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Chapter 7: Decisions

As I watched them kiss, anger filled inside me. Luke's gone too far now. I'd rather be at his than have Annabeth being his boyfriend.

"Go back to camp and come back tomorrow night, same time." Luke said, and he turned and walked off. I waited until he was out of site and walked out from behind the tree.

"Annabeth what the hell are you doing?!" I said.

"Percy?" she said. "What are you doing here?"

"I know what you've been up to!" I argued.

"Well, it's none of your business." Annabeth said, trying to walk away.

"What were you thinking?" I said, trying to catch up with her.

"I'm trying to protect you Percy." Annabeth said, speeding up.

"Well I don't want it to be like this."

"Well it has to be."
"No it doesn't, you can stop this Annabeth. They can't hurt me."

"Yes they can!" Annabeth said, turning around. Her face was red and she had tears falling down her cheeks.

"Why did you do this Annabeth?" I asked quietly. There was a short silence. My heart was pounding a thousand miles per hour. I wanted to hear her answer.

"I don't want to lose you Percy……I love you." Annabeth said. I had mixed feelings now. I wrapped my arms around her and gave her a tight hug. She wrapped her arms around me and buried her head into my chest.

"I love you, too." I said. I held on to her as tight as possible, and she did, too.

"You're not going to lose me." I said while lifting her chin so she was looking at me. She smiled, and leaned in and kissed me. Her face was warm against mine, and she reminded me of better, happier times. I knew then that I wasn't about to let Luke take her away from me. I had to stop him, and the easiest way to do that is gain his trust, and which the only way to do that is to join him. After we kissed for a while we pulled away from each other with smiles on our faces.

It was 6 in the morning as I packed my things. I picked up Defender and walked to the Athena cabin. Annabeth was in there alone studying maps from the mini library in the cabin.

"Hey seaweed brain." She said while putting down a map and giving me a kiss.

"I'm going back Annabeth." I told her.

"What?!" she said.

"Luke's planning something, I can tell. Why else would he be stationed around camp?" I said.

"I was afraid you'd do this." Annabeth said sadly.

"I guess there's no stopping you, huh?" she said with a smile on her face. I shook my head, smiling back at her.

"Please don't do anything stupid." Annabeth said while giving me a hug. I kissed her again and then took off for the woods. I started looking around for clues to find Luke. I started by going in the direction that he took off in. I walked around for about an hour, and then realized something. I was lost. I sat on a rock and drank from my canteen, trying to figure out which way to go. Suddenly, I heard some rustling noises coming from trees. I thought it was the wind, but I wasn't completely sure. I cautiously uncapped riptide and held it in front of me. Then, all of a sudden, I heard a yell from behind me. When I turned around all I saw was a club swing right at my face.

"Wake up Jackson!" I heard a familiar voice say. I slowly opened my eyes to see that my vision was blurry.

"Where am I?" I asked. My face was hot. My hands and feet were tied up, so I couldn't move. I stayed still and my vision cleared. It was Luke. One of his lap dogs had knocked me out and brought me to the Princess Andromeda.

"You shouldn't have left Percy." Luke said. He punched me right across the face. Now I knew what he was doing. He was torturing me.

"Did you really think you could get away Percy?" Luke said while kneeing me in the stomach.

"You're lucky one of your friends was helping you out!' Luke spat. "But now that you're back, you can receive your punishment." Luke said in a cold voice. He swung at me so hard, as soon as his fist hit my face, blood shot out from my mouth. The next three hours contained beatings, lectures and rules. When he was done he threw me into my old room with my stuff. I was lying on the floor, crying, and bleeding, wishing to be back at camp, in Annabeths arms, and she would be in mine. My face was swollen, my nose, and my mouth was bleeding. If this is what I had to do to stop Luke from taking over camp, and taking Annabeth away from me………….so be it.

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