A/N Warning there is some Percabeth fluff in here that, for those of you that aren't into complete fluff, may gag. Don't worry, it isn't anything that isn't suitable for minors!

Percy POV

You know, I should have been surprised we'd made it for so long without a monster attack. But when the girls busted into the apartment with a shaky Trinity and a limping Annabeth, all covered in some weird black goo, I went nuts.

"What happened?" I demanded and rushed to help Annabeth onto the couch. She winced as I lowered her down onto the cushions.

"Oh, nothing we couldn't handle." She said lightly. Her ankle was wrapped tightly in a bunch of cheap napkins with Antonio's Pizza Palace stamped onto them. I touched the wrappings, but she grabbed my hand and vigorously shook her head.

"It's ok, it's healing." She lied with a smile. The smile faded quickly when she looked at Trinity.

"Trinity?" Hayden said, the worry was heavy in his voice. Annabeth looked into my eyes and we had one of those moments where we read each other's thoughts.

Trinity had seen them. How? As far as I knew, she couldn't see through the Mist. She for sure wasn't a demigod; she was an exact replica of both her parents. Annabeth squeezed my hand to let me know everything would be ok.

"M-m-monsters! A-a-and swords!" Trinity started babbling away about monsters and how Silena, Clarisse, Annabeth, Thalia and Katie had killed them. Ok, maybe she could see through the Mist…

"Did you hit your head or something?" Hayden asked. His eyebrows were pushed together in concern. Hayden gripped her small hands in his as he listened to her story. In the kitchen, Beckendorf was gently cleaning off some of the goop that had gotten into Silena's hair. Clarisse was explaining the truth to Chris in a hushed tone, as was Juniper.

"Um… you guys?" Rachel said quietly. Everyone hushed and looked at her. Her eyes had that age-old wisdom look in them again, "I think we need to tell them the truth." She said

"The truth?" Hayden asked. Thalia sighed and nodded.

"I agree, it's better they find out before another attack." She relented.

"Are you sure? You could easily manipulate the Mist to make her forget." Nico said.

"Wait, manipulate the what?" Hayden was starting to look scared, Trinity wasn't looking at any of us. Annabeth was biting her lip and playing with her camp necklace again.

"We can't do that every time there's an attack." She said. Beckendorf nodded in agreement. Clarisse only grimaced.

"Percy?" Annabeth said quietly. She looked at me with those owl-feather grey eyes of hers, "Maybe you should tell them, it might sound better coming from you." She said with the tiniest half-smile. I bent my head and kissed her hand before standing up.

"Hayden? Trin? There's something you should know about all of us." I started, "You see… we're… well ok I'll start this way: you know all those Greek myths we talk about?" I asked. Hayden nodded in confusion as he gently squeezed Trinity's hands. She was still shaking.

"Well… they're not exactly myths." I said, "I mean, they're real. The gods, and all that." They didn't really react at first.

"You're kidding me, right?" Hayden said, as though he was shocked I would joke when Trinity was obviously scared out of her mind. I just shook my head.

"Nope." I popped the 'p', "It's all real. And we're kind of a big part of that world." I said. Hayden just raised an eyebrow.

"For gods sake, we're demigods!" Clarisse finally burst, "Children of the gods."

"So much for breaking it gently," Thalia mumbled. Trinity looked up with widened eyes. Hayden only let out a short laugh.

"You can't be serious? Demigods? That's insane!"

"Yeah it is," I mumbled, "But it's true. I swear, it's the truth."

"Oh please, and I'm Batman." He said, "Come on, Perce, Trinity's scared. You can't really be playing this stuff right now!"

"Hayden I'm serious!" I said.

"He's telling the truth," Annabeth said, "My mother's Athena."

"The Wisdom goddess?" Hayden said. She nodded.

"And mine's Ares," Clarisse said.

"Hermes," Chris, Connor, and Travis all said at once.

"Demeter's my mother." Katie said quietly.

"My dad's Hades," Nico said.

"And mine's Hephaestus." Beckendorf called from the kitchen, "And Silena's mom is Aphrodite." Hayden still didn't look like he bought it.

