Annabeth
I told Piper about the call. She didn't even tease me about the fact that Percy chose to call me first,which was what Ii'd been banking on. She tapped her nails against the glass coffee mug she was holding,biting her lip. Her multicolored eyes stayed fixed on the table. I watched as they seemed to change from a hue of green to a mix of grey,my own eye color. Of course,I knew that eye color can't exactly change in seconds,but watching her eyes..I doubted myself.
"Well honestly,I'm not surprised," she sighed "Penny never tells us anything. Sometimes it really ticks me off,but sometimes I just try to accept it. It's who she is,it's who Percy is."
"And now?"
"I don't know. I want to be mad..but...I don't know." she said,clearly frustrated. I could understand that. I hated not knowing.
"How come she never mentioned anything to you about her past..like..anything?" I asked cautiously. I knew how it sounded like. It was as if I was accusing Piper of not knowing her best friend. Fortunately if she did realize that,she didn't show it.
"Now that I think about it..I honestly don't know. Truth be told..we don't talk about that much."
"The past?"
"No. Family."
Her eyes were hard and scary,and she looked away. I remembered something Daphne had said...something about Piper being famous? By the looks of it,she didn't want that. She didn't want anything to do with her family. The feeling is mutual. But if neither of them refused to talk about their families,then it makes sense that Piper never knew.
I still remember the way Helen would glare at me if I went anywhere near to her darling sons. My dad not doing anything about it. All those hopeless nights and nightmares. When I heard that my mom was dead. I tried to clear my mind. I couldn't afford to think of that now. Piper drained the last of her coffee and set the cup down. Just then,the door opened and Penny and Apollo walked in.
"We need to talk." Penny said,after a moment of silence.
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"-so my dad says that he'll bail Percy out if I go back to live with him." Penny finished. Nobody spoke. Finally Jason did.
"That..okay..wow." he said,apparently at loss for words. Penny didn't look at us. She seemed to be waiting for someone to hit her. Fortunately,nobody did. At that moment,the door opened again,and Thalia walked in.
If you ever see her walking to you with her stride,you'd be smart to run away. She had black choppy short hair,freckles splashed across her face and bright electric blue eyes that seemed to crackle with electricity. She wore black leather pants,black combat boots and a black tank top with a black leather jacket over it. She looked at all of us and frowned.
"Is this a welcome party?" she asked.
Thalia Grace left for her little 'trip' the moment the cops came to take the police. She'd been trying to track down any surviving gang members,see if they knew something. I wanted to warn her that it was dangerous,but that look in her eye made it unwise to do so. Penny smiled at her.
"Hey,found anything?"
Thalia shook her head and plopped herself down on the sofa. The mansion is in ruins. Lots of construction tape and stuff,so I got out of there. I couldn't trace anyone." she said with annoyance "So what's going on here? Is Percy still..."
"Yeah. He is. My dad has this..plan." and she told her about the phone call. Thalia looked like she wanted to hit something.
"What'll happen if you go back?" Thalia asked cautiously. Penny rubbed her palms together.
"I'll be alone in the place where it all started."
Silence followed that. Finally when the tension was just too much,Leo got up,huffing.
"Alright Jackson that's it. You gunna take a long bubble bath. You gunna shampoo your hair so that I can smell it all the way from the Empire State Building. You gunna put yo hair up in a bun,and your sis Leo is gunna go buy you a box of ice cream while you watch movies on your laptop so you can cry. You gunna relax and have a spa day today. So hup hup! Sis Leo is here to make it all better!" Leo kept smacking his palms together with every rule he said. Penny burst into a laugh as Leo looped his arm through hers and led her towards her room.
Thalia smirked "As much as the elf is annoying,he has a point. She doesn't look very well. So now what are we going to do about the dudes Percy was with when he robbed the casino?" she said it with so much confidence and casualty that I almost believed that it wasn't a threat at all.
"We stay put." Jason said firmly. He hadn't known his sister for long,but he got the gist;She was irrational and doesn't listen to anyone. She shrugged uselessly,propping her feet up on the coffee table. She looked almost too calm,which made me feel that she was hiding something. She saw me staring,and I looked away.
"There is something though," she said in a low voice. She reached into her pocket and pulled out a black flip phone and placed it on the table.
"A burner?" Piper asked.
"I found it in one of our old hiding spots," she explained "It was pretty well hidden. I hacked it the best I could. The person using this phone called Anubis,Percy and a few others many times for years. I can try to hack it a bit more,but that might just lead them right to us."
"Which is exactly what Percy warned us about." I said "Thalia,this could be a trap-"
"Yeah,I figured. I checked if there was any tracking device on this thing,but nada. Whoever kept it hidden probably wanted it to stay that way."
"Then we could ask Percy about it." Piper suggested. A dark feeling swooped inside of me,and I felt my heartbeat going fast. I looked at Thalia,and I knew that we both were thinking of the exact same thing.
"Percy did rob a casino,there's no doubt in that," I voiced out slowly,praying that I was wrong "But what if we was roped into it forcefully,and then the robbery was pinned entirely on him?"
Thalia nodded,looking satisfied and kind of surprised that I'd figured it out "And then in order to make sure that he didn't leak out names..they blackmailed him. So he had to go quietly to jail...you mentioned that nobody was allowed to see him because of some fight? What if that fight was intentional with certain..people?"
"Wait wait hold on." Jason stopped us,looking worried. "Are you guys saying that Percy went to jail by force? And some people fought with him in jail so that he couldn't pass on the truth to us?"
Me and Thalia locked eyes again. Piper buried her face into her palms. "Oh. So it's not really Penny who they're after.."
Thalia nodded gravely "It's Percy who's in danger. Which is why we need to get him out of jail fast."
Sooo yeah this part was prolly confusing lol. I honestly didn't plan this,but I never planned any of my stories so hehe. And yeah,sorry that this chappie was kinda short. I have my finals coming up so I hardly get any internet time. Anyways,REVIEW!
