I'm back! My exams are...cancelled. I know! I cancelled tuitions like History and Geography to add twice as much tuitions like English, Math and Science, just for it to get cancelled. Oh well. I've been dancing crazily for like a whole day. Anyway, since it was cancelled, I've been continuing my stories and trying to finish my homework (trust me, I got lots. I gave up all my gaming time for edexcel, threw away my homework to study only english, math and science). Hope everyone is safe and healthy.
Disclaimer : I am not Rick Riordan, therefore do not own the Percy Jackson series.
Logan's POV
After a few more days of high school, Logan wanted to go back.
Logan turned around a corner and found Annabeth standing alone, leaning against a locker, reading a very thick book. Her eyebrows were scrunched together, and she looked adorable. Logabeth. He remembered last week. Sally did not looked like she approved of Logabeth, but she would slowly change. The truth about Percy Jackson would not be hidden for much longer.
Putting on a grin, he made his way to Annabeth and casually put his arm on her shoulder. For days, Annabeth had been ignoring him, but she was just playing hard to get. Annabeth scowled and shoved his arm away.
"You don't have to hide anymore, Annabeth. Percy is in a coma. We can be together. Our relationship won't be forced, like yours and-"
"Our relationship wasn't 'forced'!" Annabeth hissed. Her grey eyes flashed dangerously and Logan felt like backing down. But this was for the good of both of them.
"Percy is in a coma, Annabeth! You don't need to pretend anymore! We're free, you see! Tell the truth, Annabeth. Do you really love Percy?"
"Yes! I do! Just because you have a crush on me doesn't mean Percy is a horrible person! Percy isn't who you think he is!"
"Stop lying! Sometimes, I doubt that you're even a daughter of Athena!"
Annabeth was silent.
"I-I didn't mean that! I meant..." Logan died off as Annabeth slid into the classroom and disappeared from his view. Logan sighed. Annabeth would go to math, while he would go to science."
They would have to part ways.
Students piled around the hallway, chattering and laughing. Logan had been reunited with his friends, Marcus and Robbert, more commonly known as Mark and Robby . It seemed like they had gotten more people on the Logabeth side, for three or more people were hanging around them. Marcus winked when he saw Logan and Annabeth enter the next class together.
"So, how's Logabeth doing?" Robby said. "This is a perfect chance for Logabeth, while we're alone and Percy's not here." Logan replied. "Can you guys help me?"
A new boy winked. "Leave that to me."
"That's Benoth Hassle, more commonly known as Ben." Robby informed. "He's strong and tough." Logan nodded approvingly. Robby moved on to the next boy. "Matt Sloan. He used to go to Goode High School, but transferred here. He's an old enemy of Percy."
The bulky boy stepped forward and cracked his knuckles menacingly and glared, but was nowhere near Percy's glare. Logan shuddered, thinking about the terrifying glare directed at him. His eyes had been so dark, his face murderous...exactly why he needed to get Annabeth away from Percy.
"Henry Pat, my best friend." A skinny boy stepped forward and smiled. Logan grinned back. It was nice to have a group.
Maybe he would stay for a few more days, until Annabeth was his.
The group crowded around Logan's bed and settled on it. Logan was lucky Annabeth had decided to stay in a motel, or they would've been caught by now.
"So, when a girl loves a boy, she would be jealous if the boy had a girlfriend, right?" Logan said. Matt nodded. "Well, you guys know any pretty girls?" Ben raised his hand. "I know Cherry," He said. "She's a knockout. Dead pretty."
Logan grinned. "I'll use her." When Matt narrowed his eyes, he frowned. "What? I'm only burrowing her. Annabeth is mine. Cherry can be yours."
"Another tip," Robby suggested. "Is for her to see your love. So, I will go flirt with her, and you act jealous. Then she'll see that you love her also, and she will feel free to come and embrace you."
Logan nodded. "I'll wear as casual, yet handsome as possible. She can't help but fall for me, instead of a corpse known as Percy Jackson." Henry frowned. "A corpse?"
"Oh, I haven't told you yet?" Logan smirked. "Percy Jackson, is in a coma."
The whole group smiled evilly.
