Chapter 2
(A/N: Oh. My. Freakin'. ZEUS. This was a spur of the moment story written at 11:00 at night. I open my email today and my inbox is FILLED. FULL of Fanfic alerts! To my 4 reviewers, thank you so much! And MockingjayInFlight, thanks for your CC. Oh, and I think it's Mary Sues, not Mary Lues. Just a little CC for you ;). I was just trying to express Annabeth's desperation to find Percy. I'll try harder to meet your expectations (that was serious), but that's kind of my style of writing. Too much imagery, you think? R&R, please!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own PJO)
Annabeth
The creek. That's where I went. Through this whole ordeal, it was one of the only places where I could still feel Percy in the air. I remembered when he and Thalia had gotten into that fight. I could remember watching him fight those Ares kids that first Capture the Flag game, fighting as though he had trained his entire life. That's when I could sense he was something big. Minutes after, Clarisse and her gang of Ares children were lying face down in the mud. I had felt bad about it at first, watching invisible as he took these big, burly kids and almost got killed, but my twelve-year-old self had reminded me that my plans always, always worked.
And five years later, I was back at square one. I felt stupid after running out of the meeting, stupid about wasting tears when I could be doing something actually productive. Jason, Piper, Leo, all the newcomers, were already building a boat, the Argo II, which was needed to fulfill the Great Prophecy.
I was thinking about going back to my cabin and looking through Daedalus' laptop, reading my favorite architecture book, anything but sitting here and looking pathetic, when I heard soft footsteps behind her.
"Annabeth?" It was Piper. Besides Silena Beauregard, Piper seemed like the only Aphrodite with substance.
I could feel my celestial bronze knife tighten in my hand, even though it was only Piper. "What do you think could happen? We could have another Titan war on our hands, and we don't have our anchor. Percy was our leader."
Piper sat down next to me. "Stop talking like that. You're acting like he's dead. Besides, I could've sworn you were the leader here when I first showed up."
I sighed. "This is temporary. When Percy gets back, everything will go back to normal, and everything will be the same. Me and him? We weren't just boyfriend and girlfriend, we were best friends, and we were a team. We knew each other's weak spots; we had saved the other person's life several hundred times. I once took a dagger for him; he once held the sky for me. But a team can't function with only one person."
"We are going to get him back. Remember that, Annabeth, we are going to find him, and bring him back." Piper stood up. "Just get some rest, brush your hair. Because once the Argo II is finished, you, Jason, Leo, and I are going to sail to the Roman camp, and we are going to fulfill the prophecy. We are going to kick some monster butt, and once we are finished, we will be champions, heroes of Olympus. Remember." Piper walked away, leaving Annabeth all by her lonesome.
(A/N: This was a really short chapter cuz I have to do a Language Arts bibliography AND write my Social Studies script. Review please! Ta-Ta!)