Percy's P.O.V.
I couldn't believe it, no matter how much I knew that it was in fact, reality. I was still desperately trying to convince myself that it was not a dream, and that Annabeth and I didn't break up. It was like the world was ending. I couldn't believe that I completely forgot about the big New York date that we had planned together, the fact that I called her selfish, and a self-conceited brat. I sighed as I realized that I didn't even realize where my feet had taken me since I was so lost in my own thoughts. It wasn't really a surprise when I ended up to be sitting on a beach with my feet in the water. I guess whenever someone is lost or lonely it's just natural that they return home, which is where he or she belongs in the end.
I thought back to when I was still back at camp, the moment where I had just broke up with Annabeth. I had run back to my cabin to pack up all of my belongings and stuffed them all in a duffel bag. I still remembered how much I wanted to run back to Annabeth and fall to my knees, begging for her forgiveness because I was such a fool. After taking a last look at the place that I had called home for many years, I grabbed the picture of Annabeth and I together that sat on my bedside table before stepping outside and shutting the door. I walked over to the newly constructed Camp Half-Blood parking lot and jumped into my blue Audi, firing up the engine and speeding away.
After a 4-hour, I had finally reached Spokane, Washington. I pulled over at the first restaurant that I saw, taking a break from all the driving as well as getting a bite to eat. Once I finished eating my happy meal, I began to walk back to my car but was stopped by a big hellhound that jumped right in front of me. I immediately reached for Riptide to attack before I realized that I had fell right into a trap. I made a quick note that there were 9 more hellhounds that had already surrounded me. I knew that I could defeat them eventually, but it would be much easier if someone … Annabeth were here to help. The hellhounds began to growl at me, while I braced myself for the attack. All of a sudden, the hellhounds started to yelp in pain for absolutely no reason at all. That was when I noticed that there was a dagger stuck on one of the backs of the hellhounds. Once the hellhound turned into golden dust, I realized that I had seen this dagger before. It was her dagger, Annabeth was here; and she was wearing her invisibility cap. I already knew what to do; it seemed to be all too easy now. I would distract the hellhounds, while Annabeth killed them.
10 minutes had passed before the ground that was once stood on by hellhounds was now covered with golden dust. I stopped to cap Riptide and put the sword now in pen form, and quickly motioned Annabeth to follow me in my car.
"Why did you follow me?" I asked through gritted teeth. "It's not that I didn't want you here, but you made it pretty clear to me that you did not want to come with me at all."
"Seawe—Percy, I got worried about you. What if something happened to you? Plus frien-friends wouldn't let their friends go alone," Annabeth said cautiously.
I smiled but quickly felt my smile drop as soon as she said friends. She said friends, I thought to myself. That means that I'm still not forgiven. I sighed, even though I didn't like it, I still wanted her to be happy, so I went along with what she said.
"So what do we do now, Annie?" I smirked as I called her the nickname that she absolutely hates.
"Well first of all, you do not, under any circumstances ever call me Annie again, or I will personally castrate you with my bare hands. Second of all, it's already late Percy; we should stay somewhere and rest for the night. Just pull up at the first motel you see."
After driving for about 20 minutes, we finally found a motel that was pretty decent; it was not too cheap, but not too expensive as well. I didn't really know why we had to stay in a motel since I wasn't really that tired, but it sure didn't help when the manager was arguing with Annabeth since they didn't have any rooms with twin beds. Finally, after some threatening on Annabeth's part, the manager eventually agreed to give us an extra bed The elevator was not too bad, shaking a little bit on the way up, but definitely not as bad as something like fighting the Minotaur. When we got to the room, Annabeth said she would take a shower first, so I just lay down on the bed that was closest to the window; thinking about what a coward I was, for not telling Annabeth that I needed her and I missed her. I felt my eyelids close slowly and I was engulfed into a dream.
I was looking out a window and when I looked at my surroundings and realized two things. I was in a car that Nico was driving.
"Nico? Where are we going?" I asked my cousin. "What is going on?"
Nico didn't even spare me a glance and just continued to keep his eyes on the road.
"Nico?" I asked, while waving my hand in front of his face.
I was definitely starting to get irritated when he still didn't answer me. All that I heard him say was 'Don't worry Thalia, I'll save you.'
Okay Percy, I thought to myself. There is definitely something wrong here. What happened to Thalia? Wait a minute … I see the Golden Gate Bridge, which means that we're in San Francisco. Suddenly, the scene changed and I found myself to be in the water where fish were talking to me about hosting a dance contest for them.
"Help us, Lord! Can you be our judge for the contest?"
"What if I don't want to?" I asked.
"Wake up!" I suddenly heard.
"What?" I asked.
"Percy wake up! Your mom has blue pancakes," a voice said.
Blue pancakes! I jumped off the bed, not noticing that there was someone standing right in front of me. I bumped into it, realizing that the person was Annabeth, to be exact. We both ended up falling on the carpeted floor in our motel room.
"Ow! Percy, what is your problem?" Annabeth asked, while rubbing her nose.
"Where are the blue pancakes?" I asked excitably.
"What? Oh, I just said that to wake you up," Annabeth said. "Anyways, I'm done so you can take a shower now."
I was about to say that I would be there in a minute before I remembered the dream that I had.
"Hey Annabeth, we need to go to San Francisco tomorrow," I said.
"What! Why? We have to go and look for Thalia and Nico, remember?" she asked.
"I had a dream," I tried explaining to Annabeth.
"I know, but remember that I had a dream as well? It led us here to Washington," Annabeth explained.
"I'm telling you, Annabeth, we need to go to San Francisco!" I said, raising my voice a bit. I sighed before speaking again. "I know that you had a dream … just trust me ok?"
"I still don't know … just tell me what your dream was about, Percy!" Annabeth said.
"I saw Nico driving his car, not paying attention to me, but he did mutter something. He said, 'don't worry Thalia, I'll save you." so I'm guessing something happened to her. I looked outside the car window and saw the Golden Gate Bridge, meaning that we were in San Francisco. Suddenly, the scene changed and I was talking to the fish in the water who wanted me to judge a dance contest for them," I said.
Annabeth rolled her eyes at the part where the fish came up, but once I was done telling her my dream, she immediately jumped up and started throwing all of her things in her bag. I raised my eyebrows at her, but all she did was look at me and then give me a small nod.
"We will leave early morning tomorrow," Annabeth said. "It's too late now."
"Understood," I replied.
I could tell that Annabeth was really worried about Thalia, but all she wanted to do right now was hide the fear she had and act like a leader. I sighed, and then got up to take a shower. Once I was done, I immediately jumped on my bed to try and get some sleep. Annabeth and I were both lying down on our beds. It was dark with all the lights out, but I could still hear Annabeth breathing steadily. I couldn't stop thinking about our break up, and knowing that I still loved her, I gathered up all my courage and turned over to face her.
"Wise girl?" I said hesitantly. "I just wanted you to know that I still love you … I believe we both thought that it was a stupid fight that we had back at camp. I just want to say that I'm sorry, I missed you so much, and that I want to get back together with you if you feel the same way."
After a few minutes of silence, I turned on the lights only to find that Annabeth was sleeping soundly. I sighed and held back the tears that were threatening to fall. I silently congratulated myself for being the one to be able to fight Kronos, save the world, fight hundreds of monsters, but still couldn't man up and apologize to someone that he loved.
