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"Any news from Stacey?"

She shakes her head no sitting on the couch taking a spoonful of ice cream.

I steal her spoon take some ice cream then give the spoon back.

She momentarily glares at me.

"I have a bad feeling that's something bad's gonna happen soon." She breathes.

Gosh, Wise Girl. I'm usually the negative one.

"Don't think like that you just might jinx it." I warn her like all the other times she's warned me.

Annabeth shifted a bit like she always does when she hesitates.

What is it that she is not telling me?

"What is it?" I ask.

"What's what?"

"Don't pretend. You want to tell me something but you don't know how I would react to it." I tell.

Her eyes widen slightly as if she couldn't believe I knew her so well.

Being shrunk back to a toddler certainly hasn't changed her old habits and by gods I'm thankful.

She takes another spoonful of chocolate fudge ice cream.

We bought it in this parlor that I took her to once before.

Lately I've been testing he with little things everyday like mentioning something she told me in the past or making comments I usually use. I know it affects her because she has those nasty headaches and I feel guilty for purposely causing them but a certain goddess did tell me did may just work.

~Flashback~

Annabeth was going out on her date with Lucas.

I stubbornly refuse to think of him as Luke.

I decided to take a walk and I just allowed my feet to take me anywhere.

After quite some time I realize I was in central park.

I got on a row boat just reflecting...more like sulking on everything.

I felt a nudge on the rear.

The next thing I knew I was underwater. The water was salty. Sea water.

"What the?" I concentrated on my coordinates.

I was in the beach along long island sound.

Camp.

I got above the water and made the currents push me towards the seashore.

It was that time of afternoon when everyone was busy with camp activities to go to the beach at all so I was alone.

"What do these gods want with me now?"

"Oh Darling. I simply wanted to visit you. Your love life has been heartbreaking for me and it just brings tears in my eyes." Aphrodite dabbed her eyes with a handkerchief and reapplied some mascara.

"Don't tell me you made Lucas meet Annabeth-"

"Oh gods no Percy! They were simply just drawn together and I hate it."

"Can't you just-" I started but felt guilty.

Asking the goddess of love to break them up for me? Annabeth doesn't deserve that. She choses who she wants to be with.

"That's very noble Perseus. I'm going to cry again. No. Unfortunately I mustn't. You darling have suffered so badly and although I wish it were one of my daughters that broke your little heart...I'm here to tell you that everything is just as it should be for now."

"What do you mean? Annabeth's supposed to be with another guy after everything we went through." My voice cracks.

"Oh Percy Percy Percy. I myself am such a huge fan of Percabeth dearie. Do you think I'd just let anything happen. Sweetie I'm all in for the drama but this is just so horrifying." She takes a while to compose herself.

"You're doing well Percy. You mustn't beat yourself up to much. I know all you want to do is make her remember. I think I know something that may help."

"You do?"

"Yes. I've noticed that when something familiar comes Annabeth's way she blocks it unless her curiosity gets the better of her and she really thinks about it and try to find the logic." She says. I nod and she continues.

"Since she is a demigod. Her brain isn't hardwired to make up logical explanation but instead since the answers are in her past her brain gives up a little information and she remembers very little but if constant reminders and hints..."

"You think I'll be able to help her tap her memory?"

"Well yes. It's better than sitting around without any hope."

"But..." If it works.

After her more or less better childhood would Annabeth want to remember?

I mean she has been a very happy person. More carefree with only a hint of sadness that didn't disappear when she became a toddler and grew. Would she want to remember all the heart ache? Would she want to remember all those People we saw die?

"She would want to remember you Darling!"

"I want her to remember me to." I tell her. I want that more than anything.

"Percy I'd like you to look here for a second." Aphrodite waved her hand and the whole place filled with fog.

Aphrodite swirled her hands in a circle and made a pink orb appear.

She beckoned me to come forward and I did. The orb seemed to take us up and in it.

"Here. This blue dot?" She pointed.

It was a single dot among many dots of different colors in a web of red, green and black lines.

"Yes."

"Now-" She waves her hand and the web moves to another web that only had a few brightly colored dots the rest were faint.

"This Grey one?"

"Yes?" I wish she'd get to the point.

She smiles at me as if sensing my impatience-or reading my mind.

"Patience sweet. That is Annabeth's love spirit."

"Love spirit?"

