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Stay Young

P.S. you may have noticed that I have been updating a night. Well I always listen to the top 20 on XM radio. It ends at like 10:15. So while I'm listening to it I write a chapter. This will change when school starts, because I'm going into middle school. Goodie! (That was totally sarcastic.)

I tore down everything in my path, I repeatedly called her name, but there was still no sign of Annabeth. I wasn't capable of grasping the fact that she was dead. There was no way that she could have possibly lived through that explosion when it had hit her cabin directly.

I was searching through everything, when I saw it: Annabeth's Camp Half-Blood necklace was lying next to a figure.

Slowly, I picked up the necklace with shaking hands. I held it close to my heart, and I was about to cry when I heard a voice.

"Seaweed Brain?" a familiar voice said from a few feet away.

I whipped my head around, and standing five feet away was a girl. She had blonde hair with gray eyes, and she looked beautiful. "Annabeth." I breathed.

"Percy!" she said angrily while putting her hands on her hips. "What the Hades did you do to my cabin?"

Instead of answering I just got up, and walked towards her.

"Percy ans…"



I didn't let her finish her sentence, but I dropped her necklace and pulled her into the biggest kiss in the world.

At first she was stiff, and tried to pull away, but then she relaxed. She draped her arms around my neck. I started to run my hands through her hair, and held her tighter.

"OI! There's a war going on here!" said a female voice behind us.

We broke apart, but still held onto each other.

"I know mate," I said to Thalia, "so it's now or never, isn't it?" (A/N to read, look carefully, Harry Potter 7 spoiler! Yes I know that I completely copied it from the kissing part in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

"What!" she said as if I'd gone insane.

"Never mind." I said hastily, while turning back to Annabeth who still had her arms around my neck. "How did you survive?"

"Percy, like you said before, I'm too stubborn to listen to Chiron. As soon as I was sure everyone was down by the beach, I snuck out, without my crutches, and hid in the forest. When the monsters came, I jumped out and started attacking. No one gave me a second thought." She said with a satisfied smile.

"Oh." I said. Then I started to punch her.

"What-ow-stop it!" she said grabbing my hand. "What was that for?"

"You had me worried sick!" I shouted.

"Percy! Look out!" Thalia shouted.

Thank the gods she noticed that a laistrygonian was about to bring his club down on my head. How he had gotten past the borders was beyond me, but I quickly rolled to the ground, and uncapped Riptide. The giant cringed at the sight of celestial bronze, but kept coming at me. I caught Annabeth's eye, and she nodded. I knew what she was going to do; I just needed the monsters full, undivided attention. Joy!

"Aye! You know what? I'm gonna call you a Canadian. Hey, hey, hey, Canadian aye!" I yelled, before wincing at what I had just said. How stupid could I possibly sound in front of two beautiful girls, one of which was my girlfriend? Although I didn't have to much time to dwell on what I said because the monster tripped over a piece of wood. I barely had time to jump out of the way before the giant fell right where I was standing only one second before.



Annabeth took that as a sign that she should kill it, and decapitated it with her dagger.

"Perseus, am I going to have to follow you every where to make sure you don't die? Honestly, since I've know you you've almost died at least ten times!" Thalia said, while walking towards us.

"Twelve times actually, in counting." I said as a smile spread across my face.

"Thalia!" Annabeth said, as she ran (as fast as she could with a broken leg that was in a cast) towards her to give her a hug. "Are the rest of the hunters here?"

"Yes. But none of them have the burden of watching over the childish Perseus over here." She said nodding her head towards me.

"Thalia," I began, "you mine as well follow me everywhere, because I will always stay young."