Happy birthday, Boys vs. Girls! I can't believe a full year has gone by. Time flies, huh?

And seriously, no comments on the "Ask the Character" thing? Well, sadly, I cannot do "Ask the Character" without any questions to answer. D: So leave some questions, people, if you have any!

I do not own PJO!

And type "The Magical Unicorn of Wonderland" if you read this AN! Please? It'd make me happy! *pouts*


"A spy," Thalia repeated for the seventh time the next day. She was sitting on a stone bench in the Western Garden, her eyes fixed on the rose bush before her. "A spy."

"Yes, Thalia," Annabeth said calmly. "A spy."

"In the school." Her voice sounded flat.

"Yup," Rachel piped up.

"And it's a boy," Thalia continued, her voice devoid of emotion.

"That pretty much covers it," Annabeth told her, nodding.

Thalia swore in several different languages. "I knew it!" she hissed. "I knew nothing good would come out of this, trusting boys to come to Merriweather!" She kicked the stone bench, not even wincing as her toe collided with the hard material.

"Hey!" Percy objected. "We're not that bad, right?" He gestured to himself and Nico.

Thalia stared at Nico, then Percy, before turning back around and saying, "I told you we couldn't trust boys." She ignored Percy's indignant cries of protest.

Nico scowled. "I know you're upset about losing your friend, but-"

"I should let you know that our friend was your sister!" Thalia shouted at him, her face turning red with anger. "Don't you care that the only one who cared for you half your life is dead now?!"

"Of course I care!" Nico yelled back, standing up. His eyes were dark with fury. "Don't you dare say I don't care, okay?! She was the only thing I had to a family, and now she's gone! So of course I care, you crazy black-haired devil!"

Rachel stepped in between them, shoving them in opposite directions just as Thalia opened her mouth to retort. "The two of you, stop it," she ordered. "We can't argue amongst each other when the real enemy is watching our school! Whether we like it or not, we've been through a lot together, and we're a team. Both boys." She glared at Thalia. "And girls." She turned her angry gaze to Nico.

Annabeth nodded. "Rachel is right. We can't afford to argue with each other. We need to work together and try to find out this spy." She pulled out the black-and-white photo of the boy they had seen the night before. "So far, this is the prime suspect of being the spy and throwing the knife at Drew," she announced. "We need to locate him in the school and see what he knows."

"But if he's really a spy, then he knows about us, right?" Rachel asked. "As a Sneak, I'd happily spy on him, but...you know, he might already know about me. Or us."

"And that," Annabeth said, smiling slightly, "is the beauty of my idea."

Percy whispered to Nico, "You see that look in her eye? Why don't I ever get that look?"

"Because you're you," Nico responded flatly.


"So, you want us to spy on him for you," Piper said slowly, gesturing to herself and Hazel. It was later that day,

Thalia nodded. "Yeah, pretty much."

Reyna studied the picture Annabeth had given her. "I think I've seen this boy before," she said. "He's possibly on the boy's green team."

"The same team Drew was on," Rachel mused.

Piper furrowed her brow. "I don't know," she said slowly. "I guess that if we have actual proof, I would go up to him and thank him."

"We have actual proof!" Thalia argued.

"No, Piper's right," Annabeth said. "All we have is a picture and a hunch." She leaned against the wall. "Besides, even if we report this to the Headmistress, I don't think she'll believe us without true solid evidence."

"The element of surprise is our best weapon," Hazel said quietly.

"Exactly," Thalia said eagerly. "Will you help us?"

Piper opened her mouth, but Hazel beat her to it. "I'll help. I don't know about those two," she said.

Reyna looked at Piper and shrugged. The girl nodded and fiddled with a strand of brown hair.

"We'll help," Piper finally told them. Just then, Annabeth's cell-phone rang.

"What's up?" she said, not bothering to look at the name.

"How'd you know it was me?" Percy's voice asked, sounding surprised.

"I didn't," Annabeth admitted. "Just wanted to try that."

"Haha," he grumped.

Annabeth smiled. "So, did you need something?" She frowned. "Wait, how did you get my number? I don't remember giving it to you."

"I found the suspect," he told her, avoiding her second question.

"Great!" She thrust the phone towards Hazel and Piper. "Tell them!"

Piper grabbed the phone and held it between her ear and Hazel's. "Okay, lover boy," she said to the phone. "Spill it. Who're we gonna stalk today?"

"Lover boy?" was Percy's confused reply.

"Percy!" Thalia snapped. "Don't go stupid on us now! Just answer the freaking question!"

"Right, right." Percy told them the name, and Annabeth took her phone back.

"We'll keep you guys posted," she said.

"Hey, why can't we help too?" Leo's voice whined. Annabeth snapped the phone shut, before frowning at it.

"Huh," she mused. "I didn't ask him how he got my number."


"Target is on the move," Piper whispered into her earpiece, watching a figure move from her hiding spot in one of the many secret passages of Merriweather.

The "target" was named Jack Hill, about a year older than the girls. Currently, he was walking towards the library and writing something in his notebook. As he did, he passed a girl wearing sunglasses reading a book. What he didn't notice, however, was that the sunglasses had a small camera on it, and it was currently pointing at him. The poor boy was completly oblivious he was being stalked by two Sneaks, who were, sadly for him, pretty darn good at their job.

