Road to Recovery: Phase 1

Chapter 1

Flashbacks Part 1

(I don't own the Harry Potter or Percy Jackson series they are all JK Rowling and Rick Riordan, sadly. But to be honest if they belong to me it would be horrible. So I'll stick to fanfic.)


Time:Unknown, Place:Unknown

"Ugh", a raven haired teen groaned.

Slowly he opened his eyes and they revealed sea green eyes. He got up and looked around realizing he was in a familiar place. He flopped back on the bed and closed his eyes, he concentrated on trying to remember what happened.

-Flashback-

A dirty, beaten and bruised Percy Jackson came up the hill. When he reached Thalia's Tree he placed a hand on the tree and whispered I'm back.

Percy was planning on proposing to his Wisegirl and to get Athena's blessing he had to do the 12 labors of Hercules. Now he was back and was ready. Well maybe not completely ready, he hasn't had a shower in about two months.

'Maybe I should go get cleaned up.', Percy thought has he finally realized how horrible his B.O. was.

On his way to Cabin 3, he had looks of pity and sadness thrown hate him. The thought of being able to finally marry the girl of his dreams caused the two time Saviour of Olympus to not notice the looks.

After about a hour of a much needed hot shower, he was ready. Percy was sporting a dark sea green dress shirt, black pants and sea green tightrope. He was going to do it. He was going to marry the one and only Annabeth Chase.

After about two minutes of walking, Percy realized that he didn't know where she was. Percy walked to the Athena Cabin and knocked on the door. After a while, a young girl about the age of seven opened the door. Her grey eyes looked at Percy and she immediately got a pitiful look in her eyes.

"Um, your Percy right?", the girl questioned.

"Yes um is Malcolm here?", Percy asked, shifting from one foot to the other nervously under the gaze of the girl.

"Yes, I'll get him for you." Turning around she entered the cabin and returned with Malcolm.

Once the girl left, Malcolm turned to Percy. "It's good to see you again Percy. So what do you need?", he was fidgeting and was looking everywhere but knew that if he looked at Percy, he wouldn't be able to keep quiet.

Percy noticed the strange behavior but didn't question it. "Well, I was wondering if you knew where Annabeth was."

"Um, she's on the beach.", Malcolm managed to get out without stuttering. Percy made a move to go but Malcolm' s voice stopped him. "Percy, when you get on the beach you might not like what you see. I just thought you should know." Percy looked back to ask Malcolm what did he mean but all he was Malcolm retreating back into his cabin. 'Well that was strange.', Percy thought as he headed to the beach.

He saw a blonde girl giggling and figured it was probably an *Aphrodite girl. He was about to turn and leave until he heard, "Annabeth, when are you going to dump that loser Jackson."

Percy stopped dead in his tracks. Maybe he had heard wrong, maybe it was someone else. Until he heard a voice he knew to well. "I'll break up with him after he gets back from that quest, Jackie poo."

Crouching down, Percy moved further down the beach towards the noise. From behind a bush he looked at the two. They were in a full blown make out session. And when he meant full blown it included groping each other and not that much clothes one. Percy knew who the guy was, Jack Peters, a cocky Ares boy who wasn't that great of a fighter. The water from the ocean started to rise and stir forming a giant wave, the ground was shaking lightly but started to increase and the **pegasus started to stomp their hoofs and whine.

The shaking of the ground caused them to fall off each other, then the pegasus came running in and finally the wave crashed on them and kept them there for a few minutes. By then all the campers and Chiron had came to see what had happened.

Percy eyes turned completely black and he started to levitate above the ground. Everyone stopped and looked at him some in fear, some in awe and some in curiosity. When he opened his mouth, he spoke in a different voice, "How dare you? After everything we've been though, you just throw it away. How could you? Answer me."

Annabeth found herself unable to answer. The voice sounded nothing like Percy' s. The voice was deep and wasn't shouting, it spoke in a deadly calm tome. She wishes that he would shout, it would have been better than this. Taking a deep breathe she managed to stutter out, "It-t-t' s just I-I-I t-thought.." Before she could finish, she was cut off.

"You thought. What, you thought that since I was gone you could cheat. Do you know why I was on the quest?", seeing her shake her head he continued, "I went so I could propose but I guess I was stupid to believe that you loved me. Here take the ring maybe your boyfriend could use it." With that Percy was lowered back to the ground. His eyes turned back to their normal state. His eyes were full of betrayal, hurt and defeat. She made a move to him but Percy just stepped back. He took out the little box from his pocket and threw it on the floor. He turned away and ran.

He ran to his cabin and took everything he had. He ran to the border and said goodbye. He ran home and right into the arms of the only person he knew loved him. He ran to his mom.

-Flashback ends-

Now he remembers, he wishes he didn't.


*No offense to Aphrodite or her children.

**A question: Are multiple pegasus called pegasus or pegasi?