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Chapter 10
Percy POV
"Day."
I just smirked. Ok so there are eight people. Ha. I could take them. The leader of the group shook his head towards me and four of the men came forward.
Ok all I need to do is keep the men away from Annabeth until the police come right?
A man came at me with a punch. I ducked and struck his stomach. He fell down and another man came at me and I just twisted his arm and struck his back where it was vulnerable. He fell down unconscious. This time two men came at me. They both got a hold of my hands but I flipped and struck the other man that was coming at me. I then struck the two men in the head with one kick.
I could see the leader was fuming after seeing four of his men unconscious on the ground. The other three of his men that were coming at me were slightly stronger and harder to defeat.
I went after the guy in front of me and flipped over him. That caught him off guard so that gave me the chance to strike his back. Then the other two men stopped fighting after the leader cried "STOP!"
I looked at the leader and he came at me. I ducked and rolled to the side and dodged all of his attacks. I back flipped into the air right when he was going to kick my legs. Then I took his arm and moved in a way so that his stomach was the easy to hit. I kicked him in the stomach and he tumbled over. I ended it with a butterfly kick and hit him square in the face. But the leader still was conscious. Right when I was going to punch him again, I felt a punch from behind. And that punch was hard. I should have seen it coming.
I turn around but was only greeted with another punch in the stomach. Ugh. The other two men went for another punch but I dodged that one and twisted their arms and flipped one man over my shoulder and kicked the other man where the sun doesn't shine. No one dares touch me like that.
The leader started to get up and some of the men I brought down were getting up again. But the siren saved me. The police arrived. Damn that was 10 minutes? I thought it was more like 30 minutes. Ugh.
The men that were able to walk ran away with the leader. I just let them go. And then I remembered Annabeth. I went over to where Annabeth was. She was shivering from the sight. I went up to her and I realized she doesn't know that I was Percy. But I went up to her anyways.
I crouched down for her and asked her in a huskier voice then my original voice, "Are you ok?"
She just nodded but her eyes were long gone lost. She looked so startled that I felt sorry for her that she was in such a vulnerable state. Right when I was getting up, Annabeth caught my jacket. I crouched down again and looked at her through my shades.
"Just wait a second. Plz." She caught her breath. She tried to get up but she couldn't. She just kept falling down. Her legs must have fallen asleep or grew weak.
I wanted to stay there and comfort her but I had to leave. I can't risk the chance again for having the police know my identity either. I had to go. I took Annabeth's hand off of me and left. I climbed the closest building and made it up to the rooftop. I just ran to back to where I was beaten up. I quickly changed back to the Percy that was beaten up.
I put all my gadgets and clothes into my backpack. I saw the police and then acted scared again. "Officer! My friend was taken by these people in suits! Please help me!" Damn. Acting like a coward. Pft. This is an insult.
"Which way did they take her?" The officer asked and I just pretended to look frantic and just left and called Annabeth out loud.
"ANNABETH!" I cried out loud. I just made some mad turns and finally went back to where Annabeth was. She was shivering and her eyes seemed to be lost in her own world. I looked around and there were only two men on the ground unconscious. Damn it. I thought they all woke up!
The police ran to Annabeth and bombarded her with questions.
"Miss. Are you alright?" Annabeth just nodded but you could see that she wasn't. The officer looked around and realized the unconscious men. He then asked, "Did you do this to them? Were they harassing you?"
Words finally flooded out of Annabeth's mouth. Please Annabeth. Please Annabeth don't mention anything about Day.
"Yes. I did it to them because they were harassing me." Annabeth answered. Thank goodness.
Annabeth POV
"Miss. Are you alright? Did you do this to them. Were they harassing you?" The police officer asked me. But I was way to shaken up. There was no way I could be ok. There were eight men who were after me for who knows what. And then right when they were going to do something with me, some guy named Day came flying down in front of me. He fought off the men but my vision was so blurry I couldn't see anything. But at the end I realized Day was having a hard time.
I then just remembered what the two men were saying at the restaurant. Day works alone and he is very secretive. There is no use in telling the police about Day. If Day protected me from those men, I should return the favor. I won't say anything about Day to the police.
"Yes. I did it to them because they were harassing me." I answered.
The police then checked up on the men that were knocked out and asked me if I needed to go to the hospital. I said no since I was ok. The police left with the men in handcuffs and all that was left was Percy and I. I was still sitting on the ground.
"Percy…" I started.
"What were you thinking Annabeth? That you would be able to fight them off? Why in the world did you not run?" Percy asked coldly.
I just looked at my hands. And then I heard a sigh. "Here." And Percy had his hands held out.
I went to take it but when I did get up, I fell back down. Damn it. My stupid legs fell asleep. I tried to get back up but my legs felt weak and I fell back down.
Right when I was going to try again, Percy knelt down with his back facing me and said, "Get on."
I hesitated. Percy was cold. And for some reason he was colder these days. But, I didn't mind because although he gives me the cold shoulder, he always stayed my side and was there for me when I felt like I needed someone next to me.
