yelled.

Paul sighed and picked up a card from the pile. "You're too good at this, Penny," he moaned. "Next time, I'm shuffling the cards."

As Penny placed her last card, there was a thump on the door.

"Penny, will you go see what that is?" Sally called from the kitchen.

Penny stood up. "Will do!"

When Penny opened the door, Percy nearly fell over on her. Apparently he had been leaning on the door. She barely recognized him. There was a gray streak in his hair that hadn't been there before. There were also bags under his eyes. He was obviously tired.

She wondered why Sally even let him see the friend he had been to see.

As Percy staggered in, Penny noticed more differences. For one, he actually seemed more powerful.

You see, Penny had never told anyone, but she could see auras. Percy had the strongest one she had seen in her life. It was semi-opaque. Before she had met him, she hadn't even known it was possible to have an aura that strong.

Now, however, the only thing that seemed alive about him was his aura.

He stumbled forward, attempting to stay upright.

At one point he nearly fell over, and probably would have if Sally hadn't come out of the kitchen and caught him. She held him to her chest and whispered, "What happened?"

Percy sighed before saying, "Bianca's dead, Thalia thinks I'm hopeless and she'll probably kill me next time I see her for not mentioning Penny, Annabeth's in San Fansisco, Atlas escaped, Nico ran away and I'm supposed to take care of him, and I nearly got myself killed by making one of the worst decisions in my life."

At that point, most mothers probably would've asked what decision he made, or who Atlas was, but Sally wasn't most mothers. Based on the look on her face, she was used to this sort of thing. Percy must get in trouble a lot.

All that Sally said was, "You need some sleep. We'll talk later."

Percy nodded and staggered to his room.

Sally watched him leave, a worried look on her face.

"Will he be all right?" Paul asked from the couch.

Sally nodded. She didn't look too sure of it though.

"Who's Atlas?" Penny piped up.

Sally looked at her a moment before finally answering, I'll let Percy explain that to you."

After Paul left, Penny went to Percy's room.

When she came in, he was sprawled out on the bed, sound asleep.

Penny sat down beside the bed and studied his aura. She noticed it look exhausted, used up. Like something had hurt him, or nearly killed him. She had only seen that once before. It wasn't pretty.

She was so absorbed in studying his aura that she jumped when Percy mumbled something in his sleep.

She looked at his face and noticed it was sweaty and the expression on it was one of desperation.

"Bianca, don't do it. You'll get yourself killed!" He muttered. "No! Don't! Bianca!" His voice was steadily rising in volume. Penny put her hand on his forehead. He had a fever. A extremely high fever.

Cassie had once gotten a 103° temperature at the orphanage. This was higher than that. Penny didn't know that was humanly possible.

Then again, she wasn't sure Percy was human.

Yay! Another chapter done!

BTW: Penny is mortal. Actually, a very distant legacy if you want specifics, but I'll get to that later.

Emmy Snippet