A/N : Ah I'm so sorry for not updating, it's just been a hectic time for me. Planning my own business, preparing the peppers and all that. Its not that I don't haw time to write the chapters I actually haw them written already but god dam it, the spell checking takes me for ever. I'm doing my best guys really I am.

So be patient the next chapter hopefully will be a lot faster.

Blessed Be

Parcy wanted to find Annabeth. He needed a woman's advice, an advice from some on that had this problem from the beginning. Yes there was a possibility of asking one of the Aphrodite girls, but frankly. After all that happened…it seamed to be a bad idea. Annie was cute, pretty even ,so she had to hew people hitting on her. How do you decipher , what guys want? I men yes Percy thought of himself as a guy but he started to notice that men a round women became…increasingly more difficult to talk to. If they just came out whit what they wanted and sad "I want sex" or "I want a date" that wasn't a problem but…after what Luke said...he didn't know anymore what was what. According to the blond , who was probably the only person that treated him normally now, no well raised guy would ask him something so ..vulgar. He also sad to read the 'sings'. What sings? How? Was there a book bout it?! Help? Some one? Anybody …?!

He didn't find Annabeth that day...not until Chiron summoned him, and his bad luck retched the peak, he was tolled he had a choice. Become a dolphin ore try and go to Hades to return Zeus's master bolt.

A normal person would probably decide hanging you're self was the only 'good' choice, but Percy felt a swelling of hope. Hades was the land of the dead, perhaps he cud get his mother out! After all it did happen before.

He newer asked the daughter of Athena his question…even when she reveled herself and promised to help him.

Priorities shifted, along whit his life…he only wondered when thaws movements would stop giving him at list a illusion of stability.

(A/N I'm not rewriting this scene, Dionysus is a spiteful middle-aged-for-ever ass hole, and Percis gender doesn't really mater to him…he dislikes demigods in general not only the boys.)

"I don't get why are you doing this…"Luke stated fore the thousand time watching as Percy tried to bind her hest whit bandages" There still going to show...there not that small, and monsters go by smell so its not like you can throw them off whit you're look "

"Hey, if you're not helping you might as well go harass some of the firs years"

"I am, I'm harassing you"

"Castellan! Help me or go F*** you're self , I need to do this" Percy shot him a lightning glare , the blonde huff's feeling the jokes had come to an end. Hesitantly he came to her and toke the roll of bandages from her hands.

"Hands up" He ordered, starting to bind her hest. Standing still she finally sighed, not knowing how to apologize for her temper , the child of Poseidon decided to ignore it.

"You're really good at this.."

"Yeh well...I had a lot of practice…do usually it involved nasty wounds and a lot of blood."

"Ah…so...it was on a quest ?"

"I had only one quest and it ended giving me this scar…"he spat bitterly" One of the many failed gifts from my father…heh no...I ran away from home when I was relatively young, I had to learn the basics on my own"

"How young"

"Weary, weary young…"

"Below ore above 10?"

"Below" He pulled the bandages a little to tightly. Percy winced.

"Sorry...didn't want to bring back bad memories"

"It's...okay, I suppose. Like they say, the past is a separate country...they do stuff differently there" He tried to smile, bt his ayes hold a shadow of depression in them. Percy felt the urge to lift his spirit. Whether it was the hormones or not, she felt a form of understanding in all of this. In life there are just things that haunt you, things that make you fell small insignificant and sacred even once you grown up . Percy knew , that for him his mother exploding in to tiny golden bits will for ever be that moment. No mater how many years and quests role by , he would always need some on to help him when the memories of that day returned.

"For all it's worth Castellan...you grown up to be some one special...and I think you wouldn't be so strong if it wasn't for thaws trails…you haw a humongous hart, even if you hide it under that obnoxious smile of yours, a little bit jaded and bitter, but big and loving non the less... like my mom...yude do anything to help thaws close to you…and I wouldn't haw wanted you any other way.."

Luke stopped the biding and stared at her, Percy turned and smiled unsure, hoping she had said the right thing. Mom always seemed to know , to say perfectly what you needed to hear, but he made his sheer of stupid comments in his life. And for once whit all his might he hoped he didn't fucked up.

The blond smiled after a moment and toke his face in his hands "You are way to sweet, you know?"

