WHAT THE HECK!?

Where did you people come from!? I took a nap and I woke up to 11 emails. ELEVEN! From 4 different people. I had been talking to CrazyIsMyLifeStory, she was telling me how she was going to start telling her friends about my story. None of her friends had account so they started using hers to talk to me. All the sudden today (WHICH MY PM'S ARE WORKING AGAIN! YAY! I HAD TO CHANGE MY EMAIL!) all those girls have accounts and gave me shout outs in the profiles! Well, hello to you guys! So glad we can have private conversations! And hello to everyone else who is reading this story for the first time! How do you like it so far? Is it good? Is it bad? Tell me after you read this chapter!

Now some things about this chapter... It is so far... my favorite chapter! BECAUSE I SPENT FOREVER WORKING ON IT! For real. Like, I wrote a rough draft for this chapter while I was writing chapter 3 of this story. I am so excited I finally get to post it. In my computer I have 4 different versions of the chapter. Some of those I wrote before I even wrote the first chapter. I basically have been setting the story up to fit this chapter. So without further ado...

DISCLAIMER: I do not own PJO or HOO

P.S. I finally figured out line breaks... it only took 11 chapters...

P.S.S. I am sorry this was re-posted so many times. Technical difficulties...


Previously:

My eyes slowly started to close. The dude who we had fought with came over and stood over me. I probably would have punched him in the face, if I had had the strength. His familiar blue eyes scared me. But what scared me even more was the scar on his upper lip, where he had tried to eat a stapler when he was 2.

A saving grace.

Jason Grace.


Jason POV

July 17th

I was stunned into silence. The girl who was supposed to be dead for the past year, is alive. Or was. Let's hope for the former.

"Step away from her." A strong female voice said.

I stood up and walked backward. I had no intentions of hurting Annabeth, and from the tone of the girl's voice she did not know that.

"Drop the sword." A male said.

There was a pause as the girl processed what he had just said.

"Hey, you stole my thunder!" The girl complained.

"I am just trying to get him away from her, like you were. I was helping!"

"Ugh, it's too late now. Let's just hurry up and kill him!"

"Woah, woah, woah!" I said turning around. "I just fought with you… guys…"

For the first time, I got a good look at the boy and girl. If you were to put Annabeth next to them, you would automatically think they were triplets. They had the same curly blonde hair and stormy grey eyes, that all… Athena… kids… had.

Athena kids. These kids were children of Athena. They weren't dead. I didn't recognize them from camp. They must have been unclaimed Athena kids who never made it to camp. So many discoveries today!

The girl leaned over, not taking her eyes off of me, and whispered to her brother, "He's like Annabeth. Never finishing their sentences."

I shook my head, "I just fought all those creatures with you, why-why would you want to kill me?"

"Because you are strange person with a sword." The girl said.

"No, what!? I am a friend of Annabeth's. Look, my name is Jason-"

They both gasped and the boy took a step forward. He was looking at me like I had just dropped out of the sky, which trust me, I get that look a lot.

The boy murmured, " 'Her friends, Piper, Jason, Leo, Frank, Hazel- '"

" 'And we can't forget about Percy Jackson.' " She finished.

There was silence for a count of 5.

"Nate" The boy said. "I'm Nate, this is my sister Sara. And you obviously know who Annabeth is."

"Yeah, she is-was a good friend of mine. Um." I scratched the back of my neck, "I thought she was dead."

"Dead?" Sara asked. "Annabeth very much alive. Or at least I think she is."

"No. She um, died in a fire. All of her siblings did. We thought she had dead for a year. But on her birthday we were attacked. They burned our camp to the ground, and asked for Annabeth. When we said she was dead, they laughed at us. We had to evacuate the camp. When we got to California I thought we were in the clear. But they found us. It was easy, Percy, he beat them in one tide. But we found this," I pulled out Annabeth's hat, "2 days ago, we lost all hope she was alive. My girlfriend, has been keeping very close watch on everyone making sure she doesn't lose any other friends. I-I need to tell them-"

"Good story. I am not sure if I believe you or not, but you ain't telling nobody she's alive. I may not know anything about Annabeth's past, but I do know that she wanted to remain a secret. No way, am I going to let you throw it all away." Nate defended.

Sara walked over the Annabeth's limp body. "Yeah, I agree with Nate! But hey, my sister in knocked out in a tunnel and I want to get the Hades out of here. So can we please go somewhere?"

I nodded, and picked her up bridal style. I stared at her in my arms. I couldn't help thinking about how much pain she put Percy in. But knowing Annabeth, she didn't want to leave like that. There was always more to the story.

We walked to a broke down car in the side of the road.

Sara sighed, "Nate the car broke down, it's not going to work. We might as well start walking until we run into a McDonalds or something."

"Um, you're having car troubles? I can help." I walked over to the car and gave it a little spark of lightning, the engine started to purr.

