"Three Old Ladies Knit the Socks of Death." Nico chuckled. Hades perked up in his seat, "Did you just say death?" Nico nodded and Hades grinned quite evilly, I might add. Percy on the other hand, looked down and thought about Luke.

"I was used to the occasional weird experience, but usually they were over quickly. This twenty-four/seven hallucination was more than I could handle. " The demigods looked at Percy in understanding and grimaced as they relieved their memories. Hermione thought about this deeply and started thinking about how wizards and witches have to go through the same thing.

"For the rest of the school year, the entire campus seemed to be playing some kind of trick on me."

Hermes smiled and started thinking up a prank that he would love to pull on one of the gods later. An idea shot into his brain and he immediately whispered his master plan in Apollo's ear and Apollo suddenly brightened.

"The students acted as if they were completely and totally convinced that Mrs. Kerr- a perky blonde woman whom I'd never seen in my life until she got on our bus at the end of the field trip- had been our pre-algebra teacher since Christmas."

"That was really annoying! I thought I was going crazy!" Percy laughed as he leaned his back into the couch.

"Every so often I would spring a Mrs. Dodds reference on somebody, just to see if I could trip them up, but they would stare at me like a psycho. It got so that I almost believed them- Mrs. Dodds had ever existed."

"That would have been funny! Poor Percy would have thought he needed to go in a metal hospital or something!" Rachel giggled.

"Almost."

Everyone snorted and turned to look at Grover whose face was like one of a deer in headlights.

"But Grover couldn't fool me. When I mentioned the name Dodds to him, he would hesitate, then claim she didn't exist. But I knew he was lying."

Hermes dug into his messenger bag and brought out a small white notebook. He fished a pen and started writing on his notepad while murmuring 'teach Grover how to lie'

"Something was going on. Something had happened at the museum. I didn't have much time to think about it during the days, but at night, visions of Mrs. Dodds with talons and leathery wings would wake me up in a cold sweat."

Everyone shivered and looked sympathetically at Percy.

"The freak weather continued, which didn't help my mood. One night, a thunderstorm blew out the windows in my dorm room. A few days later, the biggest tornado ever spotted in the Hudson Valley touched down only fifty miles from Yancy Academy."

"Honestly Zeus! What had made your lightning bolt go in twist?" Apollo lightly joked.

"One of the current events we studied in social studies class was the unusual number of small planes that had gone down in the Atlantic that year. I started feeling cranky and irritable most of the time. My grades slipped from Ds to Fs."

Athena gasped and looked at Percy, wondering how her daughter could even be friends with him. Annabeth just giggled and snuggled up to Percy while Athena narrowed her eyes and both of them and promised herself that she would get to the end of the whole situation.

"I got into more fights with Nancy Bobofit and her friends. I was sent out into the hallway in almost every class."

Ares smiled almost evilly at Percy who looked alarmed. "Did you have fist fights or just arguments?" Ares eagerly inquired, things were getting really boring! Percy just vigorously shook his head and Ares slumped back into his seat, grumbling.

"Finally when our English teacher, Mr. Nicoll, asked me for the millionth time why I was too lazy to study for the spelling tests, I snapped. I called him an old sot. I wasn't even sure what it meant but it sounded good."

Athena, Annabeth and Hermione laughed out loud. "What does it mean?" Tris asked.

Giggling, Hermione answered, "An old drunk."

As soon as those word left Hermione's mouth, the whole throne room was filled with fun filled laughter.

"The headmaster sent my mom a letter the following week, making it official: I would not be invited back next year to Yancy Academy. Fine, I told myself. Just fine. I was homesick. I wanted to be with my mom in our little apartment on the Upper East Side, even if I had to go to public school and put up with my obnoxious stepfather and his stupid poker parties."

Nico and Annabeth frowned, "Paul was nice though, since when did he gamble?" Percy shook his head and answered," This was before Paul." Grover groaned and gave Percy a sympathetic look, "Aw man! I hated that dude!" Harry looked down and thought about the Dursleys, 'I haven't talked to them in ages!' he thought.

"And yet… there were things I'd miss at Yancy. The view of the woods out my dorm window, the Hudson River in the distance, the smell of pine trees. I'd miss Grover, who'd been a good friend, even if he was a little strange. I worried how he'd survive next year without me."

"Thanks Perce." Grover smiled at him.

"No problem G-man!"

"I'd miss Latin class too- Mr. Brunner's crazy tournament days and his faith that I would do well. As exam week got closer, Latin was the only test I studied for. I hadn't forgotten what Mr. Brunner had told me about the subject being life-and-death for me. I wasn't sure why, but I'd started to believe him."

"Good Percy, you need to understand." Poseidon's booming voice filled the Throne Room. A couple of people jumped in shock, they had forgotten the gods were there.

"The evening before my final, I got so frustrated I threw the Cambridge Guide to Greek Mythology across my dorm room."

Athena's jaw locked and she stared daggers at Percy.

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.

All the demigods nodded, they hated their ADHD and dyslexia, although they were very useful in battle.

"There was no way I was going to remember the difference between Chiron and Charon"

"Well, you do now." Grover muttered absentmindedly. He hadn't had realised what he said until Poseidon asked him," What do you mean he knows Charon?" Grover's eyes widened and he slapped his right hand over his mouth, "Oops!" he muffled into his hand.

"Polydictes and Polydeuces. And conjugating those Latin verbs? Forget it. I paced the room, feeling like ants were crawling around inside my shirt."

