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Chapter 9
Annabeth's POV
"Annabeth!" I hear a cry. Oh thank god. It's Percy. I've missed him so much. The whole time that our memories were gone, I was so worried. I never knew why until now. I love Percy and I can't believe that I forgot about him. He didn't forget about me last time, and I didn't remember him. What if he doesn't remember me? What if he doesn't want to?
"Percy!" I shout back. I hear a thud and look up. Percy's on the ground. I can't tell whether he is breathing or not. I watch as Apollo rushes over to Percy, glowing. Why he is glowing, I have no idea. Does it give him more power? Is it a good sign or a bad sign? I'm in hysterics. I'm screaming and crying all at once. I feel arms around me and I sit up and turn to look at Athena. She smiles at me, but it's a scared, sad smile. The look on her face makes me even more scared and I scream until I can't breathe.
Everyone is looking alarmed and I feel the less-than-comforting arms around me being pulled off. I feel another pair of arms around me and I scream louder. I look at the face ready to shove them off but unclench my fist when I see that it's Thalia. She grabs me and shakes me.
"Annabeth! What's wrong?!" She's screaming into my ear but I can barely hear her over my own screams. I see Zeus rush over from Percy's side to mine and he places a hand on Thalia's forehead. She slumps for a second but then regains her position and pulls me onto her lap.
"Oh Annie. I'm so sorry. I forgot. I forgot about you and Percy." I calm down slightly, my screams pausing to hear what she has to say. "He will be okay. It's alright Annie. He remembers you."I stop screaming all together when I hear this and I just sob into her shoulder. I look around and find Apollo touching all the other demigods foreheads and I watch them shake and then wake up spluttering. I look and see Piper run up to me. "Oh my gods Annie! Its okay. Percy will be okay. You're both okay. You're both safe now. You are out of Tartarus. You never have to go there again." Her words surprise me. I hadn't realized that I was having a flashback. I couldn't see anything. I was just feeling the fear that I had felt in my time in Tartarus.
I took a deep breath and tried to think rationally. Percy would be able to get his memory back. The gods would ensure it. Once he got his memories back, he would remember me and everything would be perfect. I stood up steadily, leaning on both Thalia and Piper. It only then dawned on me that Piper was probably using her charmspeak to get me to think. I chuckle internally. She sure is a smart one.
With my two best friends help, I made my way over to where Percy was surrounded by people. Artemis looked up at me, winced and then turned to Apollo, pointed at me and he looked at me sympathetically and ran over. "Here. Ambrosia and Nectar. You need it." I take a square of Ambrosia and swallow it quickly, relaxing as I heals me. I drink a little bit of Nectar not wanting to explode or something. I start to recover, nod my thanks to Apollo, shake Piper and Thalia off me and sprint over to Percy.
I sit with Percy as he shakes uncontrollably and sobs. He's still unconscious and it brakes my heart to see him like this. The rational side of me tells me to get some help for him, but I don't know what to do, what anyone could possibly do to help him. He is probably having a flashback of being in Tartarus. What almost makes me crack is when he whispers, "No Bob! Nooooo!" I start to sob and run my hands through Percy's hair, his head resting on my lap. I'm a mess , not talking to anyone. Zeus had tried to get everyone together to talk about the memories but he was shoved to the side. Everyone was worried about Percy. I was surrounded by people. I could sense that they were really getting worried about me aswell, but I didn't say anything. I was only focused on Percy.
After a while I felt him stir, different to what he had been doing before. I grabbed him by the shoulders and start to yell at him.
"Perseus Jackson, you had better wake up already! If you don't, no blue pancakes for you!" I yell at him. Everyone looks startled but looks toward Percy to see what he does next. He starts to whine.
"But Annie-beth… I wanted blue pancakes." Everyone gasps as he starts to pout. Despite my shock I giggle slightly before sitting up straighter and talking to him. "Seaweed Brain, I need you to wake up. Your mum is very worried, and I am very worried. WAKE UP!" I yell the last bit just to prove how serious I was. I wasn't sure whether he could hear me or not, but it was worth it. He needed to know.
