Nico's P.O.V

"I don't know why I have to help plan this thing; I'm not the romantic one you are." I said to my boyfriend Will.

"Nico, it's the bachelor party it's not about romance it's about doing something fun for Percy. But, you can be romantic what about the time..."

I cut him off "I had help with that but I see your point." I begrudgingly gave in. "I still don't know why I'm involved Grover's the best man, it's his job" I said but even I knew that I was secretly pleased that I'd been asked to help, I just didn't know anything about weddings so I'd been in a bit of a funk about it, much to Will's disappointment. How could I help if I had nothing to offer?

Will raised his eyebrow at me knowingly. "I'm sure whatever you contribute to the plan will be great, just draw from your relationship with Percy and you'll be fine."

I guess I should explain my 'relationship with Percy'. For a long time I had had a crush on Percy, I mean have you seen that guy? As a ten year old closeted boy I had no chance. Percy's bravery and natural battle prowess as well as the fact he looked like a God had completely bowled me over. I had been ashamed of those feelings, as a child from 1938 it just wasn't accepted that a man could have romantic feelings for another man. And, well when we came out of the casino I hadn't realised how far society's view on that had changed, so yes I was ashamed. Also Percy was totally in love with Annabeth even if he wouldn't admit it at the time which had not made accepting my own feelings any easier. Eventually with unwanted help from Eros, I came to terms with how I felt and Jason helped me see that I wouldn't be shunned for liking another guy.

Since the giant war I had had feelings for Will, they were different to the ones I had for Percy, they were deeper. Anyway I'm digressing, I told Percy I used to have a crush on him but didn't anymore and I felt like I had owned it then, but it made our friendship a little awkward for a few days.

Percy is now like a big brother to me and we actually talk about Annabeth and Will quite a lot when it's just the two of us and he helps me plan romantic dinners and stuff for Will. Percy's good at stuff like that. The first year after the war was harder for him and Annabeth though, they had nightmares of Tartarus worse than anything I had, I guess that's because I'd been unconscious for most of my time there, but watching them go through that was painful even as their friend/ sibling.

To summarise though Percy and I are good, Will and I are doing really well and we actually double date with Percy and Annabeth a lot. I know! Who'd have thought?!

Will broke my train of thought. "You're going to be late, get going and say hi to everyone for me." He said kissing my cheek before literally pushing me out of the infirmary door.

I made my way to the mess hall and found that Will had been right, I was late.

"Sorry I'm late" I said taking a seat next to Grover. On Grover's other side was Tyson, opposite was Thalia, Piper and the last person surprised me, Clarisse.

"No worries death breath, we hadn't started yet" Thalia said using her nickname for me, it was about as affectionate as we got. Thalia though did have a tendency to be the 'mom' of the group; I supposed that's where Annabeth got it from.

Clarisse's P.O.V

I had really struggled to slip away from the construction of the house this morning. Annabeth was overseeing everything to make sure that it was right and she kept consulting me about new plans while she did that. I did really appreciate it, even if it did mean I wasn't able to leave the site for much else – I knew it meant she cared, we didn't acknowledge stuff like that but we had a mutual respect that a friendship had come from. It wasn't like my friendship with Selina but it was a friendship.

I told her a few days ago that I had a meeting at camp and I didn't elaborate on that but she knew something was up. I hated to admit it, but she knew me pretty well, ever since we tried to find the entrance to the labyrinth together when I was 16 and she was 15. She might be younger but I respected her, I even respected Prissy- tell him that and I'll pound you though!

I managed to get away but I was running a little late but not as late as Nico apparently as I did manage to beat him at least. I sat on the 'girls' side of the bench, what did you do for these things? At least with Thalia planning it I knew I wouldn't have to have a makeover or anything girly. I wasn't sure what I was expecting but when I heard the plan, it sounded good.

When Thalia mentioned doing a joint Olympic challenge in the day, I was all for that!

"We'll cream the punks!" I said excitedly causing Grover and Tyson to flinch.

"We'll see" Nico said rolling his eyes.

