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Last time: "Athena," I whispered under my breath.

"Mom…" Annabeth whispered behind me. Here we go…

"Perseus Jackson, I never thought I would have to hunt you down about my daughter again." Athena crossed her arms over her chest. I would have expected an evil smile or a smug grin, but nothing. She didn't even want to be here.

"Isn't Annabeth old enough to not have her mom hunting down the guys she hangs out with?" I asked stupidly. I then mentally smacked myself and told me I should have had a V8.

"Jackson, I suggest that you keep your smart comments in you head where I can't hear them." She spat and I immediately sat down and shut-up.

"Mom, you haven't talked to me in four years." Annabeth said cozying up to my side. I received a death glare from Athena. Why was I getting the death glare? Her daughter was the one with her hand on my abs.

"I've been watching from afar." Athena assured her half-heartedly.

"You stopped talking to me when I flunked out of Notre Dame." Annabeth shot sounding more pissed at her mom then anything. Annabeth had been through so much betrayal in her life. It was best to stay with her till she was sick of you and sent you away. Or else, she could get pissed.

"You shouldn't have flunked! You're one of my smartest children." Athena stepped forward fully taking in her statement.

"Malcolm made it to Harvard. He's graduating Harvard! How about you go and congratulate your son instead of pestering the daughter you've abandoned." Annabeth screamed standing from the bedside. "You abandoned me. YOU have no more say in what goes on in my life." She jabbed a finger at her mother and my mouth dropped open. Annabeth Chase was strong, but she had just yelled at her mom. Athena, she had just yelled at Athena, the goddess of war strategy! She could be sent to the fields of punishment for eternity for doing such a thing. It was unheard of. It was risking your life. It was… hot.

"Gods damn…" I breathed as the two went into a stare down.

"You, my child, will not disrespect me. I'm your mother." Athena hissed at Annabeth.

"I know very damn well who you are." Annabeth's fury seemed to be rising higher and higher. I could almost feel the pressure in my ears and I never felt pressure. It was part of being able to dive so deep. I felt bad for any bystander. Wait, that was just me. I feel bad for me. "You are the almighty goddess who thinks just because her kids aren't perfect she can leave them behind."

"I don't think that." Athena recoiled, backing down from the stand off.

"Then… then why did you leave me when I needed you most." That was the first time I noticed the tear that had tumbled over Annabeth's lid and was trailing down her cheek. I made a move to stand and was glued to my seat with the glare I received from Athena.

"I could never do much in the beginning." Athena tried to convince her setting a gentle hand on Annabeth's shoulder.

Annabeth shook it away and backed up. "You shouldn't have left me. I needed you. You were all I had." Annabeth suddenly looked my way and I felt like her words were directed toward me then the goddess they had been intended for.

I rose from the bed and crossed the room to hug her. I ignored the deathly gaze I felt digging a hole in my back. Annabeth buried her face in my shoulder and took the hug.

"I'm sorry." I whispered into her ear soothingly.

"Why? I'm the one who left you." She sobbed into my shirt. I rubbed her back slowly trying to calm her down.

"Because, I should've never let you walk away that day. I should have stopped you like I did today." I kissed the top of her head and she pushed away from me so that she could look me in the eyes.

"I wish you would have. We wouldn't be here right now."

"We would still be together though. Can you handle that?" I wondered as a smile began to break across her face. I used my thumb wiping under her eyes to get rid of the running make-up. Ugh, my Annabeth doesn't wear make-up. Where did that Annabeth go?

"I dream about it every night." She laughed giving me a quick hug.

I suddenly felt Athena's gaze on me again. I turned around awkwardly with Annabeth still in my arms. Athena was frowning at me and I didn't dare let go of the girl in my arms. Annabeth turned around in my grasp to look at her mom.

"Mom, why are you here?" Annabeth asked sounding restless and tired.

"I came because your brother, Malcolm, told me you were staying here with Percy. I wanted to see if it was true." Athena said meekly.

"You never trusted Percy." I could almost hear the roll of her eyes in her voice.

"No, I don't trust his father. He just happens to be much like his father." Athena claimed.

"So, you still don't trust Percy?" Annabeth urged.

"It won't hurt my feelings; I promise." I stifled a grin at the words that had just come out of my mouth.

"No, I don't trust him." She finally said. "He's not like us. He's… he's… he's –,"

"A Seaweed Brain." Annabeth and I said at the same time. We both started laughing and Athena stared at us like we were crazy.

"Is that all? You don't trust my Seaweed Brain?" Annabeth asked calming down from our random fit of laughter.

