CHAPTER 6:

STILL THALIA POV

TIME SKIP A FEW HOURS

I woke up to a scream.

"PERCY!" Annabeth was crying hysterically.

All of us girls ran over to the portrait door and Piper whispered "Tartaro."

The portrait door opened and we saw a frenzied Annabeth crying and Percy trying to calm her down.

"Shh… Annabeth I'm here. I love you. You're safe. I love you. We're together. I love you. I'm not leaving you again. I love you. I promise." He whispered. I noticed that he never said things like, 'It'll be okay' or stuff like that. I suppose that after all that they have been through, being together was all that mattered.

By now, there was a crowd around the portrait hole; all us demigods were there along with many of the wizards. Everyone was watching them, but they both didn't notice.

"What happened this time, Wise Girl?" Percy asked, pulling Annabeth onto his lap. She wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered, I could barely hear.

"The arai-The Calypso curse." She wailed into his shoulder.

"Wise Girl. I PROMISE that I will never leave you again. Last time it was all my stupid aunt's fault." Thunder boomed and he rolled his eyes, muttering curses about Hera in Greek.

A few minutes later, Annabeth calmed down. "I'm sorry I woke you all up." She said, wiping the tears off her face and facing us all.

We all shook our heads, shocked that she was apologizing. "It's OK, Annie." I console her. "Are you alright now?" I ask.

She nodded, halfheartedly.

"What was that about?" Ron yelled.

Hermione and Ginny both kicked him hard.

"Shut up, Ronald!" They both yelled.

"OW! That bloody hurt, it did!"

Annabeth laughed a little.

"Really, though. What was that?" He asked curiously.

Annabeth shuddered. "A horrible nightmare. I relived one of the worst things that ever happened to me."

"What?" He pressed on. He was kicked again.

"This person cursed me. I was blinded and I had no real sense of direction, but worst was that they cursed me into thinking that Percy left me in this… abyss of darkness." She said softly. Percy hugged her tighter.

"Oh." Ron said.

Hermione and Ginny rolled their eyes.

"Ronald-you are SO insensitive!" Hermione yelled.

Ginny just kicked him again.

Annabeth laughed again.

"Well, breakfast starts soon, so we might as well begin getting ready." Hermione said. All the wizards took that as a hint to leave and followed her. All us demigods stayed in Percy and Annabeth's room.

"Annie what was that really about?" Piper asked. Annabeth glared halfheartedly at the nickname.

"The arai." She answered.

Nico gasped. "I didn't see those. Dad told me that those could possibly be the worst in Tartarus." He said. (AN: I TOTALLY DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS TRUE OR NOT, BUT WHATEVER!)

"There was one curse, by Calypso," Annabeth began. Leo smiled at Calypso's name.

"She cursed me so that I couldn't tell that Percy was there. It left me this horrid feeling that I was abandoned." She whispered.

Percy hugged her so tight I was surprised that she didn't break.

"I'm so sorry, Wise Girl." He whispered to her.

"It wasn't your fault, Seaweed Brain!" She said.

We smiled. They were bickering as usual.

"Hermione said that breakfast was about to start." Hazel said.

Frank nodded. "We should probably get ready." Annabeth and Percy nodded.

"Only if you are POSITIVE you're alright." Jason said. Annabeth stood up, hands on her hips.

"I'm fine you guys!" She said, laughing.

We nodded and left the room.

We all got ready, and got our stuff together for the day.

As a group we all walked to the Great Hall.

All the Gryffindors were staring at Percy and Annabeth.

I glared at them, and they immediately looked away.

We all got handed our schedules, or as the British say it, our timetables.

We all squinted at the words.

Hermione smiled gently and looked at ours for us.

"You all have the same classes. And you have them all with Harry and Ron. I have almost all my classes with you, except when you have divination, I have Ancient Runes, because the divination teacher here is positively RIDICULOUS." She declared.

We nodded. We would just follow them, then.

"Your schedule goes like this: Transfiguration, History of Magic, Herbology, Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts and lastly, Divination." Hermione said. We all nodded again.

"Let's go then!" Harry said.

Jason POV

As we walk to our first class; Transfiguration (whatever in Hades that is), I notice that Percy and Annabeth, were just walking together and holding hands. They made small talk, and laughed, overall, they looked HAPPY-which, if you asked me, they DEFINITELY deserved.

"I have an idea! Cousin picture! Annie, take a picture of me, Jason, Nico, Hazel and Percy!" Thalia yelled. Annabeth glared at her unwanted nickname, but sighed as Thalia handed her a small digital camera.

She pushed her boyfriend over to us, and Hazel walked over to us as well.

"Now, how do we do this?" Percy asked, tapping his finger on his chin.

"I know!" Thalia exclaimed. She whispered something to Hazel and a grin slowly began to form on Hazel's face.

"Pinecone Face, you better not do something that you'll regret…" Percy warned, obviously remembering the time that Thalia paid the Stoll brothers into filming every moment alone that Percy and Annabeth had gotten after the war. Percy and Annabeth wouldn't speak to her for a week because they were so mad at her.

She rolled her eyes. "Even YOU wouldn't be that stupid to do something that would make Annie that mad again, Kelp Head!"

Hermione interrupted. "We're going to be late!" She exclaimed. Everyone except for Annabeth rolled his or her eyes. Annabeth looked horrified.

"You guys! We can't be late on our first official day!" Annabeth cried.

Immediately, Thalia jumped on Percy's back, emitting a rather painful sounding 'oomph' from said demigod. Hazel proceeded to jump on my back, which was very unexpected, and then she put bunny-ears on a rather uncomfortable looking Nico, who was standing in the middle of me and Percy, and of course, the two girls on our backs. We smiled (except for Nico) and said, in Greek of course, "Ambrosia!" (AN: Sorry, couldn't resist putting that in there!)

Annabeth laughed as she clicked the button on the camera. "Oh that is SO cute!" She said.

"Yeah," Leo began. "We DEFINATELY have to send this to everyone else at camp and all of the go-" he was cut off by a painful jab at his ribs by Piper.

His eyes widened as he realized his slip up.

"I mean, our parents!" He quickly corrected.

Harry, Ron and Hermione looked at him strangely, but then shook it off.

We hurriedly followed them as they led us to Transfiguration class.

When we arrived at the classroom, we saw the teacher that we met at the very beginning, Professor McDonald or something like that.

When Annabeth saw me struggling to remember her name, she rolled her eyes. "That's Professor McGonagall." She reminded us.

"Where would I be without you, Wise Girl?" Percy asked, a lopsided grin on his face.

Annabeth looked at him and rolled her eyes again.

Thalia leaned into Nico and me. "Dead, a thousand times over." She whispered, and I had to cough to hide my laughter. Nico snickered.