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When Annabeth walked into the dining area, everyone turned to look at her.

"Ah, the last guest has finally arrived to the party!" Leo joked.

"Wow," Annabeth said sarcastically, "what a lively party." She walked over to her spot at the table after grabbing a glass and requesting it to fill with water. (Yeah, magic filling glasses, super cool). "So Valdez, why did you summon us all here?"

"Yeah seriously Leo, you NEVER call meetings," Jason said, grabbing Pipers hand which was resting on the table. "Please tell me the ship is alright."

"The Argo II is perfectly fine. This expert can assure you of that," Leo replied. Annabeth could tell he was trying to joke around, but his spirits didn't seem to be in it.

"Phew," Jason said.

"I'm not sure you should be relieved.. This news is definitely bad," Leo replied.

"Uh... Bad? How bad?" Frank muttered weakly.

"Well... Nico Iris messaged us earlier... And I was the only one in here at the time so I answered it you know? He was talking fast, and I only caught a little bit..." Leo paused.

Shit, Annabeth thought, this was about Percy, why else would Nico iris message them? And it's not what Leo had told her earlier, because he never mentioned Nico . She clenched her fists under the table and maintained as calm of an exterior as she could.

"He said he had a bad feeling.. Uh, about Percy. Like a chill. He said he's afraid Percy is slipping, and we need to find him fast. If we don't, then it will be too late." Leo swallowed. He was jittering and clearly uncomfortable.

Annabeth froze, her face stone cold. No, they had to make it. After all her and Percy had been through, and he was... No she wouldn't think it. She had to hold herself together and get a plan in order. She wouldn't break again. She couldn't break again...

"Annabeth, are you alright?" Piper asked, letting go of Jason's hand to tap her shoulder.

Annabeth looked at her, another fake expression, an attempt at a smile. "Yeah, sorry.. I was thinking."

"Annabeth, look," Leo stammered, "it may not be too late already, we still have some time. We can do it. We can still save him."

"Yeah Annie, we aren't going to give up on him yet. We won't give up on him even after he's gone. We will stop at nothing," Jason said firmly.

"It'll be okay," piper said, putting her hand lightly over Annabeths. Damn it, if she broke now it would ruin everything. She looked away, avoiding contact as mich as possible, and then noticed Hazels expression. It was dark and unfocused. She seemed to be deep in thought. Frank seemed to have noticed too, because he was shaking her hand.

"Yeah, uh.. Alright," Annabeth quickly replied to Piper, her eyes still on Hazel. "Hazel, are you alright?" Everyone else's heads turned to look in her direction.

"Uh.. Well, not exactly." She said, fiddling with a ruby that probably came out of the ground in one hand, and squeezing Franks hand with the other. "It's just... I've been getting a feeling like that too. A feeling that Percy isn't exactly with the living, but he isn't dead yet either. I don't really know how to take it.. But we need to get a plan right now it it'll be too late. Nico was right about that."

Annabeth was thinking a mile a minute. She had to save him, she promised she would find him again when she... Left him. What if they found him just a minute too late? His death would be on her shoulders. She had to get a plan, a strategy. Luckily, plans were the one thing a daughter of Athena ALWAYS had. If she botched another, it would not only separate her and Percy, but make her lose him... Maybe forever.

"Okay, Leo you need to tell them about your dream, every detail you can remember about where he is and what he's doing," Annabeth voiced. They needed information, then maybe they could go from there.

'You can never save him,' the little voice in her head told her. ' You screwed everything up the first time he needed you like this,and you'll just screw up again. You're worthless.'

"Shut up," Annabeth told it aloud, causing her friends to look at her.

"Huh?" Jason asked

"Uh, nothing. I was just mumbling, ignore me," she gestured for them to look back at Leo. They eventually did, after a little bit more staring, and Leo began to tell them what he had told her.

While Leo was talking, Annabeth was thinking. Leo said something about a lot of rocky hills. Well that was helpful in Greece, the country which was basically nothing but rocky hills. She tapped her finger and thought harder. There had to be something, some way to find out where he was and get to him in time.

'But what if there isn't a way?' Her voice mocked her. She couldn't listen to it though, there had to be a way. She could make a plan, she always had a plan.

'Yeah, because your LAST plan worked out SO well,' the voice chided, playing with her. Who knew thoughts could be so destructive. It was right though... Her last plan was what had gotten them all in this mess in the first place.

Her last plan. Her failure... She almost had lost him permanently, but the only way she could save him was by leaving him. She knew that the plan had screwed up almost as soon as they got to the doors, but yet her pride wouldn't let her admit defeat.

She had to pick between dying with him, and living and possibly saving both of them. But in doing the latter, she knew that he would endure even more hell then he already had.

But, it was the only way... It was necessary, or else the world would have been destroyed right then and there. She thought that by going with the plan she had made, she could save them all. Her decision maybe had done that for a time... but at what cost? Annabeth rubbed her wrist. "actions always have consequences," she whispered to herself.

She had saved herself once on a shorthand plan. Yet now she was back in another awful position. She had to make a plan quickly, or else Percy would die. Forever. Gone. No coming back. And without him, Annabeth would have nothing. She couldn't lose him, he meant the world to her.

The plan she came up with had to work, or else Percy was a goner. And if he was, that might as well mean that she was too.

It was only now that Annabeth snapped back into planning mode, and acknowledged her surroundings once again. Leo was just finishing up his story, and nobody had noticed her little space out, thank the gods. The last thing she needed right now was more people worried about her.

"So he's in a cave on a hill somewhere," Jason spoke up. "And... The hill wasn't near water." Wasn't near water...

"So it had to be in central Greece, because most of it is surrounded by water," Annabeth said quickly, hoping that she maybe finally had a lead. "Leo, you said there were LOTS of hills right, almost like mountains? Maybe they were foothills of sorts, meaning the mini hills before the big mountains."

"So, you got a wonderful plan Annie?" Leo asked, his sarcasm back in full swing. Maybe there was some hope.

"Maybe not wonderful, but it's a start," she said with honest hope in her voice, and maybe a bit if hysteria too. "Oh, and dot call me Annie or you'll regret it. Permanently." She winked at him. Everyone laughed except for Leo, which was a rare change.

"Uh, sorry," was all Leo said. Annabeth knew he had always been intimidated by her. "So, what's the plan, oh great daughter of wisdom?"

"It's time to set course for central Greece, back towards mount Olympus."