Hey, guys!

So I'm back with a little Percabeth fanfic, I mean come on, who doesn't love them?

I had so much fun writing this little one shot, so I hope you guys like it!

Enjoy!

Annabeth couldn't cry any longer.

It had been three years since the battle against Gaia. Three years since Percy Jackson had sacrificed himself to save the world, again.

After the war, Annabeth had picked up and left camp. She moved back in with her father, far away from camp, in San Francisco.

It was August 18th, Percy's birthday; Annabeth sat in her room, door locked, with a box of Kleenex tissues. She reached under her bed and pulled out a box.

It was small, nothing fancy, a simple wooden box, with a trident engraved on the lid. Percy had given it to her as a gift six years earlier.

His sea-green had pierced her as he had handed her the small, gift-wrapped box. "So you'll always have a part of me with you," he had said with his signature goofy grin.

Annabeth slowly opened the box and looked at the odd assortment of objects that lay inside with teary eyes. A picture of her and Percy at the Fourth of July fireworks in camp, the cap of a ballpoint pen, and a piece of red coral.

To an outsider, it would probably look like a bunch of worthless junk, but to her, it was all she had left of the son of Poseidon.

"Man up wise girl," he would say, pulling her closer to him, "I'm not going anywhere." "Shut up seaweed brain," the blonde would reply with a laugh, taking in his familiar ocean scent, "don't test the Fates."

A sharp knock on her bedroom door drew the daughter of Athena out of her reverie.

"Annabeth?" her step-brother, Matthew, called. "Lucy and Noah are here, should I let them up?"

Annabeth sniffled and hastily closed the small box.

"I'll be right there," she responded.

Once her brother's footsteps receded down the steps, the grey-eyed girl quickly fixed her hair and makeup and hurried down the stairs to greet her friends.

As the door shut behind the three friends, Lucy turned to her blonde friend.

"Are you alright Annie?"

The daughter of Athena looked at her friend curiously.

"Of course, why would you say that?" she asked nervously.

"I mean, you're just so tense today, right Noah?" Lucy replied turning to poke Annabeth in the ribs.

Annabeth pushed her hand away.

"Don't do that! You know I hate being tickled!" she said defensively, crossing her arms over her chest.

"She's right Beth," Noah said.

"Why are you so uptight? It's summer! The only thing we need to worry about is Professor Valios's 4,000-word essay, and we're finishing it today; then we go for ice cream, sound good?"

"Awesome," Annabeth answered with a sad smile.

"Let's hit the books then," Lucy declared as the three walked into the library.

Annabeth loved coming to the library. She came here whenever she wanted to escape and be alone. She had been here so often, she knew all the librarians by name.

"Good afternoon Jill," she told the older lady at the main desk as she passed by.

"To you too dear," Jill replied fondly.

"What brings you here?"

"School work."

"In the middle of summer vacation? You don't seem like one who would need to take summer classes."

The savior of Olympus smiled and laughed.

As she turned to follow her friends to the quieter space in the back, she heard Jill call out to someone.

"Mr. Johnson, please be careful with those books!"

Annabeth glanced over to see a tall, dark-haired figure struggling to hold a stack of ten thick, heavy looking books.

The girl shook her head and headed over to where her friends were sitting.

"What was that about Annie?" Lucy asked her friend.

"Just talking, Jill is one of the regular librarians."

The dark haired girl watched her friend attentively.

"Sometimes I don't understand you, Annie."

"Stop trying to understand me, and start trying to understand this," Annabeth said, gesturing to the multiple books that lay in front of them.

"I'm going to get another book, I'll be right back," The daughter of Athena told her friends. Her friends made no motion that they heard her; they were too absorbed in their work.

"Whatever," Annabeth said, heading over to the history section.

She skimmed the shelves, looking for the right sub-section when she quite literally ran into someone.

"I'm so, so sorry Miss, I should've been more careful, are you alright?" the man said, concerned.

"Yeah, I'm fine, just a bit winded that's all."

"I'm glad you're ok miss…?"

"Annabeth Chase," the girl said cautiously.

"Per-Peter, um, Peter Johnson," the man said hesitantly.

The name tickled the back of Annabeth's mind, she faintly recognized the name.

"Have we met before?" she asked him.

The man, Peter, gulped uncertainly.

"Not, not that I remember," he said, adjusting his glasses nervously.

The movement caught her eye.

"What's on your wrist?" she asked, reaching out to grab his wrist.

He jerked his arm back, away from her, but her demi-god instincts were too fast for him. Annabeth pushed his sleeve up and gasped.

Imprinted on his forearm were the letters SPQR, a single stripe, and a trident.

Annabeth looked at him, to dumbfounded to move.

"Per-Percy?" she whispered almost inaudibly.

Peter took off his glasses to reveal the sea-green eyes that watched the daughter of Athena tearfully.

"Hey wise girl," he said softly, reaching to touch her face.

Tears escaped both half-blood's eyes as the embraced each other tightly.

"It's ok, it's ok," Percy muttered to her, stroking her hair comfortingly, as Annabeth sobbed into his shoulder.

"Three years Perc, three! We all thought you were… you were..." her voice cracked, heavy with emotion.

"They told me you were dead, they told me you all had died despite my-"

"Annie? Who is that? Did something happen?"

Annabeth turned to face her two friends, tears streaking her cheeks.

"This is my boyfriend-" she stated, voice thick with emotion.

"-My boyfriend Percy Jackson."

As her friends stared in shock the blonde girl turned to the son of Poseidon, taking in his warmth, taking in every part of him.

"Happy birthday, Seaweed Brain."

I know, I know, it wasn't the best, but I really hope you people liked it!

Question: what's your favorite ship (PJO, HOO, whatever)? Mine are Percabeth, Caleo, and Solangelo (don't get me wrong, I love Frazel, and Jasper as well, but those are my fvorites.)

Please review, it would really make my day!

Ttyl

Liz