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Alright guys, here's the deal. Any of you ever read The Hunger Games? If you haven't, just play along. If you have, you'll understand when I say I've been completely consumed by it. Legitimately consumed. All I can think about is The Hunger Games. Just finished the series, and had no desire to write any Percy for a while. Which is CRAZY. Like, unspeakable crazy. I apologize. BUT, as promised, here is the next chapter :) A little late, but better late than never, right?

This chapter was really hard to write. I didn't know what I wanted to happen. But, I have the next one practically done! Yay!

Percy Jackson/Logan Lerman
Annabeth Chase/Alexandra Daddario
Chiron/Pierce Brosnan
Clarisse LaRue/Leelee Sobieski

Percy Jackson and the Olympians:

The Sea of Monsters

Percy thrusts his sword at Annabeth, but she catches it with her sword hilt. She throws it back at him, and he stumbles backwards. He swings it around and hits Annabeth in the side. The sword dents her armor. She looks up and smiles at Percy, her hair in her face. Percy, breathing heavily and clutching his sword, smiles back.

-fade transition- (the music begins to fade out)

Annabeth and I were sitting in a small boat, docked on the beach. We were putting finishing touches on it. I was tying knots in ropes and Annabeth was fixing the sail. We worked in silence. When we were done, we both hopped off the boat and examined our work. We smiled at each other, and without saying a word, began walking up the hill and into the forest.

-fade transition- (music has ended)

Annabeth and I had made it through the forest and were walking to the bonfire, in the middle of a conversation about the boat.

"...and when we get there, there'll be enough room for Grover," Annabeth was saying. "You said he was stranded on that island, right?" Annabeth was saying. I nodded. She returned the nod. We walked in silence for a few moments. Then Annabeth turned to me.

"So hey," she said, "it's been really fun... working with you on this quest."

I was shocked that she'd said anything about it at all, and I'm sure it showed on my face.

"Same to you," I replied. Annabeth shook her hair out of her face.

(A/N just realized how much I really HATE deleted scenes. I was going to write something here, but then discovered it wouldn't make sense because the essential piece of dialogue was in the DELETED FREAKING SCENE that I created. ugh. Curse my writing. :/ )

"We should be ready to go in a few days," she said, "as long as no one tries to stop us from leaving. I doubt that'll happen, but Chiron's not here to make sure we get going."

"Right," I said. I paused, staring at Annabeth. She was looking off to her left. After a while, she glanced up at me and we locked eyes.

"What're you staring at...?" she said slowly, both of us frozen in each others eyes.

"That night," I said slowly, "when we saw Thalia's tree..."

"Don't bring that up," Annabeth snapped, turning her head away and breaking the spell. She started walking, and I quickly followed.

"No, wait," I stammered. "Annabeth, would you please just talk to me about it?" I asked, frustration in my voice. Annabeth abruptly stopped walking, and I almost ran into her.

"You said that I know nothing about Thalia," I said as I stumbled around, regaining my balance. "So fill me in."

Annabeth whirled around to face me.

"Sometimes, Percy, when you trust people, things start going wrong," she said solemnly. "It's just better if you don't know."

"Okay, don't know what?" I asked. "What are you not telling me? Is there some kind of secret Thalia thing that I'm not supposed to know about?"

"It's not just Thalia," Annabeth said coldly.

"What else is it, then?"

"You."

I stopped.

"Wait, me?" I asked. Annabeth shook her head, frustrated.

"Nevermind," she said, turning to walk away. I grabbed her arm.

"Stop running away from me and talk to me," I said, looking her in the eye. She lifted her chin and gave me a challenging glare.

"I can't tell you," she said after a while. "I promised Chiron."

I pursed my lips and looked around before looking back at Annabeth.

"I don't see Chiron anywhere. Do you?"

"It doesn't make a difference. I gave him my word, and a child of Athena never goes back on a promise."

"Look," I said defensively, getting in Annabeth's face and hitting the back of my hand on my palm, "I don't know if I wanna go through with this quest if you're gonna get all high and mighty with your..." I gestured to all of her. "Athena stuff."

"Fine!" Annabeth barked. "If your logic is messed up because you've swallowed too much salt water, then I want nothing to do with you! I can handle myself. I'll go alone!"

"Perfect!" I shouted back at her as she stormed off. After glaring after her for multiple seconds, I dragged my hands down my face and slapped my cheek a couple times. I regained my composure and took off in the opposite direction.

-.-.-.-

The sun was white hot in the sky. I had a bow in my hand and a bag of arrows over my shoulder. I was walking by a bunch of campers training and battling, and I walked to a group of them who were shooting arrows and random things. Someone shot an arrow that went right past my face. I had to back up quickly, and when I did, I backed straight into Clarisse. She glanced at me, then continued to shoot with her bow. I rolled my eyes and pulled out an arrow, trying to figure out how to attach it to the bow.

"You look stressed, seaweed brain," Clarisse snarled, aiming at a target.

I narrowed my eyes at her over my shoulder.

"Yeah, don't call me that," was my response. Clarisse laughed.

"That answers that question," she said, letting her bow hang at her side. She turned around to face me as I dropped the arrow I'd been trying to work with. I almost dropped my bow. Clarisse watched me with a scowl on her face as I got another arrow out and successfully strung it on the bow. I aimed and pulled back on the string, when Clarisse spoke.

"Trouble in paradise?" she asked smugly, shooting a bird with her arrow. The bird went down with a caw. I was speechless. Clarisse smirked at me, then I shook myself out of it.

"What's it to you?" I asked, raising the bow back up to my shoulder.

"You're trying to act tough, and it's pathetic. I'm trying to save you the embarrassment."

"Gee, thanks," I replied sarcastically. Clarisse smirked at me over her shoulder as she turned to shoot another bird. She raised her bow and looked away from me.

"You know you won't be able to make it back to camp alive," she said, her eyes trained on a bird in the trees.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"Yes you do. Your quest is gonna fail. Hard."

"You don't have a clue what you're talking about, Clairsse," I snapped. She laughed.

"Fine, don't believe me," she said, stashing her bow in her bag. "But I wouldn't leave if I were you."

She walked away, leaving me in the afternoon sun with demigods scurrying around on every side of me.

Meh. That argument with Annabeth was... uneventful :P But hey! I had to come up with something!

Yepp. SO EXCITED FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER!

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