A/N: Yo, what's up guys, Rocke here with a brand-new chapter. My outline file got corrupted, so I need to make a new one, but for now, we're going to wing it. I have a rough idea of what was going to happen in this chapter, so let's hope my memory is true. Now to the reviews!

lolXDDDDDDDD: OOOOOOOFFFFFFFF

Ooof indeed my friend.

.in. : Woah! Plot twist! I love it though.

Yea man! Plot twists make the story lol. And thanks! I'm glad this fic is taking off as well as it is. It started off as a stupid idea and here we are! XD

Now I gotta back track bc I suck at actually doing the reviews.

DORKALICIOUS: GR8 till now jealousy to the perfect level though could you have both of them competing a bit harder for percy… it might actually be pretty interesting… But i have a question… are you a boy or girl?:p

Jealousy is hard to write tbh. For me at least. If one of them is too jealous, it makes them look like a you-know-what, or if they aren't jealous enough, it makes them seem like they don't care. And the competition is starting! I promise! :D And just FYI, I am a boy lmao. 18, in college, and a hopeless romantic.

.in. : Love this so far!

This name seems familiar… Thanks lol

ZebraGirl202: It's really good! I hope you post more! :)

I will! I have at least 10 more chapters (not counting this one) to write before their FRESHMAN year is over, so we have a bit of time left lol. As I mentioned in CH 3 I think(?) I want to do all 4 years of high school, then separate into a different fic for college, and then another fic for after college. In total, there will be 60 chapters for Torn, give or take.

So yea! Let's get into CH. 5!

Annabeth

Everyone spent the night at Percy's, all too shocked to sleep. When the morning came, I walked out to the back patio and sat on a chair I found. The view was stunning. The entire area was landscaped to look like a forest, with a small lake/pond, a small area for what looked like an obsidian bonfire, and a small patch of grass where you could nap under the sky, and look up at the clouds, or at the stars. I took a deep breath and leaned my head back on the chair. I didn't know what to do at all. I had no way to stop Rachel from spreading what she knew besides stop being friends with Percy, but I wasn't going to let that happen. Speaking of Percy, Jason turned up last night with a birth certificate stating that they were related. That was a bit of a shocker to everyone. Sure, Jason and Thals looked similar, but I never expected them to really be family. Jason was still asleep in a guest bed, resting from what seemed like a nasty cold.

I let out a heavy sigh, thinking back to Percy, and how close we were, and how I could feel his warm breath on my lips, how he smelt of ocean water, how his lips felt when they barely grazed across mine.

"Ahem," I heard beside me. I opened up my eyes to see Thalia standing there, usual cocky smile absent, showing me a soft one. "You good, Annie?"

I gave her a painful smile and looked to the backyard. "Honestly?" I ask rhetorically, "Not really no. I think I fell for your cousin, and I'm not even sure if he likes me back, I'm not sure if I should act or wait for him to do it, and even if I wanted to act, I can't because Rachel is holding something that happened in my past above my head, threatening to tell the whole school, and I'm just not sure what to do."

"I'm sorry, what?"

"What do you mean what, it's pretty straight forward," I say, slightly annoyed at her wanting me to repeat myself.

"We'll talk about you crushing on Kelp Head in a second, but what did you mean Rachel is holding something over your head?" Thalia asked, looking concerned. I realized my mistake, and mentally face palmed.

"I-It's nothing," I try brushing off, "Your problems are a bigger concern right now." This seemed to catch Thalia's attention, turning her emotion somber. She looked away, eyes glazing over.

"Yea," she said quietly. Last night, Thalia wouldn't leave Jason's bedside, staying up the whole night. She had dark bags under her bloodshot eyes, probably from crying. I wouldn't blame her, finding out she had a brother when she went her whole life thinking she was alone.

*FLASHBACK*

Standing in the pouring rain, was a certain blonde with a scar through his lip. His blonde hair was disheveled all over his head, and his eyes looked as if he was crying. He was leaning against the wall outside, looking as if he was sick.

"Jason?" I ask aloud, unsure how or why he was at our place. He just gave me a somber grin and chuckled inwardly slightly.

