Story: Distant Waves

Author: BeautiWind

Couple: Percy J./Annabeth C.

Chapter Rate: T

Genre: Romance/Genre

Disclaimer: I only own my idea of using a Titanic storyline and basing off PJO & my own characters from "Titanic" for "Distant Waves."If you are anyhow related to the historical characters I base off my characters, please don't be offended by this. This is just pure fun! Any use of dialogue of the books and/or movie is in Fair Copyright Law 107 and copyright to their intended belongs to Rick and Haley Riordan and Titanic belongs to who ever owns it (I'm guessing James Cameron & Crew).

Summary: Annabeth Chase-Norwood goes aboard the Titanic and isn't expecting to fall in love with Percy Jackson, who has nothing to offer her but his heart and love. Will she surrender her luxurious and stable life to love him? Or will she let herself be pushed around by her fiancee, Luke Castellan-Tolbert? In-honor of Titanic!

Story I am Reading:

I'm His Queen - rachelcolleen1000 (AWESOME!)

Song(s) I am singing/listening:

- Wait for Me

Let's Take the World Tonight - Shane Harper

Odio por Amor - Juanes (Spanish song, some might not know...)

Chapter 20: A Fight for Survival

Percy Jackson's Point of View

We realized that we heard nothing but the sound of the ship creaking and the water gushing down the steps. We looked at each other and decided to get going. We were going to let Death catch and swallow us whole. At least not this way.

We followed the same trail we came through. When we finally reached the dinning room I was already out of breath. It was then I noticed that the ship was slanting. It felt like a mountain, the incline just getting higher and higher. I turned over to Annabeth and saw that it was ten billion times harder for her. She had heels and her ankles looked red.

I saw her expression and it was pained. I quickly let go of her hand. I didn't notice that I held it so tightly. She groaned in pain.

"Annabeth, your ankles!" I said as she leaned against the wooden pole. She quickly took off her heels and held them in her hand. I held her by the waist to prevent her to fall.

"I can't… anymore… It's… too much." she pants. Her baby hairs are stuck to her forehead and her cheeks are red and wet from all the running.

"It's okay, I'll carry you to the door frame. That is where the floor is more parallel." I didn't wait for her response and lifted her in my arms. She wrapped her arms around my neck and we headed over to the door frame. Most of the chairs were titled over and/or broken but I somehow managed to stand them and sit Annabeth on it.

"Thank you, Percy." she said rubbing her ankles. "Stupid shoes."

I chuckled a bit.

I looked through the fine tinted windows of the dinning room. People were running and yelling outside, trying to save their lives. Then I looked at Annabeth rubbing her ankles and somehow found it bizarre. Us, who should be outside doing the same as the others, are in here together sitting and/or standing waiting for a small pain in her ankles to disperse a bit. Annabeth seems to see me staring outside the window and stands up, putting on her heels on again. "Let's go. Maybe if we get on a lifeboat you can still finished your lesson." She was referring to the spitting thing.

I let out a laugh. And when I say laugh I mean wholeheartedly, clutching-your-stomach type of laughing. I guess that this whole situation has come out of the nowhere and no one is naturally prepared for something like this where you are in the border of life and death.

I nodded towards her and she grabbed my hand. We began to run to the life boat deck when Annabeth jerked my hand and let go of it. I immediately turned to her and saw that there was someone else in this room and he wasn't it his happy days.

"Sir Apollo. What are you still doing here?" asked Annabeth, setting an arm on his shoulder. Sir Apollo was standing in front of a fireplace, constantly checking his stopwatch and changing the time on the clock that sat on top of the fireplace.

His face was heart breaking and I get why. He designed this ship, he told everyone that Titanic was unsinkable, and now everyone is looking for the blame. Him, and he feels like a fraud. His eyes are beading with tears and the bags under his eyes are even more looped.

"Oh Annabeth, I'm a failure. I failed everyone aboard." Sir Apollo said, sadly. He turned to me. "Even your father who is in my state but worse. So many years at sea and so much fame, Percy, and then suddenly death is at your feet ready to pull you down. Your father is not fine! He is dying right now."

My heart sank. I haven't even thought of my father since I was arrested. My father is in a bad state and I'm not there to bring him up.

"What?" is all that spills out of my mouth. "Where is he?"

He shrugs, "I don't know but he is not breathing right now."

I am just one second away from running to my father's aid when Annabeth asks, "Why are you here?"

