AN: Sorry it took so log, but I made it a little longer for you guys to say I'm sorry, I've had a lot going on in the past months, and I had writer's block, I'm just writing what I can. I hope you don't hate me and I hope you like this chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything Percy Jackson or Harry Potter
George's POV:
"Oi Freddie," I whispered to my partner-in-crime.
"Yeah Georgie?" He looked at me; we were trailing behind the group as to not be overheard.
"Was it just me or is something fishy about Percy's muggle friends?"
"I was thinking the same thing brother of mine." He replied. "That girl seemed to stare at Percy, and glare at Annabeth as if-"
"As if she wanted Percy to herself." I finished for him.
"Precisely."
"We're gonna have to figure out something, perhaps a nice prank?"
"Maybe not-so-nice depending on what we find out. Especially if any of them try to break them up. They belong together." Fred said seriously, and I nodded in agreement.
"We'll keep our eyes and ears open."
"We'll have to sneak away."
"But that shouldn't be to much of a problem." I grinned.
"We should talk to Percy."
"Find out more about them."
We nodded to eachother in agreement and turned when Annabeth's phone went off.
~oOo~
James' POV:
I was walking with Percy, Annabeth and Albus. Lily was with Teddy behind us. Albus and Annabeth books they have read and Hogwarts and Percy was just listening with a smile on his face. I love Al, he's my brother after all, but… sometimes I wish I could just have space from him, he always get's the attention from everyone, and everyone always wants to talk to him, Even Percy likes him more. Everyone does. I felt some one poke me and looked up to see Percy.
"You okay?" He asked quietly with a concerned look.
"I guess so, just a lot to think about…" I shrugged. "I miss mum and dad. And I'm probably in a lot of trouble but I still want to be back home."
He smiled sadly at me and ruffled my hair. "You'll be home before you know it James, don't worry. As for being in trouble… It won't be to bad. Trust me, I'm an expert on getting in trouble. Besides, maybe they will be so overwhelmed with joy to see you, that they will forget about punishing you."
I snorted. "Not likely. But thanks." I looked up as Annabeth's phone rang.
"Hello?" Annabeth said into her phone. "Charlie Weasley?"
"Charlie?" The twins echoed questioningly.
"How did he get a phone, and how does he know how to use it? How did he even get your number?" Hermione questioned.
"I wanna talk to Uncle Charlie!" Al said.
"Me too!" I put in. "I'm older so me first!"
"Not me first! I'm youngest!" Lily argued.
"Guys! Chill, this Charlie doesn't know you." Teddy exclaimed.
"Hang on a sec please." Annabeth told Charlie before looking at our group. "I'm trying to listen, please be quiet." Before putting the phone back to her ear. "Uh-huh… That's great!... Goode High School, Sally can show you a pic of it… I'll text you… Yeah… Okay bye." He hung up.
"Charlie and Bill were able to make it and want to spend the day with us. They will be hear at lunch time. I'm going to text them the situation with the futures, who are pretending to be Harry's siblings." She then turned to us. "You guys need to remember to not address them as Uncle."
"I can remember, but you might need to tell Albus again."
"James don't start." Teddy warned.
"Oi Harry, you might wanna hide mate." Uncle George said suddenly.
"Before Bill and Charlie get here that is." Uncle Fred agreed.
"Why?"
"Because I'm his favorite, and only, little sister." Mum put in.
"What does that have to do with any… oh. Oh crap." Dad said.
"And they are adults who can use magic whenever."
"While you are a minor who can't."
"Not to mention that Bill is a curse-breaker."
"And Charlie handles dragons."
"Stop messing with him guys." Mum told our twin uncles.
"Messing with Harrykins?"
"Oh no, we would never do such a thing."
"Yeah, yeah, now can it." Mum said to them.
"Here we are, This is Mr. Romanes class. I had him for English before I…. disappeared…" Mum, dad, and all our aunts and uncles looked confused a bit, except Uncle Fred and George. "They didn't put me in Paul's class because they thought it would show favoritism, anyway, Mr. Romanes is pretty cool. He actually liked me."
