AN Okay so I want this to be short and this chapter breaks my story into 60,000 words! And with only 18 chapters. I have decided to update on Mondays because that's what is the easiest for me and I will try to make long chapters like this one. I hope you like it and thanks for the reviews and I really want to go to 200 by the time I get to 20 chapters so come one people and review for a sneak peak!

Also sorry it took so long for me to update, but I was having some problems with the error thing. Then I found out that when it says 'story_edit_property' you have to change property to content and then it works! :D anyways yeah if that is happening to you I hope this helps!

~Anna

Disclaimer: I do not own anything of the PJATO series.

Annabeth's POV

Percy was good at basketball. And when I say good I mean like more amazing then I've I ever seen anyone actually play then again he is really tall , but still. See I found this out because after the water park and 'drying off' he said it was time for games. I won a small shark thing Percy well he walked over the the basketball one were it's like far enough away to be a three pointer and the prizes were those gigantic stuffed animals that everyone thinks no one gets.

Now I had never seen him play before so of course I jokingly say don't miss Seaweed Brain. He winked at me and shot the ball and it swished perfectly into the net, the same thing happened with the other two he had and he ended up winning a gigantic green stuffed dragon that was almost as tall as me. Then he won a purple one he said it was a personal favor to someone, but I think it was just him showing off. We are walking through the park right now though looking for something called the Candy Cabin which apparently had the best fudge in the world to him. "Percy why are we looking for this stupid place," I said looking around for it spotting it quickly and pointing to it.

He smiled sadly which was unexpected for me because the whole day he was running around like an idiot, "Well I used to come here with my mom, but then.." He stopped for a second looking at the fudge behind the glass. I expected him to continue his story, but he just started smiling again going, "Ohh minty fudge that's yummy.."

"Percy," I said exasperatedly because you can't just say something like that then not go on about it. I get it that me didn't want to talk about it, but that might help him if he does. He looked at me with a tired pleading look that said he didn't want to talk about it which made me snap back. I knew that look from so many different people it wasn't fair, but most of all my mother. Back then though it meant forget it and never mention it again. I felt like Percy was saying that too.

"Annabeth is there anything you want?" He said looking over his shoulder, then it became quite obvious that time had passed while I was thinking. That's how it worked I guess,

"Whatever your getting I'll probably eat," I smiled and turned to look at jaw breakers that look like they were made for whales. Forget it or regret it was my mothers nonexistent moto, in a way I had adapted to it over the years because I always came to regret things when I thought about them to much. But that never stopped me every single day of my life.

By the time we got to the car my arm's ached and it was pitch black outside. We put all of the candy Percy had bought and got into the front seats and just for a second it was the perfect point for anything like for me to say I love you, but I didn't. I don't know why I didn't because it was the perfect moment, but it, well it just didn't feel like it was right. Like something was going to happen soon maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong.

"That I think was the funniest day of my life," I said glancing at Percy who was trying to untwist his seat belt only getting it more twisted, "Here let me." I leaned over and fixed it for him. I could hear him chuckling and I rolled my eyes' sitting back into my seat, "What in the world could be so funny Seaweed Brain?"

"Well Wise Girl it's just that I think that was the funniest time for me too, which is weird because I always thought the only reason I keep Nico in my life is because I always have the best times with him. Now I think I have just realized I'm actually friends with him." He shook his head slightly which caused me to laugh a bit more. He started up the car and we talked for a bit before I drifted off to sleep.

Percy's POV

I glanced over at Annabeth knowing I would need to tell her soon, but right now I couldn't. Not now and not for awhile, it's not that I didn't trust her I just didn't want her to know. I'm scared in a way scared that she might treat me different if she knew, but I know she wouldn't. She couldn't, she just wasn't like that, or I hoped so for the sake of myself when I told her. And maybe it's not the deepest darkest secret there is and maybe there is other people who are hiding bigger things, but mine causes people to act differently. To be scared if what they say may offend me, maybe it's a good thing, but people watch what they say to much and that is what bothers me.

I slowly pulled into the driveway glancing at Annabeth, anytime in the car would've been a prefect time to say 'I love you." But I couldn't yet and maybe it's something in my head, or maybe something will happen soon with more importance, but for now I won't know. The house was coming into view and I saw the lights were still on and Nico's car was in the driveway which mean he must still be there. I glanced at my watch and saw that it was about 12 am so what the heck was he still doing there?