"Oh sweetie. I'm just waiting. Waiting to see time fly and then drown." He chuckles sadly. He takes another glance at his stopwatch and moves the little hand on the clock. "See?"

"Won't you even make a try for it, Sir Apollo?" she asks, incredulously.

A tear rolls down his cheek, "I am so sorry I didn't build you a stronger ship, young Annabeth."

Annabeth wants to say something to comfort him but we all know there is no use in doing so. Titanicis sinking and there is no stopping her. She has made up her mind. I take a look outside. They are trying to bring down a lifeboat. "It's going fast… We've got to keep moving."

Annabeth nods and hugs Sir Apollo and he replies by giving her a life belt. She takes it thankfully. I approach him and shake his hand that turns into a hug.

"You are amazing for building such a ship. You are a genius." I pat his back and we pull back.

He looks at me and pushes my shoulder. "Get going and maybe you can save your father. Although…"

He faltered and I know what he meant. A good loyal captain, in case of a sinking, goes down with his ship. And so far my father is a loyal captain. He won't give up.

Annabeth comes forward and says, "You will go to Elysium. That I guarantee."

He smiles and weakly, "And I'll see you there when the time comes."

We leave before anything else happens. Just talking about going to Elysium is terrifying. Sure everyone wants to go there when they die but it's so soon to talk about that. Just knowing you'll die in a few hours… It gives me a headache and not from the hypothermia I'm starting to have.

We soon arrive to the main deck and it's a ruckus. There are no more lifeboats and now everyone is preparing to sink. That is not in my plans. I need to find my father.

Everyone is destroyed right now. Everyone is a wreck and soon this ship will be too.

Annabeth sees my expression and I say, "I need to find my father."

She looks panicked at first but then understands. We go to where he will most likely be at this time, or so my instincts say. The command room.

When we manage to arrive the doors are closed. I stagger over to them, Annabeth at my heel. And there he is, standing all mighty holding on to the wheel steadily.

"I'm done here." He says as he notices me, not turning his head. "How can I bring your sister back to us when I can't even save a stupid ship."

His tone is hard but hurt. I approach him and hold on to one of the spokes on the wheel. "Father, you are not done, not until at least you find Calypso. We are going to find her together, alright. You keep your promise to us."

The windows are standing to crack and panic rises to my head. My father simply shakes his head and says, "If I don't have a face to show my own daughter, then I won't have a face to show the others. I'm a failure and I don't want my daughter to know me as that."

I put my hand on his and secure my fingers around his. "I finally find you, after all my entire life and just one little thing as pride is going to bring you down. Calypso is your daughter therefore she won't care about anything. Just to have her real family with her. Us."

The windows around are cracking dangerously now and we only have a matter of minutes before more water comes in and with all the water already in here, he doesn't have a chance.

He stays quiet and then he says, "Okay, lets go. But just one thing, you have to promise to help me find Caley."

"Yes, of course." I say immediately.

I smiles and he continues on to the door. "Are you coming, Percy? Annabeth?"

He extends his arm to address us out. We nod and head out the door. I turn around just in time to receive a hug from him and to hear his last words directly, "You are mine, Perseus Alexander Jackson."

And with that he stands back and shuts the door in my face and locks it.

"I love you, tell that to yourself and the others, will you?" he says behind the door.

"Yes, but open the door! Come out! Father!" I bang on the door. "Father! Father! Dad! Dad! Dad! Open the door!"

"I love you, Percy!" He says, "See you in a while, my son!"

Just then the Titanic makes a shift and water comes over, pressuring the windows and they break. They break. They break… They break!

"NO! DADDY!" Is all I yell as the water pours in through the window frames. All those feeling I had buried deep came out. My daddy is gone, simple as that but so painful as well. Annabeth holds me from behind, locking her fingers to secure me to herself. It was then I noticed I almost barged in to save him.

"Daddy! Dad! Father…" tears are rolling down cheeks, incredulously. My vision is blurry and my body is soaked in sweat, despite the freezing cold. I start to yell, to scream, to kick, everything I held in for so many years for his absence is coming out. All I ever wanted to do when I needed him. All I ever wanted to do when they told me he would never come back. All I needed was him and I lost him, and now for good.

Then I feel another set of arms grab my arms.

Jason.

"What happened?" he asks, urgency in his tone. Then he notices and lets go my arms. I collapse on the wet floor and buried my head in my palms. Annabeth plumps next to me and tries to lift me. I, being in a rain of tears, am not being a good support to her.