Percy glanced back and said, "Get on before I change my mind." I quickly got on him and he stood up. He started to walk back to my house.
I couldn't help but blush. I leaned my face on his lean back and smelled his ocean scent. Isn't this what couples do? I smile to myself.
Then all of a sudden he stops. I just look up and he was like, "Why is your heart beating so fast Wise girl?" I then felt my heart and it was thumping a little quicker than usual. I blushed and did not say anything.
Percy POV
I shouldn't be doing this. This was work. I needed to separate my personal feelings from work. Annabeth was just another task I had to work on. It didn't matter if I liked her or not, because at the end, I have to leave her. So it's best if I shut my feelings for her and give her my cold shoulder all the time. I mean I always was like that. I always had a hard time showing my feelings to others, and if my true feelings did rise to the surface, I would cover them up by being harsher.
It's ok. I'm Percy Jackson. I will be ok being alone. That is the only way I won't hurt others and prevent myself from getting hurt.
I was walking Annabeth home. But I couldn't help my heart beating fast. I mean she is so close to me. How can my heart not beat faster? Wait at this rate, will she catch on that my heartbeat is faster than usual?
To cover up my racing heart, I just teased her.
"Why is your heart beating so fast Wise Girl?" I asked. I could feel Annabeth grow stiff and check to see if her heartbeat was racing. I just smirked and just kept walking. I felt her cheek on my back as we were walking.
We reached her home and I rang the doorbell. Annabeth was trying to hide her face behind my back. I couldn't blame her. I mean it was around 10 at night and she wasn't home.
Her father answered the door and was surprised to see me carrying Annabeth home.
"Oh my god. Are you ok Annabeth?" He looks at me and says, "Who are you? What have you been doing with my daughter" He had slight rage and relief in his eyes.
Annabeth then comes out of hiding behind my back and says, "Oh Dad, it was nothing. He didn't do anything bad. Umm. I fell down the little hill with many trees next to the sidewalk. I couldn't get back up because it was slippery from the rain. Percy," she said pointing at me, "came to help me get back up. Sorry Dad." For some reason Mr. Chase seemed to buy it.
"Are you ok Annabeth?" Mr. Chase asked.
"Yea. My legs fell asleep so Percy just carried me back." Annabeth answered. Damn this girl could lie. I just nodded to everything she said.
"Please come in." Mr. Chase said looking at me. I took of my shoes and brought Annabeth to her room. I set her down on the bed. Mr. Chase was right behind me.
I straightened my clothes and got ready to leave until I heard Annabeth say, "Where are you going?"
I raised one of my eyebrows and looked at her weirdly. "Umm. Home. Isn't that the obvious answer?"
And then Annabeth looked at me like I was crazy. "You are going to go home? It is so late in the night! And it just started to rain. It's going to rain all night and tomorrow. I'm not letting you go home."
I looked at Mr. Chase, and he nodded too. "Percy, I think it is best if you stayed for the night. It just started to rain and it is really late in the night. You can stay for the night. Um. I will bring some of my clothes for you to sleep in." Mr. Chase then left Annabeth's room.
Then, Annabeth got out of her bed and looked through her closet. I was surprised. "ANNABETH! You said your legs fell asleep! You can walk properly!"
"I know. It was ok long ago. Probably after five minutes of you carrying me." Annabeth replied.
"WHAT?! Annabeth you made me carry you! Do you know how heavy you are?" I said. Of course she wasn't heavy but still.
Annabeth glared at me and said, "I'm heavy? You're mean." Then she punched my arm. I winced. That was where I scraped myself on the concrete when the men were beating the shit out of me.
Annabeth seemed to notice. "Percy you ok?" She then tried to inspect my arm. I quickly took my arm away from her. "I'm fine." I answered.
"No you aren't." She was stubborn so she started coming close to me and tried to examine my arm again.
"What are you doing? I'm fine!" I said. She then glared at me. She kept trying to scrutinize my arm and I kept hiding my arm from her. I mean I was fine. It was a tiny scratch. It ended up with Annabeth pushing me onto the bed and her on top of me trying to inspect it.
We heard a little gasp and we turned around and saw a little boy with spare pair of clothes. Annabeth quickly got off of me and we tried not to blush. Damn it.
"Umm. Annabeth why are you attacking Percy?" Mathew asked.
"Mathew get out!" Annabeth quickly said. She took the spare clothes and threw it at me. "You can go change in here. I'm just going to get something." Annabeth quickly got out of her room and it was just me.
I took of my pants and shirt and quickly folded them. As I put them aside, I put on the navy blue plaid pajama pants on. As, I put the pants on, I felt a little sting on my left arm. "Ouch." I looked at it and it was not that deep but I had to make sure to take a look at it before it gets worse. I reached for the grey sweater when all of a sudden, Annabeth barged in. She gasped and dropped a first aid kit. She quickly turned around.
I just smirked and quickly put the grey sweater on.
"It's ok Wise Girl. I'm fully clothed." I tried hard to keep myself from smiling on how cute she acted. I mean she saw me with my shirt off during the swimming unit during P.E. I mean it wasn't anything new. Cute.
