Hi! Okay, first off, thanks so much to everyone who reviewed: ilovepercyjackson3000, Poseidon'sKid101, Silverstream10, dess345, xXthe shadow huntressxX , Katie Henderson, pineconeface711, Willow Plixstar, PercyBeth, Kennagirl, ., Nicco1395, FunnyLaugh, XxXTridentsForRentXxX, SpartanSith, p4d, BURRITO-FIGHT, ZoeNightshade2214, Silverstream10, and Alicen-Newton-Loves-JasperHale . You guys are the best!

Also, remember a couple chapters back (chapter 7 to be exact) I said that Percy was a marine biologist, well I changed that. It was a cliché idea and it didn't work with the story as well as I would like it too, so his new profession is a car designer. If you go back to chapter 7 where I say that he is a marine biologist, you will see that I changed those two lines.

Another thing, in this chapter Ally reads the diary. Instead of her saying what is written, it will be a flashback of the scene. You will see what I mean when I get there.

Okay, this chapter has a couple of songs. Well, two. The first one I will say right now, it is: Do You Remember by Standard Candle. The second one I will say when you should excerpt it in. It fits the part really well.


Whenever I remember the story of how I learned that I am able to control water always makes my stomach turn it knots. It reminds me that I'm keeping so many secrets.

I'm keeping secrets about what I know, I'm keeping secrets about who I am, and I'm keeping secrets about what I'm holding.

And it's so terrifying to know that some day soon I might just slip up. That every secret I'm keeping will spill out of me like water out of a watering can. Fast, forward, and wet.

I looked over at Layla. She's not keeping secrets. She doesn't appear to have powers that she can't understand. She's just like Mom, determined, observant, clever, smart, and well, perfect. I'm envious of the two of them.

I'm the mistake in the family. I was born when mom was 16; I made her a teenage mother. I made her life that much more complicated. I ruined her life. Yes, she still went to Columbia, had the great architecture college learning experience, and still has a great job and a successful life. It's remarkable.

I can't help but wonder though how much better her life would be without me. If Layla were mom and dad's only child how much better would their life be? They'd only have one smart daughter to take care of. Mom and dad wouldn't have to have had their whole lives turned upside down because of me.

I am a mistake. I, Allison Chase Greensburg am a mistake, and I will from here on forth make sure that I am no longer a burden to them. That I won't make their lives any harder than they already are, effective: today.

"So, Ally, what grade are you in?" Percy asked, pulling me out of my regretful thoughts.

"9th." I replied simply. I could see the wheels in Percy's brain turning; then a sudden look of shock spread across his face.

"You are 15 years old?" Percy asked me, his eyes were wide, and he kept looking back and forth between my mom and I. Although, I think that we were the only two to notice.

"14 actually, I turn 15 on June 1st." I corrected. My due date was in late May, but dad always used to tell me stories of how I was late and mom was about to force me out of her.

"Oh, look at the time. We really should be going." My mom said, looking down at her watch before Percy could reply. Normally I would wonder what the rush was, but I made my oath to make their lives easy so I'm not going to wonder, I'm just going to go with it.

"Are you sure, you could always stay for coffee." Percy said, but he was too late. Mom was almost out the door of the living room.

"Annabeth is right, we have a big day ahead of us tomorrow. We should be heading out, but thanks so much for having us over." My dad said. We were now in the foyer.

"Well, thanks for coming over; it was really nice to catch up." Percy said, giving my mom a hug.

"If you are ever coming to New York, please call, we can meet up." My mom said as Regina opened the door to the house.

"Actually, I'll be coming to New York in about a week for the auto show."

"Well, then it's our turn to treat you." My dad said, he then walked closer to Percy to whisper in his ear something; I was able to hear what it was though. "We can also talk about the divorce."

Percy nodded and our family walked out of the house and had the door shut behind us.

"That was nice." My father said once we got into the car.

"Defiantly." My mom said, but I could here a hint on resent in her voice.

