Nico looked at his watch. It was 12:00 pm, about the time that Annabeth said she would be done. As if on cue Annabeth walked out of the building crossing the street in a hurry, with a blue backpack, hanging off her shoulder. Nico smirked. The smile on her face told him everything he needed to know. He adjusted the suit he was wearing. God, those ties were uncomfortable. How did people tolerate these stuffy suits?

"Jones I'm in a hurry today, so if you could please get in the car that would be great."

Annabeth had reached him.

"Yes, ma'am."

Nico opened Annabeth's door, and then got in the driver's seat of the car. Once the door closed, he turned the ignition, and Jules-Albert's black limo began the drive back to the apartment.

"So how did it go?" Nico asked

"Nico, you know the rules. I thought I prepped you on the plan before we got here?" Annabeth replied

"I know, I know, but I am curious." Nico said in turn

Annabeth's face took on a disapproving look.

"You know that we can't slip up right? We can't mess up even once, otherwise Olympus will have our heads. Besides if we get sloppy there was no point in even donning these personas!"

Nico moaned. These personas. He was Albert Jones, the driver, and she was Gloria Florence, a rich actor. Albert Jones, and Gloria Florence were real people with real lives, but they didn't know each other, and they also didn't know anything about the Greek world. Their occupations were such that they could never get traced back to Nico and Annabeth. For one Nico was 16, and was only legally allowed to drive with a teacher sitting next to him. Annabeth's persona, was so far off the mark from what Annabeth was that it was impossible for anyone to guess that it was her.

"Yes ma'am" Nico promptly shut up.

They pulled up at the apartment building, and got out of the car. Once they reached the Jackson apartment, Nico pulled out the key and went in. Sally and Paul had moved to the Montauk cabin. Sally wanted to hold on to every memory of Percy she had. When she had heard the news of his death she had been grief-stricken. Her son, her only son had died. Her sole companion throughout Gabe's abuse, the one who always smiled that troublemaker grin, and asked "Mommy, can you make it blue?". She had given the apartment to Annabeth, saying it was her property, because Percy would've married her.

Annabeth walked in and sat down, and Nico followed her.

"Tomorrow you will become a minor god. What will the plan be then?" Nico asked

"It's simple really. I have one main objective with multiple step plan. I need to take revenge for Percy. But I won't tell you any steps until they have been orchestrated, and they are nigh impossible to stop. I may trust you superficially Nico, but I know that people change under pressure, and they crack."

Nico scowled in protest.

"I came clean to you about everything, everything! I want to be included in this plan too! I even told you my darkest secret."

Flashback

Percy's funeral was a sad affair. Grover's empathy link had been cut by Percy just before he had been impaled by the spear. He was sobbing in agony. Chiron just looked down silently, his face sad, but he was not crying. He had seen many students die before his eyes, many in tragic ways, and his heart had been broken too many times for it to be broken into even smaller pieces. Poseidon could not attend. He was under the Sea managing his court and trying to sort things out, after war. However Tyson was there his big eye filling up with water and his face streaked with tears. His cries for his brother were the loudest.. Sally was still in shock. She was being led around by a Paul who had tears streaming down his cheeks, with no attempt made to stop them. The rest of the seven huddled around Annabeth, whose eyes were red , her body shaking. She had literally run out of tears to cry. Nico observed all of this as he wiped away his own tears, and stifled his cries by putting his hand over his mouth. He walked over to Annabeth and hugged her. She patted him on the back.

"It's OK Nico. Just let it out." Annabeth said in between sobs.

Nico burst into tears again, his sobs now the loudest in the camp.

"I-I loved him."

Annabeth hugged him tighter.

"I know"

"M-More than a friend"

"I know"

"I-I'm sorry Anna-Annabeth."

"It's OK, Nico. Just let it out."

Flashback end

Ever since that day, Nico had vowed to help Annabeth in her quest against the gods. He had even helped her by collecting the footage against Janus. He was her eyes and her ears, and she was the brain.

