72 hours part 2

Annabeth POV

Tuesday 1 pm

'Just you wait Percy I will have my revenge.' I thought staring my soon to be dead brother as he slept. It took forever to get the cool whip out of my hair. The sugary substance turned to paste in my hair and here he sits sleeping because he's about to get checked out by mom.

"Miss Jackson your father is here to pick you up." one of the teacher aids said leaning into the room. What? Dads here? I thought he couldn't do that?

"Oh how is that fair?" Percy asked. I flashed him a grin and started strutting out of the room with my books. Out of the corner of my eye I saw flash of confusion across Emily's face before smiling at our antics.

As I reach the door I asked the aid where my dad was and she gestured to the man behind her. Upon seeing him I immediately back pedaled "Annabeth what's wrong?" The aid asked.

"That's not my father." I replied.

The room became so quiet you could hear a pin drop "Annabeth-" Frederick began stepping closer.

"Stay away from me." immediately the teacher moved between Frederick and myself as Percy got up from his desk.

"What's going on here?" Mom demanded walking into the room.

"I'm my daughter that ran away back home." He said flatly.

"I believe you must be mistaken because Annabeth is my daughter not yours." Mother replied.

"Not according to her birth certificate and I have already notified the authorities about the adoption records you falsified you should be receiving a call shortly from the police. Now if you you please get out of my way I'll be taking my daughter home."

"If she really is your daughter than a simple blood test should prove it and until you do you will not lay a hand on my Annabeth."

In the underworld Third Person POV

Tuesday 5 PM

Two guards walked down the halls of Hades' dungeon the first being a skilled warrior from 10th century china by the name of baku known for his skills in tracking. On his right was a man named Rassule the son of a Werewolf and an Empousa. It was these two who were tasked with guarding the 14th level of Hades dungeons the second most secure of all the level despite the low man power they've never had a single prisoner escape. However Boku couldn't stand his partner for one simple reason "So this girl practically drags me back to her room and then…"

"Rassule how many times have I told you I don't want to hear about your exploits! We no I have better things to do than listen to this, this…"

"Crap."

"Exactly."

"No I literally smell crap."

"Oh I can smell it now too." Boku said as he attempted not to gagge "Couldn't you have waited to use the bathroom."

"What!? It wasn't me!"

"Whatever lets just get out of here." Several minutes passed and a man in black Jeans and a black T shirt dropped from the rafters.

"Stupid gassy decomposing Zombies." Apollo muttered to himself.

Zoe POV

Tuesday 7 PM

'I'm on a date' I thought to myself. Yesterday I was having dinner with Trey, the most recent of many. Afterwards he walked me to my apartment he walked got there he asked if I wanted to have a picnic on the beach with him and I said yes I didn't even think about it till he picked me up after school. It just hit me all the sudden that we've been dating. Going to movies, dinners, breakfasts, volunteering together all the time just the two of us with Trey paying for both of us more often than not. This was dating.

Hades I spent all last night worrying about what I was going to wear, if Trey would like how I looked in my one piece swimsuit. By the gods I'm even wearing perfume, granted it's technically not perfume but I still put it on hoping he would like it.

'This is just like what happened with Hercules and look how that turned out.' I said to myself, then I looked at him and the meal he had made and I felt so guilty for comparing them. Trey spent most of his time helping the less fortunate and has always been really good to me. Looking back when I first met Hercules he was constantly flattering and praising me to get what he wanted. Trey has been very sparse with his compliments preferring to make them more meaningful and endearing. He has never demanded anything from me and has only ever asked for my time. He's been far better to me than Hercules ever was.

But he's mortal even if I did give him a chance he would eventually die and I would be forced to live on for eternity without him. Would a temporary happiness be worth it? No it wouldn't be fair to either of us if I were to pursue a life that could only bring sadness. I would have leave like any goddess would him we had a child. 'I need to end things today.' I thought 'Before I hurt him.'

The date progressed and every time I went to tell him he would smile or pause to help someone. It was like everything he did reminded me how sweet he was and made me want to stay with him even more. We eventually found ourselves walking along the beach just talking, well he was talking, I was listening to stories of his brother and how he recently met his half sister.

I don't what possessed me but I kissed him and after a moment of shock he returned it. For my first kiss it was perfect. The smell of the sea, the water lapping at my feet, the salty taste of his lips, the feeling of his strong arms around me. In an instant I changed my mind even if we could only be together for a short time it would be worth it, he was worth it.

Then the moment ended and Trey pushed me away "I'm sorry I can't."

"What?"

"Look I'm sorry I never should have led you on like that but as much as I want it to things could never work out for us."

I shocked and I felt a sharp pain in my chest that quickly turned to rage. "What are you married or something?" Or do you just enjoy messing with people's feelings!" I screamed.

"No you don't understand." Trey said shaking his head.

"Then you better start explaining very quickly." I said evenly.

"Well...you see...you know what screw it." Trey raised his hand and the water rose out of the sea and gently pulled the two of us into the sea and forming a bubble around us as we sunk into the depths. The shock must have been evident on my face because he looked down almost like he was ashamed and passed through the wall of the bubble behind him. The moment he entered the water his legs changed, instead of two legs he had a pair of matching fish tails.

"He's a merman.' I said to myself 'but with his control over water he'd have to had godly parentage.'

"My name is Triton." He said "I'm the god of the deep sea currents and the eldest son of Poseidon. I never meant to mislead you but gods aren't allowed to marry mortals. I should have ended things we started to be more than just friends. There was just something about you that I couldn't help but be drawn to. Something that made me want to break all rules but Zeus would never allow me to make you immortal and I swore I wouldn't be like the other gods. "I-I'm sorry I just…"

"Triton shut up." I said passing through the bubble myself and taking a deep breath just to emphasize the lack of danger the water presented to me.

Triton eyes widened and his jaw dropped "How the water…"

I silence him by putting a finger to his lips "I'm an immortal daughter of a sea spirit." I said.

Triton took my hands in his "So we could actually be.."

"Yes." I replied knowing what he was asking. We kissed again this time only breaking apart for we floated there Triton pressed his forehead to mine and we just started laughing. Maybe it was the stress or the joy or the absurdity of the situation but I didn't care.

"Zoe" Triton whispered "will you marry me."

"Triton" I said pulling back from our embrace till we were just holding hands "don't you think you're rushing just a bit. Immortals like us often have extreme emotional reactions, shouldn't we wait a little longer just to be sure?"

"Maybe." He replied "But I know everything I need to. You're great with kids, you're adorable the way you scrunch your nose when you wish on a shooting star. Your brutally and refreshingly honest. You willingness to tell me when I've done wrong. The sound of your laugh. I will wait if you want to but Zoe I swear on styx and to you that I honestly do love you."

I laughed at how cliche the moment seemed and prayed Artemis would forgive me. "Yes I will marry you anytime anywhere."

End of day 1

AN: Okay so first off sorry for the long wait I kind of ran into a problem with my time table of when certain events were going to happen in the story. The main one being Zoe and Triton's relationship. After weeks of self arguments I made the decision to speed it up to one day instead of one week. I'm not really happy about it as I had planed to take a whole chapter just for this event but I feel this will work better.

Side note I can't stress enough that Zoe and Triton had been seeing each other for several weeks this was just the realizations of their feelings.