A/N Hi guys! Thankies to Newbiegod35, Poseidon93, ., and Hanna Burkhardt for your reviews! Special thank you to Hanna for pointing out a HUGE continuity error I made against the cannon! :-( As others of you may have noticed, when Bobby went to talk to Jason on the Argo II, I had Jason playing with Ivlivs, his coin/sword/spear. Which had been destroyed in the fight against Enceladus on Mount Diablo. I'm going to address that within the story, not in this chap, but I will. I can't believe I forgot about that! The funny thing is, the only reason I even wrote in the little bit about Ivlivs was because I was sitting here like "I miss Jason's coin...". Well, the Roman hero needs a kick butt weapon, soo...I'll cover that error. Thanks again, Hanna!

Ok, here you guys go! I hope you're still enjoying as much as I am. This story has a clear end in sight (not too soon, though Newbiegod35!) But I've got several ideas for more PJO verse stories rolling around in my head, including two within Heroes of Olympus, one would be what happens after this story comes to a close and one would be before this story, following Percy at the Schola. We'll see. What do you guys think? Would you read?

Please enjoy!
Miette

**Disclaimer** I do not own that which is rightfully the intellectual property of Rick Riordan**

"Hey," Percy said as he and Annabeth reached the clearing right behind Hazel. With the three of them, everyone from Camp Half-Blood and the Roman officers were present, almost. "Are we just waiting on Bi?"

"Actually," Gwen fidgeted with the strap of her quiver across her chest, "she's not coming, we have to talk about something to do with her."

Reyna snorted and looked over the Greeks with the glare they'd become accustom to receiving from her brother. He on the other hand had an arm around Dakota and seemed to be whispering something to her, comforting her.

"Bia?" Piper looked around concerned, "What's wrong with her?" her eyes moved to Bobby, "that's what you were talking about when you came to the Argo II. Something's wrong with Bia?"

"Well, this is really crazy timing, but, well," Gwen looked down, taking a breath to compose herself, "It seems some suspicions of ours from during the Titanomachy-"

"Titanomachy?" Percy quietly asked Annabeth.

"Titan War."

"Oh. Why don't they just say that?"

"Hush, Seaweed Brain."

Gwen smiled, actually happy for the amusing interruption that eased the tense mood a bit.

"It seems Bia betrayed us all during the war." Jason finished for Gwen.

"What?" Piper looked at Jason, perplexed.

"No," Annabeth said quietly, "you told us that story, when she first started hanging out with Nico, about the guy she'd been hanging out with and how he was working with Kronos. He left and broke her heart, she wanted to go…Oh." Annabeth bit her lip, putting the pieces together.

"Wait," Leo interrupted, "Bia was hanging out with Nico?"

"Seriously, Valdez?" Piper turned to Leo, even more perplexed.

"What? I missed it."

"Evidently! We've even discussed it since we left Camp! Since we got here!" She leaned over and smacked Leo's arm lightly.

"Oh. So I guess my defense can't be that I was in Bunker 9 most of the time between Bia arriving and us leaving?"

"No," Annabeth said with finality, putting an end to Leo and Pipers pointless argument. At least it had succeeded in making the small almost invisible smiles that had developed on the Roman's faces during her and Percy's discussion a little bigger.

"That doesn't sound like Bia." Percy said quietly. He'd become fond of the passionate girl, she was sweet, she could make a person feel calm and good just by standing near them. Something he took advantage of when he first arrived at the Schola not knowing anyone or even himself.

Annabeth turned to Percy, "Could it be like a Silena thing?" She asked him in quiet Greek.

"I don't know." Percy responded, also in Greek, "I would think that if she did go over to the Titan's she would have had a specific reason," he ran his hand through his messy black hair, "then just coming back because she thought they were going to lose or something? That doesn't seem like her."

Jason looked at Piper who just shrugged, "I understand them, but I don't know what they're talking about." She replied to his silent question in English.

"Wait," Leo looked at Annabeth and Percy, "You mean Silena like Silena and Beckendorf? Jake told me about them."

