I'm so sorry I haven't updated in a long time. But finals are coming up, so I'm gonna be occupied. But once summer comes, I'll make it up to you amazing people who read my story.
And thanks to all who told me where to find the movie! And to anyone who reviewed!
Remember, I don't own the characters. But I'm working on my own.
Percy
"Uhgnnn"
"Guys! I think he's coming to!" Grover screams in my ear.
"Well I definitely am now." I sit up and take in my surroundings. I'm in the infirmary, apparently as a patient because I'm lying in one of the beds. That's strange, seeing as the whole "mark of Achilles" thing takes injuries off of my list of life problems. Granted, it's still a pretty long list.
But what's even stranger than me being injured is who's apparently here to visit me. Sure, there's Nico, Grover, Thalia and Annabeth, but that's not surprising seeing as they would all be at least moderately ad if I was hurt. But the person who I think would probably be doing a happy dance if I was hurt, the person least likely to worry about my health is there in the corner, looking bored and zapping bugs out of the air with her spear.
Yep, you guessed it: Clarisse.
I wonder why she's here. Did she come voluntarily? She's not tied down, and there's no sign of a struggle, no bloodstains, and no dead bodies, so my guess would be yes. But why? She has been mellowing out lately. Maybe after the Labyrinth and saving Olympus she decided to forgive me for that time I soaked her in the bathroom, broke her spear, beat her in the chariot race, invaded her quest…
"Chiron! He's awake! Can we start the movie now?" Clarisse bellowed in the direction of the door. Oh right. The movie.
Chiron galloped in, and Annabeth came over to my bed. "How's your head Percy?"
"Um, fine." I replied. Something in her tone seemed off, and what's up with Percy? She always calls me Seaweed Brain or Perce, unless she feels guilty or I was in mortal peril. Well, I'm pretty sure I haven't had a near death experience lately, so what could it be?
Wait a second…
Then it hit me. I turned towards Annabeth with a disbelieving look. "You knocked me out."
Now she has that guilty look on her face "Percy, it was an accident!"
"You kicked me in the face! How is that an accident?"
At this point she was just radiating guilt "Okay, first off you were going completely crazy, so even if it wasn't an accident – which it was – it would have been justified. Second, the mark of Achilles should have protected you!"
"I'm guessing invincibility doesn't apply to being hit with a wall!" Out of the corner of my eye I see Clarisse light up like Christmas had come early. Well, that statement is going to come back and bite me later.
Annabeth was about to reply, but Chiron decided it was the right time to herd everyone back into the movie room. On the way there, someone yelled out "Hey, Clarisse!". We all turned, and jogging towards our little party was Chris Rodriguez, Clarisse's boyfriend. He stopped in front of her, and we all stopped too.
"Whaddaya want, Rodriguez?" Clarisse asks him. Yes, they're dating, but that doesn't mean she has to be nice.
"I was thinking we could, you know, train." He seems a little hesitant. Either because whenever someone trains with Clarisse they walk away with one less limb than they had before, of because by "training" he means something not actually fighting related. And if you walk in on those "training" sessions, you still lose a valuable body part.
Clarisse looked down at her boots. There's no way she would miss the movie (it's already been proven to be quite embarrassing to me) but if she watches the movie she'll have to blow off two of her favorite things: fighting with sharp objects and spending time with Chris (she'd deny it but we know she loves him). So I'd bet she was pretty happy when Grover piped up.
"Chris can join us! The movie probably won't make sense to him, but it really doesn't make sense anyway."
Oh that Grover. You probably think he's being so kind to not exclude Chris, but I bet he just wants more witnesses in case there's a really bad part and everyone decides to kill him.
So while Clarisse fills Chris in on what's going on, everyone else ambles into the movie room. I was planning on sitting as far away from Annabeth as possible, seeing as I didn't want to be KO'd by my girlfriend twice in one day. But she put that puppy-dog look on her face that I'm a sucker for. I happen to find that look quite attractive. Well, really, I find all of hr looks attractive, except for the I'm-mad-as-Hades-and-the-next-person-to-cross-my-path-will-die-a-slow-and-painful-death-then-be-brought-back-from-the-Underworld-so-that-I-can-kill-them-again look. And I even sort of like that look, as long as it's not directed towards me. Which it usually is, seeing as we cross paths a lot.
But because of that puppy-dog face I just sigh and plop down in the seat next to my possibly homicidal girlfriend. Let the movie begin.
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