I think I am the only one in the whole world who can say my life so far was really derailed. I fought for Olympus in the Titan war and helped to win the war with Gaia, but after that I was finally able to relax a little and have a good time with my lovely girlfriend Annabeth. Having been in the centre of two wars between gods settled me and Annabeth financially for life.
We had a very nice house in central New York together, she had an important job at an architecture office and I had enough time to spent on my training and love for my car. The training was the result of the old days where I had to be ready to fight the gods little problems and do their bidding. Luckily the reward ceremony in the throne room after we defeated Gaia freed me of this burden. After turning down immortality once again I decided that I didn't want to be an active part of that world anymore. The gods of Olympus lost their right to interfere with my life and left me happy and together with Annabeth. But I had a feeling when I walked out of the throne room that day. That this isn't the last I'm going to see or hear from Olympus. One day my days as a teenager will come back to me and beat me like I am a piece of armour on Hephaistos' anvil. And dear Gods, for the first time of my life I was right.
Looking back on my time with Annabeth I saw so many happy pictures. A bridge in Paris, looking at the skyline of Beijing, having one of our picnics in the middle of the Caribbean looking at the sunset and many more. But after 20 long years of happiness it came crashing down when she was diagnosed with an untreatable cancer. With her death I lost something of myself. A vital part that has been there since she kissed me underneath that volcano many years ago. I became antisocial, neglected to contact my friends and lost the colour in my life. Everything that I did had a dirty grey colour, not the brilliant grey from her eyes I loved to see every morning. I slept on the couch for weeks after realising my Wisegirl would never come back. I never showered, i never reacted to anybody and I only thought about everything that made her such a wonderful person to have lived with. And with a sad smile on my face and salt tears trickling down my face I fell asleep. A sleep from which I hoped I would never wake up again.