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Chapter 7
Annabeth
Annabeth was slightly startled when she woke up with a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist, until the memories from the previous night fluttered into her mind. Although the nightmares were rather unpleasant, having Percy there managed to calm her thoughts completely.
His scent filled her nose and she managed to turn around in his arms so she was nestled into his chest. As usual, he was sound asleep, snoring softly, but Annabeth didn't mind. She felt safe, right then and there, being able to make sure that he was there and he was next to her.
She shuddered slightly at the remembrance of her nightmares.
They had been running through Tatarus, and right before they got onto the elevator doors that brought them back to their friends, Percy stopped. Annabeth had screamed for him to come, but he looked at her with watery tears and shook his head.
"I can't leave Bob and Damasen," he had cried, "go Wise Girl! Get back to the others!"
"Not without you!" she cried, shaking her head with tears, but before Percy could respond, a monster raced up to him and grabbed him, ripping him away from her, and leaving her all alone as the only person who meant the most to her was pulled away.
Annabeth felt her heart quicken its pace as she thought of the dream that had seemed so real, that had made her so worried that she would lose Percy, but when she looked up at his peaceful sleeping face next to hers, she let out a soft sigh of relief.
To her surprise, Percy opened and eye, and smiled sweetly at her.
"Morning," he grumbled, his voice was raspy with sleep. Annabeth smiled and rested her head on his chest.
"Hi," she said softly, and glanced at the poster of One Direction on the wall. One Direction? She wasn't a huge fan of them, so why were they in her cabin…
Wait.
Annabeth shot up and glanced over at the empty bed on the other side of the room, and her face paled. She had completely forgotten she was in her cousins' house, and sharing a room with her cousin who happened to have a crush on her boyfriend.
"Shit, Percy!" Annabeth hissed and pushed him, a little too harshly and he tumbled off of the bed.
"Ow!" he exclaimed, "what was that for?"
Annabeth stifled a laugh as she looked at him on the ground, but recomposed herself quickly.
"Skye saw us," she hissed, "what if she-"
Suddenly, Fletcher walked into the room, cutting Annabeth off.
"Hey Annabeth I-"
He froze when he saw a very confused Percy, who was most likely still half asleep, on the floor, and a very embarrassed Annabeth.
"Oh my god did I just walk in on you guys doing it?" Fletcher cried while covering his eyes, "that's disgusting!"
"No you idiot!" Annabeth hissed and threw a pillow at her blond cousin, "it's not what it looks like."
"What is happening?" Percy asked while rubbing his head which he hit on the floor. Annabeth glanced in guilt at him and made a reminder to apologize later.
"That's what they all say, Annie," Fletcher laughed, and she boiled with anger at the nickname. The smug grin on his face confirmed his amusement with the situation, although Annabeth didn't find it funny at all. What if her aunt kicked her out of the house?
"I had a nightmare last night and I called Percy because I needed him, and then he fell asleep here," Annabeth explained quickly, glancing nervously behind her cousin, hoping that her aunt wouldn't come up. She had figured Skye must've already seen the two together, so she wasn't as worried about that.
Fletcher must have seen the nervousness in Annabeth's voice, or maybe it was the fact that she had dark bags under her eyes from lack of sleep, but the smirk wiped cleanly off of his face.
"Alright," he said and then glanced at Percy who was now looking around in confusion. Fletcher laughed.
"So why is Percy on the floor?"
"She pushed me!" Percy cried, and Annabeth laughed lightly, still happy that her nightmare hadn't been anywhere near to the truth. She had her Seaweed Brain, he was right next to her.
Well, next to her on the floor.
"Was your nightmare that bad?" Fletcher asked while raising an eyebrow back at Annabeth. She grimaced and nodded. Percy crawled back onto the bed next to her and buried his face in the pillow. She smiled lightly at his childish ways.
Fletcher pursed his lips together and then he smiled.
"Well, if you guys are hungry, Mom went out to go grocery shopping so you probably have time to eat and get Percy out of here before she gets home," he said and gave them a quick wink before walking out of the room to leave the couple alone.
Annabeth sighed in relief, still slightly mortified that her cousin had thought he walked in on them doing it, but still relieved it wasn't her aunt.
"Get up, Percy," Annabeth laughed when he pulled her down to cuddle her.
"No," he groaned, "I'm tired and you're warm."
Annabeth smiled as he curled into her chest. She played with his dark hair and kissed the top of his head as he lulled softly back to sleep.