"Your Seaweed… Never mind. No, that's not it. Chiron said that both of you need to come back to camp. There's a large onslaught of campers registered this year and he needs your help to ease traffic flow the first day of actual camp. Chiron knew I was coming this way and asked me to give you the message." Athena vanished from sight and I looked at Annabeth with a smile until I noticed the frown on her face.

"What is it?" I asked bending over so that I was at eye level with her.

"Percy, that day I broke up with you," Ouch, it still hurts. "That was the last time I was at camp. I don't exactly have the amazing memories that some of the newer campers are blessed with."

"We'll get through it. We have a lot of the same memories. We can do it Wise Girl." I encouraged hugging her tightly against my chest.

"Gods, I hope so Seaweed Brain." She muttered getting out of my grasp and lying down on the bed.

"What no pajamas?" I wondered as she kicked the covers down to get under them.

"Not when I'm too tired to put them on." She laughed.

"Ok then, no pajamas for Wise Girl." I turned to my dresser wishing I could just wear boxers like usual.

"I don't mind you know." Annabeth giggled behind me.

I whipped around. "What?" I asked quickly not completely registering her words.

"You can wear the boxers. I don't mind." She continued giggling.

"How'd you know…?"

"Most guys do. You're just too courteous to not give a damn." Annabeth was watching me as I fiddled with the belt loop I had been yanking on all day. I was kind of just waiting for it to break.

"Ok…" I walked over to the bedside pulling off my shirt. "Still ok?" I asked as she stared up at my abs. She nodded gulping back the lump that had obviously just formed in her throat. I unbuttoned my pants quickly and let the denim fall to the ground. I crawled into the bed lifting the covers.

"Actually, I think I'll put some pajamas on." Annabeth hopped out of the bed and I couldn't help but to laugh. I watched as she stood with her back turned to me. She pulled her shirt over her head and dropped it to the floor. She pulled on an old camisole. Annabeth took her bottoms off and then pulled on some flannel pants. She crawled back under the covers after pulling her long blonde hair into a messy ponytail.

"More comfortable?" I asked as she snuggled down into the mattress. Annabeth nodded as her eyelids grew heavy. "Tired?" I asked as her eyes started to close. She nodded again relaxing more and more. "You going to fall asleep?"

"Shut-up…" She moaned just before her eyes shut and Annabeth seem to shut down.

I fell asleep soon after. I felt too tired to sustain any form of consciousness. This time my dream was… eh…

The sun had just set below the horizon. Apollo had bid our side of the world farewell and continued on in the sun car. Annabeth and I were lying on the side of Half-Blood Hill just behind the safety of the borders.

Lately, the monsters had been acting up because of the war. They're everywhere. They don't seem to realize that; no, they aren't going to get into camp. Go away! It's not happening! They were scratching at the borders like lost puppies. You aren't getting in here so go bug someone else! Try your master down in Tartarus.

"So Seaweed Brain," Annabeth finally spoke up after hours of just sitting on the side of the hill.

"Yes Wise Girl?" I answered turning my head to look at her. She was still staring up at the sky with aviators on her face. I had given them to her for our first month anniversary when the Aphrodite girls demanded that I simply must get something for her. Sunglasses were the best thing in the Stoll's Catalog. Yes, they had a catalog and everything on stuff they could get outside of camp.

"Why do we sit out here every night?" She asked turning her own head to look at me.

"It's kind of peaceful. Plus, we can make fun of the monsters on the other side of the border." I joked looking at a hellhound who was repeatedly smashing his head against the magic.

"I mean it Percy. Why do we do this?" She asked pushing the glasses up her forehead so that they rested atop her head.

"Well, I remember just after the war ended we finally decided to try being boyfriend and girlfriend. We decided it right here on the hillside coming back into camp." I remembered the day sweaty and nasty from fighting. Annabeth was sad about losing Luke, but we became a real couple.

"Then at night," Annabeth continued. "We met here later that week and…"

"Made out," I finished as her voice trailed off.

"Now I know why we do this." Annabeth whispered turning her head back to look at the stars that were looming in the sky above us.

"Why did you want to know?" I asked propping myself up on an elbow to look at her.

"We've been coming out here for months. I just wanted to know why." Annabeth rolled over onto her stomach and crawled my way. She rolled over so that her back hit my chest and I fell backwards.

I let out a soft breath as I hit the ground. I must have let the air hit Annabeth because she shivered. I wrapped my arms around her holding her close to my chest. Goose bumps rose where I touched her and we seemed to forget about the world around us. That was the first night we fell asleep on the hillside. It was also the first night the Stoll Brothers got black mail footage.

"Seaweed Brain…" Someone, most likely Annabeth, whispered into my ear. I felt someone's lips press to the side of my face warm a soft. "Seaweed Brain, you need to get up. Guess who's here." She whispered softly.

