Back in Time

5 - Halloween

I don't own Percy Jackson.

Annabeth's POV

After Hera leaves we decide we should bring Percy to his cabin, it's getting late and he needs sleep.

"Ok," I say. "Time for you to go to bed."

"I'm not tired."

"Well, I am, so go to bed," Piper says, using a little bit of charm speak. It doesn't work.

Percy laughs and runs around the cabin, making it more of a mess then it was before.

"Piper!" I yell, hoping she will understand what I want her to do.

I get a nod before she yells at Percy, "Percy! You have to go to bed right now! Tomorrow is Halloween and you don't want to be too tired to go Trick or Treating!"

Percy looks at her for a moment before running to his bed climbing in and falling asleep. 

The rest of us quickly and quietly leave the cabin, "we should take turns checking on him," Jason says. "Like every hour or something."

"Yeah," Leo agrees. "We don't want him to wake up and not know where he is."

We set up a schedule quickly. I'm first, so I will check up on Percy in about an hour. Then we set alarms on our Monster Proof phones for every hour we have to check on him. Finally, we all decide it's been a long day and we go to our own beds.

I'm looking forward to falling asleep as soon as I get back to my cabin, unfortunately, my siblings have other plans, like fighting. I walk into the cabin to find my thirteen-year-old half-brother, Steve, fighting with my seven-year-old half-sister, Lily.

"What is going on in here?" I yell.

Malcom walks over to me from where he was sitting on his bed. "You missed a lot today," he informs me laughing.

"What?" I snap.

"Well, this morning Steve told Lily that her dad wasn't very smart because he didn't go to Yale and Lily didn't like that, obviously, so she told Steve that her dad went to a better college and is smarter than his dad will ever be. Steve asked her what college her dad went to and when she couldn't think of one he laughed at her," he recaps for me quickly.

"That's what they're fighting about?"

"No, that's what they were fighting about at breakfast. After breakfast I took them to practice archery," he continues. "They were still fighting, but I had only just found out about it, so I split them up. They continued to fight whenever my back was turned. At one point Lily shot an arrow at Steve, she is really really good at archery, and it went past his head. She acted like she didn't mean to, but that didn't stop him from shooting an arrow back at her, he's not very good at archery, it went past her and hit Daisy. She was fine, but Lily was really mad because she and Daisy are best friends, as you know, so she hit him. They get into a real fight, so I broke it up and sent them both to Chiron. He told them to spend the rest of the day apart. Lily went to the Aphrodite kids and Steve stayed with me. Then at dinner, Lily had to sit with us and they got into a fight about the best book now I think they are fighting about who Mom loves more, even though I told them you were the favorite until you started dating Percy. Once you did that I became the favorite. They told me to shut up and Lou laughed at me. Now you're here, so if you could work your Annabeth magic and fix this, that would be great. I'm going to bed."

"Lily! Steve!" I yell. "You two better stop fighting and get your butts in bed right now! I have had a very long day and I have to be up in an hour. Tomorrow is Halloween and I already know that it is going to be very stressful."