"Oh then I definitely need to meet him." Annabeth said. "Any English teacher besides Paul that could deal with you is good in my books." He laughed and used his freek hand to knock on the door and enter.
"Percy Jackson, what a surprise! I thought you were at a boarding school in Scotland. I can see you are the one with the big group of visitors?"
"Yup. We got out early for family emergency for our friend."
"You're friends family emergency?"
"Well, they are staying with us, it's a little complicated. Anyway yeah we are the big group of visitors, these are the friends I made in Scotland, plus the friends and family that went with me. And then there is Annabeth, she is my girlfriend."
~oOo~
Percy's POV:
I ignored the stares and whispers as I raised Annabeth and my hands to show him who Annabeth was, even though it was obvious. They started staring and whispering as soon as we walked into the room anyway.
"Well it's very good to meet you Annabeth. Now the rest of you?" We let everyone introduce themselves. "How is Scotland? And the school?"
"The school is great, it's huge and just amazing. Scotland is… cold. It's even colder than New York." I said with a smile, some of the class laughed.
"What classes are you taking?"
"Oh you know… the normal ones, nothing special." I said with a grin.
"Are you still swimming? I hope they have a good swim team there." A guy I recognized as my old teammate said.
"Uh, actually they don't even have a pool, which really sucks but they do have a lake that I plan on taking advantage of when the weather starts to warm up. It's not so bad. With everything else at the school there really isn't time for swimming right now." I explained with a shrug. Though I planned to use the Room of Requirement soon to make a pool to swim in, ooh maybe a hot tub too, that sounds nice…
"That's too bad, but at least it gives you more time to work on your studies." Mr. Romane said.
"Actually Annabeth is the one who keeps on me about that. She loves school and makes sure that I won't fall behind." I looked over to my now slightly red girlfriend.
"That's excellent to hear. As good as it is to see you I must start the lesson." The class groaned and I cracked a smile.
"Oh could we stay for a bit?" Hermione asked. "I would love to see a bit of how school is like in America, lessons and such."
"Uh, pretty much the same as Scotland, teacher talks, you listen and take notes… and try not to sleep." The last part I murmured under my breath but Annabeth smacked the back of my head for it.
"Well if you want to observe for a bit I don't mind so long as you do disrupt the lesson in anyway." Mr. Romane then turned to the class. "Please get out your textbooks and turn to page 394." A small groan could be heard from Harry and Ron, not loud enough for the class to hear. I turned and gave them a weird look. "Greek Mythology. Now we have been on this unit for quite a bit but today we will be talking about how the greeks explained how the earth was made. Now…" He trailed off but I couldn't make out many of the words. I heard Gaea…. Tartarus… My vision was tunneling and suddenly it was black, but I was conscious. My hand was gripping Annabeth's as tightly as it could. Where was she!? It's dark… I can't see her, or anything. I hear a laugh that makes hairs on my neck stand up, breathing was becoming hard. Some one gripped me right before I fell. I yelled out, they were surrounding me, mocking me, yelling at me, I couldn't find Annabeth, I couldn't reach riptide…
~oOo~
Fred's POV:
George and I notice Percy and Annabeth tensing up, they stood as still as statues before they started shaking slightly, their eyes were glazed over. We each whispered the silencing spell at each of them before we each grabbed one of them, which caused them to scream silently. We knew what was happening to some extent, so we hauled them out of the room, keeping in mind not to separate them. Percy and Annabeth had moved to the back to let the others see and hear better, so it was easy getting them into the hallway un-noticed by everyone else.
"Georgie get Will." I told my brother, knowing he knew to be discreet about it, after all, it's what we do all the time. He nodded and disappeared in the classroom as I tried to reach out to the couple in front of me. They just weren't responding, they were just clutching eachother as if it was the end of the world, for all I know it could be what this flashback is about. They were just silently screaming, never stopping….
"Watch out." Will told me as he and George came out of the classroom and closed the door behind them.
