A/N - So, its finally my birthday tomorrow! So, I might not post a chapter but lets see :)

"YOUR BOW"… Hazel's heart raced.

Hades took a deep breath to ease his breath.

She hadn't though…impossible to escape.

Everybody looked horrified at the thought and more at the fact that Percy was under there. They looked at him and even Percy grimaced at the memory. Poseidon was still dealing with heavy breaths but he seemed more focused on the fact that his son was trapped in that…stuff.

She tried not to think…closed over her head.

Hades immediately grasped Hazel's shoulder tightly with his knuckles turning white and his breath turning heavy as well. Everybody else was pale.

"You're just as insane as Percy!" Thalia shouted.

"I don't think anybody's as insane as him." Hazel said weakly. Percy chuckled drily.

Instantly, she was frozen…This is a gift from me.

"Fuck." Hades swore under his breath.

"That is the worst timing ever." Rachel shook her head "But then again, that's the point." She sighed.

Hazel was back…The voice was Gaea's.

"No! It's an illusion!" Hades said

"I did realize that, don't worry." Hazel told him with a small smile.

"I'm sorry, I don't even want to picture a scenario in which you didn't." Hades told her earnestly. Hazel smiled at him and gave him a small hug.

"This is fake…second life real, Hazel?

"As real as my horns." Grover said, looking at Hazel.

"Gaea's just trying to put Hazel in an existential crisis." Nico said, running a hand through his hair.

You're supposed…You can be with Sammy—"

Leo's eyes widened at the mention of his relative. He looked at Hazel and an understanding passed between them.

"It's an illusion…be glad I captured him."

Hades growled in a way which scared a few people. He gripped Nico's shoulder as well. He hated having to listen to this without being able to do anything about it. He had a new found understanding about how Poseidon felt throughout all the books.

"Shit!" Will said in frustration. Nico gave him a small, sad smile.

"Its going to be all right." He told him.

"It might be but it sure as hell isn't right with me right now." Will told him.

"This is so not good." Ares shook his head. "Believe in yourself, Hazel. Only then will she stop trying to make you believe that you don't." he told Hazel. Hazel nodded, understanding what Ares was trying to tell her.

"That was really philosophical." Apollo commented with a small smile.

"You'd be surprised at the amount of philosophy used in war as well." Ares told him.

"Captured…really your concern

"It bloody is our fucking concern!" Percy exclaimed and swore a bit more in Ancient Greek.

"That's our brother she's captured. If I could just-" Thalia said angrily.

"Hey guys, I'm all right now. There's not really much any of us can do about what she's saying in the book." Nico told them calmly.

"There should have been." Will muttered.

Once you release Thanatos…you to give up your life

"We would never." Percy shook his head. "Never." He said again to Hazel.

"I know that, Percy. Its just that Gaea can be really good at messing with people's minds." Hazel told him.

"I would not let him take you away." Frank told her gently. Hazel gave him a warm smile which conveyed a million things.

Tell me who is lying…didn't want to die again.

"Trust that I would not let that have happen." Hades told his daughter solemnly.

"It is the law, though." Zeus pointed out. He knew that it probably shouldn't be brought up but he just had to point out the fact that what Hades was saying was breaking an important law.

"The laws of the underworld are as I declare them to be." Hades told Zeus, challenge written in his eyes. "I do not know about before but now, even you cannot deny that you would do the same." He said to him. Zeus didn't reply to that statement, knowing that he would do exactly that even to himself.

"That's right…I'm ready to use him

Poseidon and Triton growled at that.

"You will not be using my brother for anything, lady. And he does not belong to you or to anyone." Triton gritted out.

You can have an entire…mother's face dissolved.

Everybody smiled at that but stopped a few seconds later when they realized that Hazel and Percy still had to escape from the bog.

The New Orleans morning…her arm out of the socket.

There were a couple of chuckles at that.

When she opened…coughing and spitting mud.

Poseidon dissolved into fits of coughs. Apollo gave him a glass of water but it did no good. Poseidon just gestured to keep reading.

Frank hovered over…she choked out.

Everybody ended up laughing at that, all their worry pouring out in the form of laughter of relief.

"He's dam right. You both better not do anything like that ever again." Poseidon told Percy and Hazel.

"Well, I can say that now I will recognize the difference between the solid ground and the muskeg." Percy told him solemnly, making Poseidon face palm and Percy chuckle at his reaction.

"Sorry!" Frank went…His lips were blue

Poseidon's lips turned blue as well and he coughed a bit more.

"You—you saved me…the wood down there.

"That's…one way to look at it but that doesn't mean that you had to stay down there." Persephone chided.

"Yeah, just throw the wood in it, you know. It remains safe." Frank chuckled. Hazel grinned.

She would have made…any harm coming to him.

Frank and Hazel smiled at each other, a look in their eyes that conveyed a lot more.

She glanced at…to their normal color.

Poseidon sighed in relief as he drank some water now.

"Any hotels or something…we can freshen up."

"The place where you grew up?" Katie asked Hazel who nodded.

"Wow. That requires guts." Jason shook his head.

"Chapter's done." Nico announced.

"I'll read next." Castor said