DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS. BUT YOU KNEW THAT, RIGHT?

Percy's Point of View

"Way to go Percy!" Annabeth yelled. I turned around to hug Annabeth, only to see her get swallowed by the magic sand.

"Annabeth!" I called out to her, but she probably couldn't hear me. I threw aside Riptide and began to pound on the glass. "Annabeth! Annabeth! Annabeth!" I was letting out a sob with each hit. I looked around for something else to hit with. I ran around looking for something to break the glass with when my foot hit something metal. Riptide. Perfect.

I ran at the glass at full speed. Riptide's point hit the glass, shattering it upon impact. All of the sand spilt out onto the tile. I dropped Riptide and began to dig through the sand, looking for Annabeth. When I was beginning to think that the sand took you elsewhere, I felt an arm.

"Annabeth!" I said in relief. I pulled hard, freeing her from the sand. She was covered head to toe in sand, and she didn't appear to be conscious. I put my hand to her heart and paused. I felt a faint thump thump that indicated her being alive.

"Annabeth?" I asked. There was no response. I had to get her help, which was at camp. I wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her up. I picked her up bride-style and walked slowly back to Blackjack.

Hey! You made it back alive! And there's Annabeth. Blackjack said.

"Hold still," I told Blackjack. I hoisted Annabeth onto Blackjack and then climbed up behind her. "Back to camp, Blackjack."

Sure thing.

I held on tightly to Annabeth, because it would be pointless if I saved her and then let her fall off of Blackjack.

The scene at camp was a mess. Everyone was walking around in groups of three or four calling my name. But they all stopped when they looked up and saw me and Annabeth on Blackjack. By the time that we landed, the entire camp had assembled.

"Percy! Where have you been?" Chiron asked. He looked from me to the unconscious Annabeth, and then back to me. "Percy, can you carry Annabeth back to the Big House?"

I nodded. I slid down off of Blackjack, and then pulled Annabeth down into my arms.

I followed slowly, with the weight of Annabeth, but I did reach the Big House.

Once there, I laid Annabeth down on the bed and sat down on the chair next to it.

"Now tell me what happened." I explained what happened to me and Annabeth. When I finished, Chiron just sat there.

"She'll be okay, right?" I asked. Chiron just looked down at Annabeth. "Right?" I asked again. Chiron finally looked up at me.

"She should be fine." That should have reassured me, but the should kept nagging at me. "I'm going to go and bring one of the Apollo campers over to see what they can do."

When Chiron left, it was just me and Annabeth. I took her hand (for my reassurance, really) and rubbed it with my thumb. I couldn't tell you how long I sat there with Annabeth. I just know that after the Apollo camper left (and told me for the millionth time that Annabeth WAS going to live) I stayed by Annabeth's side. I wanted to be there when she woke up.

I was there until the early hours of the morning before Annabeth woke up. Her eyes opened slowly.

"Percy," Annabeth breathed. "Did we both die?" She was okay. I pulled her tightly into a hug. "You're. Smushing. Me." I quickly let her go.

"Do you feel okay?" I asked her.

"No," Annabeth said. "My throat's sore, my head hurts, and I'm having trouble breathing."

I paused awkwardly.

After a long wait, Annabeth said, "Why didn't you leave when I told you to?"

"What did you want me to do? Leave you there? If I would have left, you wouldn't be here right now!" I just saved her life, and she was mad at me!

"If you hadn't been so lucky," Annabeth trailed off.

"But I was! Don't dwell in the what if's!" I said.

"Percy! She was going to kill you!" Annabeth's voice was rising, and so was mine.

"She was going to kill you, too!" I let go of her hand and stood up. "And if you aren't going to be grateful, then fine! I'll leave you to regret me saving you life!"

"Just go then!" She folded her arms and turned away from me.

I stormed out of the room, making sure to slam the door behind me.

"Percy!" Chiron trotted up to me. "How's Annabeth?"

"She's fine." I said coldly.

"Did something happen?" he asked.

"No." I left Chiron wondering what I was talking about.

I stormed into my cabin. I looked around, the wall with a bunch of pictures of me and Annabeth catching my eye. I stormed to the wall, and ripped down every picture up there with Annabeth on it. They all ended up in a pile on the floor. I looked down at them, kind of regretting my actions. But I dismissed the thought quickly when I saw a pile of sea rocks. In less than a minute, every one of them had broken through the window that you could see the Athena cabin out of. And when I was out of rocks to throw, I went down to the water, the one place that I could be alone. I stood there until the sun was setting. I turned around to see if anyone was coming; no one was.

I dove into the water, swimming deeper and deeper, until you couldn't see the light of the setting sun. I got lost a little on the way, but I eventually found Poseidon's castle. I swam around aimlessly for some time, until I ran into dad.

"Percy. What are you doing down here? Shouldn't you be at camp?" Poseidon asked.

"I am, technically." I tried to take some of the edge out of my voice, but I didn't do a very good job at it.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

"I go and save Annabeth-" Poseidon interrupted me.

"That Athena child?" he asked distastefully.

"Yes." I usually was offended when Poseidon talked about Annabeth about that, but right now she was just that Athena child to me as well. "But that's not the point. I save her from dying and then she tells me that I did the wrong thing."

"Well…"

"Dad!"

"I'm just messing with you. But I don't know what to tell you, son." Poseidon said.

"Can I just stay here for a while?" I asked.

"I'll Iris-message camp to tell them." Poseidon swam off. I went to the room that I usually stayed in, and just floated there. I let all of my Annabeth troubles go, just floating there. It was the best that I'd felt in a long time.

A/N: A super-long chapter! Not much else to say. I'm hoping that all of you who read it review it.

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