I moved immediately and just watched the scene before us with my brother. Will was trying to talk them out of it, being careful not to touch them at all. Finally he pulled out his wand.
"Please don't make it worse." He whispered before casting the aguamenti charm on Percy and only Percy. He let out a silent scream as he sat up super fast, eyes wide, breathing heavily. His eyes were darting back and forth and when they caught sight of Annabeth and he puts his arms around her, she stopped screaming and I cancelled the spell so he could actually talk to her and Annabeth could hear him speaking to her. He whispered to her quietly, and we couldn't really hear them. Will sighed in relief and stood to face us.
"He'll be able to snap her out of it." He told us. "How did you know to get them out of the room."
"We saw the signs-"
"Of an oncoming flashback."
"Thought we'd get them out-"
"Before they attracted unwanted attention."
"They've been through a lot." He told us defensively. I looked to my brother and we came to an agreement.
"We understand-"
"Being a demigod can put you-"
"In danger, seems like-"
"Percy and Annabeth know it more than others."
Will, understandably, looked shocked.
"H-How did you…?"
"We're observant, we knew there was something peculiar about you guys. We gathered all the clues and came to a conclusion." I told Will.
"Nothing anyone else will notice." George assured him.
"We are far more observant than others."
"And you haven't-"
"We won't tell anyone if that's what you're worried about."
"We're good at keeping secrets." I said with a wink.
"We'll be talking about this later." He said to us quietly while throwing a glance to Percy and Annabeth who were oblivious to the conversation we were having. We knew all the demigods would be included in this conversation.
It seemed that Percy had managed to snap Annabeth out of the flashback and he was talking quietly to her.
~oOo~
Will's POV
"Percy? Annabeth?" I asked quietly. Annabeth just closed her eyes and laid her head on Percy shoulders, Percy's eyes had snapped up and looked at us. He nodded letting me know that they were fine right now. I breathed a sigh of relief. I didn't know if that water would have made the situation worse or not but it was all I had at the time. It might have felt like they were getting attacked or something. I turned to the twins. "I got it from here, when they are more calm we will come back in. Thanks guys." I told them sincerely, knowing that they obviously wouldn't tell anyone. They smiled and quietly slipped back in the classroom. I turned to Percy and Annabeth.
"I want both of you take some of this ambrosia and nectar." I told them while handing them said items.
"Thanks Will." Annabeth said with a smile while Percy just nodded to me.
"Are you guys going to be okay going back in there?" I asked, knowing the answer but also knowing what they would say.
"Yeah. We'll be fine." Yep. Knew it.
"I don't really wanna chance it. So wait here. I'll go tell them it's time to look around some more."
"Will-"
"No." I cut them off. "Doctor's orders."
"Now I know how Nico always feels." Percy pouted.
I laughed and went into the classroom. I listened for break in Mr. Romanes lecture.
"Excuse me sir, I'm sorry but we have to go and show everyone around the school some more, thank you for letting us interrupt for a bit."
"Of course." He smiled, which turned into a slight frown as he looked around. "Where did Percy and Annabeth go?" Everyone looked around, my fellow demigods had wide eyes as they realized what must have happened considering what he was talking about.
"I feel so stupid! Are they-"
"They are fine." I cut Thalia off, though I had to physically stop her from barging out the door. "Thalia, they are fine."
"That's my cousin and best friend Will, let me through, I want to make sure." She was able to break through my hold on her since she is so much stronger and I didn't try to stop her again.
"What's wrong?" I turned back to the class after making sure no one followed Thalia.
"Nothing really. Percy and Annabeth just stepped out for a bit of air, Thalia likes to be dramatic."
"She get's it from her dad." Nico said. You could hear thunder rumble, which drew everyones attention to the windows. It's December, there shouldn't be thunder after all. "My point exactly." Nico muttered under his breath, and then lighting struck. I smacked him on the back of the head. "Ow Will!"
"Quit it!" I hissed at him. "The last thing I need is for you to get struck by lightning."
"Alright geez."
After promising Mr. Romane that we wouldn't leave without Percy stopping in to say goodbye, we herded everyone into the hallway where I could see Percy, Annabeth and Thalia all standing around talking.