Logan furrowed his brow and checked himself in the mirror, admiring his own muscles and his clothes. He was wearing a yellow, thin, V-neck shirt and jeans. Robby nodded approvingly and checked himself out. He, too, was dressed nicely, in a red T-shirt and jeans. Robby had agreed that he would be the one that would make Logan "jealous". The group walked in together, chatting and laughing, like any normal group.
Except that Logan, was not, not normal.
He was Annabeth's soon-to-be boyfriend, a descendant of the gods.
And he was special.
Logan stood apart from Annabeth and Robby, occasionally stealing glances and them. Robby was trying to flirt with Annabeth, but was failing horribly. Annabet kept her nose stuck in her book. Robby traced his finger down her bicep, and smelled her hair. Then, he wrapped his arms firmly around her waist and pushed her chin up. Logan was instantly jealous. How was he, Robby, able to do things like that without getting socked?
Faster than he thought, Annabeth lashed out a fist and stuck Robby in the nose. Robby shrieked and slammed to the locker, clutching his bloody nose. He looked, terrified, at Annabeth, who seemed to be literally glowing with rage. "I thought you were better than Logan." She growled. "I guess I was wrong." She raised her fist and brought it down again.
Logan fiddled nervously with his shirt as he sat by Robby in the infirmary. Doctor Gillian had informed the group that Robby had broken his nose, and had gotten a deep cut in his lip, which she had fixed at once. At first she had been sympathetic, but when she heard about what their group was doing, she immediately changed sides and agreed with Annabeth that they shouldn't have jumped to conclusions about Percy.
Robby's nose and head was bandaged, and his face was emotionless. The group had been sitting there for a several minutes, until almost all of them had grew impatient and left. 15 minutes later, all of them, except Logan, had left, though deep inside, he knew it was only because he wanted to prove himself better than Percy.
He was pretty sure Percy wouldn't have stayed that long. Logan would be loyal, unlike Percy, who would've stayed for 3 minutes and left, if it was Annabeth in the infirmary.
Feeling hungry a few minutes later, Logan stepped out and met his friends out side school. "Skool enshed foo minushes agro." Henry mumbled through a mouthful of food. "School ended a few minutes ago." Ben translated. He was sitting on a bench, thumbs furiously pressing his phone as shouts of "Savage" and "You have slain an enemy" erupted from his phone.
Matt looked disbelievingly at Logan. "You seriously waited for Robby to wake up for 15 minutes? Man, that's a long time."
Logan smiled. "Percy wouldn't have been that loyal."
Matt nodded, still staring wide-eyed at Logan. Logan cleared his throat. "Uh...I'm sure anyone would've done it for their best friend!" Logan said, trying to be modest. He desperately hoped Annabeth was near. Then, she would see how much better he was for her than Percy. For the rest of the day, the friends laughed and talked, going to places together, all thought about poor Robby forgotten.
In the evening, around five, Logan had decided to check on Robby. A few minutes after he had settled on a chair near the bed (the others either had gone home to play video games, or meet up with their girlfriends), his eyes slowly opened. "Hmm...hehuh?" Robby mumbled. "What happened?"
Logan had already decided what to say. It was better exaggerating the truth, rather than telling what really happened. They would support Logabeth more, anyway.
"Annabeth was suprised and...well, she didn't like it. So, she did the most natural thing. She punched you. I think she didn't like it that I wasn't the one touching her like that. And then, I was worried about you when you didn't move, so I came over, and pretended to be jealous. She looked overwhelmed and ran away.
We brought you to the infirmary and Doctor Gillian fixed you up. Later, I confronted Annabeth. She said she was just shocked that you were touching her, and that she was sorry."
He heard a tiny snort from somewhere in the room, but when he looked at Robby, he was still staring at Logan, interested. Logan realized that the snort sounded like a female's snort, and thought he might be hearing things. He put it out of his mind and continued his lie,
"She said that she felt miserable around Percy, and that was enough to know that she was abused. Have you seen her scars? I bet Percy did it. I stayed by your side the whole day, until you woke up." Logan beamed at Robby. Robby looked at Logan in awe.
"I think Annabeth totally deserves you, not Percy. You're loyal, kind, handsome, Percy is handsome,-" Logan scowled. "-but he's not good! He abuses Annabeth. Logan, you need to do your thing. Make your move on Annabeth. Logabeth is true. Pure. Percabeth? Ew...the world needs to know that Logabeth is better." Robby finished.
