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Annabeth POV

The last thing I remembered before I woke up was seeing a golden spear come down towards my heart, the pain, and screaming Percy's name. Percy had been standing there with a look of intense pain on his face.

One of us had finally died. One of us had finally left the other.

It still hurt for me to think about.

After that I had blacked out. When I had finally come to I knew I was in the Underworld and I knew that I had died. I found myself in a familiar lobby and walked up to the man at the front desk. Immediately I recognized it was Charon.

"Hey I remember you!" he exclaimed. "You were here with that Percy guy and the satyr several years ago."

The mention of Percy was painful, and some of that pain must've shown on my face but Charon interpreted it the wrong way.

"So you really are dead this time, huh?" asked Charon. "Well I can't let you board the boat... unless you have payment of course." he smiled evilly at me.

I searched my pocket and found 1 drachma that someone must've given to me after I died because I don't remember it being there before. I set it on the counter before Charon.

"Excellent, excellent!" he said gleefully.

Next thing I knew I was on the boat and Charon was poling their way along the River Styx. After I disembarked I traveled through the gates and was standing in line to see the judges, who would decide where I would go. When it was my turn I stood before them and tried to ignore them talking about me like I wasn't there. As one of them were opening their mouth to say something Hades himself appeared.

I was surprised, I had never heard of Hades stepping in unless the subject needed his personal attention. Apparently I wasn't the only surprised one because the judges also looked shocked.

Minos himself said "Lord Hades what are you doing here?"

Hades looked at us all with distaste but his eyes softened a bit when they met mine. "Special request from Percy Jackson." he said in his usual cold voice. "Annabeth Chase please come with me." Then he turned and walked towards his palace without another word and I supposed I had no choice but to follow.

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Once in the throne room Hades sat himself down on his throne and left me to stand since the only other chairs were Persephone's throne.

"Annabeth Chase," he said. "Percy Jackson has been granted one wish from the gods (again) and this time he chose to have you brought back from the Underworld. Alive and well once again. This is against the rules but the council agreed as he was getting quite upset about you being dead and all. Your mother agreed wholeheartedly, and Poseidon... well let's say that he agreed for the sake of Percy's mental health. I think that will be the only time those 2 gods ever agree on anything. Souls have already come back from the dead, although that has stopped now that the Doors are closed, and it's quite simple how to really. All you must do is escape from the Underworld. Thanatos has permission to turn a blind eye abd let you umm, 'escape.' However this is the one and only time so don't expect-" however that was when I finally interrupted.

"Wait so Percy's ok? We won? The giants were defeated? Was anyone else hurt? Percy got another wish? Did someone pick up my Yankees cap?" I asked in a rush.

Hades looked at me with distaste."Kind of, yes, yes, yes, yes although I don't think he deserves it and yes. Your 'cap' as you say is in the posession of Percy Jackson. However," he said seeing she was about to ask more questions, "it would be much easier to show you what happened instead of me answering your remaining questions."

Then he waved his hand and a circular shadow about the size of a large circular mirror appeared and shown on it was the battle. I saw myself fall and crack my head. Heard my own arm break and saw as my knife slid out of my hand on my broken right arm. As I watched Porphyrion came up and said those awful last words. I heard that gods awful scream of Percy's name, saw the giant stab me in the chest. I winced as I saw that, like I was recurring the wound all over again. Percy defeated the giant he was facing, Mimas. Percy looked over in first shock, then astonishment. My mother picked up the fallen dagger and engagaed the giant king in battle herself. Percy ran over to my broken body and I saw the tears running down his face. I saw him grieve and heard his heartbroken yell. I watched as Frank comforted him and told him to keep fighting. I witnessed the war Percy was having with himself and in my head I was screaming at him to just forget about me. To set my body down and keep fighting!

Finally he picked up his sword, which had returned to his pocket and saw him uncap it and step towards Porphyrion with a look of pure hatred on his face.