"No! NO! UNCLE!" yelled Jason as he tried to open the door. It didn't budge. It didn't budge!

I quickly get up and, still crying, help Jason. Nothing. Then we jump up to the roof and jumped to where the water is building up, where it creates a waterfall through the windows. We jump in and swim in.

We swim for a few minutes and find nothing. He isn't here. He isn't here! WHERE!

We get out, knowing we need to move on.

Once we are out Jason says shakily, "We need to move to the stern."

I nod, "We need to stay on this ship as long as possible."

We all agree and head over to the aft. We clamber over the A-Deck aft rail. We help each other jump over the rail. Once we are down, people are literally clawing and scrambling over each other trying to reach the aft. Others are doing the opposite and they jump over trying to make it easier; the pain I mean.

A man in front of me is walking like a zombie and mutters, "Yeah, thought I walk through the valley of the shadow of death-"

Irritated, I said to him, "You wanna walk a little faster through that valley, fella?"

He groans and moves aside.

The ship now is standing and we have managed to reach the aft railing. We immediately start to climb over it.

Below us, Father Byles is preaching to those who need faith.

I am helping Annabeth to climb over but she dangling now and Jason is helping another. "Come on, Annabeth, we can't expect the gods to do the work for us."

We are finally over and we are crammed aside from a mother holding her terrorized child and a man with liquor in his hand.

Not a minute later, the lights begin to flicker and then they shut off. The ship's stern is slowly but surprisingly fast going down. Then she breaks in two and the stern plummets back down.

"Hold on! HOLD ON!" Jason and I say simultaneously.

A man somewhere yells, "Why should we?! It's your father's fault we are in this bullshit!"

I flinched at my father's name. If it weren't because in the situation I am in then I would've punched that bastard in his soft spot.

Annabeth was slipping and I noticed just in time and held on to her. Now the stern is horizontal and I am facing the boiling-like sea fifteen stories down.

"Take a deep breath and hold it right before we go into the water. The ship will suck us down. Kick for the surface and keep kicking. Don't let go of my hand. We're gonna make it Annabeth. Trust me. You to Jason, trust me?"

They both nod and Annabeth and Jason hold on to my hand, tightly.

"Hold your breath when I say so! Ready?" I yell. The water is now twelve stories drowned and it's going to happen.

They both nod and take deep breaths.

The water gets closer.

And closer.

And closer.

"Ready?"

"Yes!"

"Now!" I say and I hear them take in their deep breath. I grip tighter their hands and them as well. One last glance at them before something happens.

We hit once more. And then we drown…

The sinking! It's here! NOOOOOO! LOL! Stay tuned.

Answers to Reviews:

A/N: So most of your reviews are asking about Percy and if he is going to die in this story... And let me say: I AM OFFENDED! How dare you think that I would write off Percy! I am in love with Percy if you haven't noticed and we are going to get married and have two children: Daphne and Alexander! LOL JK. I am not crazy! haha But he did propose *shows huge diamond rings to readers*

HAHA!

So to make it clear - I AM NOT GOING TO KILL OFF PERCY! i repeat: I AM NOT GOING TO KILL OFF PERCY!

Happy? Yay! Good... I thought it was enough agonizing patience. So yeah.

And I am not going to answer to reviews because most of them were asking for this.

And to those asking about my brother:

Thank you for your support. It means so much. He is still the same, getting procedures done at the hospital and such and my nephew is taking care of him! SO cute! That's family for ya! LOL

And to those New Readers: Thank you for loving my story. I love it when I get you feedback specially when it's positive! LOL Thank you!

And to other readers who always pep talk me: YOU ARE AMAZING! THE BEST!

Special note to Sasaway: Yeah, about that... To write my story I sometimes used the movie script as a guide to find where I am and sometimes when I am copying their dialogue I copy the whole thing. I don't do copy and paste for a reason but I don't zone out sometimes. hehe! That is why Percy is sometimes called Jack.

When I am done with the story I am plannig to go back and edit the whole thing... Hopefully I do that!

THX TO THOSE WHO REVIEWED/FAVORITED/FOLLOWED! Keep it up!

So I hoped you liked it and stay tuned to the next chappie. Not sure if I'm going back to my last schedule to update on weekends. Still not sure. Depending on my homework and laziness level... hehe!

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~BeautiWind -heart-