A/N: Please review and let me know how you feel about the course of the story especially in light of the original. Some aspects will remain the same but others have obviously changed. I can tell my writing style has changed and will turn off some readers from the original but I would very much appreciate hearing your thoughts. Also, reviews completely motivate me :)

Percy pulled on some clean jeans and dark green shirt. His mom seemed to think it was cute to send him green, blue, and any kind of sea plain colored shirts to "bring out his eyes". I knew there was a reason I liked Mrs. Jackson.

We were heading out to breakfast when I decided to carefully broach the topic of the vile brown haired harpy. I mean girl. Whatever.

"That was kind of weird, right? Who is that girl anyway?" I asked Percy as we headed to the Dining Pavilion. For reasons still unknown, Percy couldn't sit at the Athena table without being thrown off but I could sit at the Poseidon table easily. Just me though, others had tried and failed. I took it as a sign that Poseidon lowkey liked me. I hope.

"She's pretty." He said dreamily, "I've never witnessed such beauty in a demigod." Well ouch. I was pretty pretty myself. It was somewhat out of character that he said that though because the girl looked so much like the other brunettes in Demeter and he'd never commented on them before. Well to be fair, he'd never really commented on the looks of any girl before. I angrily stabbed a strawberry before catching a glimpse of myself in a goblet. If anything, the bags of my eyes had gotten darker and deeper in the course of just a few hours. Screw it, I was going to visit the Aphrodite cabin today. I would put aside my brains are everything pride away just for a few hours even if it was just for doing stupid paperwork.

"It's strange how she stayed under the radar for so many years though." I said thinking hard, "She looks like she's 16 or 17."

"Her dad was really cool about her being a demigod." Percy said immediately with a familiarity about her life that had me seething inside, "She begged him to let her come here after what happened at Olympus. She said she wanted to get more in touch with her demigod roots." Yeaaah sure. That's what she wanted to get in touch with. Not the boy sitting right in front of me.

We ate silently, me caught up in murderous and violent thoughts while Percy seemed lovestruck and happy. And yet, I couldn't help but feel like there was something wrong with his mood. Like it was false and unreal. But then again I had just been shoved aside for some random girl so…not fun.

I finished eating and turned to him, "I'll see you at the meeting."

He smiled, "Okay see you later." That's it? No inquiries about where I was going or what I was doing? I inspected his eyes. They were still flat. Something was definitely wrong with him and I suspected that girl had something to do with it. But what could it be? Why had she been awake so early too? But I was also pissed off and petty. I decided the mystery would be worth looking into after I had some work done on my face.

"See you around." I said shortly. As I turned away he caught my wrist. I looked back at him and he stared deeply into my eyes before he shuddered and squeezed his eyes shut. He put his head in his hands like he had the worst headache in the world before straightening back up. He looked around confusedly like he wasn't sure how he had gotten to the Dining Pavilion.

"Where are you going?" he asked. I looked into his eyes. They shown again with Percy-ness.

"Um…" I sat back down. Something was definitely wrong here.

I decided to ask him again, "This morning was strange right?" Blank stare in response.

"That new girl from Demeter is a little weird right?" I asked.

"There's a new girl from Demeter?" he asked, "I haven't met her yet."

"Her name is Jen." I said slowly like I was speaking to a toddler, "She appears to be a friend of yours." He looked at me like I was crazy.

"I think I would remember if I had a friend named Jen from Demeter, Annabeth." He said, sounding annoyed.

"Yeah sure…" I said backing away, "I've got to go now." I was feeling pretty irritated myself between this whole nightmare-weird girl from Demeter-Percy apparently not remembering or deciding to play jokes on me thing. This seemed like a future me problem and I'd deal with it later.

"Where are you going?" he repeated.

"Aphrodite cabin." I snapped, "I look like crap." I spun around before I could see his reaction. I started fast walking in that direction and felt a presence behind me. Stupid long boy legs.

"You look fine to me." He said. I warmed a little as he easily kept up with my pace, "Besides we need to strategize for the competition." My flame extinguished. He was talking about the Cross Country Competition, a game created by the Gods to promote unity among the cabins. You paired up with a partner not from your cabin and were flung into puzzles, mazes, and obstacles until you made it to California. The competition happened only every 5 years and you could only play once because I'd heard the Gods were really lazy about changing the obstacles and didn't want campers re-entering. Why they put effort into enchanting you so you couldn't tell anyone about it instead of just changing the game was beyond me. Classic bureaucracy. Winning it was really prestigious and well…I liked winning.

"We can strategize later." I snarled, "I'll see you later." He kept on my heels. I don't know why I was so irrationally angry but I didn't want him to see me in this state of weakness. He ignored me.

"Maybe there clues in the Aphrodite cabin." He said thoughtfully, "It's one of the hardest cabins to get into secretly anyways." Maybe it's because Percy's fanbase was set out of the Aphrodite cabin and they watched him like a hawk. I didn't tell him that though. Fanning the egos of men was an activity I decisively did not participate in.

"Yeah, whatever." I grumbled as we approached their beautiful cabin. It looked like the Barbie home come alive with and there wasn't a single thing out of place. I walked up to the door and banged on it. No answer. I banged again.

