What magazine did you rip up AcadmicGames? I would love a Percabeth shirt. This is totally a Percabeth story but will have some Anco or Nicabeth. This chapter might make you think it's like my other story, but it's not.

I do not own PJO or anything I did not makeup.

Annabeth's POV

We were in the rec room having a war meeting. Ever since the minor gods had cabins in camp, we had to push the Foosball table next to the ping pong table. I wanted to design a new table and an entirely new war room with maps of the camp and the U.S.. There would've been a screen monitoring the halfbloods in camp. A skylight would show the constellations of the Greek heroes and...

Off topic, I was mad at Percy. I specifically made it clear I wanted him to go away and what does he do? He comes and hugs me. I figure I did the right thing by beating him up. Well I don't really know if it counts since he's invincible. But it felt good to let out my frustration. He was like a giant doll that therapists give you when you're angry. Only Percy was real.

I looked over at Percy, who was with Calypso. He was looking at me though, which was unsettling. Calypso was talking to him about some plant, but he looked like he was zoned out. Calypso kept talking, she didn't notice.

But I did. He always did that when I talked about architecture. I would let him because it was cute how his mouth was slightly opened like he was ready to cut in, he touched his ear a lot, and he blinked less than usual.

"Let's call this meeting to order," Chiron announced.

"Everyone is present and accounted for," Calypso said. Finally she stopped talking about plants.

"The order of business today is our Oracle is missing," Chiron said. He looked around the room and everyone was talking about what we should've done.

"We should've put her under protection," Clarisse said. "My siblings would be like those bodyguards keeping everyone away."

"Some magic might've kept her safe," the Hecate counselor said.

"*Snore* Just let stay here*snore*" Clovis said.

"Who would want her? She was too ugly hons," Drew said.

"Hunters should've kept an eye on her."

We all looked at the doorway. Thalia was standing there in her usual outfit. Leather jacket, combat boots, death to barbie shirt, the usual.

I got up and just yelled out, "THALIA!"

She came over and hugged me. Then she whispered in my ear, "Don't worry, Seaweed Brain is gonna pay."

Then she let go and got a chair.

I sat back down fixing my hair and acting nonchalant. "So let's continue."

"What the Hades is Thalia doing here?" Nico asked. He never liked these meetings. His feet were on the table and he was leaning back.

"I can come over whenever I want dead boy!"

Nico just grumbled. He was 16 (Let's pretend) he should stop acting like a child.

"Well, we can't do anything now," Chiron said, getting back to the reason we were here. "Now all we can do is wait and see if she will come back or if a god tells us where she is."

"What are you talking about! It's Rachel!," Percy said standing up. Geez, Percy. You already have Calypso, no need to get that red-haired bi- I mean girl. Sorry, force of habit.

"I understand Percy, but-"

"We need a quest!"

Chiron put his hands on Percy's shoulders. "Percy calm down. Patience. We can't go on a quest without a prophecy, and without an Oracle, there can be no quest."

Percy looked down. He knew he was defeated. I wanted to help him. No matter how mad I was, I wanted to help Rachel. She was okay after she became the Oracle. Plus Percy seemed really bummed out. I couldn't just sit here and let him get talked down.

I stood up and the magazine page I accidentally ripped out fell out of my pocket. Everyone looked at me and looked at the paper. For some reason, when the paper touched the ground, it melted into the shadows.

I just stood still. No one touched or did anything. Chiron broke the silence when he said, "Annabeth, where did you get that?"

"I got it from he Gray Sisters taxi."

Now there was murmuring. Percy sat back down and Calypso put her hands on his. I wanted to go over there and slap her face. Not a bitch slap. I'm not a bitch.

"Did they say anything?" Chiron asked in an urgent tone.

"It was really weird actually, they didn't talk at all."

Then he did the hand gesture that warded away evil. Then he said, "They knew Rachel would go missing and gave you a clue," he opened his eyes and said, "What was on the paper?"

"It was some ad about bringing the dead back to life-"

"That ad is bullcrap," Nico said aloud. "In order to bring the dead back to life you have to go to the underworld and-"

"That is where the quest will start," Chiron said. "The Gray Sisters intentionally left it to rip. Annabeth, they left you the clue, you must lead the quest."

I was up for it. I only had one quest under my belt and I was ready for more adventures. "I accept."

"We only know your destination, so choose your quest partners wisely."

I looked around. "I choose Grover, Nico, and Thalia."

"So be it. I'm not surprised by your choices," Chiron said, but he was looking at Percy. He was in complete shock at my choices. I chose one number over the usual two, but Percy was always in the usual. I was chuckling at his face. His jaw was on the ground, his eyes were in dissaray, and I could practically see steam coming out of his ears.

"It is set, meeting adjourned."

We all left the rec room and I went to the Zeus cabin with Thalia. We started catching up on everything. When we got inside, Thalia said, "Are you sure you don't want Percy along?"

