User blog comment:SayuriDarling/Full first chapter of The Mark of Athena/@comment-3146930-20120601221322/@comment-4517591-20120602031606

I kind of thought of the same thing about Annabeth going off on her own and Percy not wanting to let her go.

But, what I was thinking is that while Frank is trying to convince Percy that the main quest is far more important and that he should let Annabeth go, Percy doen't take this lightly and ignores him. This is where Jason comes in where he also explains the importance of all the seven sticking together and that they shouldn't be seperated. But with tension been high already between these two, things start to heat up into a rough argument than into physical contact.

Jason believing that as his role as leader, his job is to keep everyone in line and focused on the main quest. Percy doesn't take ordrers lightly and argues back saying he could never leave Annabeth alone on a dangerous sub-quest like that and thats when them two battle it out.

If this does happen its ironic because Percy's role was to be the glue for the seven, keeping them together because of his extreme loyalty. But its because of this loyalty he'd choose to go with Annabeth ending up breaking the seven apart himself. I think this is what Juno mean't when she says Annabeth will be a problem during the quest.

Of course this is all speculation and probably only works if Annabeth is not the seventh. Which i've started to believe she isn't.