Never thought you'd see another chapter in this story? Well have no fear, a new chapter is here! ;) Sorry about the wait but school and volleyball took up all my time (still is I had 6 HOURS of tryouts today and they continue for the next month) haha. No but seriously I've had bits and pieces of this written for weeks but just haven't had the time. Hopefully things have settled down enough for me to start writing more. But for now updates will be irregular (but when thanksgiving and winter break come I'll update in between brineing and stuffing the turkey)

Annabeth was ecstatic to say the least as the four of them exited the Boston PD headquarters, what really had taken so long wasn't her wanting to fly the helicopter but instead because she was talking to Natali, arranging a surprise for Percy. The moment Percy, Nico, and Thalia saw what Annabeth saw they froze, Percy's face was one of overjoy, while Nico and Thalia's were of shock and surprise. "What do you think?" Annabeth asked with a smug smile plastered to her face.

"It's... it's amazing!" Percy stuttered. "Annabeth did you do this?"

"Natali said that Poseidon gave it to Dru for when you arrived. Apparently Dru gave him the heads up that this would involve us."

"Thanks Dad." Percy said as he stared at his surprise. Before him was a metallic silver-blue Maserati Spyder, with complete cream leather inside and a visible trident of the headrests."

I knew you'd like it?" Annabeth announced proudly as she got into the passenger seat. A wide smiled found itself plastered on Percy's face as he followed Annabeth's example getting into the drivers seat, followed by Thalia and Nico.

When the four demigods reached the hospital they had no problem finding Siobhan's room. They didn't bother knocking, instead they just softy opened the door to find Shannon and Jason sitting in large plush chairs staring at and unconscious Siobhan while Gabrielle slept soundly in another large chair.

"You must be Percy." Shannon said, her voice different from before, more dead like, almost like the Oracles. "She said you would come, accompanied by Athena's Heir, the Huntress' Lieutenant, and the Ghost King."

"You'll have to excuse Shannon, Dru opened the Sacred Link." Jason explained.

"You talked to Dru?" Percy asked, while recognition dawned on Nico's face.

"No, she opened a one way relay link into Shannon's mind. It's one of two ways of communications that we call the Sacred Link."

"The Sacred Link?" Thalia asked in disbelief.

"It's a bond." Nico said suddenly. "A bond Dru shares with all, yet she rarely uses it."

"Nico, how do you know that?" Annabeth asked.

"Lets just say I met someone in the underworld once that knew about Dru. Its rare but it happens."

"If, Dru barely uses it, then why use it now?"

"She had no other choice." Nico said.

"Nico's right." Shannon said, she had now returned to her normal state. "After the Event Dru swore the Sacred Link was only to be used in dire circumstances. She won't break that vow, not after what happened. Not after the sacrifice it took to restore order."

~0~

Kelli, Cameron, and Greyson stood still as stone, not one knowing how to respond to the Admirals question.

"Do not make me repeat myself Parker." Warned the Admiral, Devul, seeing the commotion slipped into the room quietly.

"Aalders, nice of you to stop by." Parker shot back.

"Parker." Admiral Aalders growled.

"Fine. Which Lieutenant?"

"The only one your investigating! Lieutenant Siobhan West!"

"Slow down Aalders, since when does a sixteen year old girl qualify to be a Lieutenant?"

"She passed her Trials at the Academy mid-April two days before her birthday with one of the highest scores in the Academy's history. Right behind the greats; Dru Ambrose, William Peverell, Rheia Peverell, Themis and Joshua Graves, Jason and Althea Hart, and we can't forget Shannon Pierce. All graduated the Academy before sixteen, and all went off to military academies while graduating in the top one percentile."

"So let me get this straight, the girl that we found barley holding onto life in an alleyway is one the worlds top minds, who graduated school at sixteen years old and will now go to the Naval Academy? Not likely, she's not exactly military material."

"Check her logs. I assure you she could beat out Olympic gold medalist."

"What logs?"

"Her data logs?"

"Encrypted right into her tags. Take a look." Admiral Aalders said as he pulled up Siobhan's logs. Specifically her fitness logs. There, in plain view, plastered on an entire wall of screens was Siobhan's fitness logs for the last month.

"Pull up the data from the this morning." Parker told Moreau, the data was enlarged almost immediately.

"Impressive." Devul mused, looking at the data.

"More than impressive." Clark countered.

"Spectacular." Admiral Aalders countered back.

"West told us she went on a short run, by all accounts thats not short."

"Compared to her other runs it is, Cameron go back to wide screen." Devul said. "Look" She said pointing to the data. "Everyday, five am she starts a run and ends at seven, no matter where she is she runs a four and a half minute pace for exactly forty miles, like clockwork. Except for today, when she started an hour later and usual and only ran twenty miles."

"Something happened this morning, and I want to know what."

~0~

Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, and Nico sat on the floor of Siobhan's hospital room with Gabrielle, Shannon and Jason. They had been talking for what seemed like an eternity about, well about everything until finally Annabeth had the courage to ask the question she had been pondering for some time.

"What is Dru like? When you take away the sacrifice, the war, the gods, the Balance, and the warrior what is she like?"

"Its hard to describe her without being disrespectful."

"Disrespectful?"

"She's manipulative. All those things you listed, their what makes Dru who she is. Without them she would be nothing. She can't choose a side, not because she doesn't want to but because she can't. Keeping her allies from dying and enemies from trying anything is the only life Dru knows. Then again, her alliances tend to sway." Jason said.

"What do you mean?"

"Dru loves her games. Yet, if Light becomes too powerful she must aid the Dark. If the Dark begins to reap she must ally herself with the Light. That is the job of the Balance Warrior. Yet, no matter how long she tries to stay neutral, she always leads towards the Light. As much as Dru likes to ignore it, deep down she know the truth. Believing it is just a matter of her believing in herself again."

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