Chapter 10

Percy's POV

After getting Lex home I went straight to my hotel room to freshen up and get ready for the meeting. Luckily I had 1 hour to do that.

On my way to the hotel I coudn't concentrate. Thoughts about Lex were coming into my mind. If he lived in my house, he could know my mum. Moreover, he could know my child, they can even be friends. That'd be cool. I really like Lex, he's a good child.

With this thought on my mind I reached my destination.

1 hour later

I was standing in front of the door of an architect supervising our project. At the last moment they changed the leading architect, so I didn't know his name and there was no nameplate on his door.

Suddenly, I felt that someone was looking at me. I turned around, but noone was there. Hm... I'd better be careful. I took Riptide from the inside pocket of my jacked and put it into the pocket of my trousers. Better be safe than sorry.

I knocked on the door and, when noone answered, opened it. Inside was a neat room with a great view of New York. The table on my right was covered with blueprints, pens, pencils and so on. On my left stood a huge bookcase filled with different books and near it was a soft-looking black leather sofa. In the center of the room was another table with laptop on it.

Only then I noticed a woman near the window. She was standing with her back to me looking out the window and, as I assumed, was on the phone with someone. She was tall with hourglass figure and I must admit she was really beautiful. She was wearing a black pencil skirt, a white shirt was tucked into it. Her curly blond hair was in a ponytail...

For a moment Lady Chaos' voice rang in my head. "Ahaah, you are free to do what you wish. Have fun, Jackson."

I didn't understand what she meant, but then I heard the voice of the woman and my heart firstly stopped and then started beating three times faster.

"Pipes, he came home? ... Yes, please. Gods, he's such a troublemaker... Like father, like son."

"Annabeth"

She jumped a little and turned around. Her startling grey eyes met my blue ones. Shock was written all over her face.

She let go of the phone and it crashed on the floor breaking in the process. She whispered.

"Oh... My... Gods..."

Annabeth's POV

Today I must be with my son, but here I am, stuck at work, getting ready for this "important" project at the last moment.

An architect who was responsible for this project had broken his arm yesterday. So my employer couldn't think of anything better than transfer it to me and a meeting with the client just had to be today. On the birthday of my son.

And then, guess what? Sally called and told me that when she went to look how Lex was, Lex wasn't home. As soon as I heard it I called Piper and begged her to go and look for him. It wasn't the first time Lex ran away and he most likely was on the local beach, but I none the less was worried sick.

By the way, we made up with Piper. She still believes Percy is dead, but I decided there was no pint arguing and destroying our friendship. In time they all will understand that I was right all along.

Now Piper is a godmother to Lex. She adores him and tries to spoil him rotten every chance she gets.

A phone call broke my chain of thoughts. I rushed to take it.

"Hello"

"Hey, Annabeth."

"Pipes, he came home?"

"Yeah, Lex's at home already. Want me to give him a phone?"

"Yes, please. Gods, he's such a troublemaker... Like father, like son." but I had no chance to here what she answered because of a voice behind me.

"Annabeth"

I turned around. In front of me was standing a tall well-build man in a black suit. When my eyes fell on his face and our eyes met, I gasped and my phone slipped from my fingers.

I can recognize this dark mop of hair anywhere, even if now they are styled to the side; I can recognize this face anywhere, even if now it is covered by well-trimed beard; I can recognize the look in this eyes anywhere, even if now they aren't green, but blue.

Here in front of me was standing my best friend, the love of my life, my fiance, the father of my child, none other than Percy Jackson.

Right now I could only whisper.

"Oh... My... Gods..."

Before I could say anything else, he rushed to me. What he did next shocked me even more. When he reached me, he fell to his knees and embraced me. His strong hands were situated around my waist and his face was huddling to my stomach. I had nothing else to do but to bury my hands into his locks. They was as soft as ever. The warm happy feeling started spreading through my body. Percy was finally here with me and I'll be damned if I ever let him go again.

