Updates will start to slow down. Summer plans will start making my schedule crazy, but I'm far from finished.

When they had gotten the room cleaned up, all the guys sat down in various places and just started laughing. Annabeth, who had been inside the shower the entire time, didn't understand the 'joke' so she asked.

When Annabeth asked why all the men were laughing so much, they broke into another round of laughter. Not that she wasn't grateful they were laughing and not too serious all the time, she just didn't appreciate being out of the loop even if it was for her safety.

Finally Nico was able to regain some sense of soberness. He said still chuckling, "It's just the guy's - " He had to take a deep breath to continue, "The guy's face was hysterical. Plus he kept getting so upset that we didn't speak English and spoke all these other languages."

Annabeth couldn't seem to find this funny at all, but apparently it was to the men, so she allowed them to calm down on their own. She enjoyed seeing them act like their teenage selves again. They always seemed to be very serious and never would do their old joking around. It was good and bad. It seemed like that would be good for the A2 business, but it looked almost depressing from Annabeth's view from afar. Then again, she hadn't seen Percy or the other men for over a year (a year and two months to be specific). She wondered if they were this serious and down to business because of the A2 business or because they were all ranking officers in the military. Something to ask Percy.

It took long enough for all the men to calm down in Annabeth's opinion. She still didn't find a man's response to miscommunication this funny, but she kept her opinions to herself. As all the men were finally calmed down, she waited for one to give some sort of instruction for further actions to take.

Annabeth then decided to ask, "What are we going to do now?"

It was Leo to answer with, "Well I think Travis should call this guy back because he was the guy that we hinted to the guy that can speak English. He was playing passed out when that guy was here."

"Is it wise to call the man back?" Annabeth questioned.

All the men nodded at the time. Annabeth sent a questioning look to Percy. It turned out to be Nico to answer, "If we don't, he and his superiors will get suspicious and he would probably get in trouble for being the one that was supposed to pass some sort of message to us."

"Why do we care if he gets in trouble if he is working for a superior who is working against us?" Annabeth asked.

"That's not our main reason or motive for calling them back," Percy replied quietly.

Annabeth finally nodded in acceptance. Several of the men sighed with relief making her raise an eyebrow. She looked to Percy again, but he just winked slyly.

Frank said, "I bet they found out what room we're in and all that after we went to that hotel across the street. Then they probably have someone inside working in this hotel that checked the records for one of our names and that's how they found the room. I bet it was just a lucky guess they chose this one. Thankfully the rooms are under Travis's name."

"Yeah," Nico repeated. "We're lucky that Travis remembered to be the only English speaking one when the guy came to the door."

Travis just nodded, but Annabeth had a feeling it was sheer luck that made him make the decision to be the unconscious one that would be the only one to act American and able to speak English. Whatever type of luck gave him that stroke of genius, Annabeth figured the group would need quite a bit more of it. Hopefully it would come consistently, then they could hopefully make necessary changes to plans to attempt to match up. However, Annabeth didn't think that any luck that the group receives will be consistent to anything. It would be because they accidentally pleased one of the Olympians the day before or some other reason that would never be repeated.

Figuring these thoughts would be considered depressing, Annabeth attempted to break out of them. When she actually tuned into the conversation the men were having, she had missed vital information that would assist in her job. That reminded her that she still didn't have a set job or even all the information about this mission. She barely knew what they had just found out after lunch when she was eavesdropping.

Percy had promised to explain what he knew that night, but now with the man coming to the door, Travis and Nico seem to be the most fidgety. They don't like it. They want to try to organize the new information they were getting. Ideas and plans were coming together and yet they still seemed panicked.

Annabeth didn't know what actions were going to be taken from that point on. In her mind, the first thing would be to not go out in public as much unless it is absolutely necessary. She decided this in her mind, then remembered that if any of her ideas are going to be useful, the rest of the men had to hear about it. They would probably end up discussing it, debating it, or attempting to veto it, but she was confident it would go through. Especially if Percy had his head on right when she proposes it.

"Um, guys?" Annabeth started, "I tuned out a bit, but I think one of the first things to do would not be seen in the public eye unless it is absolutely, positively, necessary. If we are right about the guy who came to the door and his superiors finding us by tracking from when they found us. I think we have to be a lot less casual."

In the silence that followed, one could've heard a pin drop. The men looked at each other as if comprehending what Annabeth had suggested. Slowly, Percy began to nod closely followed by Frank. Then Leo decided to shake his head. The men all looked at him as if wondering what he could possibly see wrong with this idea.

"I just think it will make us appear too secretive in the hotel staff's eyes. If we're right about that guys' superiors having people working for him inside the hotel, they might contact them and say that we're doing something suspicious. That would draw attention." Leo said anxiously.

Percy cast his eyes down then, without looking up, said, "I see you're point there. I'm just wondering how they would have gotten people working here before we came so they could be high ranking enough to get them into certain places. It doesn't quite make sense to me. I think what we should do is check into different hotels than our reservations are in. That way they'll be thrown off. They might have someone inside A2, who knows? I just hope not. Because if they do, that will make a mark on my conscience. We'll put the remainder of Annabeth's plan into action once we've left Beijing. If we do it here, Leo has a good point about people getting suspicious."

