APOV:

Percy finally put me back onto the cabin porch, I was dizzy and the sweet little kiss he gave me wasn't helping. "Get changed, then meet me at my cabin and we'll head to the cove."

"Okay." I said breathlessly, that was all I could manage.

He turned and started to walk away. I waited until he was halfway across the cabin area to go inside my cabin. Does this mean we are an item? And if we are, are we going to be public? I thought as I watched him.

"Oh and Annabeth?" He called. I looked at him over my shoulder, halfway through the door. I saw him glance at a couple campers who had left breakfast early. "I love you."

The campers, who were milling around the area, froze. They all looked at us, not sure if they heard right. I smirked. I guess that was his way of announcing it to the camp. Works with me. I walked over to him, so I was face to face with his neck. When did he get so much taller than me? I used to be the tall one. Damn male growths spurts. I stood on her tiptoes. Damn! I'm still not as tall as him; my eyes are only level with his nose! I wobbled a bit and grabbed his shoulders for support, "Love you too, seaweed brain." I said, a little louder than normal, and them I pressed my lips to his. I felt him smirk before he kissed me back. I pulled away almost as soon as he responded and ran back to my cabin. I ran in slamming the door behind me, giggling. I watched through the windows as Percy walked to his cabin.

"Well. My daughter has fallen for the son of Poseidon." I turned at the voice. I looked at my bunk bed. There she was; my mother, the goddess of wisdom, "I am very disappointed in you Annabeth." She said standing and walking in front of me.

"Mother! I love Percy! Can you not..." She stopped me mid rant, with a smirk/smile thing.

"Which is why, I told Percy I approve of your relationship and that he had better move quickly. I figured it would give him a bit more incentive to make his move."

"Wait. Did you play matchmaker? Between me and a son of Poseidon?" I asked incredulous. She hated Poseidon, so she hated Percy. Just last year she threatened to kill him! I think I missed something.

"I did help out in Aphrodite's department a bit. You should have seen her face when I told her she was all like 'Oh Athena! You have finally seen the light! Isn't love glorious! Especially young love!' And it went on and on and on!" She had imitated Aphrodite's voice perfectly, I actually looked around for the Goddess of love, "Anyway. I told Percy last night that I approved of your relationship. I figured, after what he did for the gods and western civilization, I could give him a little something in return. He is actually a very nice boy." She smiled as if recalling a memory.

"Mother. Is that really it? Just the fact he saved the Gods? I mean, he's done so much more! He's stopped a war of the gods, he saved the camp, he was one of the first to report of Kronos's return..."

"You're right. That wasn't the only thing. In fact, I really only cared about that after the real reason."

"Which would be..."

"When Zeus offered him immortality." She paused, "You were the thing that made him stay human, both then and when he bathed in the River Styx. It was you that bound him to life. That was what made up my mind. And it didn't hurt that he asked for something that would benefit all demi-gods, present and future. Those things got me thinking, about everything he has done. I realized that, without you, he would be dead, many times over, and without him, you wouldn't be the young woman you are today. He, in a way, made you who you are. If it weren't for him, you may never have left camp, never experienced the real world."

"I guess so." I said, thinking about it. She was right. I realized. Without Percy, I wouldn't be me, and Percy wouldn't be who he is without me.

"Well I'll leave you to get ready for you 'meeting'. Which reminds me the real reason I came here..." Two boxes appeared in her hands. She handed them to me. I placed the smaller one on my bed and opened the larger one. "I noticed you didn't really have anything like it, and Aphrodite said it was 'A must for any teenaged girl. Especially one with Annabeth's looks.'..." Athena trailed off.

In the box lay a sea blue/green bikini. I gasped and looked up at my mother. Did she really just give me a bikini? Not to mention it was a sea colored bikini? She really was playing matchmaker. She grinned, as if she read my mind, which with her occupation, she probably did.

"Now open this one." She said, handing me the smaller one. I did as she asked. It was an iPhone in a green case. I grinned like a complete idiot. I had seen the adds for it on TV and always thought they were cool, but demi-gods couldn't have them... with the whole monsters-demi-god-right-here thing that pretty much gives away our position to any monster.

