The Exchange

39- Harry Gives A Motivational Speech

Harry couldn’t believe how quiet the Senate House was.

The uncontrolled energy of the last meeting was gone. Replaced by a somber and silent attitude.

Annabeth was gone and Percy had become a shut in and hadn't been seen out of his cabin since the battle (despite their attempts to coax him out).

Grover assured everyone that he wasn’t physically hurt (although Grover had pulled Harry aside and told him that Percy's mental state wasn’t the best.)

No one wanted to start the meeting so everyone just sat in silence. The Greeks had lost their leader and the Romans had lost their friend.

Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny sat in the middle of the Senate House, between the two somber groups.

Eventually Harry couldn’t take the silence any longer. He got to his feet.

“Nyx isn’t done,” he said. All eyes turned to him, “we didn’t beat her in that battle. We can't loose again. Everyone heard what happened. Annabeth gave her life so that we could all live and defeat Nyx. If we don’t then she died for nothing.”

Hermione got to her feet next to Harry, “Harry is right,” she said, “I think that she’s going to attack Hogwarts. As in our 1999 Hogwarts, we should send a group back there.”

“Three is the optimum number for a quest,” Reyna spoke up from her pretor chair, “you four plus three demigods?” Hermione nodded in confirmation.

“I’ll go,” Jason was sat next to Piper wearing his orange Camp Half-blood tshirt, “I can represent both camps.”

Reyna nodded in approval, “and me!” Leo jumped up with a weirdly excited look on his face, “if my man Jason is going I am too!”

“Okay then,” Reyna smiles, “and the third person can be-.”

“Me,” all eyes turned to the source of the voice. He was standing in the doorway with a slightly wild look in his eyes. His pen was clutched in his hand and Harry wondered how he got it past Terminus.

“I need to do something,” Percy looked at Reyna, “the longer I sit around the worse it’s going to get.”

“He’s right Reyna,” Grover set down his partially chewed tin can and eyeing Percy, “he should go.”

“Okay then!” Leo clapped his hands, “lets do some timey wimey stuff!”

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“We won’t all make it in one trip,” Hermione said.

“Its fine if we loose Leo somewhere in-between now and 1999,” Jason told her.

Leo shrugged, “at least it’s not the 80s.”

“I'll make two trips.” Hermione plowed on, “I’ll take three and three.”

“You guys go first,” Percy who was being uncharacteristically quiet gestured towards Ron, Harry and Ginny.

“Okay,” Ginny nodded, “shall we apperate first or after?”

“First,” Hermione said, “I think if we go back to 1999 Camp Half-blood Dyonisis might actually turn Percy into a Dolphin.”

Percy let out a bitter laugh, “he can try.”

“If you were a Dolphin you could just go live with your dad,” Leo speculated.

“I could join the Dolphin armies,” Percy nodded, “I’d be the most badass dolphin around.”

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