Percy's POV
Cruelly ironically, the ambulance showed up only minutes after Frank had passed on.
He had his arm around a silently crying Annabeth, both of them watching a still hysterical Hazel sob over Frank's dead body. But they knew they had to let her heal on her own.
They went outside, Annabeth and Hazel first, with Annabeth comforting Hazel as she still cried. Percy followed, carrying Frank on his shoulders to meet the first responders on the drive way. He laid Frank on the stretcher as they rolled in him in the ambulance and shut the doors. One of them, a woman, asked him if Frank had already passed.
He nodded listlessly, and the first responder nodded grimly and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Here's my number," said the first responder. "My name's Piper by the way," she said, "Piper McLean." He nodded, offering her a small smile.
He headed over to the girls by the other ambulance and threw an arm over Annabeth's shoulders and she offered him a smile.
"I love you," he said. "A lot."
"I know," she said, giggling. "And I love you Percy."
"You know I have to pursue them…right?"
She sighed. "Yeah. I know Percy. Just…promise me something."
"Anything love."
She smiled again, but said, "Please promise me you'll come back to me. Cause I can't live without you Perce."
He nodded, saying he promised with a smile.
He kissed her, and he could feel her smiling as she deepened the kiss and wrapped her arms around her neck. He slipped his arms around her waist and she tensed, probably from her few days here, but she loosened again and pulled him closer.
He felt like he was being watched though, and he could tell she felt the same way since she pulled away uneasily.
They both glanced over at Hazel, and she was staring at them, crying.
That was a bit cruel….
"Sorry Hazel," Percy said.
She shook her head, saying it was fine.
Percy turned to Annabeth again and pecked her lips, saying he would come back for her.
He hugged Hazel goodbye, and drove away in his car in pursuit of Reyna. He saw where she had run off to, and headed in that direction. He decided to call up Grover and ask for a second address under Zeus's name.
"Yeah, an apartment not too far away from your location now."
"Cool," Percy said. "Read it off to me."
Hazel's POV
"Hazel," Annabeth said. "Come here."
She walked over to Annabeth curiously, wondering why she sounded so terse.
"We are going to follow Percy. When I wrapped my arms around his neck I planted one of his own trackers there. And I have the device to track it with since he left it in his hoodie."
Hazel started grinning and nodded. Annabeth snuck over to the ambulance, secretly grabbed a pistol and a baseball bat, and they both hopped into an unlocked minivan at the end of the neighborhood.
Annabeth hotwired the car and they sped off after Percy, following a little red dot that was heading away from them, the blue dot.
"We'll still get our chance at revenge Hazel," said a smiling Annabeth.
Hazel returned her smile, nodding. That sounded good.
Percy's POV
He walked through the double glass doors, his gun drawn in a filled lobby. People started panicking as his drawn gun, but he held up his badge, something he rarely ever did, and said "CIA! Has anyone seen a Latino girl with an old man come through here?!"
"They came through the back entrance!" yelled the front desk. He pocketed his badge and walked up the desk. "Security footage?" The man
nodded and pulled it up.
Sure enough, Reyna walked through the door, pistol in one hand and Zeus over her back with the other hand. She looked behind her frantically, and shut the door behind her.
Zeus throws an arm around her shoulders and together they walk up the stairs until they get to the fifth floor. A different camera came on and showed them walking into a room in the middle of the hall.
"That'll be apartment 600," said the man.
Percy nodded and headed to the elevator, pressing the button with the number 6.
He walked out of the elevator and straight into a very passionate teenage couple.
"Oh, get out of here!" he yelled, and they broke apart. The guy saw his gun, the girl screamed, and they ran into the elevator and the doors shut.
Percy looked up at the ceiling and shook his head. Jesus Christ.
He walked over to apartment 600, took a deep breath, and slammed the door down with his shoulder.
His gun was immediately shot out of hand and snatched up by Reyna, who scuttled back to Zeus and tightly gripped him as she pointed a pistol at Percy's head.
"Percy."
"Reyna, listen to me, it doesn't have to—"
"No Percy, you listen to me. It does have to be this way."
"But…why Reyna?"
"You were the world to me Percy. You were myworld. Don't you get that? And then you left me. For a year."
"Reyna, I had to—"
"NO PERCY, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO! YOU WANTED TO BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO BE A STUPID ASS SECRET AGENT! AND THEN YOU LEFT ME! YOU LEFT ME WITH MY BEST FRIEND, LEO!" she screamed as she starting crying.
She took a few deep breaths, and then continued. "I got so lonely Percy. I suddenly had to sleep alone, everything, alone. And then Leo came out and said he liked me, and I went to him because you left me."
"Reyna…" he said, crying.
"And we slept together, we ate together, everything. But it felt so wrong, even after I broke it off cause I knew I still loved you. He knew that and moved out, but we were still dating," she said.
She paused, thinking, and said, "And now you even killed him, didn't you?" she realized. "YOU KILLED HIM YOU BASTARD!"
"Reyna, I had to!—"
"No, you didn't Percy! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO TAKE EVERYTHING FROM ME?!"
After a few moments, she said, "That's the only reason why I agreed to help him. Zeus. He wanted to make his comeback by using her. I knew you were working for her and had probably fallen for her. To show you how I felt these past two years."
Suddenly Percy's world did a 180. It all made sense now….
The look in her eyes suddenly changed. "But since," she said, "I can't take her away from you, how about I take your life instead?" She used both hands to aim at Percy's head, and said, "Just imagine how broken she'd be without you?"
Percy stared at her, the girl he thought he had once loved. But he never loved her. He just thought he did. What have I done? he thought. He suddenly had an idea.
I'm sorry Annabeth. I love you so much baby.
"Then do it," he said. He got down on his knees and threw his hands up and said, "Kill me Reyna." She looked at him, her eyes widening in surprise.
"And be satisfied."
A/N: Yup. Have fun with that.
