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Percy
I went back to the Stolls, who were innocently waiting for me.
"Did you see her? Did she agree?" asked Travis, sitting up on the small counter. Connor joined him as he added, "You seem freaked out."
"I ran away."
As I knew they would, they began cracking up. I resisted trying to kill them.
"Wow man, you really are scared of that girl."
"Why don't one of you go to her and tell her what's going on? I'm sure she'll appreciate knowing I've got a blood supplier."
Travis pointed at Connor and said, "You go."
"Why?" he whined. "You're older!"
"Wait," I interrupted, "Older? I thought you guys were twins!"
Again they started cracking up.
"Dude," said Travis. "I'm older. It's just we look really alike."
Well now I feel stupid. You think you'd know people after like 200 years. Anyways, they said they'd gotten the blood to my house and put it in the kitchen. Yay me, I finally get to eat.
As I happily sipped my blood, I began thinking about how to tell Thalia about helping me without her trying to kill me. And then there was Annabeth to worry about…
Why did she keep coming back?
I soon realized my bag was empty and stood up when I heard a voice.
"You're back too? Well isn't this nice."
I grinned and replied, "Still emo, little cousin?"
I turned to find Nico on my kitchen counter. He was a werewolf. It's strange to say that since we're cousins but really it's true. He looked the same: all black clothes (with aviator's jacket), black hair, and olive skin. He's 193 years old so he's significantly younger than most of us. But he was pretty smart for someone who looked 19.
"That depends, do you still sleep with every girl you see then kill them? Because this blood bag here says otherwise…"
We had a nice talk…I guess. I mean we didn't try to kill each other. Nico has hated me ever since Bianca died, but apparently he's over that now. I guess that's good.
"Nico, why are you here? I thought you left too."
"I did leave. Now I'm back."
"But why?"
I had already told him my reasons, but it didn't make sense that he was here too. Usually it would be really rare for all three (including Thalia) of us to be in the same town at the same time. Actually that's impossible, but I guess it happened.
"Don't you remember? I thought that's why you were here too at first. Thalia's time limit…it's really soon."
The time limit...how could I forget about the time limit? It's over soon, and he'll be gone forever. Thalia would never forgive us. Then again, she might also stop trying to kill us.
Does that even make sense?
"But wouldn't that mean you'd want to stay as far away from Thalia as possible? Now that she's running out of time, she'll want to kill us more than ever."
"I think we can stop that. Maybe since it's been so long we can talk some sense into her."
"Yeah, I just saw her on her balcony and I ran away. I'm not so sure I want to see her again."
"But you need to forget about Annabeth and Thalia is the only one who can manipulate the Mist."
"You talked to the Stolls, didn't you?"
He grinned.
"So if you really want to forget Annabeth that badly, I can help you. We can both break in to Thalia's house and take Annabeth then when Thalia wants her back we can trade for her erasing your memories."
See? He's really smart. He literally made up a brilliant plan in five seconds. We ended up following the plan back up to the balcony where I was before with some rope. We could see Annabeth sitting on the bed inside. She looked so…not sad, confused. It was like she was thinking really hard about something and couldn't find the answer.
Then Nico did something strange. He opened the door (which was coincidentally unlocked) and walked in.
Annabeth saw us and screamed. I ran in and grasped her wrists and tied them while Nico gagged her mouth. Strangely old-fashioned for a vampire and werewolf, but it worked. I picked Annabeth up and took her to Nico's cabin. First of all, please do not imagine Edward carrying Bella while jumping on tree branches. Second, let me explain Nico's cabin. It's located in the fields of really tall grass and has only one room. It's double the size of a two car garage and it takes forever to find. Luckily I found it pretty quickly since Nico was with me. I set her down on the bed inside.
She looked like she was really pissed off.
"So this is Annabeth. I met her, I could sense her Mark. How could you have slept with her and not known she was a hunter?"
I could see her face turn red. I don't know why but I think mine did too. I've never been embarrassed by this kind of thing. Maybe because all of the girls I have slept with are dead.
"I didn't sleep with her. And I swear she never had a Mark before."
Annabeth began trying to talk trough the gag but it didn't really work considering that we couldn't understand a word of it. Nico raised his eyebrows and jutted his chin towards her as if asking: ungag her now?
To answer I walked up to Annabeth and gently pulled the gag out of her mouth. My fingers brushed her cheek and I was surprised how cold it was.
"Thank you," she whispered. All the attempted screaming must have ruined her voice.
I couldn't answer and just kept staring at her. I was so close to her. I looked from her eyes to her lips, trying to remember what they felt like. She said nothing more and just looked at her hands in her lap.
"What were you trying to say?" asked Nico, breaking to silence.
Annabeth looked up and croaked, "I got the Mark just a little while ago. Thalia said my hunter side was dormant."
"How did it get activated though?" I asked.
She continued to look at Nico as she answered, "I killed a supernatural creature."
Suddenly it hit me. Rachel hadn't answered my calls or texts or anything. I hadn't seen her since that night Annabeth discovered I was a vampire.
I took Annabeth by the shoulders and asked, "Where is she?"
She didn't answer so I shook her hard and repeated myself. Nico came up and pulled me back.
"She's in my old apartment," she croaked. I gave Nico a quick nod and ran out the door.
When I got there, I found Rachel's body with a broken coffee table and lots of blood. Tears began to sting my eyes. I knelt down next to her and touched her forehead. My best friend was gone. The only person who really understood me was gone. The one person who I knew I could always count on was gone.
And someone was going to pay for what they did.
A/N: So…good chapter? Not so good chapter? Again, I'm really sorry it was short but I wanted to just finish it already. Then again that's what I always want to do…not like in a bad way, it's just that sometime I get sick of overthinking it so I just type up everything and post.
Anyways, how's life, people? :D
Percy seems to be doing great in this fan fiction, I mean look: his best friend was murdered by is kind of sort of maybe ex-girlfriend, he has completely mixed feelings about his kind of sort of maybe ex-girlfriend, his werewolf cousin doesn't hate him anymore (or does he?) but his hunter cousin does, and the Stolls are being as mischievous as ever.
Great life, huh…not to mention he's a vampire…
I'll try to make the next chapter longer and have it up soon. I said try, okay?
Now think back to somewhere in the chapter when Percy and Nico were talking about Thalia's time limit. What could that mean?
And no, I'm not just going to tell you because that would be boring…
Review, review, review! Yay for pancakes!