Hey so I had a free moment and here it is. I have an idea as to what I am going to make the babies genders and names, but let me know what you think. Anyway on with the chapter!
Disclaimer: Nope not yet.
Annabeth's POV:
"Percy, calmed down. You're making me nervous." I laughed. It had been a little over two weeks since Percy had woken up from the battle with Oceanus. I was showing quite a bit now. I didn't look huge or anything, but you could tell I was pregnant, especially if you didn't know me. Percy had wanted to take me to the doctors office the day after he had woken up, but when he went to stand up he got dizzy and almost passed out again. It took Thalia and I literally holding him down to get him to rest. Chiron had said he was so drained that it would take a little longer for him to recover then normal. He had just started sword training again about three days ago and Chiron said he should be able to use his powers again in a day or so.
Percy and I had gotten permission to leave camp for the day. We were going to go to the doctors and then meet up with Thalia, Nico, and May to spend the rest of the day in the city and maybe go to see Sally. Percy wanted May to meet Madison. He said that even though they weren't really related, he wanted them to at least be friends. We were currently in the waiting room and Percy was almost literally bouncing off the walls. He was acting like a six year old on a sugar high.
Percy's leg stopped shaking and he put an arm around my shoulder. "Sorry." He flashed me one of his dazzling smiles. "I'm just so excited sweetheart. Today we get to se our baby for the very first time."
"Yeah. We do." I smiled and nodded. I didn't tell him about what my mother had told me. I had a few reasons for that. One, because he would ask when my mom came to vista me and I would have to tell him about the conversation we had. I didn't want him to think that my mother thought about our marriage. He didn't need the extra stress right now. Two, I wasn't really sure about the whole twins thing myself. I didn't know how I felt about it or if my mom was telling the truth. And three, if we were going to have twins, I wanted to see his reaction when the doctor told him.
"Jackson?" A friendly voice called, interrupting my thoughts. Percy shot up immediately, then turned to offer me his hand. I giggled and took it. The friends woman led us to a small dimly lit room. The woman handed me a gown to change into. She told us the doctor would be in shortly and then she left the room. I changed and then Percy helped me up onto the table. He dragged a chair over to me and sat down. His knee began to shake rapidly again.
"Percy." I sighed.
"Hmm?" He said looking up at me, completely oblivious, his knee still shaking.
"You're doing it again."
He put his hand on his leg. "Sorry."
"Why are you so nervous anyway?"
"I'm not nervous. I think I'm more excited then anything else." He stood up and took my hand. "Wise Girl. We get to see our baby!"
I smiled. "Yeah."
There was a knock and the door and a kind looking woman with long straight brown hair and pale blue eyes walked in. She closed the door and smiled at us warmly. "Hello. I'm Dr. Thompson. How are we doing today?"She walked over to us.
"Well, I'm fine." I replied. "But my husband is a nervous wreck." I said jerking a thumb at him. Dr. Thompson chuckled.
"Hey!" Percy exclaimed.
Dr. Thompson walked over to a cabinet and snapped on a pair of rubber gloves and took out the gel. She walked back over to us and turned on the machine. "Now this isn't going to hurt, I promise, but it may be a little cold."
I shivered slightly as the gel came in contact with my skin. Percy squeezed my hand, rubbing small circles on the back of my hand with his thumb. I squeezed back a little bit. I was lad he was here.
Dr. Thompson's moved the little wand thing around on my stomach for a few minutes. Eventually her eyebrows scrunched up. "Hmmm." She said.
Of course Percy went into full blown overprotective husband/ soon to be father mode. "What? What is it? Is something wrong? Is she okay? Is the baby okay?"
Sr. Thompson chuckled. "Relax Mr. Jackson. Annabeth is fine. Her pregnancy seems to be progressing perfectly. She seems to be about ten weeks along. The babies are growing perfectly."
"B-babies?" Percy stuttered.
"Yes. Congratulations Mr and Mrs. Jackson, you're having twins." Dr. Thompson said smiling to us.
