Annabeth POV

I woke up to yells and I looked up to see I was in the middle of a huge room. I looked around and saw guards pointing guns at me and I raised my hands above my head. I looked around confused and realized I'd been here before, I was in the palace. The Queen stepped forwards and they lowered their guns. Queen Victoria smiled at me and helped me up.

"Annabeth!" she smiled.

"Your majesty" I smiled back at her. She put an arm around my shoulders and pulled me along side her.

"I need some of your help, since you're so trained with your guns and weapons, could you perhaps do a favor for me?" she asked. I nodded.

"Yes my Queen" I bowed my head respectfully.

"It's still early in your time stream now isn't it, you call me Victoria or when you get very cheeky you call my Vicky" the Queen laughed and showed me a room filled with all the items I'd need if I went under cover.

"What exactly do you want me to do?" I asked. She smiled.

"I need you to take my two oldest children north and west, the threats against the crown have grown to be too much for them and there's a safe small island off the coast of Ireland they can stay while it dies down, I need you to guard them until they get there" she said.

"Victoria, what year is it?" I asked carefully.

"1859" she said. I nodded.

"Spend as much time as you can with Albert, I know you love each other deeply but he doesn't have as much time left as you and I'd hate myself if I didn't tell you that" I said carefully. She had a flash of pain in her eyes but covered it and nodded.

"Thank you Annabeth" she said sincerely. "I've known you my whole life and you are always so honest with me, you and your friends"

"Victoria thank you- you always welcome me and my friends in your home even in hard times for the kingdom, I'll love to see more of you later on" I said. She smiled and turned around.

"Edward and Victoria are in their bedrooms, Victoria can't wait to see you again, last time you were here was your second time- am I right?"

"Yes"

"She missed you, she's almost 19 Annabeth, it's amazing" she said. I smiled at her back and she left. I looked down at my clothes and stripped them off and put on fitted black leggings and a long shirt. I pulled on warm boots and a large cloak like jacket. I put on holsters and remembered teaching Leo, Jason, and Calypso how to shoot, my mother was high up in the government and taught me and my brother how all this defense stuff when we were younger then I taught my friends. I strapped on my side two knives and put my guns in the holsters, she had some of my guns, I must have left a few for this. I took extra bullets and packed a bag with coins and strapped it to my thigh. I pulled out a bag and put some water bottles in that had some of that built in stuff where it cleaned to water so we could drink out of it.

I put my long dagger around my waist and smiled remembering using it to fight with Percy. I missed him- he had hugged me so tightly when he found us that I was almost certain he felt the same way I did. I sighed and packed some clothes into the bag then a modern fluffy blanket and pillow just in case we didn't find a place to sleep at night or something. I grabbed some food from their kitchen and packed it then walked up to where Victoria's room was, she was 11 when I last saw her and Edward was 10, they were sweet kids… sometimes. They were very oblivious to what went on outside the palace.

"Annabeth!" a dark haired girl smiled brightly at me. I smiled and gave her a hug. Her brown eyes were shinning in happiness. Her brother came in and picked some of her stuff up, he was more built than I remembered and gave me a smile, his blue eyes locking with mine. He had dirty blonde hair and loved his older sister.

"Should we go?" I asked.

"Yeah, I'll go ask them to bring up the ca-" he started but I held up a hand.

"That will draw attention to us, we're going on foot at least until we're out of London, I think Victoria has one waiting for us outside the city" I said.

"People know what we look like" Victoria said. I smiled.

"They know you when you're all poshed up, I've got some clothes for you to wear" I said. I brought out clothes normal people wore around the city and Victoria had a look of disgust on her face.

"Where's the lace and the under skirts?" she asked. I threw them at her.

"There's none, now get dressed I have your cloaks and I've packed everything, carry the light things, we want to be quick, make sure no one knows that you've left the palace" I said. Victoria held up a bra and looked at me.

"What's this?" she asked like it was a puzzle.

"I'll show you, Edward, get dressed" I pointed him away and he left with a shrug of a bag over his shoulder. "Strip"

"These look so improper" she said once I put her bra on and she got her panties on.

"This is what we wear where I'm from" I told her. She scoffed.

"Good lord, people from the future are so… revealing" she said. I smiled and helped her into her pants. I pulled a tunic over her head and she rolled her shoulders back and pulled the cloak over herself. "But it's ever so comfy"

"Way better than corsets" I said and she picked up her bag. I put her hair up in a warm hat since it was winter time, well late fall, either way it was cold out.

"Edward?" I asked. He came out in the clothes I gave him and looked uncomfortable.

"It's very loose" he said. I smiled and walked forwards.

"We're taking the west exit, where the workers leave, no one pays them any mind" I said and we walked towards the doors. I had them walk side by side with me and I looked down at my boots and then at their shoes.

"Good thing they'll be covered in mud and grime so no one will see how rich looking these are" I said and opened the doors. I gave the guards a smile and they stood still like they always do. I walked onto the sidewalk and they walked on either side of me. No one spared us a look and we walked outside of town. We found the cab and got in, the horses started as soon as Edward got them riding, they didn't need a driver, they were trained, how I haven't a clue. But a man sat out there with them, mostly sleeping just in case. I pulled off my cloak and they looked at my clothes.

"Annabeth!" Victoria said. I just smiled and shook my head then lifted my shirt up and grabbed the dagger and holster. I slipped it in my shoe and pulled my shirt back down. I followed Edwards eyes and gave him a look, he blushed and looked away.

"I have a question for you Victoria, where's your husband?" I asked her. She smiled.

"He's on business, he thought it would be safest for me to stay with my mother while he was away" she smiled fondly at the thought of her husband.

"The baby?" I asked. She smiled fondly at the thought of her son.

