For Us Demigods

As Long As We're Together

Third Person's POV

"Are you guys okay down there?" Sally voices asked in concern as the screams that echoed a few moments earlier couldn't have come from anything else but Rick and Glen.

"We're okay." Rick called back. "We just- We'll tell you when we get back up."

"Breathe." Sally told Annabeth as Sally turned to her daughter-in-law. "It'll be over soon, I promise."

"How long till I give birth?" Annabeth asked. "I'm terrified Sally, how long do I have before I go into panic?"

"You don't have to go into panic." Sally calmed her down as she knelt in front of Annabeth. "You've still got about up to 12 hours after your water breaks. If you can't handle it, we can ask Vinnie to deliver."

"Is that normal?" Annabeth asked as the pain jabbed through her back. "It's getting worse."

"It does that sometimes." Sally said. "Why don't you go and sit with Hestia by the fire, maybe she can calm you. I'll wait for the boys."

"No I'll be fine." Annabeth groaned. "I'll be fine. I've been through worse, I don't know why I'm being such a baby about it."

"No, you won't if you don't breathe." Sally told her. "You're being a baby about it because it's your children. Trust me I panicked just as much when Percy came."

A thunder of steps emerged from tunnel as Glen ran out with Rick hot on his heels.

"Close the door, now." Glen yelled as Rick stepped out. Sally slammed it shut without any question.

"What happened?" Sally asked after.

"Annabeth said it was dead." Glen shook his head violently. "It wasn't."

"What do you mean?" Annabeth said. "It's been dead since Christmas."

"Well when I was getting it's spine out-" Glen tossed thre joined piece of vertebrae to Annabeth, who gagged. "-T5, 6, and 7 by the way. The Harpy moved, and it was screaming, and Mr. Riordan took my dagger and stabbed it."

"And Glen decapitated it with a surgical saw." Rick said.

"Better safe then sorry." Glen shrugged. "If at the point where it could move even after I took it's spine out, I had to take all the safety measurements."

"So that's why you ran?" Sally eyed them.

"Okay, get this away from me." Annabeth tossed the bones back as she tried to hold her vomit. "Blood's too much smell for the pregnant lady." She shook her head. "Track it for me would you?"

"On it." Glen said as he went to the kitchen to was the blood off the bones.

Annabeth had been wheeled into the living room where Hestia and Hecate were sitting silently when Glen hopped onto the couch and plugged in the bones into the laptop.

"Glen, why did you take the entire bone?" Sally asked.

"Because the device was built into it Mrs. Jackson. I can't carve it out. This'll have to do." Glen said. "And it's speaking gibberish." Glen sighed as Greek letter showed up on the screen.

Hecate, without being asked to, walked closer and placed her hand on his head once more.

"Thanks." Glen said as he began typing lines of codes. He nearly broke through when Annabeth's hood began to vibrate. "Is that supposed to happen?"

"I think someone's calling." Rick said, and Glen swiped into a different window.

"This is a funny looking phone." Glen jokingly said as he accepted the call.