The Revivers

Chapter 12

A/N I am sooo sorry this chapter was so delayed! Life came up, let's just leave it at that.

Annabeth POV

Malcolm. When Luke and Jason had rushed Thalia and me out of town, Malcolm had been away at college somewhere in the Midwest. We’d never been able to find him, so I’d been forced to assume that he was gone.

And now…

“What’s going on?” Nico asked. He, Grover, and Percy walked into the apartment. My head snapped up and my eyes connected with Percy’s.

“Annabeth?” He asked, seeing the pain in my eyes. I opened my mouth and a choking sound came out.

“My brother,” I finally said, “Leo hooked up this radio, and…” I tried to swallow but the lump in my throat wouldn’t go down.

“Malcolm said he thinks he figured out the cure.” Thalia finished, “But…”

“We’re pretty sure he’s dead.” Leo finally said. Their jaws all dropped. Percy reached out and cradled me in his arms. Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry. I failed, and tears started to trickle from my eyes.

“But we aren’t sure.” Thalia added, “We heard him screaming, but maybe he survived.” Leo nodded.

“We have to go find him,” I said, “It sounded like he’s on Long Island Sound somewhere, at a camp.”

“There are tons of camps around Long Island Sound.” Grover said, “We would have to go around and check each one.”

“So? Let’s do it.” I sniffed and wiped my eyes with sudden determination, “Let’s find him.”  

“Tomorrow,” Percy insisted, “I know where we can start.” He gave a look towards Nico and Grover. The two of them nodded in understanding.

“Camp Half-Blood.” Nico said, “That’ll be an overnight trip, though.”

“We can stay in Grand Central. Remember? They decided to use it as a safe house, but soon everyone cleared out. The place is secure enough for one night.” Percy said.

“Who’s going, though?” Thalia asked, “Troop one or Troop two?”

“It’s my brother. I’m going.” I said. Percy rubbed his chin.

“It might be helpful to have more people on this trip. It would take less time to search an entire camp if we had everyone.” Grover coughed awkwardly.

“I’ll stay back with Juniper and protect base.” He volunteered.

“It’s settled then.” I said, “We leave in the morning.”

Grover and Juniper took nightshift that night to give us all a good night’s rest before we journeyed out tomorrow. After dinner, Percy and me went to my room for some time alone together. He sat criss-cross on the couch beside me and took my hand in his.

“How did your raid go today?” I asked. He shrugged and didn’t look up as he played with my fingers.

“Same old, same old. No biggie.” He said.

“Find anything good?” He smirked pinched my ring finger.

“Yeah, I think so at least. Maybe I’ll show you after we get that cure.” His eyes flashed up to look at me and grinned. I raised an eyebrow at him, but he had looked down again.  

“So what happens to us after we get the cure and the human race starts to come back to life?” I didn’t bother adding in an If it works or an If we survive.