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"Are you sure?" Hades asked, cocking his eyebrows. Persephone looked at me, her mouth slightly ajar.

Suddenly, memories flooded into my mind. Annabeth smiling at me, calling me seaweed brain, hitting the back of my head. Bittersweet memories. My eyes stung with tears. Thalia's face when she wasn't a tree anymore, her courage, her words when she told me she loved me. And then Grover. Knowing him, he'd probably blame himself for everything while I sat in the underworld, laughing and playing forever in the Fields of Elysium.

"Then it shall"-

"No! Wait!" I cried out. "I'll do it! I'll go back to Earth. I accept your offer,"

Hades and Persephone looked pleased.

"You understand the rules?" Persephone asked.

"Yes,"

"Repeat them to me,"

"Every day that I am on the earth is equal to a year. If I stay on the earth for twenty days, I have to serve you for twenty years," I repeated it.

"Perfect," Hades came up to me and touched his index and middle finger to my hand. "Go. And thank you for returning Thanatos. Now return Hypnos,"

A flash of white light.

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"…what?" I opened my eyes and screamed. I was facing a wooden ceiling! The only light I had was the fire at my…

OH. MY. GOD. THERE'S A FIRE AT MY FEET!

"OPEN THIS THING UP!" I banged on the wood. "GODS DAMMIT! OPEN IT UP!"

Yeah. I JUST got another chance, and I was being fried or cremated whatever.

I could hear light whispers outside, some shushing, and gasps.

"OPEN IT UP IN THE NAME OF THE ELYSIAN FIELDS, HADES, AND ALL THAT IS DEAD OR ALIVE!" I yowled.

The lid shifted. I withdrew my feet from the burning.

"Percy?" a light flooded the coffin.

Her face appeared. Annabeth. It was tear stricken, red, and puffy. All I could do was stare.

"PERCY!" she squealed and hugged my neck.

"Ow! Ow!" I winced.

"Oh gods! Someone help me drag him out before he gets burned!" she yelled.

Thank YOU. Finally, someone notices.

Thalia and Grover rushed to her side and tugged me out. I fell to the floor, trying to stand up shakily. Thalia and Grover were crying too; Thalia's mascara had run.

Annabeth was the only one that didn't step back from me.

"Oh Percy!" she hugged me, wrapping her arms around me tightly. I smiled and kissed her cheek.

"We thought you were dead!" Grover squeaked.

"No. I…" I bit down my retort. I didn't want to tell them the deal I'd struck with The Lord of the Dead.

"What?" Thalia asked. I looked at her kindly. Letting go of Annabeth's shoulders, I rushed up to her and gave her probably the hugest hug I'd ever given to anyone in my life. She let me, though I didn't know if Annabeth approved. I let her down on the ground.

"Thanks for almost killing yourself," I grinned.

"You wanted me to kill myself, seaweed brain?" she grabbed the collar of my shirt. I laughed.

"No!" I took her hand away. "I saw how you jumped in front of Luke's sword to try and save me,"

"…how did you see that? According to Annabeth, you were long since dead!"

"Hades. He showed me my death and everything," I gulped. I didn't want to give too much away.

I walked back towards Annabeth. She was smiling, thank the gods. So she approved. I looked around me for the first time. The place was made out of marble, with…with seashells and fish swimming around. No. no, no, no, no.

"Where are we?" I hissed.

They all turned a deep shade of pink.

"P-P"-

"WHAT?"

"Poseidon's palace," Annabeth said in a small voice.

I swear, I think my eyes turned black.

"And what would make you think I'd want to be buried here?" I hissed in a low voice, looking at all of them.

"It was Lord Poseidon's request!" Thalia said.

"OF COURSE! THE LORD GETS TO REQUEST WHAT HE WANTS!" I bellowed at them.

Annabeth bristled. "Stop it, Percy! He's your father! Remember what Hermes told you about Luke?"

"DO YOU THINK I CARE ABOUT THEM?" I grasped her shoulders, shaking them.

She cowered against my grip.

"I SAID I NEVER WANTED TO BE NEAR HIM AGAIN!"

"Percy, stop it! You're acting like a child!" Thalia barked at me.

"Hell no!" I stormed out of the room, trying to find the nearest balcony so I could swim up to the surface.

I could hear footsteps follow me, but I wasn't sure who.

"Go away Annabeth!"

"It's not Annabeth,"

I turned. Thalia had followed me, her face flushed from running.

"Where are the rest of the guys?" I hissed.

"Back in the room. Annabeth's getting Poseidon to send us back to land," Thalia crossed her arms.