I watched as he finally decided to open his eyes. Now it was time for the big reveal.
"Seaweed Brain, do you remember me?"
Percy's POV
"Seaweed Brain do you remember me?" I looked up into a creased face surrounded by blond curls. I flinch, expecting a slap or something. I don't know why I would expect it, Annabeth would never slap me, I've known her for barely a day. Wait, maybe it was because of the death glare she was giving me. And actually , I corrected myself, I've known her since we were 12 years old.
Oh my gods. I forgot about Annabeth. I can't believe it. I remembered her last time, why wouldn't I now? I start to panic. I look up at Annabeth's face and immediately stop. She's the worried one, she's the one who needs comforting.
"Hey Wise Girl. It's okay. We're alright." I croak, my voice hoarse. She squeals, which is very unlike her, and drags me into a hug.
"I was so worried Percy. Your such a Seaweed Brain." She said with tears running down her face. They were sad tears but then changed to happy ones.
"I know, but I'm your Seaweed Brain." I reply smiling. My voice is starting to go back to normal and her tears were beginning to cease. I look around to see the rest of the Seven and Thalia and Nico. They are all looking very relieved.
"Percabeths back!" I see Piper dancing around shouting with… Zeus? Zeus is jumping around with Piper holding hands with her as they leap around the throne room. Everyone starts to laugh except for Hera. It's an infectious laugh and soon we can't stop and when we do finally stop, someone just has to whisper, "Percabeth's back!" and we all crack up again. Hera on the other hand disagrees with us and the fact that her husband was holding hands with someone other than her. When she stated this, we all looked at Zeus with a sarcastic angry look on our faces and he pretends to start crying and we crack up yet again.
Third Person POV
Finally after about an hour, the gods retreat back to their thrones. We demigods gather in front of them, and listen as they try to explain why we were sent to high school. As usual, they were arguing and even Zeus couldn't stop them for a full five minutes.
Ares seemed to think that we were being punished for something, while Aphrodite seemed to think that it was a test of love, to see if the mortals would be able to break up the couples.
Poseidon seemed to think that it was so that the demigods could stop the 'stupid' mortals from cutting open sea creatures in Biology classes, while
Hades thought it was so that they could all go through torture because that would be fascinating to watch.
Apollo and Hermes seemed to think the same sort of thing as Hades, in the fact that it would be entertaining to watch, except they thought that it would be fun watching the demigods kick the mortals asses.
Athena thought that it would be interesting to see how the mortals taught and learned, and that it would be good for us to get some more interesting education.
Hephaestus thought that what Athena was saying was funny. He seemed to think that it was all just some massive comedy act and he wouldn't stop laughing.
Demeter had popped up and said that she wanted cereal. The demigods on the other hand, had different opinions.
I'm just gonna reply to some reviews so...
To Guest,
I am from another country, you're right but I'm actually an Aussie. My autocorrect stuff isn't working at the moment so I can't help you there, you Americans are just gonna need to learn that mum means mom and that torch means flashlight. And seriously, it doesn't really matter if there are more American Percy Jackson fans than anywhere else, because as long as you are Fangirling/Fanboying/Fanpersoning, it doesn't really matter where the most are. I know you didn't mean it like that, but I can't really change my language. Anyhow, it's great that you love the story and I hope you know that I meant no offense whatsoever, so if you did, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it.
-ForeverBoredAndReading
To Guest,
Thanks for the review! I'm not sure whether Thalia will get a boyfriend or not, I'm not that far into the story yet, and it would be very, very complicated. I'll try to though, I'm just not sure when a boyfriend for Thalia will happen. Also there is no way that it will be Nico because I ship Solangelo sooooooo hard, you have no idea! ;D
-ForeverBoredAndReading
Yeah, so that just happened. PERCABETHS BACK! There was a bit of fluff in there for you, so I hope that you enjoyed that. There will be more coming up later on in the story, but I'm not up to that yet.
Yay! I got to chapter nine! I wasn't too sure that I was gonna make it, but I did! I will try to update more, sorry about all of the waits. As always, review or PM me with concerns or ideas, I love hearing from you.
I love you guys!
-Kitty
