I had gotten separated from Percy and attacked by the media. Flashing cameras blinded me. Reporters shouted questions at me from every direction. I was in the middle of a media tornado. I was spun around in my dress and was trying my best not to trip over everyone.

"How long have you and Percy Jackson been dating?" one man asked me while I was facing him. I pretended to not be able to hear him before I was flipped around.

"What's your name?"

"How did you and Mr. Jackson meet?"

"Who are you wearing?"

"What is your take on Republican nomine Octavian Donovan's promise to keep air pollution down to a minimum in New York City?"

"Is your relationship with Percy Jackson one of political matters?" I heard a woman say. I turned my head back to her and everyone got quiet.

"Percy and my relationship is one of love and not for his election, he wouldn't need it, his poles are up almost twenty percent to Mr. Donovan" I told her sternly and walked out of the crowd who continued to follow me even after I was pulled into a taxi and found myself alone besides the driver. I gave him Percy's address and after I paid I got in the building.

I went to the elevator and shakily pushed the button for Percy's floor. I found myself in his living room after putting a card in the slot allowing me into his apartment. Piper, Hazel, Leo, Nico, Percy, and another guy with brown shaggy hair and walked with a little limp from what I saw, were arguing.

I felt my legs give out and I slumped to the floor and hit my head on the marble floor. As my head bounced up and my eyes rolled around I saw them still arguing. I woke up where I was and it seemed to be darker outside than earlier, they were all still in the same place, yelling. I felt some liquid slowly slide down my fore head as I lay on my side with my eyes barley open.

I don't know what did it, the many people pushing and pulled and throwing my limbs around, the busy night walking around, or the people who seemed like the best of friends screaming at each other like they wanted to strangle each other. Maybe it was all of it but I pushed myself up, wiped my forehead and saw that I had some scratches from all the reporters. Blood rolled down my arms and legs and forehead as I kicked off the heels I had one that were ruined and managed to smooth down my beaten and tattered dress.

I took a step forward and another and another until I was in a steady walk towards the group of people. I found myself shoving Leo's shoulder so I was in the middle of the group. They all stopped yelling and stared at me. I looked all of them in the eye with a hard look and then fell on the new guy with the brown hair and eyes and a little wisp of a beard. He caught me but I couldn't keep my legs still. Percy was suddenly taking me and dragging me by my arms to the guest bedroom I inhabited and lifted my upper body on the bed and then my legs.

"Get some sleep, I'll see how you are tomorrow" he whispered in my ear and put his hand on the side of my cheek before smiling and leaving me to fall asleep. I couldn't though. I finally used some strength, once I heard the voices disappear, to get up and strip out of my dress and fall back on my bed. I then remembered I had makeup on and hated sleeping with that on but once I got up I saw my dress on the ground and debated going out of the room.

I knew I had to get some sleep but I could do it tomorrow morning. I finally decided to go and wash my face free of whatever crap they put in makeup. I walked out of my room in nothing more than my beige strapless bra and underwear. I walked in the bathroom and found Percy in the shower, it was steamy so I couldn't see everything through the glass as we both screamed, obviously startled.

"Percy! Oh my god!" I squealed and turned to find to doorknob but it was so foggy I couldn't see. So instead I fell on my knees and remembered that steam weighs more than air does because it had more water particles and all that good stuff, so it'd be easier to see and successfully found the knob. I escaped the bathroom, shocked and wondered why I was so oblivious that I couldn't hear the water, then I paid attention to the sound of water and heard nothing. A few minutes later Percy came out with a towel covering him from the waist down.

"Annabeth!?" he seemed really uncomfortable. I realized he was looking at me in my underwear and I him in his towel. I saw his very visible six pack and muscles in his biceps and felt heat rise up my cheeks.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear any water and thought that you weren't in there and wanted to wash the makeup off my face" I explained quickly. We soon stumbled on words as we tried to explain things and soon enough we were just not talking and staring at each other. I saw the ends of his wet jet black hair drip to the cool marble floor and the water vapor stick to his skin on his shoulders and upper arms. He looked amazing and I think I wanted to stick my tongue down his throat.

"I'll go to the other bathroom" I said suddenly and turned. I walked briskly to the other bathroom in the apartment, the one farthest from my room and slammed the door behind me. I almost ran to the sink to splash water on my hot face. Sure Percy was one of the hottest guys I'd ever met but that didn't mean I could just stare at him while he was half naked and in shock of me intruding on his shower.

