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**Disclaimer** Nothing that comes from the imagination of Rick Riordan aka is from the Percy Jackson and the Olympian's Novels or The Lost Hero belongs to me.

In Bia's presence, Annabeth felt better then she had since the morning she woke up and Percy was gone. The Roman girl had an aura of warmth and comfort surrounding her that enveloped Annabeth the moment Bia took her arm. They walked in silence for a moment as Annabeth closed her eyes and reveled in the comfort she felt, a nice change from her recent feelings. The warmth and comfort reminded her of a few weeks ago when she and Percy had fallen asleep in each other arms on the couch in his mother and stepfather's living room, or the way she felt when she went to her father and stepmothers, now that her relationship with them had improved so greatly. She felt like she was where she belonged, home, safe, loved. They settled into the porch chairs farthest from the front door.

"A benefit of hanging out with the daughter of the Goddess of Hearth, Home, and Family," Bia said with a smile, being familiar with the look of contentment on Annabeth's face, "I do wonders for your stress level."

"Thank you," Annabeth sighed, "I needed that. I've been balancing on a knife edge since Percy disappeared. Maybe before that, even. Things don't go so well for such a long period of time for us." The smile on Annabeth's face turned rueful; if it weren't for Bia's presence the smile would have been bitter, but such a negative sentiment was difficult with Bia around. "I'm sorry; I'm not usually one for sharing or griping."

"It's ok, people do with me. I don't mind, it's part of what I'm able to for my friends." Bia reassured her. "Now, the bones of the story, Percy is fine. He is safe, he was accepted at the Schola. Once he proved his skills with blade he carried he was taken in by me, Kota, Gwen, Hazel, Bobby, and Rey, when he was in with us, he was in with everyone. We hoped he would be able to help us find Jason, but he had just about no memories when he first came to us. Vague, cloudy things," Bia shrugged, "nothing that pointed us to Jason."

"Did he…" Annabeth hesitated, she didn't want to sound paranoid by asking her question and she was concerned by the answer Bia would give her.

"Did he get along particularly 'well' with any of the girls at the Schola?" Bia squeezed Annabeth's hand. "Only Mica," she smiled and quickly relented, "but she's our seven year old 'Crumb', so, I don't think she's any competition. Other than that, no, he didn't. He didn't remember you exactly when he first came to us, and some of the girls did try their luck, but even in the beginning, he knew he'd left someone behind, wherever he'd come from. He kept saying he knew someone missed him and was looking for him. That he'd left someone he didn't know what to do with out. Bits and pieces of you and your relationship were some of the first things that he remembered. When I left, his memory still wasn't complete, but I was able to get enough from him to find my way here and to know you, if I found you," Bia smiled.

"Excuse me," Piper stopped a few steps from where Annabeth and Bia sat, their heads close together in conversation, "everyone is getting settled for the meeting." The look on the girls face was closed, Bia could tell that Piper was not comfortable with her appearance at the camp.

"Ok, we'll be right in." Annabeth and Bia rose from their chairs. Piper turned, not waiting for the other two girls. "Bia," Annabeth stopped Bia from following Piper, "Umm, what about Jason?" Annabeth whispered, her eyes shifting towards Piper who was disappearing through the front door.

"What? Oh!" Bia followed Annabeth's gaze and her train of thought. "No, not in awhile. He and Reyna went back and forth, but what she likes is power, not him, or any particular guy for that matter. They're like brother and sister anyway, they never worked. If he were to…develop any sort of special relationship with a girl here, he wouldn't be betraying anyone back home, though there may be a few mildly bruised hearts. He's not with anyone even a little bit."

"Oh good." Annabeth was relieved; she would hate to see Piper or any girl Jason had inadvertently left behind, as Percy had left her, broken hearted.

"Jason deserves to meet someone, it's very hard at the Schola to have relationships, but I think a girlfriend would be good for him. I'll have to see what I think of this girl."

"I think you'll like her," Annabeth said as she held to door to the Big House open for Bia. "In the short time I've know her and Jason, she does seem to make him happy."

"That's what matters."

There were two empty seats at the table, which even without Bia was more packed than usual. On one side of Jason sat Piper on the other side was an empty seat which Bia took. Annabeth took the other empty seat, between Bia and a red headed girl who was sitting beside Chiron. Everyone grew quiet, interested in what Bia had to say to them.

"Great, now will someone tell us what's going on?" One of two twin boys sitting across from Bia spoke, as his brother tried to stealthily throw the ping-pong ball he was holding at Clarisse.

"Connor, put that ball down, Travis that is why we are gathered here. Practice patience." There were titters around that table at Chiron's suggestion that the boy improve his patience. Chiron turned to Bia, "Bia, these are our camp leaders." Bia thought she saw the centaur cringe slightly as he glanced at the twins, but he continued, "You've met Clarisse, daughter of Ares," he indicated the girl who had been leading the patrol, "and Annabeth, daughter of Athena." From there, he continued around the table, naming everyone. Bia tried to remember names and parentages, while connecting the strange names of the Gods to the names she was familiar with. She was not surprised that the twins were sons of Hermes, or Mercury as she knew their father. On the other hand, she wasn't sure what was the bigger shock, that the girl interested in Jason was a daughter of Aphrodite, the girl seemed much too down to earth, or that the girl Annabeth sat beside Oracle of Delphi. A pretty redhead in a privet school uniform was not what she would have come up with if someone asked her to describe Lord Apollo's Oracle. A teenage boy introduced as Nico, son of Hades, and a Satyr standing beside Chiron were the reasons why even without Bia the table was more packed than usual.

"Well," Bia bit her lip, "my turn now." She glanced down surprised when she felt something placed in her lap. She saw that Jason had picked up Bia's Sarcina and taken out her crocheting she always carried with her. "So you're starting to remember more details?" Bia asked him.

