Hey guys! :D

I know last chapter moved too fast, but I really wanted to bring Percy in. Hopefully now my sloppy writing will start to improve. Now, don't mind my hypothermia first aid, okay, I have no idea what I'm talking about.

Hope you guys like this chapter!


Annabeth's POV

The beach outside the cave was a mess. Branches, scraps of metal, everything was just lying there in the sand.

A couple trees had been blown over. The wind didn't seem that strong. I thought.

Inside, Percy was still asleep.

I needed to get back to finding some water, urgently. It had already been two days since we crashed, any longer and we'd start to get dehydrated. And Percy already had hypothermia.

I went back inside and gathered up the empty coconut shells I was going to use yesterday and set out.

Surely after a storm like that, there'd be big puddles of drinkable water somewhere.

All the plants were still dripping water. I stuck the shell under the biggest stream I could find, but that was no where near sufficient.

"Bloody island," I muttered in frustration. "What kind of island doesn't a river or something?"

I gathered enough water for Percy to drink (he clearly needed it more than I did) and went to the cave again.

He was awake now, and he seemed a bit panicked.

"Where were you?" He demanded, and I realised he was worried about me.

I sat down beside him and handed him the coconut shell. "I got you some water."

"Oh, thanks." Percy accepted it gratefully, draining the shell in one go.

"You know, you probably shouldn't drink that fast."

He shrugged. "Oh well."

I took the shell back from him. "So, are you still cold?"

Percy nodded, so I threw more wood on the fire. There wasn't much else I could do, unfortunately.

"How long have we been here?" Percy asked, shuffling closer to the flames.

"About two days," I sat down on the other side of the cave, where I was sleeping the night before. "Hopefully a search party would be out there by now."

Percy frowned. "Even if there was, you know they might not find us."

As much as I hated to consider the obvious truth, he was right, and I knew it. "Yeah, I know. I mean, we don't even know where we are."


By midday, I'd gathered enough water to fill all the empty coconut shells, I got some more firewood and a piece of scrap metal from the beach (At first I'd thought it was a dead body, but it was just the boarding door from the plane), and had a little hut going for when the weather was nice.

It was a hot day, which did a lot to help Percy's hypothermia. I'd made a fire outside so he could sit in the sun and get as much warmth as possible, making sure that there was still shade so he wouldn't get sunburnt.

It was a bit of a struggle to get him out of the cave; he was still too weak to walk on his own and almost all his weight was on me as I help him crawl down from the cave opening. But the way he was going, hopefully he'd be strong enough to walk by himself tomorrow.

I didn't find anything else on the beach, and I couldn't decide if I was disappointed because of the lack of resources, or glad that I wouldn't have to go through the situation I thought I was going through when I saw Percy.

For lunch, I sat with Percy by the fire and ate coconuts.

"Annabeth, you are a wonderful cook." Percy smiled cheekily as he put his empty shell to the side.

"Why, thank you." I replied.

I handed him one of the shells with water in it, and we shared the water.

"Do you think you'll find fresh water?" Percy asked after a few minutes of silence.

I shrugged. "I don't know. I haven't searched the entire island yet."

He just nodded in response.

"So, how are you feeling?"

Percy frowned. "Better, I guess."

Then why was he frowning like that? Like something was tearing his heart apart. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, just my mom, and my dad, and my girlfriend."

Girlfriend? Why did that jump out at me. "Oh...yeah, I know what you mean."

I had my dad, and my little brothers at home. And they think you're dead.


Percy's POV

After our little conversation, Annabeth went back into the jungle to find water.

I felt beyond useless as I sat on the beach by my fire. I just longed to leap into the ocean, to go help, to find a way off this stupid island, but I could barely stand!

Rachel, why did I leave you? I thought of my girlfriend, and her bright green eyes and cheery personality.

But there was something about Annabeth that was intriguing. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but it was like an instant connection had formed the moment I'd opened my eyes and she'd basically smacked her head on the ceiling of that cave.

How was it that she and I were the only people to survive that crash? Surely, out of the two hundred passengers, more than two had gotten out.

Sighing, I lied down in the white sand, the sun shining through the trees onto my face. If it weren't for the lack of necessary supplies, the place might've been paradise.

There was so much about Annabeth I wanted to know. She looked to be a year or two younger than I was, and she was definitely smart; you just needed to look into her steely grey eyes to know how clever she was.

And she'd saved my life.

But I didn't know anything about her. Did she have family? Was she about to head off to collage?

"Hey, Percy!" Her voice called from the trees.

I sat up, turning to see her walking towards me with another shell of water in her hands.

"I finally found a stream!" She grinned, sitting next to me and handing the 'cup' to me. She only got one for me, I noticed.

Yeah, I really needed to get to know this girl.


Yay Percy!

Sorry for the long wait, and the short chapter.

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