Annabeth
What would you do if the whole world stopped moving and time stopped but you didn't, you didn't age or die but you could move around people and objects frozen in time. This is happening to me right now, I was in my college, NYU, I was a Freshman here and when my friend Sarah just began talking about her computer design class when she just froze. I mean this has to be a joke right? Everyone just freezing around me. I stood stunned for a moment then laughed.
"Alright, joke's over, stop messing around guys" I smiled and when no one moved I walked towards the nearest person and put my hand under their nose, no breath, then to their heart, it wasn't beating, it was probably mid-beat. I really was moving in frozen time. I ran out of the building and into the streets of the city where no one was moving.
"Anyone out there!" I screamed, hoping to hear something besides my heartbeat and sharp intakes of breath. I walked towards the bar across the street from my college building and took a drink from the freezer and took the bottle opener from the busty bartender and opened it. I know I'm not 21, but right now seemed as good a time as ever. I strolled the streets, finding this might actually be fun, but then realized I was alone, all alone, no one to help me out.
"Hello!?" I heard a distant yell. I dropped the bottle of beer and ran towards where I thought the voice came from. "Anyone!" I stopped at a girl who was pacing Central Park. I ran up to her and stood silently. She overlooked me because I wasn't moving but I saw her. She was tall and beautiful, she looked native American with her tan skin and chocolate hair, the thing that stood out about her was her eyes, they changed color and as she heard my breathing, she stared at me and I took a step forward. Her eye widened and she stepped back.
"Yo-You can move T-Too" she said. I laughed.
"Quite obviously" I said. She smiled nervously and shifted her feet.
"What do we do?" she asked. I shake my head.
"I haven't a clue, but I think we should find anyone else who's not frozen, maybe they'll know what to do" I told her and we started to walk.
"I'm Piper" she said as we walked in silence for a moment. I smiled kindly at her.
"Annabeth" I told her and we walked around the city. We were telling each other stories and I found out that she's a senior in high school and is going to NYU to study history relics, she said she always found them interesting.
"-So we're standing there on the canoe in the middle of the lake and any sudden movement would make it tip when Kyle just grins at me and then lifts his foot and we fall in th-" I was finishing my story when someone interrupted us.
"Thank God I'm not the only one" a guy came forward and I laughed because I knew him by face but not in person.
"You work at that repair shop in Queens, Leo right?" I asked. He nodded his curly head. He was just taller than me but shorter than Piper. He was Hispanic and had a look about him that was kind of worrisome.
"Yeah, I remember you, you were the toaster girl!" he exclaimed. Piper just seemed confused.
"She brought in a toaster once and said it needed fixing but when I checked it out she had a fork stuck in there at the bottom, she said it wasn't hers but her roommate's and she needed it fixed" he told her. I blushed. It was Sarah's fault, she had stuck a fork in there when I went on vacation with my ex boyfriend Kyle to DC and when I came back I didn't know what was wrong with it.
"She's bright" someone else said. It was another guy who looked older than us. He was stunning with jet-black hair and bright sea green eyes. He was taller than even Piper and had some scruff on his chin. "Percy"
"I'm Piper and this is Annabeth, also Leo" Piper told him. I stared the guy Percy down for a moment then thought of something.
"Do I know you?" I asked. He shook his head when we heard a scream. I flipped my head towards the sound and we all ran to the person who was screaming. I ran faster than the rest of them, never minding that I was shorter than them. I stopped at a gas station where I couldn't hear anyone anymore.
"What happened to her? Where is she?" I asked.
"We've got question girl over here" Percy nodded towards me out of breath. I gave the smart-ass a glare.
"She has to be around here" Leo said as he and Piper looked around while Percy and I gave each other glares. I heard another scream and broke eye contact with Percy, this one was closer. I started to run again towards the screaming girl, I ended up just a block away at a different gas station. I found a black girl covered in blood on the floor with someone on her lap. The girl was very pretty, she was maybe 16 or 17. Her brown hair was curly around her and she had these sad golden eyes, they looked like pure gold and when she turned them on me I moved towards her and brought her from under the body and towards the rest of us.
"Come on, we can go anywhere we want, let's find an apartment building, a nice one" I said. I helped the girl in shock move away and Leo helped her too but Percy decided to carry her on his back.
"I think she was shot, we have to help her" Piper whispered to me. I nodded. My father was a doctor so my whole life he taught me how to do these things.
"I can help with that" I said then took a sharp turn right into the hospital and once in there I passed a room where they were delivering a baby whose head was out and screaming, but it was frozen like everyone else in the room.
"Bring her in here and Percy and Piper I'll need you, Leo go out looking for more people and bring them here, just wait outside" I instructed. Percy put her down on the bed and I took a look at the tools I had. I got to work and as I had Piper inject the pain killers in her.
"Are you sure you can do this?" he asked me. I gave Percy a look.