"Annabeth were back do you want to walk or have me carry you?" I said quietly as she stirred awake. She slowly opened her eye's and looked at me then at the house which was no more then 20 meters away.

"I'll walk because I see Nico's car and if you carry me I will never here the end of it. Ever." She said reaching back grabbing her bag out of the back seat of the car. I got out of the car and walked around the front of it to open her door for her. "You don't have to do that you know." She said smiling up at me which meant I always would anyway's.

We walked up to the front door and heard screaming,

"Nico! I need a different glass of water! What is WRONG WITH YOU! Do you SEE ice cubes in this!" I guessed that was Thalia screaming at the top of her lungs. I kissed Annabeth and whispered in her ear 'get ready' because when Thalia screamed like that anyone near her was in trouble. Hopefully she wouldn't see us and Nico wouldn't blurt out we were here. And I'm pretty sure she was on her pain medication and that stuff makes her go crazy which in turn make us go crazy which her antics and what not.

We walked into the door as silently as we could and first we saw Nico looking up at the ceiling and what doing what looked to be praying, "Thalia it is 12:30 I have been here ALL DAMN DAY! I have gotten you waffles from some stupid place 40 MINUTES away! I have fluffed your pillow more times then I can count can I please just go to sleep in some guest room before I kill myself!" He shouted and looked down directly at us. Thalia hoisted herself over her elbows to look at us because she couldn't stand on the couch.

"Well I need to go to sleep have a fun time Percy." Annabeth pecked my creek and ran up the stairs and threw me one last glance before she went into her room.

"Why, why, why, why and why!" I whispered to myself as Thalia stared at me with her blue eye's that looked drugged up on pain killers. And sadly they were.

"Percy! PLEASE talk some sense into this man! I need my cup of water before I watch 2 hours of TV to go to bed!" It sounded like she was screaming at the top of her lungs and within the first few words I already had a head ache.

"Thalia your crutches are right there and Nico is not your personal slave, so get up and get your own damn water while we leave because we need something called sleep." I said grabbing Nico's shirt as he flinched under Thalia's glare.

"PER-CY! Why would you talk to me like that! The one person who knows all of your girlfriends secrets and the one person who has the will to tell you them!" She said throwing her hands up into the air. "I know everything my dear, about her mom-" And that's the one thing that caught me off guard. Every since the candy cabin I had everything stuck in my mind about that. But it wasn't possible for Annabeth to have something wrong with her mom because she never told-

"Whoa whoa Thalia what do you mean about her mom?"I said cutting Thalia's crazy rants off. She smiled crazily at me and for a second before grabbing her crutches and making her way over to me.

"Oh you want to know about that now? Has she not told you? What a pity that I won't tell you or I might if she get me a glass of water, fluff my pillow, move the couch over to right in front of the TV and then go round the enter house and collect all of the cushions and pillows and gather them for me in the living room." She smiled like an idiot and flopped back down on the couch.

"Thalia your crazy," I muttered turning around and grabbing the back of Nico's shirt and tugging it hard making him fall. He got up and followed me out the door.

"Percy how could you leave that offer hanging?" He looked at me once we were back at my house sitting on the couch playing black ops (We couldn't fall asleep).

"If she wants to tell me she will and I don't want to find out while the one that is telling me is taking the barley legal amount of pain medication." I said while I switched to shot gun even though it was pretty much the worst gun of the whole enter game.

RING RING RING,

I moved my face against the floor that I fell asleep on and groaned as I moved. The place were Nico hit my with his controller because I had won the mini-tournament still hurt. First time who ever was calling I let it go to voicemail, but then they called again and again. I slowly peeled my face off the ground along with the rest of my body and walked to the phone that kept on ringing. I noticed it was Thalia's number and she never calls. I pressed talk and heard Thalia's voice harshly say hello.

"Hello to you too, what's wrong?"

"Annabeth." She breathed out slowly. "We didn't expect-thought she had more time- wasn't even there." She said wounding like she was trying not to cry.

"What what do you mean? What happened Thalia?" I said into the phone running to my room to change my shirt as if that mattered. I grabbed a toothbrush and my car keys on the way up the stairs almost tripping over Nico in the process, "Thalia! Are you okay? Do you want Nico to come too?"

