In a hotel under the Poseidon shipping property. Blasting loud musics could be heard miles away. Familiar and unfamiliar faces could all be seen. It was a gathering of basically all celebrities from the hollywood and singers, athletes, anyone you could think of that was famous amongst America. Even children of some of the most well known business men's were attending.

The first floor was filled with people, chattering, dancing, drinking, eating, making out, or puking. The second floor and above had a smell of sex. It wouldn't be categorized as some quiet place, it's just the sound it produced was a little different from the ones downstairs.

This was none other than the infamous hollywood sex god Percy Jackson's birthday party.

Well, actually, it was the day before his actual birthday, but, in other words, he wanted to spend the day of his actual birthday with his friends and family.

The next day, after he got over his hungover by taking pills, he went to the beach with his family.

He had a large family. He had a step dad, and a half brother, but what was filling up all the space in his family tree was from his biological father. The business man, Poseidon. He's got quite a large family. Luckily, on this very fine morning of Percy's actual birthday, he only brought Triton, Percy's half brother, Amphitrite, his wife, and legally Percy's step mother.

The beach they went to was none other than Montauk. It was where Poseidon and Sally first met, although they were never married, but they still remained a good relationship. This beach held some precious memories to both Sally and Percy.

"Look who finally decides to show up." Jason said as Percy step inside his own apartment. There he saw all his friends packed in his living room, taking up as much space as they could. All of them stared at him. "We thought you're not gonna check out your presents. There's a surprise in there though."

"You guys had already went through them?" He asked in disbelieve, not sure if he was more angry or surprised.

"Maybe." Nico shrugged.

"Boyfriend?" Percy pointed his chin towards the blonde guy next to Nico. Nico nodded.

"Will Solace."

"Pleasure to meet you." They shook hands.

"Hey Calypso." He hugged Calypso. Even though sometimes it was a little awkward between them, but they still tried to make everything normal.

"Not cool dude." Leo on the side huffed.

"Valdez."

"Why last name man." He demanded, but was ignored by Percy. "C'mon people."

Percy went to the corner where all his gifts were put in a neat pile. There were a stack of cards that he didn't bother to look at, and there were some wrapped in colorful wrappers. But that was not what caught his eyes.

His eyes landed on three boxes, there weren't much difference as the others, but there was a sticky note attached to it, with the same handwriting. There was another box, that was wrapped in simple blue wrappers, there were no address, no bowties made out of silk, nothing, just a box wrapped with blue papers.

He picked that up and teared it open.

A note fell out on the first layer.

Knew you would be opening mine first XD

Still no signature. He opened the lid of the box, and saw anther sticky note, the same as the ones he saw on the other three presents.

Look at the other three with this same note on it, so you will understand my apology.

He didn't finish reading the rest of the note and turned to the other three.

He took the first one, and read the sticky note. It says

Who ever she is, she seemed desperate.

The second one says

You surprise me more and more each day, gurl.

And the last one says

More like in your Wettest Dreams.

Then he turned back to the original sticky note, that he still had in his other hand. Confused than ever, he continued to read.

I'm sorry to go through them. I read through their letters, but didn't look through the attachments. Again, I'm sorry.

I have a request tho. Go through the rest (I mean the one in this box) in the end will you?

Happy Birthday

Annabeth Chase (W.G.)

"You lied to me."

"Δεν είχα." I didn't. A voice came from the middle of the staircase.

He turned towards it abruptly. Taking in who just came down, especially the outfit, he was unable to get words out of his mouth. He just stood their, mouth opened.

"Valdez de noche." She said evening Valdez, and bowed to Leo. "Sorry, that's the only phrase I know right now. She didn't have time to teach me much."

"Who's she?" Leo asked. Ignoring Leo's question, she turned to Jason.

"Spero tu hanc linguam carorum Jason." I hope you find this language endearing Jason. Annabeth said, and Jason's eyes widened in surprise. He nodded and smiled in response.

"I met Reyna and your mother." She addressed to Piper, who was about to get all excited about wanting to meet Reyna, Annabeth continued. "Je peut ou non laisser glisser que vous avez une vie amoureuse." I may or may not let it slip that you have a love life. Piper looked about to murder, she stood up and lunged at Annabeth, crashing her to the wall.

"Jesus christ, how many languages do you speak?"

"Four, and I can understand German, and a little Spanish." She choked. "Dammit Piper, what do you want?" Piper was pressing onto her rather forcefully.

"What did you…" The question died down when she noticed something on Annabeth's neck. "Is that a love bite I see?" She said pointing at the hickey. "You hooked up with my half brother?"

