Thalia felt bad remembering that Jason had left and she hadn't said goodbye. She felt guilty but at the same time they had tried to accomplish an important plan, but sadly it didn't work. However, as Thalia lay in bed staring at the dark ceiling she began to cook something up in her head. An idea that was nearly fool proof.

Even as she heard her mother stumble into the house she kept planning. She would have to see how Reyna felt about the idea after soccer practice tomorrow morning. Sighing, she rolled onto her side and forced herself to fall asleep.

Getting to practice wasn't hard. Thalia just slung on her practice clothes and tennis shoes, gathered her duffel bag, and set on her way at a quick run. She'd done it for years now, the run was just an extra long warm up. The cold air felt good against her skin and she occasionally spotted another person out and about.

A few others were already at the field kicking a ball around. Thalia wasn't late but she wasn't the earliest to arrive. Annabeth was expertly juggling the ball occasionally passing it over to Rachel.

Shafting off her jacket Thalia slung it over the fence and jogged onto the field snatching the ball away from Annabeth.

"Thalia Grace you suck." Annabeth jokingly flipped her off as she tossed the ball back to the blonde.

"I don't suck I'm amazing." Thalia countered ducking the ball as Annabeth threw it at her head.

"Sure you are." Thalia flinched at the light smack on the back of her head as Artemis, having newly arrived, passed the ball back over to Annabeth. "You feeling better after last night?"

"Yeah. Sorry about that." Thalia gave her an apologetic smile.

"It's fine." Artemis shrugged.

"What happened last night?" Rachel asked curiously.

"Hey guys!" Hazel bounded over excitedly followed by Reyna and a moment later coach Hermes.

"What's up Hazelnut?" Annabeth smiled ruffling the smaller girl's hair.

"Okay gals enough chit chat." Coach Hermes chuckled tucking his clip board under his arm. "You've all played before. Even the new faces, yes?"

Thalia felt a bit bad not talking to the newer additions to the varsity team but she also didn't care much. The group collectively nodded earning a pleased smile from Hermes.

"Great, let's get started with some passing drills shall we? If you guys kill it we can do a small skirmish at the end." He winked glancing down at his clip board while we each grabbed a partner.

"Let's see if you're rusty." Thalia smiled tossing a ball to Reyna.

"Likewise Grace." She said but her eyes studied Thalia's bandaged wrist worriedly.

"I'm fine." Thalia promised. "Mind if we talk after practice?"

"Yeah." She nodded setting the ball down and kicking it. The two girl's passes were quick and efficient with little mishaps. One touch and the ball was gone before coming back just as quick.

They worked well together like an oiled machine. Anything Hermes threw out they pounced on it eager to show off and better yet out do each other.

"Fight for the ball you two. Elbow up! That's it!" He encouraged as they tried to throw one another off the ball. In the end, Thalia stumbled due to a groove in the grass and Reyna claimed the goal.

"Better luck next time Grace." She smiled jogging back to the two single file lines as Rachel and Hazel faced off against one another. Sweat caused the back of her shirt to cling to the space between her shoulder blades. At least Thalia knew she was giving Reyna a run for her money.

Just for kicks Hermes even faced them off on opposite teams during the skirmish. Thalia was mid field while Reyna was striker doing her best to maneuver down the field and working smoothly with Artemis as her right wing and Rachel as her left.

But the incredible force was met by a sturdy wall of resistance. Annabeth was eager to challenge anyone and her ability to observe footwork from countless hours analyzing pros made her deadly.

However, the fresh meat wasn't as good at defending leaving Hazel all by her lonesome to protect the keeper and back line of defense. Artemis chipped the ball over Thalia's team mate right to the feet of a deadly Reyna taking aim at the goal.

Thalia, sprinting like her life depended on it, slid in the cool grass at the last second swiping the ball from beneath Reyna mid step. Tripping on the mix of ball and limbs Reyna crashed on top of Thalia with an irritated grunt.

"What? Can't shoot Tex?" Thalia quipped. Rolling her eyes Reyna smugly planted her hand on Thalia's face using the other girl's head as leverage to stand up. By the end of practice they were covered in sweat, grass stains, and bruises.

"That was an amazing shot." Hazel complimented Annabeth with a bright smile.