I was terrified. I had never seen Percy look this dangerous, this powerful. I had seen a sliver of this after the Titan War but never this full unleashed rage. It was like I had been the only thing keeping him in control and my death had made him snap. Percy ran towards Porphyrion and I saw the giant turn and taunt Percy with my death. Percy stopped in shock and then my mother distracted the giant again, fighting him. Once again Percy had that look of pain on his face and I just couldn't believe that I was the cause of it.

I knew Percy had loved me. Gods how could I not know it? But now I knew, he had loved me just as much as I loved him. And that was a Hades of a lot. More then the average person could ever love. But I guess Percy and I weren't exactly average.

I was snapped out of my thoughts when I saw Percy start running again and I saw him fight as hard as he could and then more. Athena seemed to gain hope as she saw him fight alonside her and together they were equal- if not better- fighters then the giant. Percy was distracting and doing the most slashing while Athena was making the deepest more calculated cuts. I was shocked, to say the least. Percy and my mother working together? I would've said it was impossible. But there they were, seeming to communicate with just a look, just like Percy and I had when I was alive.

Percy then started to fight harder then ever and made the biggest move I had ever seen. Percy slashed the giants stomach with Riptide, rolled right between the huge, scaly legs, stand up and stcik the sword right through the giants throat. My mother stabbed him in the front of the neck.

Percy didn't even look tired. He didn't even watch as the giant we had been working so hard to defeat, crumbled to dirt right in front of him. He just focused on me and the intense gaze made me shiver. He walked towards my broken body (which Piper and Jason had kindly dragged away from the fighting). Then I saw Percy's face.

I swear to all of the gods that it physically hurt me to see that. I couldn't watch Percy with the broken look of unendurable pain on his face. Pain, hurt, longing and sadness.

"Stop, stop. I can't watch this! Pleasee stop it!" I screamed at Hades, trying not to show how shaken I was from what I had just seen. I knew I would never be able to get that out of my head. "I can't stand to see him like this!"

Hades looked over at me, surprised, but then quickly masked his emotions again and calmly waved his hand through the shadow. My last view was of Percy holding my body and sobbing.

"As you can see," Hades said trying not to let his emotions come out through his voice, "we defeated the giants and the demigods traveled in their flying ship to Olympus in New York. Percy Jackson," he said the name with extreme dislike, "was granted another wish, and he asked to have you back. The wish was granted. Why he would wish to have you back I do not know. I share my nephew's views of you demigods. All of you are quite annoying, however amusing to watch." Hades sighed. "Apart from Nico and Hazel of course." he added on almost as an afterthought.

"Wait Percy wished- he wished to have me back?" I asked incredulously.

"Yes, yes I thought children of Athena were supposed to be smart." he said obviously annoyed.

I let the comment slide. "But why would he wish for me? He could've had anything and he chose me. Oh that stupid, stupid Seaweed Brain." By the end I was half laughing, half trying to shove the tears in my throat down.

"Well don't ask me." stated Hades. "I personally think he's crazy. I mean you should've seen him, he was the saddest person I've ever seen. This is the 2nd time he's turned down immortality you know." Hades looked over me quizzically. "I don't know if it'll be worth it but oh well. He also yelled in my face. He unashamely yelled in my face!" Hades said the last part indignantly. After several moments of awkward silence he said, "Oh and you can go now. I've ordered all of my patroling forces to let you, and only you 'sneak out' without capture."

I stared at him for a couple of seconds and finally bowed. "Thankyou Lord Hades."

He stared down at me. "Yes well," he cleared his throat. "I just hope it was worth it."

As I turned around he called my name again. "Yes my lord?"

"I'm not particularly fond of my nephew," he scowled like his next words would be hard to spit out, "but he is a good hero and most of us gods would hate to see any harm come to him, both mentally and physically. Just remember that twice now, he's given up anything to be with you. For you to live again." he paused as if debating wether to say more. Eventually he just said "And on that happy note you may leave. Please try not to come back for a while would you?" before I could say anything he said "Have fun escaping!" and dissolved into shadow.

I stared at where he had just been. "Of course my lord." I finally whispered and then turned and walked out of the palace, and out of the Underworld.

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