Annabeth was in her last year of school at NYU therefore; her school work was getting increasingly harder and more demanding. She was the daughter of Athena after all, so there wasn't any reason for her to be struggling so much. Her architect program now required about a paper a week, plus hands on learning. It wasn't anything she couldn't handle; her thoughts were just in other places. She had a wedding to plan now, since Percy had proposed in September. Ever since then she could only think about becoming Mrs. Jackson, moving into his apartment, and starting her career. She loved her years at NYU but Annabeth was ready to move on. Plus, Annabeth was going to school for a 5th year to earn her masters, this unfortunately meant that Percy had moved 3 hours away after receiving his bachelor's degree to take a job. She missed him terribly. To add on to Annabeth's stress, she had taken an on campus job to help pay for school. Her full ride scholarship did not extend to a 5th year, it had only covered 4… that's what she got for being an over achiever.

As Annabeth made her way up the stairs to her shared dorm she was close to tears. She had tons of school work to do this week. Although, it was spring break and most students would be going home for the break, Annabeth needed to stay on campus for the resource of the library and her job. But she knew the real reason of her stress, it was Percy. She missed him terribly and hadn't seen him since New Year's. He had planned to come up to visit her two weeks ago but Annabeth was only filled with disappointment when Percy had only called to say he wouldn't be able to make it the day before.

Annabeth had been crushed; she knew it wasn't his fault but the only thing that had really been keeping her together had been the thought of seeing him. They talked all the time, but it just wasn't the same. Annabeth worked hard to keep her voice steady when they talked, she didn't want him to think anything was wrong. She just had to suck it up, she would be done with school in May and then they would be together.

Just as Annabeth had settled down in front of her computer to get started on her most recent essay, her roommate Carly walked in. Carly was also working on her masters but in accounting. Although Annabeth viewed Carly as a very good friend and roommate, she wanted nothing more right now than to be left alone.

"Hey Annabeth, I'm going home this week. Did you want to come? My parents love you."

"I really have too much work to do this week, but thanks for the offer."

"Ok, just promise me you won't stay locked up here, like you have for the past two weekends. And I won't be here to make sure you eat, so don't forget."

"I think a can take care of myself for a few days." Annabeth responded halfheartedly.

"Ok then, I'll see you next Monday."

Annabeth was now alone, which only made her think more of how much she missed her fiancé. But just like she had done every weekend since Christmas, Annabeth just poured herself more into her work.

Annabeth had her headphones in, with her writing music on but she had be staring at the computer screen for over an hour with only her heading to show for it.

Percy POV

Percy felt horrible about canceling with Annabeth a few weeks ago, so when found out that he had the weekend off Percy packed his bags and headed off to NYU. He missed Annabeth dearly and it showed as Percy sprinted through the lobby of her dorm.

When he got to the elevator the doors opened and out stepped Annabeth's roommate Carly.

"Percy!" They hugged; Percy had always been fond of Carly. She made sure Annabeth didn't study too much when Percy wasn't able to.

"Hey, Carly it's good to see you! I was just on my way to see Annabeth. Is she upstairs?"

"Yea, she's doing some school work. I asked her to come with me this week to visit my parents. But she hasn't been up to doing much lately. It's good you're here though; she's been kind of depressed ever since you couldn't come the other week.

"I thought she sounded weird on the phone lately." Percy hopped into the elevator, "have a good spring break Carly!"

Carly got in a "You too!" right before the doors closed.

Percy had been missing Annabeth just as much, he couldn't wait to hold her in his arms and take in her sent that he loved so much.

He knocked but there was no reply so he let himself in. His eyes immediately fell to his gorgeous fiancé, whose small but athletic frame was facing the computer with her long beautiful blonde curls draped over the back of her chair. Percy couldn't help but smile.

Percy placed his hands over her eyes, which caused Annabeth to jump and reach for her dagger. He laughed, same old Annabeth. But she stopped herself long enough to feel the hands that were responsible for her temporary blindness. The realization of the owner of these hands hit her and she grabbed them while spinning around to hug the man she had just been sulking about.

Percy chuckled, "looks like someone missed me."

Annabeth's embrace tightened, "well I hope you missed me too."

"You have no idea." They broke apart while their hands remained intertwined and both wore huge grins.

"What are you doing here?"

"Can't I surprise the future Mrs. Jackson?"

"Of course! I'm just really surprised, I didn't see this coming at all."

"A daughter of Athena was caught off guard? Am I talented or what?" Annabeth playfully punched his arm. Percy made his way to sit on the chair in the corner of her dorm while pulling Annabeth to sit on his lap. "I felt really bad about canceling a few weeks ago, and we hadn't seen each other in a really long time. Plus, I didn't feel like it would have been healthy for you to be studying all spring break, which is what you would have been doing had I not shown up," Percy said with a grin.

"I know you find this hard to believe Perseus, but studying isn't a bad thing."

"I beg to differ.

Annabeth sighed as she put her head against his chest.

"What's wrong honey?"

"Nothing, I'm fine."

"I think I know you a little better than that Annabeth, I also ran into Carly. Now what's going on?" Percy said in a stern manner. Percy never liked the idea of moving away for a year but Annabeth had insisted it was necessary for him to get ahead with his career. But that didn't stop him from frequently thinking about moving closer to her and waiting a year for his career.

"I'm just a little stressed right now between school, work, not seeing you, and planning this wedding."

Percy began to play with her hair. "The only thing you need to be worried about is school right now. I told you there's no need for you to be working. I can afford to pay for your tuition. And I can help plan the wedding, I can be creative you know."

"No Percy, school is my responsibility to pay for. We have a wedding to finance and I want to start saving for a house, paying for school just isn't in the budget right now, I can take care of it. And no offense but I have a feeling my stress level would only elevate if you started to help with the wedding plans."

"Hey I deserve more credit than that. I helped pick out the cake!"

"And you did a great job with that, but eating has never really been a problem for you seaweed brain."

"It is one of my many talents….. And I'm just worried you're taking on too much right now, it's not a bad thing to ask for help sometimes. I know you have trouble with that."

Annabeth stood up and crossed her arms, "I am perfectly capable of handling things, Percy Jackson. If the only reason you came here was to point out how I could do things better, than maybe you should leave."

Percy knew he had touched a nerve with Annabeth. To imply any kid of Athena wasn't smart enough to take care of themselves was a bad idea. He stood up too, he hoped the 8inch height advantage he had on her might help his case. "Annabeth you know that's not what I meant, and I personally know that you are more than capable in any and all situations." Percy said this with a smirk as he closed the distance between them and went in for a kiss. It had really been a long time since they last kissed so they didn't cut this one short by any means.

When they broke a part for air Percy handed Annabeth her purse and grabbed her hand. "When we get back from dinner you can show me how truly capable you really are my dear." Annabeth rolled her eyes but smiled, it was just too hard to stay mad at him for long, she was just happy he was here with her. As she looked into his eyes all of her stressed seemed to melt.