Here's another one guys. It's my longest chapter yet, so I hope you guys like.

Kayla

I looked sadly at Alexia. I knew exactly how she felt. I have always had a crush on Dustin, but he likes Brittany. Alexia had always had a crush on Percy, and when he disappeared she fell for him hard. Now he had returned, only to have his girlfriend who he was in love with show up. I felt bad, but I thought it was funny how jealous Alexi was of Annabeth.

It was downright hilarious, and frankly if Alexia truly cared that much about Percy, she should be happy that he is finally happy for the first time this year. And at P.E. I think everything just took a turn for the worse for lex. We were all talking about girl stuff in the locker room, when lex started asking questions about Annabeth's past.

She was really dodgy, and since it was getting awkward we started to leave. We had just walked past the cheerleaders when Annabeth suddenly doubled over, and said two words. "Get Percy!" That shocked me into action. I told Brittany and lex to stay with Annabeth, and I sprinted out to see Percy on the bleachers.

I frantically screamed at him "Quick it is Annabeth." He was sitting at the top of the bleachers, but he jumped over the side and sprinted towards me. I showed him where Annabeth was curled like a ball on the ground and he started muttering "No. No. Not this again."

He sat down and told Brittany to back off which she did quickly. Then he started talking to Annabeth. He wasn't really talking, more like repeating four phrases "It is ok we're safe, we're not in that place anymore, we're together, I love you" After what felt like forever Annabeth uncurled from her balled position. She suddenly burst into tears.

"I'm sorry, it's all my fault that we went there, if I hadn't been so stupid," She started apologizing and no one knew what was going on, but Percy just put his hands up.

"That's enough out of you" and then he kissed her. When they finally came up for air Annabeth still had tears in her eyes but Percy just smiled, and said one thing, that made all of the tears disappear. "Annabeth, if we had a do-over, and we were standing in the cavern again, I would want it to be the same way."

After he said that Annabeth just covered her mouth in shock. "Think about it, what the others faced on the other side, they needed everyone just to survive that, and we…" He took a deep breath "…we survived." What was he talking about? They barely survived something over the summer. What had happened? After Percy said that, Annabeth just hugged him. "Feeling better?" he asked after a while.

"A lot better, thanks." And Annabeth gave him a frail shaky smile.

Then they shared a brief exchange whispering in each other's ears. Then Annabeth kissed him and stood up. Just then they looked up and saw the crowd that had gathered, just about every gym student was there watching. They both blushed madly.

Whispers could be heard from every corner of the room, ranging from "Aww they are such a cute couple" to "he is way too good for her." Percy seemed especially angry at the last one, but before he could reply Coach Hedge burst onto the scene.

"Jackson, Chase, you two better not be pulling any shenanigans like you tried over the summer." He yelled with his megaphone.

"Hedge you work here now?" Annabeth asked.

"That's right, after Mellie moved here, I thought I should get a job closer to home. She told me that she could handle " He stated with a smirk on his face. Percy grumbled something about stupid old goat, and then switched to a language I barely recognized, Greek. Annabeth just laughed and responded with a statement in Greek, followed by a laugh from both of them. "All right Jackson, Chase, for that little outburst there, both of you will be running laps around the track field."

"Sounds like fun," they both said, and the exited the locker room.

"Well what are you waiting for, baseball awaits," The coach yell swinging his oversized baseball bat hitting a mock home run.

Everyone started running to the field. As we were going Hedge yelled in the megaphone "I said run, not take a romantic walk," Percy and Annabeth were walking slowly around the field, and when they heard the coach, they just waved and continued their walk.

Then the coach turned to me because I was next to him and asked me what had happened in the locker room, so I told him about how Annabeth fell into the curled position asking for Percy, and how Percy just said the four phrases, and Hedges face seemed to soften up. "It never should have happened to them. They are the nicest people in the whole world, but they had the worst luck." I was about to ask Hedge to elaborate on that comment, but he looked lost in thought.

Percy (AN: I guess i have been putting this off for long enough now :P)

It was the best day of my life. My girlfriend moved away from her family, just to be with me. I know she didn't care much about them, but I was touched. I was so devastated when her dad said that she would have to go back to San Francisco for the school year. Then when she came back, I was on cloud nine. But then everything just got worse at P.E. I was just talking absent-mindedly to my friends waiting for Annabeth to come out of the changing room, when I saw Kayla running towards me. I knew something had happened. My worst fears were confirmed when she exclaimed "Come quick, it is Annabeth." Charged with adrenalin I jumped from the top of the bleachers, and sprinted to the locker room. When I went in, my heart dropped 10 feet. Curled in a ball on the ground was my amazing girlfriend. Alexia was just standing there like a stone, and Brittany was trying to get Annabeth to talk.

