Disclaimer! I am not Rick Riordan

Chapter One: Percy

And just like that it was over. As I stood on Half-Blood Hill with my arm around Annabeth's waist waving towards the retreating forms of the Roman SUV's with the rest of the campers, I couldn't help but think about how far I've come from the 12 year old boy who barely managed to kill the Minotaur five years ago on the hill I was standing on now. Ever since that moment I've been fighting constantly, and now as the scarred veteran of two wars, I hoped that just maybe there would be a chance for some peace. Annabeth leaned her head on my shoulder.

"You must be thinking about something important, you have that look." She said.

I chuckled, "I'm not like you Wise girl I certainly don't have a thinking look."

"But… What?" She asked, I wasn't able to hide anything from her.

" Just that, it's been so long since me and you had some peace, no titans or giants threatening to destroy the world, I don't know how I'm going to cope."

She took her head off of my shoulder and turned so that she was looking me directly in the eyes.

" You're going to be fine Percy, we're going to be fine," Annabeth said boring into me with her stormy grey eyes, "we're going to tackle peace and our senior year like we would any other problem, together"

I just couldn't help it, I put my hand behind her head and pulled her in for a kiss that certainly made some of the people standing close to us uncomfortable. I pulled away slowly and smiled at her.

"Annabeth Chase do you know how much I love you?" I asked, a little bit out of breath.

Annabeth giggled and pulled be closer, " I think that gave me a pretty good idea."

Then she kissed me again, and in that moment everything that had been hanging over me, guilt over Leo's death, the awkwardness from my conversation with Nico, my uncertainty of the future, it all seemed less important. All that mattered was the blonde haired girl in my arms, and after all we had been through in the past couple months, I thought that nothing could be better than to still be able to hold her.

The rest of the day passed relatively quickly. It was strange, after being at war for so long normal routine seemed weird to me. I taught sword lessons for the younger campers, and to my surprise I didn't know half of the faces in the arena. Apparently in the months that I had been MIA a lot of newcomers had made their way here. Then there was canoeing, normally one of my favorite things, but today I couldn't go anywhere near the boats without thinking of sailing on the Argo II and all the stormy nights we spent keeping sea monsters at bay. After dinner I sat next to Annabeth at the campfire and held her hand as everyone sang songs and roasted marshmallows. We snuck away before the sing along was over to take a slightly romantic walk down the shore. Then I kissed her goodnight and we parted ways to go back to our cabins. I changed in a pair of pajama pants and a plain white t shirt and then promptly passed out on my bunk. I thought I might get a break from the nightmares now that the war was over. Boy was I wrong.

Authors note:

This is my first story on here so please feel free to share your opinions about it or what I should write about in here next. I will try to update as often as I can, but school is rough so, we will see.