New York, 2014

Annabeth

Blood.

The smell of blood was overwhelming me. I had not fed for days now and no matter where I went I could hear the pulses and heart beats of the human. My I-phone and it's ear-phones were not helping either.

I turned the song which I was listening to into full volume and quickened my stride as I made my way towards the Riley University. It was a small private college but perfect for us, me and Jason, as the last thing we needed was to draw more attention towards us. But of course out hunter beauty could only lure the unwanted preys towards us. Well, maybe not completely unwanted for Jason. He has developed a thing for brunette girls because whenever he feeds, he drinks from a brunette. He still missed his 16th century sweetheart Piper McLean Rosmond or just Piper McLean as she calls herself now-a-days.

But Jason being Jason is still hung up on hating her. His reasons are fair but it has already been six centuries! That is a very long time.

Yes, It's been six centuries since I had last seen him... before he had died.

'No Annabeth!' I scolded myself internally, 'You can't have a break down right now!'

But it was too late as I was also short on blood so the trauma was inevitable. As my element, my wits, clutched my inside everything turned upside down, or everything turned just the way I wanted it to be.

Percy.

Everywhere I looked I could see him, on passerbys, on pedestrians, on bikers, skaters, posters... everywhere! And everyone had his voice, every single person in central park had his voice, his laugh, his snort, his sigh, his smile his...

I couldn't take it any more. I clutched my palms to my ears and kneeled on my knees and willed it to pass.

"Annabeth? Annabeth!" Percy was standing in front of me and calling me... His voice so distant...

Someone threw something on my face and my and suddenly the smell of stored blood pulled me back to my senses as I hungrily took the big cardboard cup concealing human blood in it and started sipping it.

"You did it again huh?" A guy with blonde hair and sky blue eyes and a little cute cut on his lower lip raised an eyebrow at her and cocked his chin up as if challenging her to prove him wrong.

"I didn't do it on purpose this time." I lied.

"Oh yea you didn't. It's really relaxing for a vampire to go without blood for a month! Annabeth want to try it again sometime? I am sure you could become a vampire doc with your talents." Sarcasm was dripping in his words.

"Shut up super man! I was busy following a trail." This was true at least. The night Percy had died a girl with red hair and bright green eyes had told him that he was in for an endless sleep. I had tracked her down to an extent and now knew that her name is Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Only I didn't know where she lived. I had encountered her in 1852 but at that time there was a witch hunt in her village and she had told us that as she is a which the weather is not healthy for her and had disappeared from the face of earth.

Now with the help of another wizard we have come to a conclusion that we could find a red haired witch in Riley University. But of course we had no such luck either with with finding her or Luke Castellan.

Luke.

I hate him, I loath him, I... want to rip his throat apart and tear his body into little shards of skin, bone and blood and feed it to the hounds because he had killed Percy. My Percy. The only person I can think of ever since I had joined ranks with the walking dead.

Anyway, our over friendly wizard, Leo Valdez, has told us that we would soon find Rachel because he was sure she would return to Riley because like us she found it to be safe for living in, at least for a while. But it has been almost a session since we had last checked the student's list or all the classes and everywhere we could to find her. But again... no such luck.

Witches and Wizards become immortal when they acquire their gift which is similar to a vampire's element but serves a different purpose. Leo's gift is fire and Rachel's is the ability to see the future. That is how she was able to tell Percy that he was going to die back then in 1632. They also gain powers to caste shields and other stuff but they can be killed in the same way a normal human can be. But vampires are different. Even if blood flows through their veins and they sleep and rise, they actually have super human strength and speed and they do not need to breath or anything else the humans usually do. I don't want to dwell on how they die assuming you don't know already but it is a really bad subject because over the period of time, I have seen many vampires die and had also killed a few(Luke's friends), but most of all I have watched Percy die and that was enough to turn my heart into a grave stone.

After he had died I had completely wasted my self on human blood and other stuff. But then Luke brought me back to my vampire senses and reminded me that I still had to kill his ugly self for my revenge.

"So you think she would be there today?"

We, me and Jason, had stopped in front of the art room door and were staring at the pair of slippers outside the studio.

"Leo says she loves to paint so she might as well as be in there." I said with a shrug.

"Okay let's see." With that he pushed open the door and a girl in a Go-green baggy T-shirt and blue hot pants looked up at us from her canvas with a paint brush in one hand and a mixing palette in the other. Her skin was slightly tanned and her eyes were bright green like emerald and her fussy red hair were tucked back in a pony tail.

"I didn't know that I would soon have some guests. That's surprising." She said while casually turning back to stroke what ever she was painting.

"Rachel Elizabeth Dare?" Jason asked stupidly. She raised as eyebrow at him as if to say, -dude! we only met a few hundred years ago!-

"Rachel we want to ask you something." I said politely to cover for Jason's loss.

"Of course you do. No one fetches a which for a friendly cup of tea." She sighed and shook her head sadly.

"If you expect us to know about your species then I guess that you already know about ours." That was a statement and that amused Rachel somehow.

"Oh course I know what you are but I have got to run somewhere so you better be quick with your FAQs."

"Can we bring a dead vampire back to life."

"No."

"Once a vampire dies can he/she reincarnate as a human or an animal or anything else?"

"No."

"So there is no way Percy can come back?"

"No. But there is a mirror soul of course. Now that is soul has been destroyed by dear Luke... His mirror soul must have been born. Tough there is no use fetching his mirror soul as it would be a complete different persona and would only look like him. Maybe they would have some things in common but I can't say much about souls... you should ask your cousin when you come across one." That was pointed towards Jason who just nodded. Of course Rachel knew about Nico's element being the dead.

"But..."

There was no one except myself and Jason in the studio anymore. Rachel has vanished again...

"Look at this!" Jason said pointing towards the canvas.

I crossed the studio's length in a flash and stood in front of the painting. My eyes widened.

There was a girl with blonde princess curls and stormy grey eyes and she was... kissing a boy with raven black hair and sea-green eyes which were half closed as he was smiling into the kiss with his hands protectively wrapped around the girl whose hand were wrapped around the boy's neck. It was a painting of me and Percy. It could have been from 1632 if not for the clothes. Percy was wearing a jeans and a green T-shirt under a slim hoode. And Annabeth was wearing a blue top and grey faded jeans. Last time she checked Percy was dead when jeans were invented. Rachel would of course not draw them kissing out of spite so what could it be?

"Do you think she saw this in the future?" Jason asked.

"I don't know." I said while trying to push back the tears that were threatening to flow.

I really didn't.

Hey guys it's 2014! Now the characters are in the present! And what's up with the painting? Did Rachel paint the future? Who knows? Please keep reading and tell me if this period is okay. And "Guest" with the capital G- Thanks a lot for reading and reviewing and don't panic about Percy.

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