I was afraid, for a fraction of a minute, that Percy was going to pass out. He still wasn't one hundred percent back to himself and he turned pale and his eyes went really wide. I was about to say something when a huge smile broke out across his face. Dr. Thompson turned the monitor and pointed to one place on the screen and then another. If possible, Percy's smile got wider.
The doctor smiled and she headed towards the door. "I'll give you two a few minutes."
After she left, Percy turned to me, his smile still wide. I smiled feebly back at him. His smile fell and she stared at me for a minute. And then he frowned. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing." I replied.
"You're lying to me Wise Girl. Why?"
"I'm not!"
"Annabeth, you can read me like a book, and I can read you. Plus, you hate being caught off guard. If this isn't surprising, then I don't know what is."
I didn't say anything.
"Wise girl?"
My lip started trembling.
"Annabeth?"
Tears sting my eyes. I hated lying to him more then anything. It made me sick to my stomach. He let go of my hand and took a step backward.
"You knew." He whispered.
Still I didn't answer him.
He took another step backward so he was pretty much up against the wall. "You knew." He said a little louder now.
Tears came to my eyes. "Yes Percy. But please let me explain."
He folded his arms across his chest and he leaned against the wall. "I'm listening."
I took a deep breath and sat up. "Well, the day you and May left to go and find your dad, my mom came to visit me." I watched as his eyebrows shot up. "Yeah I know. Anyway she said that there were rumors on Olympus that we were ring to have, well, twins. She was kind of mad."
"Mad?"
Tears spilled over my eyes. "Yeah. She, um, she didn't expect our marriage to last."
He didn't say anything. He closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose. We sat like that for a little while.
"Percy." I whispered, my voice thick with tears. "Please say something. Anything."
Instead, he did the last thing I expected him to do. He crossed the room in two strides and captured me in a hug. He then kissed me, passionately. I was in shock for a second, but then I wrapped my arms around his neck and kissed him back. He broke away and looked me in the eyes. "I'm so sorry." I whispered.
He shook his head. "Not your fault. I don't care what your mother says. I know I love you. You know I love you." He froze and then looked at me skeptically. "You do know I love you right,"
I nodded. "Yes. I do. You know I love you right?"
He smiled. "Of course."
He kissed me again and put his forehead against mine. "Hey guess what Wise girl?"
"What Seaweed brain?" I laughed.
"We're having twins!" He exclaimed.
Thalia's POV:
"When do you think they'll be done?"Nico said leaning against a tree munching an apple. We had all agreed to meet in Central Park after Annabeth's doctors appointment so we could go out to lunch. May was currently feeding some bread to the ducks. Nico and I were watching her.
"Not sure. I'm sure it can't take that long." I shrugged and sat down against the same tree Nico was leaning against.
"They should hurry up." Nico said, his mouth full of pieces of apples.
"Gross Nico, don't talk with your mouth full. And I really don't think that they have much control over how long it takes."
Nico groaned and then held out his apple down so it was level with me. "Wanna a bite?"
I leaned forward and took a bite.
"Nico! Thalia! Come look what I can do!" May cheered from by the pond. I gestured for him to go. He sighed, threw out his applied and held his hand out for me. I took it and he pulled me up. We walked down to May. She was making small little orbs of water float up and down. There was one a small fish who kept jumping up and out of the water to try to catch it. May was giggling uncontrollably.
"That's cool May." Nico said.
She nodded. "His name is Ryan. His mommy is down there and she's letting him play with me!"
"Nice one Guppy." I laughed.
Nico looked at me. "Guppy?"
"Her nickname. I think it fits."
He smirked. "I think you're right." He leaned in a pressed his lips to mine. I wrapped my arms around his neck and he put his arms around my waist.
"Jeez. There are children here." The voice of Perseus Jackson called. We broke apart and sure enough there was Percy. He had one arm around Annabeth's shoulders and she had one arm around his waist. Upon seeing her brother, May jumped up and ran over to him. she hugged his legs and he ruffled her hair with his free hand.
