Hey Im going to make this quick and hopefully the only one- I will be slow on updating because I do have a life also and this is my first story so comments would be nice
Chapter 1:
The stormy weather outside matched her mood. Annabeth looked out the widow of the motel she was staying at trying not to cry again as thoughts of him seemed to fill her mind. Too late…
FLASHBACK
They were sitting by the lake holding hands and looking out at the sea. Suddenly he started laughing next to her.
"What?" Annabeth asked.
"I was just remembering the look on Clarisse's face when we came out of the water 30 minutes after she threw us in…" Percy trailed off relishing the memory.
Annabeth joined in on his laughter. "Yeah that was shortly before you found yourself at the bottom of the lake again."
"Which, now that you mention it, I cannot look at without wanting to repeat what we did down there"
"Shut up. We may be dating but I can still punch you hard enough to bruise" was my loving reply.
At that moment he looked at his shield/watch, a gift from his brother Tyson, "We should start heading back."
At the foot of my cabin we kissed and I watched him walk away to Cabin 3. Little did I know that that was the last I would see of him.
END FLASHBACK
A sob tore from my throat as I buried my face into the cheap, scratchy pillow. "Oh Percy, where have you gone!" My anguish was absorbed by the pillow but it offered little comfort.
After about an hour of fitful sleep I woke up and turned on the news, painfully hopeful that he would be mentioned somewhere in the top stories. It really isn't that stranger of a thing to be looking for given the fact that on his first quest he was all over the news. Nothing but for the first morning in months I was able to hold strong. That is until the food tray came and I saw a doughnut with blue icing on it. Gods! I am normally not this emotional.
In the next room a man is yelling and down the hall I can hear the happy couple who I literally ran into last night when getting ice. Next to me my phone rings. Half-way through the first ring I pounce on it hoping it is one of the many people looking for Percy. Please tell me they found him. Please tell he he's safe and coming home.
"Hello…" I ask breathlessly.
When I hear the voice my face light up. When I actually hear what the voice is saying I agree with the news- it's going to be a very bad day (granted they were talking about the storms in the Atlantic- probably caused by Poseidon, he had just recently found out that Percy was MIA). I had only gotten half my wish.
"Ohh… okay Thalia. No. No. I'm fine."
"You don't sound fine at all. No, instead you sound like shit" was Thalia's ever so kind reply.
"Really," I said, knowing I do but not wanting to prove her right, "it must be the bad connection that's all you know that-"
"Stop lying to me. I have been your friend for a long time and I know when something is getting to you" Thalia says, effectively stopping my upcoming rant about phone service in the US which would have been full of complementary facts and reliable sources.
"Yeah well….." I trail off looking for a safe topic and wracking my overflowing mind for something she would talk about and leave me alone. Aha! "So how is your brother Thals?"
I had recently found out that our new camper was none other than Thalia's missing brother Jason, a key factor in her running away from home.
"Well he was fine the last time I saw him but you know I'm looking for Percy and he is on his own quest so… Damn! Look Annabeth, as much as I love you, this phone has started to attract monsters but I just really needed to check up on you. Don't worry we'll find him and you know what to do."
I heard the beginning sound of a battle before Thalia hung up but I wasn't really worried, she and the Hunters are able to take care of themselves. I walk to the window with the 6th disposable phone this month dip it in the kerosene and put a match to it. After it is caught I put it in a steal bucket and watch it burn, after it became a crisp I threw it out the window packed my things and left.