"Hey, cousins," he said, looking at me and Nico before he met Thalia dead in the eyes, "Hiya, sis." He gave us a quick smile before he passed out, falling unconscious on our floor.

"Holy crap!" Nico yelled, trying to help Jason up. I had jumped to his other said and helped drag our new "cousin" to the couch to prop him up.

"What the hell?" Will exclaimed, jumping up, turning into doctor mode. Nico explained what had happened while I listened, pushing my long black hair back, holding both hands above my head. I turn and looked at Thalia, but she was holding a piece of paper, staring at it with wide eyes. She met my eye site, and before I could even ask, she started crying – Thalia never cries, so this had to be something crazy – and faced the paper towards us. Luke, Annabeth and I all gathered around to read it. Upon closer inspection, we realized it was a birth certificate – okay, Annabeth saw it, I completely breezed past it. We read through it till we got to the names that had signed off on it. His mother was Julia Grace, and his father was Zeus Olympiad…

"He's really our family," Thalia said, still crying, in utter shock. I looked up from the paper and back at Thalia. Her expression showed everything I needed to know about how she was doing. She looked as if everything she took as true was Torn in half. Little did we know, but this would be the last time our family was ever normal again…

*END FLASHBACK*

"How's he doing?" I asked. Thalia gave a small grin, still looking towards the backyard.

"Resting," she said, putting it simply, "Doctor Solace said he should be alright." I snorted at the silly nickname. Remarkably through all of this, Will acted as if he had been in the medical field for years, but that couldn't be, he was our age. I shook the idea out of my head. "What about you?" I asked, slightly afraid of the answer. Thalia looked up at me, and I understood.

Her eyes were watery, bloodshot, and had black bags hanging under them. It looked as if she had forgotten to take her makeup off last night. I stood up and put my arms around her. As tough as Thals was, even she needed to cry every now and then. A few seconds later, I hear soft sobs pour into my shoulder, letting every emotion she had bottled up out. I sighed, expecting this year to get a whole lot more complicated…

PERCY

I sat up from my bed, hair disheveled and tired with a killer head ache. My head had started hurting after hearing about Jason being family and staying up so late. I took a deep breath and get up, dreading the day to come. I look into the mirror and look myself up and down. I had on a blue v-neck, and a pair of white gym shorts. I shrug, then head down stairs. When I get into the living room, I see Will sitting at the coffee table with a small notebook, and a pencil, sketching god knows what. Next to him, I see Nico reading a book. I can't tell what the book is, but knowing that kid, it's probably something demented. I shudder at what it could be.

A little further into the room, I see Luke still asleep in one of the chairs. At first glance, he looks like he could be awake, but his light snore betrays him. The way his things are positioned, it looks as if he was ready to leave at a moment's notice. Aside from how neat it was, it seemed as if he learned how to do this from experience, as if running away was a common occurrence. I took that in and was immediately sad.

I walked into the kitchen to get some juice then made my way back upstairs. When I walked through the hall, I couldn't help but look into the guest room and see Jason. I had no idea what Thalia must be feeling. I always knew I had siblings on my dad's side, so this was completely new to me. I did know that I was going to need to talk to our fathers and see what exactly is going on here.

I got into my room and hopped onto my laptop. I immediately went onto my favorite platform, Soundcloud. It was funny, whenever I told people I used it, they thought I was a rapper. Thankfully, I stayed away from that path. Something about rapping about girls, drugs, and money never seemed to excite me.

I went to my account, Broken at Best, and looked at some of the comments on my music. Most of it was positive, which I was thankful for, yet one person said that he could do better. I smirked inwardly at this.

I clicked off the site and went to check my email. In it were a few emails about random things, forums I had been on, and a few from friends I met. I responded to a few of them, then decided to check my bank account. I logged on and saw my three account statuses. The account linked to my fathers had so many numbers, I didn't put the time into counting it out completely. My personal checking account had roughly $200, and my personal savings had a little over $3,000. I was proud. It took me a bit to actually save all of that up.

I closed my laptop, and went to my closet, thinking about what I would wear. Today was gonna be a lax day, so I decided to wear a pair of black sweats, and a blue hoodie. I took a shower last night, so I was gonna skip for now. That, and I know it takes a bit for the warm water to heat, so I'm going to let the others go first. I put my clothes on and head back down stairs for real this time. By now, Luke was up.

