I walked around camp with a grin that hasn't been absent from my face since all my designs came to life. After the war, we had an influx of new demigods and the need for more cabins became the number one priority. Not just expansion on the current ones, the Athena cabin alone had another level added to it, but also for new minor gods who claimed long time unknown campers.

All of this was because of Percy.

It still blew my mind that he gave up being a god to help everyone else, but the biggest thing that came from the decision was to stay with me. Me. He gave up immortality for me.

"Hey Wisegirl," His voice broke me out of my zoned out state. Noticing this, his lopsided grin broke out over his face. "Come on, you're daydreams are going to make us miss our reservation." I smiled back at him and took his outstretched hand.

"Wisegirl?" Percy's concerned voice drifted through the bathroom door. "Are you alright?"

Taking a deep breath, I released the vice grip I had on the sink and steeled myself before I opened the wooden barrier that stood between me and my worried boyfriend. When I did, I was met with the top of a mop of very messy black hair, its owner leaning against the frame clad only in his fish boxers.

Percy looked up when the door opened, pulling me into his arms and pressing me into his chest. I hid my face in the crook of his neck which is about as far vertically I could reach on him ever since his growth spurt. "Is everything ok?" He murmured gently into my ear.

Taking his hand, I brought him to our bed. Percy sat down, slumping over almost like a kid who got pulled out of class by the mean teacher. He took my free hand in both of his until I handed him the small plastic wand that occupied my other hand.

Percy stared at the test for a long time. I wasn't quite sure how I wanted him to react. Realistically I knew he wouldn't be mad, it wasn't in his nature, but that didn't keep the butterflies from having a rave in my stomach.

I stared at my fingers as they fiddled with their counterparts between my folded legs. Suddenly two arms wrapped around my midsection and pulled me down to the mattress. Percy's grinning face filled my vision. "I'm gunna be a daddy?" He chuckled a moment. "I'm gunna be a daddy Annabeth!"

Laughing with him was more out of relief that I felt bad about even having, there's no way Percy would have been mad and even less of a chance of him leaving me; he was just too...Percy. "You're excited?"

"Of course I am," He calmed down, running rough but soft fingertips over my temple to brush stray strands of hair out of the way. "I love you Annabeth and this little baby growing inside of you," To emphasize his point, Percy ran a hand over my still flat stomach. "I've never been so happy."

"I have been." The new voice startled the both of us. Percy rolled off me and I sat up, gulping at the sight in front of me.

"Mother," I gasped, my lungs burned from the sudden inability to take in oxygen. "What are you doing here?"

"You know full well what I'm doing here," The raven haired goddess held out her hand which glowed for a second. When the light disappeared, the pregnancy test that had been cast off to the side when Percy tackled me appeared in her hand. "Care to explain this?"

"Well it's plastic which is a byproduct of petroleum production-" I stopped talking when my mother sent me a death glare.

"Explain how you got pregnant at nineteen!" She exclaimed in exasperation, her fist tightening around the object so hard her knuckles turned white.

Uncharacteristically, I cowered back into Percy's arms, if there was one thing I hated it was disappointing her. "I'm sorry mother-"

"Sorry!" She interrupted me for the second time with the shrill exclamation. "None of my children have been foolish enough to get pregnant before marriage and you are suppose to be my brightest Annabeth. I got you the architectural job of your dreams and this is how you repay me, by getting knocked up by this...this...sea spawn!"

For most of her rant I sat in my boyfriend's arms, unresponsive as I waited for my turn to speak again but when she finished the last sentence, I lost it. "Mother!" I stood to her surprised expression, shocked that I would interrupt or defy her but as far as gods go, she was the one that needed a reality check the worst.

Percy reached forward to take a hold of my wrist but I was beyond being calmed. "Percy is no sea spawn, he is the only person that's really cared about me because you, dad, or anyone one else certainly didn't. This is our child and I'm going to make sure it's raised in a loving family with or without you."