Percy blushed furiously. She made a sort of incomprehensible sound in the back of her throttle. The son of Hermes lend forward and kissed her sweetly.

"So…after I come back" Because Percy was not a bout to admit she might just not com back "Want to go on a date?"

"A date?" He looked surprised.

"wheel yeh…I men...I'm Bi…so it's no problem …unless that is...you ..."

"No I don't.." He stated firmly "I men I don't haw a problem whit you're gender...but after our…night you saide you don't want to do relationships"

"whel…I...I don't want to do…kids…its irresponsible ...but…it seems like I'm going to be a year rounder so…you know…but I totally get if you don't want to"

"No I men...I agree no kids and all that…but I men… you said you weren't ready."

Percy gave a sigh.

"I'm…I'm not...just…we are demigods…do we really haw time to be ..not ready?" She sounded a bit sad. "I like you …and it's hard for me to say…but I always imagined my self whit a girl alike my mom, and then you came along...and I se something in you...but…you're better...I know what ever would happen you would survive, you wouldn't bend down to the gods will and just accepted being miserable for years…I admire that…eh I'm monologin…sorry" She toke a deep breath "What I'm trying to say…this...fells good...it fells right...and…I don't want to come back one day…or…not com back and think …I wished I had tried…I want to try…and I'm hoping this would be something…at the weary list…worth our time" By the end of all of this Percy is burning whit a blush worthy of the forges in Hephaestus's volcano, but her ayes haw a sincere spark in them. Luke was at a lost for words, he suddenly stepped back, dragging his hands true the blond hair, ayes looking a little bit panicky, do he seemed to try and be collected.

"Okay...I men...I se the sense in that…but' Percy's heart sunk at this, he felt extremely stupid and immature.

"Luke...just…yes ore no…" She finally said gathering her nerves to look at the blond .

"I…No…I'm sorry"

"For what..? It's not like I'm going to die of a broken hart? I like you but...we know eth other just...a few weeks...I men…its okay if we don't click in that way"

"Percy its not that…I want to...but...ah…"

"But what?"

"…Come back alive from this quest and I will say yes…"

She blinked shocked. "Seriously?"

"Yeh…I promise on the river Styx...if you come back from this quest , I will be yours body and soul" His ayes softened as he toke her hand and squeezed it gently "Until you get bored of me that is..."

"I haw a feeling you'll never bore me Castellan..."She smiled amused.

It was a quiet nice moment. No Hollywood kiss, no sappy music...but you know what? It felt a lot better than any tear jerking seen ever made.

"I…got you something...for you're quest"

"Hym? Like toiletries from the shop? Ore something?" Percy nodded her had to the side curiously, looking at the blonds back pack. "Luke...something's moving in you're back pack.."

"Ah wait a minute " He went to the bed and retrieved from the bag a pair of shoes...obviously men shoes, and the girl shuddered. She worked at a bowling alley for a month spraying the rent sinkers, the smell of old gum, and sweaty feet mix whit a pine-ish disinfectant was for ever engraved I her brain. In fact he cud smell it like a phantom pain. 'Are thaws wings?" She asked politely suppressing her gag reflex.

"Yes...thaws are my dads fling shoes. I want you to haw them for this quest" He added hesitantly.

Percy accepted them whit a visible shudder. It was a nice and thoughtful gift, it truly was...but.

"Ah thanks...but...I'm...afraid of fling" Someone once said the best lies are the ones that haw an equal amount of truth in them . And she wasn't Laing per say. It's just the fact that…water doesn't fly...it falls...and smashes in to tiny bits on impact. Luke seemed to understand her, he gave a somewhat relived sigh.

"Well…then...give them to Grover…he…deserves them" Is that spite in his voice?" I'm sure they while help you. Use the word "Maia" to make them fly"
"Ah…Thank you...ill do my best to comeback and return them. she agreed…out of politeness.

"You don't haw to.."

At first she wanted to say that he shod it's something he got from his dad, why wouldn't he want them back? And then she realized…they where a gift from his dad, this was probably the best occasion to get rid of them whit out offending any one, for Luke. The blonde despised the messenger god, it did make sense .

"Key…and...I'm going to be nice and not tell every one at camp that the prince of thief's gives something away for free..'

