Annabeth would never had guessed that someone as insignificant as Percy would ever mean so much to her. And now they were going to get married. She looked down at her ring, it was modest yet the most beautiful thing ever. It was a gold band with a diamond surrounded with sapphire gems, an intricate design bounded it together. She remembered when she first met him and when she first saw colors with him.
When she first met him he meant nothing to her but a business partner. Not the most knowledgeable, but definitely intelligent in his own personal way. When she shook hands with him at the very end of their project together she saw something for the first time…something indescribable. And when she looked into his eyes, she knew, she just knew he saw it too. She heard stories from married couples that when you meet your soulmate, the one who will complete you, you color blossom before your eyes. They also said it was the most beautiful thing you'll ever see. The first thing she noticed where his eyes, they were mesmerizing, beautiful, she felt that she could drown in them, yet she couldn't quite describe them for she knew not the color associated with them.. He looked at her stunned, then they both started looking around, seeing color. When they finally released hands the colors seemed duller, faded, but still barely there. And she also knew, she just found her soulmate.
She was doing her daily routine when she finally got home. It was pouring outside, she could barely see anything outside. She waited for Percy to eat dinner with so they could discuss their wedding further. She started to set everything she found on her laptop and whatever she found in paper. She looked through the wedding dresses on the magazines. She looked down at her ring wanting to gaze at those beautiful colors and their promise to be together, not one to express her sentiments loudly, she had a small smile on her face. She lost it when she saw she could not see the colors. She looked around desperately. No colors were present, as if they were never there for the first time. If she wasn't so confused and scarred she would have noticed there was significantly greyer than before she met Percy. But now all she could notice was the colorless room. She immediately reached for her phone and dialed Percy immediately. He didn't pick up, matter of fact it sent her straight to voice mail. She knew he wouldn't pick up but that didn't stop her from trying again. She started to panic. She remembered the old widow living down the street, Mrs. Valdez, once telling her that she had too seen color. She said when she wasn't with her husband the colors turned dull until he died, they turned back to black and white, with significantly more grey. Like her, the colors were black, white, and significantly greyer.
She didn't sleep all night, and Percy didn't come home. She kept calling Percy every half-hour and it always sent her to voicemail. She wanted to throw the gray object onto the white walls but knew better than that, her Seaweed Brain might call her. She'd yell at him for worrying her and color would come back, this dread she felt would leave and she would be happy even though she would be yelling at him. She looked around at the white, black and prominent gray surrounding her. She received a phone call after hours of waiting, she quickly answered even when she didn't recognize the caller ID.
"Hello, is this Annabeth Chase?"
"Yes, who is this?'
We need you to come quickly to the hospital…"
When Annabeth finally reached the hospital she noticed the sterile coldness emitting from the place. She saw the white walls and black carpet as she reached the reception. She mumbled her name and asked for Percy Jackson. When the doctor came out he looked at her with pity, she didn't need his pity, and she needed his answers.
"I'm sorry to tell you Ms. Chase…" he started, but she knew what he was going to say, that her Fiancée Percy Jackson was dead. She didn't cry, she was too numb for that. She needed to see him, she begged the doctor to let her, but he refused her, instead saying he was giving the body to his family. That stung more than it should have, giving that she was in a numb state. She was his family too.
"His mother," she gasped out, "His mother is still alive."
They put in contact with Sally, Percy's mom. She wept for her dead son, she would come there and arrive in late afternoon for her son.
The day of the funeral had finally arrived, Annabeth got home and cried, she didn't know what else to do. She got rid of all the wedding plans and everything she could find of it, all except the ring, her ring. She snuck into the room that held the casket since no one but family was allowed. She was not considered family, she was in enemy ground. Or that's what they said, they were not meant to be together but they were soul mates. The event was a closed casket, his body had been damaged from the car accident. She opened the casket and touched his face, dull colors came back. She wanted him to open his eyes and stare at her with those piercing blue-green eyes. But he didn't, he never would, he was gone, he left her alone, like everybody else. She closed the casket and snuck back into the reception, nobody even noticed she was gone. She was going to marry him for crying out loud! The only one who approved was Sally, she loved her son so much. She looked down at the ring she was never going to take off. It was modest yet the most painful thing ever. It was a gray band with a white stone surrounded with black stones, an intricate design bounded it together.
A/N Prompt: AU where everything is black and white until you meet your soulmate. When your soulmate dies the world goes black and white. What if they are having a normal day at work or running errands but then everything goes black and white.