"Now who's the question boy" I whispered back and tore off her shirt and pants so she was in just her underwear and I found the bullet wound in her leg. I cut the wound open and pulled out the bullet. I put it in a jar Piper gave me and then disinfected the wound and found that it hit her bone but didn't break it so I stitched her up and wiped her up. I washed my hands and Piper hugged me. She then backed away and blushed.
"Sorry, that was amazing though" she smiled at me. I smiled back.
"Thank you, keep the IV in her until she wakes up, it could be a few hours. I have to go and get some things" I told her and went out the door and down the hall to the stairs and ran up the floors but when I hit the tenth, I stopped. I heard wailing. I walked in through the halls and stopped at the baby room. It was an unnamed baby girl. I opened the door to the room and picked her up, I then read her file. I heard a noise and the baby wailed even more. I shushed her and rocked her back and forth.
"Is that a baby?" Percy asked. I nodded.
"She was crying. She's a day old and healthy, really healthy. We have to take her, she'll die here alone in this frozen world" I told him.
"She belongs to someone"
"A seventeen year old girl who's put her up for adoption" I finished. He sighed and nodded. I grinned at him and grabbed a few baby things the kept in the nursery and we walked down the stairs to the first floor where we walked side by side towards Leo, Piper, and a few unnamed people.
"What should her name be?" Percy asked me as we approached.
"I don't know, I'm not her mother" I said. He gave me a glare and I glared back.
"You're infuriating" he said.
"You're an ass" I responded and when we got to Leo and Piper the others behind them stared at us.
"Whose baby is that?" Piper asked. I shrugged. I looked down at the little girl with fair skin and big blue eyes and a brown tuft of hair on her cute head.
"She's a baby girl named Matty" I answered after the little girl reached up and touched my face.
"Matty?" Piper asked. I nodded. "That means strong in war in French"
"I know" I said and cradled the baby girl. "Introduce us?" I asked. Leo nodded and moved out of the way so three people came forward. One was a girl with dark red hair and fair skin, but no freckles. Her bright green eyes pierced through me but they were laced with kindness even if she was wearing ripped white jeans and a shirt that said 'Pain without love' written sloppily across the grey background and wore leather boots and a leather jacket.
"I'm Katie, this is Will and I didn't catch his name" she pointed back to a tall boy with bright blue eyes and curly brown hair.
"Travis" he said. He had a look in his eyes that made me want to check my pockets so I knew I still had my phone. The other blonde guy, Will, was as tall as Piper's five ten, maybe a little taller. I was like five seven and about the same height as the ginger Katie. Will had blonde neat hair and golden brown eyes and a pretty face.
"Once the girl wakes up we'll get going to a nice penthouse apartment building not far away from here and settle down, better make the best of this frozen world thing" I said. Travis grinned and so did Leo but the rest of us just stood there.
"Piper and Katie, can you come with me to find the apartment building so we can settle where everyone stays?" I asked. Piper nodded and Katie smiled. I walked with them out and we walked around the cars in the middle of the street and once we got to the gigantic building and went inside, I went to the top floor to clear any people out so we could live there. I kissed Matty's head before heading in. The lights were off.
"Maybe there's a crib in here for you" I said doubtfully. There was no one in the apartment and it seemed like there hadn't been for a day or two but there was a crib and a nursery. I set down Matty and changed her diaper before putting her down in the crib and letting her sleep in peace. I made sure there was nothing she could hurt herself with before leaving with a baby monitor. I met Piper in the elevator and she came in the apartment.
"I can stay here with the baby and watch her, I'll take her" she said.
"Are you sure, you'll have a baby until this frozen thing stops" I said. She nodded.
"I'm positive, I'll take her even after, I can take care of her, I'm 18 a legal adult, I can adopt her" she said. I nodded and handed the monitor to her.
"I've moved out everyone, not many people are here now" Katie came through the elevator doors.
"Probably because they're at work, living in a place like this, they have to have a high paying job that requires them there all the time but they put all their fancy stuff here" I concluded. Piper nodded.
"I should go find some adoption papers and leave them in the hospital" She said and walked off.
"Piper's in this level. I can take the top of the building next door, I kind of want my own building" I smiled. Katie laughed.
"I'll take the one on the other side of this, you know this whole block is apartment buildings, probably because we're in central park. The guys can have to ones across from us" She said. I nodded.
"I'm going to settle in my building, here's my number if you need anything" I wrote my number down on a napkin and went to the elevator. I felt that I could trust her, it was something about her.
"I can watch the baby" Katie assured me as the doors closed. I walked over taxi's and into the building next door which was more modern than next door which was shocking but possible I guess. My penthouse suite was white and silver sleek. There was also gold and black and red, but those were the only colors. I settled down on the balcony where a hot tub rested and smiled to myself.
This wouldn't be as bad as I thought.