"Hey...I didn't say it was for free..."He laughed puling her in to his arms and kissing.

Ahem…make a point in you're life to remember ONE thing, never ask a woman ore a centaur bout there age. The first one might slap you (unless she's a demigod , then shell file you) but a centaur might just imprint his hews in you're forehead. Thankfully Chiron has the patient of a saint. Even when I ask an abundance of stupid questions. I cant tell you how relieved I felt when he gave my riptide. I know it's a fluke ,that i was probably meant for a different son of Poseidon…a better son but still, it's a gift that might just save my life . A screw it! I'm not playing self pity! You know what? I chose to believe dad left it specifically for me and that he believes I'm going to kick ass, boobs ore no boobs! I probably straightened a little bit to fast motivated by my toughs because Annabeth looking at me funny.

"What?"

"What is going on in you're head sewed brain?" She asked scanning me. And suddenly I felt like one of thaws frogs that you're suppose to dissect.

"His trying positive thinking" Grover answered.

"Whoa...are you a mind reader?" I blink and "No you cant be...you wouldn't haw flunk so many exams if you were."

Grover blushed.

"I'm an empathy most nature spirits are.."

"Really?"

"Yes...emotions are lest complicated and more honest. Emotions don't lie…ever"

Suddenly a though entered to mi mined, I smiled. It seemed an intelligent question maybe it would be what I needed to make Anna a little less hostile to me.

"hey Annabeth you're smart" Always start whit a compliment, that's what Luke thought me" other cultures had gods, so…where they different people ore just the same Greek gods only dressed-up?"

Annabeth closed her book and looked at me keenly, probably trying to decipher how did I mange to com up whit something seemingly intelligent…ore maybe I asked a totally dumb question and I just don't know bout it.

"Whel…ah…I don't know…No...no they definitely weren't the same...Egyptian gods existed...but there...gone now…and the Celtic ones ..they heated the Romans…also the Slowian and Nordic ones.."

"All gone" Sighed Grover. I felt uncomfortable as if they where talking bout a family died in a plain crash.

"Gone? Gone how…gods are suppose to be immortal? Right?"

"Percy...its…complicated, a god cant die per say but sometimes they decide to...go. Before you ask I don't know!"

"The wise girl doesn't know something?" I jested whit a smile. She smiled back but only for a second before whispering something that sounded almost like profanity.

"I don't think even my mom fully knows"

There was a silence between us for a moment, a strange one like all of our minds where occupied whit something bigger for a moment. "Don't overexert your brain swed, it might just boil" Annabeth voice woken me up from my revere.

"Hey..,why are you se men to me any how?" I protested

"I'm not mean."

"You call me names all the time"

"So?"

"So , I'm asking why? Why are you so…unfriendly towards me?"

"Seriously you don't know?"

"If I did I wouldn't be asking…now would I?"

Annabeth sighed I think it was suppose to be an annoyed frustrated sigh but it came out as a 'I just got caught being stupid' sigh.

"You're dad is Poseidon, and my moms Athena, they don't like eth other and for us to be friends s…inappropriate" Annabeth finished as if she was reciting something mindlessly, it just seemed so wrong and out of character for a second.

"That's sounds dumb." Seriously? It sounds like something one of thaws stuffy upper class parents thing. 'Johnny don't befriend the black boy his not from our league' utter bullshit.

"Hey its you're dads fault any how...he started it!" She snapped back defensively, Grover did his best to pretend he wasn't there.

" News flash- IM not my dad-! "

"No...no you're not..." Annabeth agreed "You're…the strangest kid of Poseidon I ever herd of" I can't really tell whether that was an insult or not. So I'm going to pretend I haw a sense of humor .

"I can be even stranger" Percy stuck out the tip of his tong whit a mischievous glam in her aye.

"Doubt it." She said rolling her ayes.

"So nothing I can say will surprise you is that what you're saying?"

" Sewed brain...you're incapable of being smarter than a child of Athena's, it's genetics"

"fine…I accept you're challenge." He made a gesture for her to scot over. Hesitantly Annabeth did and I wisped something in her ear. The girl suddenly blushed furiously and smacked the me whit her book ,but not hard just playfully.

"Idiot!"

Percy laughed, he saw from the aye on the back of Argus neck wink at her.