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I'm bored. There is no other way to say it; I'm bored out of my mind. It's been about 4 days since we've returned home from our adventurous trip to California, and I have about a week before I return back to school. A week or boredom, can't you feel the excitement?

I would call Izzy, but she's been busy. Like her mother, she aspires to be in the theater business, and they are about to have tri-outs for some kid roles in this new play that's coming out, and Izzy is able to tri-out. Which means she spends every second of every day at dance and acting school practicing for her tri-outs. She didn't even have time to hear the full Percy Jackson story.

I would also call some of my school friends, but they are either skiing somewhere, on the beach (boy, do I wish I was on the beach), or are just busy. Layla's having a play-date, Mom and dad are at work, and I'm lying here on my bed.

I decided to call mom, now normally I would tell you to hit me, because whenever I call mom asking her what to do, she always gives me some sort of chore to do, but this time I would rather do a chore than what I'm doing right now.

I picked up the phone and dialed her office number. The receptionist picked up. "Hello, this is Ally. Is Annabeth there?"

"You're lucky, she just came out of a meeting. Hold on a sec." I could hear some sounds from the other side, and then it went silent. This is normal; it takes them forever to track down my busy body mom.

After waiting on the line for a good 3 minutes, my mom finally picked up the phone. "Ally? What's up? Is everything okay sweetie?"

"Yeah, I'm bored. Do you have anything you want me to do?" I asked her. I could hear her breathe for a few seconds before she replied.

"I'd go say read, but I know that you wouldn't do that." She does know me well. "Oh you know what? You can do me a favor, I need the phone number of someone and I left my address book at home. Could you go get it for me and tell me the number?"

"Yeah sure, where is it?"

"It should be in my room. I don't know where, just look around. I'll hold on, don't worry."

"Okay, be back in a minute." I ran put down the phone and ran up to her and room and began to search through all the stuff. It wasn't in plain sight so I began to search around the shelves. Found it! I saw two leather books piled on top of each at the end of one of the shelves. I picked them up, one was in fact her address book, but what was the other one? I flipped open to the first page.

Diary of Annabeth Chase

It's mom's diary? Wow, I have to admit, I wasn't quite expecting that. I wonder what it says. Well, I can't look until I tell her the number she wants.

I ran back to where I left the phone on the table. "Okay, which number do you want?"

"The number of Aunt Thalia." She replied. I began to flip through the pages. We used to see Aunt Thalia every so often, but lately we rarely see her. I gave her the number once I found it. "Thanks so much sweetie."

"Hey mom?" I said before she could hang up the phone.

"How come we never see Aunt Thalia anymore? We used to see every so often but now we never see her."

"She's been really busy. But hopefully we'll see her soon."

"Yeah. Well, I'll let you go, I know that you're busy."

"I am. Okay Ally, I'll see you tonight. And please, if you can't think of anything else to do please read a book."

"I'll think of something to do." I said, thinking of her diary. I know that you aren't supposed to read people's diaries, but what bad can come from it. It will be entertaining plus maybe I'll find out more about her past.

I hung up the phone and went back to the diary that I left upstairs. I opened it to the first page with writing. It was dated back to a day in late august the year before I was born. I could recognize this date; it was the date that we had to study several times in school. It was the day Percy Jackson saved the world from terrorists.

(A/N: This is where you enter the new song. It's called: I'm With You by Avril Lavigne. It really fits this part)

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15 Years Ago, Late August, Annabeth's Hotel Room, New York City

Annabeth's eyes fluttered open. She stared at the ceiling of the hotel room. There was a little bit of light that was coming in through the windows. She was perfectly content. She was more than content, she was happy. The world could end today, but she was happy, at least for now.

The memories of the night before came flooding back to her like a wave and on reaction she looked next to her, expecting to see Percy right there beside her. But he wasn't there.

She sat straight up, and saw Percy standing there, just about to walk out the door. "Where do you think that you're going?" She asked, she didn't want him to go anywhere; she wanted him to say here right besides her. She knew he wouldn't be able to do that, but it was worth a shot.

