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Seeing the Fallen Facade: Chapter 1

I drove my car to JFK Airport, where Annabeth stood outside the entrance tapping her left foot.

"Seaweed Brain, you're late!" she exclaimed at me.

"Yeah, I know but I got held up by a manticore." I explained.

"I figured, but you could have been faster. Let me guess, mortals were involved?"

"Uhuh. Let's go to our apartment, I'm dying to get home!"

I enveloped her in a hug and stole a kiss from her. She punched me, and gods did that hurt!

Architecture was the spoken topic during the ride home. I nodded and 'hmmed' at the right moments but really? I just liked hearing the sound of her voice after not hearing her in person for days.

I helped her take her luggage up the stairs, and her being organized, grabbed her keys to open the door.

The theme of the entire apartment was green, blue and grey. With a few white and cream thrown into the fray. Annabeth designed the interior layout, based on our personalities. We fought over a few things so mainly ended up compromising or at least decided to agree with the other person. Me to Annabeth of course.

As I helped her unpack, she talked to me about the meeting with Athena and the other Olympians, as well of her family and Camp Half-Blood. She said that Travis was thinking about giving a promise ring to Katie and I thought, finally. I already had proposed to Annabeth. Tyson made the ring with the sea-diamond Dad gave me. If you were to look at it at an angle, you would be able to see a faint hue of an owl and trident together. Engraved on the ring, it said "Never letting go. SB&WG Forever".

She wore it everywhere she went, including battles and when she did architecture work. Hecate charmed for the ring to return to Annabeth if she lost it. Tyson not wanting his sister-in-law, to be weaponless in case she lost her knife, made the ring like Riptide. Everytime she rubs the underside of her ring with her thumb, it would transform to a replica of the celestial bronze knife, Luke gave her (but with an encrusted sea-diamond). To think about it, Tyson also gave her a watch like my old one, which he replaced. We now matched.

As a gift from Dad for surviving the Second Giant War, he not only - with Athena - helped us get our apartment, but also changed the spell on Riptide to allow it to change into a ring as well. Athena not wanting to be outdone, made Wisegirl's ring to be able to change into a ruler. I know right, who wants a freaking ruler? It's awkward and long, it's so annoying that you snap it without even thinking.

Annabeth turned around and gave me a look that said, I-have-bad-news. "Uh, what?"

"Seaweed Brain, um," she bit her lip, "Gaea sort of left us a surprise before defeating her...shemadethemiststarttoclearup."

"She made what?!"

"She made the mist weaker, so now those who know a demigod can see through it easier. It hasn't started to become serious until now. The council has agreed to make the mortals adjust easier by the Fates forcing them to allow the mortals to see the adventures of their demigod. Therefore, they won't shun us, but fear us out of respect."

"Why can't they just, you know, restore the mist? Isn't Hecate the controller of it?"

"Gaea is a Primordial goddess, no regular god can usurp Gaea's power over her deed, especially when she was the one who made her sister create it."

I tried to get my head around it, but then again gods are known to be superior but weak at the same time. The sky thundered, and mentally, I shouted back towards them that it was true, or did they want to repeat the Giant War without the demigods? Her, knowing what my dumbfounded expression looked like, game me her famous look of incredulity.

"You haven't read the Iliad since Camp, have you?" She asked but seem to state it like a fact. Which it was.

I rubbed my neck sheepishly. "um, you have?" She poked her tongue out at me before getting out of the position we went into somehow, her in my lap with my arms around her.

"Oh, you'll also have to introduce yourself to the mortals again but with your titles tomorrow. I don't think they'll take it well if the Fates just showed up out of nowhere before you even tried to say anything or explain. I'm sure your friends would be mad for not knowing."

"No."

"Yes or else I won't kiss you or make you blue waffles."

"You wouldn't." I glared at her through slitted eyes.

"Try me."

She ran of stealthily like the owl she is with me on her tail. Her giggles, as I caught her, reverberated throughout the apartment. Our bedroom remained empty of presence as we soon after decided to visit Mum and Paul.


Meanwhile - Drake's PoV

Hmm, I wonder what I should do to that ADHD freak tomorrow. Jackson had it coming for stealing all the attention from the girls from me. He used to be puny and unnoticeable until he came back from that mysterious camp of his. He even somehow managed to be made swim team captain.

Sure Jackson had friends, but those other freaks and those who were in the swim team were useless and so not cool. Jasmine, my girlfriend, asked him out once. He said no, saying that he already got a girlfriend. Yeah right, she probably took a look at him before running away. Anyway, who was he, to say no to my girlfriend?

I'm captain of the football team, I'm way popular than Jackson is. The unfair thing is, Jackson is like-able without even trying, so he's popular but not at the same time.

Having the chance to join my crew and saying no? Big mistake. I made sure, Jackson, knows it everyday. Blofis can be scary, but Jackson has never said anything to his step-dad about me roughing him up everyday or giving him a hard time. Wimp.

What to do tomorrow?


AN: Sorry if this is a bit out of character, I'm trying to put chapters up but sort of lost my ideas for this story. I'm having a hard time of finding how to bring the school scene in. Please review and follow. If you think this sucks please say it in a nice way? Thanks for reading!