Percy POV

The sun beating down on my back, I sat beside Annabeth on the sand. It was her idea, a vacation away from Camp, away from the painful memories, and away from the gods.

It's a few weeks after Apollo totally interupted my mostly normal life (at least that's what I tell myself) with a demigod, Meg, and low-key forced me to drive them to Camp Half-Blood.

My girlfriend Annabeth returned to Long Island two days ago, and immediately declared we were going on a well deserved vacation as far away as we could afford that very day.

Scotland.

We asked a few of our friends if they wanted to come, and ended up with a pretty good crew of Nico, Hazel, Frank and Reyna, with Will hopefully joining us later today.

I actually chose the exact location. It's usually really cold apparantly, but we were either extremly lucky or the gods took pity on us and now there's next to no wind. I chose a small coastal town named Lossiemouth. When I first told Frank my choice, he blinked and said "Flossiemouth?"

I cracked up.

Annabeth nudged me. "Percy?"

I turned to look at her. "Yeah?"

"Not that I don't love hanging out here with you, but we should really go back to the apartment. Will should be arriving soon."

I stared back out to sea. "Give me a moment, you go ahead."

She smiled and kissed me quickly on the lips. "Love you. Don't be long."

"I won't.

I watched her as she walked back over the sand to a small footbridge across the river. The beach was actually a little island, with a lot of large sandunes and a whole ton of seagulls. I swear, most of the population here consisted of these irritating birds.

I had a sudden powerful urge to get in the water. Standing up, I walked forward in a trance-like state. Or maybe I was just tired. My feet reached the frothy white edges of the sea.

I kept walking until I was about waste deep. Without my powers, my gorgeous brand new light blue and orange shorts would of gotten soaked. I did however get some strange looks.

Oh well.

I moved a little further, then dove. My eyes wide open, I started to relax. I was in my own territory now.

I was safe.

I couldn't have gone more than 20 feet down when I heard a voice.

"My son..."

Oh gods. Not again.

Hey guys!

Super short start to this certian story (try saying that 5 times fast) but I promise this is just an introduction and it will get longer.

I'm fairly new here, and this is indeed my first fanfiction I've ever shown to anyone, let alone posted on the internet.I hope you enjoyed it.

Just to clear a few things up before this gets REAL, in this story Sirius stays alive. It takes place from the second half of the fifth year at Hogwarts through whenever I choose to finish it. And yes, the time zones are completely messed up.Just roll with it :)

I don't have an updating schedule. Hopefully once a week? Depends on my homework and general free time.

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Bean