"Yeah I'm fine, but I would like it if he came along, but it's not me I'm worried about.." She said slowly as I shook Nico awake. I told him something happened at Thalia's house and he got up faster then you could ever believe. Well he only slipped on some Adidas flip flops and was out the door, then again so was I. "I'll tell you more when you get here okay? But he quiet walking into the house I don't want her to hear you coming in and then locker herself in the bathroom or something."

"Okay we'll be there in 30 minutes!" I said snapping my phone shut and screeching out of the driveway. I glanced at Nico who was just frozen in his seat starring at the windshield, but it wasn't him being silent that scared me it was him not fidgeting around like a gerbil on catnip. "Nico Thalia said she was fine, it's okay..." I said glancing at him and trying to keep my eye's on the road because I was going way over the speed limit.

"Dude that's not it," He said looking out the window now, "I knew something was going to happen. Someone died and I know it, but the only problem is it's so damn sudden!" He banged his arm's against the dashboard which made me flinch at the sound.

"What the hell does that mean?" I said giving him a crazy look as I continued at me highly illegal speeds.

"Percy it means that this could be happening to tons of people all over the world! And no one can do anything about it! It just happens like it's the most normal thing to get a call from your best friends girlfriend about something that's wrong and I know what's wrong!" He said clenching his fists.

"You're crazy Nico, you seriously have to calm down before you have another panic attack like that time you-" I started, but he cut me off.

"What if Annabeth died what would you do? Remember that car crash that she was in. You sat in your closet with the lights off for 5 damn hours till they called and said she would be alright. Then you could finally get yourself up and go to see her knowing she would be there tomorrow!" I had only seen him like this once before and that was the 2nd anniversary of him mothers death. "Maybe you don't understand-"

"Nico you might've forgotten, but I've had my own damn experiences too and let me tell you one thing, change comes and it goes and right now we changed where we were and we are going to Thalia's house because someone changed there minds and they need us. Your so damn resistant so put on your seatbelt and stop giving me that damn death glare got it!" I said not even bothering to look over at him this time knowing he would be looking down fiddling with his buckle by the sound of it.

Third Person POV

They got there as planned in 30 minutes. Once they were even in view of the front door Thalia was outside in her slippers and her robe and as they got out of the car she came running towards them waving the phone she had in her hand all around. Once she got to us Nico wrapped his arms around her and she practically sank into him.

"Annabeth's mom," She said slightly muffled by Nico's arm, "Annabeth's mom died yesterday." She said coming out of the hug and looking at Percy who looked shocked having no idea that Annabeth's mom had a problem to begin with.

"What-what do you m-m-mean she died yesterday?" He stuttered trying to put together and sentence while trying not to pass out at the same time from what looked to be shock. "Where is she is she okay?" He said turning towards the house ready to walk in. But Thalia caught his arm before he could go bursting in the door.

"Percy her pride won't admit she's hurt because she barely saw her mom. Yet her emotions don't agree, but at the moment she's crying her eye's out in her bedroom. She locked the door and suck a chair under the door knob and I can't get it. She's hurt and she specifically told me not you tell you, but that obliviously sub-consciously means she needs you. But Percy you need to tell her what happened to you because the moment you try to get into that room without letting her know that you've been through something like that she will hate you forever. Remember listen to every damn word she says because she won't say it again." A tear escaped Thalia's eye's and Nico hugged her again whispering occasionally 'it's going to be alright' and kissing the top of her head.

Percy silently walked into the house closing the door without a noise behind him. He could hear her crying from all the way down the stairs and it was a sound he had hated so much. He wanted to stop it, dammit he wanted to burst into that room and make those damn tears go away, but he couldn't get into the room and Thalia had already told him if he tried Annabeth wouldn't let him. And he understood that, but for once he just wished he shared that part of his life with her.

She had never mentioned her family to him other than she has three step-brothers and the fact that she lived in California. She never told him that her mother was sick, he was never was told that her parents were divorced. It almost made him bitter. Almost.

It was karma in it's most brutal form this is how they found out each others past. From a death none-the-less and you would think for them to have been so close they would've known by now, but then you would think wrong because both of these people would have a fatal flaw that disrupted with tell the other. Percy, well he was scared of not being liked as much as before and he was also scared of not being treated the same after someone knew. He thought it was the thought that mattered it was the friendship though.