"Does it always thunder and lightning here in December?" Ron asked.
~oOo~
Annabeth's POV:
They day had gotten much better. We went to a few more rooms, some of Percy's most hated teachers too, just to annoy them as Percy explained. I rolled my eyes. We saw Alyssa, Todd and Ryan in geometry class earlier. Percy wouldn't let us leave for the longest time, mainly to help his friends by interrupting the class. But between the teacher that didn't like him, and myself, I managed to get him out.
We had split up, allowing Thalia to lead the way to the cafeteria, and we took the kids with us to go meet Bill and Charlie at the office.
"Is that them?" Percy asked. I looked to where he was pointing and saw two adults walking towards the building, both with a flaming red hair color that I had only seen on the Weasley's so far.
"Yeah! Uncle Bill! Uncle Charlie!" Lily cried out as she ran outside to greet them. All three of the younger kids went out, Teddy stayed back.
"I'll talk to them again about not calling them Uncle. But we should probably hurry up and get out there." We agreed and went to rescue the two very confused men.
"I'm guessing you guys are the kid's Annabeth told us about?"
"Uh-huh." Lily nodded excitedly. "I'm your favorite!"
"Is that so?" Charlie laughed. "You must be Lily. How old are you."
"I'm five. That's Al, he seven, and that's James, he's eight. Oh and Teddy of course, he's fifteen!"
"You've gotta be Harry's kids, no doubt if Al and James are anything to go by. Whose you're mum?" Bill asked with a smile.
"G-" Teddy covered her mouth. Both he and Percy looked at me.
"You didn't tell them?" Percy whispered at me.
"I didn't think it would be something they would want to hear over the phone or text."
"Fair enough. But I think they guessed, judging by there faces." Charlie and Bill looked mad.
"It's Gin isn't it? I mean, hey did say Uncle, Lily is a dead ringer for Gin when she was five, and she was about to say it wasn't she? Where's Potter? I'm gonna-"
"No you won't." I said. "This is years in the future, and you'll have to get over it. Besides, we have little ears listening, and little eyes watching, I would think carefully about your next step."
"Four times! He, and she… and Teddy's so uch older, they had to have been young!"
"I'm not Harry and Ginny's son. I'm Harry's godson. I'm a metamorphagus, I went with a style closer to Harry's though to make our cover more believable, normally I prefer turquoise for a hair color, and amber eyes, like my dad."
"Your dad? Metamorphagus… Tonks must be your mum!" Charlie exclaimed. "We went to school together, we're friends." He smiled. "But who is your dad?"
"Remus Lupin." Charlie and Bill looked shocked but then Charlie started laughing.
"I can't see it. She is so wild and crazy and he's a level-headed bookworm! Oh they must be great parents!" Teddy nodded, but he also looked as though he might cry.
"Yeah it's too bad that Teddy never got to meet them, just like daddy never met his mommy and daddy.." Lily said upset. Charlie stopped laughing.
"What?"
"Not now. We'll talk later." Teddy said as he took Lily in his arms and started to walk back towards the building.
"They- but- Tonks… She…"
"We'll explain what we can later Charlie." I said as I handed both he and Bill nametags. "I'm Annabeth by the way, and this is Percy."
"Bill, and this is Charlie, but you pretty much knew that by now." Bill said since Charlie was just looking straight ahead. "Hang on a sec, we'll be right back." And he led Charlie a little ways away, we could still see them. It looked like Charlie was in shock… which I could understand, he just found out his friend is gonna die in two years. After Bill gave Charlie a hug they made their way back to us.
"Let's go, we're hungry." Bill said with a smile, leaving one hand on his brother's shoulder in a comforting gesture.
-Time Skip-
Percy's POV:
We made it to the cafeteria and quickly found our group, it wasn't hard to spot considering how many people there were. We made our way over to the table and Harry was eyeing Bill and Charlie warily.
"Harry." Charlie said, smiling very tightly.