"Tomorrow, we will try it again- not me, I meant. The "Cherry" one." Robby winked. Logan noddded. "You ready to go home?" Robby nodded, and together, they went back to Logan's house.
Once again, they were unaware of the Iris Message in the corner of the infirmary, revealing several half-bloods red with rage.
"Annabeth was suprised and...well, she didn't like it. So, she did the most natural thing. She punched you. I think she didn't like it that I wasn't the one touching her like that. And then, I was worried about you when you didn't move, so I came over, and pretended to be jealous. She looked overwhelmed and ran away. We brought you to the infirmary and Doctor Gillian fixed you up.
Later, I confronted Annabeth. She said she was just shocked that you were touching her, and that she was sorry." A tiny snort interrupted. Logan froze, looking around for a second, before continuing. "She said that she felt miserable around Percy, and that was enough to know that she was abused. Have you seen her scars? I bet Percy did it. I stayed by your side the whole day, until you woke up."
Logan beamed at the boy, who looked back at him in awe.
"I think Annabeth totally deserves you, not Percy. You're loyal, kind, handsome, Percy is handsome,-" Logan scowled. "-but he's not good! He abuses Annabeth. Logan, you need to do your thing. Make your move on Annabeth. Logabeth is true. Pure. Percabeth? Ew...the world needs to know that Logabeth is better." The boy finished.
"Tomorrow, we will try it again- not me, I meant. The "Cherry" one." Robby winked. Logan noddded. "You ready to go home?" Robby nodded, and together, they exited the room.
Hazels' hand was clenched tightly and and her eyes flashed dangerously. "That stupid demigod legacy! Recruiting mortals and making them think "Logabeth" is good!" She screeched. The half-bloods were now at Camp Half-Blood, and had checked on Percy to find him still in a coma, then decided to check on Annabeth.
It seemed like she had her invisibility cap on. As soon as the pair exited the infirmary, she threw off her cap and grabbed her hair. "Aaargh! The nerve of that log! I mean, first, he tries to set me up with Robby, and then let me see he's jealous. Probably to make me think that he has a crush on me, and that I'm free to flirt with him. For the "Cherry" One, as they said, I think they're trying to set Logan and Cherry, a stupid slutty girl together, to get me jealous. When will he understand, that I. Love. Percy!" She ranted.
"Okay, okay, Annabeth. We know about Logan. Reyna, Frank, Hazel, Jason, Piper, Leo, Calypso and I are at Camp Half-Blood. We wanted to see this 'Logan', so we Iris Messaged him. It appeared in Percy's room." Nico said. Annabeth's head snapped to him. She looked eagerly at him. "What did they talk about? Sally looked quite angry."
Nico gave the barest hint of a smile. "Leo, got a recording of the conversation?"
Leo rummaged in his tool bag and pulled out a square device. "Yup." He twisted some strings and pressed some buttons, and a voice creaked out, "I want to talk about Percy."
For the next ten minutes, the demigods listened to the conversation again. When it ended, Annabeth slammed her hand on the small, white table beside the bed and glared at the device. Leo protectively wrapped his arms around it. "Hey!" He said, mock hurt. "Little Betty did nothing to you!"
Calypso stared at him incredulously. "You named it 'Little Betty'?"
"Everything has a name." Leo answered.
"But seriously, has the boy lost his mind?" Piper exploded. "Just because you have a crush, doesn't mean Percy is a 'bad, abusing, boyfriend'!"
Hazel noddded vigorously. "Though, maybe we should just explain the whole story to him?"
"But-"
"Just do it first, please. If he doesn't change then, we'll give him a good beating." Hazel's eyes glinted. Jason grinned. "When he and his goons have finished their nonsense, let's call him back." Reyna said.
"So, Cherry, I want you to know that this is just temporary. The only girl I want is Annabeth." Logan said firmly. "It's just to make Annabeth jealous." Cherry pouted. Logan admitted, she did look smoking hot in that small, tight shirt and short skirt. Anyone would think they were a couple. "So, where do we start?" Cherry said, and smiled seductively. Suddenly Cherry looked so, so beautiful, her eyelashes fluttering, her lips pushed up, ready to kiss.
A vision swam into his view.