I was stunned by her question. "What do you mean?"

"You guys always had each other's back and worked well together. Even if you're pissed, you need the best possible people for the job."

"Well I have you, that makes up for him."

"As flattered as I am, you know I'm right."

I looked down and noticed the pictures of her, Luke, and I. "I didn't know you kept these in the room." I picked up one of all of us in a photo booth. "These were good times."

"Yeah. At least there are no new Zeus kids, to mess up my stuff," Thalia said as she started packing.

"So you heard about me and Percy?"

"Yeah the cheating douche. I wanted to dump his ass-"

"Okay, stop cursing Thalia. Potty mouth much."

"Sorry, well I was gonna dump him in the lake, but he's the son of Poseidon so that wouldn't have worked so i thought I would get the Stolls to kidnap him and his bed while he was sleeping. Then he would wake up in the middle of camp without his clothes on."

"That sounds hilarious but what if he woke up?"

"Clovis and his pillows would work."

"Well now we're going away for a while. Are we using Orpehus's door?"

"I think so, do you think Percy is mad? You guys have been friends longer than Nico."

"Probably. So it's all good, I mean he has Calypso," I said picking up the pictures on the ground.

"Annabeth," Thalia said as she turned me around, "are you jealous of the stranded island girl?"

"Of course not Thalia!" I said. I was blushing furiously.

"Stop lying to yourself. You know you like him."

"Well it looks like I missed my chance," I said. Tears were welling in my eyes.

"Hey, it's okay. Come on, I'll help you pack."

We went toward my cabin and we heard a slam against the wall.

Percy's POV

"I can't believe she didn't pick me!" I said as Nico, Grover, and I walked to my cabin. Calypso went back to the Big House. i didn't really care about her right now since she was partly the reason I couldn't go on the quest.

I saw the way Annabeth looked at her. She obviously hated her for some reason. I have no idea why, but now I can't save Rachel.

I don't like Rachel that way. I just think that she would have never gone missing if I hadn't shown her the world of gods, halfbloods, and monsters. So I feel somewhat responsible.

We were now inside my cabin and I was pacing. Angry pacing, not the worried pacing like before. "Why didn't she pick me, guys? I'm choosable, right?"

"Choosable's not a word, Percy. And maybe it was because of Calypso," Grover said.

"Yeah I know."

"You do," they both said in unison.

"Yeah, she dislikes her for some reason."

They both groaned and laid back on my bed as I kept pacing. Then a light bulb went off in my head, "Wait a second."

They both got up instantly. "Yes."

"She looked at Calypso and looked angry."

"Yes."

"It looked like she was blushing."

"Yes."

"Then why did she choose Nico?"

Grover groaned and I picked up Nico. "What the Hades?"

"Do you have some thing with Annabeth?"

"Of course not, man. I'm a lot of things, but I would never steal your girlfriend."

"She's not my girlfriend, okay."

"But you want her to be."

"No I don't," I said setting him down. "At least I think I don't."

"But you do, Percy," Grover said.

"No! I mean she's like my best friend. Best friends don't notice how her hair curls at the bottom, or the way her eyes show her mind working, or the way she licks her lips before she wins an argument against me," I said stating the obvious. "Best friends don't notice that stuff."

"Exactly. But you did," Grover said.

I thought about it. How did I not notice it before? I knew everything there was to know about Annabeth, but I never knew how she felt about me, "romantically." Now I picked them both up and pushed them to the wall. Thank you Achilles curse for some extra strength.

"Why didn't you tell me!"

"We didn't know you were this stupid," Nico said struggling.

I let them go and paced more. "Oh my gods. The ad was in the magazine that had the picture of me and Calypso calling us Carcy."

"I think it was Perlypso," Grover cut in.

"Whatever! The point is she must hate my guts," i said. "I have to go on the quest."

"But Annabeth already picked-"

"I got into the quest with Zoe and Bianca. And I can do it again."

I reached for the door handle and Grover said, "Percy you can't just-"

"Ah, ah , ah. I'm gonna do it."

And I slammed the door shut.

Third Person POV

Annabeth, Thalia, Nico, and Grover were in the strawberry van heading to Central Park.

Up above the van... Percy was on blackjack waiting for them to stop.

And up on Olympus... Aphrodite was watching them on her tv screen. "Oooh, my favorite couple is coming together," she said drinking some nectar. "Let's make things a little more interesting."

She reached for her phone and dialed a number. "Hello. Yeah it's me. I know I said your love life was over, but this might be a nice surprise. I need you to meet some halfbloods at the front of the River Styx. Yeah, they're going through the door of Orpheus. Okay thanks! Bye Luke."

She hung up and sipped some more nectar.

"I love this show!"

I just thought of the ending of the story! It will be in like five to seven chapters! I watched a show's season finale, and it fit pefectly with my plot. So now I have the ending, I just have to write the rest of the story.