A/N - I have a story to write for school and a chapter of Story Time that I meant to have up by last Tuesday, but what do I write? A semi-illogical chapter of Like Normal Kids!

Sam and Brooke are from a book called Hold Me Closer, Necromancer, which I highly recommend.

Eleven: Unofficial Titles and Annoying Professions

Percy had been successful. Not only in freeing Thanatos but also in saving the camp. Surely Addi was as proud of him as she had been when good things had happened in the past, but he was having trouble even finding her.

He found her in a tree, and had a nagging feeling that it wasn't the first time it had happened. Her ghost white legs were dangling below her and – in a moment of extreme déjà vu – Percy tugged on her left ankle and she tumbled down from the tree. He caught her and held her tight until her breathing and heart rate had returned to normal.

"I did it, Ads," he said as he gently put her down.

Addi smiled weakly. "Yeah you did little brother."

"You thinking about Nico?" the teenager asked after a short pause.

"Aren't you?"

"Always."

"Cute," Addi said to him. "I'm so worried about him."

Percy pulled her closer. "I am too, sis."

Addi only stayed at Camp Jupiter long enough to help the Camp Half-Blood kids get settled.

"Addi! Wh-what are you doing here?" Annabeth asked when she got off of the flying ship they'd arrived on.

"Shh, Beth, I'm Reid here," replied Addi with a chuckle. "Perseus is over there."

"But why are you-"

"Annie, it'd be best if you stopped asking, she's never going to answer you," Percy said. He held out his arms and the blonde girl flew toward him.

"Percy! We've been so worried! Oh, you should've seen your sister and Nico," responded Annabeth.

"I have – not that I recognized them at the time," replied Percy.

"Perc, I'm going to be out of town for a few days," Addi whispered to him. "I'll come check in on you in a week or two." She kissed him on the cheek. "'Bye, little brother."

No matter where in the country she was, it was always comforting for her to be in a cemetery. Partly because that was the easiest place to meet with Anubis, but also because of the quiet. And as the unofficial goddess of tree climbing, she appreciated the nice trees many cemeteries contained. She was waiting in the higher branches of a tree in a cemetery in Seattle for Anubis to finish whatever he'd been working on when she'd contacted him. She felt the familiar, usually comforting chill that usually accompanied Nico's quiet chuckle, Anubis's embrace or Uncle Hades's dark glare – in other words, it was a chill that usually went along with the presence of someone with power over death.

Addi pulled her legs up into the tree, having temporarily forgotten that disguise was actually part of her title. She was kind of caught up in her realization that whoever this was, they were not Nico, Anubis or Uncle Hades.

"Is someone there?" said the voice of a young man.

Addi looked down at him. He didn't look threatening – nor did he look remotely like any of the people she knew who had power over death. She flipped over and hung from the branch she'd been sitting on, with her head (though upside down) at about the same level as the boy – Addi guessed that he was about Percy's age – standing below her. "Who are you?" she asked cautiously.

"I'm Sam," he replied. "I'm, uh, visiting the grave of a friend of mine."

Addi slipped out of the tree, flipped over and landed gracefully on her feet. He wasn't lying, but he wasn't telling the whole truth. She stared at him for a moment, trying to determine the truth.

Okay, so technically he was visiting the grave of his friend Brooke, but… she was with him as a spirit. So why was he – oh, Brooke had insisted that he put fresh flowers out. How sweet of him to listen to her. And his full name was Samhain. Samhain the necromancer – it had a nice sound to it, didn't it?

"Okay, So-win," she said, splitting the syllables like they were two separate words, "I'll buy it. Hello, Brooke."

The girl had just kind of materialized. Addi assumed that in his surprise, Sam had stopped trying to hide her. Sam said, "How did you –"

"No one can hide anything from me, I'm the –" began Addi. Then she realized how easy it should have been for her to conceal herself earlier. "I'm a moron."

"What?" Sam asked with a look of utter confusion on his face.

The temperature dropped even more. "You are not."

Addi felt a pair of very familiar arms slide around her waist. Anubis kissed her on the cheek. Sam and Brooke stared at them with expressions of disbelief on their faces – Anubis had appeared pretty much out of nowhere. "An, this is Samhain. He's a nec-ro-man-cer," she said carefully. "That's his friend Brooke. She's dead, but you already knew that."

Anubis groaned. "I hate necromancers. They make my job so difficult."

"I know you do, An," Addi said. "But, uh, he's on Seattle's Council, so don't hurt him or anything okay?"

"Um, who are you two?" asked Sam.

"I'm Addi – er, Reid on the west coast – and this is my boyfriend Anubis. He's not fond of necromancers," Addi informed him.

"Were you like named after the Egyptian god or something?" Sam inquired.

"I am the Egyptian god," Anubis replied. Addi elbowed him. "What? I am."

"He's mortal."

"And he's here with his dead friend. He really should be able to identify various death-related gods."

"You have got to be kidding me," Sam said. His eyes moved back to Addi. "Are you supposed to be some Egyptian god, too?"

Thunder rumbled and lightning crackled across the sky. Addi gave a short, forced-sounding laugh. "Greek," she corrected. "Shut up, Uncle."

"Who are you talking to?" Brooke asked.

Addi gestured toward the sky. "My Uncle. Just ignore him, he's not going to –"

Lightning crackled again, almost menacingly. Anubis glared in the direction of the sky. "Lord Zeus, if you zap the poor necromancer –"

"Defending him now, are we?" teased Addi.

"Technically speaking I'm just requesting that your trigger-happy uncle doesn't hit the kid with lightning," Anubis replied, trying (and failing!) to defend himself.

Sam's eyes moved back and forth between the two gods.

"…what the hell…?" Brooke said quietly.

"Wait a minute," Sam said, "I thought all the Greek Gods were either Zeus's kids or siblings or something like that…"

Addi laughed. "Poseidon and Hades don't get any kids, then, Samhain?"

"…Oh."

At that moment, Addi got a familiar feeling. Her hand flew to a mask-shaped clip in her hair. If she wasn't immune, she'd probably have burned her fingers touching it.

"Forgive me for leaving, but I'm needed elsewhere," she said. "Good-bye, Samhain. Good-bye, Brooke. It was nice meeting you two!"

"What's going on?" Anubis asked her quietly.

"I don't know, but Nico has the pin. Or at least he did. And if he doesn't, then it's Percy. The boys never call me like this. Never," she declared. Then she vanished.

She reappeared next to a black haired teenaged boy holding a pin that matched her hairclip.

"What's going on, Perc?" she asked concernedly.

"We need you to come with us, Ads," her younger brother replied. "Annabeth and Hazel agree."

"I can't, Little One," Addi said. "Seven half-bloods, Kiddo. Firstly, you've already got your seven, don't you? Beth, Jason, Piper, Leo, Hazel, Frank, and you, of course. And also I'm a goddess. You know that even if they don't, silly. I'll be looking for Nico on the other side of this, though. Maybe we'll run into each other."

He put his arms around his older sister. "I just got you and Nico back, but I can't keep you with me and he's been taken hostage by the biggest bad guy we've ever faced."

"Is the Olympians' hero a little overwhelmed?" Addi asked. Percy nodded. "Me too, Perc."

After a few moments of silence, he said, "We'll find him, right?"

Addi squeezed her little brother tightly. "We will."

A/N - I MISS WRITING NICO. Hey, did anyone recognize the pin/hairclip pair from Crossing Over? Looks like Nico gave his boyfriend his half of the set...