"Bring it on Death Breath" Thalia said

"While I'm all for healthy competition" Piper said "perhaps we should move on"

Spoil sport I thought - but begrudgingly we all agreed that we would move onto the next thing. Though I was starting to plan, who would be best against who, in each event to give us that edge to win, let's be honest we were going to win.

Eventually we'd come up with a plan for a Saturday two weeks before the wedding. Which was still a month away but we all had things to put into place. I'd volunteered mine and Chris' house for the girls and then Annabeth and Percy's could be used for the boys. Which meant we needed to finish construction on ours within the month but I knew that wouldn't be a problem. Annabeth after all always had a plan.

Piper's P.O.V

After we'd had our meeting Thalia and I sat in the woods talking about the party.

"Something's worrying you" I said, I knew better than to ask, she would tell me if she wanted too.

"Aphrodite child" she muttered shaking her head and sighed. "Do you think truths, is a fair game?" She asked finally.

"You don't think it is" I said and she shook her head, no, she didn't.

"It's a bit invasive for us to just ask Annabeth for all of these truths and you know how she is with feelings, I don't want her to feel blindsided or bombarded. I know I wouldn't like it, if it was me." She leant her head back against a tree and sighed, closing her eyes. She was a good friend, and she had Annabeth pegged pretty well. I thought about it, and she was right.

"Okay well how about we even the odds then, for each truth asked she gets to ask that person for a truth in return. That way she's not the only one opening up." I said.

"That sounds fairer" she said.

"We don't have to play it, if you think it'll bother her" I said, but I didn't think that was it anymore. "Are you worried about what truth she might ask you for?" I asked.

"No" she said but I knew she wasn't telling me the truth, I decided not to push it as she clearly wasn't ready to talk about it. "I'm sure it'll be fine, all that matters is that Annabeth has a good time." It was all that mattered, but Annabeth and Thalia had a long history spanning over a decade, I found myself wondering what Annabeth could possibly ask that they might not have already spoken about.

"Well if you want to talk about it, you know where I am." I said. "We could always ask Will for some truth serum" I joked.

"Gods no!" She laughed "could you imagine? What if it lasted for longer than the game? No think we're safer just trusting that we'll get truthful answers." I silently agreed with that.

I laughed at the thought of how much trouble it would cause and if it happened to anyone else it would be quite entertaining, and I told Thalia as such.

"I agree, but the last thing we need is campers threatening each other with truth serum, I think its best left alone. Besides, a child of Apollo or Aphrodite can usually tell when a person is being truthful." She said and I agreed knowing I was one of the children of my mom that had that gift.

"What's your take on sashes?" I asked.

"I think they're impractical" she replied "there's no way they'd be in tact after climbing the lava wall and it's not like we don't know who the bride is."

"Ok, I hadn't thought about it like that" I said racking my brain for an alternative.

"We could have t-shirts" Thalia said "one colour for us and one colour for the guys"

"That's a good idea, I'm pretty sure one of the shops in the village could do them." I said.

"I think Sally might have an out of village solution - that way they won't accidentally find out, I'll visit her later on today if she's free."

"Good point" I conceded "we also need a list from Annabeth of who she wants to invite."

"That'll be easy to get" she told me and I'm found myself getting impatient waiting for her to talk to me.

"Thalia what's worrying you?" I asked.

"She's going to like this right?" She asked and I knew instantly that no matter how confident she'd been earlier in the meeting that she had a few doubts about her plan.

"Of course she will; you couldn't have planned a better day for her, even the boys seem to be excited for their part in it." I said.

"I've never done anything like this before. Even after talking to Sally I'm still worried she won't like it." She confessed.

"That just means you care" I smiled "we both know Annabeth pretty well, she will love being able to beat Percy at so many things, you know how competitive they are."

"That's true; we'll kill them at capture the flag." She said smirking and I realised I never did hear the story about the time Annabeth and Percy were on separate teams.

"What happened in the game where Annabeth and Percy were on separate teams for capture the flag?" I asked her.

She told me that it was the year before the Titan War, after they'd journeyed through the labyrinth and that Annabeth and Percy were still avoiding their feelings for each other. Annabeth had been in the forges with Beckendorf designing a shield, he'd been building special armour and they'd made an agreement that if he asked Selina to the fireworks she would ask Percy. It was turning into my kind of story I thought.

