Howdy, readers! Thank you so much to FindingBella and doesmynamegohere for reviewing! I appreciate all the input! This song is called Come Home by Faith Hill. This takes place while Percy is missing and Annabeth is distraught. So cheesy, yes, I know. I thrive on it though. Enjoy and please leave a review!

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or Come Home!

Building the Argo II wasn't Annabeth's problem. More than anything, she wanted it to be finished as quick as it could. But when she stood on the port side bow and a sea breeze rustled her hair and filled her lungs, it was like a blow to the gut. She needed him at that moment, more than she had ever thought before.

Annabeth hurried off the boat, ignoring the concerned calls of her name, and sprinted into cabin three. It was a low building, hewn with rough sea rocks and coral. It had become her home over the past four months. She slept in the cabin when she had a nightmare—which was nearly every night—she worked on the designs for Olympus, and she made sure the harpies never cleaned it. Annabeth did everything she could to forget about him, but that seemed to hurt her more than remembering her. It was like a drug she couldn't quit—willingly breaking her heart a little more just to remember him. To feel like he was there.

After Annabeth all but busted the door down, she ripped off her shirt that had become sweaty from all the manual labor. She spotted Percy's favorite Camp Half-Blood t-shirt on the dresser where she left it last time and put it on. It was soft from overuse and held the faint scent that was Percy. Annabeth sat down on Percy's bunk and inhaled the shirt. It was creepy and obsessive, she knew that, but she couldn't help it. It comforted her on a psychotic level.

She tried for several minutes to slow her breathing and get in control. Annabeth sadly failed. She tried napping on his bed, burying her face in his pillow. She tried looking at all his pictures of them. Annabeth laughed at the goofy ones, but ultimately, it wasn't enough. For some masochistic reason, she wanted to be sad. Annabeth decided it wasn't enough to sit here and pretend it was okay. She wanted to feel upset and wallow in it for just five minutes before she went back to acting like she didn't need to be held by her best friend. Her best friend that was currently 2,000 miles away in an enemy camp.

Annabeth tried to think that would send her over the edge—force her into a state of sadness. She looked around his room before her eyes rested on the I-pod that sat on his bed side table. She hadn't gone near it the whole time, afraid of touching it. But now, she didn't care. Annabeth and an Apollo girl were once arguing about music, and she remembered the girl said that country music was often sad. Annabeth unlocked his IPod and gasped at his background. It was a picture he must have taken without her knowledge. In the picture, she was asleep on the beach, her hair in her face, a blanket covering her body. Of course that would be his background—something that would embarrass her to no end. She guessed his passcode on the first try: 1234. Seaweed Brain, she thought to herself with a smile. The IPod had only one page of apps, which made it easy to find his Pandora. Annabeth touched the app and searched for a new station. It was simply called Country Music.

The music wasn't sad. That upset Annabeth more than it should have. She laughed at a few—who could possibly make a catchy song about a red Solo cup? Others tempted her to dance and some even felt like they were talking about her. She sat and listened for 20 minutes, each song taking her away from the place she had originally wanted to be. When Annabeth looked out the window, she realized she should be getting back to her cabin. One more song, she thought. One more and then I'll go.

A guitar began to pour out its melody. Annabeth felt unbelievably compelled to listen.

Hello, world. Hope your listening.

Forgive if I'm young or speaking out of turn.

But there's I've been missing and I think that they could be the better half of me.

They're in the wrong place trying to make it right,

but I'm tired of justifying so I say to you

Come home, come home, 'cause I've been waiting for you for so long, so long.

And right now there's a war between the vanities, but all I see is you and me.

To fight for you is all I've ever known

So come home.

I get lost in the beauty of everything I see.

The world ain't half as bad as they paint it to be.

When all the sons, all the daughters stop to take it in,

Then hopefully the hate subsides and the love begin.

It might start now, maybe I'm just dreaming out loud, but until then,

Come home, come home 'cause I've been waiting for you for so long, so long.

And right now there's a war between the vanities, but all I see it you and me.

To fight for you is all I've ever known.

Come home.

Everything I can't be is everything you should be, and that's why I need you here.

Everything I can't be is everything you should be, and that's why I need you here.

So hear this now.

Come home, come home, 'cause I've been waiting for you for so long.

And right now there's a war between the vanities but all I see is you and me.

To fight for you is all I've ever known, ever known.

Come home.

Come home.

Annabeth exited out of the app before anything else came on. She didn't want that song to leave. It was the song she had been waiting for—the one that would do the job of making her cry the tears she had been holding in for a month.

Slowly, tears dripped down her cheeks one by one. She imagined a ghost-like hand was wiping them away, a familiar and warm hand that has calluses she'd memorized. Annabeth put her head in her hands and let everything overwhelm her. She let every memory of Percy infiltrate her mind and then…she wept. Wept like she had wanted to for so long.

"Come home, Percy," she whispered.

Well, I do believe I've expressed a psychotic side of Annabeth I didn't know existed…nor did I plan to write her that way… How weird. Okay! That was pretty depressing, sorry! The next song is another Faith Hill song called "All I Ever Wanted". Please leave a review or a suggestion for a song! Thank you for reading!