Chapter 44

 Jessie's POV

Glitter, or Percy since that is his real name, he had the nerve to walk right into camp, after all he's done?

"Is this true?" Horse guy asked him, "Are you the same man as the man in Gold?"

I noticed the kid with him, she only looked a few years younger than me. What was he doing with another kid?

"Does it matter?" He asked.

"Are you helping Gaea?" the commander of my kidnappers asked. Wouldn't he already know?

"Gaea?" Percy almost seemed surprised, "She's asleep, why would anyone help her?"

"She's rising again," I said, glaring at him. "You helped the Titans last time, why wouldn't you be helping her with whatever she has planned now?"

"Because, why else would Gaea take someone you love most?" The commander said.

"I love no one, I care for no one," Percy said coldly as turned to leave.

"Wait," The commander called, "One of our own, she was kidnapped by Gaea, our architect."

That seemed to catch his attention, he turned back and walked to the commander and demanded, "Tell me everything."

Jason's POV

Why would he care about one of our own going missing? Unless he really is working with Chaos, or could Luke be right, and Percy really was alive.

"Wait," Piper called out. "Who are you and why should we trust what you say? We don't know who you are or who was kidnapped. Maybe Jessie's right and you're both in on the kidnapping."

"Piper, trust me, we are not working for Gaea, we want to help the demigods," I said.

"Ja-," She started to say before catching herself.

"It's okay," I said, taking my mask off so all the other campers could see. I wanted them to know they could trust me.

"We are on your side, the thing with Jessie is just a misunderstanding."

The man in the mask, Percy?, stared at me, as if he recognized me and couldn't believe I was alive.

"Why don't we take this meeting inside," Luke suggested, gesturing for the soldiers to follow him.

"I'm coming to," Piper said. Luke didn't look like he wanted to but Piper quickly said, "If you want me to trust you that means you need to trust me."

"Fine," Luke said, "But no one else."

Piper's POV

I was surprised when Archí actually let me join the meeting. I expected him to say no.

I tried to not let the surprise show on my face and joined them in the meeting room.

"How do you know Gaea has her?" Glitter asked.

"Why do you care?" I asked. "How can someone so terrible care about anyone?"

He was responsible for the death of Leo, and so many other people. I don't see why we don't just kill him now.

"Because she's the love of your life isn't she?" Diana asked, as if she really didn't want to know the answer.

"Grover and L- Archí," she corrected herself and I found myself wondering what she was about to call Archí instead. "They said you were alive but I hoped it wasn't true."

"You told them!" Glitter growled at Archí.

"Technically, Grover did it," Archí said, like a child blaming his brother for a broken dish.

"Still, that explains how she heard about me," Glitter said, almost to himself.

"You saw her?" Diana asked. "She left right after Grover told us you were alive, we thought she just needed some time to think."

"Yes, I saw her," Glitter replied, "She was not pleased to see me, we didn't talk long before I left. That was a few days ago now."

"Okay context please?" I asked. "Who are you? And why is your "love" in the Chaos army and not wanting to see you?"

"Jessie already knows, and he won't keep quite for long." Archí said. "We tried to keep him away from everyone so he couldn't tell them, but he escaped."

"So you did kidnap him!" I exclaimed, glaring at Jason, "Why are you protecting this murderer?"

In response Glitter reached up and took off his mask, "Because they kidnapped Annabeth, and they know I'll do anything to get her back." 

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