Chapter 21
Percy's POV
I was excited, disappointed, scared, and proud all at the same time when Annabeth told me she was pregnant. The only things I thought about that night when I fell asleep was a little girl that looked just like Annabeth but had eyes like mine. I laid in bed thinking about that and then when Annabeth laid on the bed beside me I held her close and put my hand over her stomach. I felt a smile on my face as fell asleep at the thought of becoming a dad.
Now, the only thing I could think about was that night, two months ago. I didn't know if what I thought would happen would happen just because of one incident.
FLASH BACK EARLIER THAT DAY
Annabeth and I were at the house with the weds, Thalia and Nico. We were watching the wedding video for the millionth time. There was a black and white theme. All the men had to wear black tux with white ties, but Nico had to wear a white tux with a black tie to match Thalia's white dress. All the girls had to wear black dresses with white bands and some other things.
We were all laughing at Nico's expression when Zeus told Nico he better take good care of Thalia at the after party when Annabeth received a phone call. She left out of the room to answer it. When she came back she announced that all of us had a party to go to. She explained that it was for the movie we did being on the top 10 charts for 5 months straight. We were all shocked to hear that then went to go get dressed.
I walked up to mine and Annabeth's bedroom to go change. I put on a pair of blue jeans and one of my orange shirts I got from the Olympics. I put on a pair of Nike tennis shoes. I tried to tame my hair, but failed so I just left it the way it was.
After we all changed and went down stairs finally looked to see what Annabeth was wearing. She was wearing a loose shirt, to hide her small baby bump, and a pair of jeans. I was a little upset that Annabeth hid her baby bump, but I knew she did it so the press didn't find out and make Athena, who we told two weeks after we found out, even more pissed at me and Annabeth.
I smiled a little at the thought of the whole world knowing Annabeth Chase, hopefully Jackson someday, was carrying my child. Everyone loaded into the cars, Thalia and Nico in Nico's car and me and Annabeth in Blackjack. We drove to the studio where the movie was shot and noticed that there was already cars there. I noticed one as Luke's car, Back Bitter. I parked Blackjack then me and Annbeth got out of the car and waited for Thalia and Nico to meet us by the car. When they arrived we all walked towards the front door.
When we entered we saw the director, co-director, written, producer, Luke, Rachel, Calypso, Ethan, and some other people. Luke walked over and gave us all big hugs, well except for Annabeth. See we told everybody else ,except for Rachel Calypso and Ethan, that Annabeth was pregnant around the time we told Athena. Everyone was happy and excited that we were going to have a baby. Well that is everyone except for Athena, who wanted and maybe still wants to rip my head off.
While Luke was giving everyone else a hug Rachel gave me one, but when I let go she kept on hugging me. I had to pull her off of me to make her stop, and it was weird being that she was with Luke. After I puled her off of me I noticed her smirk in Annabeth's direction. Annabeth gave her a death glare. I don't think anyone else noticed because they were to busy being greeted.
Calypso and Ethan came over to where we were standing and Calypso did the same thing to me as Rachel. I think I even saw Ethan try to make a move on Annabeth, and when I did I felt jealousy consume me but I quickly put it down. I decided to just try to enjoy the night.
About two hours had passed and the party was coming to an end. We were all starting to go home when I heard people talking in the corned. I looked over and saw Rachel, Calypso, and Ethan talking. I went over to Luke and Annabeth then asked did they wanted to go talk with the group of three in the corner. Annabeth about said so until Luke said yes that he could finally do something he's been wanting to do for a while.
I thought I knew what it was but boy was I wrong. Luke walked over to Rachel and broke up with her. He said that things weren't really working out and that Annabeth and I had cleared that up for him. Rachel looked angry and disgusted at Luke, while Calypso and Ethan looked angry and disgusted at Annabeth and me.
