Percy's POV(for a change)

Annabeth found me methodically kicking a stone around the lake at about six. My hands were jammed into my pockets and I could tell my brow was crinkled up. But I couldn't help it. I'd been walking around here all day wondering what was going on. Connor Stoll had broken into my cabin at eight this morning and woke me up to tell me that Annabeth had told him to tell her that she would be busy with a small crisis today but not to worry about it, she'd tell me about it later.

So by the time she got there, I was pretty much out of my mind.

"Annabeth are you ok?" I could hear the worry seeping into my voice as I ran to meet her.

"What? Yeah I'm fine. No reason for me to not be." She smiled tightly but I couldn't help myself from looking her over, just to make sure. She looked alright, same as always in her jeans and camp shirt, just a little more wound up than usual.

"So... what's up?"

"Oh, you know…" she scuffed her tennis shoe across the ground. " Mysterious demigods showing up, before said campers coming back to life, bits and pieces of prophecies coming to light twenty years early… you know- same old same old." She kept her eyes on the ground.

"Oh ummm" This was one of those moments that really sucked for guys. Right now, I had no idea if she wanted to talk about it, or if she was still on the road of figuring things out before she wanted to think out loud. I decided to go with my instinct. "So what… happened?"

She took a breath, and then told me what had happened.

I thought about it for a moment. "So you didn't expect something like this to happen?"

She looked taken aback, like she had expected me not to have my own opinion. "Well of course I did! But just not so soon."

"But why not so soon? Is there a rule that one Great Prophecy can't follow immediately after another?"

"I just expected it to follow the time pattern of the last one." She snapped at me. She had her arms crossed defensively now and her eyes were no longer glued to the ground, but bored into mine defiantly. But her gaze held a confusing hint of hesitation in it.

I placed my hands on her shoulders. She shook them off. "Annabeth… what's going on?" She dropped her eyes again, not in shame or anything, but like she was determined not to tell me something. I used my hand to lift her chin up. "Seriously, what's up?"

"I… I just don't want another war to start up right now, you know for the camp's sake."

"For the camp's sake?" I raised my eyebrows at her.

"Yeah. Things are just starting to get better around here and I don't want another war to come along and screw things up for us."

"Us meaning the camp? Or us meaning you and me?" I grabbed her and pulled her down to the ground so we could sit in the soft green grass that surrounded the lake. I didn't let go once we had sat. Annabeth grinned sheepishly at me.

"How'd you know?"

"Guys intuition." I said with a smile.

"There's no such thing Seaweed Brain." That comment didn't faze me like it would have a few years ago. By now I had known Annabeth long enough to know that she was trying to distract me. So I didn't say anything; I just kept looking at her.

"Alright sure, yeah I don't want another war to come along and screw our relationship up. Happy?" She wasn't mad. I could tell. Annabeth may call me a Seaweed Brain, but if there's one thing I know for sure, it's her. But I still didn't see how she could think a stupid war could break us up.

Annabeth continued on her tangent: "I mean, you saw what last year did to so many of the couples last year!"

"No… I don't…"

She shot me an exasperated look. "It drove them apart Seaweed Brain!"

"Name three."

"Umm… Silena and Beckendorf…"

"Who were brought together in the midis of this whole thing and only driven apart by death. And now they are happily together in the Elysium as we speak."

"And… umm…"

"Anyone else?"

"You've got to give me time to think Percy!"

"Well I don't need any time to prove my point. Silena and Beckendorf, Clarisse and Chris, Grover and Juniper, my mom and Paul, and you and me. Five fantastic couples that have come out of the last war. So who knows what this one will bring? Maybe something even better! Maybe Chiron will get a girlfriend!"

Annabeth giggled, but I could tell she was impressed and momentarily comforted by what I had said. Pride swelled up in me for finally, finally, winning an argument with Annabeth. She scooted closer to me so our sides were pressed against each other. I let go of her hand and put my arm around her shoulder as her head fell into the crook of my neck. Well, would you look at that. This war had already brought on great things.

So there you go! I wasn't planning for another argument but I just sat down and typed and this was what came out! By the way thanks for the speediness and awesomeness of the reviews but I needith more! Anyways, were the characters OOC, cuz I'm not sure so let me know if they are… hey you can just let me know anything by just clicking that little button right there! You see it? It's like right underneath this authors note…. Click it!