"I guess you are right. Fine. I'll tell you my next step but I won't go into detail: I will stir up dissent among the minor gods. Eventually they will hate both Janus and Hecate. However after the cloud of insults settles one and only one person will be left to take their spots. I'll give you a hint: Neither of them."

Nico nodded his head understanding the plan. Suddenly he thought of something.

"Wait, why don't you just leak the footage and rumor on Janus? You know, the one I gathered?"

"Because it may make them hate Janus, but it will reinforce their respect for Hecate, for turning her back on the whims of Zeus. This will make her ten times harder to defeat, while eliminating Janus. I would much rather face Janus, who is less intelligent, anyways, instead of having to worry about Hecate."

Nico nodded again.

"Thanks Annabeth. Listen, it's pretty late. What do you say we knock off?"

Annabeth nodded.

"It is about time."

With that they both went to their respective sleeping places. Nico slept on the couch in the living room, while Annabeth slept in Sally's bedroom. They didn't want to disturb Percy's bedroom for obvious reasons. Nico waited for Annabeth's door to close before going to the bathroom and locking the door. He turned on the light, and the fan before shadow travelling to the Underworld.

He stood up in Hades' throne room. Hades looked down at him from his throne.

"Speak boy and tell me what you've found out, and maybe I won't sentence some souls to the Fields of Punishment."

Nico scowled.

"What if I say no?"

"I think you'll know what I will do with these if you say no."

Hades produced two floating images. One showed a sleeping Bianca in the Isles of Blest, and the other showed a drooling Percy in Elysium.

Nico looked down at his feet.

"Annabeth intends to usurp Janus's place on the Olympian Council. She won't release the footage I gathered due to the fact that it will make Hecate stronger to take down."

"Good boy, very good. You can go back now."

Nico nodded stoically, and shadow travelled back to the bathroom. He turned on the tap, washed his hands, and stepped out of the bathroom.

(skip if you want to) A/N: Hey readers of Olympian Politics! My name is Grizlucks, and I am the author of this fic. I intend to make it short. So this fic is about Annabeth's journey to take back Olympus. There are two reasons I wrote this fic. I was inspired by Revenge and House of Cards, and I needed to let my juices flow. I was also not very pleased by the revenge fics on this site and the way people wrote female characters. In all of my anime watching and fanfic reading career, other than a few select stories, female characters have been written rather weakly. They typically depend on a male for something, belong to a harem, or a sort of harem, have breakups, and cannot get over the grief without being a total pain about it. So the way I want to write Annabeth, is different. She will be intelligent, strong, and independent, all the while not putting down a single male, and not needing to lean on a male character. That being said, I don't intend to go all feminist on this story, and turn her into another Artemis. I am a fifteen year old boy, and I don't intend to hurt my own brings me to another rant. Feminism should not be called feminism. It should be called egalitarianism, if anything. The concept of feminism is that men and women are equal, but the name should not bear the prefix "fem", as in female, because that puts a gender tag on it. Immediately people assume that once they are feminist they must fight for women's rights even when they are outright ridiculous. I knew one girl, who was a feminist, who wanted the government of Canada to be a matriarchy. If you don't get it the reason that it is wrong, is because it takes away the opportunity form equally qualified men, which suddenly calls for, and, I hate this word too, chauvinism. Anyways that was my short rant on feminism.

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Cassy daughter of the moon: Sorry if I insulted your mother. I didn't mean to. Thanks for your review, because it was what made me put out this chapter early!

CH40T1C: Thanks, for the review. This brings me to something important. I intend on finishing this story, and I will try to put a chapter out every week, sometimes twice a week, but don't blame me if I lose interest. I suck at commitments, and from past experience on this site I know I suck at keeping a regular update schedule. Hell, its been 2 months, and I haven't found the inspiration to finish a chapter of What If? My other fic. My biggest fic regret, is one of my LoL fics because I look like a complete creep for not finishing it. Don't check it out. Anyways thanks for the review.