A/N: Here's a warning: We're pretty much switching to all Moon's POV, sometimes Ellie's and the other kids', but mostly Moon's. I think this one will still have Annabeth, but I'm writing this before I even start the chapter. So...yeah. DICLAI-MOUR!

Me: I don't own Percy Jackson. At all. He's not mine, I swear.

Percy: *struggling in corner, tied in rope with duct tape over his mouth* *muffled screams, trying to get someone's attention*

Me:...No, I didn't kidnap him! I'm not that crazy...Okay, I am, but still...

Annabeth's POV

(12 1/2 years later)

Our family had grown immensly (A/N: I totally just spelled that wrong...) since Audrick. Well, I say immensly (again...) , but it truly only grew by one. Now we had the seventeen, almost eighteen year old Hayley Moonlight Jackson, fourteen year old Audrick Percival Jackson (I'm still having a hard time knowing I agreed with that name twelve years ago), and then our newest addition, Chelsea Athene Jackson, twelve, almost thirteen years old, who was born with Audrick was one and three quarters, nearly two.

That meant we now had two pre-teens and one real teen running around the house. It was Summer, and I was starting off the rather okay morning with a cup of coffee. I couldn't remember the last time that it was this peaceful in the house; no yelling, no screaming, no fighting. Just bright, warm sunlight filtering through the windows. I sighed - a happy, almost wistful sigh. Today was perfe -

"Give it back!" Hayley screamed from upstairs. Suddenly feet came pounding down the staircase, and Audrick burst into the room, his chest heaving, Hayley's diary in his hands. He had a slash on his up left cheek, and something that looked sort of like rope burns, as if Hayley tried to capture him that way.

"NAME FREAK!" Moon came running down the stairs after him, and he glanced at me once before taking off again, this time through the sliding glass doors to where the in-ground pool was.

"Audrick!" She screamed, walking out side, a deathly glare on her face as she marched toward him.

He held the diary over the water. "One more step and I drop it!" He said fiercely.

Moon stared in awe. "You. Wouldn't." Her teeth were gritted.

I took a sip of my coffee. This was, believe it or not, almost like entertainment, to watch these two go at each other. Until they got hurt, of course. Then it was punishment.

Good Zeus, I'm starting to sound like Percy...

"Try. Me." Audrick dangled the diary between two fingers, its greyness shinning in the early morning light.

Leave it to my kids to be early risers during the summer and late sleepers during school,

I thought irritably. My kids were one of a kind, that's for sure. Except for Chelse, of course. She was probably upstairs still dreaming of where we were heading today - Camp Half-Blood. It was a tradition on the 4th of July; we go down to camp, visit for a while with everyone, spend the night on the third (it was the third today), and then get up and have a fourth of July celebration at camp, then watch the firework afterward.

Chelsea was also the one who never faught, not like my other two.

"Drop it, Fish Head!" Hayley's voice was dangerously low, dangerously calm; it shouldn't be that calm.

Hayley Moonlight Jackson,

I thought, don't you dare.

She glanced back at me for a second, her sea-green eyes blazing with fury. But, she sighed just as irritably as me, and turned back to her brother. "Audrick Percival, please." She said, her tone now sweet.

Too sweet.

"Please what?" Audrick snapped, bringing the diary back to his chest.

"Please give me my journal back."

"Gotta catch me first," he replied mockingly, and, taking a step back, sprinted across the yard. He was on his way to Central Park; we didn't live too far from it.

That broke the last straw with Hayley. She raised her hands up high in the air, causing all the water in the pool to cascade of her head.

Moon, no.

I thought.

Too late.

She slung her arms forward, causing the water to do the same. She wrapped both of the currents around her brother, making sure he dropped the journal as she yanked him back and flung him into the pool with a sickening SPLOOSH!

Hayley smiled smugly in victory while I waited for Audrick to come back up. He couldn't breathe underwater or control it like Hayley and Chelsea could - he only got the brains.

He popped out, coughing and splurging water from his mouth. He shot a glare at Hayley and called out, "Foul! Technical foul! She can't do that!"

"Oh, but I can," and, smirking, she sauntered over to where her diary was, scooped it up in her hands, and walked back into the house, making sure that a wave crashed over Audrick's head as she walked past.

"Moon..." I said threatingly, looking at her.

"Ma'am...?" She said, in the same, too-polite voice to be hers.

"Stop picking on him." I said, staring up at her. Sitting down, she topped me like a Lastrygoin giant (spelled that wrong, too...) , but standing up, she only seemed like a really tall tree. I had topped off a 5'8, while Percy kept growing, becoming 6'5. Hayley had also inherited his length - she was tall, about 6'2, her hair growing longer it seemed everyday.

She sighed. "I'm sorry, Momma. But, I mean, you've met my brother, right? It's...it's like being related to a demon!"

"Hayley..."

"Sorry," she mumbled again. She glanced up at me. "Groundment?"

"Indefinitely."

"Oh."

"Yep."

"I'm sorry?" She tried.

"Not going to work this time."

"Please?"

"No."

"But - ?"

"No buts."

"Fine," she sighed.

"Good," I said, and sipped on my coffee again. "Are you packed?"

"For camp?" Moon thought about it for a second. "Yes, ma'am."

"Perfect. Now, can you go get Chelsea please? Sometimes I'd swear that girl was a daughter of Hypnos." (He is the god of sleep, right? Sheesh, I hope so...)

"Yes, ma'am." Hayley smiled softly, then climbed the stairs on the balls of her feet. I stood slowly and walked outside to get my soaking wet son out of the pool. Welcome to your average summer vacation in the Jackson household.

Ugh. Short chapter, I know, but I'm saving the camp visit and everything for a little later on, next chapter and stuff.

Hope you enjoyed this very tiny update.

~Future