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Yes, I did ditch Grover. I know, boos and hisses all around.

Sorry, his paranoia and the fact that he kept going on and on about not wanting this to happen again, it got to me just like it did to Percy in the books!

Well it wasn't just that if I'm being honest. There was also Smelly Gabe. Being the guy he is, there is a high likelihood of two things really happening:

He passes out from the overall stench that would be emitting from that man.

He could potentially freak out, kick at Gabe or Hades emulate that evil movie!

Anyway, I managed to catch the first taxi, and hitch a ride, all while Grover is using the restroom. I just look around as we ride, looking at the buildings and skyscrapers, which are almost piercing the skies.

We end up right outside the apartment, as I then hand the man 20 bucks, getting some back.

I jump out of the taxi and start the climb, a waft of stench filling my senses as I just get into the apartment. Over at the table, his face right towards me, looking like a human walrus, just without the tusks. His scruffy almost non-existent beard and mustache looked extremely greasy, along with his eyebrows. He has almost no hair, except for a combover of three, which just accents his greasy and bald head.

"So you're home."

"Yeah. Where's mom?"

"Working." He grumbles out, scratching the fat mass under his chin. "Got any cash?"

My nose wrinkles at that, almost feeling my eyes narrowing at the excuse of a man in front of me. "No I don't."

At this, (did I imagine his nose twitch?), he grumbles once more, growling too. "You took a taxi from the bus station, probably paid with a twenty. Got six, seven bucks in change. Somebody expects to live under this roof, he ought to carry his own weight. Am I right, Eddie?"

Eddie just looks up at me, his eyes looking sympathetic, but just not enough to do more than say, "Come on Gabe, he literally just got here."

"Am I right?" Gabe practically threatened, though I couldn't really see his eyes well.

Eddie says nothing, scowling at the bowl of pretzels, the other two guys at the table farting in perfect harmony.

I practically mirror Eddie's scowl as I throw, what I think was seven dollars, at him. "There. I hope you lose it all."

"Your report card came in, brain boy! I wouldn't act so snooty!" Gabe growls as I turn away and stomp to my room, almost throwing up from the smell of beer, cologne and cigars.

I throw my suitcase on the bed, and start trying to clean up, shoving Gabe's stuff into a few trash bags. I put the bags into a corner as I sit down with a loud groan, rubbing my temples. The stench caused a mild migraine. Gods this guy really is the worst kind of person.

After a few minutes, not really paying attention as I didn't want to leave the room and see Gabe again, Sally Jackson enters the room. "Percy?" My body automatically lights up at that. I smile and stand up.

"Hey mom."

She automatically pulls me into a deep hug, large smiles donning both of our faces. "Percy, I can't believe how big you've gotten since Christmas." I smile as I pull away from the hug, which quickly replaces Gabe's smell with that of chocolate, candy and much more. I will say this once, and maybe a few more times down the line: Sally Jackson is the best mother in all of fiction!

That all aside, she pulls out a big bag of blue candy, making my mouth water instantly as I start eating it up. She begins combing my hair with her fingers, interrogating me about how school went. I uselessly try and ask her to stop smothering me, but I could tell she could see through it.

"Hey Sally! How about some bean dip?!" Gabe calls out as I growl under my breath.

Sally just chuckled and rubbed my head as I went over the school year, saying how I didn't really care that I was expelled. Hell, I managed to make things quite upbeat even when Nancy was a complete jerk. I did tear up describing Grover and Brunner, mainly because they were the few good parts to Yancy.

When I was about to describe the museum trip, a flash of Dodds went through my head.

"What?" Sally shakes my arm slightly, getting me out of the fear encased stupor I found myself in somehow. "Did something scare you?"

"N-no mom, nothing." My throat tightens up as I look up at her.

She looks over me, pursing her lips. She was obviously trying to see what was wrong, but doesn't want to push it. After a few minutes of awkward silence, she gives me a wide smile. "I have a surprise for you. We're going to the beach." my eyes widen as a smile splits my face.