"It looks like a bunch of notes, but I can't tell for what," Hazel said quietly, trying not to alert the boy. She paused for a few moments, before saying, "Target is now in the library. I'm going in."

"Rodger that," was Piper's only response. In the walls, there was a scuffling noise. If Hazel didn't know any better, she would've assumed there were rats in the wall.

Re-adjusting her glasses, she stood up and also entered the library, following him at a fair distance. It was incredibly hard to follow someone who was trained at a school like Merriweather and Charlesfield, and Hazel was required to be more careful than she usually was, which irritated her greatly. How hard could it possibly be to spy on a boy?

"Can I help you, dear?" a librarian asked. By the tone of her voice, it sounded like she would rather smack Hazel with the book in her hand rather then help her.

"No thank you, Ms. Lutz," Hazel told her. "I can find what I'm looking for on my own."

"I should hope so," Ms. Lutz grumbled. "I can't stand another stupid child in my library today. Honestly, what was that boy thinking? Asking for so many books...could've broken my spine!"

Hazel ignored the librarian's ramblings and walked away. Of course, by now, the Target was well out of sight. Hazel cursed her stupidity and forced herself to remain calm as her eyes scanned the other shelves.

"Well?" Piper's voice asked.

"I got stopped by the librarian," she murmured. "I lost the Target."

"Ugh," was Piper's only responce.

"I'm really, really sorry!" Hazel whispered frantically. "I really didn't mean-"

"Who are you talking to?"

"GAH!" Hazel jumped in surprise and fell over. Behind her was the Target, Jack Hill. She landed painfully on her butt, and a loose book fell over and hit her on the head.

"Ow," Hazel grumbled, rubbing her head, before remembering where she was.

Jack stared at her. "Um, are you okay?"

Hazel laughed nervously. "Oh, of course! Just fine, just fine. Couldn't be any better." She started to inch away slowly. "I should really get going, so-"

"Not until you tell me why you were following me," he told her, eyes narrowing.

Hazel's mouth dropped open. "I was?" she asked dumbly. Her mind worked furiously for an excuse.

"Do you think I'm stupid or something?" Jack demanded. "Of course I know you were!"

"I was not!" Hazel shot back, feeling her face warm. "In case you didn't know, this library is open for everyone in the school, so don't flatter yourself!"

Okay, so she was following him. But not for the reason that he was probably thinking! Hazel resisted the urge to shudder in disgust and kept her angry glare on him.

"If you excuse me," she huffed, "I have to go finish some homework." With that, she turned and stalked away, the sound of Piper's laughter in her ears. Or rather, ear.

"Did you hear all of that?" Hazel whispered.

Piper laughed even harder. "Yup," she answered, popping the 'P'. "And so did everyone else in the room."


"It wasn't funny!" Hazel snapped, glaring at the laughing faces of her roommates.

"Actually, it is," Rachel gasped, wiping a stray tear from her eye. "It's very, very funny."

"To us!" Piper cackled.

Thalia stopped laughing for a moment, her expression thoughtful. "Well, this actually benifits us," she mused.

"How?" Annabeth asked.

"Well, if he already caught you spying on him, then he might assume your some lovesick girl with a crush on him," the Leader reasoned, before cracking up again.

Hazel's face heated up. "Shut up! All of you! It wasn't even funny!"

The only one who wasn't laughing, Reyna, nodded. "She's right, you know," she told them. "If this mission is as important as you think it is, now is not the time to joke."

The others stopped laughing at once.

"The three of us," Reyna gestured to herself, Hazel, and Piper, "don't have all the details to what happened last year. All we know is that Cara had kidnapped one of the students to build the Raser Laser."

Piper snickered at the name.

"We don't know why," Reyna continued, "but apparently you do. And whatever the reason is, it seems you don't want us to know. We have just gotten involved, but I think we have a right to know."

Correction, Reyna, Hazel thought sadly, you two just got involved.But Hazel didn't say anything.

Annabeth nodded. "They're right, you know," she told Thalia. "They're involved already, so they should know."

Thalia scowled. "Fine." She turned to the three. "If you want the full story, then you better sit down."

"We already are," Piper pointed out.

"That's not the point!" Thalia snapped.

Reyna shot Piper a glare. "Go ahead," she told the black-haired girl."

Thalia sighed. It seemed to Hazel like this wasn't going to be easy for her. "It started one year ago, when Bianca was late on this day to come back before curfew..."

Of course, she knew the story. But she didn't say that. She couldn't.

And she wouldn't.

Not as long as she could avoid it.

Unknown to her, Annabeth was watching Hazel carefully. The girl showed all the signs of thoughtfullness; she wasn't listening to a word Thalia was saying. The blonde Brain narrowed her eyes.

She's hiding something,she thought.

Everyone had their secrets, and Annabeth respected that. But something about Hazel didn't give Annabeth comfort. The girl was clearly hiding something bigger than who her latest crush was.

And whatever it is, I'm going to find out.Her hand travelled to the pocket of her uniform skirt, where the baseball cap resided.

Sophia gave this to me for a reason. And it looks like I'm going to find out that reason, whether I like it or not.