"A few." He shrugged, to everyone else he said, "That's how Bia usually spends our meetings at the Schola, keeping her hands busy."

"Yes, anyway," she didn't even look at the yarn in her fingers as she began her story, working the stitches as though her hands had a mind of their own. "I'm not one for idle hands and I get a knack for domestic skills from my mother. Now, my story. Percy came to us two and a half weeks ago. Usually, half-bloods come to the Wolf House at the age of seven where Lupa meets them and determines if they will be brought to the Schola as pups, half bloods don't just show up at the Schola."

"Wait," Rachel, the oracle, interrupted, "What if Lupa doesn't decide to bring them to the Schola?"

"She does," Bia patted Rachel's clenched hand reassuringly, "it's said that if you're not worthy, she'll leave you, but I've never heard of Lupa leaving a poor defenseless seven year old, though after the pup years, some children are sent away or choose to leave, but that's not till they are a teenager."

"Oh, well, I guess that's not so bad." Rachel sat back.

"That's not how Percy came to the-the Schola?" Nico hesitated over the unfamiliar word.

"No, the Schola has an ocean beach and he just sort of washed up on it one day."

"Oh geez," Jason put his head in his hand for a moment, "that can't have gone well."

"It almost didn't." Bia shook her head sadly, "However, your Percy is an impressive fighter. As a general rule, we are much more aggressive, less open and trusting then you guys here are." Clarisse made a noise at Bia's statement. "As soon as he arrived, I'm afraid he was forced to prove himself in a fight. Unlike where you guys were ready to fight, but gave me the benefit of the doubt."

"Who?" Jason asked.

"Bobby," Bia replied. Jason nodded as she continued, "Bobby is another of our officers. Under Jason there are five officers including myself and Bobby. Above Jason is only Lupa at the Schola. Lupa arrived toward the end of the fight, I'm not sure what she had in mind to do, but I think she changed her mind when she saw the boys fighting. I had the children over in the dunes, which is why Bobby was so aggressive and distracted, we're very protective of our young ones. I had a good view of what was going on from where I had been reading with the children. I recognized Percy as a boy from dreams I'd been having for a month at the time, though I had no idea who he actually was. I left the children hidden behind the dunes and ran over to the fight. I knew Percy was on our side, I had to do something."

"Yes, because Crumb was going to let you." Jason muttered, his head now on in his hands on the ping-pong table.

"Oh, so glad the details are starting to come back to you. Now, stop interrupting. No, Mica didn't let me get away from her." To everyone else, Bia elaborated, "Mica is one of the little ones, she's rather attached to me, she's a tiny little thing, so the boys and many of the kids started calling her 'Crumb'. She stayed put with the others for a moment or two, but just as I reached Bobby and Percy, Mica came rushing down the beach toward us. The boys were fighting fiercely and I didn't think either of them noticed my arrival or Mica's. I was very close to the boys and as she reached me, Mica tripped and ended up right in the middle of the boys sword fight." At this, it wasn't only the girls around the table who gasped. "If Percy hadn't seen her or acted so quickly," Bia shook her head, "He grabbed Mica with his sword free arm and put himself between her and Bobby as a wall of water came up from the ocean a few feet behind him and wrapped around he and Mica. Lupa ordered Bobby to sheath his sword, and slowly, Percy lowered the wall of water enough to talk. He couldn't answer anything about who he was or where he'd come from but Lupa declared only the son of Neptune could have controlled the water like that to protect himself and Mica. Anyone willing to protect a young one is ok in our books. None of us understood much about what was going on, but what was evident was Percy was a strong demi god, the son of the Lord of the Sea, didn't represent an attack on the Schola, was a great swordsman, a fighter with quick wit and reflexes, and willing to risk himself to protect a child he didn't know. He was in after that."

Everyone was silent for a few minutes taking in the story.

"What of the dreams you mentioned you'd been having?" Piper asked.

"In the dreams, I was interacting with both people I knew from Schola, and people I didn't recognize, but my dream self knew them. One of which was Percy." Bia looked around the table, "actually, I recognize some of you from my dreams. There was a great threat coming from the earth, but we were all preparing to fight it, the half-bloods from the Schola and the 'other half-bloods'. That's how I thought of the demi-gods I didn't recognize, you guys, the other half-bloods. The dreams grew more and more detailed; some people were working on a flying ship?" at this Leo whooped.

"My awesome war machine!" Everyone looked at Leo with various looks on their faces, some of amusement others of annoyance, "Sorry." He went back to fiddling with the pieces of metal he'd strewn on the table.

"Sure?" Bia looked confused about Leo's statement.

"Now you have to explain," Piper nudged Leo who was sitting on the opposite side of her as Jason.

"Oh, ok, well. I think the ship in your dream was The Argo II, we're building it for the war against Gaia."

"Great! It looked pretty amazing in my dreams. Basically," Bia continued, "I believe the point of the dreams were less the details and more the feelings, that the demi-gods of the Schola and this other half of our gods descended family," here she gestured to everyone around the table and the camp outside the windows, "Had to be brought together to deal with the next threat that was coming. My mother encouraged me to follow the dreams, I knew I had to come find you guys, reunite the family. I had to do it for Percy, and Jason, and all of the rest of us, too. That's how I came to be here. Percy wanted to come with me, but I knew in my heart I had to come myself, and he was needed at the Schola, the whole can of crazy that happened with Juno and Gaia and the deaths being reversed." Bia shuddered slightly, "Especially with Jason being gone, we couldn't lose two fighters, but I needed to follow this path. I needed to follow what my dreams were telling me."

A/N I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter. Please, any constructive criticisms is greatly appreciated!

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Miette