But then the sound of the front door opening, made Annabeth's heart stop.
Her aunt was back.
"Okay, Percy, I love you and all, but you really gotta go," she said quickly. Percy opened his eyes, and for a moment Annabeth was mesmerized by them, until she heard her aunt announce that she was home from downstairs.
"Is that your aunt?" he asked and Annabeth nodded quickly. She glanced around the room, wondering where she could find her not-so-tiny boyfriend, when her eyes fell on the window.
No, she wasn't going to push him out of the apartment through a window, but there was a fire escape. She quickly hopped out of the bed and towards the window before opening it rapidly.
The sound of her aunt's footsteps padded up the stairs, and Percy hopped out of the window and onto the fire escape.
"I'll see you at school," he whispered and gave her a chaste kiss before she closed the window, hoping he'd get out of sight quickly.
Just in time too.
"Oh good morning, Annabeth," her aunt greeted and smiled warmly at her from the doorway.
"Hi, Aunt Ronnie," Annabeth smiled.
"Oh dear, it's warm in here, you girls should really open a window!" Aunt Ronnie said and made her way over to the window.
"It's okay," Annabeth tried to say quickly, but her aunt was already at the window. Annabeth held her breath as she looked out at the fire escape, but there was no sign of Percy, and she let out a sigh of relief.
"There," her aunt said and smiled, "much better. Now come downstairs for breakfast, you must be hungry."
"Okay," Annabeth said and waited a moment for her to leave before glancing back out the window.
She glanced at the clock and realized that there was only twenty minutes before they left for school, and she cursed under her breath before grabbing her suitcase and pulling out some clothes. She threw on a pair of jeans, converse, and an owl t-shirt. She left her hair in its natural state before racing downstairs.
Fletcher was sitting at the kitchen counter munching away at his cheerios when he spotted Annabeth. He grinned and pushed his bowl aside before looking at her.
"So did she catch you?" he asked and raised a curious eyebrow at her. Annabeth smiled and shook her head.
"Nope."
"Good," he laughed, "she would not have been happy."
"I realize," Annabeth said.
At school, Piper was the first one to greet Annabeth, but the events from last night made Annabeth a little groggier than she had intended.
"Whoa, you look tired," Piper pointed out after walking up to her blonde friend. Annabeth gave her a look.
"Thanks Captain Obvious," she mumbled, and Piper laughed. Annabeth wasn't known for being sassy, that was more of her idiotic boyfriend, but he was starting to rub off on her.
"Percy told us about almost getting caught this morning," Piper laughed as the two girls headed towards their lockers. Annabeth rolled her eyes and smiled.
"He would."
Piper laughed and opened her mouth to say something, but was cut off by a piercing scream from the distance.
The two girls exchanged looks nervously before looking around at the confused faces from other students sitting around the hallways.
"What was that?" Piper asked. Annabeth frowned and shook her head.
"I'm not sure…"
Suddenly, Leo and Jason came running around the corner, their eyes were wide and their faces were filled with concern. Annabeth's stomach filled with dread as she looked at the two.
"Piper, Annabeth," Jason breathed, "come quickly."
Annabeth glanced at her friends and gave one quick glance at the other students who had brushed off the scream as if it wasn't anything of concern.
Annabeth and Piper raced after Jason and Leo towards the cafeteria, and suddenly Percy filled Annabeth's mind and she grew nervous. Where was he?
Another piercing scream sent a sharp pain through her ears as they got closer to the cafeteria, and as they burst through the doors, Annabeth was shocked, to say the least.
Percy was standing on top of one of the tables with Riptide in his hand, fighting off some sort of monster. Annabeth's never seen it before in person, but she's read about the half-dragon, half-lion monster, and she knew it was venomous.
Hazel and Frank were standing behind the monster that stood a good ten feet tall over them and tried distracting it for Percy to get closer to it and kill it, but the monster had its mind set on one thing.
Skye.
Annabeth had to take a double take when she saw her cousin crouched in the corner, shaking in terror. The monster was trying to get closer to Skye, but Percy stood in its way, and was taunting it.
"What is that thing?!" Piper cried. The monster had a head of a dragon, and a body of a lion. It let out a loud piercing scream, and fire emitted from its nostrils.
"I don't know, but we're going to kill it," Annabeth said confidently. She raced over to Percy's side, and jumped up on the table.
"Annabeth!" Percy said while keeping his eyes on the monster in front of them, "what are you doing here?!"