After delivering my own rant, I stomped over to Percy's dresser to pull on a pair of sweatpants and one of his button up plaid shirts on over the tank top and basketball shorts I wore to bed. Shoving more of them into a bag, I turned to find my boyfriend already fully dressed with a pack of his own slung over his shoulder. "Emergency quest supplies." He explained, offering me a smile and a hand.

I smiled back at him, relieved he was willing to go with me and go against my mother but then again, if there was one thing he loved more than me, it was pissing off my mother. Finally snapping out of her shock, Athena called my name. "No mother," I looked at her over my shoulder from the front door sadly. "This time, you've gone too far. I'm having this baby far away from this world with no monsters, gods or anything. You've lost your opportunity to be in our life."

Several campers that were near us stopped to see what was going on, many of them recognizing my mother and curious to why the goddess was at camp. I heard murmured questions about what we were talking about and they started my blood boiling.

Percy, who had stopped at the last step to wait for me took my hand as I descended the few steps that led up to his cabin. He rubbed slow circles into the back of my hand as he brought me to where the faded blue Ford pickup was parked. Percy was so proud of the old car; he paid for it with money he got from hauling wood for a lumbering company and fixed it up.

Tossing our two bags into the back seat, he started the car and we started down the dirt road to our new lives.

We had been on the road for nearly an hour before Percy spoke up, trying to read a map of the United States even though it was upside down. "Where are we going Annabeth?"

I simply smiled at him instead of correcting, I was actually enjoying the thrill of telling my mother off and running away. Sure I've run away before but I was seven then and I was close to dying, this time, I was free to go anywhere. "I have a pretty good idea."

Percy glanced over the top of his map. "Care to share?"

"If you paid any attention in Chiron's classes I wouldn't have to." Smirking at the empty highway in front of me, I reached over to point in the middle of his paper.

"And I thought you knew me better then to think I could concentrate on Chiron's lesson with you sitting next to me." He countered, flashing me a crooked grin.

"It wasn't a question, now listen. In ancient Greece there was a tribe that worshiped Gaia. Gaia supposedly favored the village and cast a spell over them, an ancient spell that protected them from a lot of monsters; the village wasn't attacked very often."

"Then like Mount Olympus and the Underworld..." Percy trailed off, grinning down at his map.

"It moved." I finished for him with a nod. "Chiron sent the Party Ponies to check it out and they found the general location."

"Sweet, so it will be like monster free?"

"Almost, maybe a hell hound or something small now and then, but nothing we can't handle."

"How do you know all this?" My black haired companion asked in awe.

"I payed attention!" I laughed at his scrunched up face. "Chiron had the Party Ponies stay for a few years to round up info on the place."

"Oh." He said with his stupidly cute pout. Percy reached over to take my hand, his expression changing in an instant too excited. "This is going to be great, just you watch. We'll use the money we've saved to rent an apartment and, hey you can start that architecture business you've wanted. I'll get a job and eventually I'll be able to treat you to a proper wedding."

"Perseus Jackson, are you asking me to marry you?" Watching his flustered reaction out of the corner of my eye tickled my funny bone too much to keep all my laughter in and it all came out in a long fit of bubbling giggles.

Percy pouted again. "Not funny, I want to treat you like you deserve Annabeth because you deserve everything."

Immediately feeling guilty for laughing at him, I gave my boyfriend's hand a squeeze. "It's sweet of you to care so much, me and this baby are in good hands with a daddy like you."

"Oh gods," Percy leaned back into the leather seat. "I'm going to be dad. What if they don't like me? What if I'm a horrible father?"

I rubbed my thumb over his knuckles. "Oh Percy you know that isn't and won't be true. Whatever happens you're the father and he or she will love you because you're a great dad...or they'll just deal with you like I do."

Percy laughed, taking my hand to kiss the top of it. "I love you Wisegirl."

"You're alright I guess."

"Annabeth..." He groaned, deflating against the car seat, pulling my hand over his face.

"I love you too, my drama queen."