"Morning y'all," I say, raising a hand while I walk past. Nico puts his middle finger up, not really the morning person. Will flashes a quick smile, and Luke decides to follow me.

"Morning dude," he says, slipping his jacket on. Luke looked like it was the first night he got real sleep in a while. I gave him a smile. "Could I get a ride home later?" he asked, as he didn't have a car at the time.

"Yea man," I start, "What time did you want to go?"

"Whenever, I just need to be home tonight."

"Dope," I say, excited to hang out with my friends for a while today, "we'll head home later today then." Luke nodded then sat down at the table, hanging out with me for a little bit. "Hey, where are Thals and Annabeth?" I ask curiously. It had come to my realization that neither of them could be found, and I was worried about Thalia.

"Well," Luke started, leaning back into his chair, "Thalia had gone outside, and I'm pretty sure your girlfriend was out there too."

"Oh, alright," I say, continuing to pull out stuff for breakfast when what he had said hit me, "WAIT WHAT?!" I half screamed the last part, making Will and Nico look up from what they were doing while Luke was laughing his head off. I instantly feel my face flush red.

"I'm just kidding man," he said, wiping a tear away, "But honestly, go for it."

"I don't know man," I start, blush slowly fading, but still remaining lightly prominent, "I don't think she likes me. You saw how she reacted when we had to kiss for the dare."

"Dude, she's crazy for you!"

"I don't know man-" I start but get pegged in the head by a pencil. I look down and realized it was the pencil Will was working with. I look up at him and he's making direct eye contact.

"Do it Perce," he says with a bright smile, "Anyone can see that she likes you, and that you like her." He then stood up, walked over, then handed me a piece of paper. On it was a sketch of Annabeth and I, overlooking a sunset. I looked at him, but he only winked. I gave him a warm smile, and then nodded. It was going to happen today.

"Alright," I said, surrendering finally, leading Luke and Will to cheer, even Nico in his grumpiness gave me a smile, "Now who wants breakfast?"

JASON

I opened my eyes to a white ceiling that wasn't mine. I sat up and instantly wanted to pull out my eyes. My contacts had dried up, and I didn't have my glasses. Typical.

I looked around the room I was in and was in a slight awe. The room was painted white and had a black décor around it. Black night stands, black desk, black laptop, black bed sheets. Besides being so simple, it looked quite elegant. I stood up and looked in the nearby mirror (that was also black mind you), and realized I wasn't wearing what I had remembered being in.

I was in a light blue V-Neck, and a pair of black gym shorts. My hair looked like I had passed out with my hair wet, not even drying it... Oh wait.

*FLASHBACK*

"Hey, cousins," I said, looking at Percy and Nico before I met Thalia dead in the eyes, "Hiya, sis." I gave us a quick smile before I passed out, falling unconscious on our floor.

*END FLASHBACK*

So, I thought, this is what their house looks like? I didn't want to think about the fight I had with my mom and dad last night, so I decided to go exploring a little bit. I ended up piecing the rooms together, finding Thalia's to be the one with electric decals, Nico's to be the room with a skull on the door, not bothering to enter that one, and Percy's to be the one painted blue, giving similar vibes to a beach. I even found a game room!

I decided after my adventures that I would go down to the living room to find some form of life. I made it down to the living room where I heard cheers. I made it down stairs to find Percy at the kitchen, ingredients around him, Luke and Will cheering, and Nico smiling. At the sliding glass door, Annabeth and Thalia had started to walk back in. They both looked like they had just poured their souls out to each other.

"Now who wants breakfast?" I heard Percy say. I saw everyone raise their hands, save Nico and Thalia. They decided to help their – er – our cousin.

"Enough for 7?" I ask, making my presence known. Any happy mood that was present had disappeared…

PERCY

I had cooked eggs, bacon, and toast, yet no one seemed willing to eat it but Nico and Thalia, and even they seemed to barely pick at it.

"Soooo, no one is hungry?" I asked aloud, wondering why no one was going to eat.

"It's not that we aren't hungry Seaweed Brain," Annabeth said, with a kind smile, "We just don't know if it's safe." I was thoroughly confused at this point. Then I remembered that food typically isn't blue.

