A/N: Sorry I kinda fell off the face of the Earth for a few weeks, I am going back to regular updating, so once a week in Sunday's. As for my other story "Worth it" I'm trying to write it, but it is hard to write because I can't think of any ideas right now. I'm going to have some free time soon, and I'm going to try and get ideas for "Worth it" so I hope I will come out with ch2 soon. I feel like my ideas for this story and my other story are getting mixed up, which makes it harder to write, so I might put "Worth it" on hold for a bit. Idk though, nothing is for sure. Anyway, Enjoy the chapter! ;)

Disclaimer- I don't own PJO

Annabeth POV

Wow... he got beat up more than I thought. I mean, it could be worse. As far as the doctors know, he has a broken leg, a few cuts, lots of bruises and a minor concussion. They are just checking for any other injuries. Thankfully, he only has to be in the hospital for a day.

"Hey Annabeth" Percy said as he woke up. "Hey Perce. How ya feeling?" I said walking to his bed. "Ah not too bad." He replied. "Who did this to you?" "Um..." he scratched his neck "Oh, Ethan and his goons" Percy spat. Still?! Luke said he told them to stop.

Percy POV

I didn't tell Annabeth about what I heard Ethan say to Luke. I know she was furious when she heard me say Ethan did this and I didn't want her to be more mad. I'll tell her later. I don't want to get in between her and Luke's relationship, but at the same time I wanted to break them up. If I tried, Luke would probably pummel me himself. That would be bad. Ethan was strong, but have you seen Luke! He is ten times bigger and stronger.

"I'll ask Luke to talk to Ethan again" Annabeth said, snapping me out of my thoughts. "What's the point" I mumbled. I didn't think she heard me but she did. "Seriously Perce, of course there's a point! If there's anyway I can help I'm going to help! And talking to Luke will help" she stated. Annabeth doesn't know that Luke is behind my beatings, so she doesn't understand that won't help. "It won't work" I said a little louder. "And how do you know that" Annabeth started to raise her voice. "Because Luke TOLD Ethan to do this to me" I shouted obviously mad. My heart monitor was speeding up. Annabeth got up from her seat looking angry "that's a lie! Luke wouldn't do that. And how would you know that anyway?" She said deadly calm. "I heard Ethan talking to Luke before I passed out yesterday!" I shouted over the rapid beating of the heart monitor. "You had a concussion! You must've heard wrong" Annabeth insisted. A nurse came in before I could respond, so we just glared at each other. "Hey Perseus-" she started "Percy" I grumbled. "Hey Percy, your heart monitor was speeding up. Is everything ok?" "Just peachy" I replied sarcastically. She gave me a tight smile and continued talking. "Since I'm here, would you like me to tell you about your previous scan? Or should I wait for your mother to get here?" "Um... you can just tell me now" I replied. "Alright, well as you know you have a broken leg, a minor concussion and lots of cuts and bruises. We did notice some knife marks and scars near and on your wrist that seem too old to be from today's incident. Some seem to be as old as 5 months and as new as a few days" she told us. My head drooped down. I didn't want anyone to know. I swear I tried a to stop cutting. Annabeth helped a lot. I got more confidence and started hold my head high during school.

I stopped cutting for about 2 weeks. Then last week I started again. Ethan's beatings started to get bad. I became more depressed and resorted back to cutting. I know it's bad, but boy, it felt good to cut again.

Annabeth looked shocked. I guess she new I was self-harming. She opened her mouth to say something , but my mom came in the room before she could say anything.

Annabeth POV

Oh my gods... Percy is self-harming! I knew he was depressed but this. I never would have expected this. As the nurse repeated what she said to us to Sally, Percy just stared at the floor.

Sally was obviously horrified as she realized Percy had been cutting for 5 months and she didn't realize.

At first I was thankful that the nurse came in and broke our argument, but now? I don't think I wanted know this information. But, If I hadn't know, he would continue and maybe commit sui- I can't think like this. Someone would've found out before he tried anything like that, right?

"Percy?" Sally questioned, tears falling down her cheeks. He didn't answer,he just looked down with a blank expression. "Perseus? Are you self-harming?" Percy nodded slightly, tears forming in his eyes.

"So it seems you have ADHD and Dyslexia. Correct?" The nurse said softly. Percy nodded once again and the nurse continued to talk. "So we ran some tests after we saw the cuts on your wrist, and it seems that you have depression." Sally continued crying at this new information. "So, I'll be back in a few minutes for a check up. If everything's good, you can leave today." The nurse continued as she motioned Sally to come with her outside to discuss.

My heart broke as I let the information sink in. "P-Perce?" I stammered. He looked up at me with broken eyes "ya" he whispered. "Is-is it true? Have you been-" I started, but was interrupted by Percy's sniffle "ya, it's-it's true." "Perce? Have you ever um tried to um-" He knew what I was going to ask "I-I don't want to talk about it" That must mean he tried to commit- um you know. I also had tear quietly falling off my cheeks as I nodded. H-hopefully the depression doesn't get worse.

A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed that chapter. It was a little longer than normal but oh well. Would you guys like longer chapters? If so would you be ok with slower updates and longer chapters? Or would you rather have it like how it is now with occasional long chapters? Plz tell me what you would like and have a great day ;)