Hope you like it. It's been a while since I wrote a PJO fic. I might write some more if all goes well.
Falling For The Sake of Her
I wouldn't let myself let her fall alone. I wouldn't let her. We had just reunited from being separated for months. I wasn't going to let her leave me, even if it meant falling her to the depths of hell, which is actually where'd land once we reached the end.
I didn't mind. As long as she was with me, safe…or should I say alive, I would gladly walk through Tartarus, broken and beaten.
I caught her storm eyes, they were brimming with unshed tears. Her face was giving me a look: What the hell are you doing?!
I smiled. Despite large pieces of rubble falling around us, I smiled. Despite falling to our possible deaths, I smiled. Despite the hanging possibility of never seeing everyone we knew and loved on us, I smiled.
I didn't care. I was with her now, after months of straightening out my memory while fighting up north. I was talking to her, listening to her, seeing her. I held her close to me over these few days, not wanting to be separated. But I broke that unsaid promise. I wasn't able to stop her from breaking her leg.
I wouldn't let her go. Not this time. Not ever.
There was a hint of fear on her confused face. My smile turned from a Joker grin to a small, warm smile. I held out my hand to her. She was gonna take it, but pulled her hand back, holding it to her chest
"Percy," she said. There were layers tones in her voice I couldn't decipher, but I heard her fear cracking through.
I kept smiling. "We're gonna be fine, alright?"
"How do you know?"
I reached farther out to her. "Just trust me Annabeth."
I held out my hand and watched her slowly reach out to me Annabeth looked up to me with those storm grey eyes I loved. Even all bloody and broken, I still thought she was beautiful beyond compare.
"Alright Seaweed Brain."
"Alright Wise Girl."
Once I felt her fingers graze over mine, I immediately interlocked our hands together. And I didn't have plans to let go anytime soon.