Story: Distant Waves

Author: BeautiWind

Couple: Percy J./Annabeth C.

Chapter Rate: T

Genre: Romance/Genre

Disclaimer: I only own my idea of using a Titanic storyline and basing off PJO & my own characters from "Titanic" for "Distant Waves."If you are anyhow related to the historical characters I base off my characters, please don't be offended by this. This is just pure fun! Any use of dialogue of the books and/or movie is in Fair Copyright Law 107 and copyright to their intended belongs to Rick and Haley Riordan and Titanic belongs to who ever owns it (I'm guessing James Cameron & Crew).

Summary: Annabeth Chase-Norwood goes aboard the Titanic and isn't expecting to fall in love with Percy Jackson, who has nothing to offer her but his heart and love. Will she surrender her luxurious and stable life to love him? Or will she let herself be pushed around by her fiancee, Luke Castellan-Tolbert? In-honor of Titanic!

Chapter 3: You Jump, I Jump

Annabeth Chase-Norwood

"It is truly remarkable the work you have done on the ship, Mr. Godwin." My mother complimented. "And you as well, Mr. Solace-Fletcher."

We were seated in a table in the dining room. I was seated at the table with my fiancé at my left and my mother at the right, sitting at the head of the table as she was used to. Aphrodite Beauregard-Holbrook, Ares Godwin, and Apollo Solace-Fletcher had also joined us for breakfast.

"Why thank you, Lady Athena, if I may call you that." Mr. Godwin said while Mr. Solace Fletcher nodded in agreement.

"Now, now. Who was the one who came up with the name 'Titanic'? Was it you, Ares?" Aphrodite smiled at Ares, and he couldn't refuse to smile back.

"Yes of course. With the help of Apollo here, who created the design of the ship, we needed a name that suited the vessel well. A name that said, stability, strength, quality, and hard work. And suddenly it hit us! 'Titanic' was the best for it. And here she is, a well solid reality." Ares explained with great fascination that I couldn't help but smile.

"Great, truly th—"My mother was interrupted by someone running to our table.

"Sorry I'm late! I was touching up a bit more." The young girl said. She looked like around my age. But she was running so she tripped and fell on top of a waiter. They both fell together on to the floor with a great thump!, the girl on top of the waiter.

Everyone gasped.

"I'm sorry, Miss, are you alright?" said the waiter. He helped her up, offering his hand to her. What a gentleman! He is taking the blame for her. He doesn't look like he works on this part of the ship, though.

"No, no totally my fault..." she faltered when she saw his eyes. His eyes were beautiful, I've got to admit. They were a shade of hazel-almond that made any girl melt.

"Silena! What is this scandal!" Aphrodite questioned angrily.

"I'm sorry, Mother." She thanked the waiter and dusted herself off. Ares stood up and pulled her chair. "Thank you, Sir."

Her mother reluctantly sat down and glared at her daughter. "Please excuse my dear daughter."

"Now worries, Lady. Every girl needs to touch up before they leave their room, right gentleman?" Luke commented followed by laughs of the gentleman. My mother, Lady Aphrodite, and I didn't think it was funny.

Silena blushed. "Sorry..."

Another waiter approached our table to take our orders. "Would you like to order now?"

"Uh yes please. Can we have the lamb, rare with a hint of mint and salt, yes?" Luke ordered.

"Of course, Sir." The waiter wrote down the order and continued around the table.

Luke turned to me, "You like lamb right, Sweet Pea?"

He was obviously not noticing my expression, so I smiled. "Sure."

"Great." He nodded.

Aphrodite had seen the exchange between Luke and me and laughed, "Are you going to cut the meat for her there to, Luke?"

Luke glared and she backed off.

I needed something to calm me down so I took a cigarette from the plate and lit it. It felt so good to breathe it in. My parents clearly don't like it which makes it even more satisfying.

To make it even more better, my mother told me firmly, "You know I don't like it Anna."

I glared at her as I blew the smoke in her face. How dare she interrupt me? And call me by one of my nicknames?

"She knows." Luke sighed, taking the bottom part of the cigarette off of my hands, leaving me with the top part, where I put my mouth.

I turned to Mr. Godwin, "Do you know of Dr. Freud, Mr. Godwin? His ideas of the male preoccupation in size might be of particular interest to you."

Aphrodite smiled and looked at Ares as though saying Ooh! You are burned! And Apollo laughed at my comment and found it amusing. Silena smiled at me as though saying Good job, Annabeth!

Luke stared at me while my mother whispered-scolded, "What on Earth has gotten into you, Annabeth!"

Trying to avoid the conversation I got up and excused myself.

"I do apologize." I heard my mother say.

"She is a pistol, Luke. Are you sure you can handle her?" Aphrodite noted.

Luke scoffed, "Well I might have to start minding what she reads from now on, won't I, Lady Aphrodite."

Aphrodite smiled and nodded.

Ares asked a bit in shock, "Freud? Is he a passenger or what?"