Annabeth took the chance of Piper's released grip and get away from the wall.

"It's fake." She said as she walked passed the scowling Percy to the door, with her keys.

Everyone was shocked at what had just happened.

"Damn girl, stop acting fucking mysteriously." Leo cursed when Annabeth closed the door.

Percy continued to rummage through his gifts. Most of them didn't interest him. However, he did went through the ones that Annabeth commentated on.

All three of them were songs. The first one' from Rebecca, one of the earliest girlfriends he had in hollywood. It was a song claimed to be written by herself, and sang too. It was named, I Wish You Would. This was basically she regretting that she shouldn't have hung up on him, and she was wanting him back, saying that she actually didn't hate him, but still loved him.

Second one was from Drew, it was called Blank Space. Apparently it was about two players, but eventually the girl fell for the guy, but the guy didn't have a thing for her, so she got jealous when he was in touch with this other girl. And that song clearly was how Drew felt about their whole relationship, and showed jealousy towards the relationship he had with Annabeth.

The third one was from Rachel, the most recent relationship that Percy just got out. The song she presented was something that she did not released into public, it was titled Wildest Dreams. After he scanned through the lyrics, he laughed, now understanding what Annabeth had meant. This whole song was basically telling him to remember her, even in its just in his dreams.

Percy didn't really plan on playing the songs, he just went through the lyrics and set them back down and went back on the box Annabeth had given him. Inside contained only two things. One was a letter, and another was a CD album.

He opened the letter, something fell out. It was a keychain with a trident on it.

Happy 27th birthday, Percy.

Now that you're the same age as me, you happy? Congrats of aging.

The keychain was given by your father. I met him in Greece by the way. I didn't lie to you also, I went there for architectural purposes, my mom summoned me, and apparently I met Piper's mom, and Jason's mom as well as your dad. They wanted me to design a hotel. He wants me to give you this, I don't know why he didn't give it to you himself considering the fact that he came back a day before I did.

I was about to spend longer there, but since it's your birthday, I won't be missing it. Yes I went to that party of yours, but I didn't stay for long, and didn't bother to find any of you, and I'm sorry for that.

Back on the topic, this CD is all made by myself, no one knew about it actually. It was the record of all the songs that I've written in high school and college. The musics are mixed by myself using my computer.

Again, I'm sorry for looking at your gifts without your permission.

But anyways, this letter is to tell you that your birthday is far from over. Leave all the songs for them to enjoy, you can even let them listen this CD I made, it's just that you might be getting hijacked for inquiries tomorrow. Come and see me after you read this.

You know where to find me.

Much Love,

Annabeth

"Guys, I'm out, do whatever you want with my gifts, sounds rude I know, but I have a hottie waiting for me. By the way, there's a CD in the box Annabeth gave me, you can listen to the songs that she wrote in high school." Percy said in a rush and dash out the house.

He rushed towards Annabeth's secret hiding place since junior high. It was a big tree on a hill that no one gives a damn about. It was at he end of an alleyway. When he got to the usual place where Annabeth would be sitting at, he saw nothing, no one.

Where r u? — Percy

Look up

Oh how could he possibly missed it, there were dim lights coming from the top of the tree. He smiled and put his phone back, and started climbing.

"You wouldn't come if that hickey's real wouldn't you."

Annabeth's voice came out just as Percy's face appeared at the door of the tree house.

"Is this a tree house?"

"Duh…" She answered with an eye roll.

Annabeth was wearing a black and turquoise sports bra, and a black yoga shorts. It was short enough to see half of her tattoo on her inner thigh. She sat up crossed legged. There were blankets and pillows on it set up. She wore no make up, and put on the earring he gave her on her birthday. He also saw a bottle of champaign on the corner of the house.

"I got Beckendorf to build it for me, though, I designed it. It's plain anyway, not much to say." She muttered. "I got Silena to draw a hickey because I wanted to see your reaction, and I also know that Piper will be the one to find out, because she would be attacking me."

"So you planned this whole thing basically. Do they know?"

"No. Not even Beckendorf and Silena knew the whole plan."

"You really are a psychologic aren't you?"

"As your other birthday present, I'm going to give you whatever you want, in any form, I don't care, as long as it can be done in here, this tree house."

"Anything?"

"Yes anything."

"How many though?"

"As much as you like till mid night."

"Wow, you're really spoiling me."

"You're the birthday boy, what can I say."

"Do I have to tell you what I want?"

"No, you can toy me around. Just for tonight though." She added when she saw his devious grin.

