A/N: Hi guys! Aren't you all proud of me for updating so quickly? This chapter is longer than the previous one, yay! I'm not so sure where I'm going with this story, so bear with me. Enjoy :D

I lay there on the ground thinking, Oh my gods! Some kid just knocked off my invisibility cap! Crap! Chiron's going to kill me for revealing this! I wondered if the Mist would reveal me or conceal me, but I figured it would reveal me. I was human after all.

I slowly got up, not looking at the person, and inspected myself for any injuries, blood, or scrapes or anything. I had to be in perfect condition for when we got back to camp, considering the training we went through.

Nothing seemed to be wrong with me. I took a deep breath and faced the person who knocked me down with such unbelievable force.

It was Percy.

He had frozen where he was and had not moved a muscle since I had fallen. His whole body was tense, and his aforementioned sea-green eyes were now a bright, frightened poisonous green.

I put my hands up, a gesture of peace, signifying that I had no weapons and would not harm him. A second later, I figured this was overkill because he really had no reason to believe I would have weapons and wanted to hurt him.

Ah, naïveté.

"I'm not going to hurt you," I said in a calm voice. I really only said it because, I mean, what else could I possibly say in this situation?

He opened his mouth to speak. "Of all the strange, unexplainable things in my life that I've seen, I'd say this one pretty much classifies itself as the strangest."

His voice was cool. Low and kind of soft, but not too soft. Funnily enough, it reminded me of the ocean.

I chuckled; pleased that he at least had his bearings enough that he was able to make somewhat of a dry remark at the bizarre situation.

"Trust me, if you think this is weird, you have no idea what you're in for." The words slipped out of my mouth before I could stop them. Crap.

He blinked. "What?" He looked confused, but no longer as scared. His eyes were slowly returning to their natural serene sea-green color.

"Oh, nothing. Anyway, my name's Annabeth."

He nodded and smiled. "Percy Jackson."

I already knew this, but was not eager to make myself out to be even more of a freak than he already probably thought I was, previously having been invisible just minutes before.

"Nice to meet you," I said. "Listen, I was wondering if you could show me the way to Grover Underwood's dorm room. I need to talk to him."

He looked surprised. "You know Grover?"

"Yeah. You could say that we've been friends for a pretty long time."

Percy looked even more surprised at this statement. "Grover never told me about any friends of his... But anyway, yes, I can show you the way to his room. We share a dorm."

Now, it was my turn to be surprised. Grover didn't mention to me that he and Percy had been roommates. This was quite a turn of events. It could complicate things, too, seeing as we could hardly discuss Percy while Percy was in the room with us.

"That's great!" I said, not giving away any indication that this was a problem.

"Let's go, then."

We walked down some halls, went up three flights of stairs, and walked down another hall until we came to a room in the corner of the building.

"Home sweet home," Percy stated, a bit of undisguised contempt in his voice. I looked at him questioningly, but he was already knocking on the door, saying, "Grover, let me in! I have a friend of yours with me."

Grover's voice came through the door slightly strangled. "What!" We heard him running to the door and it swung open, Grover's eyes wide and frightened.

"Annabeth?" He said incredulously. "Percy?" Wait, why-?"

I decided to save Grover from the confusion. "Percy knocked off my invisibility cap in the classroom." Percy nodded to confirm my statement, only looking a little bit unruffled.

Grover seemed tense. He looked at Percy. "Why are you so not, like, shaken by this?

You seem perfectly calm!"

Percy shrugged. " I guess it's just 'cause I've seen so many weird things in my life that I kinda just go with it now."

I raised my eyebrows at Grover. Weird things happened to him so much that he had been fazed for about 2 minutes by this? He must have been a more powerful half blood than we originally thought.

Percy walked past Grover into the room. Grover called back to him. "Hey, Perce, is it ok if Annabeth and I talked outside for a minute?"

"Don't care whatcha do," he said brazenly. "I'm gonna shower. See you guys in a little while." With that, he disappeared into the bathroom.

I pulled Grover outside. "This kind of thing happens to him all the time? Grover, have you seen anything unusual at the school? Because if you have and you haven't reported it…" I let myself trail off.

He looked troubled. "No! I haven't seen anything unusual this year at all! Maybe he meant before he came here…. He never really talks about his life before here. I got the impression that he had a hard life."

I rolled my eyes. "All half bloods have hard lives, Grove. It's just how it is."

We looked into the dorm and heard the shower going. We walked back into the room in silence. I didn't know how we were going to talk to Percy about the gods. He seemed like he was taking this all in a stride, all a little too calmly. I hoped his façade wouldn't crack completely when we told him the whole ugly truth…

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