"Percy..." I kept stroking his hair and suddenly I felt that my blouse was getting wet in the area where his face was pressed to me. He was crying. It ripped my heart to admit that my Percy was crying.

"Percy" I said and tried to cock his head up to look into his eyes.

Percy looked up at me and his eyes were red and tears were steaming down his face.

"Annabeth... I missed you so much. I was counting the days till I meet you and now I'm lost for words... I'm so so sorry. I'm so sorry I wasn't there for you during this 7 years. Will you be able to forgive me ever? I know..." he continued to rumble on. While he was talking, I went down on my own knees and cupped his face with my hands.

I brushed his tears away with my thumbs and said, "Percy, Stop beating yourself for what you had no control over." and then I leaned in and kissed him to shut him up. We just couldn't have enough of each other.

When we stopped kissing I had tears in my eyes too. So I just pulled him closer to me and reveled in his embrace.

"I love you, Annabeth/Percy," we said at the same time and laughed. Then Percy leaned a little away, so we were able to look each other in the eyes.

"Why your eyes are blue?" I asked him.

"Oh, I have lenses on, so noone will recognize me," he answered while taking off his lenses and letting me see his green eyes that I love so much.

"We have a lot to talk about, Percy. But for now..." I didn't finish my sentence, 'cause our lips collided in a passionate kiss. I took off his jacket, thew it to the floor, then traced my hands over his muscular chest and broad shoulders and finally settled my hands in his soft hair. His beared was scratchy, but strangely I liked this feeling.

At the same moment Percy didn't stay idle. One of his hands was on my thigh bringing me closer to his body. The other traveled up my spine, drawing small circles on it. His hand reached my hairline and set my hair free from confines of the hairband. Then he wound his hand into my hair and deepened our kiss. My whole body was on fire from his touches.

Suddenly, Percy wrapped his arms around my thighs and lifted us into the air. I stopped the kiss and leaned away a bit, but Percy switched to showering my neck with kisses. I couldn't help but moan in ecstasy.

Percy stumbled to the sofa and plopped on it with me on top of him. I cupped his face in my hand and brought him for another kiss.

After all this years I finally have him by me and I can't have enough of him. I want even more. So I traced my hands down his neck, chest, abbs to his belt and started fumbling with it.

"Annabeth," he stopped our kiss and moaned. Then I felt his hands on mine, stopping me from unfastening his trousers. "We need to stop," he continued. "We need to finish with work and... and I really want to see my child."

I looked deep into his eyes. Once upon a time he was right. I embraced him and put my forehead on his shoulder to calm down a bit.

"Yes, you are right. It's your first rational thought. We should celebrate it," I grinned. He laughed lightly, encircled his hands around my back and brought me closer.

"Yeah, we should."

After a while of just sitting like that we decided to start moving. The faster we finish there, the faster we will get home.

Oh shit. I absolutely forgot about the interrupted talk with Piper. She and Lex must be really worried.

I got my phone from the floor. It wasn't working, so I dialed Piper's number on the office phone.

"Hello."

"Hey, Piper. It's me, Annabeth. I..."

"Oh gods, Annabeth. Are you alright? When the line went dead, I thought that you were attacked."

"I'm alright, but something important happened and... I'll tell you later. How is Lex?" I shot a glance at Percy, but he was too preoccupied with blueprints of our project to hear me.

"He said that he is sure that you'll be fine, but I could see that he was worried. Oh, he wants to talk to you"

"Thank you for looking after him, Pipes. I owe you."

"No problems, Annabeth." I can feel her smile at the other end of the line.

"Hey, mum. How are you?"

"Hey, honey. I'm fine, nothing to worry about. But I have a surprise for you, so be ready."

"Okey, okey, will you be home soon?"

"In about an hour or so, honey. By the way, I didn't forget about you escapade to the beach today." I can hear him gulp.

"But, mum..."

"No buts, Lex. I need to go. I love you. See you soon."

"Love you too, mum"

With that I finished the call and turned to Percy.

"Okey. Let's start."