I planned on updating this sooner but my course work is taking up most of my time, as I knew it would, and my lecturer thinks its a good idea to give us one week projects and the fun topic for us are chairs. Note sarcasm. But none the less here is the update you've been waiting maybe more than week for, so without further ado.

Chapter Nine - Nico -

It was currently Thursday, and it had been a month since Percy had shown me the pictures and the conversation between Hyperion, Luke and Ethan. We've all became really good friends, Thalia and I haven't really spoken about that day, minus the grins that she shoots my way causing me to get flustered. Honestly I detest these feelings, it's like I'm from the 1940's with the way I get flustered. The Agency did a shit job at removing them from us. Percy and Annabeth have been acting like best friends ever since... well I really don't know since when, I think it was after the whole outside thing together. Every time I ask him about that, he just brushes it off really quickly. Back onto the topic at hand, we were currently working out a plan to get to in on a deal. Percy and I were sitting with Luke and Ethan at the cafeteria table waiting for the others to get out of PE. We were just sitting there talking about anything and everything when Annabeth and Thalia walked through the double doors, and caught a glimpse of us. Percy and I were sitting facing them while Luke and Ethan had their backs to them and I swear their faces lit up when their eyes locked onto ours. Little weird. I know Thalia has a somewhat crush on me, but Annabeth? I shook my head slightly, I must have been imagining things. Maybe Luke turned and she caught sight of him and we didn't notice. The girls joined us, Thalia next to me and Annabeth opposite Percy, next to Luke. Grover later joined us and sat next to Thalia.

"Hey, what are we all doing this weekend, Thalia and I were going to go see a movie. Anyone else wanna join?" Annabeth asked, her eyes shimmered at the sight of Percy. What did I miss? Her gaze lingered on him a few seconds longer than any of us. Thalia must have caught it too because I could see her smirk and raise her eyebrow at her. Annabeth shrugged and went a slight shade of pink.

"No. Sounds good, what are we seeing?" Luke questioned as he wrapped an arm around Annabeth. Percy started fiddling with his phone briefly before it started to ring, he excused himself as Annabeth answered, eyeing Percy,

"Thalia and I wanted to see Dracula Untold. Nico you in?" She questioned after getting a nod from Ethan and Luke in response. I thought about it for a while, Thalia nudged my arm with her elbow to get my answer, while Grover nodded his head in confirmation.

"Yeah sure, Percy and I will be there." I nodded. Annabeth smiled and Thalia grinned as they told us all to meet them here outside the school. I nodded as I heard the faint sound of his monaro leaving the car park. We sat there chatting for a while until Ethan noticed,

"Where's Percy gone?" Everyone must have finally noticed his absence, as they looked around the Cafeteria just as the bell wrung. We stood and collected our things to go to science.

"He went home, I just heard his car leave the car park." I told them as I walked out the door with the group.

Percy

Well I wasn't expecting that call. The Agency just called saying that we only had a few months on this mission. 5 tops. I had already sent over the details for what we know so far and what we had seen. So we had to try and get in on it sooner or later. Then I was told by Chiron that there was a package at the house by my request. I had The Agency send over some things to help out with the whole eavesdropping gig. I had ordered some trackers to place on them, their vehicles and a small video feed camera that records their every move and deal that relays it back to The Agency. I went home to go get them only to have a black Cavalcade follow me the entire way in my rear view mirror. I eyed it curiously as I watched it weave in and out of the lanes down the motorway, I could see the driver talking into a phone and glancing at his surroundings a lot. I needed to see if it was actually following me so I switched lanes and drove down a slip road to pull out onto the main roads. Sure enough the car started following me again. I took a sharp left hander and put my foot down on the accelerator, drifting around the corner by the MET. The Cadillac started following, hot on my tail as I swerved through lanes of traffic. I handbrake turned into the middle of the junction I was at and threw open my door, quickly stepping out and opening the hatch on the back where all of the weapons were stored. I pulled out the Barrett 50. Cal and rested it on the back when I closed the lid. They started firing out of the window at me, people screaming and running frantically as cars swerving out and into the path of the car hurtling at approximately 90 mph directly at me. I shot a few bullets into the tyres, bonnet and windscreen; until I hit the driver side once, feeling little to no recoil as the gun rocked against my shoulder, hitting the driver square in the head. Blood splattered the windscreen and the car swerved to the right, then to the left, and rolled towards me. I quickly jumped into the car and started to drive off just as the flaming wreckage hit the rear of the car and took me with it.

By the way I won't be updating most of these very often now, only during half term or when I can so I'm going to scrap the whole update on Thursday's and Friday's for Internet Dating, and update whenever.