"Wait, what?!" I could barely hold myself from jumping at Annabeth. After all I had done to get Percy to understand how she'd been possessed, it just had to turn out that she actually did love him.
"Does Jason know?" Percy inquired.
"No...I haven't been able to talk to him. I love him too and I'm not sure that he'd be as understanding as you two."
"Look, Annabeth: I don't love you as a boyfriend. I always have and always will love you as a friend though. Loving you that way, though, is an impossibility. Nico is everything to me and I never want that to change. I'm so sorry to break this to you, but you have to know."
"It's alright...I just...have to go." She barely got out the words as she ran from the room. I knew that she was devastated, but I also knew there was nothing I could do to help. Rather than discuss it, we decided to walk back to Percy's cabin and silently contemplated it on our own. When we got back, I just had to talk to him.
"Perce, I'm so sorry for all the drama. I wish-" I began, but was quickly interrupted by Percy wrapping himself around me. He tilted my head up and met my lips with his own. I loved him, and I just wish we could've stayed that way forever; however, that daydream was quickly interrupted by Grover heading in.
"Hey, wha...sorry, never mind..."
"Dude, it's fine. Come on." I said. Percy sighed, but knew that we should let him in.
"You sure?"
"Yes, please. Just make it brief."
"Okay, so, Perce. I was wondering what else you remember. I mean, do you remember me? Clarisse? Chiron? Who and what do you remember?"
"Not much to be honest. I remember you and Clarisse now. Not Chiron though and not much excep-" he stuttered and fell to the ground.
"Perce!" Grover and I shouted in unison. He began to shudder as green mist surrounded his body. His eyes opened, but there was no sign of Percy. Instead of the usual sea green, a cloud of white was in its place. The blood rushed from his face and he became a ghostly shade of white. I should know.
"PERCY!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I went running to him. I couldn't lose him now, not after all of this. He continued to shudder and I attempted to hold him down to no avail. His skin was ice cold and still as pale as before. No matter what, he continued to shake.
Grover had disappeared without me noticing, but was soon back with Chiron and others. The centaur leader of the camp rushed over in his magical wheelchair.
"Get a child of Asclepius in here right now! We need a healer!" Chiron roared.
Two more half-bloods came into the camp. One boy and one girl. I didn't care about names, I just needed someone to help him. The guy kneeled down and summoned a container of medicine. So this was the child of Asclepius. As he reached into his box of medical goodies, a familiar girl with hair like flames rushed in.
"Percy? Wait, don't do anything Evan! He's having a vision. Apollo wants him to see something, and if you stop this...well, just now you'd be messing with a god."
The son of Asclepius immediately dropped his equipment back into his box and allowed it to dissolve into the thin air it had come from.
"Rachel!" Chiron shouted, "Are you sure of this? Percy is neither an oracle nor a son of Apollo."
"I know that! Apollo obviously has something important to show him."
I looked at her devastation and realized that I had tears streaming down my cheeks and still couldn't stop.
"Everyone, quiet, Percy might be back."
All of us in the room looked back to Percy and he seemed like his normal self again. His skin was back to its tan hue and his face was relaxed. He looked just as gorgeous sleeping as he did when he was awake.
"Everyone...please, can I be alone with him?" I begged, and all silently agreed and left except for Rachel, but that was okay. Rachel was the only person that knew about what had just happened and was the most capable of helping.
"Percy...Hey, come on...Wake up. Please Perce, for me." As I said his nickname, his eyes scrunched and he took in a deep breath.
"Hey, Rae, can you help me lift him onto his bed?"
"Yeah, of course."
She did like she said she would and helped me get Percy to a more comfortable position. I wrapped him in blankets and Rachel decided it was alright for her to leave. I laid back in an easy chair at the corner of the room and was asleep before I knew I was tired.
Percy woke up before I did, and I finally opened my eyes finding myself in his arms with him carrying me bridal style to the bed.
"Hey, Perce? We need to-" I muttered, but barely whimpered out.
"Shhh. We'll talk more later. I have a lot to say."