"Sounds better than before. Let's go." Sara hopped in the passenger's side.

I climbed in the back seat and put Annabeth on my lap.

It was hard to believe she was here. This was the girl who we thought was dead. This was the girl we were just talking about 2 days ago. This was the girl who caused Percy so much pain. Did she know that she did that? Did she know that up until a few days ago Percy was depressed? She had to have had a good reason for leaving. This was Annabeth. It was always part of a plan. I mean, she was so close to camp, she had to be coming back, right? Well, no. Annabeth's car was in the opposite direction of camp. She was driving away from it.

"Where were you guys headed?" I asked after a few minutes of silence.

"Katie, our sister, owns a house in Ohio. We left 3 days ago and we were making our way back, when our car broke down. Then we were ambushed." Nate answered.

"Is this you car? It's nice."

Sara and Nate exchanged looks

"You stole it, didn't you?"

"Maybe." Sara squeaked from the front seat.

"And Annabeth let you?"

Sara turned around, "She was the one who came up the idea. She picked out the car, too. Which now I wish she would have let me do it this time. Then maybe we wouldn't have broken down."

Annabeth, encouraged people to steal a car. I think that bugged me most. Annabeth was not supposed to want to steal a car. She was always the one who found different ways to solve problems. Ways that did not include breaking the law.

"Sara, it didn't matter what car we chose it would have broken down anyway. If you didn't notice, but during that whole fight, not a single car drove through. The Shadow Creatures kept everyone out. They were planning on us heading back to Katie's house. I bet, they think we are going there next." Nate said

"We are going there next, aren't we?"

"Nope, I'm finding us a place where we can hide for the night, and then we will continue hiding in the morning."

I looked down at Annabeth. Her skin was sickly pale, and there was dried blood on the side of her face. I had never seen Annabeth, hurt like this before. Sure, I had seen her hurt, but usually I was the unconscious one. I don't think I have ever seen Annabeth knocked-out. It was strange.

"Do you guys have any Nectar or Ambrosia?"

Nate stopped the car at a stoplight and both him and Sara turned around to look at me.

"A what or what?" Clearly Sara was confused.

"You guys do know what Nectar and Ambrosia are, right?" They shook their heads, "Annabeth never explained? She always carries some."

Nate's eyes saddened, "Well, maybe, your Annabeth isn't our Annabeth. We seem to be talking about 2 different people." And with that he turned around and continued driving.

I couldn't help feeling he was right. This wasn't the Annabeth I knew. She was different. A year does that to you. I should know. I left Camp Jupiter, and after spending all that time with Greeks I felt more like a Greek than I did Roman. Annabeth had become more reckless. More like...Percy. She became more like Percy.

"Jason?" Sara asked after a few miles of silence.

I lifted my head, "Yeah?"

"You said Annabeth had other siblings. Does that mean we did, too?"

"Well, yeah. A lot of kids did. Even I have a sibling, and that's really rare."

Nate kept his eyes on the road and said, "Who are you a son of? And why is it rare?"

"I am a son of Jupiter, Zues'-"

Sara rolled her eyes "Roman form, yes, yes, Annabeth explained that part."

"Okay... The big three decided not to have any kids a long time ago. Well, not decided more like made a pact not to. But they did anyway. All of them except Hades, who has kids from the 1920's or 30's, but that's another story. Percy Jackson is a son of Poseidon and doesn't have any demigod siblings, but he has a-"

"Cyclops for a brother." Sara said in a trance.

"Yeah, how did you know that?"

"Annabeth told me. Well, not directly but kind of. It was weird..." Her voice off.

"Anyway, I have sister, who is my blood related sister. And Nico has his Roman sister Hazel and-"

Nate looked confused. "Who are those people? Hazel, Percy, Piper, Leo. All them."

"I think Annabeth might want to explain that one herself."


I didn't realized I was asleep until I was shaken awake.

I forgot where I was and freaked out.

So I may have punched Sara in the gut.

So she punched me back.

I deserved it.

After he caught his breath, Nate told me they were going to go into the store and "buy" some food and water. So I was left in the running car with an unconscious ex-friend.

Fantastic.

After, about 10 minutes of them being gone, a voice said, "Go away Jason."

I looked down. Annabeth was awake, finally, and telling to leave her in the car by herself. Nah.

"Nice to see you, too." I sighed.

She sat up. "Just go. I'll be fine by myself. Go back to wherever. And don't tell anyone you saw me."

"See, I can't do that. You are still clearly not feeling well and I have lots of questions for you."

"Did Nate and Sara not explain?"

"No, because they don't seem to know anything about you, Annabeth. They don't even know what Nectar and Ambrosia are. From what they have told me, though, it doesn't sound like you are the same Annabeth-"

"That because I'm not! I have changed! I am different! That's what happens! You are forced to run-!"

