Chapter 4

Sam tries to stab Nico with a kitchen knife

Third Person

Sam clutched the knife in his hand, he pressed himself against the wall, waiting.

Nico opened the door and Sam lunged.

"Agh!" Nico yelled in surprise as Sam jumped on him and pinned him to the wall, the knife pressed against his throat.

"Sam, let go of me" Nico said calmly

"No, you're a necromancer" Sam said

Nico groaned. He kicked forward with his knee pushing Sam off him.

"Ouf!" Sam said as he slammed Ito the wall

"Yeah, okay so I talk to dead people". Nico said stepping forward

Sam lunged and grabbed his shoulder pulling him down on the ground.

Nico just did a break fall as if he was okay with what was going on.

Sam pinned him down trying to get the force to stab him.

"Just cause I raised a dead

half-blood, doesn't mean I'm a necromancer" Nico said

Sam clenched his jaw.

"It means I have powers" Nico held out his hand and a shadowy sword shimmered and appeared there.

"Special powers" Nico said

He kicked up with his knees again and Sam stumbled backwards.

"Okay Sam, ever heard of Hercules?" Nico said

Sam stared at him

"Okay, well he's a demigod, half god half human. Well actually he used to be a demigod, but Zeus made him immortal"

"What?" Sam said finally finding his voice

"Okay, well there's this guy, some people call him the Devil, some people call him Pluto, some people call him... hades. Well you see he's my Dad"

"Your crazy"

"Am I? Hey at least I'm not a necromancer, and I don't kill. Percy and Annabeth don't know, okay? So you keep your pie hole shut"

Sam looked at him

"You expect me to believe this?" He said pointing his knife at Nico.

"Well yeah. Because I'm the one with the sword that can suck out your soul."

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Annabeth's POV

Okay so the plan worked. Nico is still alive and apparently Percy and I are innocent. Sam is still a little shaky on the Half-Blood stuff. Only Nico forgot to do the "I'll tell you if you tell me" thing.

I wouldn't blame him though. I mean Sam had him pinned down with a knife at his throat so... Oh well.

I looked at the calendar. One week till Halloween and I STILL don't have a costume.

I decided I'll be a Warrior, but I don't have the costume yet.

Every time I see Sam now I look at him differently, Nico told me how Sam had tried to stab him, pinned him to the ground and everything. I guess it's a little hard to look past that. But I noticed Sam looks at me differently too, maybe since my too-be cousin is a son of Hades. I don't think that's it though, I think it has something to do with the fact that both times he went outside I was there too. I think he might suspect something. Well I do. Something about him, his family, his life. All that stuff.

He has a secret. A really big one, one that you can't just "accidentally" spill. One that if someone else knows it could be fatal.

One that he wouldn't even tell to Jessica.

And I need to know. I have to. I just can't not know.

It has something to do with Dean, and most likely their Dad. When Dean came to Stanford that one time, he said stuff about their Dad being missing, and Sam not -something- unless -something- more time.

So what I understood is that their Dad is missing and Sam won't go with Dean unless their Dads been gone a really long time. And so far Dean hasn't come back.

Animal hunters, apparently they hunt animals, I don't know why but I have this feeling about that. Maybe they hunt other things, like people, or... Something.

So tonight, I have a plan.

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With my trusty Yankees baseball cap on my head I exited the apartment.

I snuck over to Sam's door and bent down, using my lock pick.

The door clicked open and I pushed it slightly and crept inside. I kept the door open a crack so that it wouldn't click.

I snuck through the living room and into the bed room. Sam and Jess were sleeping still. Good, I snuck along and saw Sam's phone on the night table, I reached for it. Sam groaned and opened his eyes.

I just about cried out in shock. But I just stood still, 'lets hear it for my Yankees baseball cap!' I thought. Sam sat up scratching the back of his head, he looked at Jessica then laid back down and shifted his position, then closed his eyes.

'Geez I feel really weird' I thought as I stood their looking at the two sleeping forms. I counted to 60, the again and again and again, just to make sure. Then I took a deap breath and grabbed his phone, pocketing it I stepped back from the bed and crept out of the room.

I stood in living room looking around, where was the computer? I looked around more, aha! I thought as I saw it, a laptop sitting on the coffee table.

I picked it up under my arm and scooted out of the door whispering "don't worry Sam i'll return your stuff" I paused smiling to myself "after I figure out your secret!" Then i closed the door.

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The next day I left my apartment in time to see Sam walking down the stairs out of the corridor.

"Sam!" I called and ran up to him.

I just looked at me with that "go away I'm to pissed to talk" look on his face.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I reached him.

He sighed and shook his head "I don't know," he said "just someone stole my laptop, and my phone" he said miserably

"Oh no!" I said a look of terror on my face 'I love acting' I thought

"Do you have insurance on those?" I asked hopefully but Sam shook his head.

"That's terrible!" I said

Sam sighed again "yeah, I don't know how it happened I mean, I went to bed my phone and laptop were there, I woke up in the middle of the night, my phone was there, and then I wake up in the morning and they're both gone"

He shook his head "I had so much stuff on there, like my entire lives work is on that laptop."

Ooooooh good! I thought.

"Oh man Sam, I'm so sorry! I have an extra cell phone if you want to use that just go ahead, and if you need anything else just ask okay?"

Sam nodded "thanks" he said

I nodded "anytime"

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With all my research done, I could return Sam's laptop, hopefully he wouldn't suspect too much. I mentally scolded myself for taking Sam's stuff for only personal reasons, and promised I wouldn't do it again.

I checked my watch: 6:37, okay, Sam should have finished supper my now. I grabbed a piece of paper and a marker.

In really messy writing I scrawled out "happy b-day" on the paper, hoping that would lead Sam to suspecting the do-gooder has low IQ and doesn't go to Stanford, and then stuck it to the laptop with some tape.

I walked out of the apartment and set Sam's laptop and phone on the floor in front of his door. I whispered to myself "thanks Sam! I won't do anything like this again."

Then opened my door to my apartment, knocked on Sam's door and scooted inside.

Once inside I sat down on the bed and turned on the TV to knowledge network.

I made it look like I had been relaxing afternoon.

I continued to watch TV till Percy came in, "hey Annabeth" he said

"Hey" I said smiling.

Percy sat next to me wrapped his arm around my shoulders.

"So what have you been up to?" Percy asked.

I shrugged "not much," I said, "Studying."

Percy nodded.

"So did you have fun with your buddies?" I asked.

Percy laughed "yeah not really, they're all into video games and none of them like swimming."

"Percy you finally make some friends and you ditch them cause they don't swim?" I asked accusingly.

Percy nodded, "yeah pretty much," he said.

I laughed.

"I feel really bad for Sam, like someone stole his entire lives work." Percy said

I smiled.

"Annabeth! That's not really funny!"

I held up my hands in surrender and said, "hey I gave it back!"

Percy turned and looked at me, "you stole Sam's stuff?"

I smiled "it was for research, about Sam and yes. I did find out some really interesting stuff"

Percy shook his head, "You stole his laptop and phone!"

"Borrowed."

"Okay, okay, when you say it like that it's not as bad, but like, you know, this isn't a hobby is it?"

"No!" I said, "I won't do it again."

Percy laughed slightly "at least you gave it back"