I splashed the cold water on my face and removed the makeup I had on. I soon looked natural and cold as goose bumps rose on my skin. I felt a chill run down my spine and hurried out of the bathroom and towards my room where I clumsily pulling the covers over my body and curled up on my side in a ball. I held my head on the soft pillow and stared out at the window in my room, the one window in my room was as tall as the room and as thin as a bookshelf. It was nice because I could see the city, even though it was mostly the side of the building next to us, I could still see a bit of the cities' lights dazzle upon the bricks next door and I smiled to myself.

I woke the next morning with a note on my bedside table from Percy saying that he had a work thing and wasn't going to home until real late. I didn't mind much, I enjoyed time by myself and since I didn't have a job really anymore, I just laid in my bed most of the day up until lunch and kept warm under the fluffy covers since it was an unnaturally colder day outside. I soon dragged the sheets away and felt the cold wrap over my body and then around it as I got up and went to the bathroom I saw Percy shower in the previous night.

I unclipped my bra and slid my underwear off and grabbed a white semi-soft towel from below the sink and threw it over the rim where it glass slid and hopped in ready to be warm again, I waited at the edge of the shower for the cold water to warm up and once it was at a temperature I thought was as good as I would get it, stepped under it. I let my blonde curls get soaked in the water and then pulled my hand through it like pulling a hair tie out and water splashed to the floor and made a whomf! Sort of noise.

I took the bar of soap and rubbed it over my arms, legs and body. I then began to use my hand to wash as much residue off my body and until I was satisfied with my work kept it up. I soon got to the interesting way I wash my hair. I flip my hair so I'm bending and my body is like a sort of U but my back is the top arch and squirted the shampoo on my hair and shook my head around a little bit before using my fingers to dig in my scalp and swirl my fingers around to make sure I get all of my hair. I do the same with the conditioner and was out of the shower and dressed in dress pants and a light pink blouse.

I was soon trying to dig up my credit card to go and buy some groceries so Percy might actually have food. I finally found it and smiled eager that I could eat some food I wanted. I headed down to the nearest place I could buy food and let myself at it.

I waited until eleven at night for Percy. It wasn't until eleven thirty that I found him dragging his feet through the door with his bag and suit. I grabbed his bag and set it down and helped him to the couch where he flopped down and closed his eyes.

"I would like a day off once in a while, just to relax you know?" he asked me, his bright green eyes closed but his mouth moving.

"I actually do the opposite of what you do, I get too much relaxation time, why can't I help your political stuff, I'm great at it! You know that!" I told him. He didn't move and inch or had a muscle move except for his breathing.

"You are, it's part of what made me chose you, that and you are magnificently brilliant, memorized the first three hundred digits in pi when you were five? That's quite something, mastered the technique of Kempo by the age of ten? You can outwit men with not just your cleverness but your beauty, you were my top choice and Pipers, Hazel liked you and another girl I forget her name, but we all voted on it and you fit what we wanted the best, almost perfectly but apparently they wanted you to be a ginger so you would stand out more" Percy said after a moment.

"Thank you?" I couldn't quite get what he was saying since there was so much of it and I don't think he ever talked that much in the three days I'd known him.

"Your welcome my beauteous fiancé, I shall stick my eyelids together and think of fabulous things while my body rests and I can not hear a single thing around me until my body and mind stop their resting" he got up and walked dazed to bed. I laughed to myself and followed but to my room where I changed out of my dressy clothes and into my comfy ones.

I woke up the next morning and walked in the kitchen to see Percy in plaid pants and no shirt. I coughed when I saw him and spun myself around. He was looking curiously in his fridge at the food I had bought yesterday for us.

"Annabeth! Oh crap!" he used his cereal box to cover his chest, it didn't do much for him.

"I'm sorry, I'm not used to you being home in the morning" It was the truth he was never here and it was awkward having him here.

"No, its fine, I was just shocked at the food" he responded. I lifted up my eyes and smiled.

"I went out yesterday, don't worry I used my money" I told him and grabbed some milk for him from the fridge.

"Annabeth" he grabbed my forearm and I felt a shiver and looked back at him. "You don't have to be uncomfortable around me, like the other night, we're going to get married, you'll have to get used to seeing me without a shirt" he told me. I gave him a glare.

"So will you, I saw you looking awkward at me" I told him. He returned my glare and removed his shirt and pants so I could only see his underwear.

"Now you, we have to get used to each other, this may be the best way to do so" he said. I sighed. I pulled off my shirt to reveal my red lacy bra and shimmied out of my pants to show my matching red lacy underwear. He tried averting his eyes, but it didn't work. It wasn't working on me either, his skin looked so rough, like he needed to be touched.

I wanted him.

Sorry it took so long to update, I hope you like this chapter.

~WhenWeMeetAgain