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Annabeth

At first, I was scared that my little girl had come here. I was happy that I wasn't forgotten about, but I didn't want her to live like Percy and I did, dangerously. Always trying to fight off monsters, having a prophecy hang over your head (in Percy's case, anyway).

Then, I noticed the boy He looked like Jason a bit, possibly when Jason was younger, with his blonde hair, blue eyes. He reminded me of Percy when we were little. That's when I noticed the names. How Zoë was saying it irritably, but fondly. Almost like Seaweed brain and Wise Girl. That's when I noticed the little things, but the scary thing is, I'm not even sure if they knew what they were doing.

Zoë

My mom looked at me like I-knew-that-I-was-just-waiting-for-you. I rolled my eyes and nodded. She shook her head and I sighed in exasperation.

"Why else would you look so healthy have having been kidnapped?" I asked her.

"I believe the correct term is parent-napped," Bianca said from the shadows. Every single one of us jumped, including my mom, who was staring intently at Bianca.

"Bianca! You scared us half to death!" I told her. She responded simply with a small smile.

"We were getting worried. You told us it would take you twenty minutes tops, but we've been waiting for a little over an hour," she explained calmingly, glancing at my mom every once in a while, as if afraid she would turn into a monster.

"We?" my mom asked before I could even begin to explain what had happened.

In answer, Zia stepped out from the shadows. Her gaze never left my—our—mom. Terror filled me. Would Mom recognize Zia? Judging by the ever-lengthening silence, she didn't.

For a split second, I saw a flash of something in my mother's eyes. It could've been recognition or pain or something else along those lines. I don't know, I didn't see it clearly.

"Who-who are you?" my mom asked Zia. I could see her deflate visible. I could see the tears threatening to overflow. And in that moment I was furious at my mom. I knew it wasn't her fault, but how could she not remember her own daughter? It was crushing Zia, I could see it on her face, but she managed to tell my mom her name, though it came out in a strangled whisper.

"Zia," Mom murmured under her breath. The way she said it, made it sounded like she was trying to place the name, but I wasn't sure.

"Anyway…"Matt said, obviously picking up on the awkwardness in the cave, trying to break it.

"Yes?" I asked, turning to him.

"How are we supposed to get out of here?" he asked everyone in general.

I smiled as thought about how I was going to explain this. "How do you think Bianca and Zia got in here?" I asked him.

"Um…"he said in lieu of an answer since he didn't have one.

"Bianca shadow traveled us here," Zia told Matt.

"And?" he prompted.

"And I can shadow travel us out!" Bianca told him, giving him a smack on his arm. He rubbed his arm, but we all knew it didn't really hurt.

"Wait," my mom said, looking at Bianca.

"From what Nico's told me, it takes a lot of your energy to shadow travel, even if they're short distances," she told Bianca.

"How do you know my dad?" Bianca said, completely forgetting the rest of what my mom just told her.

She smiled, but her smile seemed a little sad to me; like she was missing something, or someone. "I knew him when Percy and I were teenagers and he was a little kid. We stayed in touch until we had Zoë," she informed Bianca.

She just nodded at this bit of information and answer Mom's previous question. "Since it's not too long, and there are only four of you, I can do it. I'll probably be really tired when I'm done, though," she added.

Matthew

I was a little zoned out while they were figuring out where Bianca would shadow travel us to. In the end, it decided that she would travel to the forest we were in before we went to rescue Zoe and Zia's mom.

First, Bianca would take Zoë's mom and Zia, and then she would come back for Zoë and me. With a wave, she disappeared into the shadows, leaving us alone in the cave.

"We finally have your mom back," I told Zoë.

"Yep," she said with a sigh. She didn't sound too happy to me, which seriously confused me because she was so excited earlier. Maybe she was tired, I don't know.

"Zoë what's wrong?" I asked her, trying to be a comforting friend.

"This whole thing is messed up, and it's all my fault," she told me. She sounded like she was close to tears.

"How is it your fault?" I asked her in bewilderment. Hoping to at least make her smile, I said, "You're a Smartie; if it weren't for you, none of this would have ever happened."

It worked. The edges of her mouth tugged up slightly, and she said, "Smartie?"

"You know, like the candy!" I told her enthusiastically. She gave a little laugh, but sobered up.

"What am I supposed to do?" she said so softly that I could barely hear her, but I think that was the point.

"Seriously, what's wrong?" I asked her again, hoping for an answer this time.

"Maybe I'll tell you later, Matt," she told me.

Before I could reply, Bianca and reappeared in the room. We each grabbed her arm and with a whirl, the cave disappeared. Even though we had done this earlier, I still was caught unprepared. Bianca and Zoë would say I'm always unprepared, but that's beside the point.

When we landed, I was a little dizzy and wound up falling so the ground and Zoë landed on top of me. Thankfully, nobody noticed and it was dark enough to hide our blush.

Now, all I had to do was figure out what was making her so upset.

Ta-da! Hope you liked it! I hope to update this story soon, maybe within the week.