Annabeth came up with a plan to single Percy out so they would win. And after battling some giant bronze ants and activating Festus for the first time Annabeth and Selina had captured Percy and Beckendorf and won the game.

"Come on where's the rest of it?" I asked and she looked at me quizzically and then smirked.

"You're really channelling your mom" she teased, but I didn't mind anymore.

"Yeah, yeah" I said "did she ask him?"

She laughed "well Beckendorf asked Selina so she kind of had too." I groaned. "What?" She laughed.

"You just managed to make it sound like the most unromantic story ever" I said trying not to complain too much. She just shrugged and continued to laugh.

"I'm sorry that I don't appreciate the romantic side to the story about capture the flag" she said.

"But you're the one that brought it up! Is that why they were on opposite sides?" I asked.

"No, Clarisse and Annabeth made an unlikely alliance because Clarisse wanted to beat the Apollo cabin. It just worked out that Percy had an alliance with the other cabins." She said.

"So why even tell me about the bet for the fireworks?" I asked.

"I thought it would peak your interest." She said.

"Well it did, until you brushed past it like it was irrelevant." I said rolling my eyes causing Thalia to laugh again.

"Maybe it could be your truth?" She said and I laughed, shaking my head.

"It's no fun extracting a truth; you already know part of the answer to. No, I'm not sure what my truth will be yet, do you know what yours will be?" I asked.

"I've got an idea, but Annabeth tells me a lot of things anyway, it's just finding something that she's not told me that I want to know or whether I get her to reveal something to you lot that I already know." She said.

"Like what?" I asked, genuinely curious.

"Well that would be telling, wouldn't it?" I rolled my eyes, why am I not surprised that that was her response.

Percy's P.O.V

Annabeth had been super busy with the construction of Clarisse and Chris's home. It gave me the opportunity to put into place a few things for the week of the wedding, I also only had a few days left before I had to resume classes at college so I had to get things ready for that too.

We'd worked out a way for me to do remote learning from home, essentially I iris messaged into class, so I was present and learning, I did still have to travel to new Rome for practical sessions but there weren't too many of those for Marine Biology.

It wasn't a case of not wanting to travel to new Rome, because we loved visiting. But, we'd decided to fast track our college education; normally a college student would graduate at the age 21. Annabeth and I would graduate early in January at 20, if I could pull it off; Annabeth already had more than enough credits to graduate with 1st Class Honours in Architecture. I needed to complete this semester to get the last few credits I needed, I hoped I'd also get a 1st Class, but I wasn't as smart as Annabeth.

Anyway, because of where we stood with credits Annabeth had completed her course and I had not, and I didn't want to be in New Rome without her. Thankfully, I had a super cool professor who would let me do what I had been doing all summer and iris message into my classes. I had to overnight my papers via the Hermes express for grading but the system worked.

I was quite excited about resuming my classes but I was also quite excited about my plans for Annabeth. I'd managed to catch Thalia and Piper at camp earlier this afternoon and both said they'd help with the spa day. Although, Thalia had scrunched her nose up at me at the thought of makeovers, I assured her that wasn't what they were going for. Piper said she'd arrange everything as one of her siblings ran the spa in the village. I was grateful, Piper knew so much more than me about spas and treatments, the plan was probably saver in her hands.

Which had left me with the Pegasi plan for our mortal families, Chiron wasn't thrilled with the idea to start off with. But, eventually he came around when I promised I'd have constant contact with all of the Pegasi and that we wouldn't ever be far from the lake so I could use the lake as a safety net. I had a feeling only Paul would rise from my family that I'd have to convince my mom to and to let Estelle. But, I'd cross that bridge when I got there. I hoped my mom would give in for a one off experience.

Annabeth's P.O.V

I walked through the door, knackered. Today had been exhausting, I'd been trying to juggling my projects and Clarisse had also been really weird this morning but I was too tired to put that much thought into what that meant. I'd ask her tomorrow.

