((Sorry for the wait guys! I got caught up in all my school work, friends, and I caught writer's block. Turns out, running around a Target pulling pranks and then listening to music for three days is the perfect cure! Anyways, this story is the sequel to my other story, The Test!. Which, by the way, WILL have an extra chapter at the end showing some of the funnier, more intimate moments during that little adventure... As usual, all flames will be used to make smores and hot dogs that will be shared with other readers. I don't own Percy Jackson & The Olympians, Rick Riordian does. Now, here's chapter 1...))

It had been a few days since Annabeth had asked Percy if he would like to live with her for a few days. The twenty-two year old, like most other people would, agreed. Athena had given him a hard time about it for the past forty-eight hours, making comments like 'I'm watching you', 'Just because you're the EarthShaker's son, doesn't give you the right to try and shake up my daughter.' and, the weirdest one yet, 'If you hear the bushes behind you rustling and growling in the dead of night, don't be afraid. If you hear a hell hound attacking a mortal and you have no weapon, don't be afraid. But, if you hear an owl hoot outside your window, you had best run for your life.' Annabeth, Thalia, Nico, and Percy had been packing his clothes, trying to dismantle and pack his bed, which ended in all of them taking axes to it and ordering a new bed, and trying to get Scooby the hell pup to act like a normal dog. He would chase humans, not cars, scare tigers at the zoo, not cats, and could bark High Way to Hell during times of excitement, like the ax incident. Finally, they had everything packed away in a U-Haul truck and were driving down to Annabeth's house.

"So...what are you doing this Saturday night?" Percy asked Annabeth as he lazily steered the U-Haul truck. Nico and Thalia were already waiting at Annabeth's house, ready to help unpack everything.

"You do know that's tonight, right?" Annabeth arched an eyebrow.

"Yes. But, some guys I know invited me to a party." Percy explained sheepishly.

"You're blushing. What kind of party is it?" Her eyebrow levitated above her eye, patiently waiting for an answer.

"Costume party." Percy mumbled, loud enough for her to hear.

"Ha ha ha ha! A costume party! Are these guys, like, five?" She laughed, her eyes sparkling the way Percy liked. Wow. I never knew grey was such a beautiful color until I met her. He thought. Annabeth reached towards his hands and grabbed. Why are we holding hands? I'm trying to dri-- AH! ANOTHER U-HAUL TRUCK! Annabeth jerked the wheel, setting them back in their lane as the driver threw cuss words at Percy out of his window.

"Sure. I'll go. Just, do me a favor?" Annabeth asked him, sitting back in her seat and sighing.

"What?" Percy looked over to her for a moment then back at the road.

"Not all of us are invincible, so don't get us into a wreck and kill me before then, okay?" Annabeth laughed.

"Seriously." Percy laughed as well. After a few minutes of driving, Annabeth told him to take a left. They arrived at her house, a beautiful new apartment with panel windows. They headed inside, where Nico and Thalia were on the couch, one of them without a shirt or bra...

"Nico! Put your shirt back on! Geeze, WE live here, not you." Annabeth scolded, throwing the green shirt at him. Thalia giggled for a moment then turned towards Percy and threw him a remote.

"That will control the hallways, windows, TV, surround sound, lights, and the bath tub." She explained before standing up and walking past him. She returned a moment later with a box labeled fragile and shook it.

"Underwear." Nico guessed, throwing a drachma onto the couch.

"CDs." Thalia met the bet.

"Pictures of all of us." Annabeth threw a drachma onto the couch. Percy opened it up, revealing the contents. It was pictures, a few of himself and Nico pulling pranks in various malls, Annabeth reading under at tree in the rain with Percy secretly sitting in the tree with an umbrella above her, a few of other friends he'd made over the years at camp, and even one or two of the Olympians making conversation with demigods and other gods. Annabeth took up the three drachmas and slipped them into her pocket.

"Why do we always bet with drachma?" Percy wondered out loud.

"Well, we can get more by doing some work at camp." Nico shrugged.

"Or, we could ask our parents for more, where as human money is worthless to them." Annabeth nodded.

"Fair enough. Let's unload the rest of the stuff." Percy began to walk outside, only to be blocked by Scooby. Nico appeared beside him a moment later.

"Hey, this place is like that apartment off of that movie The Game Plan." Nico laughed as he sent Scooby on his way. They unloaded all of Percy's belongings, which took about an hour, and then sat down on the couch, panting.

"Percy?" Thalia asked him suddenly.

"Yeah, cuz?" Percy asked. He popped off of the couch with Nico and began to try to beat box. They had apparently changed into hoodies, black baseball caps that were sideways on their heads, saggy pants, chains, a candy grill, and were throwing around random gang signs.

"Why do you have so much crap!" She threw a pillow at him, followed by a small lightning bolt. The lights flashed off, causing Scooby to wail until Thalia blasted it back on.