"Hey buddy." Bill clasped his shoulder in a not-so friendly way. "Let's catch up later and talk, yeah mate?"
"Bill! Charlie! Lay off him already!" Ginny said running up and giving them a hug, followed by the whole Weasley clan. Everyone in the cafeteria was staring. Just great. I noticed my friends and pulled Annabeth down with me as I sat next to them, the futures sitting on her other side.
"Hey guys."
"Hey Percy." Alyssa said with a smile.
"And hey Percy's lady."
Annabeth raised and eyebrow at Todd and I just face-palmed.
Annabeth had a bunch of food in her backpack and we had combined a lot of the tables together. And I thought everything was going fine… Of course I jinxed myself though.
~oOo~
James' POV:
Al and I both went for the seat next to Uncle Charlie, since both sides of Uncle Bill are occupied as is the other seat by Uncle Charlie.
"No. I'm sitting here." I told Al, elbowing him to get him out of the way. He just tried to bump me over with his shoulder.
"No that's not fair! You always get to sit by U- Charlie." He caught himself. "It's my turn."
"No way."
"To bad!" And he used his seeker build to his advantage and ducked under me, sitting down before I could.
I growled as I yanked him off by the back of his shirt and brought him to the ground. I put my knees on either side of him to make sure he stayed down. I drew back a fist and let it fly.
I could feel hands grabbing at me and trying to get us apart, but no way was I going to let that happen. I just kept hitting until I was lifted right off the ground and held back against some one's chest. I started kicking and flailing, but whoever it was wasn't letting go. I was getting tired and felt myself go limp. I realized that I was crying; Albus had blood on his face and a black eye forming, a bruise was already on his cheek, he was crying too. Great. And everyone in the cafeteria was staring. Even better.
It was Percy who had a hold of me and he was saying something to me but I just couldn't hear him. I tried to listen harder.
"If I let go are you going to be okay?" I finally heard him whisper in my ear. I just turned around and hugged him instead. I wanted my dad. "Alright, come here, I wanna talk to you." I just nodded and kept a hold of his free hand as he led me out of the silent cafeteria.
~oOo~
Percy's POV:
I signaled to Will to tend to Albus, and to Teddy to let me talk to James; I had a pretty good idea of what was happening. Annabeth and I got to Paul's room and I sat James in a chair, I crouched down in front of him. The room was silent as I waited for him to calm himself down. Once he did I started talking softly.
"James, can you tell me why you are having such a difficult time getting along with your brother?" I asked him.
"He's just easy to pick on," he said tearfully.
"Now we both know that's not the reason. Come one dude, I need you to be honest for me here." He just shook his head. "Alright, can I tell you what I think?" He looked at me wearily before nodding slowly. "I think you're jealous."
"Why would I be jealous of him. He's such a crybaby."
"James. You know… You remind me a lot of… a lot of me."
"Myself." Annabeth corrected, though I could tell she was shocked. I raised and eyebrow at her. "Sorry." I smiled as I turned back to James, who was looking at me incredulously.
"You know Thalia right?" I asked him. He nodded.
~oOo~
Thalia's POV:
I made sure everything was good with Will and then I went to find Percy and Annabeth and make sure they didn't need help, and to see what was up with James. I found them easily, in Paul's room—I guess he was at lunch. I cracked the door and listened to Percy as he talked to James. I tensed as I heard my name.
"Thalia right?" James nodded. "Well, she's my cousin." I rolled my eyes. Doi Kelp Head, he already knew that. "And I was jealous of her." My jaw dropped. What? "You see, when Thalia was younger, she was turned into a tree to save her life, I won't go into any details, but when I was twelve we got this thing called the golden fleece. It helped make her human again." That's one way to sum it up… "And when she was human again… everything changed."
"How?" James asked quietly.
Annabeth was rubbing Percy's back comfortingly, though her face showed nothing but shock and confusion. I'm sure my face mirrored hers.
