I'm sorry it's been eons since I've written. I've just been having tests, summer is closing in. Thank god.

Disclaimer: I don't own Heroes of Olympus. Or Percy Jackson. Or anything really.

Glue:

PoV: Annabeth

Annabeth lay awake next to Percy. He'd dozed off a while ago. The night had cleared from the thunder clouds and the puddles had mostly dried up mostly too. The only evidence of there ever being a thunderstorm was the faint humidity hanging in the air.

Percy had dozed off a while ago, it was 1:00 am now. Or 2. Annabeth stretched over Percy to where his watch lay, on his night stand, the one he'd gotten from his mother and Paul, he'd been so proud of it. He'd practically been vibrating. Yup 2:07am now.

Exhausted Annabeth dropped herself back next Percy. Snuggling her head in the crook of Percy's arm, her back against his side. Percy mumbled something in his sleep. He was very cute, her boyfriend was.

Will had been released from the infirmary two days ago. She'd only seen Nico once since his sudden outburst, through the window of cabin 13. Hazel had expressed her sorrows for Nico, she'd brought him a plate of food after every meal, said he was falling back into his unhealthy rhythms.

Annabeth didn't understand why they didn't just say that they liked each other. Will and Nico obviously did. What were they waiting for? Annabeth pondered this question a lot. Why did they have to make things so complicated? Well it had taken two years for her and Percy to officially get together.

That was different, Annabeth told herself. It was. She lay there, next to Percy for years, dozing off a few times. Until it was 5:00 am and she had to sneak back into cabin 6 or someone would notice she was missing and surly someone would tattle.

Oh, but how she didn't want to move. Percy had enveloped Annabeth. His arms around her waist, her back to his chest, their legs tangled together. She could feel his breaths tickle her neck. So comfortable.

But she had to move otherwise she'd get caught and wouldn't be able to sneak back for a week or so. So carefully she pried Percy's arms free of her waist and slid away from him. She gracefully crawled over him, her back arched like a cat's. Like she'd done a million times. She had.

She scooped her Yankees cap from the nightstand and put it on. She started to leave when she heard Percy, mumble unhappily to himself, his fingers seeking out the sheets where Annabeth had lain only moments before. Annabeth smiled to herself as she watched the raven haired boy realize she'd gone. That was the thing, Percy never actually woke up, he just sort of blabbered to himself and adjusted to the emptiness

She smiled to herself before leaving cabin 3.

She walked down the row of cabins, the soft summer wind playing with her hair. She hummed to herself a tune of a flimsy song that she'd heard on Lacey's radio. She stopped short when she realized someone else outside with her. She turned around slowly in a full 360, when she spotted Piper McLean sitting on the patio of cabin 10.

She smiled at herself and her foolishness for thinking it was something or someone dangerous. There hadn't been any danger in a while, now that she thought about it she should get some practice done, she was getting rusty, Annabeth decided to go to the climbing wall tomorrow.

"Who's there?" Piper's voice startled Annabeth, and lead her away from her thoughts.

Annabeth slowly advanced on Piper. A lioness pinpointing her prey. She sneaked behind Piper, Piper was very aware of something being there, but she'd kept very still this whole time. Then in one swift motion Annabeth took off her cap and fell next to Piper.

Piper might actually have had a heart attack. She shrieked so loudly that Annabeth had no problem imagining that Rachel could have heard her all the way in that weird-ass cave of hers.

"Annabeth!" She hissed, "I just died! Don't ever do that again!" Still trying to catch her breath.

Annabeth on the other hand was wheezing with laughter. "Sorry," She finally managed wiping tears from her eyes, "I had to, it was perfect." That earned her smack from Piper.

Settling down properly next to Piper, she fixed herself so that she could look properly at the stars, she found the constellation that was Zoe Nightshade and thought about her dark her and her witty come backs, and about that she had almost been persuaded by Zoe to join the huntresses.

Moments stretched by, and she almost forgot about Piper being there, she was so silent, that was until Piper put her head on Annabeth's shoulder. Annabeth got a waft of Piper's honey shampoo. It was a pleasant smell, a warm one.

"I miss this, Beth, I miss these moments of us." Piper said softly. Annabeth felt guilty about that, it was true that she'd been hanging out a lot with Percy lately, and if not with Percy then with everyone else, but never really just her and Piper. Or her Piper and Hazel. Annabeth felt responsible for it.

"Me too." She said, stroking Piper's choppy hair. She'd taken out her feathers for the night.

"Couldn't sleep?" The brunette shrugged.

"No. I don't know. I seem to have a lot of nightmares lately, it's fine though, I'm sure it's just a faze, it'll pass. I'll be fine." She adds assuring, heaving her shoulders again. "What about you? Sneaking out of cabin 3?" She asks teasingly, poking Annabeth in her side.

Heat rushes into the blondes face, her eyes falling from the sky and looking towards the forest in the far, far distance.

"Yeah." She says then, sheepishly.

They sit like that for a liquid amount of minutes, or hours. Or months.

Annabeth jerks up, when she hears a sound in the distance, to see that cabin 13's door slowly creaks open. A girl with dark skin and a fluffy afro protrudes from the cabin. She looks around for a little until her golden eyes land on Annabeth and Piper. The girls wave at each other, Annabeth beckons Hazel over, gladly the small girl joins them.

"What are you guys doing out here?" She asks curiously.

"We couldn't sleep." Piper says. Hazel nods. She settles down on Annabeth's other side and puts her head on her Annabeth's left shoulder.

"I'm worried about him guys." She declares after minutes of anticipated silence.

"Nico?" Piper asks.

"Hmm," Hazel answers in confirmation, "It's just he's not eating very well at all, and he won't go outside. Heck, he won't even leave his bloody bed! And he tries to be all offhand about things but I just know that it's because of Will, because well, you know!" She lets it all pour out of her into the night. Hazel's hair tickling the bottom of Annabeth's chin.

Piper nods her head, patting Hazel's knee. "He'll come around, I mean he has before right?"

Annabeth nodded her agreement, but she was worried too, Nico did always come around but there was no telling of when he would come around. It could be days, weeks. Years. Nico was a very strange and messy person. Messier than anyone else Annabeth knew. But that wasn't the worst part. The worst part was that Nico was broken and messed up alright but he wouldn't let anyone help him. He wouldn't let anyone fix him. He hid the glue. And then they had to find it, so that they could fix him.

They had to fix him. Because that's what friends did. They helped and laughed and talked and fixed.

Hazel let out a strangled cry and dropped her head in Annabeth's lap. Piper took this as an invitation to play with her hair. She started to braid.

"I'm worried." Hazel concluded.

The blonde girl nodded and tried to send a message with her eyes, we'll fix him together.

And so they would. They would all eventually laugh and talk and help and fix.

La vida es para la vida

-Spanish-