"Thanks Haze, but you're the best defender we have on that back line. The score would have been miles high without you." Annabeth laughed.

"Gotta get the fresh meat up to speed or we'll have our asses handed to us in the first match." Artemis whispered stepping up between Reyna and I.

"What do you mean?" Reyna asked curiously.

"Out first match is against the Romans. They're cheating scum. Last year the refs got paid off." Artemis explained.

"Worst game I've ever played. Their striker Gwen is nice though, she doesn't seem to like her team mates very much. Watch out for number 24. Lydia is a monster. Slide tackled me incorrectly and I got a fracture in my shin. Next thing I know she's starting a brawl with Annabeth." Thalia's expression hardened at the memories. "Man I can't wait to kick her ass."

"Like I said? that isn't gonna happen unless the newbies adjust. And quickly." Artemis bid us a quick goodbye spotting Apollo waiting impatiently in the car.

"She has a point." Reyna sighed as we finished collecting our things and began to set off towards our neighborhood. "Anyways, you said you wanted to talk to me about something."

"I do but let's get off campus first." Thalia glanced about nervously picking up the pace the tiniest bit. Reyna followed her friend curiously until they were nearly half a mile away from school before Thalia spoke again. "It's about the hard drive."

"Thalia we should just get rid of it." Reyna frowned lowering her voice.

"I know that's what I'm getting at. I came up with a plan. It's literally fool proof." Thalia smiled.

"Really? Since when have you ever made a fool proof plan?" Reyna questioned raising her eyebrows.

"Just hear me out alright?" Reyna sighed but clamped her mouth shut. "Later tonight we comeback to school. There's a way in where the cameras can't catch you. The power generator can be flipped off. The cameras will be cut and we go to the locker rooms by the pool. Octavian does swim. I know his number because it matches the one on his swim cap."

"You're suggesting we break into the school?!" Reyna had to try extremely hard not to yell.

"We take the hard drive with us. Clean it off at home wear gloves and shit like that. Pop open his locker and plant the evidence. When we get back home we call the police." Thalia went on glancing about to make sure no one else was in ear shot.

"You said so yourself, the police won't do shit. They're in Octavian's pocket." Reyna grumbled.

"That's why we call the police from Jupiter City. They're our rivals remember. They'll pounce at any opportunity to run our name in the dirt." Thalia smirked watching a glint of understanding flicker in Reyna's eyes. She knew her friend was trying to see if it could ever actually pass. "When we leave the school we flip the power back on for a moment but we cut the wires or fry them. They'll blame it on an electrical shortage and suspicion will be out the window. With that done, Octavian can't possibly throw us under the bus."

"Our prints won't be on it and they'll have no footage of us entering or leaving. The cops will investigate and find it tucked in his locker. He'll have to come up with an alibi but if the cameras went out there's no proof to back up his claims." Reyna smiled seeming to agree with Thalia's scheme. "We could actually pin them on the crimes."

"Exactly. Like I said it's fool proof. And the security guard Argus is gonna be out of town. No one knows that but me because I heard him talking to my professor about it." Reyna couldn't believe Thalia had managed to put something so brilliant together.

"They'll think it's suspicious if the hard drive is perfectly clean." Reyna pointed out finding a single fault in the plan.

"We scratch it up a bit. Make it look like Octavian tampered with the evidence. Tried to get rid of it." Thalia shrugged as they turned onto their street corner.

"How do we get in his locker without the lock looking like it was tampered with?"

"I have his combo. I had a friend steal it from coach Poseidon. The Stolls are good like that." Thalia winked patting her pocket where Reyna assumed a small slip of paper was tucked snugly away.

"I hate to say it Grace but you are brilliant." Reyna laughed as they paused at the end of her driveway. "Text me the details from your old phone. Then ditch it. We can't have anything against us understood? If you still wanna follow through with the plan that is. If not just text me normally, but be discrete."

"Copy that." Thalia smiled making a mental note. She turned and quickly ran off back home. Showering only gave her more time to mull over the idea in complete silence. The worst that could happen was Octavian not getting pinned for it. If they covered their tracks they'd be perfectly fine.

The question remained however, should they follow through with the plan or ditch it and risk the hard drive falling into the wrong hands?

Decision 2

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