Hey guys! I'm back with another chapter... Sorry to disappoint you but this chapter is a filler *rolls eyes* but a very necessary one. I realized I had to update a bit on Annabeth and her Mom and Luke so here goes nothing… Happy Reading! (Sometimes I wonder if I should say Festus reading… sorry I'm just too much a fangirl…)

After Piper left with Jason, the girls discussed the situation.

"I never thought Jason would dare to be so bold." Hazel said, smiling.

Calypso agreed. "Neither did I. Do you think they're gonna end up together after this?"

"I do think so. After all they been quite inseparable since we came here," Reyna said.

"What do you think, Annabeth?" Calypso asked.

Annabeth had been quite lost for a second but she recovered quickly so as not to show that she had been lost in deep thought. "I think they're gonna end up together, too. I've noticed Jason's feelings since the day we had all met up at Thalia's." She said with a smile.

"So, if we all think that they're together, there's no point of asking the question to her." Reyna said, her eyes gleaming. "I know what we'll do. We won't give her a chance to speak anything about it. Let's see how she reveals the truth."

Everyone agreed it was an awesome idea. After talking a bit more, the girls decided to retire to their rooms for the evening and amuse themselves with a book or something else. Annabeth had been constantly sitting straight, without touching any of the pillows and she was quite tired of holding her position.

Noticing her stiff position, Calypso got a bit suspicious. While they were moving towards the elevator, she asked Annabeth. "Annabeth, is something wrong with your back? Why were you sitting so stiffly?"

Annabeth turned almost as rigid as she had been a few minutes ago. Yet forcing herself calm she said with a smile, "Of course, not. I'm fine. It's just that I'm really tired after the trip we had today. I think I'll just go to the room and relax."

Calypso was not quite convinced but she decided to let the matter go. She entered the elevator and stood behind Annabeth when she noticed a deadly thing.

Annabeth was wearing a simple white shirt and jeans. Her hair was open and she had pulled it to the front and was combing it with her hands. Right between her shoulders, Calypso saw the end of a deep red gash. She gasped.

Unknowingly, Annabeth put her hair behind again. Calypso was shocked at seeing what she had just seen. But keeping her silence, she determined to ask Annabeth later.

Annabeth looked at her face in the mirror, impassive. Having retired to their room, Hazel was reading a book she had bought with her while Annabeth shut herself in the bathroom.

Slowly, she raised her hands, her face wincing in pain. She lifted her shirt off and turned. There on her bruised back were five red marks. Touching them gingerly, she cringed as she remembered how this had happened.

Annabeth, out of the necessity of having to do it, had stepped into Luke's room. Covering her eyes and tying her hands, Luke had beaten her with a belt on her back multiple times. Annabeth could only groan as she wasn't allowed to scream.

She had come back crying and applied some cream to her wounds which by then were bleeding.

Annabeth scrunched up her eyes in frustration as she put her shirt back on and managed not to scream. Till when would she have to bear with this kind of treatment? She decided to tell her father once and for all when she got back.

But… But her step-mother had warned her not to come back. What if she had convinced Dad that she was bad? What if he didn't listen to her?

Hiding her gloomy thoughts with a bright smile so that Hazel doesn't suspect anything, she went out of the bathroom.

I'm going to work on the next chapter which will possibly be Caleo and the next will be Frazel... Then comes the first climax after which the second climax… Guys I'm going to miss this story!