He lunged himself at her, making her lie down, so now he was pinning on top of her.

"You want sex?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

"Problem?"

"No. Didn't expect you to be this straight forward."

"I also want you to be my girlfriend."

"For how long?" She teased.

"Forever." He said into her lips.

"Way to spend your birthday, boy." She mumbled. "You do know that if you think carefully, I did have a loop hole."

"Where?"

"If I am your girlfriend, you can have sex with me anytime you want, and you can spend your birthday night doing something else that I wouldn't allow you to do with me on normal days."

"In this case, I will have it after mid night." He said getting off her. "Champaign?"

"With a chick flick." She winked pulling out her computer from under the mattress. He laughed. "Take off your shirt."

"Why?"

"Too hot to stay in it." She smirked, still fiddling with her computer setting up the movie.

He pulled her on his lap, and leaned against the wall of the house.

"Lights off?"

"Lights off."

"What are we watching?"

"The notebook."

"But I thought you loathed it."

"I did, but I don't."

The rest of the night went with a blur. They did several things, and tried several things. Percy kept his words when the handle hit twelve.

A/N: I'm not good with writing smut scenes, so if any of you would like to write it for me, feel free to do so, but just give me a word telling me you're writing it, and send me a copy. If you want more information about Percy and Annabeth that night that helps you write it, feel free to ask. I will give you a shout out in my next chapter of where you posted.

Annabeth was busy with the architecture assignment given by her mother, and she was planning to go to Europe again. She didn't spend much time with Percy, who was now her boyfriend, because she didn't have time to spare.

She suffered from enough trauma to make her think that it was impossible for her to suffer from another one, it made her think that she was immune to distress and betrayal.

That thought was naive.

Annabeth fumbled through the keys, with shaking hands she found the key hole under the moonlight, and inserted it. This night seemed to be strangely quiet, the moonlight seemed to be exceptionally bright. Closing the door and locking it quickly and silently. Hands still trembling on the lock from the previous event.

Under the reflection of the peaceful moonlight shinning through the balcony, all we see was a broken girl shaken by the hardships she'd been through in her short twenty five years of life. The girl was now sitting on the balcony. Under the bright moonlight we could see tears streaming down her cheeks. Most of her face were covered by her unkempt hair. There were a few streaks no longer in their original color. The girl bit her bottom lip, and put her head on to her laps, she shivered. Taking deep breaths trying to stop herself from sobbing. She heard voices in the house, but she didn't care. When she calmed herself down, she looked up the dazzling stars that outshines any other days. The last few drops of tears hit the floor from her chin and some went down to her neck and into her clothes. Her tee shirt was torn and her short jeans were ripped. She looked like she just escaped prison torture.

With cheeks still wet she walked back into the house, and got up stairs. She dragged her feet to the end of the hallway in front of an ajar blue door. There were lights coming out from it. She pushed it open, and was welcomed by the sound of running water, and a scream coming from the bed.

Her face was all black, tears mixed with makeups. A trace of blood could be seen at the corner of her lips, evidently came from her piercing. Her hair was disheveled, making her looked more scary. With her look, she didn't need to crept up behind people to scare them half to death.

Slowly, she walked towards the source of the scream. The girl stared at her like she was haunting her. Annabeth used her cold grey eyes staring right into the girl's soul. She scrambled to her feet. When Annabeth walked in, she was putting on her clothes. Annabeth backed her up to the wall.

"Rebecca." Her voice came out low and dangerous, which surprised herself too.

"How… How d… do you know my name?" She stuttered with fear, hugging her shirt in front of her tighter.

Annabeth was inches in front of her. Since she was much taller than her, she stared down at her, cornering her. The girl wanted to shrink merge into the wall.

"I knew you're here when I saw Nakamura."

"What is happening?" Percy emerged from the shower with a towel around his waist.

"What the fuck are you doing in the shower in the middle of the night?" She asked without turning around. "Get the fuck back into the shower." She pulled out her gun from her belt and pointed towards him, she turned around and aimed at his head.

"Leave her out of this." Percy said.

"I will be hosting her hostage if you don't get the fuck out of my sight. I'm not exactly sober right now, so if you don't want to be the second person I killed tonight, FUCK OFF." Percy wanted to say something, but couldn't get the words out. "You may listen to the conversation, but stay in the bathroom, make a sound, you're dead. And I mean it, because I've warned you already. And put some clothes on." She added the last part in an annoyed tone.

On the other side, Rebecca was trying to escape using the opportunity, but was been pinned back against the wall by Annabeth's other hand without the gun. She winced at the contact. Percy went back to the shower and closed the door behind him carefully.