"You missed." Percy said in amazement.

"And, apparently, hit the light switch instead." Annabeth looked it over, finding nothing out of place.

"And, apparently, Scooby is afraid of the dark...." Nico quietly put his hat over the dog and it started to bob it's head back and forth, with apparent imitation swagger.

"First, you fail. Second, Percy, you fail, too. Third, It isn't nice to try and go all 'G' on me when I'm talking to you!" Thalia complained, throwing another pillow at Percy. He caught it and laid down on the tiled floor, ready for a nap.

"Man. So much exciting events and wonderful things have happened over the last week or so. I mean, I can live here with Annabeth, I can still be her boyfriend, Nico found a girlfriend, Thalia is less moody lately," That earned Percy a shoe in the head from Thalia, "we got a dog, our parents visited us a few times, and we even have some funny stories to tell our kids some day."

"Not assuming that we will have kids with each other." Annabeth added quickly.

"Annabeth, you guys are twenty-two. Most people are married by twenty, not still virgi--" Thalia was interrupted as Percy threw her shoe back at her.

"Meep." Percy said comically as she unleashed hell on him. Lightning bolts, shoes, hair clips, a few drachma, and a hell pup landed on top of him in a pile.

"Rrr?" Scooby asked as he landed beside Percy.

"Hey, buddy!" Percy gave him an affectionte hug.

"Rawr?" Scooby looked around, recieving shrugs in reply.

"Aw! That means I love you in hell hound!" Percy cried, tears going down his face.

"Two things. First, that's I love you in DINOSAUR. Second, Thalia, I think you gave him a concussion." Annabeth said worriedly.

"Yesh..." Thalia whispered to herself.

"Get him to a bed." Nico suggested.

"No, if you fall asleep with a concussion, you may fall into a coma." Percy jumped up, scattering everything that was thrown at him. Scooby ran around, pushing everything into a pile, and then pushed the pile to Thalia.

"Good boy, smart puppy. And, what just happened?" Thalia asked Percy.

"This will be kinda stupid..." Percy sighed.

"Go on." Nico said.

"When those bolts hit, one of them got in my ear, into my brain, and fried my brain for a minute." The group fell out of their seats laughing, trying hard to stop the pain in their ribs as they did so.

"Okay, okay. We've gotta go, guys. We-We- Ha ha! We need to talk to Hades and my dad about our relationship. Dr. Phil will be there, so..." Thalia trailed off.

"Wow. That's what happened to his show. I thought Dr. Oz killed him, but no. My dad just took him hostage." Nico shrugged then disappeared with Thalia into a shadow.

"So...we're all alone. Just you and me. In a big empty house. We could shut all the windows and lock the door. Put on some music..." Annabeth hinted.

"Okay. You'll count first." Percy smirked then ran across the house, trying to find a hiding place.

"I didn't mean hide and go seek, you Seaweed Brain!" Annabeth sighed then counted anyways, if not only to appease him. She got to ten, and walked calmly to the bathroom. The tub was filled to the brim with water and bubbles, while a humanoid figure floated gently underneath a crowd of bubbles. Annabeth reached into the bubbles, only to find a bubble shaped like a person. Warm arms wrapped around her and pushed her towards the tub's edge.

"You're playing it wrong. You're supposed to find me." Percy kissed her cheek gently.

"Seaweed Brain?" Annabeth asked him, glancing at his watch.

"Hmmm?" He said from her neck.

"What time does that party start?" Percy jumped up, just realizing the time.

"Um.... now." Percy headed to his room, an extra guest room Annabeth had, and changed into a costume. Annabeth appeared out of her room a moment later, dressed like a librarian. Percy, on the other hand...

"Wow. Iron Man. Imagine that...." Annabeth tilted her head.

"Well, I am a genius." Percy smiled.

"Yeah. You are. And, narcissistic."(A/N: spelling on that?) Annabeth smiled back. They headed out the door, caught a cab to the address, and waited for ten minutes as the cab driver rambled on about how the underwear bomber from around December was the stupidest thing Al Queida had come up with, and how next they would probably put bombs in cats and dogs. They arrived at the address, paid the man, and jumped out. Two people ran up to them and practically tackled them.

"Oh." Annabeth said, her eyes trying not to meet her assualters.

"Hades no." Percy laughed as his tickled him.

"Now, Annabeth, is that any way to greet your mother?" Athena scolded as her Wonder Woman costume's skirt lifted slightly, giving the man behind her a nose bleed. Poseidon stood beside her, looking down at Percy.

"I lost a bet." Poseidon was dressed like Ariel the Little Mermaid, seashell bra and red hair, followed with a green fish tail. A real one at that.

"Yeah, to her." Percy guessed, pointing at Athena.