"Well, for one thing, before Thalia was turned into a tree, she and Annabeth were really close, so I felt like… I felt like she was taking Annabeth away from me. And when we had to meet up with my friend Grover, he was looking to Thalia to be the leader, it used to be me he would look at like that." I took a deep breath… did Percy really feel that way? "She knew so much more than I did, she had done so much more than me. So I got angry. And jealous. And I ended up doing something that I still regret today."
"What did you do?" James asked.
"Well, we had been undercover, trying to get a couple of kids to our camp. And… well, I saw and opportunity to prove I was better than Thalia and I took it. And it cost me. I almost lost one of the most important people in my life that day."
"Who was it? What happened?"
"I almost lost Annabeth. Because I didn't wait, and I didn't have a lot of back-up, actually I had none. Annabeth was almost killed. And I never forgave myself for that."
"Percy…" I heard Annabeth say. But he kept talking.
"And even after we got back to camp, I felt like I had to prove myself, I messed up our chances of winning capture the flag even." This was very true. If he had just listened… "And after, we got into a pretty big fight." I'd say. "James, Thalia and I could have killed each other, everyone told us that we wouldn't get along. Annabeth told me it's because we are both alike and different. But honestly… I was jealous. For the first time in my life I knew I belonged some where, I had friends, and here comes Thalia and all the sudden she's everyone's favorite person. I felt overshadowed. Which is what I think is happening to you." My heart felt heavy, not that I would admit that out loud or anything. Was he really jealous of me? The great Percy Jackson? The child of two prophecies, and so much more? Jealous? Of me?!
"I-I... Maybe a little," James admitted. "He gets everything. I just get into trouble. Everyone says he's just like dad, he's younger and nicer." James was sobbing now, Percy just pulled him into a hug. "I don't hate him," I heard him whisper.
"I don't hate Thalia," he told James, pulling back so he could see his face. "We worked through our differences, she's my cousin. And one of my best friends."
"I just get so angry…"
"I know James, but you need to think about Albus. Do you think he is intentionally doing any of this? He can't help what he looks like, or his personality. You're his brother, his big brother. And I bet your parents would be proud of you if you would stop hurting and work on protecting him."
"Teddy's gonna tell mum and dad, and they're gonna hate me!" he cried.
"No. They are going to be angry," Annabeth told him. "But your parents love you. I think when you get home, you should have a talk with your parents, tell them how you feeling. See if that helps."
I just backed away from the door for a bit after that. Is that really how Percy felt? I'd have to talk to him.
~oOo~
Todd's POV:
Percy and his girlfriend… Annabelle? Whatever, they came back into the cafeteria with James. He had been crying, that much was obvious. Al had an ice pack on his mouth and nose, Will was holding another one to his eye, he was pretty banged up. I was impressed that a seven-year-old could do so much damage. James walked up to his brother who looked at him wearily. And he hugged him.
Too sappy for me. I turned to look at Percy and his girlfriend. They were having a whispered conversation. Their eyes looked a little red too. I looked to Thalia, who had come in shortly before Percy, she was watching Percy intently.
"Hey Perce." Percy looked at me. "What do you say to a swim race?" I asked with a grin. "You, me and Ryan?" That would give Alyssa a chance to talk to Percy's girlfriend. Honestly, hasn't she heard about giving a guy a little space?
"Uh… maybe." Ryan and I gaped at him. Maybe? Dang what was this chick doing to him.
"Come on man, you love to swim!" Ryan exclaimed. He only shrugged.
"Percy, why don't you want to? You use to jump at the chance to swim, let alone race," Alyssa asked, you could hear the concern in her voice.
"What are you? Chicken?" I asked, trying to goad him. He just raised an eyebrow at me.
"Seriously dude? I know that trick. It's not gonna work."
"Percy?" Percy looked to Annabelle or whatever he name is… "Maybe you should." He just looked at her. "I mean, when was the last time you did a swim race?"
"I couldn't then what with…" He just looked at their intertwined hands.
"I know, but now you can." Wait, why couldn't he before? What happened?
"Wait, why couldn't you before?" I voiced my question.
"It doesn't matter," Annabelle told me, I clenched my teeth.
"No need to be so rude, it was just a question Annabelle." I snapped at her.
