Percy and Piper walked through Olympus arguing. Percy didn't want to tell Annabeth anymore and Piper wanted him to tell her.
"Why don't you just tell her? That's so much easier!"
"She is going to overreact!"
"She won't! Trust me, I know she won't!"
This went on, but they didn't know Annabeth was standing behind them listening. Well, she saw her boyfriend and friend arguing so she wanted to help and now she heard this.
The daughter of Athena would deny it, but she was easily jealous and very easy suspicious, so when she heard this, she thought the worst. She panicked for a second before deciding to confront them.
She coughed and the two spun around. They both flushed red, what didn't make Annabeth feel any better.
"Hey, we were looking for you." Said Piper. She was her usual happy self but Percy did seem nervous. "Why?" Annabeth tried to not be to suspicious. Percy's fatal flaw was loyalty after all.
Percy and Piper extanged a look before Percy turned to Annabeth again. "There is a new quest and-." Annabeth perked up. "When are we going?" Piper had a guilty look on her face, what Annabeth didn't understand. When she looked at her boyfriend she saw he had a stony unreadable expression.
"Well, uhm." Piper tried to find the right words. "It's a quest for Percy, Hazel and me." Annabeth's face fell and her suspicions rose again. She shove her feelings aside and started to ask questions.
"What kind of quest is it? How long? Where are you going?" Percy answered this time. "We can't tell you. The quest is a secret and we don't even know what it is exactly. We don't know how long it is going to take and we can't tell you were we are going." His voice was empty of emotion and both girls were surprised by that.
"What's wrong?" Annabeth was concerned. She wasn't able to read Percy ever since they fell into Tartarus. She loved Percy, but he had scared her several times really bad in there and now she had the feeling she didn't know her own boyfriend anymore.
She had been on edge with how she treated Percy, he didn't seem stable anymore. One moment he was happy go lucky guy she fell in love with the other moment he had a dark look on his face and was ready to kill.
"Nothing. But that is it actually, we can't tell you anything else." Annabeth's suspicion rose again but she didn't say anything. She nodded. "Okay than. I will be going back to work." She walked passed the two other demigods towards her mother's palace, where she worked.
"What was so bad about that?" Piper asked Percy. The two of them and Hazel were in the Hades Cabin making sure they had everything, tomorrow they would start their training on Olympus and they couldn't come back here till they would go to Hogwarts.
Percy made a face, but didn't answer. "What happened?" Asked Hazel. She had been Iris-Messaging Frank when the other two went to Annabeth, so she had no idea.
"We were arguing about telling her and Annabeth seemed to have heard some things, but she cut us of and asked us why we were there. We told her that there was a quest and she wanted to come." Percy's face darkened again and his eyes were like hurricanes. Piper went on with the story a little faster, not understanding what the problem was.
"We told her that it was a quest for us, she looked a little angry and something else, but nodded. She asked us some questions that we couldn't answer and then she went back to work." Hazel thought about it.
"So what was so bad about it?" Asked Piper again. She didn't see anything that went wrong. "She hasn't really talked to me since she got up there." Said Percy. His eyes were fixed on the wall. "Before that we didn't really talk either and when we did she acted like I was a time bomb about to explode. I know I scared her a few times in" He swallowed before continuing. "in there. I did was wat necessarily to survive in there."
He everted his gaze to his shoes. "Nico is so much stronger than everyone thinks. He is still sane while he had no one down there. As a son of Hades he got to see that place as it really is. Annabeth never got to see it that way, so she didn't really know what we were up against and I didn't want to tell her, she was afraid as it was. I almost died down there." The girls raised an eyebrow.
They knew this right? Both of them could barely walk when they came out of Tartarus. They fought against a lot of monsters of course they barely lived! Percy looked at the girls and caught there expression. He smiled weakly.
"There is that to, but we came across some demons. Every curse there was ever spoken by a dying breath against us would be released on us when we killed one of those demons. It was horrible but I got a lot of them protecting Annabeth. The last straw was Gorgons blood" Hazel gasped. "From then?" Percy nodded, but Piper didn't get it.
