In Our Blood

Author's Note:

We're sorry for being so annoying and not updating this story in such a long time! We both have AP work to do (meaning my brother and I) so we haven't gotten to write. Obviously, it's the 'sister' of the sibling group typing this. … is there even a such thing as skin of your teeth? I really don't know.

She'd like to dedicate this chapter to her brother. Her co-author. Who stole her phone charger and needs to give it back. –stares angrily- Nah, I'm kidding. Well, not about the phone charger. I /need/ that, thank you very much. But I'm dedicating this chapter to you because … well, that one part about the fifth grade person. Because its /epic, and we both know it.

Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson followed the quickly disappearing Chiron intothe small room where the twin brother and sister were already situated in two beds, looking as if they'd narrowly escaped death – which, if you wanted to be frank, they had. By the skin of their teeth, actually.

"Chiron," Annabeth said as they followed anxiously into the room, her gray eyes settling on the half-bloods, "I don't understand. Obviously they're half bloods, but besides the condition that they are in . . . what is the concern about them? You can't think that they're…" The athletic blonde trailed off nervously.

"I don't know yet, Annabeth." Chiron said, his tired sigh filling the room. "I do have my suspicions. I'm wondering if this monster was operating under Luke's command." Annabeth's eyes traced over the twins carefully.

"Do you think that they're one of the big three, then?" Percy said, his eyes gone wide. He knew all too well what that would mean.

Chiron shook his head and sighed. "This is going to have to wait. We'll nurse them back to health first, and we'll find out when they awaken, I suppose. I just wish that we knew more about them . . . names would help. Ages, perhaps. It'll have to wait. I called the two of you up here because I will need someone to keep a close eye on them. Would you take shifts?"

Annabeth nodded, her eyes not leaving the pair. One could almost see the wheels churning in Percy Jackson's eyes as he opened his mouth to tell Chiron, "Sir – I believe that I do have some information on them, in fact."

Annabeth finally spun from her watch on them, to face Percy, her eyes incredulous. "What do you mean, you have information, you seaweed brain?! We've been sitting here wondering and you're withholding info on them?"

"No, no, I just realized!" He confessed quickly. "I … I went to school with them, I think." He suddenly chuckled, at a long forgotten memory, perhaps.

"They live too far from you to have gone to the same school, Percy. From where they were found-"

"It was one my fourth school. I'd blown so many schools by fifth grade that I had to go pretty far from home. It's been awhile, obviously, but I'm 99 sure that they're Cielo and Ray Lightwood."

"H-how could you remember them?!" Annabeth asked, bewildered.

Percy laughed again, at that long forgotten memory. "They were kind of hard to forget. I believe they were in … first grade... yes, first grade… when I knew them. It's a long story, but there was this bully in the fifth grade. He happened to pick on one of their friends, and the two of them stormed up to him like they were ten feet tall and had the muscles of body builders. They told him off like nobody's business… I believe Cielo may have slapped him. As I said, hard to forget. Everybody knew them that year."

Annabeth was grinning so wildly at the end of this story, trying to keep from laughing. "That's what that dude gets then." She said, brushing back her long curly blonde hair. "That's priceless."

Percy grinned.

Chiron couldn't help a small smile either. "I'd expect no less from half-bloods. So you'll stay with them then to watch, the both of you?"

They both nodded, committed to helping the kindergarten warriors.

"I'll send someone to relieve the both of you in a couple of hours. Until then, watch them carefully . . . if they show any … signs, of being-"

"Of the big three?"

"Yes… then please come to me immediately."

Chiron left then, leaving the halfbloods with the twins, Percy's mind going over long forgotten memories of the kids he'd known so long ago.

"Well, seaweed brain, we're going to be here for awhile… wanna play cards?"

Author's Note:

I don't like the way that chapter ended, but oh well. There is a trailer for this fan fiction on youtube, you know. Go check it out, leave a comment!