"To save the world, hopefully." He said as he gave her one of the smiles that melted her heart.

"Can't the world wait, like 10 more minutes?" She said as she stood up and walked over to him.

"I don't know about the world, but I know that dad and Zeus won't. They don't have much patience you know." He said, taking her hand.

"You're right, I guess." She said, looking down feeling disappointed and lonely even though he was right there.

"I'm sorry, but if we're both still alive tonight we can hang out, just you and me. I promise." He promised her, which made her heart rise just a tiny bit.

"And if they try to throw you a party?" She asked him.

"We blow it off, or we tell them to have it tomorrow, whichever seems best." He said, giving her a big goofy smile that always made her smile, no matter how sad she was.

"Deal. Now it's time to go save the world, Seaweed Brain." She said as she gave him one last kiss.

"See you later, Wise Girl." He walked out the door, leaving her really alone, but full of hope.

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Later that same day; mid afternoon

Annabeth chopped another monster in half. She had fighting for hours on the streets of New York City. About an hour ago, they barricaded a four-block square around the empire state building. She couldn't help but wonder what mortals saw, but whatever it was, it couldn't be pretty.

"He did it! It's over!" She heard a half blood son of Hermes say.

"What?" She said, running up to the boy.

"Percy beat Kronos. He stabbed him in the heart. The war is over!" He ran off spreading the good news. She ran in the direction he came from, she had to find Percy. She ran up to the clump of people, but it wasn't just made up of half-bloods and satyrs, but it was also made up of mortals. With cameras?

"Where's Percy?" She asked Clarisse, who seemed to be leaving the circle.

"The punk? Oh, he left about 5 minutes ago. He got swept off with the paparazzi. They think he saved the world from a terrorist attack or something. Sorry Princess, but he's gone." Clarisse replied than walked off. Annabeth didn't move. She couldn't believe that Percy left off without her, especially after what he promised her that very moment. But sadly, Clarisse was right, Percy was gone, and Annabeth was left standing alone on the middle of the streets with commotion all around her.

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About 3 weeks later; San Francisco

"Why was I so stupid?" Annabeth muttered aloud to herself as she walked out of her new boyfriends house. She still liked Percy, and part of her wanted to believe that he was coming back for her, but she put that aside as a stupid thought.

She liked her new boyfriend just fine. He was nice, sweet, and practically the perfect boyfriend for anyone, but her. She wanted stupid Seaweed Brain to come back for her, but the wise, second guessing, logical part of her brain refused to believe that he would and gave up. And now she was stuck in this stupid relationship.

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Early October; the Doctors office

"Well, Annabeth, you are healthy." Her doctor said. Annabeth put down the magazine article she was reading about Percy's experience saving the world.

"Really? That's great! So can I go?" She asked her doctor, who sadly shook her head.

"You are healthy, but you are changing. You are pregnant." That was the worst thing the doctor could have said. Pregnant? She couldn't believe how stupid she was. What was even stupider was she didn't who know the father was.

"You're kidding, right?" She asked the doctor.

"No, I'm sorry Annabeth, but you're going to be a mother in about 9 months. But you could consider different options, like adoption for example." The thing was, she couldn't consider adoption. This baby was some fraction god. The baby was defiantly part Athena, but the baby could also be part Poseidon. She couldn't have some mortal take care of this baby, it was too special, unique, and dangerous.

"I can't. Well, thanks. So what do I do now?" The doctor ran through a list of different things she should and shouldn't do, eat, and take. Her head was spinning. Her life was turned upside down and backwards. She had a whole life planned ahead including architecture, college, and so much more. But now she was stuck, limited. She'd have a baby who tailed along every step of the way, making everything 10 times slower.

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About two weeks later; a café in San Francisco

"I think we have to break up." She told Jason, her new boyfriend, a possible father of her new child.

"What? Why?" He asked his face was filled with shock and sorrow.

"It's just, not a good time for me right now." She explained she wasn't going to tell him she was pregnant. She didn't want to drag him into something that was her own fault, plus, he might not even be the father.

