Percabeth Through the Mist

*DISCLAIMER* as much as i would like to i don't own Anything to do with the Percy Jackson series all rights go to Rick

Hey guys I quite like some of the Percabeth stories were people meet them in real life so here's my attempt at it.

3rd Person POV

A small group of friends sat around a table in Manhattan, an empty pack of coke lay crumpled just off to the side. There was a large amount of laughter coming from the group, and none more so than from a boy with Raven hair. His green eyes were swirling with happiness and joy, his coke can raised high to toast the beginning of the winter holidays. Around him his five friends were also rejoicing alongside him. To his right was Joe, a scrawny kid who had been picked on his whole school life, but never once by the raven haired man. This in turn had made him a better person, someone who was more confident and sociable. It is with Joe that we will begin our tale of people who know Percabeth.

JOE POV

I toasted my can high in the air. Rejoicing in the new found revelation of friendship. I had gone so many years without it, in fact practically my whole life I had spent friendless. I was very lonely as a child, but I managed to find salvation in my books. I liked to picture myself in a different world, one of opportunities where people would like me…..I guess that some higher power does exist, because after one particularly bad day I was contemplating just ending everything. People at school only knew I existed to bully. On top of that my parents were never around, my life seemed pointless.

Then I met Percy, I remember seeing him the first day at Goode. He had that usual jock aura, the strength that can only come with being 'popular', but there was something different about him. He had a depth to him; he seemed to have seen things that no one our age should have. Yet he never let that bother him, he persevered no matter how bad things got. Then he stood up for me.

I was walking down the corridor minding my own business when the 'Jocks' decided I had no need to carry my books anymore. They knocked them out of my hands, and as I tried to stoop down to pick them up, the biggest one grabbed me by the collar and rammed me against a locker. Everyone else just walked by casting their eyes down, ignoring what was going on. I knew that I was going to come home with fresh bruises, so I just closed my eyes and held my breath waiting for the pain to come.

No punches landed, no kicks, no pain. I felt myself drop to the ground, only to be steadied by a pair of friendly hands. I opened my eyes to find the jocks writhing in pain on the floor, and I was looking into the greenest eyes I had even seen.

"Are you okay?" the man with the green eyes asked. I managed to nod numbly in reply. From there he helped me to collect my books and walked me to class, making sure I was alright. I expected that to be the end of it, but later he called me over to sit at his table at lunch. At that point in time there was only one other person, a red head called Rachel. I remember them talking quite adamantly about things I honestly had no clue about, but they kept including me. I began to feel wanted and it truly was a great feeling. Now here I am three years later toasting beside a few very good friends, and it was all due to that raven haired boy with the green eyes.

I looked across at my other friends and saw that they too were all laughing away at some joke Percy was telling. Something about a fish that I didn't really get, he talked about the sea a lot. It seemed that I wasn't the only one who wasn't entirely focussed on the joke. I looked straight across and saw Stacy staring deeply at Percy. I mean who can blame her? She's liked him for as long as I can remember, and is forever trying to flirt with him, but he never notices a thing. He is completely oblivious about girls, but maintains that he has a girlfriend. 'Pfft as if' I thought to myself, as I continued to watch Stacy stare at Percy. I let out a small sigh at this.

I couldn't blame her for liking him and hell I couldn't dislike the guy, I mean who could!? But sometimes I wish it was me who she looked at like that. I remember all the days we sat talking over the year when Percy seemingly disappeared, saying he had 'urgent family business to attend to'. I didn't buy it but I didn't want to press him further, as every time I did he would get a dark look in his eyes and stop talking for a while. Anyway, while he was away Stacy and I would go just to sit and talk about him, then we would scour the internet for any news reports. Oddly enough we found some about him from when he was twelve, and a few that could refer to him but they were from Greece and Italy, no way was that him. For a year we searched for him even though everyone else just seemed to forget. Then he strolled back into school one day as if nothing had happened, but a lot had changed in that year he was gone.

Stacy had fallen harder for Perce, while I had fallen for her. Now we sat here a year on from his disappearing act, acting like completely normal teens. While I sat quietly knowing that we weren't all the same. Stacy and I were changed people from before he left, even if everyone else had stayed the same. The only other one who had changed was Percy, he didn't show it much but there were subtle signs. Like how his smile never quite reached his eyes anymore or how, when he thought that no one was looking, he would get a panicked look across his face. I wouldn't pretend to know that I knew what was going on, because I was fricking stumped. I mean how bad could a family thing really be? Our cheering and laughter was then broken by the sound of the door bell ringing.

"That must be the pizza" I heard Percy say, pushing himself up with his hands, before walking out the kitchen door. There was a slight pause before I heard the door open. I heard a cry of joy and Percy crying out before I heard….a girl laughing? I shared one look with the rest of my friends before we scrambled to make our way out the door, trying to find the source of this 'female' laughter.

I was the first to fall out of the door, literally. I fell flat on my face, as everyone else then piled on top of me. The loud clattering noise didn't seem to break Percy's concentration at all. He continued to stare lovingly at a blonde girl with startling grey eyes. We all stood up and brushed ourselves off, before I coughed to get Percy's attention. Of course by cough I mean throwing a pillow at his thick skull.

That got his attention alright. He turned to us, and gave us a smile that temporarily reminded me of the old Percy before he disappeared. He laughed nervously, and ran one hand through the back of his hair while wrapping the other around the blonde girl.

"Well seaweed brain care to introduce us?" The blonde girl asked looking up at Percy and hitting him playfully on the chest. I looked up expectantly to him, knowing we were all confused by what was going on.

"Well….Umm you know how I always say I have a girlfriend and no one believes me?" Percy asked, continually running his hand through his hair, we all nodded somewhat confused. "Well this is her…Surprise" he said making his hands go all Jazzy. He put one hand tenderly around her waist and brought her over to us. I genuinely had to pull my jaw up; I was so awestruck that he wasn't making the whole girlfriend thing up.

"Hey joe, I want you to meet Annabeth Chase"

Well that's my first chapter I'm going to keep it with Percy's friends for a little while, then move on to other people. Please let me know what you think I don't know whether this was a good idea or not so please review even if you hate it! Also I personally know what it's like going through bullying and other things, so I really couldn't write anything much about what happened to Joe, but I just want to apologise to anyone who was reminded of any experiences they had with bullying, and also say that if you ever need someone to talk to about it with then I am more than willing to try to help. Thanks CNRBRR