A month later Percy was still looking for Thalia. He looked everywhere he could think of. Well, except for one place. Grover gave him the idea, but Percy refused to go back. He just wasn't ready yet.

    One night, Luke had this master plan that he would go back to Percy's old house when they went back to Greece the following week. Of course, though, he didn't know where Percy lived. No one else did either; except Grover (and of course Percy himself). And he really didn't wanna ask Grover.

    Luke knew how much Grover hated him. And he was okay with that. But Luke didn't want his boyfriend to be so tense and upset. Even around him.

     So, Luke sucked up what limited confidence he had, and went to find Grover.

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      "Dude, buddy, I'm telling you! A month ago I saw this girl that looked exactly like Thalia. She was just wearing guy clothes. Though I wouldn't hold wearing guy clothes against her," Dakota quickly added thoughtfully. 

      Jason oh so, wanted to believe that Dakota found his sister all those weeks ago, but... Jason just rolled his eyes at his friend. Who, thankfully, couldn't see Jason rolling his eyes. Jason continued packing his bags in silence.

     "Ok buddy," Jason stood up awkwardly tugging his bag on his shoulder. "Well, er, thanks for letting me crash here anyway Kool-Aid Man," he thanked while pulling his friend in a bro-hug. Dakota scowled, but the twinkle in his eyes gave away his true emotions. 

"Anytime, my lord," he bowed at the prince who in return scowled. Dakota saw something out of the corner of his eyes and raced towards the window. "Buttt, you'd better hurry. I think I can see some of your dad's army headed in this direction." 

       Jason quickly ran over to where Dakota was pointing, only to see he was not wrong. "Ok, well see ya next time buddy." And with that Jason dashed out of Dakota's house. He has already decided he'd take Tempest to Hermes' manor and ask if he could deliver a letter to Jason's cousin, Nico.

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       Thalia was on a boat. A cargo boat to be exact. She was wearing Percy's clothes and had filth on her face, so she was unrecognizable. At the moment she was thinking of where to go next. But she'd been thinking for the past month. Forget it. I'll just go back to Sally's, she thought to herself.

                                                                            ***

       A week and a half later she came upon Sally's house and was upset to find two guys at the door. Growling under her breath she marched up to the front door. "Who in the hell are you two!" 

      Grover and Luke jumped back. They arrived only minutes before and were trying to open the door. Deliberately failing. They glanced at each other, unsure of what exactly to say.

      Thalia pushed pat them snickering to herself while pushing open the door with little to no difficulty. Causing the boys to gawk, as they couldn't open it themselves. (They couldn't open it themselves as there were things barricading the door. Therefore proclaiming Thalia was-is-stronger than the two boys combined.)

     "Sit down and explain yourselves," Thalia was so not in the mood today. Grover stammered something along the lines of, "Boats...gods...Percy...ecstatic...poor Sally..." Thalia ignored Grover up until she heard him say, Percy. She basically exploded into questions for poor Grover. Luke had to take over answering the questions when he saw the light sweat on Grover's forehead.

     Luke took a deep breath, "Yes, we know where Percy is, and I can assure you he's far from hurt, let alone dead. As for where he is..." Luke trailed off as he glanced towards Grover for an answer. 

The only response he received was a light shaking of the head. "We can't tell you," at this Thalia did her worst glare, which made Luke quickly add, "Yet! We can't tell you, yet. Until you agree to come with us to Perce."

    "Ok let's go," Thalia stated after twenty seconds of silence while moving towards the door. To say the pirates were shocked would be an understatement. 

"W-what?" Luke finally managed to stutter. 

Thalia rolled her eyes, but her smirk gave her away, "I said: Let's go. I wanna go see my cousin, an' I need one of you to take me there."

     Luke stood up a couple of seconds before Grover, "Okay then let's go." 

The trio walked for about 5 minutes in silence before Thalia spoke up, "Tell me something I should know about my cousin before I see him." Luke started saying a bunch really small details (along with the big things) in obvious joy. (Making Thalia smirk, hope, and wonder all at the same time.) 

     He suddenly looked down and mumbled something Thalia didn't catch. "Repeat that. I didn't catch it." 

By now Luke was blushing wildly as he awkwardly repeated himself, "He's my boyfriend..." Thalia suddenly stopped walking. 

Finally, she thought to herself. "Meaning... you've already kissed?" Thalia worked hard to keep the gleam out of her voice. But, she was glad when Luke nodded. "Welcome to the family, Luke. You are the first person, my cousin kissed let alone dated! Which is a guarantee you'll get married.

    Luke was blushing wildly, glad Grover started running when Queen Sally came into complete view. "Whatever, there's the ship. Come on," and they both took off running after that.