Okay. So I need to tell you all something not so fun.
I have a chronical illness. It's not anything really bad, I just feel like crap, can't sleep without at least four pills and I get a killer headache from staring at a screen for two minutes. So I am telling you guys this : I won't be uploading as much as I want, if I could I would have updated this story at least five times last week, but I only handeled this much… I hate myself at the moment and feel completely useless and the hot weather here doesn't help at all…. So yeah just so you know.
I am also going to start writing another story, but not uploading it yet because this has priority. Also, I am going to focus a little more on my reading the books story because I really need to upload that.
"Come on!" Percy wasn't really awake. "Pipes, it's one in the morning." Piper rolled her eyes, gripped Percy's hand tighter and jerked him after her. "Come on! This will be fun!"
"This will be fun, Percy! We should totally slip out of the common room after curfew and then go and explorer the castle even though we already know everything! This will be soo much fun!"
Piper scowled at Percy, before tugging him along again. "We know where everything is, yes. But have you been everywhere?" She asked him while he yawned.
"No, but I don't need to. At least not when it's in the middle of the night and it's against three school rules to go outside of the common room at night." Said Percy, although they both knew he really didn't care about the rules.
"You mean you don't get your beauty sleep." Smiled Piper. "Aww, do you think I'm beautiful Pipes?" Teased Percy. A grin appeared on his face when he saw the red blush appear on Piper's cheeks even in the dark.
"N-No! Of course not!" Piper didn't really sound genuine, but Percy really didn't care at the moment. He slung his arm around her shoulders and almost laughed, but then remembered he shouldn't because they were in the middle of castle in the middle of the night.
"So, Queen, where are we going?" Percy had taken a liking in Leo's nickname for Piper, but the he changed it to just Queen instead of Beauty Queen. Piper didn't know why, but she liked it.
"Well, person-I-can't-call-anything-cause-everything-is-already-overused." Percy rolled his eyes, but with a fond smile playing on his lips. "I thought we should go and stand on the top of one of the towers and we can't visit the Ravenclaw or Gryffindor Towers so we should go to the most West tower we can find."
"So we go to the West Tower?" Piper nodded and Percy laughed softly. "That's the other way, we are going East right now." Piper froze and looked around.
"You're kidding right?" Percy shook his head and Piper sighed. "It's been almost half a year and I still can't find my way around!" Percy chuckled.
"Well, you have another half year and until I get of school, I'll save you whenever you're lost!" He turned around and with that caused Piper to turn around to, because he still had his arm over her shoulders, they both liked it that way.
"Well thank you, my knight in shining armour!" Smiled Piper. They shared a silent laugh, but it still echoed through the hall. "What are we going to do if someone sees us?"
"This was your idea!" Percy turned to Piper who was blushing again. "I know, but I didn't really care until well, I thought about actually being caught by Umbridge." They were silent for a few seconds until Percy answered.
"Well, you can always talk us out of anything." He shrugged, but Piper wasn't convinced. "I'm not good with charm speak you know. Maybe it won't work." Percy stopped walking at once and looked at her in shock.
"You do realise we would have died a lot of times over if it weren't for your charm speak abilities right?" Piper blushed a little, but Percy kept talking. "That and Annabeth would have gone mad in Tartarus." Piper didn't really understand that and Percy smiled.
"She told me about your meeting with Phobos. If you didn't talk to her back then, she would have gone mad in Tartarus." Piper nodded slowly blushing again. She realised he had said Tartarus again, for the first time since he came out of it. She wouldn't point it out, Percy hated it to be reminded of things he was afraid of, he saw it as a weakness and weaknesses caused deaths.
"Uhm, you are welcome?" Percy smiled and squeezed her shoulder for a moment. "Yeah and thanks." After that they walked in silence until they came to the stairs. "You first, you wanted to come up her in the first place." Piper rolled her eyes but went up anyway.
"This view is ..." Piper fell silent as Percy came to stand next to her. They were at the highest top of the castle and directly beneath them was a cliff, all the way down to the Black Lake.
"Beautiful?" Supplied Percy and Piper just nodded. Percy's eyes immediately found The Huntress, Zoë's constellation. He sighed and his eyes turned sad. "I was told she actually liked you. How did you do that?" Percy smiled.
"It wasn't my goal actually, but it happened. I think that was a part of it, but I'll never be sure of course. Even if she would be alive, she would have been too prideful to say she liked me." Piper smiled to, she liked how Percy's eyes lit up when he talked about his adventures of course there were the sad moments, but he loved adventures, probably because of his ADHD.
