Next chapter coming up, I hope you enjoy! I do make references to my other fanfiction in this chapter and I have a kitchen in Argo II for the purposes of my story, I'm sorry if it is incorrect, but I wrote most, if not all, of this story prior to reading the MOA.

Disclaimer, I don't own either Percy Jackson or Maximum ride all rights belong to Rick Riordan and James Patterson

Argo II- Annabeth

When Max and I arrived onto the Argo II, I heard the most painful thing to my ears.

"AHHHHHHH!" It was Percy!

I wasted no time running to the infirmary. There he was sweating and screaming on the bed. Obviously he was seeing something other than Frank trying to calm him down. He thrashed and struggled against his adopted brother. I've never seen any illness progress this fast and attack this strongly.

"Percy, bro calm down." Frank pleaded as he tried to force Percy to lie flat.

"No, the lava, AHHH, I'm burning! I'M ON FIRE!" My boyfriend screamed. "ANNABETH!"

I rushed to his side and grabbed onto his hand. Maybe he'd be able to tell it was me, "Percy, Percy, It's me, you're not at mount St. Helen anymore. You're all right."

"Annabeth?" he asked as he slit his eyes open. They were glazed with the fever. "I'm burning, the fire."

"Shhhh." I soothed and ran my hand through his sweaty hair. "You're not on fire, you're alright, and you just have a fever."

"But they threw the lava, it's on me, please help me." He pleaded. I wondered what could be affecting him this strongly. He's worse than when he woke up this morning.

"Someone get me some ice and cold water." I ordered. Piper rushed up stairs. "Piper's going to be right back, just breathe."

"Piper?"

"Yeah seaweed brain, she'll be here soon." I assured him. "She's our friend. She's going to help."

"Did you get out safely?" He questioned. "Does he know whose messin' with his forge?"

I nodded as Piper came in with a large bowl of water and a rag.

"Here." She sighed as she pressed the rag to Percy's forehead. He gasped in surprise at the coldness of the rag. Squinting he looked at Piper.

"I know you, right?"

"Yeah Percy, we're friends." She reminded him. I saw Max standing off in the distance with a look of concern on her face.

"Do you think he could have gotten this from Angel?"

I shrugged, "I don't know. How is she anyway?"

"She's still out of it, a little bit ago she woke up and told us that Percy was in danger." Max told me. "That's the only thing she could say before she passed out again."

I caressed Percy's warm cheek, "I should thank her when she's feeling better."

He leaned into my touch and smiled dreamily as his eyes fluttered shut. A sigh of relief escaped me. At least he no longer believed that he was at mount St. Helen. He hadn't said much about how it felt to be covered in lava, but then again he didn't say much about what happened after he caused the volcano to erupt. I suspected, no, I knew he had been on Calypso's island. That's why I had been so angry at him. My jealousy had taken over and I took it out on him. Then when Rachel came along I was so stubborn, trying to not only deny, but cope with, my feelings for my loveable idiot that I nearly lost him to another girl all together.

"We got the medicine." Nudge whispered and put the bottle in my hand. "Hopefully this will lower their temperatures."

I nodded, "Thank you, Nudge."

After giving Max a pill to break in half for Angel I grabbed two for Percy. I shook him gently so I didn't startle him. He struggled to open his eyes.

"Five more minutes, mom." He muttered as he gave up his battle for consciousness.

"It'll only take a minute." I pleaded with him. "Swallow these two pills and then you can go back to sleep, I promise."

Percy reluctantly sat up. I could tell how uncomfortable this sickness was making him, I almost felt it myself. He put the pills in his mouth and I gave him a sip of water from an extra glass that Piper had brought down. Greedily he drank the water and swallowed the medicine. That action had taken all of his energy because he plopped back onto his pillow and was asleep immediately.

"What happened?" Grover questioned as he and Thalia came down into the medical bay.

"Percy wasn't feeling well this morning so we went to get the medicine, as you know, then Medusa attacked and tried to kidnap him but luckily Max was able to cut her head off, but Percy's fever got worse and now here we are trying to lower his temperature."

"Did you say, Medusa?" Grover's face was as white as sheet. "I thought she was resting in you know where."

"No, where?" Gazzy asked. I would have laughed at his innocence, but thoughts of Tartarus came to mind. Gently I grabbed my seaweed brain's hand as images of running through that dark, vile, and deadly pit came to my mind.

"We really don't like to talk about it Gazzy. Please don't ask." I whispered so quiet I was almost afraid that he hadn't heard me.

"Alright, I'm sorry."

Percy sighed and his face began to relax. I was glad that the medicine was finally kicking in. What was this sickness that had such a cruel effect on Percy and Angel? I wipped the cold wet rag across Percy's burning forehead. I hoped that he would recover soon. We needed him at full health. If we were attacked he'd be vulnerable.

"Annabeth, you and Percy both need to talk to someone." Thalia murmured. "It's not good to hold onto something like that."

Tears came into my eyes, but I refused to let them shed. I almost lost Percy more times than I'd like to remember. We were being manipulated by that place. Told to believe that we were the evil ones and the monsters were the victims. But as I had told Percy, the monsters came back, we didn't. If he were to die I don't think I could stand it. He was my other half.

"I just can't, not yet."

A hand was placed on my shoulder, "When you're ready to talk, we're here you know that."

"Thanks, guys." I felt like letting my emotions go and crying until my tears dried up, but Percy was the only one I could go for true comfort.