"Annabeth," Percy corrected sharply, glaring at me. I flinched back. "Her name is Annabeth. And she wasn't being rude, she was just telling you that it's none of your business." He and… Annabeth were glaring harshly at me. I put my hands up in the universal 'I surrender' gesture. When they stopped looking at me I looked to Alyssa and Ryan. This chick changed Percy, and not for the better.
"I'll race," I heard Percy say.
~oOo~
Ryan's POV:
The group walked to the pool. Percy and Annabeth had gone home earlier so Percy could grab his swim stuff. He came out of the locker room, where sea green swim trunks and a blue long-sleeved swim shirt. I had assumed he was going to take the shirt off, but when he got into the starting position, he hadn't.
"Dude, the shirt will slow you down," I told him.
"No it won't," He responded. "Can we just start?" He was really fidgety and he kept looking over to Annabeth.
"Whatever dude."
~oOo~
Percy's POV:
There was something going on. Fred and George were asking me all these questions about my mortal friends. When I asked them why they said they just wanted to know what muggles were like, but no matter how good of liars they are, I could still tell. It comes from years of knowing the Stoll brothers. For now, I decided to just focus on this race. I wanted to get it over with so I could hold Annabeth again.
I had worn my swim shirt because of the scars I had gotten from…that place. And also to hide my tattoo. As far as I know the wizards haven't seen it yet considering the uniform is long sleeves and robes and all that stuff. I never really wore a t-shirt with them around.
I closed my eyes and strengthened the water stream that connected from myself to Annabeth who was sitting in the bleachers with Alyssa. All of the demigods and wizards sitting amongst them.
"It will be fine Seaweed Brain, it won't take long," she reassured me. I smiled.
"I love you Annabeth." I sent as much emotion as I possibly could.
"I love you too Percy. Now go win this race."
"Uh, dude?" Ryan waved an arm in my face.
"Huh?"
"I asked if you were ready." He said, glancing between Annabeth and I.
"Good grammar Seaweed Brain! You use to say me and Annabeth."
I smiled, Ryan probably thought it was to him seeing as he smiled back and clapped my on the shoulder.
"Great let's go!"
~oOo~
Alyssa's POV:
Well I couldn't very well say what I wanted to say with all her friends around. Some of them were really scary-looking. Like that kid Nico. And Thalia too. So I just settled for questioning her more subtly, and finding out about how connected she and Percy really were.
"So you live in San Francisco when you are in America? Like, is that where you are going to live when you and Percy are done at that school in Scotland?" I asked Annabeth as she was watching the boys get into position for the race. God Percy looked good, even with that shirt on you could see the muscles…
"No," Annabeth said as she focused her attention on me, casting frequent glances at Percy. "It depends if we finish out our schooling in Scotland or not. If we come back for senior year, we would both end up attending here is my guess." She shrugged.
"But I thought you guys said your dad lives in San Francisco." I said recalling our conversation at lunch after all the drama that had occurred.
"Yeah he does. He and I have a… complicated relationship."
"What do you mean?" She glanced at me.
"It's not something I really want to share with some one I barely know," she said. I narrowed my eyes as she glanced at Percy again, she had started to nervously tap her leg. I schooled my expression as she looked back.
"I understand," I told her, though I really didn't. She keeps too many secrets. Percy shouldn't be with some one like that. He will only get hurt in the end. "So where would you live."
"With Percy, Sally and Paul." She looked at me as if living with your boyfriend and his family was the obvious answer.
"Your going to live with your boyfriend?"
"And his family," she added. "Sally and I are really close, she doesn't mind." I doubted that. She probably is acting like it's fine because she doesn't want to hurt Annabeth's feelings because then that would upset Percy.
"How long have you known his mom?"
She looked to the pool, I glanced there too. Percy was in the lead. Obviously.
"I'm not stupid you know," she finally said. I looked at her, she just kept watching Percy. "Percy is oblivious, I know that. It took me four years to get him to ask me out, even when I made it obvious. I'm not oblivious though. I see it."
