Her daughter is gone.

She has always loved Annabeth just a little more than the rest of her children. It's unfair, she knows that, but when that little blonde girl was born, she captured her heart in way that only few of her children had ever done.

And now that beautiful little girl was gone, forced by Atlas to hold up the sky.

She has never hated the game her father and grandfather insist on playing more than at that moment. She knows her first loyalties are to Olympus – but all the same, it is she, not one of the other gods, who has to watch her child suffer, all the while knowing that she cannot do anything.

Athena will be the first one to admit she has problems with Poseidon. She does not much like his son either – and the fact that the spawn of the sea is so close to her daughter is galling.

But all the same, she has to respect him. He is the only one, save maybe for Thalia Grace and the satyr, who truly cares for her child. He has taken the biggest risk possible by leaving Camp Half-Blood without permission, and he has done it all to save Annabeth. She can only do the same.

Her father will be greatly angered when he finds out about this, she knows that, but Annabeth is her child. She doesn't care whether it's against Zeus and Hera's orders not to interfere with half-blood quests. She is willing to do whatever it takes to save her child, even help a son of the sea god.

She only allows herself to smile once the half-bloods have left Hoover Dam. Games and manipulations are all well and good, but she will stand to see her children used in them.

This will be her reminder to her father of that fact.


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