A pretty girl with waist-length, messy and wavy, yet curly brown hair. Grass-colored, eyes with an energetic sparkle in them. He turned away from Cherry, who hissed angrily and set his mind back into getting Annabeth. "So, Cherry, you and I will go, arm-in-arm into the class. During class, we are going to...kiss. You know, kiss each other's cheeks. Tell me if Annabeth starts to act strangely. I'll tell you if she does. Then, in the hallway, we're going to kiss.
Like, really kiss. Annabeth will be staring, I will say, what's wrong? She'll reply, why did you do it! Or something like that, anyway. And then, a few days later, we're going to 'break up' and then, Logabeth. Okay?" Cherry nodded, her eyes oddly shining with...was that lust?
Logan got up and walked to the door, and heard a faint clang, like metal hitting metal, but then it was pushed out of his mind by Annabeth's soon-to-be jealous look when she saw Logan and Cherry together.
But Logan was not at all ready for Annabeth to kill Cherry.
Logan and Cherry walked hand-in-hand into the school gates. Logan felt people staring at him, for Cherry was one of the prettiest girls in the school. Logan felt proud, even if this was a fake-date.
As they entered the class, the whole class turned to stare at him, but Annabeth still had her nose buried in her book, her eyes darting around the page. Logan cleared his throat, but Annabeth still didn't look up.
"Good morning, Ms Hadmy." Cherry chirped, and finally, Annabeth looked up. Confusion settled in her gaze, and then suspicion, and then her gaze zoned-in on Cherry. She inspected Cherry with narrowed eyes, and Cherry sneered. "Annabeth Chase, don't you have any other thing to do other than looking like an idiotic student? I'm planning to eat Logan, my boyfriend, here. Soon, I'll move on to yours."
Annabeth froze, but it wasn't jealousy in her eyes. It was anger and raw hatred. She looked ready to barge up and give Cherry's smug face a slap, but she held herself in place.
The class began.
Throughout the whole class, Cherry and Logan would show "affection" to each other, either holding hands or kissing each other's cheeks when Ms Hadmy wasn't looking. The boys would cast him jealous looked, but Logan really didn't care. From time to time, he would steal glances at Annabeth, who would be glowering her Number 1st glare at Cherry.
It was the happiest moment in his life.
Annabeth Chase really loved Logan.
He had proof : she was jealous of him/she didn't like other people other than Logan touching her/she was abused, which made her happy to spend time with Logan, though he couldn't figure out why Annabeth sometimes looked distant/she hated Percy, and pretended to care for him.
It was all he needed.
If Annabeth was angry at Cherry, she was jealous. As soon as the class finished. He pulled Cherry into the an empty hallway. "Did you see Annabeth's face?" He said excitedly. "She was jealous!" Cherry looked up from inspecting her hot pink nails. The world seemed to stop. Her beautiful, baby blue eyes were almost hypnotic, her puckered up lips were so...kissable, her long eyelashes fluttering.
Logan leaned forward, his pale blue eyes on hers. He was subconsciously aware of her sharp fingernails trailing up his shirt and to his neck. Their noses touched. A fingernail sank a little into his neck, but he payed no attention to it. Damn Annabeth. Damn Eleanor. This was what he needed.
He grasped her chin and pushed it up. Somewhere near, he heard a sharp intake of breath, but he ignored it. He was aware of her sharp fingernails digging in, somehow feeling sharper- it felt so painful- like it was growing. Growing bigger, pushing him to the deep red lips, her eyes suddenly seemed vicious.
Suddenly, Cherry screeched in pain. Her eyes were wide and wild. A pointed bone jutted out of her chest, and she stumbled back, revealing Annabeth. "Annabeth!" Logan exclaimed. He wanted to grab her and make her say that she loved him, but first, he needed to act like Cherry's boyfriend, so she would be more jealous. Maybe jealous enough to come to him himself an admit that she loved him.
Logan crouched over Cherry's shaking body. "Get away from that monster!" Annabeth screeched. Logan grinned. Was Annabeth so jealous that she called Cherry a monster just because she "loved" Logan? It gave a pleasant feeling in his chest.
Logan crouched there, frozen with shock as Annabeth came forward and stabbed Cherry in the chest. She gurgled, staring up at Annabeth with shock, before disappearing into golden ash.
Logan backed away from Annabeth. Did Annabeth had so big of a crush that she would kill an innocent student for him? "Annabeth, I know you like me-"
"Like you?" She said incredulously.