"See what?" This chick is weird.
"The way you look at him, and act around him." She looked at me as I felt myself freeze. "You like him." She had a ghost of a smile, and then she was looking at Percy again. "It won't ever happen." I narrowed my eyes. "Even if I wasn't in the picture, it wouldn't happen."
"And why do you say that?" I snapped.
"You know nothing about him. You think you do, but you don't. If you were ever together with him… there would always be secrets. Stuff he couldn't tell you."
"And he can tell them to you?" I questioned irritably. Who did this girl think she was?
"He doesn't have to. I was there for most of it. And the stuff I wasn't, it's his choice if he wants to tell me. I won't push him. But I know he wouldn't tell you. You wouldn't understand. You couldn't relate."
"What makes you so sure?"
She turned her gaze back to me. After a few seconds I fidgeted a bit. I don't think anyone has ever looked at me that intensely.
"Tell me something. Be honest." I nodded hesitantly. "If someone were to come in here right now, with a weapon, trying to kill you, what would you do?"
"I'd hide," I told her.
"What if he was aiming for Percy?"
"Huh?"
"What if Percy had his back turned, and didn't see who ever was holding the weapon. What if there was no time for a warning? What would you do?"
"I-I don't know." I said. "I guess look around to see if there's anyth-"
"What if there isn't time to look around? Say it's a knife, ad it's coming down on him, and you had no time to warn him or look for something."
"I don't know okay! Why? What would you do?!" I asked her, she was not making any sense.
"I'd jump in front of the blade," She said without hesitation.
"You say that now."
"No. I say that from experience." I gaped at her.
"You're such a liar."
"Am I?" She raised an eyebrow and rolled her sleeve up slightly. She had a ton of scars, but there was a big one that really stood out. I looked at it, wide-eyed, before she rolled down the sleeve again and looked back to the water. The boys were almost done, of course Percy was winning. He's like a freaking fish. "Percy was pre-occupied at the time, the only way to save him was to take it myself. I didn't hesitate. I just did it. He would have died if I hadn't." She shuddered. "Look, I know you're mad, but do me a favor?" I raised and eyebrow at her. "Don't throw away Percy's friendship over this. He doesn't even know you like him. It's just the way he is. But he is fiercely loyal and protective of his friends. You'd be giving up more than you'd think by giving up his friendship." She smiled slightly.
I looked at her as I processed all of this. She was really fidgety as she watched the boys come closer to the finish. "Percy and I went through…a lot together you could say. There's really no use in pining over him. You seem like a good person, there is someone out there for you, you have just been too focused on Percy to see it. I'm no child of the goddess of love, but I think he may be closer to you than you think." She winked at me. Then she ran down to help Percy-who had been the obvious winner- out of the pool, and hugged him. They didn't kiss, or talk, just held each other. All of their friends went down to greet them too.
I sighed as I tried to figure out what she meant by he was closer than I thought? What the heck. I shook my head as I went to Todd and Ryan.
"So? You find out anything?" Ryan asked me.
"Yeah, don't worry about it," I told them.
"But-." Todd started.
"Dude. Don't, if she wants, she'll tell us later," Ryan butted in. I flashed him a quick smile, but my mind was still preoccupied with what Annabeth had told me.
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Annabeth's POV:
"What were you and Alyssa talking about? I couldn't hear." Percy was wringing the water from his shirt while he asked, and gratefully took the towel I held out for him.
"That's because it was a private conversation. You could still hear me talking to you, so don't worry about it." I smiled at him. "It's girl talk."
He smirked at me. "Since when do you do 'girl talk'?" He asked. I smiled and kissed him.
"Shut up."
AN: There you have it. A super long chapter and I'm sorry, so so sorry about how long it took, I can't promise it will never happen again, but I will try my hardest to make it not happen again. I've just had writers block for this, and I know I say that a lot, but it's true. Like, I know what I want written, it's just how I write it is the problem. Like the Fred and George part, they had to be more subtle, so it was difficult trying to figure out a way to put that in here. So please review, I hope you liked it!