"Forced!? No one forced you-"

"Yes they did!" She turned to me and I saw the sadness in her eyes. "They… drove me… out of camp. They warned me, with dreams. The dreams were nothing but screams and fire. No words. Just screams. After 4 sleepless nights, I decided to go to the beach. I was sitting there when I saw orange flames reflecting off of the water, I turned around and saw… my cabin on… fire. I knew it was for me, and I knew they weren't going to stop with my cabin, so I did the only reasonable thing I could think of. I ran away. They are the reason. If I had stayed, Camp Half-Blood would have been destroyed long ago. I couldn't let that happen. One person is nothing compared to hundreds. Most not even teenagers yet. No way, was I going to let that happen."

"I am sorry, I didn't know." I pulled out her hat, "What about this?"

"I had to sneak out somehow." She snatched the hat out of my hands. "Thank you."

"It works just so you know. I used it yesterday on patrol."

Annabeth narrowed her eyes, "You took my hat?"

"Percy gave it to me. Said you would have liked to know you saved a life. I think he felt guilty giving it to me, seeing as he just got it, but he did anyway."

"Just got it?"

"Yeah, um, found it 2 days ago during an attack. That's when-um, we stopped thinking you were alive."

"After a fire, and a year, you guys thought I was alive?"

"A few people did. None of the sev-six" Annabeth winced at that "I think secretly Piper thought you were, but she never let it show until we showed everyone the hat. She took it worse than Percy."

"How did he take it at first?"

"Pretty badly…" She looked down "After telling your family-"

"All of my family?"

"Your dad, your step-mom, your step-brothers, and… your cousin… I think."

"My cousin? How-how did he get ahold of him?" She look more curious than confused.

"I'm not quite sure, Hazel told me that your phone was in Percy's cabin. Apparently, he answered and your cousin was on the other side."

"Oh." She said in a small voice. She let that sink in for a few seconds, before she shook her head. "You were saying, after telling my family?"

"He never stayed in one place. Always moved. Sometimes he wasn't even at a camp. Sometimes he would stay in hotels for long periods of time. He was pretty-"

The passenger door opened, "Annabeth! You're awake!" Sara reached back and tried you give her a hug, but couldn't turn her body that far. "Eh, I give up." She opened her door again, walked all the way around to the other side, but before she got there, Nate opened the door and slammed Annabeth with a hug, so hard, I had to hold Annabeth up.

Sara pulled Nate back, who hadn't let go of Annabeth yet, and pulled her forward. Sara then threw her arms around Annabeth and hugged her.

A muffled, "Nice to see you, too" came from Sara's shoulder.

Alarms began to blare in the background. Nate and Sara scrambled to get into the car and drove off, probably faster than they should have been. Sara turned around and raised her eyebrows. I glared at her while Annabeth gave her a high-five.

From the driver's seat Nate said, "So, from the look on Annabeth's face I am guessing you two caught up." Silence. "I take the silence as a yes. Well, Annabeth, Sara and I were going to interrogate you when you woke up, but he probably already did that, so we will give a break. Expect an ambush of questions tomorrow though."

Annabeth laughed and said, "I feel so loved! Hey, Nate, turn here. I have a place we can stay for tonight!"

Nate asked no questions, like promised. Though the confusion in his face said, Where the heck are you taking us!?

I raised my eyebrows at Annabeth. She smiled and mouthed, Thalia. Like it explained everything.

As we drove, Annabeth, Sara, and Nate laughed about watches and cyclops'. I was thinking too hard to listen to what they were saying. I was trying to wrap my head around the fact that I was just talking to a former "dead" girl. Sure I'd talked to Hazel many times, but it wasn't like I had known Hazel before she'd died. Annabeth… she was a different case.

She was different altogether.

She wasn't the same girl who left camp a year ago.

This was Annabeth on the run.


A/N:

THIS WAS SEVEN FREAKING PAGES LONG! I HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT BECAUSE THIS TOOK ME FOREVER! I JUST COULDN'T FIND A GOOD PLACE TO CUT IT OFF! LIKE EVEN THAT ENDING, I COULD HAVE KEPT GOING, BUT THEN I WOULDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO WRITE LATER ON! (I can't write in caps anymore) I just went with this chapter. It was fun. So yeah!

Once again thank you to:

- CrazyIsMyLifeStory

- thesleepingbooknerd

- read-dance-sleep-repeat

- 15books

for reviewing all together. You guys were the reason I updated today. Don't expect another chapter for a few week though. I have to write 2 chapters, and I am also starting work. School year is going to be stressful, so I am trying to write as many chapters as I can now, and then I will write less in the school year. Chapter won't be this long ever again, so don't get used to it. This was a one time thing. I usually try to do 1,000 words per chapter this was a LOT more than that. Well, anyway.

Peace Out!

*walks away mouthing peace out?*

~TellTheStars

P.S.S.S. This chapter is 3,131 words long.

P.S.S.S.S Once again I am sorry for posting this so many times. There were a lot of difficulties...