"That doesn't mean anything, Annabeth. It's never a good time for anyone; we just have to pull through it. We've had so much fun together." He said, he grabbed her hands and began to shake them.

"I'm pregnant." She blurted out, she hadn't meant to say it so bluntly nor had she even meant to come out, but it did.

"Oh. Wow… I wasn't expecting that." He said, letting go of her hands.

"Exactly, which is why we need to break up. This baby doesn't need to ruin two people's lives, it can only ruin mine, I want you to go on and live a nice life." She said to Jason.

"No, how do you think that I would feel with myself if I let you do that? Terrible, no, I'm going to raise this baby with you. Annabeth, we can get married when we're 18." He planned.

"What? Who said anything about married, I was just thinking about having this baby…" She said, but was interrupted.

"No, not now. When we're 18, if we are still together, let's get married."

"Fine." She blurted out before she could think through what she had just agreed to.

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June 1st; Hospital in San Francisco

"Here Ms. Chase, here is your new baby girl." The nurse handed over the tiny baby girl to Annabeth who took her with open arms. Just then, Jason ran in.

"Oh look! There she is!" He said as he ran up to his girlfriend.

"Have you decided on a name?" The nurse asked.

"N –" Jason began, but was cut off by Annabeth.

"Yes, her name is Allison." She said to the nurse, and then she turned to Jason. "From Allison in Wonderland."

"Sounds good, let me go tell my parents that it's a girl and that we've named her." He ran out of the room while the nurse left the room as well.

"Also, because you'll be running through a fantasy maze." She said to the baby. "I want to be honest with you, starting now. I have confession for you, when I first found out I was pregnant; let's just say that I wasn't all that happy. I was upset, worried, nervous, anxious, and most of all afraid. But now looking at you they all go away. You are the best thing that ever happened to me, you understand that?" She began to tear up as she talked to Ally, who stretched a tiny bit and opened her eyes to reveal deep stormy grey eyes.

"When you are older, everything will get more complicated. You'll find out things that you wish that you didn't know, about your grandparents, about your true father. Yes, I'm sad to admit that the man who thinks he's your father isn't. It's the man on the news. Do you want to know how I can tell? It's your hair." She looked at the baby's thin layer of jet-black hair. "It's also the salty sweet smell of the ocean that is surrounding this room right now. Hi Ally Jackson Chase Greensburg."

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Wow. That's the only thought that came to my head. My whole life has been one huge lie. But I know four things for sure. One, I'm not mortal. I'm apparently part god, which explains the daggers, the invisible hats, and most of all, my power over water. Two, the man who for the past 15 years I've though is my dad, isn't. It's the man I met about a week ago, with jet-black hair, and a charming smile. Three, I was wrong about what my mom thought about me. I wasn't a mistake, but a gift. And the forth and final thing, I had to tell someone, I am tired of secrets, and I have to tell someone.

Okay, there you have it, the super long (it is 7 pages on word…), extremely important, chapter! Don't worry, the story isn't almost over, it's just at one of the many climaxes. I actually wrote this chapter twice, but they were completely different. The first one didn't even have memory part, but I thought that it was time to include it.

I don't know if this counts as a cliffhanger or anything, but if it does, I'm sorry.

Also, my super cool friend WindowChild has started a Percy Jackson and the Olympians fic that is totally original and awesome, so I suggest that you read it. It only has two chapters so far, but both are amazing! She's an awesome author and I highly recommend this story. It's called: Schola Superum.

Also, I'm going to try to update as soon as possible, but the week days are always very busy for me and the next few weekends I'm packed with stuff to do (next weekend is high school orientation, blech) so I'll do the best I can, but I don't think that I can do many more promises until schools out.

Now that I'm done with my advertising part of this author's note, I'm going to now go to the part where I beg you guys to please review. So, pretty please with a huge cherry on top review! This chapter is really important so I really want feedback especially.

Thanks for reading (and reviewing hopefully)!

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