"No. no. not this again." I muttered. It had happened before, when we had just come back from defeating Gaea. Annabeth and I were talking, nothing important, just small talk, but when I accidently said something about Tartarus she suddenly just doubled over and curled into a ball. I spent the next 10 minutes just sitting next to her saying "I'm sorry, I love you." After a while she started talking again, and she told me how she just thought about Tartarus and went into shock, relieving a memory but it was different, an outcome where we had lost, where Damasen had not come to the rescue. She spent the next hour apologizing, and I thought it was pretty funny.

After a while we decided to go talk to Chiron about it. He thought that it was because of the post-traumatic stress or something, and that it should be fine soon. All this ran through my head as I sat down and took Annabeth's head into my lap. I just started whispering its ok it's all right, we are ok, we are together, and I love you. After 5 minutes or so she looked up at me in confusion then started crying in shame because of her bad decision. "Hey its ok, I love you." I said, but she just kept apologizing, "That's enough out of you." I said.

Since I figured she wouldn't stop so I did the logical thing, I kissed her. It felt so right, that I never wanted it to end. But she pulled away, still sad. I had to think of something fast, so what better than to tell her how I felt? "Annabeth, if we had a do-over, and we were standing in the cavern again, I would want it to be the same way." After I said that Annabeth just covered her mouth in shock. The twinkle in her eyes made it all the better.

"Think about it, what the others faced on the other side, they needed everyone just to survive that, and we…" I took a deep breath "…we survived." I wanted to say more, but now wasn't the time. After that Annabeth and I just hugged. "Feeling better?" I asked.

"A lot better, thanks." She tried to put on a brave smile, but it just showed how sad she really was.

"Percy I am so sorry, I can't handle the pain and the stress unless you are there, please never go away." Annabeth whispered into my ear pleadingly.

"Of course, but I am not handling the stress that well either." I admitted softly.

What do you mean?" she whispered in my ear.

I leaned down and whispered in her ear "I sleep walk, and apparently threaten people like they are monsters. On Monday I walked into my parent's room in the middle of the night with riptide drawn and threatened to kill whoever took you away from me. But when I am near you, I sleep well. Why would I leave you?" I looked at her and she smiled. Then we both stood up.

As we stood I noticed something. We had attracted a crowd. I should have expected it, crowds usually formed around where I was. I didn't plan it that way but that is just what always happened and I hated it. We both blushed. Everyone was whispering. I didn't hear most of the words, but one stood out, "He is way too good for her." That sentence hit me in the gut. I loved Annabeth, and always felt like I needed her approval.

When I heard that statement I got ready to deck the person who said that, when three things happened. First Annabeth looked at me and smirked, and that always gets my anger down, second I saw it was Cherri the annoying whore in our grade who was obsessed with me, and I figured it wasn't worth decking her, and the third was the fact that I saw the funniest person on earth walk in the locker room. I didn't exactly see him, because he is pretty short, as much as I saw his megaphone.

"Jackson, Chase, you two better not be pulling any shenanigans like you tried over the summer." Coach Hedge yelled with his megaphone. It took all of my will power not to start laughing, and to not yell at the stupid goat.

"Hedge you work here now?" Annabeth asked.

I had put up with that goat for the entire summer, and now he was getting annoying. I couldn't flat out curse at him so I let my anger out at him in Greek, because I knew he wouldn't understand. He was one of the few satyrs who didn't understand Greek. Then Annabeth decided to join in, and that lightened the mood. Our exchange went something like this.

Me: That goat and his over protective tendencies.

Annabeth: You know that is only because he cares about us, even if it is pretty annoying.

Me: You always see the good in everything, I love you.

Annabeth: Of course I always see the best in everyone, who else would, and I love you too.

"All right Jackson Chase, for that little outburst there, both of you will be running laps around the track field." Hedge yelled.

"Sounds like fun," both Annabeth and I said at the same time. We quickly left the gym.

"I hope you don't really plan on running laps." Annabeth asked once we were outside.

"Actually I was just hoping for a romantic walk with a beautiful girl," I said, giving her a wink. When she laughed I felt like everything we had gone through over the past 5 years would finally be worth it. After that we settled into a comfortable chit chat, just glad to be in each other's arms, just enjoying the fact that we were alive and together.

