I hadn't realized I fell asleep until my stomach was being assaulted by two sets of bouncing bodies. The small twin bed creaked with the added weight. "Percy!" Young female and male voices called out.

Using my arms, I easily scooped them both up and replacing them where I use to be next to their mother. All three of them giggled. "Percy!" Annabeth squealed uncharacteristically when I put even less than half my weight on them. "You are crushing us."

"I don't know, you guys make a really comfortable bed, I'm pretty content right here." I put a little more pressure on them as they squirmed and giggled in attempt to get away from me. Kade slipped under my arm and tackled me down to the bed. Maddie took the opportunity to join him on top of me with a move that led me to believe Annabeth had defiantly continued her personal defence training.

I wrapped an arm around Annabeth's waist and pulled her to me, kissing her temple. The twin terrors collapsed on top of us bubbling with laughter. Neither of them were particularly heavy and I found myself drifting off again with Annabeth not far behind me, one of her hands resting on my bare chest and nuzzling her face gently into my neck.

Apparently the small people laying on top of us weren't a exhausted as we were because just as Annabeth and I were getting comfortable, they were moving again, insisting they show me something. I stumbled as I attempted to pull my shirt and black slacks over my boxers, the blond woman still sitting on her bed smacked my butt causing me to physically falling over.

All three of them laughed as my face was smashed against the rough carpeted floor. I grumbled as I pulled the black jeans into place and stood up. Annabeth was sitting up now with Kade on her right thigh. I hoisted the small boy up, running in the limited space making airplane noises while he spread his arms out and laughed.

Annabeth gazed at me from her bed, her eyes flashed with a strange emotion I couldn't decipher in time before it disappeared. I put the platinum blond down. "So what was so important that you had to wake me up?" I asked with fake annoyance, my hands dramatically on my hips.

Kade's grin grew as he remembered. He took my hand, attempting to drag me out of the door but not getting very far because of my superior body mass. "Come on, they're holding a trial for some spies my class found last night!"

I was so surprised Kade managed to pull me out of the bedroom. I was silent as countless hallways drifted by. Had Kade's surveillance class caught the wanna-be ninjas? My stomach churned when I thought of my co-workers that had also been on our scouting mission. If the highly trained government ninjas were compromised, was there even a slim chance Chiron or Nico got out?

Chiron was getting old whether any of us wanted to admit it, he doesn't move like he use to and even though Nico was really skilled in hiding in the shadows, he was up against twelve year olds who eat, sleep, breathe detection.

Before I noticed, Kade led me inside a large room with a crude system of chains hanging down from the ceiling in front of a fancy black seat that was elevated higher than the wooden benches surrounding it. A small hand tugged me to sit in the only empty seats in the back left corner. Kade barely managed to sit still as people around us chatted in Hebrew.

"Calm down." I muttered to him just as a door on the opposite side of the room opened. Three bodies were guided out, their hands handcuffed with a strand of silver chains identical to the strands on the ceiling. Now I was the one shifting in my uncomfortably hard seat as I tried to see the faces of the captured only to find their heads were draped with pitch black hoods.

"Take your own advice."A bony elbow jabbed into my side. I winced silently to myself but calmed down. How could I expect Kade to look up to me or listen if I do the opposite that I tell him to?

The three prisoners were brought to the first three hanging chains and hooked up to them by men with unnaturally large muscles. They backed off to stand in the corner they emerged from. My anxiety rose as quiet chatting between the thirty people in the room was the most exciting thing going on.

Annabeth appeared out of nowhere to sit next to me and efficiently scaring the bullets out of my gun. She gave me a nervous smile and I knew she was just as worried about the three unknown intruders being Chiron or Nico. Madi slid into the space next to her brother just as the familiar face of one Mossad director entered to take his place in the large judge chair.

Annabeth

After the kids woke Percy and I up, Kade led him out to the hearing that was scheduled. I sent Madison out to make sure he didn't end up ripping the black haired agent's arm out so I could get ready.

I stood from my small but cozy twin bed jammed in the corner of the equally pint-sized room. The remaining space was occupied by a squished bunk bed that only allowed about two meters of room for a dresser and roaming space. There was a tiny half bathroom with a toilet and sink next to my bed so to shower I had to bring the kids down to the post-mission shower house, but neither of them seemed to mind; enjoying the time we spent together.

Kind of pathetic the only time we were together as a 'family' was daily trips to the shower room. Three fourths of that was my missions and training, but also the kids branching out to do some training of their own.

Madi had taken a shine to hand to hand combat, but I forbid my father to even think about enrolling her in the mission protocol classes-the ones that were 'required' to be taken to be qualified. It was a crude system that didn't really have set guidelines per-se, but to be trusted and put the confidence in to get the job done, a scout has to be able to do certain things. Those things I don't want her to get sucked into, especially at such a young age. I didn't want her taking these classes in the first place, but she's sixteen now and I can't shelter her much longer.

Kade had surprised Percy when he mentioned his surveillance team, surveillance was one of the things I would have preferred the two of them to be interested in because of the lack of blood and killing. Not to demote the detection team, but all they really do is sit in front of computers, the most exciting thing being the scouting team that hunts down intruders.

I sighed as I read over the notice of the hearing that slipped under the door last night after Percy had fallen asleep. I didn't want to wake or worry him so I kept the information to myself. I bit my lip as I read the three names, pausing at the only one I knew long enough to jump me back reality.

Setting down the scribbled note, I moved to change my clothes, pulling out a pair of green cargo capris with a black tank. I may be going to see the judging but I still had new recruit training afterwards and fancy jeans with a loose shirt will last all of five minutes. What I was wearing would probably only see a few sessions if these recruits were anything like the last batch.

As I made my way through the hallways that lead to the court like room, I found myself unable to really focus on my destination because of a certain green eyed American. I must have been really tired last night for not pressing the reason he appeared in my father's personal building barging into the shower house.

I almost groaned out loud when I thought about having to explain that to Celev.

All things considered, I knew Percy had been chosen along with Chiron and Nico to go along on a infiltration squad sent in to find some kind of information. What exactly they were looking for is what troubled me.

I ran into my father just as I was about to enter the judging house. "Father." I acknowledged.

"Navah, were you aware of this?" He asked after the several men behind him had gone into the room beside us.

"Nah aba, I am deeply disappointed."

My father nodded, accepting what I said. "Shall we?"

I walked through the door he was holding open for me, immediately finding the bright blond head of my adopted son bouncing in his seat with excitement while he watched three hooded figures standing on the execution block.

Percy jumped as I slid next to him, forced to be close to him because of the wall on my left and my children not giving us much more room on the right. I could feel his tense muscles as his eyes met mine. I tore away from his transfixing gaze as my father entered the room.

"Let's begin!" He announced loudly.

Percy groaned under his breath. "Translate for me?" He whispered into my ear, his hot breath tickled the skin on my cheek and sending mixed signals through my system. I nodded numbly but before I could tell him the simple sentence, three black hoods fell to the ground to reveal the men underneath. My (ex?) partner caught the breath that made my brain fuzzy just a moment ago as he saw them. "Nico."


Kinda short, sorry.

Always yours,
~Arty