Love Sucks

This is slash

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"You know, your hair looks really good pushed back like that."

Annabeth turned a pretty shade of red as her girlfriend, Reyna, caressed some of her golden hair to the side.

"Thanks."

"So what are you doing later?"

"Don't tell me you forgot? Chiron wants us to go on a quest with Piper to some mountain to collect more supplies." Annabeth told her.

"We are running low. When do we leave?"

"Tonight I believe."

"You believe?" Reyna raised an eyebrow elegantly.

Annabeth frowned, lately she had been so distracted. Reyna was so busy lately trying to fix the camp that there was no wonder she forgot but Annabeth was normally never like that.

Annabeth was interrupted by a loud banging on the door.

"I'll get it," Annabeth said. She kissed Reyna on her cheek before opening the door.

A fist connected with her face and she fell to the ground.

"Where the fuck were you?"

Reyna stood and cradled Annabeth in her arms. She glared at Frank and scowled, "why'd you do that?"

"They're dead! Because of you! You were supposed to be the ones on the quest!"

"What are you talking about?" Annabeth demanded. "The quest leaves tonight."

"It left yesterday! You weren't there so… so Hazel and Percy took your places."

"Hazel and Percy? Those two are in no shape to be on a quest. Hazel- she told me she was expecting and Percy is still recovering from the war."

"That's why you were supposed to go. Now they're dead! All of them! Piper, Percy and- and -and Hazel."

Annabeth stared at Frank shocked. She remembered now. The quest was meant to leave yesterday. She was too busy helping Reyna with the plans for New Rome that it left her mind. She hadn't been sleeping that much lately due to so much to do in so little time.

And now her best friend was dead.

"Percy's dead?" she mumbled numbly.

Frank just glared at her before leaving.

Annabeth became obsessed with her work after that. She would work from the first moment she woke up to the moment she went to sleep leaving no room to think about the quest.

Guilt began eating her alive.

She stopped eating and she barely slept.

Reyna tried to help but there wasn't much the Praetor could do. She was still really busy and Annabeth closed herself off.

"If we had just went on that quest they would still be alive. They couldn't fight. We could have!" Annabeth would cried sometimes.

"We can't change the past." was all Reyna would respond with.

Sometimes Annabeth would simply run off without a warning and disappear for a couple of days or a week. Nobody would know where she went or when or if she came back.

Reyna would get worried about what if one day Annabeth just didn't come back. She was just an awful girlfriend. She was supposed to be the one Annabeth confided in and seeked comfort in but…

Reyna shook her head and sighed. She was interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Annabeth?" she asked hopefully as she opened the door.

"Actually Miss Praetor. We need your help. There has been an- uh, incidence."

Reyna nodded and quickly changed into appropriate clothes before following the camper to a cabin.

She cautiously entered the room, not sure what to expect.

This was definitely not what she was expecting.

Jason Grace was hanging from the ceiling by his neck. The room smelled so she assumed he had been dead for a couple days at best.

How could no one notice that one of the former Praetors was missing for days?

Leo Valdez was on the ground beneath his best friend sobbing his heart out. Reyna later learning it was Leo who found Jason. She decided to let him calm down before making him answer questions.

Leo didn't speak though. He didn't say anything.

In a different part of the camp Annabeth was staring numbly at the ocean. The water seemed so sad and angry. Annabeth briefly wondered how Poseidon was feeling about Percy's death.

He was Poseidon's favorite son after all.

"I'm sorry." she whispered to no one in particular. She really was just plain sorry though. May be she could ask Nico if he would take her to the underworld to see Percy.

Nico. She frowned. He was dating Percy, wasn't he? Would he be mad at her too?

She hoped he was doing okay.

"Jason's dead." was the first thing out of Reyna's mouth when Annabeth walked in.

Annabeth didn't know how she felt about that. Her heart still felt empty and numb. Jason wasn't even that close of a friend and yet it still hurt to hear he died.

"How?"

Reyna frowned, reluctant to answer.

"He killed himself, didn't he?"

Annabeth was always a smart girl. Reyna nodded.

Annabeth frowned. Suicide. That seemed like a good answer. She didn't deserve to live. Not after what she did.

It was the easy way out and Annabeth didn't want the easy way out.

"I see."

"Annabeth. It wasn't our fault. Everyone makes mistakes."

"Normally theirs don't involve three people dying."

Reyna bit her lip. "come on. I want to show you something."

Annabeth obediently followed Reyna outside and to the training field.

"We're sending out a quest to try for the supplies again. Maybe even get some revenge. Would you like to go?"

Annabeth frowned. Revenge always sounded petty and useless to her but right now it sounded nice.

Reyna smiled. "then get training."

So Annabeth trained for days on end until she was back in shape. By the time the quest left she was in top shape again.

Reyna had just smiled as she watched Annabeth leave for the quest, a little worried that the girl might not come back.

She did. Annabeth seemed happier after that.

And then there was another desperate banging on the door.

"There's been another incident Praetor Reyna!" a boy shouted.

Annabeth and Reyna ran after the boy into the boy's bathroom. In it laid Leo in a pool of blood. His eyes were closed and his body was covered in cuts.

"What happened?" Reyna demanded as she commanded a different boy to get some doctors.

The boy just stuttered out, "I was just going to pee and… I just wanted to pee!"

Reyna cast a look at his soiled pants and sighed. "go clean yourself up and then come find me."

Leo survived. Barely. He had lost a lot of blood.

He woke up a couple days later. They had to tie him up to prevent him from harming himself.

It hurt to see how angry and sad Leo was. His eyes were no longer filled with hope and excitement. They were empty. He no longer looked that the cute elfish boy that loved creating things.

He was a shell. He stopped smiling and refused to speak to anyone.

One day when Annabeth went to visit she came across his empty bed. Annabeth had feared he went off to kill himself but later learned he was sent off the camp Half Blood.

She didn't see him again after that.

Her relationship with Reyna got better and life slowly flowed back into her eyes.

She became happier. She would never be as happy as she was before the incidence and Reyna knew that so she savored all the smiles and laughs Annabeth graced her with.

A while later Annabeth finally gathered courage to see how Leo was doing and to see if Nico would let her see Percy.

She definitely didn't expect to see Leo and Nico living in a cabin together with two small children.

"No."

"Why not?"

"He won't come. I've tried."

Nico poured her a cup of tea as he sat down across from her.

"I see."

Annabeth looked down. She really didn't expect Nico to let her see Percy.

"How are you doing Leo?" Annabeth asked.

Leo looked up from making lunch for the kids and shrugged. "fine."

Annabeth frowned. She wanted to make things right between them. "I'm sorry."

Leo and Nico looked at her, shocked and confused. "Why?"

"Because Reyna and I was supposed to go on that quest. I forgot about it and so Percy and Hazel went in our place."

Leo and Nico just looked down.

"I'm sorry," she repeated.

"Well sorry doesn't bring them back!" Nico snapped.

Annabeth flinched and stood to leave.

Just before she reached the door Nico spoke again. "It's as much your fault as it is my fault. Don't beat yourself up over it. Just move on."

Annabeth felt the weight on her shoulders lift. "thanks." she smiled.

Nico embraced her before letting her go.

Annabeth smiled and went back to New Rome to live with Reyna. Nico was right.

Maybe they could adopt a couple kids too and try to live a normal life.

Because really, what more could she ask for?

XXX

So, here's part two. Hope you enjoyed it :)

Still taking requests, it doesn't have to be Percy Jackson.

Anyway, I will post Leo's POV, Jason's POV, and Frank's POV later. Maybe even Percy's POV.

Lilac ;)