Nico snorted. "Sure, it's not like you two haven't-"
"Okay Nico, enough." Annabeth laughed.
"So what do you guys want to do first, lunch or go and see my mom?"
Annabeth bit her lip.
I laughed. "You want to go have lunch first don't you."
She nodded and Percy laughed.
"Okay one minute I'm gonna go an say good bye to Ryan." May said and she ran back to the side of the lake.
"Ryan?" Percy asked.
"Yeah some fish or something." Nico shrugged.
"Oh?" Percy chuckled.
"Okay ready! Let's go!" May said skipping back to us.
Percy took her hand with the hand that wasn't wrapped around Annabeth's shoulder. Nico put his arm around my shoulder and we walked like this out of Central Park. Percy led us to his blue Toyota Matrix 12 which was parked right across the street. Nico, May, and I climbed into the back and Annabeth got in the passengers seat. He pulled away from the curb and began driving aimlessly.
"So where do you guys wanna go?" Percy asked.
"Anywhere's fine." Annabeth said. She turned around to look at me. "Oh Thalia look what I have." She handed me one of those sonogram pictures. She showed me two little spots on the picture.
"So this is them huh?" I asked.
She nodded and smiled.
Nico looked at the picture in my hands. "Those dots are your kids?"
Annabeth glared at Nico. "Yeah you got a problem with that?"
"No." Nico said quickly then he found something really interesting to look at out the window.
May looked at the picture. "I think there cute." Now that go the whole car laughing.
Percy's POV:
We couldn't decide on where to eat so we drove to moms house. She lives about twenty minutes from Annabeth and I, but in the other direction so the drive is about fifty minutes. We decided to eat at this pizza place we saw on the way so we weren't hungry when we go to moms around one. We got out of the car and I knocked on the door. Mom answered. She hadn't changed a bit. When she answered she looked a little surprised, but that look soon changed to one of happiness.
"Percy, Annabeth, Nico, Thalia! How are you!" Then she saw May. "And who is this?" She asked sweetly bending down to May's level. May hid behind my leg.
"Mom this is May. My half-sister." I said.
Mom stood back up. "Well hello May. Come on in. I just made some blue chocolate chip cookies.
"Thanks Sally." Thalia said. She paused and then she punched Nico.
"Yeah thanks Mrs. Blofis." Nico mumbled rubbing the now sore spot on his arm.
Annabeth giggled behind her hand. Mom lead us into the living room and then disappeared into the kitchen. About five minutes later she came back with a tray of blue chocolate chip cookies. She set them on the coffee table and then sat in the arm chair, Nico sat on the other arm chair with Thalia on the floor leaning against his legs, and I was on the couch next the Annabeth on the couch. May was on my lap.
"So Annabeth how are you feeling?" Mom asked
She shrugged. "A little nauseous sometimes, but other then that I've been fine."
"Well you look fantastic. How was to doctors appointment this morning?"
Annabeth and I looked at each other. She smiled and nodded. "Mom," I began. "Annabeth and I have something that we have to tell you."
"What is it Percy?"
Thalia and Nico smiled at us.
"Sally, we're having twins." Annabeth said as she put her head on my shoulder.
"Really?" She exclaimed standing up quickly. I nodded and she walked over to us and hugged Annabeth. She hugged me too, but it was sort of awkward because May was sitting on my lap.
"I can't wait until Paul gets home!" She exclaimed. "Oh will you all be staying for dinner?"
"Um, Thalia, Nico do you guys need to be back at camp at a certain time?" I asked them.
Nico shrugged and Thalia answered "Not that I know of."
"Um yeah if it's not to much trouble." I replied to moms previous question.
"No, it's no trouble at all!" She smiled.
At that moment a little girl about six years old with brown hair and brown eyes came running into the room. My little sister. Madison Jackson. She spotted me and smiled widely. She started running over to me, but then she noticed May in my lap.