"Yea," Percy replied.

"Wait, now I think that's a story you guys told me at some point." Jason said, thinking. "Aren't they heroes from the war?"

"Yes." Annabeth squeezed Percy's hand. There was a part of him that still felt responsible for their deaths. Beckendorf's especially.

"Charles Beckendorf was a son of Hephaestus. Silena Beauregard was a daughter of Aphrodite. They were two of the greatest people at camp. Beckendorf could make anything out of anything. Silena was the best equestrian at Camp and just good and open to everyone. They'd been dating for awhile, in love with each other for even longer. They were going to college that fall. They'd both known Luke, the guy who served as Kronos's host, before he left Camp. Long story short, Luke told Silena that if she spied for him, he would make sure Beckendorf and her siblings survived the war. He convinced her she'd be saving lives by making in unnecessary for the Titan army to fight campers. He was already completely turned by then, but she believed him, wishful thinking maybe, hoping there was still some of the old Luke left, hoping Beckendorf would be ok. She'd had a crush on him before she met Beckendorf, he used that against her." Here, Percy glanced at Annabeth who was staring into the trees, as if watching a scene all over again.

"Beckendorf died on the mission to blow up the Princess Andromeda," Annabeth picked up the story from Percy, he was telling it wrong. "He and Percy did manage to blow up Luke's demon cruise ship, though. At the final battle in Manhattan, she led the Aphrodite cabin in battle along side of us, but we needed more. Ares Cabin wasn't fighting with us," Annabeth began to go into that story, but Percy cut her off.

"That's awholenother story, Wise Girl. Ares Cabin wasn't fighting with us, Clarisse, Leader of Ares was Silena's best friend, so Silena thought she could convince Clarisse and her siblings to come. Silena went back to Camp, but what we didn't know was that she didn't manage to convince Clarisse. Since she couldn't get Clarisse to lead her cabin, Silena took Clarisse's armor and spear, and somehow tricked the cabin into thinking she was Clarisse and led them into battle. Somehow, we all thought she was Clarisse, looking back I don't know how. Silena was killed by a Lydian Drakon that was destined to be killed by a child of Ares. Then Clarisse, who had followed, lost her temper and killed it. Silena is in Elysium with Beckendorf. They're talking about trying for the Isles of the Blest."

When Percy and Annabeth finished their story everyone was sitting, having sat while listening. Piper and Hazel were dashing tears for their lost sister and her boyfriend, Gwen and Dakota looked like they were close to tears as well. No one looked particularly happy after hearing the heartbreaking story.

"So, you think Andy said or did something with Bia, like Luke did with Silena? Played on her emotions and sort of, tricked her?" Dakota's voice was quiet as she spoke.

"Even if he did, she still betrayed us. She's still a traitor!" Reyna growled, punching the ground.

"Silena died a hero," Piper glared at Reyna. "Jason told us how when you guys found Bia she insisted on fighting even though she wasn't healed and she killed Andy. Doesn't that count for anything?"

Reyna didn't respond.

"What about how many deaths and injuries could have been avoided if she didn't go to help Andy?" Gwen asked quietly.

"We'll never know." Jason sighed he didn't know for sure what to think. It didn't seem like Bia to just go over to the enemy, and even less so to do that and try to come back as if nothing happened. "Why didn't she tell us when she first came back? It would have been better to just come clean then. How did you guys figure it out for sure now? Why now?"

There was a dance of light around the clearing, like light reflecting off of metal as Alouette, who had been listening in hidden in the trees stepped into the clearing. "I told them something wrong was going on with Bia." Lou stepped carefully over the branch and leaf strewn ground, her bronze leg appearing stiff. "Though, I got the impression you three were suspicious of something before I talked to you." Lou turned to Jason and bowed shallowly, "I'm sorry, Legatus legionis for interrupting and coming uninvited, but I knew you were discussing Bia and I'm worried and thought I could perhaps offer insight."

