Just to clear up, * means a memory. I had to rework it. Oh, and # means real time. 3

Annabeth:

"Mommy?" a voice broke me out of my dreams. I slowly opened my eyes to find two small grey eyes looking right back. My son was shaking me awake in bed. I looked around for Percy. Then I remembered he had to be early for work today. Annie and Artemis also left early so they could study for some test. That meant it was my job to take care of Beck while the office was being redone. A secretary had accidentally flooded the place.

"Yes, Beck?" I asked. He looked so much like his father it almost scared me. I turned to see the clock. It read nine o' clock.

"Mommy, can we sleep late?" I asked. Yeah, as you can tell he is still really little.

"Of course, Sweetie," I scooped him up in my arms. The reason he is sleeping in my bed is the fact that last night he had slipped in our room saying he had bad dreams. Percy and I, both having known how bad dreams scare little kids, made room for the little boy in our bed. Beck wasn't but about eighteen months old.

"I love you, Beckendorf," I whispered in his little ear.

"I love you, Mommy," he responded before falling asleep in my arms. I kissed his cheek.

Percy:

"Annabeth," I tried to wake up my wife who had fallen asleep in my arms. Her blonde hair was pulled up in a high ponytail. Artemis had finished Tale Of Two Pretties after one day. Followed by the tears of it being the final book, Annie and Artemis had given it to Annabeth because when the last one came out, she became addicted. Annabeth had finished the book so quickly, it was almost funny.

"Anna," I whispered once again. Her grey eyes fluttered open. I started to think about when we had first seen each other since we were eighteen.

*"Annie, slow down. I can't keep up. How much longer until we reach the stage where you sleep all day?" I asked trying to keep up. We were running in the forest to Camp Half-Blood. My daughter, Andromeda, was the daughter of Hecate.

"Dad, hurry up! I want you to meet Ms. Chase. She is probably already here. She is going to help Art un-pack," she walked faster.

"Wait, she's a demigod. And her name is Chase," I put the pieces together.

"Artemis, slow down. Mommy can't run this fast anymore," I heard a familiar voice say.

"Artemis?" my daughter asked.

"Andromeda?" a voice asked.

"Art," my daughter ran to the voice. I tried to keep up.

"Annie, I haven't seen you in forever," the blonde woman around my age asked.

"Hello, Ms. Chase," she said. I reached the area they were in.

"I told you. Call me Annabeth," she said. My eyes widened.

"All right, Annabeth. This is my dad," Annie took the woman's hand. She led her to me.

"Hi, I'm…Percy, is that you?" she asked. She looked even more beautiful than I remember.

"Percy Jackson, and you're Annabeth?" I asked.

"That was me. The girl who kept yelling at you since the day you got here," she smiled.

"You know each other?" Artemis asked.

"This is the Percy from all of those crazy stories," Annabeth explained.

"Dad, this is the Annabeth from the stories?" Annie asked.

"This is her," I told my daughter. The two girls looked at us in amazement.

"Come on, Hun. Percy, it has been great seeing you, but I'm afraid we must be going. I hope to see you soon," she smiled. Art and Annie pulled her off. She grabbed her daughter's bags before she was pulled away. I smiled as I grabbed my daughter's bags. I quickly made my way to see the new generation of half-bloods.

"Percy, my boy, great to see you," Chiron told me as I got closer.

"Great to see you. Have you seen my daughter?" I asked.

"She was pulling an old friend of yours. Have you seen that friend lately? I'm not supposed to say, but it's-" Chiron told me.

"Annabeth," I answered, "I just saw her. I didn't know she was a mom," I said.

"She is. I'm surprised you never kept in touch," he said.

"We did until we became parents," I told him. We said our goodbyes. I went to my daughter's cabin. A few other girls I recognized were in there.

"Dad, what took you so long? I dropped Ms. Chase off forever ago," my daughter said. I put her bags down.

#"What?" she asked still half-asleep.

*I woke up to the sound of the alarm clock in my phone. Annabeth was still asleep. We had fallen asleep on the couch. In one hand I still held a drawing pad, and the other was loosely around Annabeth. Her head rested perfectly on my chest. A smile crept on my face. I hadn't felt like this since I was a teenager. Deep inside, all I wanted was her, but I need to grow up. We each have different lives, but my head reminds me that this summer was one of the best I've ever had.

