heya! Okay, I LOVE this song, and it fits Percabeth perfectly right now (I first heard it from Burdge-bug!) it's: Hazy by Rosi Golan! go listen to it now! (and, while you're at it, listen to Gravity by John Mayer, it's wonderful c: )

AND: did anyone else read the first chapter of MoA? aaaaaahhhhhhh! Annabeth will be a narrator! yesssss! (spazzy, sorry)

AND: I saw the Avengers! asdfjgk;afghfghasgf

anyway, hope you enjoy!

15. Silence

Annabeth sighed in relief when she saw Grover running up the hill of Camp Half-Blood. But, as he got closer, and she saw his grim expression, her happiness dimmed and her shoulders drooped.

"I'm really sorry, Annabeth. Mrs. Jackson said she hasn't seen him."

Before the tears took over, Annabeth put her brain in motion and began thinking. Thinking kept her from freaking out and crying and thrashing.

Percy was no where to be found. His cabin had been empty when Annabeth had come to wake him up- he was late for archery, but Percy was always late to that- and then, when she'd seen the rumpled but empty sheets, she'd somehow known.

Even now, as a search party covered every part of New York that Percy might have been, Annabeth's gut told her that it was useless. He wasn't here.

But dwelling on that would put her in a worse state than she already was.

"Okay. Thanks, Grover. I'l tell Chiron." Annabeth said hollowly. She turned from her friend and ran down the hill to the Big House.

"The gods' silence must have something to do with Percy's disappearance!" Annabeth slammed her hand on the table. It had been at least two days since she'd last slept. Not healthy, but she wasn't going to stop until Percy was safe again.

Chiron nodded thoughtfully. "I certainly don't believe it's a coincidence. But, right now, we have another issue. I'm sure you've heard Rachel's latest prophecy?"

Annabeth had. The one about a boy with one shoe being her answer, somewhere around the Grand Canyon. Of course it would be Seaweed Brain.

"Yes, Chiron. I want to come with the extraction squad-"

"Of course. But... I think you should wait until tomorrow."

"What! Why?" she exclaimed. "Why put this off?"

"Because you look as though you're going to fall asleep while we're talking. We can't have you going to sleep on a flying chariot and falling out."

"But-"

"Rachel has spoken to me, and she's worried about you. As am I, my dear." The centaur's wise brown eyes regarded her. "Percy's silence must be killing you. I'm sorry for that, child, but you can't kill yourself trying to find him. The gods' silence speaks for itself. If he were dead, do you think Poseidon would just sit by and stay quiet? No, floods would be about everywhere, he would be bringing wrath down on whoever tried to hurt his only demigod son."

Chiron's words comforted Annabeth slightly. She finally agreed to rest, and she and Butch were to report at the hill bright and early for their departure.

Percy's silence left a deep wound in Annabeth's heart, but it was healed, just barely, by the fact that the gods' silence meant that no harm was done to him.

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ahh! my dance was fun, but my feet still hurt xD tomorrow is my last full day of school, you guys! more updates soon, I hope!