This chapter is written in Annabeth's point of view.
Chapter 29/ In This Ungodly Hour
Annabeth
I don't think I've experienced anything so painful until now.
Not even literally being stabbed in the gut could possibly measure to how I felt in those moments. I watched as they sealed the fate on my best friend's life, as if they were god.
Then again, they were gods; most of them anyway.
Though it had happened only moments ago I tried to recap every little deceiving, painful second into a memory. And for some reason it was hard. I knew what they were doing, I knew their plan, actions, everything. But the memory just didn't want to come. My brain refused to process it in fear it was actually true; though it was.
The only thing I could make out at this point, was the expression on his face, or maybe it was the fact that there wasn't one. Either way, I don't know which one killed me more.
The last emotion I saw him expresses was determination. But that was back at the cave, when he picked up Riptide and stabbed me through the stomach; when he tried to kill me.
But I don't blame him; he couldn't control the deceptive thing that drove him. All he ever tried to do was save us, even in his time of saving. Which was wrong, but then again, he was Percy Jackson. He exceed all expectations.
I stayed there, I stayed there every night and every day, my heart filled with the mixed emotions of pain and hope. I tried to get him to wake up, to open his eyes. But he wouldn't budge. He didn't even satisfy me with a flinch, or the twitch of a finger; nothing.
During each visit, after a while my mind froze, my senses became blurred and this sudden, uncontrollable feeling of overwhelming, overpowering fear and anxiety crept up on me. I would start to panic; get dizzy from over thinking; processing information, facts, too fast.
My mind would explode righting to find a method of functioning in a way I felt could be right without him; to go on, without him.
I could never find though.
Sally sat there too, right across from me. You could tell she was mental and physically drained from the past weeks. I couldn't blame her though, how many mother's watch their only son slowly faded right before their eyes? Not many.
Every now and then I would glance at her, making sure she kept herself together, hoping she would change her mind and stop all of it before it went too far. She didn't. We both knew Percy wouldn't approve to be kept like that if he could make the choice on his own.
I watched as he took his last breath -I invaded his last imitate moment on this planet -we all did. I just felt horrible. I felt like I cheated him, just like I cheated death and he didn't.
"Now this may take a couple minutes, to a couple hours..." Apollo explained as he backed away from Percy.
And he was right. It took 53 short minutes for Percy's heart to stop beating; 53 minutes for him to stop breathing.
He didn't even make it to ten pm.
And a couple minutes before he was gone we knew it was coming soon. His heart monitor dropped, and we could hear that horrible raspy noise as he tried to take in air. His lips were parted trying to catch as much oxygen as possible -but in the end it was still a battle lost. And when the heart monitor couldn't find any signal anymore, I knew I would never see his sea-green eyes again.
Boy was I wrong.
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