"Grover…?" I guessed lazily not even opening my eyes.

"No, you have to get up." She teased. I could suddenly tell that she was lying on my chest. I could feel her weight on top of me which signified that I was waking up more. It was the last thing I wanted to do.

"Why can't you tell just tell me?" I suddenly heard power tools in my living room and jolted awake. "Oh my gods, what's going on?"

"Aphrodite is here." Annabeth laughed as she tumbled off of me and onto the other side of the bed. "Pull on some pants and get out there. Obviously, she's decided to do some work on your penthouse."

"Ah… crap," I hopped out from under the comforted pulling some jeans off the floor and pulling them on quickly. I grabbed a t-shirt just before Annabeth dragged me out toward the main room.

We entered the room and I almost had to rub my eyes to convince myself that this was a dream. There were men running around with power tools and electronics. Aphrodite had on a pink tool belt and gloves with a pink hard hat. Annabeth squeezed my hand noticing my tension when I noticed the guys installing something in the corners of the different rooms.

"Aphrodite…" I moaned running my fingers through my hair in annoyance.

"Perseus! Oh gods it's great to see you again!" Aphrodite trilled throwing her hand up into the air.

"Why…?" I groaned stepping down the few steps so that I was at the main level. My couch was moved. My TV cabinet, moved. Everything moved. Gods help me.

"I heard from a little bird. Ok, I lied. Juniper told me." Aphrodite ran over to me hugging me tightly. She trilled a high girly laugh as she pulled away and looked at me and Annabeth side by side. "You guys are such and ADORABLE couple! You have to be my favorite in a long time! I can't help myself but to visit!" She continued giggling and then yelled at a man with a drill on a ladder.

"Why are there men in my house?" I demanded rubbing the sleep from my eyes. This could not be happening I did not need this in the morning. Must I remind everyone that; no, I DON'T DO MORNING!

"Like I said Perseus… I mean Percy." I had shot her and evil glare and she corrected herself. "I can't help myself. I came to set up camera to start up my TV channel."

"What channel?!" Annabeth and I ordered simultaneously.

"The Percabeth Channel of course! It was a hit." (Indeed, this was in one of my first stories and some people really liked it. I did to so here it is.)

"What the hell is Percabeth?" I asked still not quite able to register what was going on around me.

"My cute little nickname for your couple, isn't it adorable?!" Aphrodite clapped stupidly jumping up and down.

"No!" I shouted trying to calm down and failing miserably. "Get these cameras out of here!"

Aphrodite put her hand up into the air and all of the men froze. They vanished soon after along with their equipment and the electronics. I scanned around making sure that no cameras were anywhere.

"You will not, Aphrodite, NOT set up cameras in my house. Stay out! Get out!" I bellowed at her and her smile faded. She seemed to fade away as she poofed out of my house.

"Percy calm down." Annabeth touched my arm gently.

I fumed a little more storming off toward the kitchen. My coffee cup slid out onto the counter as PAC dispensed it to me.

"PAC, did you catch any readings on that?" I asked annoyed and filling my coffee cup.

"Yes Mr. Jackson," She responded immediately.

I had done a few modifications to my system with some help of Hephaestus kids. We had made each others houses able to identify magic so that we could block it out. It was a way of keeping monsters out of our apartments. It was like taking the safety of camp with us. And now, when ever a kid at camp moved out into their own houses we would pack up our tools and fix their house up the same way. It made our kind that much more safe and we were happy to oblige.

"Block it; also check the readings last night. Block out that one too." I ordered taking a large gulp of bitter coffee.

"Mr. Jackson, the readings last night match with that of Ms. Chase. My systems could hurt her sir." PAC warned.

"Then leave that line open. But, do block the one that was in here this morning. I don't need that in here." I let out a heavy sigh sinking back onto the counter.

"Yes Sir," PAC responded. I heard a small groan of something in the walls. It was the elevator and I hoped that it wasn't for me. No, it wasn't. Ray hadn't called up.

I could hear the soft pad of feet across my hardwood. They continued across the room until the person was at my side. A gentle hand touched my chin and pulled my head to look at her.

"Percy, are you ok?" She asked her stormy gray eyes boring into me.

"Yea," I answered mindlessly realizing; yea, I was alright. I didn't want to think I was. I wanted to punch it out with the three gods I had recently spent time with. But, I was ok.

"Then why are you over reacting? And, don't say you don't know." Her fingers grazed across my forehead as she moved my hair to the side.

"I guess I'm just annoyed." I shook out my hair once she moved her hand and looked back to her smiling. "We're never going to get a break are we?"

"No, we aren't…"


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