We were having a nice first 2 minutes or so when the rest of the class started running, to the baseball field I'd assume, when we heard Hedge's voice over the megaphone "I said run, not take a romantic walk." We made no changes, it was too comfortable, holding Annabeth in my hands. I just waved at the coach and continued walking.

"You know you are the smartest person I know, and you are amazing, funny, and to top it all off, you are the most beautiful person in the world. And my friends are nice people. I remember I thought Brittany was a monster for the first month I knew her because she was so nice. How did I get such a lucky life?" I asked smiling, but then I thought about how Alexia was just standing there, almost like she really hated Annabeth, but why would she hate Annabeth? She had no reason to right?

"I don't know about some of your friends, especially Alexia, being nice people, but I trust your judgment of people, if you say they are good people then I believe you. And you deserve this lucky life. You have definitely earned it." Then she leaned back on my chest and we continued our walk. I thought about how nice it was, not worrying about some evil entity planning on how to kill us somehow.

Just as I thought that I realized something. We were demigods, life would never be easy, and some monster might attack at any moment. And just when I thought that, I heard a monster growl nearby. Instinctively, I took riptide out of my pocket and put Annabeth behind me. She was armed only with her bronze knife that used to be Sadie's staff, and I was scared she might get hurt. I turned to where the group of mortals was and already saw Hedge running towards us, baseball bat ready. "You ready Annabeth?" She just sighed, and out of the bushes barreled a wasn't that big, and I sidestepped its first lunge and stabbed it. I was about to feel good about myself as it crumbled to dust, but then I realized something was behind us.

I turned and saw two more hellhounds behind us, one was small, while the other was decently big. Then I saw coach Hedge jump up and brain the smaller monster, and just kept hitting it. While the bigger hellhound was confused, I came up from behind and stabbed it, and it dissolved. Riptide was glowing in my hands. Annabeth went over and killed the smaller one as well. "That was easy," I said but Annabeth was staring at me in horror, and I was about to ask what was wrong when she pointed behind me, where there were 2 more hellhounds waiting.

I just sighed. The fight was fast, I stabbed the first, dodged the second ones attack, and stabbed it again. I thought I did a good job when I realized that I hadn't dodged the lunge by the second hellhound as well as I had thought. Where my left sleeve was, there was a long slash mark. I was in shock. I had no idea what to do then I look and saw the swimming pool, duh. I looked at Annabeth, and she smiled understandingly. I told hedge what I was going to do and he just nodded and went back to the field where the mortals were playing baseball, unaware of the monsters. Must be nice I thought, then I saw Annabeth's glare and I wondered what I had done wrong. "What?"

"Oh I saw you looking at the mortals with jealousy," she said with a smirk

"Yea, must be nice not to have to fight monsters all the time." She looked at me compassionately, and gave me a light, quick kiss.

"Yea, but if you were mortal I would never have met you." She said with a smile. Then said, "Race you to the pool."

"You're on," I replied and we ran. She beat me by a tenth of a second, but acted like she had beat me by an hour. Plus, I was injured, but she didn't take that into account at all.

"I won," she said with a smirk.

"Did you? Did you really?" I asked with an innocent tone.

"Yea I beat you here," She replied, sounding a bit frustrated.

"But did you really expect me to accept a race unless there was some way I could get back at you if I lost?" I said, smiling like I had just won a million bucks.

"No, please Percyyyyyyyy" She shouted, the last part because I was already pulling her into the pool, but I wasn't that mean to get her clothes and hair wet, so I extended my powers of staying dry to her and we had fun in the pool. We got out a while later, with my cut having been completely healed. We started walking towards the gym when I saw that they were still playing baseball.

"Well it looks like they are still playing baseball, which means we still have to do laps," She said with a smile.

"It doesn't look like you're that disappointed." I stated with a smirk on my face.

"C'mon Seaweed brain," She called

"I'll go anywhere with you." I replied, and she turned and smiled as the bell rang, signaling the end of the day.

"You always were too cheesy." She said with a smile, and she kissed me. A good proper kiss, but then coach Hedge decides to interrupt with that charm of his.

"If I see that one more time I will knock you back to long island with this bat!" He yelled through his megaphone.

"Whatever Coach!"I yelled back. Then we started walking back to the gym because the bell had rung. "Oh yeah Annabeth where are you staying?"

She just smiled, and said "You'll see," and with that she ran back to the gym. I caught up to her before we entered the building and then we met Paul in his class, and we walked towards his car. I was going to say good bye to Annabeth when I saw her get in the car with me.

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