After doing a silent happy-dance that in my head that another kid took after me (No more nerd children! Wahoo!), I had to question the situation. And that brought a ton of bad karma coming my way. For the following three reasons:

1. Our kid took after me (Her beloved Seaweed Brain... which means in her opinion our kids IQ just dropped like 50 points)

2. She was totally wet. (This is kinda funny in my opinion. And I would so laugh but I would risk getting my butt wiped later. Despite the fact were not teenagers anymore and were married, Annabeth is still that you-mess-with-me-you-die-in-the-form-of-my-fist kind of gal)

3. She had to leave work to deal with our little problem, (in the form of little four-year-old Katie)

So she was kind of mad... well Annabeth's version of mad which is a delightful combo of rage and ultra fast half-blood reflexes. I know scary right! (But I still totally love her with all my heart as always. Well that's marriage!)

So I just stood there holding back like the biggest laugh ever, and trying to keep a serious face. Which is real hard starring at Annabeth pissed off and all wet? Compared to Katie's adorable expression which is like pure delight. But I tried to keep my cool.

"Uhhhhhh. What in the Hades happened to you?" I said looking them up and down, still holding back snickers.

"Well I was at work and I got a call from Katie's daycare. The lady in charge said she can't actually go back there because for some reason like all the sinks, toilets, basically anything with water in it basically exploded. So we can't go back because they have to access the water damage."

I bit my lip, another public building destroyed in my children's path of destruction.

"Did you use the Mist?" I asked leaning into the hallway more so we could have more privacy from my ease-dropping students. Annabeth nodded, "'Course I did."

"So why'd you come here?" I asked, still wondering why she'd come all this way just to tell me our kid had destroyed her daycare (Which isn't as bad as what Lukas did when we found out about his powers. He sat in class in first grade and started bleating out math formulas at the top of his lungs. We had to change schools after that... And Charlotte's was way worse. Caused a minor Tsunami at the beach. Which didn't go over with all the German tourist's trying to get their "ultra vacation tans")

"Um. Seaweed Brain, I kind of need you to watch her while I go to work."

My eyes bugged. "Really?" I said glaring at her with my best puppy eyes. "Really, Really." I groaned, having a four-year old kid in a class room of high schoolers sucks. (I mean not as much as cleaning up 10,000 year old horse poop, which I've done by the way. But it really sucks)

"Really, Annabeth. I have class did you forget that?"

"I know that's the problem. I have a presentation today! And I can't take her down there, I wouldn't believe I could take care of her and present at the same time. What am I freaking' Wonder Woman?.."

Despite the fact she can wild long daggers and defeat evil monsters my wife isn't Wonder Woman. Sadly...

"Why don't I call Grover? He can babysit or maybe Juniper could? Or maybe Thalia.. Or Blackjack."

"First of all Blackjack is a Pegasus. I don't think he's qualified to babysit a human child, Seaweed Brain. And the Hunters, remember have a thing about babies..." Annabeth retorted.

"What about Grover?"

"He has to babysit Flora and take care of Juniper 'cause she's on maternity leave. You know how Juniper gets when she's all hormonal. Plus we don't want to bother her with another kid..." (After the horrors of Annabeth's pregnancies I really didn't want to go down that road again)

"Tyson." I said, frankly mentioning my Cyclops half brother.

"Uhhhh. No." She said giving me her "why-do-you-have-to-be-such-a-Seaweed-Brain?" stare.

"Maybe, Melina?" I said mentioning my well-loved little sister.

"Uh, Percy she's in Boston remember?"

Damn.

I stopped. "Nico, what about Nico?" I said asking causously, hoping she'd take the bait. "Nico really? Percy really you want to leave Katie with Nico?" She said with an annoyed look on her face. "It's worth a freaking try, Owl Head!" I said trying to soften my stupid remark with a nickname. Stupidly I used the one that annoys her.

"PERCY REALLY (insert salty language here)?"

It must have been a great view from the window of my class, those kids were getting watching their teacher get roasted alive with salty words and flailing arms. Don't forget that my wonderful wife has an iron grip, which must have made it quite entertaining.

But she finally calmed down. And agreed that Nico would be our guinea pig that would take care of our newly empowered double half-blood 4 year-old.

So I called Nico.

Ring ring.

"Hey dude."

"Oh hey Perce. Whatcha doin''?" He sounded like he was really, really, really tired. Like he had wrestled a giant marshmallow monster all night long and hand then just gotten back into bed. (Which sadly I know from personal experience is not easy. I had too... It's all Lukas and the microwave's fault. That thing was menacing...)

