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You can thank my school for the somewhat earlier update. I get a four day weekend because my state got hit with some thundersnow, and now I'm snowed in. It's not fun, but it beats being at school.

But honestly, I never expected to get over 100 reviews on this story. Thanks for all of the feedback you all have given me. Annabeth's email in the beginning of this chapter was not my idea. RecentlygonInsane left me a review with a more detailed email from Annabeth. I'm not going to copy and paste, but I felt like I should give credit.

On with the story!

CAMMIE POV

Right after I got Annabeth's vague email, she sent me another one.

Cammie:

Stay away from the ocean until I find my boyfriend. I'm being forced to come back by my legal guardian, so keep my bed in the suite. I don't know if I'll come back right away, but I do know I'll be back.

-Annabeth

P.S. Don't email me back.

"What do you think she means when she wrote 'Stay away from the ocean'?" I jumped, not expecting Bex to read the email over my shoulder.

"I don't know, but it sounds like Annabeth. She's always been a bit vague."

Bex snorted. "A bit? You have got to be kidding me."

"Oh, shut up. It's just weird that she would care about our safety."

"Well, remember that time in P&E? She went crazy when you hit the ground."

"I forgot about that."

"You were knocked out, of course you forgot. You were unconscious until we carried you to the infirmary. Annabeth was freaking out the whole entire way."

I shut my laptop and flopped onto my bed. "I wonder why she's being forced to come back by someone other than her mother. The email said that her legal guardian was making her come back."

Bex shrugged, not knowing the answer. We both just stared at the ceiling. My emotions were all over the place. Did I want Annabeth to come back? She was nice, but I knew we would never trust each other. Our friendship just wouldn't work.

Then again, she did care for me. Who else would freak out when you got hit by a butcher knife during gym class?

I could tell that Bex was thinking the same thing.

ANNABETH POV

I sent the last email, and shut my laptop. Chiron was making me go back to the Gallagher Academy, and I didn't want to. Why would I? Percy was still missing, and there are several new demigods that need training. Without some older campers (Percy and I) this camp would be a mess. Drew wasn't a newbie, but she acted like one. She complained a lot, and asked the stupidest questions. If Silena wasn't dead, Drew would just be another whiny, stuck up, spoiled Aphrodite brat.

I missed all of the senior counselors who died in the war, but I mostly missed Luke. Yeah, I know he went evil and all, but he was the one who rescued me when I was seven and took me to Camp Half-Blood. He was the one who hugged me when I had bad nightmares, (since Malcolm refused to) and the one who helped me gain confidence. But when he left for good, my world came crashing down.

If it wasn't for the gods, Luke would be a happy mortal. A guy like him would have a girlfriend, probably be a popular football player, and wouldn't have any troubles. Luke didn't deserve to die like that. He was tricked by Kronos. He would have never made it after the war if the Titans won.

All Luke was, was a pawn. A pawn in the Olympian's game. It makes me mad that I'm related to those people, those people that caused Luke to turn into a murderous Titan.

I closed my eyes, breathed deeply, and waited for the thoughts to leave my head. Luke is gone, and he's never going to come back just the way he was. Sure, he could try for rebirth, but it would take forever to track him down, and make sure he was the same Luke Castellan that I had met in that alleyway when I was seven and only holding a hammer to defend myself with.

Those perfect days were over.

He was never coming back.

What was I going to do with my life, now that the two boys I loved the most were both gone? Knowing Percy, it would take forever to track him down. Percy might not even be in this country.

I curled up in a ball for a while, just thinking. I wasn't ready to return to the Gallagher Academy, not like this. Not with tears streaming down my face, or an invisible dagger in my chest, courtesy of Percy, and whoever took him from me. I couldn't face the girls looking like a mess, with my hair sticking out in weird places.

I miss Luke.

I miss Percy.

Will this nightmare ever end?

And that's today's chapter. This chapter was mainly about Annabeth coming to terms with Luke's death and accepting it. I thought it was good. Annabeth is a really hard character to write. During the series, she mainly keeps to herself, and it's interesting how Rick describes her through Percy's eyes. I always thought that Annabeth was a bit unstable when something happened to her, like Percy's disappearance, or Luke's death.

Review please, and keep reading!

-Emma