16: Questioning

"Hey...Annabeth?" Percy asks carefully, watching his girlfriend's eyes scan the page she's currently reading.

Percy strains to hear her questioning murmer from her cross-legged position on the other side of the living room floor. As she flips a page, he decides it was just his imagination and in order to get Annabeth's attention, he should probably try again, a little louder.

He leans forward onto his hands and knees and crosses the small living room in a few paces. Stretching his hand out and shaking her knee, he asks again. "Hey, Annabeth!"

She snaps her head up, her eyes glinting dangerously. "What, Percy?!"

He leans back and falls onto his backside, giving her the Jackson famous puppy dog eyes. Unfazed, her eyebrows lift and she gestures for him to continue.

"I was thinking, you know the magic plates and goblets at Camp Half Blood? The ones we took with us on the Argo? Why the Hades didn't we take them on every other bloody quest?!"

A blank expression crosses Annabeth's face as the book drops from her hands.