...o0o...

I walked to the deck where I spent time with Thalia and Bianca. When I glanced at the lower deck I saw, in the corner of my eye, a guy who was staring at me weirdly.

I came out here to think, so I ignored it. You see, when I get mad, sad and/or angry, I can't control my temper. Things/words explode out of me out of no where and my mother gets disappointed in me which I hate.

All I long for is freedom and I can't stand that everyone is on my case and won't let me free. If my brothers were here with us everything would be different.

But every time I...

Suddenly I was interrupted by someone tugging on my arm. I looked down and saw a little girl. She was cute and little. She had little piggy tails on her hair and a nice dress.

"Oh, hello." I said. "May I help you?"

"Hide me, please Miss. My mother wants to make over me." She squealed.

"Alright but tell me your name."

"Lacy Northrup."

I hid her behind the bench I was sitting at. A minute later I saw a lady, who must've been Lacy's mother looking for her. She ran to the other side of the deck.

Lacy ran out of her hiding place and thanked me.

Once that happened, I was interrupted once more. But this time it was a person I did not want to see. Luke.

"What was that that happened in there, Annabeth?" he scolded.

"Nothing of your concern."

"What? You know what? Go to your cabin now and stay there. We will discuss this matter some other time. Be ready for dinner in time." He ordered.

"No..."

"Go!"

I sighed angrily and stomped to my cabin.

...o0o...

A few hours had passed and the horn had just sounded announcing dinner.

I had dressed up in an evening gown made out of beige-coloured silk with black lace material bordering the dress, with my favourite black heels.

When I was about to enter the dinning room the men at the door opened the doors for me. I entered just in time as Silena had so we walked to our table together.

"Hey," she stopped me at mid-way, "Nice comment to Mr. Godwin at breakfast today. He totally deserved it after being a jerk about men being better than women."

I smiled at her, "Thanks."

When we got to the table, Thalia, Bianca and their families had already shown up and were eating. And so had Mother and Luke. I invited Silena to sit with us and she agreed.

I don't know why I felt so bad at the moment but I just couldn't help it. I felt as if my whole life had lived already. Like if it was on replay. It is the same routine every day and I'm getting tired of it.

I got up from the table, losing my appetite. My friends looked worried but I told them I was fine. Not!

Once I got out of the dining room I started to run. It felt so good to run. I felt free! But why was I crying? I did not know. Wait a minute yes I do know. I'm tired of feeling trapped under my family's grip. Never getting to do anything I want. Be a rebel when I when I want to.

Anyways, I started to run faster at this point. I ran to the stern of the ship, not processing what i was doing.

I quickly got a grip on the railing and started to climb over. Now I know what I wanted to do... I was trying to kill myself. I was doing a favour to everyone and extinguish myself from this world. I was tired of knowing what was going to happen in ten years.

I grabbed the tail of my dress and secured myself with my back touching the railing and my face looking on to the sea. I promise myself I would let go.

At this point my hands were shaky and I was crying inconsolably and loud.

Just as I was to let go of the railing bars, I was startled by someone who said slowly, "Don't do it."

I turned my head towards the person and saw that it was the guy from the deck who got face slapped. He is handsome, if you were wondering. His hair was blackish and shaggy/messy. His Caucasian skin went well with his sea-green eyes. Sea-green...

Sea-green brought me back to what I was doing. "Stay back! If you get close I'll let go!"

He shook his head, "No you won't."

I was confused, "What? Don't presume to tell me what I will and not do. You don't know me!"

"Well, you would've done it already, Miss." He said respectfully.

"Go away! You are distracting me!"

"I can't. I'm involved now." He said calmly. He took a step closer.

"I said stay! I will let go!" I threatened.

He lifted his cigarette, which I didn't know he had, and signalled me to let him throw it into the sea. "If you let go, I will have to jump in after you."

"Don't be absurd. You will die instantly." I said, a bit surprised by his bravery.

"I love the water and I am a good swimmer."

"The fall its self would kill you."

I'm not saying it wouldn't hurt, but I can't let you feel the pain without help." He starts to untie his shoes, "To tell you the truth I'm more worried about the temperature of the water. It's cold!"

This got my attention, "How cold?"

"Freezing, Maybe some degrees below zero." He paused as I just stared at him blankly, "Uh, have you ever been to Wisconsin?"

"What?" I asked as I turned my head to the sea.

"They have the coldest winters around. I know because I used to visit my aunt every year and I would get frozen just by looking at the snow. I remember when I was a boy my uncle would take me ice fishing, on nearby lake. Ice fishing is when you—"

"I know what ice fishing is!" I snapped.

"Sorry, it's just that you seem more like an indoor girl." He said, apologizing.

You have no idea... I thought.

"Anyway, I fell through some thin ice, and let me tell you, water that cold, like down there," he explained leaning on to the railing, looking down at the waves, "it hurts you like a thousand knifes and needles poking and stabbing you all over. You can't breathe, you can't think, just on the pain that is."