"Annie, shh!" I heard Artemis whisper. They were half-way down the hall. They would find us like this.

"Annabeth," I whispered in her ear. She groaned.

"I'm up," she said. She leaned up to assess where she was. She knit her eyebrows as id wondering why she was in my apartment.

"You fell asleep. The girls are up and in the hall," I explained.

"Oh," she sat up. I did the same.

"Dang it," Annie muttered as she realized we weren't still asleep in each others arms when she walked in.

"All right, girlies. How did you sleep?" Annabeth asked smiling. I looked at her. I had always thought she would be a good mom, but I didn't imagine this good….

#"The brownies are almost done," I told her. Tomorrow, Annie needed the brownies for some school thing. I cant remember what it was.

*I woke up on the couch. My arms were wrapped around Annabeth. We were at my apartment. The girls had fallen asleep on the floor on a bunch a blankets. I thought about getting up, but then I looked down at the sleeping Annabeth. It was the day after Christmas. I smiled as I rested on my head on the couch again. I licked my lips to find the taste of her lips still there. Memories came flooding back to me. The heartbreak of the ROMAN/GREEK thing was one of the worst. I remembered it all. I didn't even want to think about it.

"Annabeth?" I asked slightly sleepily. She looked up at me.

"Yes, Percy," she said. I looked at her with a smile on my face. My heart skipped a beat as her eyes met mine. I pulled her closer and tighter.

"Good morning," I kissed her forehead.

"Cartoons," I heard Annie mumble.

"And we're back on the clock," I sighed. I reluctantly let go of her, and we got up. We started breakfast. She made the pancakes, and I made the eggs and bacon. I watched her try to flip the pancake. We started to laugh as she almost dropped it.

"Try this," I put my arms around her. My hands rested on her hands. We tried to flip it again. It landed perfectly. She smiled.

"Guys?" the girls asked.

"We're in here. Breakfast is almost ready," Annabeth said. I smiled.

"Thank you," she jumped right up. I instantly felt stupid for telling her that after she left my arms. I started to get up after I heard the beeping of the alarm.

"We're here," Artemis called as we opened the door. Annabeth walked in yet again another perfect outfit that made the no kissing thing harder.

"I'm afraid I don't know either of you," Art's uncle asked.

"Oh, this is my best friend, Annie, and this is her dad, Mrs. Jackson," Art introduced. James and I talked for a minute. A beep came from the kitchen. Annabeth and I went to see what it was.

"What is that noise?"I asked as we got into the kitchen.

"Cookies. Need help," she answered. I took the first pan of them out for her, and she took the second, "Thanks."

"No problem," I smiled. I looked around quickly. It was just us. My smile grew as we got closer. My mind went back to Camp Half-Blood.

"You're not making this easy, you know," she told me. She smiled and got closer.

"Seaweed Brain, I'll never make anything easy for you," she reached up and kissed him. We heard a cheer come from the side. Clarisse and the rest threw us in the lake. She gave me the best underwater kiss ever.

I was awoken back to reality as her lips met mine. My arms were wrapped around her waist, and hers were around my neck. The rest of the world seemed to float away. It was almost as if we were the only ones in the world. As if the gods didn't plot this all, and we were normal.

"Wise Girl, I love you," I told her.

"I love you, too," she told me. A smile spread across her perfect lips. I was about to ask her when Annie interrupted me.

"Dad, are you ready?" I heard Annie ask.

"Yup, Kiddo," I smiled. I gave her a kiss on the cheek before leaving.

#"All done," Annabeth put the pans on the countertop. I smiled. It felt like yesterday we met each other again, but it had been years. And I loved her just the same. Maybe even more.