He told her everything from his third quest and she listened. They both liked it that way. Piper learned more about Percy, while Percy could finally let go of his hero and leader role and just tell his actual adventures.
"And then we went back to camp." Piper let out a laugh and Percy smiled. "That's the first time I hear such an epic story end with, and then we went back home in such a dry manner."
"It's a gift." Shrugged Percy and Piper let out another laugh. "Okay, so now I know about your... third quest right?" Percy nodded. "What about the first one?"
"You wanna know what happened?" Percy was a little surprised, he thought the other campers would have told Piper, Leo and Jason all about his adventures (probably making him seem way more heroic than he actually was), but she still wanted to hear what he thought of them.
Piper nodded and Percy told her everything about the first quest and after that about the others too. They talked about their lives after that until breakfast and Hazel let out a sigh of relieve when her two friends walked into the Great Hall half an hour late to join breakfast.
Percy didn't like Snape. It was official. The whole year was okay, until now. Apparently Snape hated Percy for his 'attack' on Dumbledore.
Even though Percy didn't take Potions, Snape had been awful. The Potions professor had started to make nasty side comments when he passed Percy in the hallways. And when something happened he blamed it on Percy even when all evidence was against Fred and George.
Percy knew this was how Snape normally treated the Gryffindors and he suddenly had immense respect for the lions for not killing Snape before now.
Now Percy was working on his homework for Charms. Piper sat next to him, working on her own Herbology homework and Hazel sat at his feet on the ground drawing one of the dancing plants of the common room.
Piper groaned an leaned her head on Percy's shoulder. He actually liked it, so he didn't comment. "Why is Herbology so illogical?" Hazel gave Piper a small smile while Percy rolled his eyes.
"It isn't." He put down his own work (he would have to stay up late again) and grabbed Piper's homework. "You should really pay more attention in class." Smiled Percy. Piper still had her head on his shoulder and was looking at her paper from that position.
"I pay attention! It's just complicated!" Percy chuckled while Hazel smiled again. She was almost finished with the drawing and it was really looking good.
"No, it isn't. Look." Percy pointed at some sentence Piper had written in her essay. "When you put Flitwarres by an Poisonous Shrugging, it dies because Flitwarres has so much Nicolise in it. But because of that you should use Flitwarres with Trickster Vines because they grow the best with that in their soil."
Piper groaned. She had done it completely wrong of course and had to rewrite the whole essay. "Can't you just help me?" She removed her head from Percy's shoulder and picked up her quill. "I am really bad at remembering these things."
"Nope, I have my own homework." Shrugged Percy and Piper scowled at him. He just grinned in return and went back to his Charms homework.
"Good friend you are." Percy shrugged at Piper's complaints and began to write again. "You really are a bad friend." Grumbled Piper.
"Maybe you shouldn't be friends with me then?" Percy asked, glancing at Piper for her reaction. And as a daughter of Aphrodite she gave the reaction he had hoped for.
She began to blush and Hazel could barely contain her laughter when she smacked Percy over his head. "That's just mean!" Percy raised an innocent eyebrow, but his smirk wasn't so innocent.
"What was mean? You say I am a bad friend right. So why would we stay friends." Piper had just regained some of her dignity, but now she was red again. "I don't see the problem with not being friends anymore."
Percy shrugged and gave Piper an innocent look. "You two are adorable." Said Hazel. Percy grinned, with only a little red on his cheeks, but Piper hid her face in her hands.
"You two are both horrible." Came the muffled sound of Piper's voice from behind her hands and both her friends erupted in laughter.
"We do try." Grinned Hazel. "It's harder than you think." Percy nodded in agreement and high fived Hazel. Piper muttered something that sounded like traitors and Percy flung his arm around her shoulders.
"Aw Queen, why so sombre? You love us and you know it." Piper groaned again and Percy grinned evilly. He loved having these kind of conversations with Piper. "And we looove you too." He drawled out the love and Piper ducked her head so he wouldn't be so close as he was.
Hazel was snickering silently watching her oldest brother figure and her best friend converse. She loved watching them like this, almost like they were normal teenagers.
"Kelp breath, you are horrible!" Percy laughed at the nickname she had used and Piper shot him a look again.
"Kelp head and Fish Breath, hmm. Not very creative." Piper stuck out her tongue. "As is just removing Beauty from Beauty Queen." She retorted and Percy shrugged.
"It's easier." Was his intelligent answer and Piper rolled her eyes, but a fond smile tugged at her lips.