Annabeth POV
"Are you guys going to school today?" I ask Piper, who was basicly laying on Jason.
Jason tries to sit up but doubles over in pain. "No thank you."
I nodded and gave some leaves to Piper. "Put this on him at about lunch." I turned and got my backpack. "Come on Percy!" My voice rang up the stairs.
"Annabeth! Can you come here for a second!" Percy called down.
I thumped up the stairs and into Percy's room. "What's wrong?"
Percy grimmaced and hugged his pillow. "I just have a bad feeling about today."
My eyes dropped to the floor. When Percy says something isn't right, it probably isn't right. "What's wrong?"
He shook his head. "Just, we shouldn't go to school, I can just feel it." He turned pale.
"Yeah, okay. I'll go tell everyone else." I ran down the stairs. "You guys, no school today. Percy senses something."
Frank wiped Hazel's brow, which was sweaty. "Hazel senses something too."
Hazel closed her eyes. "We can't go to school today. Something's going to happen."
"Percy! Get down here!" I called up the stairs.
Percy stumbled down the stairs, his face all sweaty and pale. "Annabeth." He whispered and fell down the rest of the stairs.
"Percy!" I cried and rushed forward to catch him. "What's going on?" I looked over at Calypso who was iris messaging Chiron.
Calypso slashed her hand through the rainbow. "Something is affecting the kids of the big three. Where's Nico? Is Thalia okay?"
Leo took her hand. "Last time I saw him, he was up in his room listening to some death music."
"I think it's affecting their old wounds. Jason, his stab wound, Percy's achilles heal, Hazel's flashbacks and Nico... He's feeling forgotten again." I slapped my forehead. "Leo, go run up there and get him. Thalia must be feeling her old leg wound." I fished a Drachma out of my pocket. "Oh Iris, goddess of the rainbow, please accept my offering. Show me Thalia Grace, hunter of Artimes."
The Iris message showed Thalia laying on the ground in pain, clutching her leg where the Cyclops got it. "Thalia!" I yelled and craddeled Percy's head in my lap.
"Annabeth." Thalia groaned. "What's going on?" She lifted up her pant leg to show me her scar. "Not even Artimes can figure out what's going on."
Percy groaned into my lap. "Somebody wants revenge against our Dads."
Leo came stumbeling down the stairs with Nico complaining under his arm. "I bet it's Ares or somebody."
Calypso was already on her feet. "Here Jason, this should help releive the pain." She spread some murky yellow stuff on Jason's scar. "Percy just has a regular cold. Just keep him in bed." She walked over to Nico and whispered something in his ear. Nico went over to Hazel and hugged her out of her flashbacks. "Thalia must be just remembering something, it should pass."
Thank gods for Calypso, I thought.
"Thanks." I took a blanket off the other couch and wrapped it around Percy.
Percy nuzzeled his head into my chest and started to sleep. I slowly stroked his hair as he fell asleep again. "Thank you Calypso."
She leaned into Leo's embrace. "Any time."
I pressed my lips to Percy's feaverish forehead. "After this war, I can be anything but calm."
Calypso looked away. "Thousands of years on an island sure keeps you calm."
Leo stroked her cheek. "Lets not talk about that island."
I shifted Percy in my arms. "Can you get me a pillow for his head please?"
Frank reached over and threw me a throw pillow. Ha, that's probably why they call it a throw pillow. "Here."
I caught it in one hand. "Thanks, how's Hazel?"
He traced the line of her mouth. "She's okay."
"How's Nico?" I tugged on Percy's earlobe.
Frank leaned over and looked at the son of Hades. "He seems okay, he's passed out."
"Good." I nodded as Calypso and Leo silently padded up the stairs.
Piper snored from the couch in harmony with Jason's quiet ones. They looked so peacefull, sleeping together. Not a care in the world, sleeping on like heroes should.
I leaned my head back into the couch and snuggled into Percy's side. He shifted and wrapped his arm around me, with Percy's heat washing over me and I fell asleep.
"'beth." Was what I woke to in the morning. "'beth wake up." It was Percy.
"Five more minutes." I murmed and burrowed deeper into the blankets.
"Annabeth." Percy complained. "Wake up!"
I opened my eyes. "There, does that make you happy? What do you want?" I angrily whispered at him.
"Can we go up to my room?" He jutted out his bottom lip.
I gathered up all the blanket. "Sure, why not."
Percy leaned on me as we quietly crept up the stairs. I pushed open his door and helped him onto his bed. "Thanks." Percy grimmaced.
I slipped under the covers next to him and pressed my body to his. "Can we sleep now?"
Percy nodded slowly and kissed the soft spot on my temple. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight." I slowly nodded off under Percy's arms. "Wake me up if you need something."
"Okay." Was Percy's response.
I fell asleep with Percy's arm wrapped around my waist, his hand acausnialy slipping lower, my breath hitching in my throat then returning to normal.
I woke about ten, very late for me with Percy still asleep, his arm still wrapped around me. I lay still, not wanting to wake him and stare at the cealing. Percy slowly woke up and thought I was asleep and kissed me 'awake'.
"Wakey wakey Anniebethy- woah, I rimed." He kissed me again.
"Gods Percy, you're going to give me your cold." I wrapped my arms around his head with a smile.
Percy smiled. "That's my goal, 'beth."
I flicked the soft spot on his temple. "Yeah no thanks."
He smiled and wrapped his arms tighter around me. "I love you so much I'll give you a cold."
I planted a soft kiss on his lips. "Does that count?"
Percy frowned. "No but that'll do." He sniffed and fell back on his pillow." He smiled and wrapped his muscular arm around me.
I pressed my head into his neck. "How are you feeling?"
He shrugged. "Eh but maybe I'll feel better tomarrow."
His forehead felt feaverish to my touch so I wrapped him in extra blankets plus my body heat. "Stay in bed and don't get up until it's neccisary."
Percy coughed. "But-"
"No buts, stay in bed and I'll have the plates make soup." I cut Percy off with a tissue over his mouth.
Percy frowned and silenced his cough. "Okay..." He wrapped the blankets around me as well. "Stay with me?"
"Always."
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"Annabeth." Percy complained. "It's too hot!" He kicked at his covers.
I looked up from his desk where I was doing my homework. "Then take your covers off."
Percy flopped on his back so that I got a full view of his muscular back and tattoo. "Then it's too cold."
I sighed. How did Sally do this all the time? I checked my watch. "Well stop complaining, it's time for your medicine."
Percy jutted out his bottom lip in a pout. "No medince, I feel better already."
The cherry cough medicine tasted like liquid fire, and I should now. "Come on Percy, one more swallow."
Percy gagged on the red liquid. "That's what you said that time!"
I pressed the cool wash cloth to his head. "That's the last time."
Coughing racked his body again. "Yeah right." Percy said between coughs.
I reached for my water bottle and poured a little bit on Percy's forehead. "Here, that should help."
The color in his face almost returned. "Ahh, that feels better." He moaned and half closed his eyes.
"Feel good?" I smirked to myself.
"Oh shut up."