"Yes. Think of it as her Identification card in what I do best. The Blue little dot you saw was you. Brighter dots mean those are demigods and the fainter ones are the mortals."

"What about the lines?"

"Patience. The lines you see have a legend. Black is for hated connections. Green is for neutral love of family type love or friendship love. Red means my favorite type of love." She winks.

"Now tell me what color of line connects the Blue and Grey dots?" She asks.

I stare at the complicated lines. I thought math was hard. Love is so much harder.

"Red...?" I whisper.

I shake my head,

"Annabeth doesn't love me." I say.

The goddess rolls her eyes.

"Perseus Jackson you are so cute. Annabeth, the poor dear, is confused. She has seen you as a brother figure growing up for the second time. Her mind may not remember you but can you tell me fully that Annabeth's feelings ever really pushed you away from her? When she was a toddler she calmed at your touch. She prefers your comfort over anybody else's. She may know of your feeling for her and she is conflicted because she feels the same for you but don't understand what she's feeling."

"She said she loved him."

"She may but love comes from different aspects. Notice that a dot has more than a single line? Only red lines overpower the others but look at yours. It is connected to so many but the red line there that connects you to Annabeth is the most noticeable."

She's right but,

"Feelings may change."

"Of course they can! But the thing is dearie the green line only becomes red when both parties undeniable do feel the same."

"Annabeth doesn't undeni-"

"Shush. See here. Yellow line?"

I look at the faint colored dot.

Mortal.

I notice it had a few greens and...a red. I trace the line.

The red connects to a faint Purple dot.

"Two mortals in love." I said.

"Yes. Now she where this little green dot leads to..."

I do and I get mad at what I see.

"Sweetie you cannot tamper with faith. What must happen must happen. I showed you this to give you hope not to urge you to do something that would back fire."

"I can't just let this happen!" I yell.

She brushes it off.

"It already is happening. Oh this tragedy! I knew you would be better than Romeo and Juliet. They weren't fiction you know. That old writer was simply telling you a story from our world."

"She'll be hurt."

"You'll be there." she counters and waves her hands again.

I found myself in my room.

~End of flashback.~

"I've been having these dreams..."

I snap out of it and pay attention to Annabeth.

If I could only tell her.

"What kind of dreams?" I ask although a bit inappropriate.

I already know they're demigod dreams.

Annabeth catches our reflection on the tin napkin holder.

"There's this boy..." She starts.

I keep my face expressionless bracing myself from what she would reveal.

"I think I know him. There was also a girl. It was like I was watching them from afar. They were in some chariot race." She looks at me studying my face.

"What happened to them?"

"They won! There were so many kids there too. They wore T-shirts like the ones we have. The orange ones?"

I nod.

"The girl kisses him-" She shuts her eyes probably trying to numb the pain a headache was surely bringing her.

"For a second I swear I've become the girl." She opens her eyes.

"I felt it." She touches her lips.

She looks at me.

Grey to sea green.

"The boy had jet black hair..." She whispered.

We were getting closer.

"Sea green eyes..." Annabeth takes my face in her hands.

For a moment I sway from the touch since it's been long since anything like this happened.

We both seemed paralyzed staring at each other.

After a while my hands find her and I pull her in close.

My heart was beating wildly in my chest before I knew what was going on.

I was connected to her. She once again made the first move.

Lips against lips.

The red line Aphrodite showed me glowed in my mind as I felt a powerful spark that it jostled my brain that was already turned into mush. It was like I felt Annabeth's love spirit.

Did she feel that?

Her hands find my hair and I encircle my arms tighter.

This just felt right.

When Annabeth seemed to remember what was going on she pulled away.

That was the worse feeling.

She looked so confused. Almost hysterical.

I wanted to comfort her but I know I couldn't

"I-I I have a boyfriend I shouldn't have but I want-" She looked at me.

She touches her lips and shakes her head.

"I-I'm sorry. I I need to take a walk."

She hurriedly ran out leaving me thinking the moment a while ago was the best I've ever felt since the incident.

Oh gods I hope she doesn't feel like she's cheated on that good for nothing-rainbows and unicorns as mental censors-. If I know Annabeth she's an insecure girl with a facade only I was really able to uncover.

I rub my face.

She dreamed about the chariot race.

She kissed me...

Ello!

Annabeth's POV coming up soon.

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