"Of course, Lou. It's fine." He helped the girl to sit between him and Dakota who still had Bobby close beside her. "What's been going on that you were concerned?"

"Well, Bia was a bit strange yesterday when I spoke to her briefly. Then last night when she came back to the Nidus, I and a few of the nati had fallen asleep while I was reading to them…" Lou quickly recounted the story she had earlier told the three girls of Bia's discussion with the children of Edmund's traitorous acts in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. "She definitely had some sort of nightmare last night as well and was up and out very early this morning, like she'd gone for a walk. That wouldn't have seemed odd if it weren't for last night and her being so moody as well. Then, I found Gwen, Dakota, and Reyna and they already seemed to think something was up."

"Di immortals!" Annabeth smacked her palm to her forehead, everyone looking at her, "Bia had been having some sort of dreams for a bit while we were still at Camp, Rachel and I talked to her about it, but she truly couldn't remember any of it when she woke. I should have had her talk to Clovis! I can't believe I didn't think of it before. Clovis is a son of Morpheus. He's very good with dreams."

"It probably wouldn't have changed anything," Leo said looking around at the others for agreement.

"Alright, so you guys talked to Lou then went to talk to Bia?"

"Yes," Reyna said, "I had a feeling something was off, and I'm not sure why, but the suspicions we had before about Bia's disappearance being odd had come back. So, I bugged the other two into coming with me to talk to her."

"We tried to, but she was a wreck, she wouldn't even talk to us! Lost her temper like I've never seen," Gwen shook her head sadly.

"She confirmed our suspicions, though." Dakota looked at the ground as she spoke, as though she wished she could go hide in her father's domain at the moment.

"Lou," Percy belatedly glanced at Jason before he continued speaking, "do you know of any reason Bia would have been pushed to go over to the Titans? Anything she was upset about at the time or anything that happened? Anything Andy could have used to push her emotionally."

Lou nodded, pulling three pictures from her long sleeve, and leaning across to hand it to Percy. "The McCarthy's, Bibi's mortal family."

Percy looked down at the picture that showed Bia at a backyard swimming pool, being 'attacked' by three young redheaded freckle faced kids, the oldest of which couldn't have been over the age of five when the picture was taken. He passed the picture to Annabeth as Lou handed another picture of Bia hugging her father to Dakota and one of Bia in a kitchen, apparently preparing food for some sort of party with three woman around their mid 30's she handed to Jason.

Lou pointed to the first picture, now in Piper's hand, "Her cousins, Moira, Fiona, and Liam. She was so in love with those kids." She turned to the picture Jason had Passed to Gwen, "Her father, and the last picture is her and her aunts cooking last time she went home for the school year, Thanksgiving, I think. All dead. Killed by Ceto. She just told me before I came over here. She'd found out about a week before Andy left. She was upset, she was looking for someone to blame. She felt responsible, just as she still feels responsible for my leg." Lou rubbed the false, bronze leg. "She wanted to believe, Andy convinced her everything was the gods a fault and that if she joined the Titans with him, she could make sure that we all," she gestured to herself and the Roman officers around her, "and the Nati would be ok. He convinced it was for the greater good. She quickly realized it was a load of crap, she started agitating and stressing the emotions of the Titan army. She and Andy fought because she'd woken up to the truth, she escaped, and that's when you guys found her on the mountain. When she fought with you guys and killed Andy, he admitted that he'd had Ceto attack her family so she would be emotionally unstable and he could manipulate her. We all know, Bia's great with emotions, as long as they're not her own. If it's her emotions, all bets are off."

"That explains everything." Hazel had remained mostly silent; remember how she'd defended Bia when this all first happened. Hazel glanced around the circle, trying to read each face to see how everyone was taking this. She knew in her heart that whatever had happened, whatever was going to happen Bia was her same friend, she hoped.

"Why didn't she tell us about her family?" Bobby asked, "Ok," he said acknowledging that strange looks he was getting from everyone, "Why didn't she tell you girls about her family?"

