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'ello everyone! How are you doing today? This is going to the first chapter of the branch, from here on out I will label the chapters like this one, e.g. Chapter 10 Ending 1.

Well, this is going to interesting, because I don't know where I'm going with this chapter other than a very vague idea of where I want to end up.

Oh well, Chapter 10, Ending 1 branch, Enjoy!

Percy's POV

I was wandering around my cabin, too energetic to lay down like yesterday.

Yesterday had been too good of a day for me to be depressed. I'd managed to get Nico to act normally around me, despite the fact that I could still occasionally see how awkward he felt, but more or less, he was acting like he had been before he'd told me about his feelings.

Also, people were starting to treat me like I was actually a person. I heard a few people talking about how Thalia had gone off at something and pretty much yelled at everyone for being a horrible people for how they were treating me, and I guess they took it to heart, because they were acting a bit more like normal, not completely, but more so than they had been.

I still didn't know what to say to Nico though, I couldn't manage to straighten out my feelings enough to figure them out, but I knew I would have to tell him sometime.

It could wait, for now I just wanted to enjoy the day. This was the best I'd felt in a week and a half, and I wanted to enjoy it.

I walked out into the bright day and saw a usual day at camp, but through different eyes. I saw the strawberry fields, campers going to their activities, the sun shining off of the canoe lake in the distance, everything just seemed better today.

Chiron had decided that I was finally well enough for activities, so I went to find Nico so we could train. I'd never been so excited to be able to run or swing a sword.

Then, the unexpected happened, because I'm not allowed to have a simple day anymore.

Annabeth called "Percy!" from somewhere behind me.

I stopped, standing there in confused, not sure what to do. She had hardly looked at me since she broke up with me, let alone talked to me. Why would she seem like she needed to talk to me so much.

I hadn't turned around so when she caught up she put her arms around me from behind and held me tight. I just stood there, staring at her hands in shock.

I pulled her hands away from me, taking a step back as I turned around.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Percy, I messed up, I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking when I broke up with you, I was just confused. I never thought you cared about me so much, I thought we almost had the same relationship as siblings." She said, "I looked up to you, I still do, but I didn't know how much you meant to me until you were nearly gone forever." She said.

I didn't know what to say. After all of this, my depression, suicide attempt, feeling so alone and miserable, she decided that I actually meant something to her? Now? She'd made me completely miserable and expected me to immediately take her back when she realized that I was important to her?

I didn't answer her, I stood silently, looking at the ground.

I knew I still had feelings for Annabeth, but she'd destroyed my trust, and I didn't know what to do. My emotions were already a complete mess without this happening, now I had a complete new thing to try to straighten out in my mind.

She took a step towards me, but I took a step back from her.

She looked at me with some sadness in her eyes, along with traces of guilt that I could see. "Percy?" she said quietly.

"I… I need time Annabeth. I haven't been able to think straight for days, and now you ask me to take you back. I just… I need time to think about it ok?" I said.

"Ok…" She replied dejectedly, looking at her shoes.

I knew I'd hurt her, but I meant what I said. I didn't know what would be the best thing to do, Nico had confessed his feelings for me, and that was hard enough to try to think about. Then this. I needed time to think and figure out what I wanted to do.

Annabeth walked away from me, and I watched her go.

Just then, Nico out of the woods and saw me. "Hey Percy, where've you been all day?" He asked with a smile, "I haven't seen you all morning, I figured you must've gone for a run, seeing how you're allowed to now."

Then he saw my face, and he got a bit concerned "You ok Percy?"

"Yeah."

"What happened?" He asked.

"It's… Annabeth came a talked to me."

I told him what she had said to me and he got really serious.

"So what are you going to do?" He asked, not making eye contact with me.

"I don't know Nico, after you told me… you know, and now this. I haven't been able to straighten out my own thoughts to figure out what I even think about any of this."

He was silent.

"I think I'm gonna go to my cabin, I need to think and try to figure out what's going on in my head." I said.

Nico just nodded and I headed back to my cabin.

I laid down on my bed, and thought.

I don't know what I'm going to do, but I'll figure it out eventually. Figuring out my emotions was hard enough, now this?

There was nothing left to do, so I sat, trying to figure out my emotions.

Sorry about that short chapter guys, but I'm mainly trying to point the story in the direction that I want it to go in at this point. The next chapter I post will be the equivalent of this one, but on the other branch of the story, and I hope you all read both!

This was chapter 10 Ending 1, and I hope you enjoyed! Please Review, and I hope you see you in the next chapter!