The next thing I knew Ethan walked over to Luke and punched him in the gut. Calypso followed her husband and started punching Luke too. I ran over to Ethan and tried to pry him off of Luke. Annabeth tried to do the same to Calypso. I finally got Ethan off of Luke and told Luke to hold him down while I helped Annabeth to get Calypso under control.
When I turned around I saw Rachel sneaking up behind Annabeth with something that looked like a metal bar. I was about to shout when Rachel swung the bar at Annabeth's stomach. Annabeth went down and I ran over to her. I looked up to see Rachel helping Calypso, who had a smirk on her face, up. Both girls ran over to where Luke was holding down Ethan and kicked Luke off of Ethan. The three of them then headed out of the door. Rachel shouted that she never even liked Luke she was just trying to get close to me. I was shocked but turned my attention to Annabeth.
I looked at Annabeth and saw a look of hurt and worry? That's when it hit me, the baby. I helped Annabeth to her feet, with the help of Luke, who got up and ran over to us. Luke called out to Thalia and Nico. Both ran over to us with a look of confusion and worry on their faces at the sight of Annabeth. I told them to go start the cars and open the door. While Nico went to do that I explained to Thalia what happened.
Her look of confusion and worry became a look of anger. She talked to Annabeth as we got her into Nico's car. We let her lay down in the seat and I sat beside her with her head in my lap. Thalia got in the passenger side of the car and Nico drove as fast as he could to the hospital. Once at the hospital, we helped Annabeth out the car and took her into the E.R. The nurse understood and called a bed out for Annabeth.
She was surprisingly quiet, and I found out why, she was in a coma.
END OF FLASHBACK
Its been a hour since Annabeh went into a coma from all the pain and the doctors just gave me horrible news: Annabeth lost the baby when she was hit with the metal bar. I started to cry then felt the comfortable arms of everyone I loved around me. There was Paul, Thalia, Nico, Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Katie, Connor, Travis,and Luke. Athena was there but she was too worried about Annabeth to care about the way I felt.
After crying for about ten minutes I walked over to Athena and gave her a hug whether she liked it or not. Although she kept a straight face I knew she was worried about me and Annabeth and I could tell she as upset about loosing her grandchild. I hugged Athena tightly then let go. I looked into her eyes and I could tell that hopefully someday she will like me. I smiled at her and went back over to my friends.
Athena followed after me and received hugs from everyone. After a while it was getting dark and everyone except for Thalia and Nico had to go home. Athena had to leave to deal with some business. I looked at Thalia and Nico and tried to make a conversation.
"How am I going to tell Annabeth?"
"I don't know Percy, but whenever you tell her Nico and I will be right beside you."
"Thanks Thals, I just don't want to tell her. I don't want to be the one to tell her that she wont be able to have our baby yet," stuttered out as I began to cry again. Thalia came over and started hugging me.
"Percy, she needs to hear it from you. You need to be strong for her. Imagine how it will affect her."
"Thanks Thalia I needed that. I need to start thinking about how Annabeth feels too."
After that little talk we sat there in silence. Then we heard someone speak. I knew the voice right away, it was Annabeth. I walked up to the bed and kissed her cheek. I notice her hands shoot up to her now flat belly.
"Percy, what happened to the baby?"
"We lost it. When Rachel hit you in the gut it hurt the baby and you had a miscarriage. You've been in a coma for about two hours."
Annabeth rapped her arms around me and started crying. I just hugged her tightly as she cried into my shoulder. I was glad I took Thalia's advice and I was committed to make Annabeth happy.
"Annabeth I know thins wont make up for our baby, but well go to Greece and wherever else you want to go. Ill take you any where, Ill do anything to make you happy. Ok?"
"Ok, Percy." She pulled away from me and started to wipe away her tears. I kissed her on the check and then Thalia and Nico gave her great big hugs. The nurse walked in with a smile on her face, it was a smile of longing and sadness. I could tell she felt bad for us and she wished she had someone to hug and take care of her like that, so I went up to her and hugged her. When I pulled away she had a big smile on her face.
