Hey guys!

So I've updated the first chapter and this is the final one, I promise! Please read it again to read some important details.

have you already read MOA?! OH MY GODS, IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.

Also, I can't update frequently anymore due to school and stuff so sorry!

you might be able to get an update by tuesday/Wednesday!

Thanks all for your patience, it really means a lot!

Lots of love,

J xx

Annabeth POV

I've been nervous for the past three hours. Percy and I are gonna have our first date after 2 months of separation.

We tried our best to keep this long distance relationship to work but it's really not the same when you compare video chatting to actually making out with him.

He's in New York studying at New York University in a swimming scholarship as a Marine biologist. I'm here at Harvard, Boston on a full academic scholarship studying Architecture. I also applied in Yale, MIT, Stanford and other Major league schools, and being the Athena child I am, I passed all of them.

I looked around my dorm. You know those cool dorms in shows like Zoey 101? Well that my friend, is pure Hollywood baloney. Light blue wall paper, 2 double deck beds, one dresser and a few posters of... who was that again? Tom Dayley? My dorm was pretty bleak other than his face.

When I video chatted with Percy 2 weeks ago, he saw the poster and frowned. He joked about me having a new seaweed brain.

I look at my 19 year old self in the mirror.

My blond hair was pulled back in a quick bun and I was wearing an old pair of skinny jeans, a blue top under my Harvard hoodie, and to finish it off, my signature red Converse.

Someone knocked on the door and I basically just panicked. I almost fell head over heels to the door. I was hoping to see a 6'2" guy with short croppy black hair, soft kissable lips and eyes so green it reminds you of the sea.

I open the door and only have so little control left to not shut it immediately and be rude as much as i want to. I saw a woman, no older than 26, who had jeans and a sweatshirt on, and a perfect and flawless face with piercing gray eyes that make you feel she hiding something. Just like mine.

"Athena." I say emotionlessly to my mother.

"Well? Aren't you going to let your mother dear in?" she says with distaste on the word 'mother'. I hesitantly let her in.

"What do you want?" I ask with an edge in my voice as she takes a seat on my bed. "What a filthy place to live." she says with disgust.

"What do you want?" I ask again, softer this time. "Well visiting my daughter, of course!" she says with loathing on the word 'daughter'.

"So what are your plans tonight? Going to work your brain dead in the library again to perfect all your school work, I suppose" Ugh. My mother and her stupid expectations. She always expects me to be as smart as her.

"No. Actually, I'm going on a date." I say with a bit too much pride in my voice.

"Ah, you mortals and your stupid deeds. At least tell me it is not Posiedion's child." she replies. I don't answer. My mother hates Percy. Really.

"I see. When will you realize that he is no good for you?" she asks. "I love him with all my soul. There's nothing any if your godly powers can do about it." I reply, anger starting to stir in me. "

"Why do I even try?" she asks rhetorically.

"Anyways, of to why I'm here. How are the plans for Olympus going?" she continues.

"I've already finish the design. I just need to add a few things and finalize it."

"Alright, I'll see you soon for the final design." and with snap of her finger, she's gone.

I calm myself and fix my hair again.

I sit impatiently on the bed again for 19 more minutes when I hear someone knock. I get up, my hopes lowered, and reach for the door. Once I've open the door, I scream my lungs out.

Percy POV

I run around the dorm building, navigating myself through the different rooms looking for Annabeth's.

It's been nearly two months since I went here, so, being the Seaweed Brain I am, I almost forgot about this place completely. I'm also thirty minutes late and I know Annabeth is going to kill me.

I run past a trophy case and see my reflection. I'm wearing old khakis, my purple NYU shirt and my old sneakers. My black hair was choppy and looked like a mess.

I was about to turn right when I heard a screech from my left and I almost stoped in my tracks. 'Annabeth' I thought.

I quickly turned around and to the voice. I slam open the door where the screech came from.

On the bed, Annabeth was weighed down, helpless and crying.

MY Wise Girl looked so helpless I wanted to breakdown myself. On top of her was one of the monsters I loathe the most since the orientation at Goode High School.

Empousa.

Alright so if you've never seen empousai, consider yourself lucky. The empousa was in its true form. I had flaming hair, red eyes, pale white skin and fangs. Weirdest of all, it had a bronze leg on one side and a donkey leg on the other.

I run for the empousa and when I'm just about to bring out my sword, Riptide into action it did something I never expected. "Stop." it said with a seductive voice and for some reason, I did.

"Try slashing me again and your friend gets it." she says baring her fangs at Annabeth. "Percy...please." she says in between sobs. I'm at an ultimatum.

If I attack at the monster, I may have a chance to pull Annabeth back. What other choice do I have? How can it be I was expecting a fun night with my girlfriend to this in under a minute?

I quickly thrust my sword into its body but before I can pull Annabeth out of its grasps, it bites me on the arm. It disintegrates and I fall in agony.

Remember the thing about dipping into the River Styx? Well it hurts nearly as much, and with all I've been through, that's saying a lot.

Annabeth rushes to me still sobbing and tries to tend to me. "We need to get you to camp." she says wiping away tears.

"Annabeth, you're.. Okay." I say with a weak smile trying to sound upbeat and reassuring but with every word I say, the pain gets worse.

"I need to call Chiron." she says urgently. "No. We might attract more monsters." I whisper pleadingly, but she either can't hear me or ignoring me. It's probably the latter.

She opens her phone and dials a number. I reach out my hand for hers and she takes it.

"I love you. Always." i mumble.

It's the last thing I remember before everything turns black.

Annabeth POV

Ring Ring. Ring ri-

"Chiron, uh, hey." I say still teary but calmed down.

"Annabeth! Well, I haven't heard from you in a while! What is it?" Chiron says in a fatherly tone. Chiron has always been a second father to me. I've known him for 14 years and I really love him as family. "Percy, he...he," I realize tears are quickly going down my face and soaking it.

"Annabeth, calm down. Now tell me what happened calmly."

So I retell him my story.

From when I opened the door and the empousa tackled me. I honestly wouldn't have chickened out but the empousa told me terrible things about a new prophecy and a child of Athena dying. Then when Percy came out of nowhere to save the day and took the excruciating bite on the arm for me. To him blacking out and me sobbing my eyes out.

"I..just don't know what to do, Chiron." I stutter "Help, please, Chiron." I cry to the phone.

"Oh dear, we need to get Percy here at camp now. I will send Argus there. He will be at your side in five minutes. Annabeth, I need you to make sure that his wound is clean and not exposed" he says with a tone of urgency.

"i will. Hurry, please." I reply before I put the phone down. I take a look at Percy and nearly faint myself. He was turning a sickly white. I put my hand on his neck and forehead and realize he's burning with fever. I take a look at his wound and gag.

His arm was oozing blood and pus and it was just a terrible sight.

I was about to breakdown and cry when i realize I need to be string for Percy and I.

I put my blanket on him and wait the most agonizing 5 minutes of my life.

As i waited, i looked at myself in the mirror. My hoodie and jeans were torn and I have a few bruises. My hair was messed up and matted. My eyes looked angry, shocked and guilty all at the same time but guilt out shone the other two.

Percy is wounded because of me. He could lose his life because of me.

What if Percy hasn't come here? Would I be dead? What did I do to deserve him? I wait forever, and finally someone walks in. But it's someone I really didn't expect.