Author's note: sorry I haven't updated, I just finished Son of Neptune, loved the book, not the ending
Disclaimer: I don't own PJATO
Annabeth's POV
"Annabeth…" a voice in my head pleaded, drifting off as it reached the last letter of my name.
The voice, the one I'd heard so many times, my voice of reason, but also the voice that persuaded me to let go.
They voice had been there for a while, since I was about seven, and Thalia, Luke and I had run into Percy.
I used to be all logical and tell myself that it was just a voice, meaning nothing, always remaining vague and mysterious.
When I heard that voice come out of a person, I almost fell over I was so surprised. But when the voice grew in to a body, a persona and a relationship, it was almost so ironic I believed it was a coincidence,
"Hey! Annabeth!" that voice again.
I ran, as fast as I could, hoping the wind could weather the voice so it would shrink away entirely.
"Wait!"
It wasn't in my head.
"What do you want, Percy?" I asked, blunt and straightforward.
"I think you know." he said, panting.
He was so irresistible, I almost lost my cool.
"No, I'm still a bit unclear." I replied, my voice like an icicle.
"What did I tell you before we went up in Mount Olympus?"
"A lie."
"No," he said, but he was cut off.
Out of the wood skittered a scorpion, like the ones we fought before the Labyrinth.
"Oh, Gods." I said.
Percy and I locked eyes.
We could take this.
He started to distract it by waving his sword around, and I pulled my cap on.
I started walking around it, and then I stuck my dagger in to its back.
It evaporated, and our eyes locked again.
"I swear on the River Styx, I am totally and completely in love with you, and only you." he said breathlessly.
Well, if he swore on the River Styx…
I smiled.
He smiled, exasperated after three days of relentlessly pursuing me.
He ran over, faster than a bolt of lightning, and kissed me.
I felt like the forest cleared out, the rough dirt now a soft cloud, the forest a pretty blue-green sky, the campers in a distance now angel watching from afar.
It was like this for the five minutes we kissed, and then I hoped afterwards it would forever be like this.
"I'm still not done with you." he said.
I smiled like I had nothing better to do with my mouth.
Which was so not true, by any means.
Not the end!