"So why did you follow me? He was just going to ask to see me again!" I glared.

"Because you've got to stop running away from your problems like a child!" she roared at me. "You're better then that! I know you are!"

"Stop yelling at me! You don't know what it's like! You're practically daddy's little girl!"

"You are so wrong!" she grabbed my arm and stared me right in the eyes. I shivered slightly. "I was only turned into a tree out of pity not love. DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE!?"

Thalia's eyes welled with tears.

"…" I sighed. "Don't cry Thalia,"

"…I won't. Because I know I'm stronger then that, Perseus," she said in a whisper.

"No you're not," I looked into her eyes again. I drew closer. What was I doing? Oh well.

She sucked in her breath a little and her eyes glossed.

"None of us are strong," I said. "We're all weak. We just give ourselves the idea and impression that we are strong…for determination. For the superficial 'strength'. So we could have the will to do something,"

Thalia shook her head, disagreeing.

"We have strength, Percy. You just need to unlock it," she said.

"I guess I don't have any," I sighed, closing my eyes.

Thalia didn't say anything. She just stared at me, waiting for my move.

"I don't want anything to do with my dad," I told her. "I was just his son from an affair one night. Nothing more,"

"…Percy, you don't know that for sure,"

"I know enough mythology to state that the gods did have one night affairs," I sneered.

"Percy…just give him a chance,"

"No,"

Thalia bit her lip. A couple of tears spilled. My breath was stuck in my lungs.

"D-don't cry, Thalia," I touched the tears with my finger, brushing them away.

"Shut up," she hissed, more spilling.

I did what I could to shut her up. I caressed her cheek, bent down, and kissed her. Her eyes flew open, wide. Once she figured out that this was real, she kissed me back. Her lips moved eagerly against mine, as she grasped my shoulders. What the hell was I doing? I loved Annabeth, not Thalia! I broke away.

"Oh my gods," I breathed in.

"I won't tell Annabeth," she smiled and wiped some tears from her cheek. "Just talk to Poseidon…or I will tell her,"

I flushed. That was a horrible position to be in…

"…Erm…"

"Please Percy! For me and Annabeth?" she whimpered. "Plus, if you're trying to reconnect Luke to his dad, you have to be a leader!"

"And if we don't make up? Are you still telling Annabeth?"

"No," she shook her head. "Just talk it out and we'll see,"

She kissed my cheek and said, "By the way. The outburst in the hotel,"

I ran a hand threw my hair and chuckled, embarrassed. "Yeah?"

"I loved Luke more," she winked. "I just felt you were closer,"

"Huh?" I asked.

"Girl issues," she said slowly, as if she was speaking to a three year old.

"So you don't like me?"

"I do. But I love Luke," she turned and left.

I chuckled and got it. The discussions that I had with Annabeth suddenly made sense.

I walked back to the main room in the palace. No one was there. I looked around, waiting. Finally, I decided to leave. I didn't need to talk to Poseidon. And I'd talk to Annabeth about a the whole issue.

"Percy," a voice said.

My heart blazed with fury as I turned around.

Poseidon gripped his trident, gazing at me sadly.

"Hades told me what happened," he walked closer to me. "About the deal. I pity the decision you had to make,"

I remembered Thalia's words.

I was only turned into a tree out of pity not love

"Don't pity me like your brother pitied his daughter!" I sneered. "I don't need your pity!"

"Percy"-

"WHAT?"

"I need to tell you something. About your mom and I,"

I paused.

What did he have to say about my mom?

"Percy…if it was up to me," Poseidon took in a breath. "I would have married your mother and had her live as a queen. But she refused. She thought, the same as you, that I was taking pity on her. I wasn't. I truly loved Sally Jackson."

"…I know that. You said it before,"

"I was watching you all of your life," Poseidon smiled. "All of your life. Even before I claimed you. I didn't know what time was best to claim you, so when I did, I was doing it to protect you and protect myself. A double prize,"

"So now I'm a prize?" I hissed at him.

"Of course not," Poseidon chuckled. "You're my son. My treasure,"

I shook my head. What was he saying? That he cared?

"How come you didn't know that I liked blue?" I asked in a whisper.

"Your mother never tells me anything," Poseidon shook his head. "I'll always try to meet her at her lunch break, but all she says is that you guys are doing fine. I ask about your school, she says fine. I ask about your hobbies and interests, she says like any normal boy," Poseidon shrugged. "I couldn't push her any farther. I didn't have the right to. Then she asked me not to come and see her anymore, because she was engaged to…blowfish?"

"Blofis!" I chuckled. We did have things in common.

Poseidon smiled.

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