Annabeth POV
It's been a week since Owen was put into hospital and that sneaky idiot made his proposition to us. We haven't given him an answer yet and why have we not used Piper's charmspeak yet? Well guess what we did? But for some unknowable reason, it didn't work, and we have no idea why. Ugh, anyway, after this, while Owen was still recovering from his injuries we decided to have a meeting to sort out what we're going to do. In case you haven't noticed I'm ANGRY! I do not like not knowing something, and then he pulls this stunt out of his head…. the curiosity is killing me.
Anyway we all met in Percy's apartment to figure how we were going to tell him we were demigods, tell him about the Titan and Giant War and also try and figure out what the hell happened to him. I mean he told us that chilling remark about his parents what the hell will he not say even under charmspeak.
"So we all knew we would have to tell him sooner or later. How do we break this bombshell?" Percy started the conversation.
"Well I suggest we be straight with him, he's not the type to appreciate subtlety," said Frank, toying with his badges nervously.
"But this is different, this is taking everything you know about the world and throwing it on its head," Leo said while building an airplane out of scraps he happened to have.
"Owen's the kind of person who believes what he sees so if we're going to get him to believe us will have to show him some of our powers " I said after thinking for a minute.
"Also, Owen said that he's done research into our pasts so who knows what ideas he might have about us. Mythology may even be an idea in the back of his head for all we know," Reyna said.
"Annabeth, you alright? Sounds like you're taking this personally" Jason asked.
"I'm fine, just annoyed that he played us this easily and I don't like not knowing."
Everyone chuckles and I blushed.
"Yeah, we all know that," Percy said, hugging me.
"Betrayer," I mutter under my breath, but I hug him anyway.
"Has anyone been able to get anything on what Owen might be telling us?" Frank said.
"Well I found out from the Irish news that what Owen said about his parents is true but nothing on what he will tell us." Piper said.
" Maybe this was kept under wraps by the government or at the request of Owen he hasn't come off as someone who likes the spotlight, I know that feeling" Piper added.
The discussion continued like this for most of the night like this some of us had ideas like he was kidnapped, he was framed for something bad happening etc. Owen got out of the hospital a couple days later and after a few days of getting back into the groove of life again. We agreed to meet at Percy's place. We were all worried about how it was going to go down. Owen before this never gave anything away about what he was going to tell us and that was the most worrying problem with this situation.
(including some of the big talk because this feels to filler and short)
Linebreak
No POV (third-person)
As Owen brought back beer that in his eyes is something that he was going to need for this discussion for multiple reasons. His thoughts were plagued about how the group were going to react to his news of his past. He was already pretty much certain about his theory that their past involved Ancient Greek mythology given that these people aren't exactly very good at hiding things with the constant accidental references to various mythological creatures and deities in the present tense pretty confirmed the theory he had been having for a while. The reason he got to that theory is because if you dig through the internet enough in the past 6 years or so Percy Jackson and Jason Grace appear more times in the news for various incidents like freak animal attacks and strange weather occurrences with no one really knowing their names is something that has either government conspiracy or the supernatural written all over it.
Back to the present. When Owen arrived with cases of beer in his arms Percy looked at him like he was mad because Owen while being able to use his arms again really really shouldn't be carrying heavy like big cases of beer. Owen shrugged his scolding off for the most part. When Percy asked him for the reason why he got these he replied with "I think we're all going to need to get through tonight" Sally and Paul we're out for the night having a romantic dinner although Owen and Percy had told them the plans for what they were going to tell each other tonight and both gave the boys support.
Eventually at about 7:00 everyone was sitting at a circular table. The order went Owen in the middle with Jason to his left and Percy to his right, Annabeth beside Percy, Reyna beside Annabeth, Hazel beside Frank, Leo beside Frank, Piper was beside Leo and it was back to Jason again. Calypso wasn't there due to family matters Owen was told not that he minded telling everyone that was here made him nervous enough. Everyone could see his nerves at first but as everyone got settled the indecipherable facial expression came on and everyone was in the dark about what he was thinking.
"So, who wants to begin? You or me?" Owen said nerves plain in his voice.
"We'll go first are's will be hard to explain" Percy said figuring Owen would find talking about his past once he heard about their past.
"All right" Owen replied easing back in his chair taking a quick sip of his drink.
"So Owen what do you know about Greek and Roman Mythology" Annabeth began.