"Hey, why is everyone down here?" Ella asked as she came into the medical room. When she saw Percy her hand flew to her mouth. "Oh gosh, not Percy too."

"He's going to be alright, Ella. Annabeth just gave him something to lower the fever." Max assured her.

"I still feel like I should help them." Ella looked so upset that I almost wanted to tell her that Percy's been through worse scrapes than being sick. "How about I make some special chicken soup just for them."

"That sounds good." I agreed and squeezed Percy's hand. "Eating will help them heal faster."

Max gave a curt nod. "Yeah Angel hasn't eaten anything scene breakfast at moms."

Ella clapped her hands joyously, "Great, I'll get started on it right away."

She ran upstairs faster than a tree nymph. I smiled at the thought of how much Percy could affect people weather he knew it or not. Percy turned over on his side as he slept and tucked my arm to his chest as if I were a teddy bear. I laughed and tried to gently remove myself from his grasp but he held on even tighter. Such a Seaweed brain.

Thalia was chuckling, "Remind me never to get too close to Percy when he's sick. He's too cuddly."

"Aww, but I thought he was your adopted baby brother." I teased. She rolled her eyes,

"How was I supposed to know that the seven year old Luke and I saved all those years ago was going to be Kelp head?"

"Admit it, you thought he was adorable." Grover smiled. Thalia was blushing so fiercely that I thought she was going to burst.

Piper gave us all funny looks, "What are you talking about? He didn't show up at camp until he was twelve. Right?"

"That is true, but when we were on our way to camp we were cutting through New York. As we were walking we ran into a couple of monsters and when they turned around we saw that they had a little boy, about Annabeth's age at the time, with them. Luke was very angry that they were kidnapping so he attacked one, but the other ran away with the boy. Thalia went after him and after Luke had killed the monster he was facing Thalia was coming back with the little boy in her arms." Grover began.

"We were all debating on whether or not we should keep him. Annie was eager when she found out they were the same age. After getting a glimpse of what he was going to go home to Luke wanted to bring him with us, I did too, but for all we knew he wasn't a half blood. Besides, if we did take him with us he'd be kicking and screaming the whole way. He was a die-hard momma's boy." Thalia continued Grover's story with a smile. She really had grown to love that little seven year old.

I decided to finish for them, "Grover lead us back to the little boy's house. Thalia carried him because he had fallen asleep in her arms. I had grabbed his hand and fallen asleep myself. Until I met Jason, I never understood why Thalia had become so attached to him."

"What do you mean?" Piper asked.

"Well, Percy and Jason aren't too far off in age. She thought Jason was dead, and here was a boy who was about the age her brother would have been if she could have watched him grow up." I explained.

Thalia smirked deviously, "The only thing cuter than how quickly Percy and I had grown on each other was how much you wanted to 'keep' him. Now that I know that Percy was that little boy, it's funny to think you probably had a crush on him sense you were seven."

I shrugged, "It can't be helped, he's just too loveable for me to hate for too long."

"Man, I can see why you two are my mom's favorite couple." Piper shook her head fondly. "Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Ophelia."

Grover laughed nervously, "You know those four all died in the end, right?"

"She's just comparing their relationship Goat boy." Thalia chided.

Frank shifted on his feet, "Wow, how is it possible that you didn't know he was a demigod right then and there?"

"Percy's step-father smelled so rank that Grover couldn't tell heads from tails." I told him. "Probably a good thing considering Zeus and Hades wouldn't be so tolerant of him like Poseidon is with his nieces and nephews"

"M…M...Max." A voice murmured weakly. I looked at the other occupied bed to see Angel struggling to sit up.

Max rushed over to her and tried to get the little girl to lie back down, "Take it easy, sweet heart."

"P…Percy-."

"He's alright." The older girl assured her.

Angel shook her head, "N…no, he's in danger."

"You warned me in time, I stopped the bad lady."

"M…max." Her little body gave out and she collapsed onto her bed out cold.

My brain was working in over time. Was Medusa the danger Angel had been warning Max about? Or was it something entirely different? She could still be delirious with her illness. I wondered how Angel knew he was in danger to begin with. I guess I must have said it aloud because Max answered in a heartbeat.

"Angel can read minds, so she probably heard Medusa's thoughts about him."

Oh yeah, Nudge said something about that earlier. Along with a whole string of other unique powers that they all had developed. She also told me Percy was going to develop powers of his own as time went on, like his super speed.

"Wait so if Angel can read anyone's mind, then she could be a threat to a plan, right? Especially if she doesn't like the plan." It was so obvious. Why didn't I see it before?

"What are you getting at Annie?" Thalia asked.

"I'm saying that Percy and Angel didn't get sick by accident."

Piper bit her lip, "Annabeth, he could have gotten sick from being in contact with her."

"And I might believe that." I admitted. "If it weren't for the fact that Max has had more prolonged contact with Angel while she's been sick than Percy. She'd be at least showing signs of being sick if it is this contagious."

"Who could be doing this?" Max asked. "I don't think any of us have anything to gain by hurting Angel or Percy."

"The school?"

"But how are they doing it? We were long away from the school before Angel started showing signs of being sick." Max told us. I bit my lip as I thought. There was no way that they would have just sipped her the contagion and not try to grab Percy.

"I don't know." I admitted ruefully.

"How about you let me watch over them for a while." Max offered. "You can tell, Chiron was it, that we need another bed prepared."

So the plot thickens, what do you think?