Yeah. [It's a reactive answer. Consciously, yes he remembers. He makes it a point to always know where Annabeth is, and it's become especially bad over the last couple of years when he recalled a time they weren't together and he'd been...begging her to run away with him? In a house that wasn't theirs with a family that he didn't recognize, he had appeared on her doorstep and begged and she'd turned him away.

He didn't want to lose her. It's for that reason he also holds her hand, grip firm and assuring and also using it to ground himself to reality. He knows what's true. What's true is that his younger sister is sometimes brutal and wants to talk and she had friends and a life and a plan and wouldn't disappear.]

You're lucky I didn't punch back. [It's grumbled and an idle threat but they both know he would never hurt her. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if he ever hit her at all. He thinks about lying, thinks about spinning a story that would satisfy her, but he also knows that she'd see through said-lie, too.] Woke up, no big deal. [So yes. An answer unspoken for a question unasked.] Gonna tell me why you were checking if I was up in the first place?