"I promise," I start with a light chuckle, "that you won't die. It's an old tradition with my mom." Everyone still seemed hesitant, but one person decided to brave the blue barrage of food.

"Well," Jason started, attracting everyone's attention, "If you say I won't die, then I trust you. What else is family for right?" The word family seemed to echo, but I didn't pay that any mind. I was watching, as was everyone else, Jason's face to see his reaction.

He picked up his fork, and stabbed, some eggs. He raised it up, inspecting it, trying to find any hint of poison in it. He gave me a look, but I only returned it with a smile. He gave a weak one, then looked back to the eggs. He gave a big gulp, closed his eyes, then plunged the fork into his mouth like a roller coaster plunges downwards. After a few chews, his eyes opened. He then quickly stabbed a sausage, and grabbed a piece of toast, eating the two. After he ate the three, he looked up at the group, eyes wide.

"Never in my life," he started, looking at the entire group, "had such a great breakfast."

I fist pumped, and looked at everyone else, waiting for them to try it. I must have looked smug, because Annabeth stuck her tongue out at me. Even this small gesture made me blush ever so slightly. I watched her repeat near the same process that Jason had, eating the eggs.

"Woah," she said, apparently shocked, "This is really good, Perce!" With Annabeth's survival, everyone else had deemed it safe for consumption, and had very similar reactions. Needless to say, I felt like Gordon Ramsay today.

"Alright," Thalia started, dropping her fork, looking directly at Jason, "It's time to talk. How did you find out you were our family? And how did you find out where we lived?" Leave it to Thalia to be straight to the point.

"To be honest," Jason started, setting his fork down, "I was looking at family pictures, and I realized they didn't have any from the hospital, any baby shower pictures, anything. It was like I came out of nowhere." Jason had a somber look on his face, recollecting everything he had gone through the previous day.

"I had asked my mom about it, and she said not to worry about it, and that they were tucked in the attic. When I said I'd get them down, she basically panicked. My dad wasn't much help either. When they went to bed, I went to the safe and pulled out my birth certificate, and there it was, a name that wasn't mine. I remember your last name being Grace, and I'm an office TA so I have a log in. That's where I got the address."

"Woah woah woah," I interrupt, "The Jason, the rule pushing guy who hasn't had a single detention hacked a school site to find our address against our wills?"

"Uhhh…" he said, looking around, unsure if we would rat him out or not, "desperate times?"

It was silent for a little bit after this. Everyone was in shock that he broke the rules. All of a sudden, Luke starts laughing. The entire gang follows suit. Jason visibly relaxes, letting out a heavy sigh, then laughing with everyone.

"Well then," Thalia says after the laughing dies down, a fire prominent in her eyes, "Let's call dear old dad then, shall we?"

Everyone kinda sweat drops, even Jason looks nervous. Nico and I have dealt with our fathers and uncles before, so we aren't too afraid, but it's not typically an occasion we like to have.

"I'll make the call," I say about to stand up, but Thalia stops me.

"No," she says, fully standing up, giving me a sweet smile, something she never does, "I got this." She walked into another room to make the call. I take this opportunity to talk to the others.

"Y'all can stay for a bit longer right?" I ask, "This'll be a show you don't want to miss."

Everyone nods, waiting for the upcoming battle to happen…

"Thalia?" Zeus calls out, walking through the door. Behind him should be Poseidon and Hades. Having the big three in one spot is always a rare occurrence.

"Percy?" my father shouts as well. The only other person who has yet to say anything is-

"Nico? Where are you three?" Hades says.

"Living room," Thalia calls out. I look to her, making sure she was ready for this to happen. She only offered me a nod. I gave a sigh and mentally prepared for this.

"Oh, hello," Zeus said, seeing us and our friends, "When you called I wasn't expecting you to have friends over."

"Yea," she says, "We had a sleep over last night. I want you to meet Luke, Annabeth, and Will."

"Nice to meet you all, I'm Poseidon, Percy's father," my dad introduces. He's wearing a Hawaiian shirt, and a pair of casual jeans. He has black hair and a thick black beard. His eyes were a piercing green-blue color, much like mine, but much deeper.