The other men nodded in assent. Annabeth gave it some thought then, with a great sigh, nodded in agreement.

Leo then said randomly, "We should give that guy who came to our door a name, at least until we've found out his real name."

The men save Nico chuckled. Nico just looked at Leo strangely. Annabeth couldn't quite identify what the look was supposed to say. Frank then said, "Mark."

"No."

"Not happening."

"Don't care."

"C'mon! Be more inventive!"

Annabeth didn't say anything. She didn't understand the point of giving someone a random name when they were sure to find out a name for him shortly. But because she hadn't said this opinion out loud, the men sat sprawled around the room throwing name around. It was like naming their first child except with five people suggesting and vetoing names. The process took about a half hour before they decided on Jim. They didn't want to try to think of last names considering most of those are insanely strange. Annabeth thought that the first name wasn't worth the effort it took, but the men would hear none of that. They had definitely retained their stubbornness from teen years.

"Now that you have a name picked out - " Annabeth began.

Leo interrupted, "I still don't agree - "

"You were outvoted."

"Yeah. Get over it, Leo."

"Besides, you'll all learn his actual name when Travis calls him later," Annabeth said, jumping back and taking over the course of the conversation again. "What exactly are we supposed to do?"

The men looked at each other. They looked like they were almost having a telepathic conversation, because their facial expressions changed in sync. If Annabeth wasn't so anxious at the moment, she would have found the entire interaction quite amusing. However, she was anxious and the interaction did nothing but increase the anxiety.

Then Nico said, "Percy will explain everything. Even the parts you tuned out."

Annabeth's cheeks colored, but she said nothing and that was the only tell of slight embarrassment. Percy wrapped an arm around her waist as he said with enthusiasm, "We're all going to order room service in this room!"

All of their faces brightened at this suggestion. They were especially fond of certain ideas that came out of Percy's mouth every so often. This one happened to be one of those certain ideas.

Percy was ordering the room service for everyone because they had just written their orders down on the next sheet of paper on the notepad. They tore off the first one that 'Jim' had conversed with Percy. They put that one next to Travis's cell phone, so he wouldn't forget to call him. Leo pulled Annabeth aside as the others attempted to read each others hand writing while Percy repeated what they said in Mandarin to whoever one orders room service to.

Leo started, "Did you tell him?"

Annabeth looked at him blankly showing him that she had no clue what he was talking about. He elaborated in a low voice, "About the baby?"

Annabeth took on a surprised look. "Who? Percy?"

"Yeah! Who else should you tell about your kid you had together?"

"Look Leo. I get that it's important, but I don't want to distract - "

"Isn't this reason an okay distraction?" Leo interrupted getting slightly heated.

"Shhhh!" Annabeth said frantically. "I don't want any of them," she pointed at the men struggling with ordering their dinner still, "to know about this alright?"

"Why not? It's kinda important." Leo said. The tone of his voice was still aggravated, but he lowered his volume, thankfully.

Annabeth gave a small sigh. "Yes. It is, Leo. I just don't want this to distract Percy. He needs to do this mission. The A2 business needs him focused. Our child can wait for another few months. He's only five months old. He won't remember that his father was gone for a mission."

"But he should have a father and mother there for him because he's a baby that needs parental care from someone other than his goddess of a grandmother." Leo said. His voice took on a sad tone as well. Annabeth could tell he was used to not having a mother around, but she knew his orphan experience was when he was much older making it affect his life a bit more.

Annabeth said, "Leo, it'll be alright."

Leo nodded then said, "But you can't just drop a baby bomb on Perce once you guys get back home and Athena is back to greet you again with a kid in her arms. A kid that looked like an exact replica of Percy, except for curly hair. Not to mention shorter cut than Percy's personal standard, but that's not the point!"

"I know Leo. I know it'll be difficult. I'll figure something out."

"No, Annabeth! You've gotta tell him before things on this trip get out of hand. Before you go back to the states. You've gotta tell him before any other action takes place, just so he knows. He can't…."

"Can't what, Leo?" Annabeth's look told Leo that she had a gut feeling about what he had been ready to say, but he didn't want to have to say it to her.

"Never mind. You just gotta tell him. He's gotta know."

"Leo…." Annabeth said warningly. "What were you about to say?"

"Doesn't matter!" Leo said, trying fruitlessly to get himself out of the situation that he got himself in.

Annabeth's voice was dangerously low and calm, "Leo, what were you about to say?"

Leo hesitated then said quietly, "He can't go to his grave without knowing he has a new addition to his family! There. I said it. You wanted to hear what I was about to say. I said it!"

Annabeth asked, "This is a potentially fatal mission after all?"

Leo nodded and said, "Look, I don't think he deserves to have this hidden from him. Either you tell him, or I will. You've got until tomorrow afternoon, say, three o' clock."