"Another sound from you, you're gonna be the sixth person I injured tonight." Annabeth sheathed her gun back onto her belt. "All you have to do is to answer my questions when I ask you, do not give me craps."

"You do know that you're only the tool that Luke and I uses in the game that he started." She begun. Rebecca was still a little shaken from Annabeth's grip on her neck, usually she wasn't scared that easily, but maybe Annabeth was just too well trained. "For your information, I did not steal your precious lover from you, he chose Thalia over you, so let that almost non-existent brain of yours rest, and stop coming after me. I think that you know that idiot won't return any of those feelings for you, even though yours are faked as well. He only sees you as a distraction." She said pointing to where Percy was. "It's time for you to wake up from that little fantasy of yours now. Luke will never return the favor, whatever you'd done for him will never be awarded like he promised. You're just another immature girl who got carried away by love.

"Luke wanted to hunt me down, and you knew that, but you don't know why he chose you out of all people did you?"

Rebecca shook her head.

"Obtuse." Annabeth shook her head with a sigh. "Because he knew that you wanted to seek revenge on me, and that he also wanted me dead, so he decided to let you do your damage first so that he can do his. He knew about your feelings towards him, and he also used it. Damn girl, what's really in that brain of yours." Annabeth said in frustration. "God, why can't anyone see through his stupid plan. Geez, people nowadays seriously need to check their IQ."

"You haven't ask me questions though." She muttered fearfully.

"You want me to ask? Well, is it true that Luke told you Percy's my boyfriend?"

She nodded, looking at the ground.

"And? What else did he tell you?"

"He told me that he's your cousin."

The bathroom door swung open a fully clothed Percy stood there. "What?! He's your cousin? But you dated him."

"Shut up Jackson, this is between me and this ho." Her voice full of venom, effectively shutting him up.

"True. Go on." Annabeth went back to her. She went silent, and bit her lip. "Blackmailed?" She looked up, fear was all displayed in her eyes. She shook her head fiercely. "No, no." She panicked. Annabeth nodded in confirmation.

"Not by Luke himself then. Ethan Nakamura?" Her voice seemed friendly when she asked that. Rebecca looked down, and remained silence.

"I see. Well, thank you for your information Rebecca." She said dully.

"I didn't get blackmailed by anyone, I love Luke okay, and Ethan is my best friend." She screamed hysterically.

"With benefits. I know, pretty obvious I'd say. And this is one of the few truths you had said tonight by the way."

"I'm warning you, what happens in this house, stays in this house. You keep your mouth shut, or I will do it for you." She bent down and whispered in her ear making her shiver because of her voice.

"He didn't need to tell you much for you to get on action. Shallow. He didn't tell you our relationship and what happened in high school and college didn't he?" Rebecca shook her head. "That's what I thought. Did he tell you anything about what happened this Christmas?" She shook her head again. "Trying to act innocent. Asshole." Annabeth mused.

"You're done. Get the hell outta here now." Annabeth turned back to her, pointing at her stuff. Rebecca scrambled to her stuff and started to pack. "You're usually not scared easily, why so scared to day?" Annabeth taunted with a smirk, twirling her gun with her fingers like a pro.

"Yes, I'm not that kind of girl." She said, suddenly getting confident. She turned to Percy who was still standing at the bathroom door. "Why didn't you stop her then? She practically barged in."

"Huh, practically. Good word choice I must say." Annabeth jeered.

"Because this is her house." Percy replied in a deadly calmed voice. Rebecca's eyes widened for a split second, but soon recovered, she opened her mouth, but nothing came out. "Stay here for the rest of the night, we will talk about this tomorrow." He continued with the same tone.

Annabeth's eyes turned murderous once again, but this time, it was at Percy. She pulled out her gun once more and pointed at him.

"You will be sorry for it Annabeth." Percy said, slowly raising his hands above his head.

"You've changed Annie."

"Another word from you, bitch, and you will be tortured by Luke." Annabeth didn't take her eyes off Percy as she walked closer to him, pointing her gun to his chest.

"Oh and how will you do it? I'm sure he won't listen to you." Rebecca challenged.

"I don't know why are you choosing the hard way. I think you know perfectly well what are his punishments, you can simply avoid that by being the sixth person I injured, or be a good girl and shut your ass so you can avoid both. But you already made your choice by now." She loaded her gun. "Challenge accepted. Stupid girl." She spared a glance at her.

Annabeth stared right into Percy's eyes, and saw a flash of panic when she loaded her gun.