For Annabeth well her pride was obnoxious and blatant not to mention the fact that it hurt people. Pride is everything, but pride is respect and she was scared if she told Percy he wouldn't respect her the same way. She thought it wasn't the thought that mattered to her it was the friendship. But that's wrong because then she would've told him in a second. This time it was all about the thought and how he would judge her when he knew her mom was sick. When he knew her poor old mom was dying on a hospital bed. She couldn't stand to see him know she wasn't even there to be with her mother as she had her final breaths however unexpected they were.

Now Percy knew how to approach the door, but he sat there for a good two minutes before he said anything. He needed to know exactly what to say so he wouldn't screw it over and that was why he had no idea what to say. At first he thought about asking her to open the door, but that would do no good, then he thought maybe he could say I heard what happened, but he hated it when people used to say that to him. Because he already knew what happened and so did she so what was the point of going over it again. Exactly there was none.

"Annabeth..." He started hearing a whimper from inside the room and then a muffled 'what?', "Annabeth you might not believe this, but I know what your going through." He meant it and he thought she would listen to him try to explain what happened and then in turn try to widdle out what happened to her.

"Percy my mother DIED and you think you can just prance up-" Annabeth started harshly, he was aware that she was right near the door and probably speaking right through the crack to were he was standing. He could in a way feel her eye's on him she he blinked several times as she talked and he looked straight into the sliver of gray that was block the doors to speak when he interrupted her.

"Newsflash Annabeth you're not the only one with a secret, it's just your's was way more recent. And besides when were you going to tell me of this?"He said at first before thinking what he was saying over. "But j-just let me explain..."

"Fine I'm listening," Mumbled a small voice form behind the door,

(Flash Back!)

A small black haired boy lay in his bed trying to fall asleep after another screaming match between the people he called his parents. He was no more then 8 and yet he knew every swear there was to know, but he didn't use them because only mean people used them. Then again his parents did, but he decided nice people use them too when they were very very mad. But he was also convinced that every normal family fought every night and screamed at each other at least once in the morning.

It was a sad view of life, but it's what he had from his childhood. But that night everything would change and not just meaning it becomes good because everyone knows to get something good out of something you have to go through hell first. Well that's how it worked for the Jacksons. He was finally sleeping soundly when it was silent in the night and only the creek of his door slowly opening could be heard. Percy heard it and opened his eye's a bit.

"Mom what are you doing in here?" He spoke quietly as his mother rifled through his drawers, "Mom why are you going through my things?"

His mother looked at him in distress. Sally Jackson was young with not a single gray strand if hair on her head. But she always said to Percy he caused her hair to go gray and that was the running joke between them, that and blue food. But right at that moment she could've been anyone looking at her son in fear. "Percy I'm sorry baby, but were leaving." She paused for a moment before listening to his door to see if there was any noise.

"Mom then wheres dad shouldn't he help you pack if were going somewhere?"He said slowly looking around. He was looking for his father because whenever they went somewhere they would go together all the time and right now he wasn't anywhere you could see. There was a moment of silence between them while Percy's mom looked at him and he just sat there and for a second he heard his fathers snores from his mothers and fathers room from all the way down the hall.

"Hunny I'm sorry, but I just can't take it anymore with all these damn fights and argument about everything! I-I just can't take it." She stopped and looked at her son who was slowly rising from his bed with his eyes wide. For you see he thought all of this was and would always be completely normal and he had known nothing wrong with it at the time. That was until now because now his mother was on the verge of tears and he had no idea why. As you can imagine that would be terrifying for any child.

"But mom that's completely normal! Every family fights, yells and throws things every day. It's normal, it's normal, IT'S GOT TO BE NORMAL!"He was shouting because never before had he had his belief's on what a family should be like tested like this. Then again he had also never ever seen his mother cry and he was always very protective of her never letting her cross the street without holding her hand. He secretly claim to himself he was looking after her the whole time.

"No it's not Percy please be quiet we don't want to wake your father up." She said staying silent after to make sure her regrettable husband was still very much asleep. "Dear just please help me pack your things were leaving and don't worry were never coming back okay?" She as his mother expected him to say okay and help, but he didn't because he didn't know who to believe himself or another person.

"Why mom why are you doing this? Is something wrong does he want a split?" Split is what he called divorce back then not knowing what it really was. His friends parents went through a split and there kid has to live with one or the other. But he didn't want to he wanted one parent the whole time because that's what the best was.

