Percy was in college, just waiting on tables. As I watched him, just reading a book. We had just left Camp Half-Blood and we had never looked back. But why am I stuck in a relationship that would never last? I'm afraid that he'd dump me. Like what happened with most of the romances that my dad had gone through before he married.

Later that night, I lied in his arms on the couch. I say, "Can you believe it?"

"Believe what, Annabeth?"

"Do you remember we were sitting there by the water? You put your lips on mine for the first time. You made a rebel of a wise goddess' careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine. I feel a little stronger."

One month had passed since that... I was just on a small wooden boat with Percy. We talked about how much had changed from our lives. But as soon as I was going to say something. Percy was going down on one knee. I smiled as he said, "Will you marry me?"

That was it, we had married. Flash forward and we're taking on the world together. And there's a drawer of my things at your place. You learned my secrets and you figure out why I'm guarded. You say we'll never make my dad's mistakes.

I checked the mail, confident that nothing would tear us apart. Until, I saw the numbers. But we've got bills to pay. We've got nothing figured out. Percy's a swim teacher and I'm a history teacher. Both jobs won't pay for these bills. When it was hard to take yes. This is what I thought about... That fond memory. I whispered that moment after the fall of Kronos.

"Do you remember all the city lights on the water. You saw me start to believe for the first time. You made a rebel of a wise goddess' careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine."

And I remember that fight 2:30 AM. You said everything was slippin' right out of our hands. I ran out crying and you followed me out into the street. Brace myself for the goodbye. Percy was going to dump me, I know it. Because that's all I've ever known. Then he took me by surprise. Percy said to me softly, "I'll never leave you alone."

"You won't?" I asked drying up tears with my shirt.

Percy replied, "I remember how we felt sitting by the water. And every time I look at you it's like the first time. I fell in love with a wise goddess' careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine."

"How will me make it, though?"

"I know we'll make it... Money or no money. Even if we go broke and live under a cardboard box. We'll be together."

I stood at my wife's bed. Our children had stained the bed with tears. They cried, "Mommy! Don't go! Please, don't go!"

I knelt so I would be at her eye level... We had gone four happy years together and this had to happen... Why? Why must she go? Why did Hades have to take her when we had just started? Our life was so happy. Three kids, one house, one life together... She was hit by a car... It wasn't fair! It was untimely, her confidence started to rise but she was slipping from me! Why did that have to happen! I held her hand. A doctor told me, "Time to go."

I whispered, "Two more minutes... I want two more minutes..."

"Okay, just two." The doctor muttered.

I saw my kids were leaving already. I looked into her grey eyes, which the color had started to flicker away from her eyes. I told her, "Yo Annabeth, we did it. We did it."

"I know, Perseus..."

"Okay, time to leave." The doctor said again.

Nodding, I stood up and turned from my wife. Which would probably be the last time I would see her...