"Helping you!" Annabeth said over the loud roars of the monster. Annabeth glanced over her shoulder at Skye who seemed to be paralyzed by fear. Her eyes were bloodshot and her cheeks were covered in mascara as if she had been crying.
"Leo!" Annabeth called as he, Jason, and Piper went to join in the fight, "get Skye out of here!"
"Roger that!" Leo said and raced over towards Skye.
The monster roared in anger as Leo reached Skye and tried lifting her to her feet, but she was trembling.
"Hey ugly!" Percy shouted, "over here!"
He hopped from table to table, gaining the monster's attention. Frank took out his bow and arrows and shot them multiple times at the monster's back, earning a very agitated roar from the beast.
Annabeth glanced over her shoulder as she and her friends circled the monster by now, each of them standing on top of some tables, besides the tables that were crushed underneath the monster.
Leo had ushered Skye out of the cafeteria, and Annabeth let out a sigh of relief before turning her attention back to the beast in front of her.
The monster lunged at Frank for shooting it in the back with his arrows, and Hazel jumped in the way; slashing her sword at its nose. That probably wasn't a good idea seeing as the monster breathed fire from it, and Annabeth saw it go to take a breath.
"Hey!" Annabeth shouted, "over here!"
The monster turned at Annabeth's voice and roared loudly before jumping after her.
"What is going on?!" Nico cried from behind Annabeth, and she was almost relieved to see the son of Hades joining them.
Unfortunately, the monster was not as relieved, and this time went for Nico.
Jason stepped in the way and used his powers to fly above the monster, earning its attention. Jason flew above the monster and managed to throw his sword at the forehead of the monster.
His sword landed right in the center of the monster's forehead and it roared loudly in irritation. It stumbled a few times before it let out one last breath of fire and slowly started to lose its balance.
"Duck!" Piper cried as the monster tumbled over and fell over limply.
Once the monster was on the ground, the demigods waited a few moments just to make sure it was really dead before Jason walked over to it to retrieve his sword.
"Yuck," he grumbled as goo dripped from the tip of his sword.
Leo and Skye walked back into the cafeteria, and to say that Skye looked shaken up was an understatement. Annabeth wondered what the Mist covered the monster to be.
"W-What was that thing?" Skye asked nervously while looking at the dead dragon-lion.
"It doesn't matter, it's dead now," Annabeth assured her.
"It was breathing fire!" Skye cried, and Annabeth's stomach dropped. She was pretty sure the Mist would cover the fire.
Unless…
"Uh guys!" Frank called over from besides the monster, "we have a problem!"
Annabeth glanced around at her fellow demigods and realized Percy was not among them.
Oh no.
Her heart sank as she raced over to Frank and Hazel who were leaning over Percy's limp body. There was a gash in his arm that was oozing purple goo, similar to the goo on the end of Jason's sword.
"What happened?" Annabeth cried while kneeling next to him and taking his clammy hand in hers. Her heart was hammering against her chest.
"When the monster fell, one of its scales flew off and cut him in the arm," Hazel explained. Piper, Jason, and Leo ran over as well, with Skye and Nico behind them.
"He needs to go to a hospital!" Skye cried, and she looked like she was about to pass out at the sight of Percy's arm.
"No," Annabeth mumbled, "he needs ambrosia. Jason! Do you have any?"
Jason fished into his pocket for a moment and Annabeth chewed on her bottom lip nervously as she waited.
"Not much, but yeah I have some," he said and pulled out a few crumbled pieces of ambrosia.
"What is that?" Skye questioned nervously, but Annabeth shrugged her off. She opened Percy's mouth and quickly put the ambrosia on his tongue.
They all waited nervously for him to wake up, and luckily, he did. He woke up in the middle of taking a deep breath and looked around with wide eyes. Annabeth almost cried with happiness as the gash on his arm started to disappear.
"Percy, we were so worried," Annabeth said softly as she looked at him. His eyes were wide with wonder, and his face still seemed slightly pale.
And then he spoke. His voice was frail and fragile and he spoke three words that made Annabeth's heart tumble.
"Who are you?"
Oops, sorry. I'm so sorry I haven't updating in so long I've been so busy and I'm really sorry. I'll update sooner don't worry So what do you think?
Also! Could you guys please check out my new story Princesses and Thieves ? It's about Percy and Annabeth where Annabeth is a princess and Percy is a thief and they fall in love yada yada.
It would mean a lot!
Thanks for reading xx
~stay beautiful~