"May meet Madison. Maddie, meet May. May is my sister on my fathers side and madison is my sister on my mothers side." I explained. They looked at each other.
They stared at each other for a while. Everyone was quiet, waiting to see how they would react to each other. Suddenly, Madison smiled widely. She began to jump up and down. "May wanna come play with my dolls?"
May looked at me, unsure of what to do. I nodded to her, encouragingly. She jumped off my lap and walked over to Madison. Maddie grabbed her arm and pulled her off in the direction of her room.
"Well," Annabeth said snuggling into my side. "They hit it off."
May's POV:
Madison's room was really pretty. Her walls where pink and decorated with purple flowers. Her bed was pretty too. She had a princess bed with a canopy that she could close when she wanted to sleep. She had a white dresser with a huge mirror. Her room was filled with a bunch of cool toys, mail dolls. She had a huge barbie doll house and bins upon bins full of clothes. She had this little makeup table with play makeup. Maybe if I asked Percy really nicely he would get me some for my birthday. But my favorite part of her room was the large fish tank in the corner. She had a bunch of different salt water fish swimming around happily in the tank. She must take real good care of them. She also had a bunch of drawings hung up around her room. They were really good.
"Come here May I wanna show you my dolls!" Madison had run over to the corner with the big huge doll house and was kneeling in front of it.
"Okay." I said. I kneeled next to her. "I really like those drawing Madison."
"Call me Maddie. And thanks. I made them myself. Percy's friend Rachel is teaching me how to do different kinds of art. She say a have a talent for it." She asked.
"Rachel Elizabeth Dare?" I asked. The oracle was an artist?
"Uh-huh. So what does your room look like?"
She didn't mean anything by it, but it made me said because my room would never look like this.
"Um nothing like this. But my room at this camp I go to is pretty cool." I described the Poseidon cabin to her.
"Oh! You must go to that camp Percy goes to! He told me all about the Greek gods and goddesses! But it's a secret! I'm really really good at keeping secrets. So that means you're Poseidon's daughter! That's so cool!"
"Oh. When did they tell you about demigods?"
"Christmas when Percy had to put out a small kitchen fire. But it wasn't mommy's fault! She was decorating the tree and forgot about the brownies she had baking in the oven!" We both laughed. "Can you play with water too? And like talk to fish and stuff?"
"Uh-huh. I can't control water as good as Percy can, but I can still do it! Do you wanna see?
"Yeah!" I grabbed her hand and dragged her over to the fish tank. I held my had out
"Wait." She said holding my hand. "It won't hurt em will it?"
Please. One of the Fish said in my mind. We know you won't hurt us daughter of Poseidon. You seem just as sweet as our owner.
Yes. Another one agreed. Tell Maddie we think she is sweet.
Very sweet! Another piped in.
I giggled.
"What's so funny?" Maddie asked putting her hand on her hips.
"They like you. All of em. They thin you're 'sweet'." I said smiling.
Her eyed widened "Really? They like me."
I nodded. "Watch this." I did the same thing I did at the pond today with the water in the tank.
"Cool!" Maddie squealed.
"Not as cool as your drawings."
"But you could be a superhero if you wanted to be!"
"And you could be a famous person with your art in museums and stuff!"
"We can both be famous together!" She exclaimed.
"That would be so much fun."
She grabbed my arm and dragged me over to her bed. We started jumping on it. Maddie started laughing. "We can both be super heroes! You with your water power and I can learn how to shoot a bow and arrow! I can design and draw our costumes!"
Suddenly Mrs. Blofis called. "Girls no jumping on the bed!"
We both fell down and started laughing hysterically.
After while, we were still clutching our sides, but our laughter had subsided enough where Maddie could say "I like you May. Maybe we can be like sisters too!"
"That would be so awesome Maddie!" And the funny thing is I actually meant it.
So there it is. I hope you liked it. Nothing really special to say except for the fact that, that will be May's nickname. Until next time. -LunarWhispers