"My dad's Zeus, but I'm a Hunter of Artemis now." Thalia explained, holding up her bow as proof.

"I don't see how an old bow is going to convince us." Hayden said, looking at the bow.

"Percy, show them." Juniper said, "Prove it."

"I don't know, that might be a little shocking…" I said.

"Not as shocking as telling them who Grover is!" She argued.

"Fine! Fine, I'll show them." I said, and went to the kitchen for a glass of water.

"Show us what?" Hayden said. Trinity was looking around at all of us now with amazement and fear in her eyes. She definitely believed us.

"Just watch and learn, my friend." I said and set the glass down in front of him. Closing my eyes, I concentrated. The familiar tug on my gut came, and the water started rising up out of the glass.

"Holy…!" Hayden shouted and jumped back.

"Son of Poseidon, here." I said, pointing a thumb at myself.

"B-but that can't be…" He whispered to himself, "There must've been magic mushrooms or something…"

"Hayden," Trinity spoke quietly and calmly, "They're telling the truth." He looked up into her eyes, as she said this. In an instant his body relaxed it's stance.

"So that's why you all speak Greek so well… and the sword-fighting… and how you swim so fast!" Hayden said, pointing at me. I gave him my best sheepish grin.

"He's such a cheater, isn't he?" Annabeth said to lighten the mood.

"Not cheating! Using my resources!" She just rolled her eyes.

"Whatever you say."

"But then what are you guys?" Hayden asked Grover and Juniper.

"Tree nymph," Juniper giggled, "And Grover's… well… just look." She said. He kicked off one of his fake feet and showed his hoof to Hayden. At the sight, Trinity turned pale, but Hayden just shrugged.

"Grover's foot…?"

"Relax," Annabeth said, "Focus as hard as you can, and see past the Mist." A vein in his forehead showed just a little bit when his eyes widened, and we knew he had seen that Grover was part goat.

"You're a satyr!" Trinity said in shock. He smiled.

"Actually, I've recently been deemed a Lord of the Wild." He said proudly.

"All hail. Meanwhile I'm, ahem, Savior of Olympus!" I argued.

"Olympus, which you also destroyed in your quest to save it…" Annabeth added in with a smirk. I flopped back down next to her.

"If I hadn't destroyed it you would be out of a job, now wouldn't you Ms. Architect?" I said and laid an arm across her shoulders.

"Excuse me, current Oracle of Delphi over here!" Rachel said, "Glad to be recognized!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, start at the beginning!" Hayden said, "What the… what?" We all laughed.

"It's a lot to get used to, but it's actually pretty cool." I said. Annabeth nodded, agreeing with me.

"Minus all the monsters of course." She pointed out.

"Speaking of which, what attacked you guys tonight?" Nico asked.

"What did Annabeth call them, Karens?" Juniper asked.

"Keres, daughters of the goddess Nyx. They usually fly over battlefields to prey on dying men." Annabeth explained. Wow, even with all that black gunk on her face she was beautiful… she winced and bent down to touch her ankle. Uh-oh.

"What did you do?" I asked, pointing to her ankle.

"I fractured it. But it's ok, the nectar took the pain away for the most part. It'll take a few more hours to heal fully though." Something in her eyes was off, but I decided not to push it.

"If you say so..." She smiled weakly at me before kissing me.

"I'm fine, Percy. Honest." She said, "Now then, Hayden and Trinity. It's time you heard the tale of Percy Jackson and his conquest to absolutely destroy Olympus."

"Just before I save it from the head of all evil!"

And so, we all took turns telling Hayden and Trinity all about our adventures, starting when I joined camp a whole six years ago. We went from the theft of the master bolt, to the poisoning of Thalia...

"She was a what now?!" Hayden exlaimed.

"A pine tree," Thalia said while wincing, "A dying pine tree, to be more specific."

"But then I saved the day and got her out of there!" I said proudly, resulting in my getting a zap from Sparky herself.

"Ok, back to the story..." Annabeth told them about how she'd been taken hostage by Luke and about how she knew he was still good, but being forced into this (I coughed really loudly at this).

