A/N: Had a bit of writers block with this Chapter, so I'm open for suggestions of things to happen at school with either the Demigods or with random mortals!

Jason

Leo elbowed me lightly in the arm as we sat in our homeroom, stopping me from falling asleep. I opened my eyes and looked at him questioningly. He nodded towards the door of the classroom, grinning evilly.

"Looks like someone woke up on the right side of someone else last night" he joked, and I turned to see Percy talking to Paul, smiling and laughing. I realized what Leo meant and snickered. Percy wasn't a morning person, but he was very much an Annabeth person.

He made his way to the seat in front of me and sat down, looking at us weirdly. "What's wrong with you guys?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

Leo piped up, "Oh, we're just not used to you being so upbeat and, how shall I put it… on top of things, this early in the morning." He broke into a fit of giggles halfway through, barely managing to finish his line.

"Should we expect Annabeth to float into the room on a cloud or something?" I added, smirking at him and snickering.

Percy frowned at us before shoving Leo out of his chair to the floor, who just started laughing even harder while he grimaced from the fall. He punched me in the shoulder, but I was a lot bigger than Leo, Percy knew I wasn't going to get shoved out of my seat.

"Grow up" he muttered, turning to face the front. Leo couldn't hold back his laughs as he got back into his chair, trying to quiet down.

"Calm down dude, we're just teasing you. Besides, you and I both know that when Superman goes for it we're not going to let him off the hook either"

I glared at Leo, "Watch it, Valdez"

Percy recovered his lopsided smile. "He's right though. But seriously, nothing happened, so shut up."

I muttered something about stupid friends and crossed my arms, slumping down in my desk.

Piper whispered in my ear from behind me, making me jump. "What's got you so down, Sparky?"

I turned to face her, catching my breath. "Don't scare me like that, Pipes!" She smirked and leaned in, granting me a quick kiss on the lips. "It's my job to scare you." She reminded me, smirking.

"Don't ruin my dreams" I muttered, letting out a sigh.

It turned out that Annabeth did not, in fact, enter class floating on a cloud. She did look rather happy though, which had to mean something happened. Which in turn was a sure sign that Leo was never going to let it go. He was still bringing up the time we'd caught them sleeping next to each other on the Argo II.

"Guys I think I'm going crazy… Annabeth looks, almost, happy!" Leo exclaimed, earning glares from both Annabeth and Percy. "What?" he asked them, "You cannot tell me that you haven't always been in a bad mood around me and been mean to me!" he accused her, smirking.

She rolled her eyes and punched him in the shoulder, getting some faint laughter out of the other students in the class, who had begun to watch the exchange with amused expressions.

"What's your point, Leo?" she asked, holding her fist in front of her so he could see it.

"Uhh, err, nothing." He quickly turned his face to the books he had on his desk, pretending to read them. "Good" Annabeth muttered, opening her book and proceeding to read it, ignoring the rest of us.

"Oooof course" Percy muttered, glancing at her longingly. I grinned as I saw a few of the girls in the class staring at him after he spoke, like they wanted to talk to him but were afraid. I smirked and kicked him to get his attention and then nodded in their direction, he turned to face them and all the girls looked away, blushing.

"You've got admirers, dude" I said, chuckling. He groans and places his head on the desk, obviously uncomfortable with the idea. Mr. Blofis looked up, "Something wrong, Percy?" his tone was somewhat amused.

Percy sighed and lifted his head, shaking it. "Nothing sir, Mr. Grace is just bullying me, is all"

I scoffed, "Did not, how can you try and blame me?"

Percy just smirked diabolically at me before pointing a finger gun, "J'accuse" he sang in a bad French accent.

"Mr. Blofis, are you going to let him do this? It's unfair!"

Paul scratched his chin, a small smile on his face from watching Percy and I argue, "We've got three more minutes of Homeroom and nothing better to watch Mr. Grace, by all means, carry on"

Leo tried spark a bigger argument, "I wonder who would win in a fight between you two, with just your fists of fury", the classroom broke into chaos, with the mortals debating it based on their appearances, their friends throwing in stuff they knew about the two. Leo was trying to explain in a dumbed down way, why I was nicknamed superman, while Frank and Hazel talked up Percy's game. Piper just sat in her seat with her feet on her desk, trying to ignore the noise. Annabeth continued reading as if nothing was happening around her.

"What do you think, Grace?" Percy asked, grinning at me.

"I dunno Jackson, you're pretty strong."

"Come on, you look like a Roman Legionnaire with those abs, I know you're packing"

"Don't joke with me, we all know you can take guys twice your size, you're like a Spartan"

"Nah, Frank could toss me aside like a ragdoll"

"But Frank is totally beast, that's an unfair comparison"

"Let's refrain from calling him 'totally beast', and this is about you and me Superman"

"That's so unfair, I can't use Aquaman against you because he sucks"

"Maybe we'll have to test things out and see who would win"

"I bet we can convince our teacher for PE to let us have a nice fight"

"Well Piper is in the class, we could convince him to do just about anything"

Piper threw a balled up piece of paper at Percy, "Don't bring me into this!"

I looked around and realized the whole class had hushed down to whispers and quiet, listening to Percy and I.

Percy glanced around the room sheepishly. "Uhh." He tried to find a convenient distraction.

I was about to say something to try and get rid of the silence when we heard a loud POP come from down the hall, followed by loud footsteps and shouting. Connor slipped past the doorway, his sneakers skidding on the floor as he came to a stop and ran in, taking a seat in the back so he could hide. Travis followed quickly behind, reaching the door and grabbing the frame, breathing heavily, "Help please!" he cried, looking at us.