"Montauk?"

:Same cabin - three nights!"

"When do we leave?"

"As soon as I get changed."

My smile widens at that, and memories appear of the few trips that Percy and Sally would go on said trip.

Just then, Gabe shows up in the doorway, a scowl on his face. "Bean dip, Sally? Didn't you hear me?"

I instinctively hold Sally's hand, trying to keep myself from attacking Gabe. She smiles slightly, her eyes strained, almost pleading for me not to do anything. "I was on my way honey," She stands up and places herself between Gabe and myself. "We were just talking about the trip."

"So you were serious about it?"

"Yes I was."

"And it's going to come out of your clothes budget right?" I grumble while this conversation goes on, really wanting to deck Gabe right this very second. I hold myself back however thanks to Sally's grip on my hand.

The two of them go back and forth for a minute, as I quietly state under my voice. "He won't let us go."

"Oh hush Percy, Gabe just wants to be able to save money."

"By not letting us go."

Sally sighs and shakes her head, managing to keep her smile on. "Don't worry, he won't have to go hungry." She moves to smile at Gabe. "I'll just make my Seven Layered Bean dip."

Gabe looks over her, placing his hand under his fat chin, seemingly deep in thought. "How about you get started on that, and the kid apologizes for interrupting my game." He practically demanded, my grip tightening on Sally's hand.

She looks at me slightly as I manage to breath out, getting a bit of Gabe's BO into my nose. "I am very sorry for interrupting your very important game. Please go ahead and go back to it." I manage to keep my voice straight, and not include several eyerolls in that pair of sentences.

Gabe grumbles out and waddles away, allowing me enough time to calm down. Sally smiles genuinely since that whole conversation started. "Thank you Percy. Now, as soon as I get changed and get that dip ready we can head off, and well you can tell me anything you forgot to."

My face burns at that as Sally leaves. I fall onto my back, a groan escaping me as I look at the ceiling. It really did take my all not to cuss out the bastard for the way he was so demanding.

I start getting three days of clothes together, though I pack a few extra pairs of shorts, shirts, underwear and socks. I frown and rub my temple. "If I remember … it'll happen at night right?"

An hour passed, Sally calling me down to get our 3 days worth of luggage into the car as I followed behind, carrying my suitcase. Gabe growls, still complaining on how he doesn't want me around his car, thinking I would destroy it or something. Ok, he may be right, but it won't be my fault … mostly you know.

As Sally and I climb into the car, Gabe stands at the door, shaking his head. I do the three hearted cross, as I thrust it at him, the film door slamming right into his butt while he was heading back up.

"Let's go please." I smirk at that, trying to hold back my laughter as Sally just hits the gas a bit.

Our car speeds past the city as I just watch the movement of the city turning to a beach slowly. I breathe in, as we cross fully into beach country. "Something did happen … at the museum trip." If it weren't for the fact that we were still on the road, Sally would have slammed the brakes completely. I hold onto the seat as she does swerve a bit from the statement.

"Why didn't you say this before?" I wince at this as I gulp audibly.

"W-well we both just got home, and I didn't want to upset you." I hear Sally sigh, keeping my eyes out the window.

Sally remains silent for a while, before finally speaking up. "That's nice Percy, but you should tell me what happened."

And so I did. Over the course of the mini story, I could see Sally's jaw clench. When I got to Chiron throwing Riptide to me, I could practically see the color disappear from Sally's face.

When we finally arrive at Montauk, Sally turns to me completely, looking me dead in the eye. "Percy-"

Before she could continue though I belt out. "I just wanted to get out of the house a-and well I was so happy to see you I-I didn't want it to get down so quick. Pl-plus Gabe." I murmur the last part, my face turning red, tears building in my eyes.

Sally's eyes, I could see turn instantly to mush, soften up as she hugs me, while I shake. "Shush, shush Percy. I understand. Just don't keep secrets from me anymore ok."

