Carter's PoV

I blinked my eyes trying to wake up. All I could see was white. What the fuck? Am I dead?!

"Looks like someone's up!" I heard some shuffling by a tall blonde girl with stormy grey eyes. " I'm surprised. You weren't supposed wake up for another week!"

"Huh? Um, cool." Was all I could manage. I shifted myself up into a sitting position and looked around at my surroundings. The only things in the room were my cot (which is now stained with my blood. ewwww), a nightstand, and a couple of white plastic chairs to my right. Covering the top of the nightstand were dozens of pill bottles and other medical things.

I stared at the girl for a moment, taking in what she looked like. Placed into a ponytail, her curly blonde hair resembled mine. Taking my in appearance, her stormy gray eyes seemed to look into my soul. Gathering my voice, " Where am I?"

She stared into my eyes as if she was trying to read my thoughts. " Do you remember anything from last night?"

All I could do was nod. I lifted up the stained sheets and stared at my left calf. No, that's not possible. The gash on my calf had healed. Not even a scar! How?

" Do you know why you're here and how you got here?" She asked again. I looked at her uncertain if I should tell her my story and how I got here. She seems trustworthy.

" Well, when do you want me to begin? Do you want my whole life story?" I asked. I moved so I was sitting on the edge of the bed.

"If you would like, then yeah. Oh! and by the way my name is Annabeth."

Wow, I haven't heard that name before.

" Okie. My life was great until my parents left me a a park in Houston and never came back. At the time, I was living off the streets in Houston, Texas. One day when I nine was walking in the local park when I met a boy my same age. We started talking and told me his name was Leo," Calculating thousands of possibilities, her mind seemed to come a conclusion. She nodded for me to continue.

" When I told him I didn't have a home he told me he could sleep at his foster parent's house. I would sneak into his room and sleep underneath his bed every night and leave before his parents woke up. Soon after we started this arrangement, I woke up late and his foster-mother caught me and made me leave. We met up that afternoon and he told me his plan on escaping. I helped and we were back on the street finding a new, loving family. Until we were fourteen, we were practically brother and sister and kept going to new foster homes together," I explained.

" So you were living off the streets for five years?!" Annabeth practically yelled. She actually seemed concerned for me; only Leo and Nana have shown that emotion to me. No Carter, Annabeth doesn't know you well enough to be concerned. You only know her name. I thought. I nodded and continued my life story.

" One day, we were in the park and these social workers came right up behind and stuffed us in separate cars. I remember we were both in hysteria - screaming and pounding on the windows - trying to get back to each other. It was like losing my other half. I've never heard of Leo since."

Her eyes were as big as saucers like something clicked in her head. " What was his last name?"

" um... He never told me or forget." I replied staring at the floor. " Should I keep going?"

"Yeah - yeah continue. Please,"

" They sent me to New Jersey, where I my only part of my family is; my Nana. She owns her a thrift shop that is extremely badass." Annabeth and I cracked a smile. " My own dagger is from it. She said it's both celestial bronze and steel. So it can kill both monsters and mortals. At the time I thought she was joking. I mean, I thought the most terrifying 'monster' was the Boogeyman. But that's when I found out I was a demigod. My first monster was a chimera. I also got eaten by the stupid goat head. Luckily I lived because not soon after I defeated it, I heard a voice in my head. I know, I'm insane right!" She looked at me up and down.

" No, not at all. When you're a demigod your godly parent sometimes communicates with their children by speaking in their minds. And since you father was a mortal, it would be your mom."

"THANK THE GODS!" I yelled flopping back on the cot. I sat back up and tried to finish my story. " It told me to head West, to a Camp called Camp Jupiter. At the time I really thought I was going insane! I thought they were talking about a space camp! Anyway, I took a plane out here to California and then hiked here. And by my clothes" I gestured to them. " It was such an easy trip. Now here I am!"

She chuckled and nodded her head. " I thinks it's time you met Reyna, the Praetor." As we started to leave I noticed something.

" Um... could I change my clothes and maybe take a shower?" I had more knots in my hair in more places I could count and I smell worse than skunk spray.

" Oh, yeah. You should definitely do that. Come on, I'll show you the bath houses," She said and became bringing me out into Camp Jupiter.

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