Then she walked over to Annabeth and asked her some questions about the way she felt. Annabeth answered all of them and the nurse said she had to spend the night and if everything was ok in the morning, Annabeth could go home.
THE NEXT DAY
I went to the house to get Annabeth some clothes. She would be released today and needed some clothes to wear home. I got her a pair of shorts that would go to her knees and a yellow shirt. When I arrived back at the hospital I saw a news van outside, so I snuck out of my car and headed into the hospital. I went to Annabeth's room to give her the clothes and told Thalia and Nico, who were still in the room, what I saw.
When Annabeth came out of the bathroom from changing we told Annabeth about the news van. She thought about it for a minute with her eyebrows scrunched up, I thought that was cute, and told us a plan that was destined to work. She told us that the newest married couple "Thalico" should go out first as a distraction then "Percabeth" could slip away. We all agreed to the plan and then went to go check Annabeth out.
We checked Annabeth out and then "Thalico" went outside to distract the reporters. Annabeth and I waited at the hospital entrance/ exit for a few minutes before heading out the door. As we headed out the door and headed twards the car I heard the reporter ask about "The Thalico Wedding" I almost laughed but I knew that would give Annabeth and I away, so I kept my mouth shut.
Annabeth and I had made it to the car and got ready to leave. I started the car and honked the horn. That signaled Thalia and Nico to come on that we were in the car. Both ran over towards the car and hopped in. Right when they shut the door I put the petal to floor and drove off. The news reporters tried to catch up but I was to fast for them.
Before heading home I wanted to take Annabeth to a special place to get her something I've been planning on her getting since the incident. I drove up to someone's house and stopped the car.
"Percy, who's house is this?"
"I don't know."
"Then why are we here?"
"You'll see, Wise Girl."
I got out the car and heard everyone else follow. I walked up to the front door of the house and knocked on the door. After I knocked a man who looked to be in his fifties answered the door.
"Are you Percy Jackson?"
"Yes sir, Uh? What was your name aagain?"
"Quintus."
"Oh right. So is she ready?"
"Yep. Mrs. O'Leary!"
As soon as he shouted the name a big black lab puppy came running towards us. She jumped up and started licking Quintus in the face. He put a leash on her and handed me the end of the leash.
"Here you go. Now remember her name is Mrs. O'Leary and she eats a lot so make sure you feed her good."
"Will do. Thanks Quintus."
"No problem. I want her to have a good home after I die and I didn't want her to be token to the pound. Bye, and remember take good care of her. Bye Mrs. O'Leary!"
All of us head back to the car and I have Mrs. O'Leary with me. I open the car door an let her in. She hops right over into Annabeth's lap and starts licking her. Annabeth smiles and laughs.
"Percy whats with the dog?"
"Well, Wise Girl, I figured until or if we ever get the chance to have another baby, we could have someone else to love and them love us."
"Thanks Percy. She's so sweet! How old is she?"
"About 5 months."
Mrs. O'Leary climbed into the backseat with Thalia and Nico and licked them. Nico looked disgusted then I told him that she was giving him a kiss and that she liked him. He smiled at that then began petting her. Thalia said that it was cool that she was completely black and Nico agreed. Annabeth and I laughed at that.
The rest of the ride home Mrs. O'Leary kept entertaining us. As I drove up to the house I grabbed her leash and pulled her to the front seat. I parked the car and got Mrs. O'Leary out. I walked over to Annabeth to help her out and I walked to the front steps with one arm around Annabeth and the other one holding Mrs. O'Leary's leash. As I opened the door to the house I said five words that I hope to say to mine and Annabeth's baby;
"Welcome to your new home!" We walked in side with Thalia and Nico behind us hand in hand.
A.N. I'm sorry for not updating sooner, its just that I've been busy and I was on vacation. I hope you continue to read my story and enjoy it. I'm sorry about the baby trust me it broke my heart writing about it but I needed something exciting in the story!
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