"He's so controlling dear you wouldn't understand just please please help me we have to go!" She said quietly. He shook his head slightly because he didn't want to at first, but that was his mother. His favorite parent although he would never say such a thing to his father. What he saw in front of him was his mother begging him to come with her so then he grabbed a handful of clothing from his drawer and put it in his special Barney suitcase and started pack.

It didn't take long and soon they were down the stairs and out the door, but Percy meant to catch it before it slammed. As he lend in though it missed his hand so he just ran to the car and threw in his bag and hopped in and as they drove out of the driveway he saw the light in his daddy's room turn on.

"Dear promise me whatever happens you'll never leave me because your just a baby and-" Sally started to talk, but being a full 8 years old Percy just had to shout,

"Nuh-un I'm a kid!"

"Fine, but with your father you won't get the right care and he won't even talk to-" Sally was ranting on about what had happened in the years of Percy's childhood. She always supported her husbands decisions and loved him for his hard work, but they always got into fights about his work to family ratio. Sally was a bit peeved that he didn't even know Percy's favorite color or what his friends names were. Every father should know that and she constantly voiced her opinions on it. She thought that he shouldn't spend so much time at the office, but then again all of her jobs were really not that time consuming. She was hard headed and the problem was so was he.

Poseidon was trying to launch a business. Did he think he was going to make it? No he knew he was going to make it, but in the process he never saw him family which everyone he knew commented on. He always told Sally that there was no such thing as work to family ratio because if he had to choose he would choose work. He never knew what he was saying at the time would actually make a difference because he knew what kind of impression he made on those around him. At the office he was laid back and everyone mostly loved him, but sadly at home tensions ran high. Not to say they were fighting all the time though.

Sally's parents died when she was young and Poseidon's hated each other sometimes so it didn't when they wanted to go to someone for advice. Sally knew no one and all of Poseidon's friends well lets just say they where not the most family like guys in the world.

"Mom!" Percy said sharply looking at his mother in the rearview mirror, "Um I just want to tell you now that Dad's light went on when we left."

They drove for a bit till they were on a highway. There was few commuters at these hours so there were naturally going faster then they should. Percy was asking numerous questions as his mother drove along glancing in the mirror to look to see if her husband was somehow about to catch them. She loved him she really did, but to live her own life she knew she needed to be free and being free meant she needed to do what her gut told her to do. Sadly right now it was telling her to run and run as far and fast as she could away from that house and that life. All the things that made her that way, they needed to go and they needed to go fast.

She wasn't really thinking of anyone, but herself that morning though, but that's rude to say. Her 8 year-old son who sat in the back seat watching the world go by as the zoomed down the freeway didn't know what was happening. He thought that they would be back at his fathers any time soon not that his mother was planning to flee from New York City and never go back for as long as she lived. He couldn't wait to tell his friends how him and his mother went on a cool adventure. He didn't know he wouldn't be able to tell his friends any of this and now looking back he wish he had told his mother to stay. That's all his mother needed that night, just some reassurance that everything would get better, but she never got any.

The turned suddenly, but his mother didn't look and he didn't see it outside of the car and everything slowed down for a second as his brain was trying to configure what was happening. The crunch of the metal was ringing in his brain for three seconds before he realized he was throwing into the seat in front of him as the airbags deployed to stop his mother. He peeled himself off the seat and everything looked fuzzy, "Mom!" He shouted as everything started spinning faster. Then he heard a voice from outside, but he didn't recognize this voice at all,

"Shit! Is anyone okay in there!" The was a tapping on the glass. Percy wanted to respond, but he couldn't because it he opened his mouth he would scream because what he felt right then hurt more then anything. More then when he fell of the tire swing and his mother wasn't saying anything.

"Help PLEASE HELP!" Percy screamed as he heard his arm crack, but didn't feel it because everything else hurt more. Something was going on and he knew it wasn't good he could tell were anything was or even were he was and in that moment of everything he continued to scream till he could and he heard the man yelling outside the car.

"Yes, hello 911 I have an emergency, yes I need immediate response. Someone might be fatally injured-" The voice screamed into his phone before the spinning of Percy's vision got faster and fast till everything just fell dark.

AN Okay so I hope you like it and I will update next I will update next Monday and I will make it long and review for the sneak peak! (But you can also review to make me feel acomplished and/or criticize me!)

~Anna