Their house was progressing well, it was almost assembled and I had taken some time to start working on one of the projects Leo and I had started; safe technology for demigods.

The next one after the iPod that we both had wanted to try was the phone. It was difficult with him and Calypso being so far away but with iris messages we had managed to figure out the iPod so we could do the same with the phone. We'd got a blue print done for how we wanted it to look and we'd built a prototype but we hadn't managed to find away to make it safe. I suspected because on the prototype, we had used a mortal SIM card. Was that the problem the network? How were we going to solve that problem?!

I collapsed onto the sofa and Nightshade immediately came across to say hello. I smiled and scratched her ears in greeting she was such a good stress reliever. I realised looking up and watching Percy hang up her lead that they too had only just gotten back. He looked at me and scowled, well frowned is probably more accurate.

"You're pushing yourself too hard again" he said sitting next to me.

"I am not" I said indignantly, though deep down I knew I was; I just hated it when he called me out on it.

"Wise Girl, I'm not going to fight with you" he said and pulled my legs across his and took off my shoes and started rubbing my feet.

I hadn't realised until then how much my feet hurt, and I really appreciated the foot rub.

"I'm sorry" I conceded "I'm trying to work a problem out and I haven't found an answer yet" I admitted.

"Well, we often figure things out together, maybe if you tell me what it is I could help?" He suggested, and if we're being honest Percy figured out quite a lot of things, he was smarter than he let on.

I sighed before telling him about the problem Leo and I were having with the phone and that I thought maybe the network was the problem.

"It sounds like you've figured it out already" he told me.

"Really? How do you figure?" I asked.

"Well you've figured out what the problem is, and I know you know the solution" he said as if he already knew what it was. Which, I had to admit both irritated me and made me love him more.

"I think sometimes you give me too much credit Seaweed Brain. There's no way I can build a new network that's safe for demigods I wouldn't even know where to start, I don't even know what it is about mortal networks that makes phones so dangerous to us." I said.

He smiled at me, that goofy lopsided grin I loved so much. "What?" I asked.

"You don't need to build a network" he said and I knew he was phrasing it in a way so I could figure it out on my own but my brain was so fried that I wasn't sure I was going to cotton on.

"Seaweed Brain" I sighed "spit it out please?" I said rubbing my temples, trying to clear my thoughts.

"There's already a safe network for demigods" he said and he raised an eyebrow at me, he could tell I'd really over done it today. "It just needs adapting for what you want." He said.

I pulled my feet back and sat bolt upright thoughts whizzing through my brain like they were on a conveyer belt.

"Iris messaging" I said and he smiled at me and I knew I'd come to the answer he had. "You know" I said looking at him "sometimes you're a genius!" I told him and leaned over and kissed him. I broke away and went to pull out the blue prints but Percy's hands stopped me.

"No" he said "you've figured out the problem, that's enough for tonight, you've majorly over worked yourself today, start drawing up your plans tomorrow." He said sternly, if I wasn't in love with him, I probably would have ignored him. But, I am, so I agreed that maybe it could wait until morning, besides Percy always managed to balance me when I got this involved in a project.

"Okay" I relented settling back down on the sofa and putting my legs across his lap again. Percy smiled and immediately started rubbing feet again and I loved that he knew just what I needed to unwind. He was right, he often was, I didn't need to start planning tonight, I had my answer, my thoughts were clearing and my mind was starting to relax. I didn't know how he knew how to do that for me, but I really appreciated it. Gods I was lucky.

~Author's Note~

DasDuke – Thank you for your feedback I'm so glad you had to binge read it – that's literally the biggest compliment you could have given me. I understand your comment about Percy's nickname for his sister but I'll ask you this have you ever been given a nickname by a relative that you hated and grew out of? I know I have and I feel it'll be an interesting development for Percy and Estelle's relationship further down the line.

Calling all readers! – I would like to know what truths you'd like to hear from Annabeth at her Bachelorette party and who you think will ask them, I have a few ideas already but I'd love some input from yourselves and the chance to try and answer them as best as I think Annabeth would! Also what truths would you like Annabeth to ask of her friends in return? Let me know in the review section and I'll see how many I can work in

Happy Reading all!