My first thought was a monster, but Connor wouldn't have come and sit down if it was a monster, so what was it…

"TRAVIS!" A very angry Katie jumped onto Travis's back, hauling him away from the door. Mr. Blofis started laughing, quickly followed by the rest of the class, as we watched the older Stoll brother stumble around while getting smacked in the face repeatedly by his girlfriend.

"You tried to hit me with a stink bomb!" she shouted in his ear, dropping back to her feet and punching him in the chest. She proceeded to punch him over and over while complaining about his pranks on her and how inconsiderate he was until he put a hand over her mouth and pushed her up against the lockers gently.

Our class watched intently, most of us out of our seats and at the door.

"Uhh Paul, shouldn't you…" Percy trailed off.

"I'd rather not get involved in anything that has to do with either of the Stoll brothers, thanks" he muttered, getting some stifled laughter from the class.

Travis smirked at her angry expression, "Connor did it, not me" he said, getting a muffled "Hey!" in protest from Connor, who was stuck at the back of the group of student at the door of our class.

Travis removed his hand from her face and leaned in to give Katie a quick kiss. "Now try not to kill me, okay?"

She calmed down slightly, and noticed that our whole class was watching. Her face turned strawberry red and Travis turned, seeing us and widening his eyes in surprise. "Whoa, stalker much?" he muttered, scratching his head.

Luckily, the bell rang to end homeroom and the couple left in a hurry to escape our eyes. Our class slowly grabbed all of our things and dispersed into the halls.

Leo

I had class with Percy next, so I was with him in the hall, talking. Annabeth had left him to talk with Piper and Jason, so I was all the guy had. It almost made me jealous of him.

"So, what really did happen last night?" I asked, wiggling my eyebrows at him.

"I told you already, nothing happened. We watched a movie with my parents and fell asleep on the couch."

"Together" I clarified, grinning.

"Yes, together, like pretty much every night so that we don't have as many nightmares" he muttered, looking at me with a dark expression.

"Oh, right." I replied, feeling a little guilty, "Sorry about teasing you and stuff."

He waved it off, "It's fine, you forgot and wanted to get in a joke, no big deal" he smiled at me to prove it was nothing and gave me a pat on the shoulder.

Before I could voice my doubts, a girl came up to us, I turned and grinned, ready to introduce myself, but she ignored me, instead speaking to Percy.

Why do all the girls go for the fishhead, I wondered, idly fiddling my fingers.

"um, hi Percy" the girl said, smiling shyly at him. Percy of course, grinned cheerfully at her, "Hi" he replied kindly, probably oblivious to the fact that this girl was totally about to flirt with him or something.

"I was wondering if you uh, wanted to go out sometime…"

I wasn't good with girls, but even I had seen that was coming.

Percy's smile faltered a little, "Oh, uh, I sorta have a girlfriend" he said quietly, trying not to be rude.

The girl frowned, but nodded and took a step back, "Sorry, I'll just-" she turned on her heel and headed back to her friends, her face burning.

"Man, I wish girls asked me out constantly" I muttered, watching her go.

Percy groaned, "It's really not that great, besides, I think you'd turn them down if they asked you."

My eyes narrowed at Percy, "Why would you think that?"

"Don't think I don't know where Khione sent you" he said, turning to face me.

My eyebrows rose in surprise, "How do you – " he cut me off, "Piper said after they found you, you seemed distant, like you were always thinking about someone, and well, she's an Aphrodite kid, she figured out you must've met a girl. I put it together with the whole being launched away by a Goddess and figured out where you went."

"Is that all you know?" I asked, my curiosity getting the better of me.

He smiled a little bit, "I'm pretty sure I know why you want to have Festus rebuilt in time for Winter Break, and what you asked for from the gods as your gift after you asked for time to decide."

"Just… don't tell the others okay? Piper will freak out and constantly ask questions and everyone will have stuff they want to ask, I don't want to deal with that."

Percy shrugged, "No worries. So, you're going to go free her, huh?" he asked. I wasn't sure why he wanted to know about it, since it wasn't really his problem, but I responded.

"Uhh, yea, why do you want to know?"

He glanced around to see if anyone – specifically any demigods – were around. "Just want to be able to prepare a little bit for when she gets back. She and I aren't really on the best of terms, for reasons both widely known and totally unknown."

"What," I scoffed, "Like you forgetting to make sure she was released?" I asked bitterly, glaring at him. He winced, but nodded. "There's that, and sometime after she became bitter with me, she may or may not have done something I wasn't happy with"

I raised an eyebrow, "Like what?"

"Like cursing Annabeth" he stated flatly. "W-what?" The word came out shakily, I knew Calypso hadn't really been thrilled to have been left on her island, but cursing someone?

"How do you know?"

He looked at me nervously, as if he was afraid saying anything would bring back bad memories, which honestly, it probably would.

"Well uh, when we were in, you know, hell, we fought some demons that when you killed one, you felt the pain of a curse someone had put on you, like feeling the pain a certain monster felt when you killed them, for example." He began, "Annabeth killed one, and it left her unable to see or hear me, feeling completely alone and lost. The demons said that it was from Calypso, so that Annabeth could feel how she felt after I had to leave."

"Look Leo, I'm not saying not to go get her, because she deserves to be rescued. I just wanted to know about it so that I don't get caught off guard with her showing up. She's not exactly in my good graces, and I can't imagine I'm in hers. I don't really, blame her for doing it though. She had reasons to be bitter."

The bell rang, interrupting our conversation, but Percy left one last thing hanging in the air, "Besides, you're stubborn and determined, you'll get to her, and you deserve someone like her."

With that, he grinned and turned to go to class, I stood there quietly for a moment thinking over his words before following. I didn't really want to be late, now did I.

A/N: So uh, I start School on Monday, so updates might become a bit sporadic, but I'll try to keep it as frequent as possible!