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xxGroverxx
"Perseus Jackson! Don't you dare!" I smiled as I glanced at my two friends.
Percy and Annabeth had always had a connection that I could never explain. Sometimes Percy knew what Annabeth was feeling when I didn't, and I can read emotions.
When I created the empathy link between me and Percy, I could feel his pain. Every time Annabeth would defend Luke or get lost in a daydream about saving him, Percy would feel an unimaginable hurt that he couldn't understand.
It didn't help that Aphrodite promised to make his love life interesting. He had enough on his plate with the prophecy. He didn't need Aphrodite confusing him by making him think Rachel liked him and sending him to Calypso's island. He didn't deserve any of this!
Even when he was little he had to deal with Smelly Gabe. I know it was to protect him from monsters but what Gabe did was no better. Percy told me about how he used to get hit just because Gabe had lost his poker game. Sometimes he would get mad because Percy couldn't buy his beer for him. Gabe would throw him into the wall then pick up anything he could find; a broken beer bottle, a belt, and sometimes a knife.
Percy's life has never been easy; he always had someone or something holding him back. When he's with Annabeth, he pushes past all those people. He doesn't care about what anybody thinks except Annabeth, and she feels the same.
I couldn't always read Annabeth as much as I could everyone else, but I knew when something was wrong. She would mess with her necklace whenever she was hiding something or when something was wrong. She wasn't always as intimidating as she is now. She used to be a lot like Percy, but by the time she was seven she had been through so much.
When she was six, she fell off her bike and broke her arm. Her dad and step-mom didn't care, and at the time she thought her mom had abandoned her because she didn't care. She didn't know her mom was Athena, or that she was a demigod. She just knew that nobody wanted her. Then when she ran away, she met Luke; the first person to ever actually care about her. I think that's why she thought she loved him, he was the first guy, person at that to actually pay attention to her and care about her.
Then Percy came along. Annabeth's whole attitude and perspective changed. She tried to hate him, but the only thing about him she didn't like was that she couldn't figure him out. Annabeth hates not knowing things, and she just can't figure Percy out. Quite frankly, I can't figure him out either. I can still feel his pain especially when Annabeth wakes up in the middle of the night screaming. He hates it. Percy blames himself for not being able to prevent her from falling altogether. It hurts him so much when all he can do is hold her while she screams for him not to hurt her, to save her.
He tells people his nightmares have stopped, but I know that's not true. He just says that so other people won't worry about him. I asked him about it one day, told him I knew but I wanted to know why he didn't scream and cry out like Annabeth does. He said he doesn't scream, he cries then he wakes up. It hurts him so much but he doesn't want to be a burden. I don't know how or why he thinks that. Maybe because he spent his whole childhood being told by Gabe how useless, weak, and pathetic he was.
Annabeth always said she wanted to meet a guy who wasn't intimidated by her and was willing to listen to her ramble on about architecture. Percy may not understand a word she says, but he listens to her. Percy is nothing like Annabeth, he doesn't plan, or think before he does, but that's his best quality. I've seen him almost get killed protecting people he didn't even know.
"Hey Grover! Come on, me, Percy, you, Jason, Piper, and Thalia are going to the lake!" Annabeth yelled.
"Coming!" I yelled back.
Chuckling I mumbled to myself "Too good for this world."
Author's Note
If you guys want I'll do more chapters with other couples. Tell me which couples to do in the reviews, go now I must.