Annabeth turned around and grabbed her first aid kit and dragged me and made a notion for me to sit down on her bed. I did of course.
She grabbed her chair from her desk and sat on it. She rolled up my sweater and found my cut. She just looked at me and said, "You know Seaweed Brain, if you don't treat your cuts quickly, you could get an infection." She then took out a wet cloth out and started to clean it. I winced. After the cleaning she grabbed some ointment and started to apply it on my cut. She then took a huge bandage and put it over my wound. After that she took out a nylon wrap to keep my bandage secure.
She quickly cleaned up and said, "Percy follow me." I followed her and she led me to the bathroom. She put her first aid kit stuff in a cabinet and brought out a new toothbrush. She gave it to me and said, "Don't worry it's new." She smiled and took her own toothbrush and applied some toothpaste and started to brush her teeth. I did the same.
While we were brushing our teeth, I laughed a little because some toothpaste ended up on her nose.
"What?" Annabeth said.
"No there is a little something on your nose—" The door opened and pushed me towards Annabeth. Luckily I didn't fall on her but our faces were really close. I quickly pulled away and looked at who opened the door and I saw two little boys come in and started to brush their teeth. I chuckled and went back to brushing my teeth.
After that I went to the couch in the living room to sleep but Annabeth stopped me.
"Percy, it is really cold downstairs, come up. I already set your 'bed' in my room." I followed her and saw blankets and pillows on the floor. I smiled. And ran straight for the pillow! Ahh… After the fight, it felt good to sleep and lay down.
Annabeth went through her closet one more time and threw me something really orange and big. "Use it if you have nightmares." I caught the doll and realized it was NEMO!
"Thanks." And I just laughed.
We both turned off our lights but we both didn't feel like sleeping at the moment so we were playing 20 questions and we both ended up laughing and knowing some secrets that we haven't told anyone else.
We then plopped on her bed and watched a movie on her laptop. Of course it was Finding Nemo. (A little argument between Finding Nemo and another boring documentary. I won of course.)
Halfway through the movie, Annabeth was asleep. I quickly turned the movie off and tucked her into bed. I took off her glasses and set the down on her nightstand. I quickly got up and turned the lights off and got under my blankets. I soon soundly slept.
LINEBREAK- IN THE MORNING...
"PERCY GET UP! SEAWEED BRAIN!" I heard. My blankets were taken away from me but I wanted to sleep more.
"Five more minutes RACHEL!" I said sleepily.
"GET UP!" And my pillow was taken away from me and then I woke up.
"Whoa." I then got up and saw Annabeth.
"Finally! You are so hard to wake up!" She then left the room stomping. Geez.
I just stretched and yawned. I brushed my teeth and put my clothes on from last night. I came down and saw everyone eat breakfast. There was an empty seat for me and there were pancakes. Only if they were blue. I thought of mom.
"Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Chase." I said. I sat down and started munching. I went for one more but Annabeth took the last pancake on the platter and looked at me saying, "Stop eating, or you will get fat!" She split the pancake in half and gave it to her twin brothers. Geez. Why is she so mad?
As Annabeth, the twins, and I got ready for school, the doorbell rang. I didn't pay much attention and Annabeth went to get it.
She opened it and I heard a warm voice of a woman that sounded familiar.
"Oh. I made some cookies and I thought I would like it to share some with you guys since Annabeth, you and your brothers love my cookies." The warm voice said.
"Oh thank you. We will eat them well! My brothers go crazy for your cookies anyways." Annabeth replied.
"Oh, I could make cookies for those cuties any day." The voice said. It sounded so familiar.
I went up to the front door and said smiling, "Wise Girl, could I have a cookie?"
My smile dropped when I saw the woman in front of me. The woman's laughter died down too.
"Percy?" The woman said.
"Mom?"
OK now Sally is in the story again... haha. remember Percy found his mom a long time ago and forgave her for abandoning him! He knows that she was living with Paul and Tyson. But he did not know where Sally lived. hehe...So was it ok? Just want to know. If you liked it PLEASE REVIEW! Remember more reviews means more smiles for me!
So now to answer your questions...
I'mADemigodConsultingDetective:
Yes. Day is a Legend reference! And I just want to say you are an amazing person to talk to and I'm glad I have another sarcastic friend to talk to!
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Anyways my favorite sports are soccer and basketball. I love those sports! I probably played both sports for over 6 years. :D
ROSE:
YES I LOVE JOHN GREEN'S BOOKS! My favorite so far is Paper Towns. But all of his books are AMAZING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN!
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You didn't have a question but I have to say thank you! I'm glad I'm your *coughyourfavoritecough*
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My top three favorite youtubers have to be Nigahiga, Davidsocomedy (I LUV HIM), and Jeffrey Fever. haha.
OK that is it for the questions. Now for mine...
Question of the Day:
Which button would you use more in your life? Rewind or Pause?
My answer would be Pause because there is just too little time in one day. But this is a hard decision since Rewind could help me fix all my past regrets but I'm going with Pause. :D
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