What They Said About Contact

Chapter 16 Hits The Fan.

Leo PO

Thankfully my life was saved by his one of the scariest girls on board and I found himself wishing that Percy had just ripped me to shreds instead of being interrogated by Annabeth. I swallowed hard as my amazing brown eyes met Annabeth's grey, so intense and I felt as if I was on fire being burned by her intense stare and it was impossible for a fire-user to burn. I hated making the blonde girl angry, cuz I mean she is terrifying. I turned puppy-dog eyes to my best friend, hoping that Jason would help me.

But alas, the son of Jupiter was too busy staring at his own feet. Piper had, looking thoroughly ashamed and guilty, left for downstairs where Percy went. And the two girls had been down there together for quite a while... what if...

A scream drew the our attention. Ananbeth fixed me with a stern and promising stare as she rose from her crouching position. "We'll get back to this later," she said before she turned and ran after Jason.

Frank and I had no choice but to follow the blondes. However, we were too late as we'd arrived to a rather disastrous scene: Jason, out cold and with a crying Piper by his side, cradling his head gently which certainly did not help Percy's mood. The Sea Princess shot the couple a deadly glare, disentangled herself from Annabeth and storm back to her cabin.

"What happened?" I moaned at the damage on my baby - the Argo II was not made for battles between children of the Big Three. "Now I don't have any more materials to repair the damages done by the Romans and this."

Frank shot me a rather poisonous look. "You were the reason why the Romans attacked us."

I was about to retort when Annabeth interrupted us. "Enough boys," she ordered before gesturing towards Jason. "We need to get him to Alexa. Frank, go get her; Leo, help me and Piper carry Jason back to his cabin."

I snapped my mouth shut and moved into action. I reached down and pushed Jason's stomach onto my shoulders, struggling slightly as I wobbled to his best friend's cabin. i all but threw the blonde boy down onto his bed when they were close enough. I rubbed my shoulders, moaning, groaning and complaining. "Ow"Jason really needs to lose some weight... like a lot.

"What happened?"

I was shove aside violently; my head made a resounded thunk! when it connected with the floor but no one paid me any attention. Frank even nudged me away with his foot. The girls didn't even so much as spared me a glance not even my friend!  Being too concentrated on Jason and answering Alexa's question. I was momentarily impressed by the sunlight in the little girl's hands and made a mental note to get her for the forming knot on my head later.

"Percy lashed out and my charmspeak didn't work on her so I did the only thing I could: scream. Jason came first, he shielded me and he was knocked out. That's when you guys came." Piper was wrapping up her story just as Alexa was wrapping up Jason's head.

Alexa frowned. "Percy is a very reasonable person. She wouldn't have lashed out at you if you'd said the right thing." Her tone made it clear that for a child of Aphrodite she was bad with words if someone as passive as Percy would get offended.

Piper hesitated but the intense stares made her spit out: "I told her I was in love with Jason."

"That was a foolish thing to say," Annabeth agreed. "But you said 'was' so I presume that you were explaining your feelings from the past?"

Piper nodded. "I talked to her because I wanted to make things right for them again."

"Of course," Annabeth grumbled. "She's the very definition of protective." Then she sighed loudly, her shoulders sagging and I realized that behind that aloof expression, she was hiding a turmoil of panic and resentment. It made me want to run and hide because Annabeth is one of the most fearless people I know, and for her to be panicking well that was scary. Also it frankly scared me to think that she resented someone here because well it is scary to get on her wrong side.