Hello all you wonderful readers who are all going to of course review! :D I would like to thank my new BETA READER Shine. Brightly. for being so awesome and reading this for me. No more bad grammar which I always have soo much of. Haa. Anyway. Here you go!
Thalia looked at me weirdly while Daniel got a worried look on his face.
"I'll go get her," Thalia said, while Daniel simultaneously said, "She's not here." "Yes she is! She just went down to the cafeteria," Thalia said looking over at Daniel weirdly.
"Oh right," Daniel said in a small voice.
"I'll run and get her," Thalia said getting up and walking out the door.
"And I would love to stay, but I have a…..video conference to get to," Daniel said leaning down to kiss my forehead.
"Bye!" I said as he walked out the door.
"He's been acting really strange," Blake said when Daniel was out of earshot.
"How so?" I asked.
"Well, he hasn't been the same ever since...she ended it all," Blake said.
"She?" I asked defensively. Monster or not. He was still mine.
"Well about a month before Violet was born, he called me one day to tell me he had asked his girlfriend, Sydney, to marry him. She had said yes. He came up a few days before Violet's due date to be here when she was born and everything," he said playing with the edge of the blanket Violet was wrapped in. "Sydney couldn't come up, she had some sort of business thing. She was supposed to come up the a couple days later. He was so happy," Blake finished.
"He's engaged?" I asked in a tiny voice.
"Well, no. The day she was supposed to come up he started acting really weird. He kept to himself all the time. When I asked him what was wrong he told me that Sydney had broken up with him. She had called him the day she was supposed to come up and called off the engagement," Blake said looking at me. Behind me the door opened. Rachel came in eating a muffin and Thalia trailed her.
"What's up?" Rachel asked.
"I need to talk to you, alone." I said.
"Ok, ummm…" She said looking at Thalia and Blake.
"Oh. Right. We'll just ah, go," Thalia said pulling Blake out of his seat.
"You remember don't you?" she said seeing the look in my eyes.
"So he is?" I asked. Praying to every god and goddess I knew her answer was no.
"Yes," she said, looking down. I started crying. Of course! Why did I not see this one coming? First were gonna kill the guy you love, then maybe we'll just turn this other guy you like in to a monster. Ya know, to keep like interesting. Well thank you fates. You've officially ruined my life. Again.
"Oh Annabeth," Rachel said putting her arm around me. "I have some potentially good news!"
"What?" I asked through my tears.
"Well, I don't think he's actually a monster," she said. "I think a monster possessed him. So it could actually be him all the time! Except for when he shifts into monster form," she added.
"Really?" I asked.
"Or he could have just been possessed yesterday," she said.
"Really?" I said. Getting happier about this could be my downfall. But really, what did I have to lose on the way down?
"Yeah. I have an antidote. When he drinks it, it'll dispel the monster from his body. Then you just have to kill the monster and Daniel will be free," she said.
"Ok," I said as the nurse came in. Either this would turn out amazing and Daniel would love me even more because I got that monster out of him. Or this could end in a disaster.
But I was used to those.
"Ok, so he's at your house," Rachel said as we pulled into my driveway.
"How do you know that?" I asked looking in my dark windows on the top floor.
"I can just tell. Ok, so tell him I just told you about how a monster had come and attacked you. He'll believe it because on his way out of the hospital he told me he would tear me into little pieces if I told you anything," she said.
"That's a little harsh..." I said.
"Here's the antidote. Make sure you have your dagger when he drinks it," she said as we both walked upstairs.
"Ok. Here we go," I said as I opened the door.
"I'll be right here waiting," she replied from the hallway. I flipped the lights on.
"Hey!" Daniel said standing in the kitchen holding flowers.
"Oh! Thank you!" I said walking up to him and taking the flowers. Be calm, don't give anything away, I reminded myself.
"How are you doing?" he asked.
"Good. I'm gonna go change really quick. I'll be right back," I said as I rushed into my room. I quickly changed into jeans and a shirt. Before leaving I grabbed my dagger and hid it under my shirt. I walked out to see Daniel waiting right where he had been.
"So ummm, what'd you have to talk to Rachel about?" he asked as he sat down at the counter.
"Oh, I had this absurd idea that you had turned into a monster! But she assured me that a monster had just attacked here. Thank gods you weren't hurt," I said as I put the flowers in water.
"Oh, well good. You thought I turned into a monster!" he said laughing.
"I know, crazy right?" I asked, turning around. If you knew what you were looking for, you could see him sigh in relief.
"Like I could ever hurt you," he said, smiling.
"Yeah, umm. Do you want something to drink?" I asked quickly.
"That'd be great," he said. Well that was easy. I walked over and got a glass out of the cabinet and filled it with water and ice. While I was still turned around from him I reached in my pocket and grabbed the little vial. It was clear, thankfully. I opened it up and poured it into the water.
"Here," I said handing it to him. My hands shaking from the suspense.
"Are you okay?" he asked, looking down at my hands.
"Yeah, just stressed from the hospital and everything," I said.
"Ohh." He took a sip. Suddenly he looked like he was about to barf. He opened his mouth and a red mist flowed out. From the mist the monster that Daniel had turned into appeared. I pulled out my dagger as it looked straight at me. It charged at me as I held my dagger out. It ran right into it. Daniel looked at me shocked as Rachel ran in. I ran up and hugged him. He looked down at me and said three words that broke my heart all over again. "Who are you?"
Turns out Daniels fiancée had been looking for him for about four months now. The engagement had never been called off. When she came to get him, I glared at her. Like she shouldn't have him. Even though he was really never mine. I hadn't had someone love me since Percy, but I guess Daniel had never really loved me. And I'd bet that monster didn't have those kinds of feelings for me either. Daniel avoided me for the rest of night. He didn't know anything about demigods now. It was useless to try and explain. He was passed off as a minor case of amnesia and that was that. They didn't stay long after that.
I drove home that night in kind of a sad mood. Well not kind of, a really sad mood. All I could think about was that time in the hospital when Percy had talked to me. It was like the spot of light in this bad situation. I walked into my house and turned on the lights. The flowers Daniel had brought me were still sitting on the counter. I walked over and threw them in the trash. I walked into my bathroom and washed my face, brushed my teeth etc. My bed had never looked so comfy as I walked past it towards my closet. I changed into Percy's pyjama pants. My guy. I trudged over to my bed, finally realizing how tired I was. I threw back the covers and snuggled under them. I prayed that I would have a dream with Percy in it. It was the one sure thing to make me feel better, at least for a little. I hadn't had one since before I met Daniel. So when I fell asleep and saw Percy standing over by the shore of the beach, my legs couldn't take me fast enough.
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