Annabeth

I lay on the beach leaning against Percy's chest. It was a wonderful morning, with a small breeze rolling over Camp Half Blood. Percy was occupied playing with my hair, which kind of got me out of focus, cause I was reading an architecture book which was really interesting. All I really wanted was to turn my face and kiss him, but I resisted the temptation. We had got up earlier just so we could sit on the beach and cuddle with each other.

It had gone 2 months since we defeated Gaea. The camp had slowly made progress with building up the damaged buildings, which was me and my siblings work, the children of goddess Athena. Since the war with Gaea had ended it had been extremely calm. No monsters for weeks, except for two empousais which the children of Apollon scared away with a ton of arrows. It was kind of weird to not fight any monsters when it was the thing we demigods did most of our time. But it was nice to not need to fight all the time.

Now all I could think about was to be with Percy. When we didn't do our daily routines we hang out. We often walked at the beach and talked. Mostly our thoughts would go to Leo, discussing if he was alive or not. We had hopes for him, I mean, he has the ability to control fire. Isn't he supposed to survive an explosion then? But as more time flew away the smaller our hopes became. If he came back he was going to be the hero of the camp. He had sacrificed himself just to defeat Gaea, which was in my opinion the most heroic thing I have ever seen.

"What are you gonna do today?" Percy asked while playing with one of my blonde locks. I closed my book and took his free hand in mine.

"Some sword training I think, then I must continue working on the blueprints for the camp." I answered and stroke the back of his hand with my thumbs. "There is not much left, but so much that I would like to improve."

"Like what?" he asked and smiled that heart melting smile that always got me.

"When did they paint the Big House last time? And the porch looks like it will fall apart when Chiron is walking on it!"

Percy laughed and I could feel my body soften when I heard the sound of the laugh. He kissed my right cheek and putted his arms around me.

"You and your ideas Wise Girl, I love them."

I couldn't resist the temptation anymore. I turned my body in his grip and kissed him. His lips tasted sea and salt, or more like home and safety for me. I could have stayed that way forever, his lips against mine, but we got interrupted by a familiar voice.

"Guys, get a room or something! Not even the ocean can cool you down."

Jason Grace, son of Jupiter which is the roman version of Zeus, was walking in our direction. He smiled a crooked smile that made the scar on his lip stretch. I and Percy sat up to the position we were in before, me resting my head on his chest while he had his arms around me.

"What are you doing up so early?" Percy asked.

"Couldn't sleep, so went for a walk to clear my mind."

"Having nightmares?" I wondered. It wasn't a secret that demigods had nightmares, but it wasn't often you heard Jason having nightmares.

"No, but I just can't stop thinking about Leo." He admitted. Since Leo sacrificed himself Jason had acted really strangely. Piper, his girlfriend and my best friend, was worrying so much about him that even I was concerned. Because of what the great prophecy said: To storm or fire the world must fall, Jason thought the war could have ended differently. Jason was storm and Leo fire, and it was Leo that defeated Gaea, which means fire was the victorius. Jason thinks that he too could have done something, just so that Leo wouldn't have died, so he is blaming himself.

"Seriously Jason, it wasn't your fault. You can't change a prophecy." Percy said as comfort.

"I know, but I feel bad for not helping him more than I did."

I felt sorry for Jason, cause I kind of understood what he meant. The only problem was that I didn't know what to say. There was nothing that could help him, other than time or that Leo magically would appear from nowhere.

"I'll go and check Piper, she should be awake now. See you at breakfast." He said with his hands I his pockets while walking in the direction were the cabins where. We watched as our friend walked away, leaving only sorrow behind.