"Why doesn't she ever talk when she's upset or something's wrong? It's Bia. She self medicates by exhausting herself with the kids and eating every bit of sweet she can get her hands on or make." Dakota replied, realizing they may not have been living up to the title of 'friend' for Bia. Not that that excused treachery.

"We've always just let her, and let it go. No one really pays attention if she disappears into the Nidus, even for a few days unless they need her." Hazel picked up a leaf and began playing with it.

Annabeth tried to smile reassuringly at the girls who all looked sad and guilty; beating themselves up now wasn't going to change what had already happened. Besides, if someone didn't seek out or accept help, you couldn't force it on them. Annabeth had learned that. Leo, Piper, and Percy all remained quiet and pretended to not be there, they were glad to be included in the meeting, they'd grown to like Bia and were concerned about how this would affect the quest, but this part of the issues the Roman's had to sort out for themselves.

"I still say betrayal is betrayal. How can we trust her to go on this quest?" Reyna looked at her tight lipped brother for support.

Nico ran across the beach, kicking up sand. "Something is wrong with Bia," he said breathlessly when he reached Rachel Elizabeth Dare.

"Hello to you, too. Nice to see you. How are you, Nico?" the Oracle didn't even look away from the canvas she was painting, hear easel set up facing the long island sound.

Nico rolled his eyes, "Something is wrong with Bia." He repeated, squinting at Rachel's painting, not that he would admit it, but it was a beautiful landscape of the sound and the beach.

"Why do you say that? Last I heard from Annabeth and Percy, they IMed me earlier today, they'd arrived at the Schola yesterday and everything was well enough."

Nico held out the small 'treasure box' Bia had left him with. It was nearly humming with energy. "Bia's keepsake box. It has mementos and-"

"Yea, she explained to me and Annabeth how one time one of the Nati got lost and she found them using a lock of hair. I didn't really get it, it sounded crazy and magical even for demi-god stuff. I think she even knew when one of the kids broke their arm with that."

"Whatever. The box has been freaking out all day and, look." Nico picked up a lock of hair and passed it to Rachel, "This is Bia's. Do you feel that?"

Rachel's eyes grew as she took the lock of hair in her fingers and felt the sadness in it. Snatching the box from Nico's fingers, she shut the lock back inside of it and slid it into her own pocket. "I'm holding onto this for you. If something is still wrong tomorrow, we'll talk to Chiron. It seems like she's upset about something, but it could be anything and there's not much we can do at the moment. It's not as though we can just show up at the Schola."

"You said everything was fine over there-"

"Yes, but that doesn't mean they'll welcome some random stranger showing up. They're not exactly being warm and fuzzy. From what Percy and Annabeth said they're pretty much keeping out people separate from most of the people over there. Percy and Annabeth less so because everyone has gotten to know Percy and is mostly ok with him, but anyway. You're not racing over there to see what's wrong with Bia."

Nico glared at the bossy mortal, mumbling something about people who think they're so important just because they spout green smoke and talk is rhymes.

"Darn right I think I'm hotstuff, now, come on death boy," Rachel put an arm around Nico's shoulders and grabbed her bag, leaving the easel and paintbrush she'd been using, "come help me practice those knife moves Annabeth was showing me."

"Why do you need to fight anyway?"

"Because it gives me something to do when I'm not spouting green smoke and speaking in rhymes. Besides, didn't we just say that I'm the very important and hotstuff Oracle? Monsters are probably lining up to come and get me when I'm not around all of you demi gods to keep me safe."

Nico rolled his eyes, but allowed himself to be lead toward the arena.

A/N Hope you guys enjoyed! My goal was to have two chapters up by today, as you see that was a fail, however, I foresee the next chapter going up by Monday night. It depends on my weekend, I'm leaving for the shore tonight and will be computerless till Sunday evening.

Please, review, comment, question as you see fit. It's your reviews that give me the backbone to continue posting this story for your edification. I must admit, whenever I open a review, I read it through my fingers first, scared for some sort of scathing, not even constructive flame. :-/

Enough rambling.

Thank you for taking the time to read my work!
Miette