The next "victim" of memory exposure was Annabeth, who read aloud her own name slowly, as if tasting the words, as if not comprehending the idea of her memories coming out so soon. Then she shrugged it off, before freezing. She could have to see Thalia die all over again, she would most likely have to see him again. He had been such a big part of her life before everything had gone downhill and she would be lying if she said she didn't miss him.

She brushed off the worried glances Percy and Thalia were sending her, facing her memories with utmost confidence.

They're just memories, they shouldn't affect her that much. …Right?

"You don't understand!" A seven year old Annabeth was screaming. "The sp-spiders! They've been coming for the past few nights!"

"So?" An Asian woman with red highlighted hair shrugged. "They're just spiders, nothing much."

"Who's that?" Hazel asked.

"My stepmother," Annabeth shrugged.

"They're sp-spiders!" Annabeth insisted as if that meant everything (which it did to her). "And there's so-so many! They bite!"

Her stepmother shook her head in exasperation and walked off.

"That was mean," Piper deadpanned.

"There was no proof," Annabeth retorted. "We made up anyways."

"Seven years later," Percy added helpfully.

Annabeth punched him playfully. "Shut up, Seaweed Brain. Explanation not required."

Percy sent her a wry smile for that.

It was darker now, and Annabeth was tossing things in her small bag, like a flashlight, a hammer, insect repellent, food stocks, water supplies, spare clothes…

"You're running away," Leo observed lightly.

Piper smacked him upside on the headed. "Leo! Insensitivity!"

Leo huffed playfully and turned away, crossing his arms.

There seemed to be a fast-forward through time, because the next thing that was showed was at a dock of a loading bay.

A guy in blond hair slowly approached a piece of corrugated metal, with a girl with spiky black punk-style hair ready next to him, a shield and a spear in her hands.

"Luke," Percy and Annabeth breathed.

"Luke," Thalia and Nico growled.

"Thalia," Jason breathed, seeing what his sister was like long time ago.

"What does this have to do with you?" Frank asked Annabeth in confusion.

Annabeth wordlessly gestured at the scene again.

A hammer was hurtled at Luke's face but he fortunately-unfortunately dodged it. A flurry of blonde hair and flannel flew at Luke.

"Woah!"

Luke dodged the hammer and grabbed the figure's wrist, which turned out to be Annabeth's wrist.

Annabeth sighed wistfully. "Got mugged by some people on the road, barely made it off with my hammer. Lost all my supplies. Thank the gods for Thals and Luke."

Thalia frowned in irritation and the thought of the old son of Hermes.

The next scene appeared on the screen.

"Thalia!" Annabeth and Luke screamed simultaneously as the younger version of the daughter of Zeus was struck down by the army of monsters. "No!"

At that moment, a bolt of lightning came down and struck the teenage girl, causing Annabeth to screech in terror and horror.

And slowly, almost torturously, in Thalia's place, grew a tree.

"What was that?" Piper asked curiously.

"You mean they don't tell that story anymore?" Thalia asked, more towards herself than anything, before responding to Piper. "I nearly died but Zeus turned me into a tree to preserve my soul. ..Basically that's it."

Piper nodded in acceptance as another scene showed up.

The scene was short, but they didn't make it past the setting before Thalia and Percy went "Ooooh."

They were on a clifftop, with only a few people (monsters? Titans? Enemies? Traitors? Hostages?) on it, namely Atlas, Luke, two empousai, Annabeth and Artemis.

The Titan, traitor and monsters were discussing something, Artemis chained by they side, glaring furiously at them. Annabeth was holding up a swirling mass of cloud, braced on one knee, eyes closed and a streak of grey hair going down the side of it.

"Holding up the sky," Annabeth huffed in irritation. "That was torturous."

"…no kidding," Percy grumbled.

"I'm glad I didn't have to," Thalia maintained.

The next scene was much more cheerful.

The sun was bright and glaring. Soft waves were lapping against the yellow-gold sand… Basically your normal beach scene. A five year old blonde haired girl was sitting by a side, building a little castle out of sand. A boy with curly brown hair - Leo - ran up to her.

"That's so cool," the little boy gushed. "Can I help?"

"As long as you don't mess anything up," the girl - Annabeth - replied, nodding in approval.

The duo continued building the sandcastle, and it was soon quite about half the size of the kids. Of course, being Leo and Annabeth, the two didn't stop there, designing a whole city, town, beachside and ship by the time the sun's golden rays were dipping over the edge of the horizon.

"That was a little excessive," Thalia observed almost motherly.

"Tell two little kids what else to do for hours at end," Annabeth grumbled. "Seriously. We were bored and needed something to do desperately. You can't seriously expect us not to do that, especially seeing its the two of us, son of Hephaestus and daughter of Athena."

Leo nodded almost eagerly. "What she said."

"Original much?" The son of Jupiter scoffed a little, nudging his best friend lightly on the side.

"Mean!" Leo wailed comically. "You're all bullies!"

Word Count: 918 words

(A/N:This is terrible beyond myself. I'm due to do Hazel after Thalia which is next, and I still need to add one more. LY will be updated soon, and worse come to worse, I'll delay it a little.

Peace,
Summer-Moon)