Oh, how I love being on Fanfiction again. I was gone for too long. Here's the tenth chapter! It's exciting! Oh, and I changed the story's rating to T because of this chapter...but what was I thinking, writing about college kids with a K+ rating? Okay, enjoy.

When I got home that night, Annabeth and Percy were nowhere to be seen. I ordered in Chinese food, and then chilled out, studied and surfed the Internet until I crashed on my bed.

I woke up slowly and groggily, but eventually I opened my eyes and saw the wall staring back at me. I rolled over and took in the rest of the room.

Wait a minute. Percy's bed was empty.

I glanced down, and-yep. Percy and Annabeth were both on the futon. Of course. Luckily they were both sound asleep, and clothed.

Groaning and altogether put off with Annabeth's presence, I got up and quickly got dressed, since my first class was starting kind of soon. I grabbed my textbook and an apple from our mini-fridge, and then left.

Annabeth

"So, I actually do have classes today, which means I gotta leave soon."

Annabeth sighed. "I figured."

She and Percy were lying on the futon in the dorm room. When they woke up, Chad had already left. It was nearing nine AM, and Percy needed to leave, but he was lingering.

"I really missed you." He said, stroking her blonde hair.

She smiled. "It's only been a couple months. Not even that."

Percy raised his eyebrow. "Are you saying you didn't miss me?"

Annabeth laughed. "I missed you like crazy."

"I could just ditch for today," he suggested.

She shook her head. "No. I think I'd hate that even more than not seeing you."

Percy raised his eyebrow. "So once again, you value education over me."

Annabeth shrugged, and then laughed. "You should go."

"Yeah," Percy said, and then kissed her.

He got up and changed into jeans and a T-shirt. He sifted through piles of clothes, books, CD's and videogames for his school supplies.

"You know, this place is a mess," she commented once Percy straightened up.

"I know. Chad's kind of a slob and it's rubbing off on me."

Annabeth didn't believe him, and she made a mental note to clean the place up later. "Sure. I'm just gonna go to the library today, work on schoolwork."

Percy smiled. "Okay. Bye." He leaned down to kiss her one last time, and then stood up and left the room.

Chad

I had classes on and off throughout the whole day, and whenever I stopped by the dorm it was empty. I was taking Jenna out to a movie that night, so that meant even less time in which I might have to be in contact with Annabeth.

You may have noticed that I'm really serious about avoiding. But look-the chick had maybe said seven words to me, and at least five of them had been contemptuous. And then there was the whole awkward-third-wheel situation. So I just figured it was better for everyone if I was with Annabeth as little as possible.

About three hours later-which would have made it around nine-Jenna and I were walking back through the hallway, on our way back from the movie(by the way, we saw Inception-it was mind-blowing in multiple ways.). We reached her dorm room, and she opened the door, and turned around.

"Hey, um…" she said. "Joslyn's over at Tyler's tonight, so, do you wanna come in?"

Just as my mind was processing what she said, and what it might possibly mean, we heard someone yell from down the hall.

"Chad!"

Both Jenna and I turned our heads to see Percy heading towards us, slipping his cell phone into his pocket, walking quickly towards us. I did not reply.

"There you are," Percy continued. "I was looking for you! We gotta go, come on. Bye, Jenna!"

And then, as he walked past, he grabbed my upper right arms and forcibly pulled me away from Jenna's door. She looked puzzled and a bit let down. "I'll call you!" I yelled back to her as Percy pulled me around the corner to the stairs.

"What the hell, man?" I asked. "That was such a cockblock!"

"Too bad," Percy replied. "Annabeth got ambushed. She's okay but we're meeting her."

"You're, like, a superhero. You couldn't have done this without me?" I asked irritably, but now I was following him of my own accord, since he'd let go of my arm.

"Hey," he said with a slight grin. "Every superhero needs a sidekick."

We met Annabeth in an alley about five blocks from the college. She was sitting on the curb, looking at the traffic. She started when Percy tapped on her shoulder.

"You okay?" He asked.

"You already knew I was okay," she replied as she stood up. "I'm fine."

"What happened?" I asked, since they'd obviously already talked about it.