Everyone shivered at that and a couple quickly checked themselves to see if they had any ants.

"I remembered Mr. Brunner's serious expression, his thousand-year-old eyes."

At this, Jace pretended to be Mr. Brunner even thought Jace had never seen him before. He kept his face seriously straight and that caused everyone watching to burst out laughing at his ridiculous expression.

"I will accept only the best from you, Percy Jackson. I took a deep breath; I picked up the mythology book. I'd never asked a teacher for help before. Maybe if I talked to Mr. Brunner, he could give me some pointers. At least I could apologize for the big fat F I was about to score on his exam."

"At least you tried, Seaweed Brain!" Annabeth smiled at Percy who gazed back lovingly while Aphrodite was squirming in her seat.

"I didn't want to leave Yancy Academy with him thinking I hadn't tried."

"I wonder what Chiron would think if heard this!" Thalia mused and chuckled.

"I walked downstairs to the faculty offices. Most of them were dark and empty, but Mr. Brunner's door was ajar, light from his window stretching across the hallway floor. I was three steps away from the door handle when I heard voices inside the office."

Hermes straightened and smiled, 'Eavesdropping time!' he thought excitedly.

"Mr. Brunner asked a question. A voice that was definitely Grover's said, "…worried about Percy, sir." I froze. I'm not usually an eavesdropper,"

"I AM!" Hermes laughed out loud. All the other gods raised an eyebrow at him while their faces said, ' I don't know that guy'

"But I dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult."

Four shrugged and nodded along with Jace as he held onto Tris' hand.

"I inched closer. "…alone this summer," Grover was saying. "I mean, a Kindly One in the school! Now that we know for sure, and they know too-"

"We would only make matters worse by rushing him," Mr. Brunner said. "We need the boy to mature more."

"By the time Percy actually matures we will be as old as the gods!" Thalia joked while everyone laughed.

"But he may not have time. The summer solstice deadline-"

"Will have to be resolved without him, Grover. Let him enjoy his ignorance while he still can."

"Sir, he saw her…"

"His imagination," Mr. Brunner insisted. "The Mist over the students and staff will be enough to convince him of that."

"Sir, I … I can't fail in my duties again." Grover's voice was choked with emotion. "You know what that would mean."

Thalia's face grew solemn and she spoke in a calm voice," Its okay Grover, it was my own choice."

"You haven't failed, Grover," Mr. Brunner said kindly. "I should have seen her for what she was. Now let's just worry about keeping Percy alive until next fall-"

The mythology book dropped out of my hand and hit the floor with a thud."

Hermes looked alarmed and shook his held vigorously. "NEVER GIVE AWAY WHERE YOU ARE!" He slapped his forehead and looked disappointedly at Percy. "Maybe you could learn how to sneak and I could give Grover his lessons on lying at the same time!" Percy's eyes widened and he immediately declined.

"Mr. Brunner went silent. My heart hammering, I picked up the book and backed down the hall."

Hermes nodded and kept his face in a concentration mode.

"A shadow slid across the lighted glass of Brunner's office door, the shadow of something much taller than my wheelchair-bound teacher, holding something that looked suspiciously like an archer's bow."

"What was he doing in centaur form? Someone could have caught him!" Artemis exclaimed. The golden trio looked up strangely at the word centaur.

"I opened the nearest door and slipped inside. A few seconds later I heard a slow clop-clop-clop, like muffled wood blocks, then a sound like an animal snuffing right outside my door. A large, dark shape paused in front of the glass, then moved on. A bead of sweat trickled down my neck. Somewhere in the hallway, Mr. Brunner spoke. "Nothing," he murmured. "My nerves haven't been right since the winter solstice."

"Mine neither," Grover said."

"What happened at the winter solstice? Everyone keeps on mentioning and yet don't know what happened!" Athena ranted. Annabeth answered, trying to cool off her mother," It is best that you don't find out yet, otherwise, Zeus might start killing random people."

"But I could have sworn …"

"Go back to the dorm," Mr. Brunner told him. "You've got a long day of exams tomorrow."

"Don't remind me."

Hermione smiled at the word exams. She loved them so much because it was so satisfying when you are looking at a question and you are like, I know this!

"The lights went out in Mr. Brunner's office. I waited in the dark for what seemed like forever. Finally, I slipped out into the hallway and made my way back to the dorm. Grover was lying on his bed, studying his Latin exam notes like he'd been there all night."

"That must have been frustrating!" Ron commented. Percy nodded and shot Grover a fake annoyed look then burst out laughing. Grover just meekly smiled and answered, "Sorry?"

"Hey," he said, bleary-eyed. "You going to be ready for this test?"

I didn't answer.

"You look awful." He frowned. "Is everything okay?"

"Just… tired."

I turned so he couldn't read my expression, and started getting ready for bed. I didn't understand what I'd heard downstairs. I wanted to believe I'd imagined the whole thing. But one thing was clear: Grover and Mr. Brunner were talking about me behind my back. They thought I was in some kind of danger.

"DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!" Apollo shouted out.

(A/N) HELLOOOO!

I AM SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING! One word, EXAMS. BUT I have finished the school year on Friday so i can concentrate a bit more on this story! I know this is only part 1 of "Three old ladies knit the socks of death" because i wanted to give you guys at least something! Thnk you for all your support through out this fanfic even when i was being a poo and not updating! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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