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Chapter 17: Annabeth

She had found him, she had found her Seaweed Brain! Annabeth didn't think anything could spoil her faith now. She wanted to get away from the Roman camp as soon as they found Percy, but Leo had told her that fixing the ship would take at least a week. Annabeth's thoughts went a little bit farther than Oh, well.

She pulled Percy back as the others left from the river side to go back to the main area of camp.

"Percy," Annabeth started. "what have you told these people? About what you remember? About your past?" she was anxious of his reply, if he had given away too much information, then they might have hurt him, even killed him.

"I've only told one person about the more important stuff I've been remembering." he said. "I didn't even tell Lupa that I was remembering another place for demigods."

Annabeth decided that this was ok. "Who did you tell?" she asked. "Is it that Reyna girl?"

Percy shook his head. "No, its a daughter of Apollo, Hazel. I figured she was the one to tell because her dad is the god of prophecy and all that." he finished.

Annabeth nodded. That made sense. But then why was she still so worried?

"Did you tell her where camp was?" Annabeth asked Percy.

Again, Percy shook his head. "All I remember is that its somewhere on the northern East Coast." he looked at her. "Is that right?"

"Yeah, its in New York." Annabeth said.

"Annabeth," Percy began, narrowing his eyes at her, "why are you asking me whether or not I've told the Romans what I remember?" So he didn't understand. After spending six months with these people, Percy still didn't realize that the Roman demigods were much more war-like than Greek demigods. Annabeth had known and understood that when they first figured out where Percy was, way before the Argo II was even built. Losing your memory did that to you.

"You haven't realized, even since you started remembering Camp Half-Blood, that the people here are much more fierce, disciplined, and war-like? You haven't realized that they would kill you instantly if they knew you were a Greek demigod?" Annabeth sighed, other people's lack of logic always amazed her. She wondered what it was like having a godly parent other than Athena.

"I guess I knew, somehow, because only one person knows that I'm a Greek demigod, Hazel. And I guess Lupa had been suspecting it all along as well." Percy sighed. "Let's head back toward camp, people will be wondering where we went."

"Yeah, ok." Annabeth said. I'm just glad that you're still the same old Seaweed Brain. Annabeth thought.

When Annabeth and Percy got back to the camp, Annabeth found Piper and Reyna arguing. Reyna looked murderous, and was plugging her ears while Piper tried to talk to her. Annabeth understood immediately that Reyna didn't want to be a subject of Piper's charmspeaking.

"Hey, guys what's wrong?" Annabeth asked, trying to sound casual, though she could guess what this was about. Percy drifted off in the direction of the cabins.

Reyna turned to Annabeth and said, "Stay out of it! Its not your problem! This Venus freak is trying to charmspeak me!" Reyna finished angrily, still holding her ears.

"I'm not!" Piper yelled back. "I just want to explain that he remembered this place only a week after he came to our camp! He remembered you, even though he was friends with me!" Piper could be pretty darn scary when she wanted to be.

"Yeah? Is it really just friends? Did he really remember all that?" Reyna sneered. "How do I know that you haven't charmspeaked him into telling anyone that if they asked him, and now you're trying to charmspeak me into believing you!"

"Woah, guys calm down." Annabeth had to intervene. "Piper would never charmspeak anyone just to get close to them. She's not that kind of person."

"Thank you, Annabeth!" Piper exclaimed. "Jeez, Reyna, you-"

"NO!" Reyna yelled over Piper. "I can't trust you Greeks, I don't care if Jason or anyone else does, but I certainly can't!" she fumed. "We were separated for a reason, and now you come out of the blue and say, 'Trust us! We're your friends, even though we fought very violently in the Civil War!' Why should I trust you, in battle or as friends? You're pathetic weaklings, and you know its true."

Annabeth tried to control her temper. Getting into a fight now was exactly the opposite of what they wanted to achieve. She continued to remind herself that to defeat Gaea they needed the Romans, and tried not to listen to Reyna and Piper arguing. As they were arguing, Annabeth saw Jason sitting on a bench not far away, his head in his hands, shaking it back and forth. She was pretty sure Jason wasn't supposed to hear this. It was almost funny, seeing him watching them and them not knowing it, until Reyna grabbed Piper by the shirt and yelled in her face, "LEAVE! ALL OF YOU! WE DON'T NEED OR WANT YOU HERE! YOU'RE RUINING EVERYTHING, FROM FRIENDS TO TRAINING!"

Jason stood up, but Annabeth was already there, pulling them apart. Both kicked and fought at each other, but suddenly Lupa was there, yelling, "ENOUGH!"

Piper was still fuming and giving Reyna murderous looks, but Reyna stood stock still, staring at Lupa. Lupa looked between her and Piper, and said, very softly, very dangerously, "Come with me, both of you. Annabeth and Jason, you come too." Piper and Reyna hadn't noticed Jason standing a few feet behind them. Both girls turned a little red, but nobody said a word as they followed Lupa to her cave.

Settling down, Lupa continued in that dangerous tone, "Now, girls. Would you mind explaining yourselves?"

Both started talking at once, so Lupa hushed them and asked Annabeth what had happened. Annabeth explained all that she had understood from what she'd heard, which was that the two were arguing about Jason, and when she was finished, Lupa asked Reyna and Piper, "Is this true?"

They slowly nodded, faces a little red, and Reyna stepped forward and said, "Lupa, I meant no disrespect to our visitors, I just wanted to talk... about- things... and the Venus kid here overreacted a little.

Piper, still enraged, started, "DISRESPECT? You meant no DISRESPECT?" Piper asked incredulously. "You're the one who started it! You-" and again Lupa interrupted her.

"Reyna, Piper, I'm afraid that a punishment will be needed to teach you how to properly treat our guests. Not grab them by their shirts, I mean." she added that last part looking at Reyna. Reyna looked like steam was going to come out of her ears. "But," Lupa continued, "as you will be leaving in about a week, I will simply set you on kitchen duty for breakfast and dinner until you leave. Now all of you should leave me."

Annabeth exited the cave, the voices of Piper and Reyna starting to argue again ringing in her ears. She reached the pavilion where people were gathering for dinner, and went over to Percy.

"It looks like our little trip won't be as easy as we thought." Annabeth said quietly. Percy sighed, and they sat down to eat dinner.

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