"Love you Pipes." A kiss was planted on Piper's cheek, Annabeth heading out the door. "If I'm not home for dinner, I'll iris message you." That was the last thing Piper heard from Annabeth before the blonde went to her work. Piper had the day off, so she looked around for recipes. She was going to make a nice chicken, fresh lemons and sage with it. Piper mumbled grocery lists to herself, scribbling them down in Greek before decided to go to the gym. The drive to Camp wasn't always worth a workout for a few hours, so she simply went to one of the small local gyms nearby.

She clocked in, pushing up the sleeves on her sweatshirt, heading for the weights. She went for the pull up bar, strapping five pound ankle weight to each ankle, with a deep breath she grabbed the bar and pulled her chin above the bar, counting 'one' to herself before repeating it a dozen times before standing back onto the ground, shaking out her arms. She moved a strand of hair from in front of her eyebrow, moving to free weights. Some bulky guy looked her over when she grabbed fifty pound dumbbells.

"You may want to lighten up, those are heavy." The guy remarked, and Piper glanced at him.

"Coming from you, I can see how you think that. 25 pounds is so heavy." She rolled her eyes, moving on with the exercise. She could feel his eyes on her, and as soon as she put the weights away she gave him a smile before ripping the weights from his hands.

"Hey-"

"Focus on your form, you'll pull a muscle." She pushed past him, pulling her keys from her sports bra and walking out of the gym.

As soon as she stepped inside her apartment, she was greeted with an Iris message. Annabeth was contacting her. Her eyes were red and filled with tears, little drops of mascara down her face, tear stains on her cheeks. Her face was blotchy and red, a knife and her throat, shoulders tense. It was like she was captured, and it looked like her office was trashed.

"I'm sorry." She croaked, and the message ended.

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"What do you mean 'where is Jason?'" Piper asked, now in the Big House with a cup of coffee. She left it untouched.

"He wasn't at Camp, was gone overnight. You don't know where he is? Or Annabeth?" Chiron showed worry, hurt. Like he lost a daughter. Piper frowned looking down, a new wave of tears began to pool in her eyes.

"We need to find them both, soon. If this is close to what happened with Hera's plan years ago, this can be bad. Very, very bad." Chiron sighed, rubbing his temples. Piper looked up sharply, standing up.

"Tartarus. She is being taken back to Tartarus! The way she was held, how she was talking to me, how she looked...." Piper trailed off, sitting down dejectedly.

"If that is true, Piper, we need to get yo with some old friends to search for them." Chiron answered, "I will contact Percy and Hazel." He said, turning away to go back to his archery class.

"Thank you, Chiron." Piper squeaked, and Chiron hung his head.

"I want Annabeth safe as well, Piper. I do."

Notes

This is a 9 part fic, hope you enjoy!

~Nova~