Chapter 2

Authors note's:

I know Annabeth might seem a bit (okay, a lot) OOC in this chapter, if you know Annabeth from the books. I just wanna say, a few years has passed, Annabeth has changed but A LOT of this is Nico's own thought, and Nico is not Annabeth's biggest fan right now. So maybe this fic isn't exactly a good point of view to look at Annabeth from, just saying. Please don't flame about being OOC, I know she's different but it's how I want her to be right now. For more IC Annabeth, visit my other fan fictions.

"Come on Nico." Travis said, and patted him on the back. "We know you were looking at something. Just tell us."

"No it was nothing." Nico grunted and got out of Connors grip, who was still holding on to his shoulders. "Just leave me alone guys and go do whatever it is you do. I don't have time for this."

"I agree, let's just go." Dexter complained, like a child. Travis sighed and nodded at Connor.

"Come on, let's go already." He said. "What interesting could a son of a death god be up to anyway?"

"But we'll be watching you, dead boy" Connor said and blinked.

Nico gave up a sigh of relief when the Stoll brothers continued into the woods followed by Dexter. Now if only he knew were Percy went, but looking around at the area Percy was nowhere to be found.

"Fuck this shit." Nico said to himself and decided he could head back to the cabin as well as stand there like an idiot. On the way there of course, he had to run into Annabeth. Nico cursed the gods for his bad luck.

"Oh hi Nico" she giggled. Nico wondered when in hell Annabeth had turn into such a… girl. He didn't mean to judge, but back in the days Annabeth had been cool, no better way to describe it. Now it was like she had changed completely, and turned into some kind of Athena Aphrodite hybrid, and Nico didn't like it. Or maybe it was just because she was all over Percy again that made him find annoying things about her. His Percy. He wasn't going to let her have him. Not again, not when she already had him for quite awhile and obviously didn't care enough to stick with him back then.

"Hi Annabeth." Nico murmured and tried to walk by her without getting stuck in some kind of conversation about non important things. Annabeth didn't get the message though, instead she turned around she as well, so she could follow him.

"Anything wrong?" she asked and looked at him. "You're looking kind of grumpy today, Nico."

"It's nothing. I'm just gonna go…"

"And try to find Percy?" Annabeth giggled and Nico wanted to punch her in the face. "I saw you watching him. It's kinda cute how he doesn't notice you, though."

Nico wasn't sure if she actually meant this as a compliment that he was sneaky or cool, or a remark about how he, Nico, was entirely invisible to the gorgeous eyes of Percy Jackson. He didn't want to find out.

"I'm busy Annabeth." He said and quickened his steps. "Go brush your hair."

Leaving Annabeth behind him, looking puzzled, Nico didn't waste any time of really getting rid of her. As quickly as he could, he rushed towards the Hades cabin to get away from it all. Just when he thought he was safe and looked back over his shoulders just to make sure, he ran straight into something and fell flat on his back, on the ground.

"Oh shit." He said, touching his head to make sure it wasn't broken. "Watch out, you jackass"

"Oh jeez I'm sorry Nico."

Nico looked up and wanted to kick himself for sounding so angry when he saw who it was that had knocked him down. Standing over him, a hand reaching out for him to grab so it would be easier to get up from the ground, was Percy. Nico could see his hair was still wet and wondered why it was, considering Percy, being son of the sea god and all, didn't have to get wet. Almost shaking, Nico grabbed his hand and got to his feet. Percy smiled.

"You really should watch where you're going" he said. His eyes almost glittered like the ocean did on a sunny summer day.

"Mhm." Nico said, tongue tied. All he could think about was how extremely handsome Percy was right now. Percy laughed.

"Oh my, I really did injure your head did I? You lost your speech!"

"No I just…" Nico started, then he took a look around and remembered where he was. "Hey, what are you doing here at the Hades cabin? Isn't your cabin like… way over there?"

He pointed in the direction the Poseidon cabin was located, trying to not sound that sure about where it was. He didn't want to act like a stalker knowing where Percy lived. To his surprise, Percy looked uncomfortable.

"I was just passing by. You know how it is. Always something that needs to be done."

"Yeah but here?" Nico arched his eyebrows. "Nothing interested is here, not for you anyway."

Percy looked down at his shoes, then he looked at Nico again. Nico swallowed.

"Nothing important?" Percy said and took a step closer. "You sure about that? Really?"