Percy POV

Annabeth fell asleep in my lap. It was really cute. Finally when the movie ended and everyone left, I carried her to our bed. I put her in bed and put the covers over her. I lay down next to her and fell asleep.

The next morning I woke up, sunlight was seeping in through the window. Annabeth was not in the bed or the room, but I could hear noises coming from the kitchen so I assumed that she was in there making breakfast. I got up, put on a shirt, and dragged myself out of the room. I collapsed in a chair.

"Good morning Seaweed Brain. Sleep well?" I moaned in reply. I crossed my arms on the table and put my head on it.

"What do you want to eat? Over easy or scrambled?" I mumbled an incomprehensible mumbo jumbo of words. "What was that?" Annabeth asked, coming over to me and kissing the top of my head. I turned it so she could hear what I was saying.

"Over easy," I mumbled again. This time she understood and proceeded to crack the eggs into the pan. Ten minutes later, she brought me a plate of two eggs, toast, and some orange juice.

"Thanks Wise Girl," I said, squeezing her hand. She smiled at me and I started to eat my food. My food was gone in two minutes flat. I seriously had a problem. I grabbed my plate and glass and placed it in the sink.

"You know, you could help and clean your plate once in a while," Annabeth said, raising an eyebrow. I smirked at her.

"Sorry, thats not part of my job description as your husband."

"Then what is your job description?"

"Keeping you happy," I said. I pulled a chair next to her. I wrapped my arm around her and sat down. She smiled. When she had finished her breakfast, I got up and put her stuff in the sink quickly washed my dishes and hers, then put them in the cabinet. She stood up and was about to go to our room. Before she could, I put my hand on her shoulder. She stopped. I drew her to me, and put my hands around her waist. Then I smiled.

"I'm so glad you're my wife," I said lovingly. She laughed. Before she could answer I kissed her. Her hands found their way up to my neck, and she kissed me back. Then when we parted, she started playing with the beads on my camp necklace I smiled down at her and let her do it. Then we both got dressed in Camp Half-Blood shirts. Then it was weird and awkward. Neither of us knew what to do in the morning, so we settled for going to Frank and Hazel's for the morning. We quickly got over there and rand the doorbell. We were greeted by an ecstatic Hazel, who quickly ushered us in. The door shut behind us. Frank came wandering in, a camp Jupiter shirt with his purple robe and praetors badge. He saluted, then walked out to do his job. It was funny thinking of how much Frank's had changed. From an awkward guy to a praetor.

"Guys, we have the best news! Our wedding is on Saturday!" Annabeth smiled and hugged Hazel.

"Great! Congrats! Where are you having it?" Annabeth asked.

"Here! We are doing it with full praetor bonuses. Sadly, Frank's had to work extra hard so that he does not have to work on Saturday," Hazel muttered, twirling her already curly hair.

"That's great! Not the part about Frank working, the other part. You can be sure that we'll be there!" I said, clapping a hand on her shoulder.

"Thanks Percy!" Hazel said, hugging me. I awkwardly patted her back. We kept chatting throughout the morning. When Frank came back for lunch we all went to a fancy restaurant for lunch.

"So Frank, how's the praetorship treating ya?" I asked playfully.

Frank ran his hands through his short hair. "Okay. It just hard to not be near Hazel all the time," he said, then he leaned down to give her a peck on the cheek. Hazel squeezed his hand. They both stared at each other so passionately, so full of love. It was hilarious, because the server came and they were still staring at each other.

I coughed, "uhh, guys, the waiter's here. Time to order." It was taking all my self restraint not to laugh, and it must have given me a hilarious expression, because Annabeth looked at me weirdly. We ordered. I got pasta to share with Annabeth. Hazel and Frank ordered pizza.

When the waiter came with our food, he had two plates. One with pasta and the other for Annabeth with no pasta. When he handed them out, I gently pushed the plate away from her back to him. He took it back, perplexed. Frank and Hazel's pizza looked really good, but when we started to eat our pasta, I knew we had chosen well. Soon we were both eating the same strand of pasta. My Wise Girl looked at me. I looked at her. Comprehension dawned in her eyes about why I'd chosen pasta. I leaned forward, and my lips found hers. We kissed. Then we stopped, aware of Frank and Hazel's stares. It was fun. We are the rest of our meal giddily, aware that if we found the same strand again, we would kiss. Again. When we were done with lunch, we parted ways with Hazel and Frank. I was going to show Annabeth around the school campus. We walked to it and I stopped right in front of it.

"Welcome! To New Rome University!" I said with an announcers voice for dramatic effect. She smiled.

"Cool. Percy, just use your normal voice. I like it so much better than the voice you just used," she said. I stood up straight and put my hand to my forehead in salute. My other arm hung rigid at my side.

"Yes ma'am!" I said.

"Oh, you're such a goofball," Annabeth said.

"No. I'm a Percy. Goofball is Leo," I said in all seriousness.

"Do I really have to say it? You are such a Seaweed Brain."

"But I'm your Seaweed Brain," I added.

"Alright. Let's go do this thing," she said.

"Yes ma'am!"

She looked at me one last time, then shoved me ahead of her. We walked through the big arch with the letters carved in, New Rome University and walked into the main building.

"So, this is the main hall. The students who are in the computer program are on this floor, so we can just climb to the third floor, where you are," I said.

"What's the second floor?"

"The apprentice teachers. I just hope no one is here. The apprentice teachers hate me," I said gloomily.