"I need you to do me a huge favor."

I could hear him lifting the phone ready to hang up. (Half-blood "favors usually mean stuff like. Can you help me get these giants out of my backyard? Or can you help me make sure these harpies don't ruin my mom's Christmas party? They are not fun favors. Leme tell you..)

"No! Nico don't hang up, I just need you to babysit that's all."

"That's way worse then what I thought you wanted me to do. I'm hanging up..."

"No! Nico come on. For me, dude?"

"Uhhhhh!" He groaned. Nico already has two kids, I bet he could take care of one more.. Well maybe. Katie is like a tiny version of me though so she basically:

1. Cannot stay still

2. Cannot sit still

3. Is a "Seaweed Brain" (Well according to Annabeth)

So that might be kinda hard, I mean that's three little powerful double half-bloods. Kinda dangerous right? Well anyway...

"Seriously? Percy I'm sooo tired. Like really. We got attacked last night, me and Thalia were up like all night, fighting a giant."

"Please. For me?"

Nico groaned. "Sure. But I'll have to drag Thalia out of bed, and take the kids with us.."

"Sure whatev. Just get over!"

"Whatev.." Nico groaned. I could hear him trying to get Thalia out of bed, which sucks cause she sleeps like a rock and is impossible to push out of bed.

So Nico was going to save the day! (Snaps and Claps for Nico..)

Class was not easy having my kid around. She sat there for like five minutes just twirling in my twirly chair (Which is the only thing awesome about being a teacher by the way). Then she got really bored and started playing with my markers and drawing all over my board which was super distracting. And then the next wave of kids came in:

We went through the tortuous name thing and then "the real fun started" courteous of little Katie.

"Well has anyone seen any great sea life this summer? For example I saw a turtle and a squid on a family vacation this summer."

About the squid... I was getting rid of a monster squid on vacation when we were fishing with Lukas and Charlotte. Lukas was pissed that he couldn't so all the cool things that my dad (Well it's kind of evident), Charlotte and me. So he got all prissy and started splashing us which was kind of fun except we didn't get wet. (Seriously he may of inherited Annabeth's super human smartness but really that kid can be a Seaweed Brain sometimes, doesn't he know the Son of the Sea God can't get wet? Ha ha.. ZING!). It was starting to get annoying but then suddenly, a giant squid attacked him and tried to eat off his arm. But Dad and I got rid of it (talk about family bonding!). Then the turtle was an actual non-scary turtle I saw when I was hanging around camp, helping Chiron.

So yeah...

"I saw my cousin Gordy goldfish this summer. But he died the next day." said some kid in the back named Natalie. (Poor Goldfish)

"Hey, Mr. Jackson? What's your daughter doin'?" Some boy in the front who looked like he was really sleepy. He was pointing toward, Katie who was coloring on my dry erase board. I turned around, and guess what she was doing? Drawing a trident. (Thanks Dad.. another thing she can carve and draw on flat random surfaces, along with puppies, owls, stick people and princesses. Just ask her bedroom wall)

"Oh... Katie!" I said running over to the board, and erasing the picture. I knew it was kind of disrespectful of my dad to erase it, but I have my reasons.. Teenagers like to ask questions. I scooped her up, and set her in my lap as I sat back in my desk.

"But Daddy.." She said in her adorable little voice. I sshed her, But kissed her on the top of her little curly blond head. Katie smiled up at me with her "also adorable" sea green eyes.

"Hey why does your kid have blond hair when you have black hair, Mr. Jackson?"

"You guys saw my wife, she has blond hair."

"Yeah I say her.. He he." Some idiot said in the back of the class. I seriously would have gone all angry half-blood on him if I wasn't a teacher. Serious...

Then the magic, and ever amazing bell rang! (Zing! or maybe it should be Ring.. Ha ha)

"See you all tomorrow. You're dismissed to lunch." I said, happily as they all poured out.

And then there was a knock on the door!

And when I opened it in walked, Nico DiAngelo, Thalia DiAngelo, Viola DiAngelo and Haydn DiAngelo.

All very tired, but with big smiles on their faces, as always.

"Unlce Nico!" Giggled Katie.

Hry that's the end of chapter 2. Please review and tell me everything you want to say. I want ideas for chapter 3 since my brain is fried from end of the year terms. So please give me ideas! Love, Nixie.