Alright, I'm going to call the past Annabeth 'Annie' and the older Annabeth 'Annabeth'. The past Percy 'Perce' and the older Percy...Well 'Percy'. So! Happy reading :)

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The past demigods were sitting outside the leaders' tent. They had been sitting out there for about an hour, waiting for the future Percy to return. Annabeth would go in and out of the tent, muttering something about their leader like: He should be back by now or Maybe I should sent out a search party or Well, this isn't the first time.

This was honestly starting to worry some of them and future Travis hadn't returned with Leo either. They could all feel something was wrong and the camp wasn't afraid to let it be known, which worried them even more. Finally Annabeth came out of the tent and motioned for them to enter. Like the tent Thalia had, it was much bigger on the inside, much bigger.

"The children of Hecate enchanted the tents to have bigger insides then they appear, it makes it easier to but them up and have more room. The tent is also enchanted to tend to your requirements, it makes it easier to customize" Annabeth turned to them. "Let me give you an example: I'd like the tent about 2x bigger then what it is and add another couch and a few chairs."

So it was said so it was done, the tent grew into her size requirements and placed a couch and a few chairs. Everyone stared in amazement "Wait, if you can ask for anything and it bares your requirements then why can't you turn it into a giant robot so you can crush anything that comes in your path?" Conner asked but Perce had looked like he was about to ask a similar question.

Annabeth looked at them with a: How stupid are you? look "You're almost as bad as Percy, there're actually some limits to this, mind you. Like let me give you another example: I'd like Celestial Bronze gun with bullets, a few swords and some explosives."

They waited for the objects to come to light, but they never did. The daughter of Athena turned to them "Can't ask for weapons."

"Oh, wait but that means you can't ask for anything because technically everything is a weapon. Like a pillow can be used for suffocation or a pencil can be used to stab or--."

"Enough with the technicalities! The point is you can't ask for any known weapons like swords, daggers, knives, ect."

The Stolls and Perce started stifling laughter while Annabeth looked at them questioningly. "The point is..." Travis's voice cracked as he tried to stop himself from busting out into hysterics "Like a pencil point or the point of a sword, dagger, or knife."

They couldn't hide their laughter any longer, they just continued to laugh openly. The daughter of Athena groaned and massaged her temples "I've forgotten how annoying you three were when you were younger."

Conner turned to her "Are we annoying now?"

"As in your older selves..." Annabeth thought for a moment "You guys probably are but I don't realize it, too much going on."

"Ah."

"Yes, now go make yourselves comfortable."

The group settled down on the couches and chairs, some sat on the floor. Annabeth sat in a leather chair, her eyes turned serious, almost deadly "So explain a few things to me, how in Hades did you get here? What was the last major event that happened in your time? And What happened before you when into the future?"

Everyone looked at eachother, not wanting to answer. Luke was the one who spoke, he stood up, about to start explaining, but everyone found it odd that Annabeth glared at him.

"Well, We don't know how we got here, Thalia said we would have to talk to a guy named Leo. Percy was claimed in Capture the Flag after being attacked by a hell--why are you glaring at me like that?" Luke asked, very confused.

Annabeth continued to glare for a moment, then looked away "Go on."

"But--!"

"I said continue."

Luke looked taken back, but still continued "After being attacked by a hellhound. And we heard a large growl before an earthquake took place."

The daughter of Athena nodded "Thank you, Luke. You can sit down now."

The son of Hermes slowly sat down next to Annie, she placed a gently hand on his shoulder. Katie cleared her throat, breaking the awkward silence "So...uh, when's dinner?"

"When ever Percy gets back." Annabeth replied, her eyes lost their glare and turn soft. "It's his turn to cook."

"You guys have to cook?"

"Ya, we also had to learn quickly, when you have your meals cooked for you most of your life and with a war going on it's hard to learn on the fly." She shrugged. "But we coped."

"He's not going to burn the food, right?"

Annabeth laughed "The first couple times we had had to get Thalia to cook because he actually would burn the food. Though after a while he go the hang on it and now his cooking is really good."

"Uhhhh..." Malcolm shifted uncomfortably "You make it sound like you two live together."

The daughter of Athena raise her eyebrow "Leaders' tent. It could mean more that one leader, if that's the case then the leaders share a tent so technically 'living together'."

"Oh," Malcolm cleared his throat and looked down.

They heard someone call from outside "Uhh, Annabeth?"

"You can come in, Will." She answered.

An older version of the past Will walked in, the only thing different was that he was deathly pale, like he had been hanging out in the underworld for too long. By the way concern found it's way into Annabeth's eyes, they could tell he wasn't supposed to look like that. She stood up and walked over to him, she whispered something too him, more than likely it was something along the lines of: What's wrong? or Are you alright?

The older Will shook his head and if possible, paling even more. He leaned over and whispered something in her ear, you could tell he was having a hard time explaining something to her. His eyes were tearing up a bit and he kept stopping and after a minute starting up again every time it seemed like his voice cracked.

The more he explained the paler Annabeth got, she whispered something quickly to him but he slowly shook his head. You could almost see her heart stop, she stared at him for a moment before bolting from the tent. Will sighed and ran a hand through his hair, Luke stood up, along with Malcolm, Annie, and Perce "What's going on?"

Will sighed and shook his head again, a small tear crawled down the side of his face "She won't--" His voice cracked once but then he took a deep breath and continued "She won't be back for a while, I'll cook you guys some dinner."

"Wait, isn't Percy supposed to be cooking us dinner?" Katie asked.

Will walked over to the kitchen and brokenly said "No."