Something Blue

Disclaimer: Everything belongs to Uncle Rick. Except this plot.

Sequel to Since We First Met

Annabeth POV

Since Percy popped the question, everyone has been asking me what I'm going to wear or where we are going to have the ceremony and re ception, or if I've picked a dress. No one but Piper knows that we haven't even set a date yet.

Lately, I have been finding comfort by the sea. It reminds me of Percy and the sound smells like sea water and at night the Empire State Building glistens in the far off distance. I have always considered Camp- Half Blood home, but Percy wants to move to New Rome and help Reyna, because Frank and Hazel moved to New York to help stop the maze from moving across America. All the gods have been buzzing. All they seem to want is an invite to our wedding.

Even Hera is being civil towards me. Reyna thinks that she has to because she is the goddess of marriage and the home. I haven't stepped in any cow dung piles in front of my feet lately. Once, when I got back from the climbing wall, there was a peacock sitting on my bed in the Athena cabin. We had to send it to the Brooklyn Zoo because Festus tried to eat the bird.

Percy has been so involved in New Rome, that it seems like he is praetor again. There is a vote coming up and I am worried that someone will nominate him because he has done so much. I want to stay here, but I know that he wants to move to New Rome and go to college and have kids there.

I have been praying to my mom for guidance and I even burned the weave that Arachne had made of Percy and I. She hasn't even sent a sign. Percy doesn't even seem to notice me anymore. I have even prayed to Aphrodite about it. She sent me a vision of when we met in Virginia and she said to me that she would make my love life interesting. Lately, I have been wondering if this is what she meant.

Three Months Later: The Praetor Elections

Today is the prator's vote. Reyna is staying in office, but Percy was nominated. Everyone came up to me and told me congratulations, but it was harder and harder each time to face Percy because he looked so happy. The whole place became quiet when Frank and Reyna came out onto the podium.

"I Frank Zhang, Son of Mars, have chosen to retire from the legion and move to New York to help Hazel Levesque, Daughter of Pluto and Apprentice of Hecate, watch the development of the labyrinth , and eventually stop it."

Then Reyna steps in to give her speech. The Romans are very formal with everything. "I am sorry to see you go Frank Zhang, Son of Mars. You did a great service for the legion against Gaea. Thank you for your service." Then the whole place erupts with applause for Frank.

"Now, onto see who will fill Praetor Zhang's spot. Our selections are Percy Jackson, Nico di Angelo, and Rick Garter. You have all casted your votes. The new praetor is Percy Jackson. We all know of the greatness he did for our legion an for the world. I know you will all accept him and his wife to be Annabeth Chase, Daughter of Athena, they will both be moving to New Rome. And great news, they have decided to have their wedding here."

That did it for me. I didn't know how Percy could just abandon his heritage and his home, just because he was elected to be ladder of the amp. He was already the leader of Camp Half-Blood. I go to the guest houses and grab my stuff and some weapons and call my dad asking him to get a plane ready because I was going to D.C. I had an apartment there that I owned so I could go there and speak at Georgetown when I needed to. Percy doesn't know about, no one does except for my dad, but he swore that he wouldn't tell anyone, including Percy. It is my safe haven, and that's exactly what I need right now.

The guyI thought I knew has abandoned everything I thought he stood for. Before I leave, I take the ring off and leave it on the bed without a note. I will be in D.C. before he even gets back to the house because the Romans party for 10 hours afterwards. I know that he will be heartbroken, but he can have a relationship with Reyna if he wants to be a Roman. I don't want to be in New Rome. I know that people will think I overreacted, but he never once asked what I wanted.

The thing that hurt me the most, was hi moving our wedding to California because since I was 7, I had always dreamed of having my wedding at camp. I always thought that he had by interests and thoughts at my heart. My mother was right, you can ver trust anyone related to the Sea God.

After the Party: Percy POV

I have never partied so hard in my life. I did not see Annabeth at all throughout the party. I figured that she had gone to bed. I couldn't wait to tell her that Reyna had received permission from her mom to have our ceremony at the Temple of Bellona. I knew that Annabeth would be excited because she loved the temple.

I open the door to our bedroom to find it empty and on the foot of the bed is her ring. There is no note and I go look in the closet and none of her stuff is there. I take one look at her ring and run out of the house to the Pegaus stalls and grab Blackjack and fly to her father's house to ask him where his daughter is.

All I am able to think about is that she left me and didn't talk to me at all. That ring was from my father. She shouldn't have been able to take it off unless sh wasn't in love me me anymore. Dad had enchanted it so that she could never lose it. It meant one thing to me, Annabeth doesn't love me.