He started to take of his jacket, showing his plaid shirt.

He sighed. "Which is why I am not looking forward to jumping in there after you. But like I said, I don't have a choice. I just hope you'll come back over the rail and get me off the hook here, you know."

I was getting annoyed by this right now, "You are crazy!"

"Everyone says that, but with all due respect, Miss, I am not the one hanging off the back of the ship here. Come on. Take my hand. You know you don't want to do this." He offered his as to where I could see it.

I reluctantly gave him my hand and he helped me turn around with out falling and/or tripping over my dress. When I turned completely I was face to face with him. He smiled at me in relief and sighed.

"I'm Percy Jackson, Nice to meet you." He introduced himself, his eyes looking at me to reassure me I was okay.

"Annabeth Chase-Norwood."

He grinned, "Sorry but I'm gonna have to get you to write that one down for me."

I blushed, curse my long name. That is not even including my middle name, Daphne. Annabeth Daphne Chase-Norwood.

"Come on." He tried to pull me up but he needed me to help as well. So I climbed the railing bar by bar, careful not to trip over my heels.

But not everything in this world is good right. As I was climbing, I slipped on the lacy-ish part of my dress and was now dangling off the stern. Obviously I was screaming my heart out in panic. Percy was trying all he could on pulling to safety but he was only one person, also in panic. Somehow he was able to pull me up. And when that happened we landed on the wooden floor of the ship together, I at the bottom and him on top of me.

Without seeing the incident, you would have thought he was about to rape me. And that is exactly what the men in charge thought when they arrived. They must have heard my screams.

"Well, well, what do we have here?"One of them asked.

I, being just rescued from a life-threatening situation, was shaking vigorously. This looks really bad for Percy.

"Stand back, Hands up, and don't move!" the other said to Percy.

"Call her fiancé, Jaxon!" one said.

"Aye..." he responded.

"You are in so much trouble, young man." The other said.

Percy looked at me with even more panic in his eyes than before.

I'm going to help you, don't worry, I mouthed to him.

It is okay, he mouthed back.

"They are on their way."

Percy Jackson

"What right do you have, touching my fiancé, you bastard!" yelled Annabeth's fiancé at me.

"Luke..." called Annabeth but he ignored her. He was on a roll cussing at me.

"I should have you arrested for just looking at her!" he roared.

"Luke! Stop!" Annabeth called, once more. She was wrapped in two blankets with a teacup in her hands.

She gave the teacup to the maid and looked at Luke. "It's okay. It was an accident.

"An accident?"

"A stupid one really. Yes."

I squinted my eyes suspiciously and so did everyone else.

She continued, "I was leaning far over the railing and I slipped. And if it wasn't for Mr. Jackson, here, I would've gone overboard. He would've gone over himself, as well. I was leaning to see the uh... uh.. the , uuh..."

She was doing spinning motions with her hands.

"Propellers?" Luke asked.

"Yes! The Propellers!" she stammered.

"She wanted to see propellers. She wanted to see the propellers! Oh, Propellers." Luke exclaimed.

One of the men around said, "Like I said, women and machinery do not mix."

One of the officers spun my head around and asked, "Was it that way?"

Annabeth looked at me with a look that said, You better say yes!

"Yes! That was pretty much it."

The man that talked before said, "Well the young man is a hero, then. Good for you son. Well done!" he turned around, "So it's all's well and back to our brandy, eh?"

Luke turned to Annabeth, "Let's get you inside, Sweet Pea. You must be freezing."

He hugged her. I couldn't help to feel a bit of jealousy when I saw that scene, but I had to understand this wasn't my place so I started to walk away.

The man that congratulated me said to Luke, "Perhaps a little something for the boy."

He motioned his head towards me.

Luke turned to his butler, "Of course! I think a twenty should do."

Annabeth looked shocked, "Is that the going rate for saving the woman you say you love?"

Luke squinted his electric blue eyes, "Annabeth is displeased. Hmm. What to do...? Ah, I know."

He turned to me. "Perhaps you could join us for dinner tomorrow evening to regale our group with your... umm... heroic tale."

Percy thought of it for a second and at last said, "Sure, count me in."

"Good, it is settled." He turned to his buddy and I could hear what he told him. "This should be interesting, right?"

They led Annabeth back to her cabin and she smiled at me with gratitude.

Oh my gods. What did I just agree to? Ugh.

Before the butler left, I asked him if I could bum a smoke and he gave me one.

"How come you could manage to take off your shoes and coat when she was falling so suddenly?" he asked me.

"Uh, I had them off when it happened." I answered simply.

"Hmm." I left him in doubt but I didn't care.

I was a hero to the girl I fell for this morning.

Okay so this is all for this chappie. (:

-I might update this or next-next weekend. But don't worry I won't let you guys down.

Anyways see ya guys l8r

~BeautiWind -heart-

P.S: I forgot to add Calypso in this story but she will be in it. I won't give you guys the description because this will be surprise (: