🕷Natasha's POV🕷
"Who do you work for, Jackson?" Fury asked the kid.

"What are you talking about? I don't work for anyone!" Percy objected.

"We'll do it the hard way, then."

That was my cue. I put a loaded gun to his head. "Do it." Percy said. I was shocked.

"Who do you work for?"

"No one!" Percy said. "Do it. You've done it before, haven't you? So do it! I have nothing to live for! Please, just do it!" He closed his eyes, waiting for me to shoot.
I was surprised he wanted me to shoot and didn't spill all his secrets.

Fury looked at me. "No. Keep him alive."
Percy looked disappointed.

🐳Percy's POV🐳
I can't believe they thought I worked for someone! I was also disappointed she didn't shoot.

"Put him in Hulk's cell. If he won't talk, we'll lock him up until he does."

"Fury, you can't just lock him up. He's just a kid." Spangles came in and everyone else came in.

"Who happens to be a terrorist." Fury said.

"I'm not a terrorist!" I protested.

"Well, until you tell us who you work for, you'll be here."

"I don't work for anyone!" He was getting on my nerves.

Someone came in. He put handcuffs on and took me to a cell and took my cuffs off. "Good luck." He said.

"Thanks. I've survived worse." He smirked then left.

I took out the picture we took before our quest. We all looked serious, but we had fun taking it. We photoshopped Thalia in it and even got Reyna and to get in. Unfortunately Octavian was in the background, but oh well.
I sat down in the right corner. I remembered the times we had. I also remembered that dumb thing Leo had said before defeating Gaea.

You mean like a zodiac sign. I had said. I'm a Leo.

No stupid, Leo had said. I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

I laughed. Tears started streaming down my cheeks. "I miss you guys." I whispered.

"I would, too."

I looked up. Spangles. "Hey." I said. For once I was happy to see one of them.

"Hey. Sorry that you have to be here." He sat down next to me.

"It's not your fault." He looked at the picture I had in my hand.

"Are those your friends."

"Yeah."

"Nat told us they died."

"Yeah. But I could have saved them."

"She said you got mad when she asked. That you said something about you being dead instead of them. What happened how'd they die?"

"I really don't want to talk about this."

"It's fine. Just one question."

"Yeah?"

"How did you blow up the Arch when you were twelve?"

"Oh, that. That's a long story. It has something to do with me getting kidnapped, an old lady and a chihuahua. ''I said remembering the news.

"Ooh. Also I really want to know what your nickname is. I've been thinking so much about it."

"How much do you wanna know?"

"I won't be able to sleep."

"Fine. It's Seaweed Brain, but don't call me that. It'll remind me of my cousin and my girlfriend."

"Why?"

"They died."

"Oh...I'm sorry." There was an awkward silence.

"Steve! Get over here!" I heard someone say.

"Gotta' go."

"Mmk." He left.

I stayed in the corner until I fell asleep, which unfortunately meant dreams.

Beginning of dream; insert beautiful harp music here. (LOL ☺️)

I was back at Camp Half-Blood. I saw the bodies of everyone. They were all dead. I felt horrible. Only a few campers survived. And by a few, I mean nineteen Greek and twenty-five Roman.

I heard someone coughing behind me. I turned around. "Annabeth." I said. Even though it came out more like a question.
"Percy!" I ran towards her. Then I hugged her. "You are weak son of Poseidon. I don't know how you'll defeat my son this time."

"Gaea."

"Oh you're not happy to see me?" She asked innocently. "My son will rise again. And this time he will win. You are weak and without your silly friends you are even weaker."

The scene changed. I was back in Tartarus. I saw Annabeth being whipped. She was screaming in pain.

The scene changed again, but this time I was at the beach. A monster charged at me. I back up into the water. We fought for a little there before it threw me in the water. Instead of gaining energy or healing me, it did something worse. I was drowning. I couldn't breathe. Everything went black.

End dream.

I woke up in cold sweat. I sat up quickly and hit my head on something. "Ow!"

"Sorry." It was Spangles. "I brought you breakfast."

"Oh, thanks." I said. I barely ate after they died. I usually just ate like a piece of bread or something like that.

"What's wrong?"

"It's just I haven't eaten much other than a piece of bread...or something like that since my friends died."

"Oh."

"Why are you with me most of the time?"

"I feel bad. I mean you're obviously telling the truth." He said.

"Thanks. But you think you can tell that to your boss?"

"He won't give up. So hopefully he'll give up if you keep telling him no." And without another word he left.

One month later

I screamed and sat up. The dreams were only getting worse. It was around midnight and everyone was around me. It was just a dream.

"Are you okay?" Spangles asked.

"I'm fine."

"That's the fourth time this week. How bad can those dreams be." Nat asked.

"They aren't dreams." I said.

"Then what are they?" She asked.

"Flashbacks."

"Being in here for so long must have made you go crazy."

"Mortals." I mumbled.

Apparently they heard it. "Aren't you a mortal?"

"Uh...yeah." They left. Well everyone except spangles.

"Hey, I have a question."

"Yeah?"

"Were you in a war?"

"I...well...not exactly. Why?"

"Usually, people who are in war, their memories come back."

"Oh." He left and I went back to sleep.

🦉Annabeth's POV🦉

I couldn't believe it. After being here for so long, we were going back to the mortal world, with our memories. Everything would just be an illusion to everyone. Well everyone except gods, demigods, and monsters or something like that. So technically we didn't die.

"Remember you've been alive all along."

"Come on!" We all said excitedly. I couldn't wait to see Percy again! I missed him so much.

"Annabeth, aren't you excited?" Piper asked.

"Yeah, just nervous."

"You thinking about him?" She asked.

"Yeah. I just have a feeling something's wrong."

"Like how wrong?"

"I don't know. Like when he went missing wrong."

"It'll be fine." She said reassuringly.

"You're right. It'll be fine." But I still didn't feel so good.

And with that we popped out of the castle of Hades and into Camp Half-Blood.

"Percy!" I yelled and headed straight towards cabin three.

I slammed the door open. He wasn't there. I checked all over camp. He wasn't there. No big deal. He was probably just at school or at his mom's apartment.

"Did you find him?" I heard Jason say behind me.

"No. But he could be at school or his mom's apartment."

"Let's go tell Chiron we're here then."
I nodded. We started walking to the big house.

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