The door was cracked when we got to it. I had the sneaking suspicion someone was there who hadn't been there this morning. Easton pulled Kezi back from the door and I took point, Riptide out in front of me.

When the door slammed open, a guy sat up from the couch and winced while he looked over to us.

"What the hell?" He mumbled.

Kezi wriggled past me and around the couch, sitting quickly beside Athan.

"How are you?" She asked as she ran her fingers through his hair.

"Don't hover."

"Answer the question."

Athan shook his head and rested it against Kezi's. "Not great."

"But better than last time?"

Athan nodded against her head.

Nico walked quickly through the door to the kitchen, followed closely by Taylor, who moved over to Kezi and Athan.

Nico stopped in front of me.

"Did you find anything?"

"Only an idea to go to Fallingwater," I told him. "But apparently we can't go today."

Easton stared me down. "I told you to leave her alone, Jackson."

"Why?" Came a voice I didn't recognize from the kitchen door.

Kezi jumped so she nearly fell off the couch. Athan groaned and held his head in his hands.

"Scare easily now, Blake?" The guy had the same color eyes as the twins, but his hair was brown and he towered over everyone in the room.

"Jayce," Kezi said evenly. "What's with the sudden appearance? Thought seven years was long enough?"

"Oh, please. Like I'd just leave for seven years because I can."

Kezi opened her mouth to retort and immediately Athan, Easton, and Taylor all jumped to stop her. Athan put a hand over her mouth.

"Whatever you do, don't say something we'll all regret." Athan told her as she shoved his hand away.

"He's a lawyer. What do you expect?" Taylor added.

Easton shoved him onto the couch next to Kezi. "That is exactly what he meant."

Kezi rolled her eyes. "So why would you come back?" She asked, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

"I'll ignore that." Jayce returned. Athan put his hand over Kezi's mouth again.

"The gods allowed it," Jayce continues. "They're the ones who cut us off in the first place."

Nico and I glanced at each other quickly.

"Why would the gods do that?" I asked.

Jayce looked at me for the first time and when he looked back to Kezi she leaned back and crossed her arms in front of herself as though daring Jayce to continue. His eyebrows furrowed and he slowly leaned back against the wall behind him.

"You're pregnant," Jayce stated simply, all edge gone from his voice.

"Way to go, Sherlock." Taylor snapped. Kezi, on the other hand, shifted uncomfortably and pulled Athan's arm in front of her. Kezi and Athan each wore a look of unease.

"That explains a lot." Jayce shook his head. "I'm sorry."

There was a thud as Taylor hit the floor. Athan and Easton both stared Kezi down. I guess she'd shoved her brother off the couch. Of course, Kezi didn't even blink. Remind me to never play poker with her.

"You never answered Percy's question." Kezi pointed out.

Jayce nodded. "Apparently the guy who hit Allie and I had been one of the minor gods. Olympus didn't want to risk any knowledge of the quest he was muttering about to get out so they did their best to separate us from you two- three," Jayce explained. He started to grin when he continued. "Although Easton managed to find us anyway," The grin disappeared. "And started dating Allie."

Kezi sat up straight and watched her older brother carefully. "What was that about a quest?"

I moved closer to Jayce. "You did say something about a quest. Which quest? What did he say?"

Jayce turned slowly to face me straight on. "It was the quest to find Annabeth. He said something about Fallingwater and then the Heinz plant."

"How can she be in two places?" I asked punching one of the pillows on the back of the couch.

Kezi moved to sit on Athan's other side and Taylor slid back down onto the floor. Even Jayce jumped.

Nico grabbed my arm and pulled me back a few steps. "Dude, relax. We'll go to Fallingwater first and then the other place. We can sneak in with a tour or something."

"They don't give tours at the Heinz plant," Easton pointed out.

"Then we'll break in," I argued.

Kezi waved her hand dismissively. "We can be more creative than that."

"Kezi," Athan warned.

"How are we getting in?" I demanded.

Taylor looked up at his sister. "You haven't really spent much time around here in the last four years, Zee. How creative about it can you be?"

Kezi raised an eyebrow. "When are you all going to stop underestimating me? Hand me that notebook, would you?"

Taylor pulled a notebook out from under the couch along with a pen and handed it to her.

Kezi immediately flipped to an empty page and started to sketch out a plan of the building. When she hesitated, Easton took the pen and seamlessly added on a few more rooms. Everyone gathered around as they neared the completion of their drawing.

Jayce sat down on the floor by Kezi's foot and studied the drawing. "There was a door right there," he said, taping on a blank piece of wall. "We didn't get to go in there and when we asked they acted like it wasn't there."

Kezi glanced to her brother and then nodded. "That's right," she mumbled and added in a door with a question mark behind it.

Kezi carefully smoothed out the page and looked around at us all. "All right. So I've only been in here once, like, ten years ago. They don't like to let random people in without a really good reason and I don't think kidnapping would be one of them."

"What's ours, then?" I asked from behind the couch.

Again, Kezi looked around at everybody. "I don't really know; I feel like they would check up on any paper we might say we're writing and, quite frankly, I've never used anything else to get into places." Kezi shrugged. "I'll come up with something when we get there.

"Anyway," She continued. "My point was that when we get in, we're going to need to go over here," she circled the back upstairs area where Jayce had had her add something. "Since that's where the offices are. It's not wide open back there and it's really the ideal hiding spot."

I nodded.

"Are you sure it's accurate?" Nico asked carefully.

"Am I sure my drawing is accurate?" Kezi repeated sarcastically. "Nope. Not at all."

"So for all you know, we could be walking into an ambush in a completely unfamiliar place?" I asked somewhat bitterly.

"It's nothing new though, right?" Kezi returned.

I leaned forward a bit. "I'd rather not risk it when I'm trying to find Annabeth."

"This is the best you've got. Take it or leave it." Kezi stared me down unblinkingly without portraying so much as the smallest doubt.

I was starting to doubt her though. Why was she so willing to lead me to a place she hadn't been to in years without a plan? What did she have up her sleeve?

"Nothing," Kezi hissed. "I have nothing up my sleeve with which I would trick you."

I started. Did I ask that out loud?

"No. And you didn't ask that out loud either."

"What the hell is wrong with you? How do you keep doing that?" I snapped at her.

Kezi shrugged and turned back to her notebook. "Don't play poker."

I shook myself and turned towards the door. "Fine. Tomorrow we'll be at Fallingwater when it opens. Then we'll go to the Heinz plant if we need to." I placed my hand on the doorknob. "I'm going for a walk."

"Wait, Percy, there's something else." Something about Jayce's voice stopped me in my tracks. "The god said you know the guy who kidnapped Annabeth."

Tada! I have more but I thought that'd be a nice place to stop.

Disclaimer: Never have I ever claimed to be Rick Riordan.

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