hi, okay this is going to be the first few days percys gone in tlh and annabeth is panicking and okay

the night before

He pecked me on the cheek. "G'night, Wise Girl."

"Good night, Seaweed Brain." I replied.

"Don't let the spiders bite!" Percy teased me. I playfully hit him on the arm.

"Not funny." I said.

"Ah, alright." He tucked me under his arm. "Goodnight Annabeth." Percy started walking off toward his cabin. He turned back toward me. "Happy, now? No spider jokes."

"Very happy. Goodnight, Percy." I called to my boyfriend, who was walking toward his cabin, for what he didn't know would be last time for a long while.

the morning of

I ran into The Big House. "He's... not ... there." I panted in-between breaths. "He's- he's gone." Chiron, who was standing, or sitting, he was in wheelchair form, looked up.

"What do you mean, Annabeth?" He asked me calmly.

"Percy, he's- he's not in his cabin. He's not in the lake, or the mess hall. I've checked everywhere, and he wouldn't just run off like this without notifying anyone." I paused, and remembered back to a few years ago. "By anyone, I mean Grover and I."

"What?" Chiron asked, to no one in particular. "Where did he go then?"

"I don't know, maybe he got a call from Sally- Sally! We need to tell Sally!" I cried, literally, cried. I'd been tearing up for a while now, but I was sobbing.

"Alright, Annabeth, we'll Iris message Ms. Jackson." Chiron replied.

"No- can I go see Sally? While I'm in Manhattan I'll look there." I pleaded.

"Alright. But you'll need someone to go with you." I nodded.

"Grover. Grover or... Nico. Maybe Thalia... no, no, they're all away. Sally hasn't met anyone else, I don't think." I sighed. "This won't work, unless I show up there with someone she hasn't met."

"I'm afraid that's going to have to be the case. Why don't you take Clarisse?"

And so there I was, for the first time in my seven years at Camp, knocking on the Ares' cabin door to ask Clarisse for help. I knocked, and a bulky, bald, muscular guy answered the door. "Chase." He grumbled. I opened my mouth to speak, but he beat me to it. "Hold on, I'll get La Rue." I don't know how he knew me, because I did not know him. And I certainly don't know how he knew that I wanted Clarisse. I waited about five minutes, and was about to go ask Butch instead. But Clarisse finally came to the door. "Shut the door," the big guy who answered said. Clarisse stepped outside, closing the door behind her.

"Annabeth." Clarisse said.
"Hi. Um, listen. I woke up this morning and went to have breakfast-" I started.

"I don't want the summary of your day, Chase." She growled.

"No, there's more. Just listen. So, I went to the mess hall, and that's where Percy usually is. He wasn't there. I got a little nervous, but then I thought no, he's probably just still asleep. So I calmed back down. I went to check his cabin after breakfast. He wasn't there either. Then I went to the lake, and I was really worried by now. So, I checked everywhere. He was nowhere. So I went to tell Chiron and I said 'Let's go tell Sally in person.' and he said 'No, bring Clarisse.' So will you come to Percy's apartment to tell his mom he's missing and to look for him in Manhattan?" I finished. I realized that I was acting strangely out of character, but it must have been the nerves.

"So, you're asking me for help?" She conclude.

I sighed. "Yes. Is that all you got from that?"

"No, just- alright. Meet me at the Big House in five minutes."

I remember going to tell Sally, then searching Manhattan, then sending Clarisse back and going back to Percy's to cry with Sally. The next two days was a nervous blur, but I remember something very, very vividly. It was a dream. A lady appeared to me in the dream and told me that the key to finding Percy was at the Grand Canyon. So I woke up and I told this to Chiron, who said it was nerve racking. We'd just gotten a call from a Protector, Gleeson Hedge. He said to send an extraction team to take two, possibly three demigods back to camp. Chiron send me and Butch. We arrived, and Jason, who I didn't know at the time, only had one shoe on. The lady said the boy with one shoe would be the key to finding Percy, but Jason didn't even remember his own age. We came away with Jason Grace, Piper McLean, and Leo Valdez. Turns out, they were the key to finding Percy, and they'd also become some of my all-time closest friends. But that's a story for another time.

I'm sorry. it's short, probably sucks, too. but i'm tired and i felt like writing, so here you are. enjoy, please.