Zoe's P. O. V
Hello 2018. This year is going to be different; I could just feel it. No more shooting people. I aced school even after that incident and had a good Christmas. But I didn't expect my year to start with Jake disappearing from his hospital bed. I barged through the doors.

"Where is he? WHERE IS HE?" I shouted into The Remnants headquarters.

I felt a hand wrap around my waist and a chest against my back.

"Whoa, Zoe, what's the matter?" Luke asked me.

Yeah, after our mission in July, I got with Luke.

I know what you're going to say. How could I date another while Jake is in or was in a coma? It just felt right. Sue me.

"Where's Jake?" I asked him.

"What do you mean where's Jake? He's in the hospital where he has been." He stated but I shook my head.

"I went to see him and his hospital room is empty." I told him. He let go of me and called over someone.

"What do you mean it was empty?"

"Oppose to being full." I responded and a guy came over. Luke quickly told him to go to check the hospital room. I rolled my eyes, but I guess it had to happen. After talking to the guy Luke came back to me, grabbing my hand.

"So what do you want to do?" He asked me.

I really didn't know. If Jake was up and running then why wouldn't he come here or my house like before? Or did his body just...disintegrate? I was still clearly new to underworld gods and their ways.

After six months, a lot obviously happened. After the group had come back from the mission, we were distraught. After a while though we split up, going back to school. I passed grade eight and sometime during those months I started liking Luke even though he was like five years older than me. We didn't find Caitlyn as well as a way to close that big hole but most of everything is okay now. With Jake back, my life was going to turn pretty bad. I just had a great Christmas and New Year. I was looking forward to having a 2018 without a Thales ruining it.

"What can we do?" I asked him instead.

He looked me in the eyes and said,

"Call the team back."

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I sat where grandpa Ted sat back then, waiting for the others to come. Our relationship was a bit... strained. I mean what do you expect when your relationship is founded on a death mission.

First to round the corner was my best friend Toni who ran to hug me. We caught up about what happened in the holidays before Bradlin rounded the corner. Toni ran to meet her cousin while I hung back. After was Psyche, Aphrodite, Andrew and Gabriel. Luke was busy trying to track down Jake with that other guy.

We all hung around in the amphitheater till Psyche started the conversation.

"So why are we here?"

"Jake's missing." I told them.

"You mean like somebody took him and moved him?" Toni asked.

"No, she means, hopefully might I add, that he got up and left." Psyche told her.

"Oh, okay. So you invited us here because you want to find him?"

"That and you know, the fact that the last time Jake was up and walking he nearly killed all of us." I explained, rather obnoxiously.

"Look here, Zoe," Bradlin commented. ", not all of us hated Jake. Not all of us moved on with a nineteen year old boyfriend."

"What are you getting at, Bradlin?" I said through gritted teeth.

"What I am getting at is that you hate Jake for involving you in this, when really you should hate your forefathers for deciding to host a god." I stared at her, my eyes wide from disbelief.

"She's right, Zoe. Jake didn't do anything wrong. In fact he just sped the process along. Wasn't your mother anyways going to tell you?" Psyche added. I leveled my gaze on her.

"Okay guys, let's ease up on Zoe here. We all know that Jake is up and moving so where?" Toni defended me. Psyche rolled her eyes.

"How about the reason he was caught in Hydra headquarters the first place?" She waited then sighed. "He's obviously looking for Caitlyn."