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Chapter 2
Percy's POV
Right in the middle of dinner, when we were discussing travel plans for our mission, it hit me; we had to take a plane to Ireland. I was terrified of flying, because Zeus had threatened, on more than one occasion, to blow me right out of the sky if I entered a plane. I must have had a worried look on my face because Annabeth asked, "Are you alright seaweed brain?" Gods, I've missed her calling me that this past year so much.
"Its just that, do we have too take a plane to Ireland, because you know how I feel about flying," I explained.
"I was just thinking about that," of course she was, Annabeth is always thinking, "It would be safest to take a boat, but that would be much too time consuming. We could shadow travel on Mrs. O'Leary, but it would leave us with a huge hellhound to take care of." While Annabeth continued babbling on about the countless possibilities, I decided to do some thinking of my own, I know, big shocker! "Annabeth, the Argo 2 was altered this past year to be able to sail at over 200 miles per hour, and with me on board it can go up to 300, so maybe we could borrow it and sail to Ireland in…." And, Annabeth being the beautiful genius she is calculated it in her head, "a little less than a day! Seaweed Brain, that is such a good idea, let's head over to camp to ask Chiron if we can borrow the Argo 2 now!" After we had paid for our sushi, I did one of my New York taxicab whistles and summoned Blackjack, my Pegasus, who landed gracefully on the sidewalk. It never ceases to amaze me how blissfully unaware mortals are to everything around them. Hey boss! I gave up long ago on trying to get Blackjack to stop calling me boss. "Hey, Can you give Annabeth and me a ride to camp?" Sure thing boss, Chiron will be so happy to see Annabeth again. I turned and looked at Annabeth, "Okay, hop on." I climbed on first and she got on behind me and wrapped her hands around my waist so she wouldn't fall off.
Annabeth's POV
It was a short ride to camp, and I was excited to be back, but I was also a little nervous, I mean we aren't even campers anymore. I don't know how they will take to us just waltzing in there and asking to borrow their warship, without a good reason because we were instructed to not tell ANYONE about our mission. But, then again, I did help a big part in building it before the giant war. When we arrived in camp near the canoe lake, it seemed deserted, but then I looked at my clock and saw that it was nine o'clock, and everyone must be at the bonfire. "Everyone's at the bonfire, let's go over there," Percy said. I nodded and put my hand in his as we walked over to the camp fire, just as we had done probably a thousand times before, I almost let a small smile escape onto my lips. The key word there is almost, because if Percy saw my smile, he being the slightly arrogant type, would think it was because of him. Even though, it mostly was, but the last thing I need is an extra arrogant seaweed brain. Percy and I walked over in silence, and no one saw us, not even Chiron. We took a vacant seat in the back next to Hazel, who was staying at Camp Half Blood, to be closer to Leo, who she was now dating. She looked at us with surprise and shock, at first, but it quickly morphed into an expression of joy, at seeing two of her closest friends. Percy held up a finger to his lips, signaling her to be quite. But, I knew she couldn't contain herself and she whispered, "I thought you had both left camp for good? Oh, and Annabeth, how was college? Why are you back, not that I don't want you here I was just wondering," her voice had started in a whisper, but ended up being pretty loud, so we had the whole camp looking at us questioningly. So, before Percy could give one of his famous responses like, ummm, I simply said, "We came to talk to Chiron about something urgent, we were indirectly sent by the gods." I kind of exaggerated about the god part but, it got Chiron's attention and he yelled, "All Right everyone, head back to your cabins and I will see you in the morning." He pointed to Percy and me, "You two, meet me in the big house in ten minutes." Wow, he sure knew how to greet old friends. Piper, Leo, and Hazel ignored Chiron's orders and walked up to us. We immediately started explaining the whole situation, leaving out the explanation of our mission, and when we were finished Leo said, "I'm sure he will let you borrow the Argo 2." He was interrupted by Piper who bluntly said, "When did you two start dating again, because when you left camp Annabeth broke up with you, Percy, and now you are back together again." Percy was just dumbfounded that she figured it out and I said what he was thinking, "How did you know?"
"Well, you both walked in holding hands," Piper pointed out. It turns out I was wrong about no one noticing us. After we had filled them in on how we got back together, which by the end of I was sure both Percy and I were going to turn into tomatoes we were so red, Percy and I headed over to the big house. This was going to be an interesting night.