"Hades," Nico's dad introduces, shaking hands with everyone, "I'm Nico's father. If one of you could help him wear something other than black, that would be amazing." Hades himself was wearing a black suit with a gold tie. He also had long black hair and a beard, but his beard seemed a bit thinner than Poseidon's.

"Dad!" Nico exclaims, blushing obviously. Nico hated comments about his fashion sense.

"I'm Zeus," Thalia's father proclaims, but not shaking hands with anyone, "And Thalia, I think you forgot to introduce one of your friends. The blonde one back there?" Zeus is pointing at Jason, who is standing with his fist clenched, and jaw tight. If I didn't know any better, he was about to hit his father.

"Oh, you don't know him?" Thalia asks, smile faltering a little bit, making Zeus's face turn confused, "I would have thought you would recognize your son." Zeus's eyes widened, eyebrows furrowed. If there was ever a shocked man, Zeus was it.

"I'm sorry?" he said, emotions flaring. His eyes turned sharp, ready to electrocute everyone in his path.

"You heard me, dad," Thalia said, matching Zeus's tenacity. Me and Nico exchanged looks, ready for anything to happen.

"Percy, what are these accusations about?" Poseidon asked aloud, not taking his eyes off of his brother. Poseidon was always the calmest of the three, and he knew of his brother's quick temper.

"Trust me," I start, "they aren't unfounded." I was watching Zeus's every move. Thalia and Zeus fought often, so this was no rare occasion.

"Nicolas, is this true?" Hades had asked, sparing his eyes from his brother. Nico did much the same, peering at his father.

"Unless his parents carried a forged birth certificate," Nico started, pretending to think about it for a second, "Then yes, it's real."

"Lies!" Zeus said, making all of our friends nervous, "I don't have a son!"

"His birth certificate says otherwise!" Thalia shouted, "You and mom took my brother from me!"

"Don't talk to me like that!"

"Make me!"

Thalia charged Zeus at the same moment Zeus stepped forward towards Thalia, but we were too quick. I instantly had my arms around Thalia, Nico standing in front of us, stopped Zeus from advancing, meeting face to face with Hades blocking us from Zeus who was being held in a head lock by Poseidon.

"Stop!" Jason yelled. We all turned to him and realized what was going on. "Family isn't supposed to fight like this! A family is accepting, a family is caring, not fighting, not toxic to one another!" His fist was white from how tight he was clenching it. He walked in between Thalia and Zeus, Nico and Hades stepping aside.

"You," he says, pointing at Thalia, "Your – er – our dad made a mistake, is that really something you're going to throw fists about?" Thalia shook herself out of my arms, then looked to the side, not meeting Jason's eye line.

"And you," he starts, looking at Zeus, "I didn't come for money, I didn't come for any of your wealth, I came to find my real family. I came to feel what it was like to not question why your parents had brown hair and why I was blonde. Why they were short but I'm nearly six feet tall. I didn't come for your riches, I came for my family to accept me. If I knew it would have caused this, I would have stayed in my adoptive family."

"Maybe you should have," Zeus said coldly, "You may have my blood, but you'll never be my son."

"Zeus!" Me and Nico yell, angry.

"Brother!" Poseidon and Hades shout, trying to reason with their brother.

"No," Jason says, calming the present storm, but not hiding the one in his eyes, "If he doesn't want me, that's fine. He doesn't have to accept the fact that his mistake caught up to him. I at least had the guts to run straight into the fire."

"Why you insolent little-" Zeus started, breaking free from Poseidon's grasp, charging at Jason. I put myself in between them, Nico following suit. "You dare step to me?" he screams.

"Listen papa spark," Nico says, rolling his wrist, "Either you leave by choice, or we make you."

Poseidon grasped Zeus's shoulder tightly, Hades doing much the same, practically pulling him out.

"I'm sorry about him, I'll get it sorted out Nephew," Poseidon says while dragging Zeus out.

"It's nice to have you, Jason," Hades said with a cold, yet caring smile, "As much as Thalia is my favorite niece, it is glad to have another nephew around here."

"Hey!" I exclaim.

"You know I didn't forget about you, Percy."