"Have some patience." Percy admonished and I rolled my eyes at him.

I was about two seconds from breaking down the door when it opened and a small girl looked up at me, scared. It was Lacy and I was glad it was her who opened the door and not her annoying sister, Drew.

"Hi…Annabeth." She asked confusedly like she had never seen me before. She had reason to be confused. I had never shown up like this before.

"Can I come in?" I asked politely trying to not take out the frustrations of the morning on her.

"Yeah sure…" she replied, "Mother, Percabeth is here!" What?

"Percabeth?" Percy asked stupidly, like the stupid boy he was, "What's that?"

My cheeks flamed but I stepped through the doorway. Why was Aphrodite here? The gods usually didn't just stop in to visit their kids, at least my mom didn't. I heard footsteps to reveal the most beautiful woman in the entire world step out in front of me. She had deep dark brunette hair (ugh wish I was brunette so people would stop thinking I was a dumb blond), light friendly brown eyes (another feature I wished I had because people think my eyes are scary), and was light and feminine. Basically Aphrodite was everything that I was not. I suspected she could feel my jealousy radiating off in waves especially because Percy was looking at her with gooey eyes.

"What color is my hair?" she asked in a beautiful husky voice.

"Blond." Percy answered confidently. Aphrodite gave me a wink. I glared at Percy wondering if all those years of fighting had finally dulled his last brain cell. Whatever.

"Why are you here, Annabeth, daughter of Athena? You've never graced us with your presence before." She asked airily.

"Um. Dark circles." I said feeling ashamed and praying that my mother wasn't watching me at this moment.

"Is that all?" she asked looking deep into my eyes, "Nothing else you desire?"

"I'd like to look more presentable." I said carefully wondering what the hell kind of answer she wanted out of me, "I haven't been sleeping right."

"You never mentioned that to me!" Percy exclaimed breaking me out of Aphrodite's trance. She pouted.

"I, uh…I don't know. I assumed it would go away." I said feeling bad. Then I remembered all the crap Percy was putting me through between that girl from Demeter and not remembering what he had done, "It's not like you've been hanging out with me or noticing anything at all!"

"What are you talking about?" he exclaimed, "We hang out all the time!"

"No we don't! You're always with Jen!" I yelled back.

"Who is Jen? You keep talking about her and I have no idea who that is!" Lacy looked at Percy like he was crazy. I knew Jen hung out with almost all the campers because she was just a friendly, lovely wildflower who was "easy to get along with" blah blah blah.

I was about to open my mouth for a sharp retort when Aphrodite spoke, "Children please."

We both looked at her angrily.

"There is no need for disagreements like this." She said smoothly, "Allow me to help you achieve what you desire."

"What, like knowing who this not real girl is?" Percy asked angrily. She giggled.

"What is your deepest desire Perseus?" she asked at him, smiling mischievously.

"Um…world peace?" he offered up. Lacy rolled her eyes.

"It's so obvious." Lacy said, "How can you be so thick?"

"What?" Percy asked, "What is going on?"

"That's what I'd like to know." I muttered angrily.

Aphrodite smiled devilishly, "Annabeth, surely you know what your deepest desire is." Her eyes flicked to Percy and back to me watching my expression change. I did not let it change though my insides were churning.

"My deepest desire is…" I said as Percy and Lacy hung on to every word, "to get my dark circles concealed so I can get the hell out of here."

Lacy and Aphrodite simultaneously sighed with disappointment.

"It looks like words are not enough. At least not just your words, stubborn daughter of Athena." Aphrodite murmured, "It seems like you need a little…push." I didn't like the sound of that.

"I - " She put out a hand to stop me, then pulled out a small perfume bottle.

She grinned, "I remember the last time I had to resort to this. It's just so much fun!"

"What? - " She spritzed and the world went dark.

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What is going on. Why am I here.

I groaned and sat up. I was laying on the floor of the Aphrodite cabin trying to figure out what was going on.

Aphrodite is so beautiful. Her blond hair is beautiful. Her gray eyes are beautiful. What? I looked around to see the very much brown haired, brown eyed Aphrodite looking at me.

"Your hair is brown." I said stupidly.

"Is it?" she said, raising an eyebrow, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

Percy sat up. Annabeth looks pissed. Hell yeah, I do.

Wait. Who said that?

Man I really hope she's not going to choose today to finally finish me off she's just been so mad lately.

"Who has been so mad lately?" I asked loudly. Percy looked so lost and confused.

"I don't look lost." He snapped.

"I didn't say that." I retorted.

"Yes you did!" he said furiously, his green eyes flashing.

A giggle interrupted our speech.

"Oh silly me." Aphrodite tittered, "I tried to make you get more in touch with each other's thoughts and feelings but I may have over did it just a little."

What is she talking about what is going on what –

"Percy! Stop talking so loud!" I yelled covering my ears.

"I'm not even talking!" he said, "I'm just thinking."

And then it hit me. Percy?

Yes?

I glared up and Aphrodite only to see that she had disappeared leaving just a smirking Lacy.

I think we can hear each other's thoughts.

Well, crap.

A/N: Reviews are useful, motivating, and much appreciated!