I gulp and nod, trying not to think of the strange situation I find myself in. "Alright. Does, does this stuff have anything to do with dad?"

She gives me a deep sigh, before replying. "I think it does. H-he had a place he wanted you to go."

"A boarding school?"

"No. A summer camp, but I was scared that if you went, well I would never see you again."

"If it's a summer camp, why wouldn't I come back?" With that, I could tell she was scared and about to cry. I shake my head, before giving a small smile. "Well, can I at least visit it later? After our vacation you know."

Sally wipes her eyes before chuckling. "Yeah. Let's enjoy this as much as possible right?"

I smile and hug her as she gets out and heads to the cabin, with me in hot pursuit. We spent the rest of the day cleaning up the cabin as I laughed and messed around with Sally, trying to avoid any kind of awkward situations as I swat away a few spider webs. We ate some blue corn chips as I threw a few of the chips at seagulls.

I chuckled a bit as we just relaxed and talked. I described a few more things of what happened during the year, including the conversation I had with Grover.

Sally rubs her hands together before gulping deeply. "You should have let him come to the house."

"I know." I grumble a bit. "He was just making me way too nervous by his constant muttering."

"And Gabe?"

"Mom."

"Percy." We just look at each other, Sally's eyes shining before I gulp hard, nodding.

"Gr-grover is a nervous guy, and the whole deal with G-gabe being how he is probably would have made him pass out." Sally just nods at this, giving me a deep side hug.

"I understand, but I would like to meet any friend of yours." She gives me a large bright smile as she then gets a mischievous look, attacking me with tickles.

With that, we spend the rest of the day just relaxing and going across the beach, talking and eating blue food.

Eventually, the day ended resulting in the two of us heading back to the cabin, to get some sleep. I closed my eyes, as the feeling of sleep overtook me, I got pulled into a dream.

Once more I was on the beach, a storm raging around me. My heart stopped as I saw two gorgeous and regal pokemon were fighting. One a stark white horse with sea green eyes, the other a massive golden eagle with vibrant blue eyes. Golden blood pouring out of gashes across the horse's hide. The eagle wasn't in a better state as gold blood leaks from its beak.

The ground shook, a deep dark chuckling pushed through the ground, spreading some lies about something or other. The eagle flies up, his sharp beak almost glowing as it flies towards the horse, obviously ready to stab out it's eye.

Right before they collided, a sharp thunderclap woke me up, my heart thudding in my chest. I look over at Sally, whose eyes were wide open and completely shocked, before stating one word. "Hurricane."

I gulped and nodded as a part of me could almost hear a hammer slamming against the ground. I rush with Sally to make sure that the cabin doesn't fall on our heads as a person begins pounding on the door, and a high strung voice yelling. Being the saint she is, Sally goes to the door, with me following her.

In front of us, without his pants or shoes on, stands Grover. He's drenched and panting like crazy. "Been searching all night! What were you thinking?!"

I gulp and shake my head. "S-sorry I really didn't want you to uhm meet Gabe and all that stuff." I blush hotly and look away from my best friend, and his fuzzy goat behind.

"It's following me! Did you tell your mom anything?" He almost shouted, making me flinch a little before Sally frowned deeply.

"Yes he did, and you must be Grover." Her frown fades away before she smiles brightly. "It's great getting to meet my son's friends, but this isn't the time for it." She shakes her head before going serious again. "We need to get to camp then." She stands up, grabbing her bag, leaving the cabin, having me and Grover following her.

Grover looks over at me with a look of surprise on his face. "Dude, your mom is awesome."

I beam at that slightly as I nod. "Yeah I know." With that, we ran towards the car, and far off in the rain a deep bellowing could be barely picked up.

AND CUT!

Well I finally finished this chapter lol. Sorry if it feels a little fast, as I have stated previously, it's hard to make a new story's first few chapters a bit more fan fiction, and I just wanted to skip some scenes with Gabe lol. Anyway, how do you guys like this story so far. So leave a review, follow, and favorite if you guys like it.