"Daddy, can we play soccer?" Jake asked his father as he stood up from his place on the picnic blanket.
"What happened to when we did this peacefully and all my attention was on you?" Percy whispered into his wife's ear.
"We had kids," was her reply as she watched her husband be dragged off the blanket and onto the grass field to play a game of soccer with her two sons. Their daughter Thalia was taking a nap right next to her mother, though Annabeth knew it wouldn't be long before the small child woke to see her brothers playing soccer and would join them. Annabeth studied her small clan, noticing how her children seemed to be cooperating just a bit better even though it had only been a week since she had left them.
"Mommy, come join us!" Jake yelled to his mother as he and his brother played soccer against their dad.
"I cant sweet's, I'm really tired."
"I'll play!" Thalia screamed s she jumped up from her resting place. Annabeth laughed silently as she watched her little daughter. She couldn't believe that her only daughter, her little girl, was about to turn four. It felt like she had had her just yesterday and not four years ago.
"Hey, mom, since we all have one more night together can we go to the movies tonight. I heard that that new movie, Iron Man 2 is coming out and we all loved the first one. Please," Luke begged his mother on his hands and knees.
"Fine, I suppose," Annabeth said. That's when it happened, a rush of wind and there in front of the whole family stood theā¦
