Dear readers, this is my 2nd fanfic so please R&R!
There is no demi-gods, gods, camp. But most of the characters are there.
Summery: Percy and annabeth went to school together when they were 7. Percy moves to NY and gets involved in a car crash, he loses his memory. Annabeth is heart broken. Percy never visited her. What happens 13 years later when annabeth moves to percy's school? does she remember him? does he remember her? who does he go to Prom with? What happens when one of them remembers the other?
Least Expected
Chapter 1Percy and Annabeth were sitting on the floor of the class room, inpatient to leave school.
"What time is it?" Percy asked glancing at Annabeth grey eyes. Percy couldn't read the time yet but Annabeth, being the smartest in their class, knew how to read time at the age of five.
"Ten to three." Annabeth whispered ruffling his thick black hair.
"Annabeth! Percy! Can you please pay attention?" their teacher, Mr Bolfis whined.
"Yes, sir" Annabeth and Percy reply not caring they got caught. Mr Bolfis went on to explain what the holiday homework was, it wasn't much. Just to learn how to spell a few words and learn how to tell the time. Annabeth could already do all of those things. Percy on the other hand was struggling with the work load, but having Annabeth as his best friend did have its advantages.
Ever since they were born, the two were consistently around one another. They were inseparable. Even if they had an argument, give them two minutes and they'd be back to being best friends, their argument forgotten.
Whenever they'd have play overs there would always be tears when it was time to go home and their parents had to literally drag them away from one another. Eventually they understood that they'd go back to their own house for the night and in the morning they could be together again. One night when they were five, Percy refused to go home and asked to stay the night at Annabeth's. That was the first of many sleepovers.
The two young ones were always teasing each other with playful banter. Back and forth and back and forth. It was the source of many of their arguments. But if ever anyone else ever teased one of the two the other would always stick up for them. Like on their first day of school. Some guy was teasing Annabeth about being a dumb blond. Percy steeped in and announced that Annabeth was the smartest person he knew and that she was a merciless fighter so the guy better start running cause she was fast.
After news of that incident went through the whole year 1 class, they all knew not to pick on either one unless they wanted to go home bruised and battered. Of course Annabeth and Percy would never do anything like that; Annabeth was too smart to be fighting at school. She'd talk to the teacher, bawling her eyes out and the kid would always end up in some sort of trouble. The two were not to be messed with.
Percy smiled smugly up at his teacher. He didn't have to do the homework because he was moving to New York but he had yet to tell Annabeth. Said girl was staring at him like she had never seen him before; she then smacked him on the arm hard enough to leave a red mark.
"What?" Percy hissed in fake pain.
"Percy Jackson! Can you please stop interrupting the class?" Mr Bolfis sternly said. Some of Percy's classmates turned to look at the pair. One guy, Luke, grinned at Percy like they shared a secret and winked at Annabeth.
What the? Percy thought
Omg! He winked at me. Me! Please don't turn red, please? Dammit! I'm red, Annabeth thought getting a slight blush on her face.
Then the bell went. Saved by the bell, both seven year olds thought with a grin.
Percy crept up behind Annabeth who was at her designated box. (A/N – a box is just a place where they put their school bags and stuff)
"C'mon, Annie!" Percy yelled in her ear. He had his bag over one shoulder and it was open with his blue lunch box hanging out. Annabeth finished packing her bag, zipped it up turned to Percy and sarcastically said "Wow! You scared me." Then in a flash of blond, she raced Percy to the door. She won of course. Percy finally reached her as she waiting by the side gates of the school.
"Hey," he said pretending to get angry, "that wasn't fair! You got a head start and you're a faster runner!"
"Face it Percy, you'll never beat me!" Annabeth replied
"Oh really?" he teased.
"Yep."
"We'll see about that, I'll race you to mom!" and he was off before he finished his sentence. Annabeth not wanting to admit that Percy could beat her, sprinted after him. He won.
"Ha! I won!" Percy said rather loudly
"That's because you had a head start! You cheated!" Annabeth shot back "If we did a proper race, I'll beat you any day! And you know it!" She poked him in the chest
"Alright, alright, that's enough you two. Annabeth, Percy wait in the car, I need to see Mr Bolfis." Sally Jackson, Percy's mom, said with a slight grin on her face. She was used to their routine of fighting one minute and being attached at the hip the other.
"Yes Sally." Annabeth replied sweetly smiling up at the woman who was like a second mother to her. Sally walked off in to the school while Percy and Annabeth got in the car. Once in, they started to chat and got so involved in their conversation that they didn't realise sally was in the car until she asked them to put on their seatbelts and to be quieter.
Percy and Annabeth live on the same street, something both seven year olds loved. Annabeth lives with her parents; Frederic and Athena across the street and three doors down to the right. They've known each other since birth.
When they reached their street, Sally pulled up at Annabeth's place.
"Mommy, me and Rach are gonna do some homework, ok? So I'll come back home in an hour ok, mommy?" Percy asked in his sweet seven year old voice giving his mother a pout.
"Ok honey but can you come home and get changed first?"
"Ok mom. Rach, I'll be round soon!" He hugged her and pecked her cheek.
"Ok. Bye Sally, see you later. And thanks for the ride." Annabeth said before getting out of the car, giving sally a peck on the cheek and going in to her house.
Once Annabeth left the car Sally turned around in her seat.
"Have you told her yet?" she asked her son.
"No," Percy said looking down shamefully "mom, I don't want to leave! I want to stay with Annabeth!" he whined giving his mother a pleading face.