"The gods talked about it, and we think it is time we start to move into the twenty first century; After all, new Olympus, new gods. So, we worked with Iris and we came up with a way to merge an iris message with a cell phone. It is pretty much a normal cell phone, except monsters can't sense you using it. All of the demi-gods are getting them from their parents as a 'thank you for saving the world' gift. I hope you don't mind, but I gave yours to Apollo and he filled it up until it is about to burst with music. Plus any app you can think of is there. I thought you would need it, with what is coming..." Her smile turned into a grimace.

"Mother what's happening?" I asked worried.

"Luke isn't dead." She said, gravely.

PPOV:

"Ah. Percy." A voice said as I entered my cabin. There sitting on one of the lounge chairs, was my father Poseidon.

"Father."

"Percy, I have god news as well as bad news. Which would you like to hear first?"

I thought it over. When it came to the gods, bad news almost always outweighed the good news so the whole, good news last will make it all better didn't usually work.

"Good news first." I said warily.

"Well, as a thank you present, the gods have decided to give each of their children a gift. So here are yours." He said handing me two small boxes that appeared out of nowhere.

"Thanks. Did Katerina get something too?"

"Yes. She got an air tank type thing, since she isn't able to breath under water easily. And her second is the same one as that one..." he pointed to one of the boxes.

I picked up the one he didn't point to and opened it. Inside was a necklace. It was a simple silver chain with a simple silver heart dangling from it. I looked closer and noticed that the heart had the words 'Forever Yours' engraved in a beautiful cursive. I looked up at my father, it was a beautiful necklace and all, but there was no way I was going to wear that.

Seeing my confusion, my father spoke one word and it all made sense, "Aphrodite."

"Well, now I have Annabeth's birthday present." Annabeth's birthday was only a couple days away, and I had needed a present, and now I had one.

"Oh and Aphrodite said, 'Next time you forget, I'm not going to help him out.' Then she laughed. Care to explain?" He had imitated to goddess's voice so well, I looked around for the goddess.

"Well, I never got Annabeth her birthday present..."

"Ahhh..."

With that I laid the necklace down on the bedside table and picked up the other box. I unwrapped it quickly. It was an iPhone in a sea-green case. These things were amazing. Rachel had one, and I loved the thing to death, literally, I played on it for too long and the screen burnt out from overuse (A.N. Not sure if it's possible, my brother said it was, but I don't know...).

"Dad. These things are like monster magnets." I said. Ticked I had one, but couldn't use it for it's real purpose.

"Which exactly why we worked with Iris to merge iris messaging into the cell phone. Now it isn't track-able, by monster or otherwise and it doesn't require drachmas, so it is easy to use and safe. The gods decided to give them to each of their children. I hope you don't mind, I asked your mom for your little address book thing and I had all the numbers put in as well as a couple new ones." At my questioning gaze he continued, "Nick, Kat, Nico, Thalia and Annabeth all got cell phones as well, so I had their numbers added. I also let Apollo have some fun with the music section. He put any and every song imaginable on that thing. I got rid of a couple that you probably wouldn't like, but I'll let you do the rest." I gave him another questioning look, "He had a bunch of songs from some girl, her name was a state or something, and then there was a group that named themselves after an animal, cheetahs, I believe. Hera yelled at me for thinking a teenaged boy would like that kind of music..." I was laughing. I could picture Hera yelling at my Dad about something as stupid as that.

"Anyway it is safe to use, unlimited everything, so no need to worry about that. I also let Apollo have some fun downloading apps for you. I suggest you use the search thing, he put on way to many to scroll through the entire thing."

"Cool, thanks dad."

"Oh, and I still have the bad news, but it might be good news as well..." He paused, looking me in the eye with all seriousness, "Luke is alive."

A.N. Okay. I leave you here sorry for the little cliffy. Now I want to know who should go on the trip to check, and if they should go, I'm thinking somewhere warm, were it would be easy to blend in and easy to get distracted, and since I just got back from Florida, I was thinking about Disney, but then I think it would be kind of stupid. So let me know what you think about that. And also, should Luke be a good guy again, or should he be evil? And who should go on the trip, I'm thinking Percy (duh), Annabeth (Another duh), Nico, Thalia, Katerina and Nick, but then I think that may be too much. Let me know, review, PM I don't care how as long as you do.