Artemis:

I sat in my room. I had found a few scrapbooks in my room. Right now, I was going through them. The first picture I saw was of Nikki, Zak, and me. This was before I had met Annie. Wow, this had to have been a long time ago. Behind us, a bonfire was raging. I put it down with plans to show Zak. I looked at the next. It wasn't of me. What met my eyes sent chills even to the bone. A young blonde was smiling with a man around the same age. His brown eyes held the same mischievousness that his smile held. Something they say I have too. He was my dad. This was when they had just met. My mom got pregnant around a year later. Tears were forming. I turned the page. No, I get it. He is a god. I mean, he is still a good dad. Well, as good as the gods get. Another picture of my dad. My mom was standing in front of her office of the business. She had just gone into it with her brother. My dad was standing beside her with a smile. His curls sort of reminded me of my own. I looked mostly like my mom. I skipped the few pages of them together to when my mom was pregnant. She looked happy, but she knew that her baby's father could never be a father. That fear was hidden in her eyes. I could see through her happy exterior. I am her daughter after all. I skipped those nine months to when I was born. My mom was holding a little blonde baby in her arms. It felt so strange that the baby was me. I continued to skip around. The last picture in this book was from when I was starting to talk. That was when I was one.

I grabbed the next scrapbook. The picture of me spending my first time to the zoo, me on my first day at school, and many others from when I was a little kid looked back at me. I flipped through until I reached seven. A little girl with blonde curls tumbling down around her was sitting on the balcony with a book that was almost as big as her in hand. Yup, that was me. I flipped through to find the same pictures you expect to see in any five year old's scrapbook. I took the next. This was where it got interesting. The first picture was of me and Zak at camp. I had to be around nine then. That was when we met. I flipped to the next page. Nikki and Zak accompanied me in most of these pictures. We were the best of friends. Nothing could pry us apart. Annie slowly started to arrive. Then it started to happen. We were eleven. This was the summer we brought our parents together. The next was our first day of sixth grade. Annie and I were standing in front of the school in our grey uniforms.

*I sat in the car fiddling with the skirt of my uniform. My mom sat beside me driving. 'My Generation' was blasting from the car speakers. My palms were sweaty from the fact that this was the first day of school.

"Here we are. Do you have everything?" my mom asked trying to be cheery.

"Yup. Thanks for driving me," I told her as I got out. Annie ran up to me. We stood in front of the sign to take a picture. I caught our parents waving to each other.

#One of the pictures held me and Zak studying at the library. I couldn't remember who had taken the picture, but there it was.

*"All right, who was the Jamestown leader that punished if the people of Jamestown didn't work?" Zak asked me.

"Lord De La Warr," I answered.

"Correct," he told me. Simple Plan's "Welcome to My Life" started to play from is phone. He whipped it out.

"Let me guess. Is it your annoying little twit of a girlfriend?" I asked.

"She isn't that bad," he defended for her as he read the text.

"She called me a loser to my face!" I argued.

"And you stepped on her foot, called her names, and tried to punch her to get back at her," he defended again.

"You shouldn't have stopped me," I said. He looked up.

"Art," he did his serious voice. He didn't have to finish.

"I know. I know. Humans are don't realize what they do, an I should work on my temper," I said.

"If you got to know her, you would love Marnie," he said. I mumbled an Ancient Greek curse word.

"Come on. We're meeting Nikki and Marnie in five minutes at the coffee shop," he told me. We got up from our seats at the school library. We grabbed our bags and books.

"Have you spoken to Mia recently?" I asked.

"Yeah, she and Malcolm are really happy. She called me over to help pick out names," he told me.

"She's great. How has it been?" I spoke it as if it were a disease. He sighed.

"Marnie is not that bad," he told me.

"Fine, are you ready for the science test?" I asked as we started to walk down the marble hallway. My sneakers made the only sound in the hallway. Zak walked with dead silence. He was the best person for a fight.

"I guess. So, I hear the Hunters asked you," he brought up the subject we never talked about. I looked down at my black and blue sneakers. We walked in silence for a minute or two.

"They did," I simply said.

"What did you say?" he asked nervously. I felt the tension separate us, though we were walking inches away from each other.

"I said I'd think about it. My mom said I should do what my heart tells me. She told me she was offered, and her heart told her no. And thanks to that, she had me," I said.

"Your mom has a point," he simply told me.

"Why don't you want me in it?" I asked.

"I don't know," he told me not meeting my gaze.

"Whatever. Come on. If we're late, I'm telling Nikki to blame you," I told him. He smiled his perfectly white smile as I dragged him along.

I thought I might as well try a chapter like this. If you like it, I knew I loved you. If you don't, who asked you anyway ? ;]