Nate’s POV
July 18th
Where the heck is she taking us?
Annabeth was a total backseat driver. But when she’s the only one who knows where we are going, I guess she has to be.
“Stop!” She yelled all the sudden. I slammed the brakes brakes and Sara slammed her head into the dashboard. “Okay, everyone out!”
Annabeth started walking pushing tree branches out of her way.
Sara looked at me. “Are we sure she didn’t hit her head too hard?”
I shrugged, but Jason spoke up, “She’s just excited. I think I have an idea on where we are going.”
We all got out of the car and followed Annabeth. A few times Sara “accidently” let a branch hit me in the head. Twigs snapped beneath our feet as we walked through a path. The trees looked untouched and dead. Dead leaves all over the ground from last fall. This bothered me a lot. Annabeth, however, had a small smile on her lips and powered on. I realized we were very deep in the woods now.
My heart dropped. I couldn’t see the car anymore. I thought that with Jason we wouldn’t have to get another car. But with our luck, the car would be gone by midnight tonight.
My feet hurt badly by the time Annabeth stopped. I thought we had hit a dead end, until Annabeth pushed the stone wall in front of us. It opened up to be a like a giant camping tent.
Annabeth stepped in and spread her arms out. “Welcome to the Half-Blood hideout.”
Sara looked around, “Whoa, how did you know this was here?”
“I know of it because, I have been here before. Last time I was in one of these… wow, that was 6 years ago?”
Annabeth seemed to be talking to herself, but something about her sentence caught my attention. “ ‘One of these’? You mean there are more of these?”
Annabeth winced, but nodded, “All over the place. I am only using it now because Jason is here. I don’t want him getting hurt because of our style of travel.”
Jason and Sara didn’t seem to hear, as they were looking some piece of paper.
Sara turned around with a big goofy smile on her face, “Is this you?”
The paper was a polaroid picture. It was 3 people. On the left was a girl was short, black, spiky hair. In the middle, mini-Annabeth. And on the right, a teenage boy with blonde hair. They were smiling, except for Annabeth, who had her nose all scrunched up.
Annabeth smiled sadly, and slowly took the picture. “Yeah. Luke stole the camera so he could take the picture. Don’t worry. He put it back as soon as we were done. Thalia said to smile but as soon as she did, Luke tickled me.” Her smile melted, and her eyes started to water. “I was so sad when I left it here. Thalia said we would take another picture.” She turned to Jason, “You have it now. You were looking at the day you left with Piper and Leo.”
Jason seemed to understand what was going on, but all of these names sounded weird to me. Like characters in a book that are introduced without any introduction. The ones you don’t care about until the end of the book. That’s who these people were. I knew they were going to be important, but right now… they were just in my way.
“Okay…” And Sara broke the silence. “Well, you should all get rest except for my siblings because we need to talk.”
Annabeth scrunched her eyebrows, “So Jason is the only one who gets to sleep?”
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Constellations
Fanfiction[NEW SUMMARY] That night the Athena cabin caught fire. No one knows how. There were no signs of arson, there were no matches, no cigarettes, nothing. Just fire. It killed them all, including Annabeth. There was no proof she was alive... Until now. W...