"Yes! You don't like anyone, other than me and Percy touch you, but you only let Percy touch you because you have no choice! The only other person you have let them touch you is me! Remember the science project, I touched you hair, and you didn't even say anything! Then-"
"The only reason I let you touch me was because we needed to touch each other that time! How were we supposed to do it without at least touching a strand of each other's hair!"
"And then, when you saw Cherry come in the room with me, you were jealous! That's why you killed her! You would kill an innocent student for me! It's proof! Admit it, Annabeth, you like me."
"Wha- I don't-"
"No, you don't like me. You love me."
"Lo-"
"You. Love. Me. Damn the stupid corpse sleeping miles away. He's weak. Just because a dagger touched his shoulder and a blade scratched his side, he falls into a coma, huh? Who do you choose? A weak, abusing, fake 'hero', or a smart, brave, handsome boy that you really, really love?"
Annabeth stared at him for a moment, her grey furious eyes raging (for saying the truth again, he supposed) before she started laughing. Now, Logan was the one confused.
"You- you really think I love you?" She laughed.
"what else? You were jealous of Cherry-"
"For gods' sake, Logan! Cherry was a monster! Remember what she said? 'I'm planning to eat Logan, my boyfriend', empousai, those creatures, are deadly beautiful. They use their beauty to get men near them, and sometimes women, and then they eat them. I wasn't jealous. I was angry. They already tried to eat Percy once, but Rachel saved him in time. Then, they tried to stab him, but I saved him. So-"
"See? He's weak!"
Annabeth looked like bursting in anger. "Sometimes people are defenseless, okay? Just because they're weary and stunned once, doesn't mean they're always weak!"
"If he couldn't even save himself, how can he protect you? Besides, does he even 'protect' you? Annabeth, you're a daughter of Athena! You should know by now that Percy is bad! Bad, bad bad!"
Annabeth thrust her face close to Logan. "I'm a daughter of Athena because I know that Percy is good. While you,-" She shoved his chest. "-know nothing. We fought battles together. We went to hell together- and by hell, I mean Tararus. He fell to Tartarus, just to be with me. I was falling- too late to be saved, but instead of waiting, he grabbed me, even though he couldn't save me. He wanted to be with me. He fell, even though he didn't have to."
Logan thought back to the dream, about two figures hanging from a pit, which turned out to be Percy and Annabeth. It's just a coincidence. He comforted. A dream is a dream, and somehow, Annabeth decided to make up a story about Percy being "loyal" and going with her to the pit.
Logan nodded, pretending to believe the story.
Annabeth took a deep breath. "I'm going to IM the seven." She declared, before turning around the hallway and disappearing. The seven were probably Percy's friends who also abused her...but maybe not that much, so she would willingly IM (Logan learnt it meant "Iris Message", not "Instant Messaging") them.
Logan sigh, running a hand through his delicate, soft, perfect brown hair, his thoughts wandering about. First, it went to Annabeth, the furious, "truthful" face. He had to give her credit for that. That face would've fooled everyone into thinking Percy was actually a nice, caring boyfriend.
It wandered of to another girl- a certain, brown-haired girl with twinkling, energetic, green eyes the color of grass. Eleanor was nothing. Percy was nothing. Nothing mattered, just Annabeth. She was the love of his life, and nothing would be normal without her as his girlfriend. The world wouldn't be at peace until Annabeth was his.
Since Percy called Annabeth 'Wise Girl', he could just have to make up another name. Wise Girl was a stupid name, anyway. Smart Girl? No, that was too similar. Blonde Girl? Annabeth would probably feel insulted. Logan was sure Percy insulted Annabeth every day. Imagine getting Wise Girl as a name because of a bad cause- and then reminded of it every time.
That meant Percy insulted Annabeth each and every time he called her 'Wise Girl'. Maybe Wonderful Girl? Lovely Girl? Percy had never shown love to Annabeth (well, at least not without acting or thinking about another girl while pretending to love her), so if he called her 'Lovely Girl', she might feel more loved and go to Logan. Maybe-
Logan got it.
Girlfriend was the one.
Annabeth was, and would always be his girlfriend- and nothing would stop him.
But first, he needed to humiliate Percy. For that, he needed to read.