"A creep grabbed me from behind, spun me around, and started to pull out a dagger. Celestial bronze, of course. I socked him, took the knife, and watched him run away. I should have followed him. He's probably part of that conspiracy in West Virginia. He could have had valuable information and I let him run off."

Percy opened his mouth, but I was already saying something. "Um, he came at you with a deadly weapon. I think you're perfectly allowed to care for your own safety before trying to break down a revolt of teenagers."

Annabeth didn't appreciate this. I had yet to learn very much about her character.

"Regardless," she said after a moment, "We need to talk to Chiron."

Percy agreed, and then mentioned that there was a carwash two blocks away. I didn't grasp the connection between the two things, but I had a lot to learn. We got to the carwash, which was completely empty, and went into one of the, er, stalls? Booths? One of the places for car-washing. Percy put two quarters in the machine and after the appropriate plink! sound, the hose started. Percy picked it up and angled it so that it splashed on the other wall, nearly soaking me, and a rainbow appeared in the dying sunlight.

Annabeth reached into her pocket and took out a large, gold-colored medallion. "What's that?" I asked.

She looked at me. At first I thought she'd just glare and not answer, but then she spoke. "A drachma. Ancient Greek coin."

I nodded, and then watched as she tossed it into the water. She said something quietly, but I couldn't make it out. The coin disappeared as it hit the rainbow, and the water's surface rippled and changed. Suddenly the image of a wrap-around porch appeared, and the centaur, Chiron, was standing on it, facing us.

"Hello, Annabeth." He said calmly.

"Hi, Chiron." She replied. "How are things going at camp?"

He seemed to look past us for a moment. Then he replied, "It's been better, but it's certainly been worse. More theft than usual is going on."

Annabeth nodded, and then she proceeded to sum up how she'd been attacked. While she did this, I walked around her and over to Percy, where I asked him quietly what was going on.

"Oh. It's an Iris-message," he told me. "The goddess, Iris, she controls rainbows and we can contact people through them if we pay her a drachma."

"Ah," I said. Something about 'Iris-messages' was tugging at my memory, but I couldn't quite reach the thought. Chiron was replying now.

"I see. I fear that these things are connected, as you mentioned, to the group of demigods in West Virginia. If this is true, and they're serious, then we need to act accordingly. You'll be in New York until anything happens?"

"Yes, of course." Annabeth replied.

"Good. We'll be sending more satyrs to spy on the camp and see if we can gleam any more information. You may be called upon soon. Be careful, and if you find anything else out, please let us know."

"We will."

The machine beeped then, and Annabeth said goodbye to Chiron before the water cut off. Percy hooked the hose back up, but we didn't move just yet.

"I didn't think this was nearly so serious," Annabeth said.

"These kids mean business, I guess. Kids can get a lot done with celestial bronze." Percy smiled at Annabeth when he said this, and she smiled slightly back.

Before anything else was said, a loud honking noise made me flinch. We turned to see a blue Chevy pulling into the carwash. We quickly left the area, but not before hearing the man driving the truck swear angrily at us.

"But what could they want?" Annabeth asked as we began walking back to campus. It was completely dark now, the stores and restaurants lit up, the headlights on the street blinding. "Power? Recognition? Don't they have that already?"

Percy shrugged, putting his arm around Annabeth's shoulders. "Who knows? Maybe they just want some action."

Annabeth scoffed. "Then they can go kill some monsters. I'd be fine with that."

"Same here," Percy replied ruefully. I felt like I was kind of intruding-I didn't understand so much of their world.

"I guess we'll find out soon enough," Annabeth said. "When Chiron calls the two of us over to camp."

"The three of us, actually." I put in.

They stopped, and both turned to me. Annabeth looked puzzled, and Percy looked dismayed. "What do you mean?" Annabeth asked.

"If there's a battle, I'm going. Rachel said so."

Annabeth turned to Percy, who nodded after a moment.

"Rachel." Annabeth said. "That girl is always messing things up."

And there went the tentative relationship I had with Annabeth.

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And very importantly, Rick Riordan is writing a new book series on half-bloods! You can read the first two chapters of The Lost Hero here: .com/disneybooks/heroes- It's gonna be awesome!

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