A/N: Hey guys! I know I haven't finished or even updated my story "Neverending Quests" and I greatly apologize for that. This is a new story that I just wrote right now. I'm not really feeling well and writing is usually my getaway from the world. This is inspired by the song "Ocean Eyes" by Billie Eilish. It sorta reminded me of Percabeth. This will be written in Annabeth's POV. I hope you like it!
OCEAN EYES
The Fates can be cruel sometimes. No, scratch that. They are cruel all the time.
Whenever I'm not at camp, I look at the mortals walking by with smiles reaching up to their ears. Sometimes, I would see a few people looking blank. Like they're going through or they've gone through something horrible. But their lives are not as horrible as us demigods.
It has just been months since the Second Giant War and you'd think that Percy and the rest of our friends would've been all smiles by now—well some of our friends have gone back to their normal routines like the Stolls, but some of us such as Percy and I have suffered a great deal during the wars. I remember when I first met Percy that his ocean eyes were so deep yet so full of light that the only thing missing were sea creatures swimming. His eyes were unlike any person I've ever met. When you stare into them you could feel the ocean pulling you. Now, whenever you stare into them they have gone deeper—darker... Sometimes you can still see the light in his eyes but most of the time it just gets deeper and deeper. The wars have changed us completely at a young age.
The nightmares made it worse. Some nights I dream of losing Percy. Some nights he dreams of losing me. Some nights I can't sleep at all. I usually look at Percy trying to get a good night sleep but it always ends the same... We always wake up screaming and begging for it to stop. Every night I cry and cry about how I can't think of a life without my Seaweed Brain. I've contemplated over and over again if the nightmares will ever stop but I'm too exhausted most of the time to even figure out if it will ever stop. Some wars give you scars. Some wars... give you painful nightmares. We're just an unlucky demigod couple that got both.
My thoughts scrambled when I felt Percy's warm arms wrap around me.
"Can't sleep, Wise Girl?" I smiled as I turned around to face him.
"Yeah, a bit. What time is it?"
"It's time for bed." I laughed as he pulled me up and grabbed my waist. I wrapped my hands around his neck.
"I meant the actual time, Seaweed Brain." he chuckled and I couldn't help but stare into those deep sea green eyes.
"Probably 2 or 3 am." he was swaying me slowly, like we're dancing.
"What are you doing?" I asked, raising my brow.
"It's been awhile since we did something fun and sneaky." I laughed at his words.
"Seaweed Brain, just sleeping together is something fun and sneaky in itself." he twirled me around then pulled me closer. We enjoyed a moment of silence swaying side by side when I asked him a question,
"It's going to be alright, right? We're going to be alright?" I asked him. He stopped and moved his hands from my waist to cupping my face with his warm but gentle hands,
"As long as we're together, Wise Girl. Everything is going to be alright." He assured me. Tears slowly fell made its way out of my stormy grey eyes. I stared into his ocean eyes and knew that he will do everything to make sure that it will be alright. And I, in return, promise to do the same.