"He's already there, with a wet nurse of course, he had to go before it was cold, you know how newborns are" she smiled.

"What about you Edward? Any princesses you're courted to?" I asked. He blushed and looked away.

"The princess of Denmark, I hear she's beautiful, that men fall on their knees for her" Victoria teased. Edward went even more red.

"I'm meeting her when we get to the island, my sister here acts like she's not the empress of Germany" he smirked at her.

"Well you're going to be the king of England, right Annabeth!?" Victoria asked.

"Not for a long time, your mother rules for over 50 years, I've told you that surely" I said. Victoria pouted and Edward smiled. They hated having so much responsibility.

"Will I have more children?" Victoria asked. I smiled and shook my head amused.

"I'm not going to tell you, it'd spoil your future" I said.

"But you tell us everything else" Edward challenged.

"I do not!" I protested. It was then that the horses stopped and whined. I pulled out my guns and gave a dagger to both Victoria and Edward.

"Protect your sister" I told him and got out. I looked around and saw a few men walk towards me.

"I've ne'er seen a girl in cloth like that" a man said. I looked and saw two men with guns in their pockets.

"I've never seen a man so ugly, there's a first time for everything" I taunted.

"Oh the girly's got a mouth on 'er" the other man said. I saw them get closer and I pointed a gun at each.

"If you even reach for your gun I will shoot you in the head then rob your corpses and have my horses walk right over you" I told them. They laughed and one went for his gun. I didn't hesitate to shoot him square in the forehead.

"What do you want?" I asked the remaining man.

"Just whatever you'd got" he said. I rolled my eyes.

"No way you're not going to rob me" I said. I kicked him in the face and heard a squeal from inside the cab. I shot him and went inside. I saw a man trying to get on Victoria. I kicked him out and jumped on him. I punched him in the jaw and saw he had a few cut on him and his gun had been out, most likely pointed at Edward. I took his gun and pointed it at his head.

"Do you know who they are?" I asked him. He gave me a bloody smile and I cocked the gun.

"Some rich lord and his wife" he laughed. I shook my head.

"That's the future king and the empress of Germany, now go fuck yourself" I said and shot him in the eye. I stripped them and took what I could then had the horses run them over. We kept on going.

Jason POV

I ended up on a air base, somewhere in America and I had learned how to fly in a day thanks to having the graduate the next day and now I was a pilot going to France and back as my route. It was the 60s, the newspaper said 1964. I didn't pay much attention to anything because my mind wandered back to Piper all the time. What happened to her- and the rest of my friends. I looked over at the co-pilot, nice enough guy, he never really talked much though. We were taking a break in France and I was walking through a neighborhood when I saw someone. I looked and saw Piper, but she was gone then. I looked at the house and realized it was abandoned. I went inside and looked around. I found a loose panel in the wooden floor and I opened it. I grabbed the notepad from my pocket and the pen. I began to write.

Piper,

It's Jason, I'm in 1964. I'm a pilot and I go from New York to France. I know you've never been to New York City and I just know you'd love it. I really hope you find this because I miss you so much Pipes. I wish there was a way you and I could communicate, but I don't know how, but I do know I will come back here and write more letters, I think I'll put the next one in the crack of the wall to the right of where the letters stand. I really wish you were here with me, or I was with you. I saw you- it was for a moment and you wore normal clothes so I know you must be sometime in my future. I just have a feeling you'll find this note and the next and the next.

I really miss you Pipes,

Jason

I put the note down and covered it. I looked around the house for a bit until I had to get back to the plane and smiled knowing she would have my letter, it might be worn out over time but she'll have it and know I'm safe, I just hope she's safe.

I felt power, amazing power, what I felt when I was near the Delta. I moved closer and found the source in a shop. I opened the door and saw the Delta. I almost cried in relief at it. I found my ticket to Pipes.

"Come on girl, what's wrong?" I asked and put a hand to her wall. She groaned and yawned like she was exhausted and I understood, she had taken a lot of power to get us away from where Katie and Leo died, what if they didn't die.

"Delta, are Katie and Leo alive, is Leo alive- is my best friend alive?" I asked. It purred in a yes and I smiled.

"Thanks girl" I said. "So you brought them back from the dead?" It creaked as a no.

"So they were still alive even though they were burned alive?"

"Hello, this is the Delta voice interface" someone said. I turned around and saw a sort of translucent picture of a girl, my Piper.

"Why do you look like Piper?" I asked.

"I am programmed to take the image of everyone, it just depends on what you find attractive" she smiled. "You may call me Aphrodite"

"After the goddess?"

"Yes"

"Why?"

"Did you notice that Delta is a greek letter, the project name was Titan after the Greeks belief in Titans, I was chosen as Aphrodite or my male counter-part Eros"

"Why didn't they choose someone else, I don't mean to be offensive, it's just there are so many gods"

"Most of them are in other machines from the same project"

"There's more than one of you?"

"Oh yes, there are many" she said. I saw pictures of peoples faces and them stepping into the machines for the first time, all from different times and places. "Over the years, some people seem to just disappear off the face of the earth, no one knows why, but we were made by Clement Olivastif in 2912 the prevent disaster from striking the planet, we did so and were sucked into the line of time, we can never go back to the time we were made, so we get lonely and sometimes see each other but it never helps, I have been traveling like this- alone- for two thousand and seven years before I found you, the perfect people to kept me company and amuse me"

"Why us?"

"Because it was meant to be- you were meant to find Piper and meant to be together, if I had not found you two, you would have never met which would be a disaster for many people, if you- all of you- don't help the people you're meant to then millions could die or cease to exist" she said.

"So we can change the future?"

"Not exactly but a failure to act how you will in some way will destroy the world, so Jason, please, follow your instincts and protect Piper" she said and disappeared. I turned back to the door and walked towards it.