"Percy, don't be jealous." Annabeth scolded me, "In case you've forgotten, Luke isn't much competition anymore, now is he?" That's right. He's dead.

"I still don't see how you could've had a crush on him, even after he became Kronos!"

"WHAT?!" Trinity yelled.

"Oh right, we didn't tell you that yet..." From there, I took over explaining all about the Labyrinth, Luke's plan to resurrect Kronos, the battle, everything. I even told her about the little incident on Mt. St. Helens.

"Well no wonder he didn't ask you out right away!" Trinity said, "You guys were under attack!"

"We tell you that Percy blew up a mountain filled with monsters forging a sword that severs your soul from your body... and you only hear the part where I kissed him?" Annabeth shook her head in disbelief.

"What? It was a big moment in your relationship." Silena protested.

"Anyways..." I got us back on topic, and told Hayden and Trinity all about how Beckendorf and I blew up the Princess Andromeda and how Tyson saved the two of us by taking us to Poseidon's underwater palace.

"You have a brother?" Hayden asked.

"Sort of... he's kind of a half-brother." I said, "And he's a cyclops." Trinity looked ready to vomit.

"Your brother is a cyclops?" Her jaw was hanging open.

"That's not even the worst sibling of his we've come across! Remember Antaeus?" Rachel said. Ugh that guy...

"And technically Blackjack's your brother too..." Annabeth pointed out. At that point I just had to cover my ears.

"Ew, ew, no more of this! If we were to go into technicalities of this, then you would be my niece you know!" She blushed bright, bright red.

"Technically aren't you all related? And that makes dating really awkward?" Hayden asked.

"So long as you don't date anyone in your own cabin, it's fine." Annabeth said, but she had scooted a little farther from me on the couch.

We finished our story about the second Titan War, much to the awe of Hayden and Trinity.

"And I thought winning Nationals was big..." Hayden commented, "But this? This is just... insane!" We all shrugged.

"Like we said, you get used to it." Nico said grimly.

"If you live that long." Thalia grumbled. Beside me, Annabeth yawned.

"It's getting really late. Why don't we all talk about this more tomorrow after school?" She said. I nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, Mom'll get mad at me if I stay out past curfew again." With that, we all bade Hayden and Trinity goodnight and set them home.

The others went about their nighttime routines while I helped Annabeth wrap up her ankle again. For some reason she didn't want to take off the napkins.

"They're covered in blood, you should really take them off." I said and reached for one but she slapped my hand away.

"Really Percy, leave them." She said sternly. I held up my hands in surrender.

"Ok, ok, I give." She thanked me, and finished wrapping her ankle. When she tried to stand up and put weight on that foot, she stumbled and I caught her.

"Thanks," She said and leaned heavily against my shoulder. Instead of helping her limp to bed, which would only put more strain on her, I swung her up into my arms and carried her back to her room while her roommates argued amongst themselves in the bathroom. She held on tightly to my neck, and for once she didn't protest to being the "damsel in distress". Odd...

Ever so gently I set her down on her bed. Just as I was about to leave, she reached out and gripped my wrist.

"Please don't leave yet," She whispered. I looked back. In the darkness her eyes were still shining, "I don't want to be alone." She looked so scared for some reason. What else could I do but stay? I sat down next to her and hugged her tightly. She rested her head on my chest and closed her eyes.

"Percy?"

"Hm?"

"If I had become a Hunter, what would you have done?" Oh gods had that scared me! I silently played with one of her curls while I thought about my answer.

"I would have begged you to break your oath." I finally said, "There's no way I'd be able to just let you go, I love you too much." Was it just me or could I feel her heartbeat?

"I love you too, Percy." There was something weird about her voice. She sounded strained, and whimpering. Like she was in pain...

"Do you need more nectar?" She shook her head.

"I can't, I'll spontaneously combust." Annabeth was trying to make it sound like a joke but it just wasn't working out so well. I just squeezed her tighter to me.

"Percy?" She asked again.

"Hm?"

"Promise you'll never leave me?" She whispered.

"Promise."