"Gee, I wonder why?!" Annabeth said with her hands in the air. I grinned at her.

Sadly, there was someone there. Annabeth climbed the steps first, she was that eager to get started. When I got up, I almost turned the corner to see where she had gone, when I heard a voice.

"-lost, pretty girl? I could show you out," said a voice. I instantly recognized it. Emilius. Great. He was the worst person for me to be around. He hated me like Zeus hated Poseidon. I turned the corner and leaned on the wall.

"Sorry man. That's my job, you know, as husband?" I said, flashing my finger at him. He had been looking at Annabeth with goggly eyes. I walked over to Annabeth and put my arm around her shoulder, drawing her to me. She didn't resist, instantly relaxing in my presence. But I could tell that this wasn't over. Luckily, I was in the west wing of the third floor, Annabeth was in the east wing. Sadly, Emilius was in the east wing too. Even sadder, he was an architecture student. I almost face palmed myself. All the boys would be making goggly eyes at Annabeth! Well, I would just have to enforce that she was mine. No problem. This school was practically my castle. Ooh! Jenny would finally get off my tail! Yes! Jenny was a girl who was madly in love with me. Me and Nico where always trying to get her off my trail. Since I was, let's be modest, Mr. Popular, and Nico was my friend, Nico had tons of girls after him too. It was really sad. I walked away with Annabeth still on my arm, leaving Emilius practically steaming with rage.

When we got upstairs, I let go of Annabeth and put my arms behind my head.

"Ooh, that felt good!" I said.

"Why?"

"Emilius, is a jerk that is always trying to be better than me. Okay, I should probably explain. Here, let's sit," I said, walking to a bench and sitting down. I patted the seat next to me and she sat too.

"So let's see, where to start. Well, since I was praetor for a while, everyone knows and respects me. When I came to school, I was instantly Mr. Popular. Like that!" I snapped my fingers. "So naturally, there are some enemies that come with the seat of power. Just kidding. Emilius is one of them. Then there are also some girls that come with it. That would be Jenny. I really hate her. Sure, she's pretty, but she's not my type-"

"Yeah, your type is kick butt Athena girls!" Annabeth said.

"Yup. So she keeps trying to become the Alpha female! It's annoying! She's constantly on my trail, out there waiting for me to come out of class, holding my arm in between classes, and just being annoying! So when I show her this," I indicated my ring. "And this," I gave Annabeth a peck on the cheek. "She'll be done! Hopefully. And if she's not, well, that's too bad! I found my girl!"

"That's sweet Percy. Do we have any classes together?"

"Yeah, actually. We have gym, and free period together. The best is gym though. We get to do sword fighting for half the year! Come on! I'm not done with the tour!"

I showed her the classrooms she was going to be in, study hall, the gym, where I would be in case she needed me, and the lunchroom. When we were done, it was almost time for dinner. We went home. When we got there, I grabbed the frozen tortillas, guacamole, salsa, and cheese. Annabeth got the chicken, beans, and rice. We made our wraps, or burritos, whatever you want to call them. Mine was bulging on my plate, like it was going to explode. Annabeth's, was beater, but still pretty big. I cut some of mine and scraped it in the fire pit. A smoky image of the meal I'd just scraped in floated up, and I said,

"Thanks Poseidon, and Athena, for being great parents, and letting me marry the woman I love," I said. Annabeth squeezed my hand and did the same. Then we lit the fire, and burned the food in it. We ate the remaining portion of our meal.

Later that night, when we were in bed and I was rubbing Annabeth's back, she asked,

"Percy, if you hadn't met me, and you went to this school, would you like Jenny?"

"Yes," I admitted sheepishly. "But! I did meet you, and you're the most wonderful girl I've ever met! Don't ever forget that okay?" She turned to me and moved closer, hugging me like it was the last thing that mattered. I looked at her surprised for a minute, then hugged her back, breathing in her sweet scent.

"Oh, Percy," she said, almost crying.

"What is it?" I asked. "Annabeth, what's wrong?"

"Percy, the nightmares are back, and they're worse then ever. Every night I don't want to sleep. I just want to not have nightmares!"

"Annabeth, what exactly are you dreaming about?" I asked, pulling back and studying her face.

"I dream that I'm falling into Tartarus, and that I see you above me, holding out your hand. I reach for it, but I just fall into the darkness. Then I'm running, and all the monsters I ever faced are behind me. You are with me, but you turn around telling me to keep running. You draw your sword, and try to face them. I don't see the rest, but I just hear your scream as they kill you. Then they get to me and he swipes, the manticore I mean, and puts a scar on my face. Then I stagger back and fall off a cliff, I'm falling, falling into the darkness, yet again with you not with me. Then I wake in the labyrinth. I hear some ragged panting, some screams and I start running. I get to the outside and find myself at the Empire State Building, with you leaning over me telling me it's gonna be okay, and then the pain registers in my mind, and I cry out in pain. Your face morphs into Kronos' and he takes a swipe at me. That's when the dream ends, and I realize that you are there next to me and that it was just a dream. Now I'm afraid to sleep, for fear that it will be the same nightmare," she said. Now she was seriously crying. I draw her to me, and she cries into my shirt. I just hug her, and whisper words like "I'm here", "don't worry", and "always here for you". That just makes her cry harder. Finally she stops crying. My shirt is now really wet. I take it off and throw it on the floor next to the bed. Then she finally falls asleep. I cradle her tenderly in my arms. I brush her hair from her face. The last thing I think before falling asleep is,

Man, she's beautiful.