Hey guys! This is just the preview chapter for now, and I'm starting work on the next - new - chapter! The idea for this story came to me while I was in a really bad mood... I guess you could say that I was... Insane...

That was a really bad pun... I'll shut up now...

Hope you like it! :D

Insane

Nobody understands. Nobody. Not even my own father. Being dead, but not being dead – all at the same time. Floating between two worlds, the real and the ghost.

Sometimes, I liked to tell myself that Hades would have mercy – what with me being the one to return his Helm of Darkness. Nope. He just takes that as another example to hate me.

"You don't understand… you don't understand… you don't understand…" The only words that I could process enough to form into sound. The only words I'd spoken since death.

"Percy. Percy." I knew that voice. Somewhere, I knew that voice from somewhere. Where? I couldn't tell you. "Percy. It'd me. It's Annabeth. Your Annabeth. Only ever your Annabeth. Whatever this is, we can get through it.

"You don't understand… you don't understand… nobody understands… nobody will ever understand!" I scream, surprised that my mind was filling with words – new sentences could form, new sentences that could describe what it was like. Nearly describe.

"Annabeth." I hear a voice say. I uncap Riptide.

"Stay away! Stay away! Get away from her!" I slash my bronze blade, before backing into a corner, dropping my sword, and breaking down. Gripping my head with my hands, tugging on my hair, trying to drown out the voices with pain. It didn't work, to I pulled harder.

"Annabeth." The voice said. Chiron. Who was that? The name just came to me – like a sixth sense. "You have to leave him. You have to wait for Mr D."

"No! Don't let them come! Get away from her, get away!" I screamed, and heard something above me. "They're all around. Above and below… beside me… trying to get… to get to her. Trying to rip her from my mind. From my memory. NO! You can't have her!" …

"Who are you protecting, Percy?" I heard her say. She was alive. Good. I'd done my duty.

"Annabeth… They can't… They can't take her from me… not now… not ever!" I start soft, before screaming towards the end.

"I told you. I told you! I told you he was still in there! Still fighting! I told you!" I heard Annabeth cry.

"He might not be. It might be his voice, and another's soul."

"Annabeth… You can't have her… I love her… You can't… You can't have her!" I screamed the whole thing this time, grabbing my sword, slashing through the walls, trying to get to the demons. They were everywhere. Laughing, taunting, swooping close to her body, before being driven away my a slash of my sword.

"I told you." She said once more, softly. "Percy. Put down the sword." I did as she said.

"Anything…" I murmur, vaguely aware of the crowds standing at the far wall.

"Tell me Percy, who am I?"

"You're Annabeth… The one I… must protect… always protect… die to protect. You're Annabeth… the one I love…" I murmur, falling into a sleepy haze.

"And I, you, Percy. May I ask another question?"

"Anything." I say defiantly, snapping out of the trance. I capped my sword, and brought my knees to my chest, wrapping my arms around them.

"Where are you?" She asked softly. I could only answer truthfully, always truthfully to her.

"Darkness." I say simply. She motions for me to continue. "Only darkness. And the voices… so many voices… taunting… trying… they want you… they want only you. And so I must protect you. Only ever protect." I let out a scream – girly as it may be – and brought my hands to my head once more.

Pulling on my hair, I tried to drown out the voices. I couldn't take it anymore. I uncapped Riptide, and leapt to my feet.

"Get away from her! Get away!" I yell, and slash at the walls, slicing them like butter. There's a crash, and water flows into the room. "Protect her! Protect… her." I pass out, and fall crumpled onto the hard concrete floor.

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