"I know honey, but we need this. Besides we can visit every holidays if you want." Sally suggested. Percy brightened up at this.
"Really? We can visit every summer? Promise?"
"Yes, Percy, I promise we can visit every holiday unless you don't want to go."
"Oh, no. I'll never say no to see Annie." Percy said smiling "Can we go home now? I wanna get changed so I can tell Annabeth!"
"I'm going! I'm going!" Sally said playfully with a smile on her lips. She drove down the road a couple of meters then parked the car in the garage and before she could protest, Percy was out of the car and in the house. Sally sighed happily to herself.
Percy ran in to the house, slamming the door behind him, and ran in to a tall man with Percy's hair and eyes.
"Hi dad!" Percy yelled and threw his arms around the man. Poseidon hugged his son before pushing him back and took Percy's school bag from around his back and hung it up. Percy was then urged upstairs to get changed with the promise of a present.
Percy ran in to his room and threw off his school cloths and chucked them to the side. He then grabbed grey tracksuit pants and a blue-green tank top. With his new outfit on Percy ran down stairs to see his parents kissing.
"Eww!" Percy squealed throwing up his hands to cover his face.
"You'll be doing it soon enough seeing as how fast you're growing." Poseidon told him.
"Yeah right." He said sarcastically "How about my present?"
"Well come on then, it's through here" Poseidon said taking Sally's hand and pushing his way to the lounge room. As Percy entered behind his parents, he saw a little box on the coffee table and wondered what it could be. Poseidon and Sally sat on one side of the couch while Percy sat on the other.
Poseidon took the box off the table and opened so Percy couldn't see the contents.
"This is a gift from your mother and I, it's a promise necklace. There were only ever twelve made in the world, it's very valuable." Poseidon took out the necklace and showed it to Percy, who stared at it wide-eyed.
"It - it's... wow!" Percy said at a loss for words.
"Yes, it is, isn't it?" Sally said. The necklace was green silk and grey see-through lace with a silver buckle at the top and a green gem hanging off the silk.
"As I said Percy, this is a promise necklace; you give it to someone who you care deeply about. Someone you want in your life forever." Poseidon explained.
"Like Annabeth? I care for her, and she is my best friend so…?"
Sally hesitated. "Sort of, it's more like a 'I promise to love you no matter what…." Percy's mind was somewhere else as Sally continued speaking "… soul"
Percy snapped back into reality at the end of his mother's speech.
"Here, it's your now. Save it for someone special." Poseidon said handing over the necklace to Percy.
Percy took the necklace; put it back in the box carefully, thanked his parents and went upstairs to put it on his desk, next to the photos of him and Annabeth.
Percy was trying to hold in his laughter as he looked at the smug yet angry expression of his best friend.
Percy was at Annabeth house in the back yard. He knew he had to tell her, she deserved to know. She's been his best friend since they were born!
"Umm, Annabeth?"
"Hum?" she said dropping her head
"I need to tell you something." Will said looking at her bent head. When Will didn't continue Annabeth looked up.
"What is it Percy?" she asked generally concerned with a slight frown between her eyebrows.
"It's just that we; mom, dad and me -"
"I!" Annabeth corrected, Percy smiled. He was going to miss this.
"Mom, dad and I, well we're going."
"What do you mean?" Annabeth asked confused.
"We're going, moving, staying in a new place." He said.
"When? Where?"
"Umm..." he suddenly found his shoes very interesting
"Percy! When?" Annabeth asked getting upset.
"On our birthday?" Percy tried sneaking a quick glance at her. He and Annabeth were born on the same day seven years ago.
"What? Our birthday? That's like days away!" Annabeth exploded. Percy winced. Annabeth immediately regretted her outburst though she would never admit it.
She glared at him
"Please Annabeth, listen." Percy begged. "We're going to New York. We can come down every holidays' or maybe you could come up, I donno. We'll send e-mails, and when were older texts. We'll stay in contact. I Promise. "
"I've already got a phone." Annabeth said flashing me her violet flip phone.
"What? When? Why didn't you tell me?"
"I got it today, and it's not really important at the moment." Annabeth snapped at Percy. Damn, she's angry. And right.
Percy walked up to her and gave her a hug, squeezing the breath out of her. "I'm going to miss you" Percy whispered to her. She sighed and held on to Percy like her world depended on him.
"Yeah, I'm gonna miss you too Percy. When are you leaving?"
"In a week," Percy said letting her go.
"What?!And you couldn't have told me this before?" Annabeth said letting him go. "Well at least we still got time to hang out."
Annabeth smiled weakly up at him. She didn't tell him how her world had just crashed around her. Her best friend, the one she could be herself with, the one she would spill all her secrets to, the one who knew her better than she knew herself was leaving her. She started to worry that he would forget her. What if he found another best friend who was better than me?
She then had the strangest thought, that since Percy was her best friend, she could give Percy her promise necklace so he could never forget her and he'll always have a piece of her with him. Her mother gave her the necklace explaining that it was to show a strong friendship and someone you love. 'This is for a friend who is really special to you' Athena, her mom, had said.
So there you have it. The new and improved chapter 1 R&R. If you see any errors let me know ASAP so I can correct them. I combined chapter 1&2 together so it's longer and hopefully better.
Chapter 2 Will be updated within the next three months. yeah, I know three months is a long time but while I was re-writing the chapters and I skipped chapter 3 so I don't want to post the next chapter until I'v at least re-written most of chapter 3.
Lots of love
~MC