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PERCY'S POV:

The next week seemed to fly by. In no time at all we were climbing into the car so my mom could drive us to camp. It would be a little bit until we

got to camp so I leaned my head back against the seat and fell asleep. A little while later I felt someone shaking my shoulder.

"Seaweed Brain!! Wake up already!! We're here!" I jerked awake and saw Annabeth standing over me yelling at me to wake up.

"Alright, jeez. I'm up" I stood up and, hoping she wouldn't notice, wiped at my mouth in case I'd been drooling. She smirked. Well, she noticed.

"Finally," she complained before walking over to hug Chiron. I just rolled my eyes and got my stuff out of the car. "See you at dinner!" I called to her before trudging off to my cabin. After I dumped my stuff beside my bunk, I decided to go train a little bit.

About an hour and a half later I stopped training, wondering how long 'til dinner. I decided it didn't really matter, and I walked to the beach. I sat down in the soft sand, just by the water's edge. I always felt so calm and peaceful here. It was a great place to think, for anybody, but for me especially. I sighed. Just then I heard a loud cracking sound behind me. I whipped around and my hand immediately flew to my pocket for riptide, but I relaxed when I saw it was just Annabeth.

"Hey Wise Girl."

"Hey Seaweed Brain," she greeted me, and then she sat down beside me. We just sat there in silence for a little bit. It wasn't really an awkward silence, just a peaceful one. We sat and watched the sun coming down over the water. Eventually the horn blew for dinner and I stood up. I offered her my hand. I swear she turned slightly pink, but then she took my hand and I helped her up. She brushed the sand off her jeans and we walked back to the dining pavilion.

"Ummm…Seaweed brain, you can let go of my hand now," Annabeth said somewhat uncomfortably.

"Oh…um," I blushed, "Sorry," I said and dropped her hand. I'd really forgotten I was holding it. I walked over to my table, mentally cursing the rule that made us sit with our own cabin. Then Grover sat down beside me.

'Hey," he said it casually, but I could tell he wanted to ask me something.

"Hey G-man," I said. We sat there in silence for a few minutes. I wasn't really eating; I just sat there playing with my food. I was still thinking about Annabeth. I wanted to tell her how I felt so badly, but if she didn't feel the same it would totally ruin our friendship. Is it really worth it? I didn't know how to tell her anyway, without ending up with a few broken bones that is. Beside me Grover kept squirming. I finally got fed up with it.

"Grover, is there something you wanna ask?" I was trying to be patient.

"Well, yeah" he said and paused uncertainly, "Is there something going on with you and Annabeth? I'm getting loads of weird emotions from both of you."

"No, G-man, it's just been a little weird between us since the whole labyrinth thing," I sighed. I knew he could tell how I felt about her, thanks to the empathy link we shared. I was grateful that he let the subject drop. We ate the rest of our dinner in silence. Chiron said he wanted to talk to me, Annabeth, and Grover, but not until in the morning. I decided to worry about that later.

After dinner I tried to catch up with Annabeth, but she went straight to her cabin. Great, she's avoiding me again. I decided to follow her lead, so I

went to bed. I sat in my cabin with the covers over my head for a while, wondering what Chiron wanted to talk to us about, and why Annabeth was ignoring me, again. Eventually I drifted into a fitful sleep. I had another nightmare, of course.

I was walking along a long empty hallway. I looked around but there were no doors, or turns anywhere. It just went on and on for what seemed like forever. I heard some shouting, and cold laughter, up ahead. I froze in my tracks. Those voices were too familiar. I started to run as fast as my legs could carry me. I was slightly out of breath when I reached the end of the corridor. It emptied into a pretty big circular chamber. The walls, just like those in the hall before it, were slightly damp looking stone with moss creeping up the sides. I shuddered, it was very cold in here. It felt like a dungeon. Then I gasped as I saw where the shouts had been coming from. In the corner tied up were Annabeth and Grover. They were both scratched and bruised. Annabeth had a big gash on her forehead, and she was bleeding pretty badly. I saw Luke come at them with his sword, backbiter, raised over his head. I wanted to stop Luke, to save my friends, but I was frozen in place at the entryway. I couldn't even scream. It was like my brain had shut down. He brought the sword down and-

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!" I screamed, having just woken up from yet another nightmare. I was tangled up in the covers and

sweat was dripping into my eyes. I shuddered and took a deep breath. They're fine Percy, it was just a dream. A really bad dream. I laid there for what felt like a couple hours before drifting back to into a troubled sleep again.

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