"You're not pulling the trigger Annabeth." He tried to remain calm, but Annabeth still detected the panic in his voice.

"If you really trust me with your life, you shouldn't be panicking, isn't that right Percy?" She mimicked.

"Then, let her stay and talk tomorrow."

"I've warned you already that I'm not in a stable state. Don't push your luck Jackson." She pushed the gun onto his skin. "We don't talk and make amends in a game."

"You will regret this."

"I already regret ever meeting you." Hurt flashed through his eyes.

"She came here to talk."

"And just happen to talk to into having sex. You really are stupid. She came here to lure you in to a trap so that she claim her so-called price from Luke when she told him that she got me." She paused and soften her hold on the gun, she retracted the gun from his chest and pointed to her own temple. "You're going to sold me one way or another, and if you're still blind from the situation I suggest you, the oh so wise one go talk to her, in any form you like."

"Annabeth, I'm sorry, I didn't know."

"What do you know?" She chuckled bitterly. Her voice croaked, and low. She was suppressing a thwarting sob. "Don't you realize? Don't you know that apologies and promises just aren't our thing? We never keep our promises to each other, and after we apologize, we'd done it again. In the relationship between you and me, there are no apologies and promises, there is only action."

She shut her eyes tight, squeezing out the last few drops of tears. The tears rolled down her cheeks, turning black when it rolled past her makeup. She bit on her piercing, holding back her whimpers. She did it using a little more force than needed, more blood shed out from it, retracing the route of the dried blood stain. She didn't feel the pain on her lips, she was too concentrated in her agony.

"What I regret the most in my life is that I didn't blow up myself earlier." Her voice sounded vulnerable. "Meeting you just prolonged my agony." Her eyes remained closed. "I at least have the decency to come bade you goodbye, but you didn't even have the guts to tell me you're not the same person I knew and loved."

"I'm still that same person Annabeth." He was on the verge of tears, but he managed a strong but also soft voice.

"You owed me an explanation Percy." Ignoring his words, she opened her eyes, it was like broke glass. She looked into his eyes. "You cut me off with your actions. You're the last straw. I don't blame you for pulling the trigger for my death, because I've been waiting for this moment since I was five." She said depressingly. "Goodbye Percy." She said softly, and closed her eyes one more time. She hope this wouldn't have to open them ever again.

He reached for her hand that was dropped by her side, drawing circles on the back of her hand. However, his gaze was fixed on her other hand. He saw her fingers tightened around the trigger, without second thoughts, he whipped it off her hand. A bullet shot into the ceiling, but nothing was damaged except a bullet hole on the roof.

Annabeth walked out of the room numbly, picking up her gun on her way out, but somewhere inside her, she felt happy.

Although she was losing in this battle in the beginning, but she twisted the situation, and won at last. There was a small, almost invisible smile tucked on her face. She had taken her precautions just in time. She was positive that although her threats to Rebecca might not work on her, but she had already lost her trust amongst her colleagues, because she had made a wrong move. Those tear stained cheeks were real, but the what happened next was all an act, the tears was used as a cover. She had even thought of an alternative if she didn't find the person she was looking for. Been the best, the top need a lot of practice, and what happened in Percy's room tonight proved her practices worthy.

She miscalculated when she got jumped by five people, but it was a sign that told her that her predictions were right. It would be a battle she had to give up fighting. Sometimes losing might not be bad, it depend on how you see it. If you see it as a defeat, then you're been defeated; but if you use the wounds it caused you as a cover for your next plan, this could count as a victory. And this was exactly what Annabeth did. That attack was inevitable, it was the only way to prove Annabeth's theory right. The only thing she didn't expect was how much information she got from it. Luke made a mistake, although not lethal, but it leaked out crucial intelligence that may indirectly predict the end of the war.

No one's scheme could be more well planned than Annabeth's, there would always be a loophole, if not, Annabeth would made sure she found one.

No one was as manipulative as her.

It was a war they must lose.

A/N: When Piper said you hooked up with my half brother, that half brother is Mitchel, if any of you were wondering. But, he's not important anyway.

It might be getting more and more confusing from now on, so feel free to ask me anything if you don't understand. I don't deny that there might be conflicts and clashes with the previous contents in previous chapters, since this whole story is kind of complicated in every aspect. This is just a warning to all readers out there who is reading it. Yes, I know you guys won't understand this last bit of crap I'm talking about, but you will know something about it in the next chapter, at least it will give you an idea. The information will be given out bits by bits. Next chapter MIGHT be exceptionally long, so be prepared.

Last update today btw.

Till next time people,

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