A/N: Okay this was basically inspired by the House of Hades cover, and is basically Percy's death and the aftermath, specifically what Annabets goes through, and it'll probably be at LEAST five or six chapters, maybe longer.
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Sometimes it takes a second for what really happened to sink in.
And then the realization hits you in the face.
Annabeth fell forward as Percy pushed her through the collapsing Doors of Death. She tripped over her own feet as her ankle hit the ground. A cry of pain escaped her bleeding and split lips. Through all the chaos and commotion, though, she only managed to hear three words, coming from Percy.
"I love you."
She woke up later on her bed in the Argo II. She saw the picture of her and Percy propped up on the bedside by books because the stand had broken when the ship had started to shake when they were 'landing'. Leo was sitting on the bedside, staring at her, as was Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Nico and Coach Hedge. The only person she didn't see was Percy.
"Where is he?" She blurted out, trying to sit up. She got dizzy fast as the blood rushed to here head. She laid back down.
"Slow down there cupcake," Coach Hedge said, playing with the baseball bat in his hands.
"Don't call me cupcake, I'm not a little girl. Where's Percy?" She asked again, the anger and sadness thick in her voice. She was almost positive she knew the answer.
"Annabeth," Leo said, tears in his eyes. She could feel the tears welling in her own eyes, too. "I'm sorry."
The tears were streaming down her face hard, like a waterfall. She had never felt this much pain and sadness. Not when she left home, not when Thalia died, not when Luke died, not when Percy went missing. Nothing. She had never felt like this before. She never wanted to feel this way again. But she wasn't sure that she could ever shake it. Percy was her something permanent.
And now her something permanent was dead.