Five minutes go by, and they evacuate, leaving our group alone at the house. Annabeth looks like she saw world war three break out, Luke looks like he's ready to fight, hand occasionally grazing over his pocket knife, Will looks cautiously at Nico, trying to make sure he was okay. Nico is sitting at the table, hands intertwined, resting his chin on them, Thalia was pacing, and I was sitting on the couch, looking at the ceiling. No one could tell what Jason was feeling. He looked both mad, sad, and calm at the same time.

Jason looked up from his thoughts, eyes clearing slightly. "Anyone want to go to the mall? I could use something to cheer up."

Everyone had looked around at each other and nodded. Everyone could use the same. Thalia decided to split everyone up into different cars, Luke with herself, Nico and Will, Jason borrowed a car our dads left for us just in case one of ours broke down, and I drove with Annabeth. After we got that situated, we hit the road…

We were in the car, around halfway there, sitting in a deafening silence. I looked at Annabeth, but she was staring out the window. I turned on some light music in the background just to make some noise. I turn to look at Annabeth one more time, then back to the road. I took in a deep breath, then let out a heavy sigh.

"Can I ask you something?" I question aloud, starting to drive again. Annabeth looked at me with a curious look.

"Only if I can ask you a question too."

"Sure, why not?" I say jokingly. I pull off to the side of the road and park, wanting to be able to look at her when I asked. "Luke and Will and Nico and Jason say that you like me and I just wanted to clear the air and see if-" I start, but get interrupted.

"Yes."

"Gotcha, I knew you didn't, I just want-" I start before realizing what she had said, "Wait, what?"

"Yes, I like you Percy. I've liked you since the moment I looked into those sea green eyes, and it killed me to hurt you like I did." Annabeth looked at me as if she hadn't just confessed a deep secret. Like she didn't care if I knew or not.

"Oh," I said, unsure of what to say. Was it my turn?

"Now for my question," she started, looking down slightly, not meeting my eyeline, "Do you like me?"

I put my finger under her chin and lifted up her face so that she was looking at me. We sat there, staring into each other's eyes. My sea green against her stormy grey. Two window panes made in two different factories meeting to create a mosaic of colors. I was about to open my mouth to talk, but I was interrupted by a pair of somewhat familiar lips crashing onto mine. I looked to see what happened, and was met by Annabeth's closed eyes, shut in a determined fashion. I smiled inwardly, and joined into the kiss.

I took it all in. Her lips, her scent, her passion. I let myself lose everything I had. My resolve, my act of being strong in current crappy situation I was in, it all washed away. Any feelings I had for her before? They were doubled, magnified by a catalyst of emotions, creating dependence, an addiction to this. After what felt like an eternity of pure bliss, we pulled away from each other.

We were breathing hard, unsure of where to move on. We both looked at each other again, but it was different. It wasn't filled with fear of messing whatever had up. It wasn't filled with pain or drama. It was… easy. It was as if every worry or doubt we had about each other was cleared. I gave a light chuckle, then turned back to the road with a big smile on my face.

"Before I was interrupted," I start, making Annabeth laugh lightly, "I was going to say yes. There was no doubt in my mind that I liked you."

"I'm glad," Annabeth said, letting out a breath I'm not sure she even knew she was holding, "I thought I ruined everything."

"Nah, we're good," I say giving her a bright smile, "Uh, does this mean we're dating now? Because if so, I need to take you on a date, and meet your parents and-" I still had a few more items on my list, but I was silenced by Annabeth's lips recapturing mine. She pulls away a moment later, not wanting to have the kiss continue into something more.

"I'll take that as a yes," I say with a small smirk. Annabeth rolls her eyes but keeps a smile on her face.

I pull back onto the road, but the rest of the way, our hands are intertwined, sitting in a comfortable silence. I guess I finally got my Wise Girl.

A/N: SO, I'M SORRY! It's been like, 30 days I'm pretty sure. I've been hitting writers block recently, and shit's been happening in life. I broke up with my girlfriend of 3 years, making this chapter especially hard to write, I lost a family member, and I lost a good friend to suicide. I've been through the loop this December. But, here we are! I promise to make the next chapter sooner!

I thank everyone who checked up on me, and everyone who stuck with the story, and want to say thank you all for all the support!

Much love and Happy New Years!

~Rocke