I think it's safe to say that the last update for this story went pretty well. It went well at least for my friends dogbiscuit1967, Kenka, Lil Miss Wolf, Gjr-Sama, and .Ba. Thank you all and yes, shit has yet to get real here. This was for the most part only the beginning. Enjoy.
Some Wounds Never Really Heal
Percy's POV
"Who is it?" I asked.
"It's Grover and Annabeth." They answered.
Grover and Annabeth? What the hell do they want? In all honesty, those two were the last people I wanted to see right now. It was one thing to want to spend some time with the friend of theirs that they lost a couple of years ago, but shunning me out as well as completely ignoring me and pretending that I don't even exist anymore while they were at it was completely over the line. They were at that routine for two to four months as of today, and now they're choosing now out of all times to actually remember that I'm still here? What the fuck is wrong with people nowadays? By the look of confusion on Clarisse's face, she was probably just as confused about Grover and Annabeth remembering this sudden acknowledgement of my existence as well. She knows about how they've been completely ignoring me for Thalia.
"Look Percy, we really need to talk to you, it's very important. So can you please just open the door?" Annabeth said.
I thought about it for a few seconds. I honestly didn't want to talk to them, especially right now. I had a very strong idea as to what they wanted to talk about, and with what happened at the dining pavilion today, I didn't really want to get in anymore fights today. But knowing how both Grover and Annabeth are, they're most likely not going to go anywhere until I came out and talked with them. I really didn't want to do this, but I also wanted the both of them to not bother Clarisse or I right now either.
"Stay inside, I'll take care of this, and hopefully very quickly." I sighed to Clarisse.
She only nodded her head in response. At that, I got up from my bed and went to the door. I opened the door to find the Grover and Annabeth were indeed out here in front of my cabin. They both hadn't changed much at all. Grover's horns had grown a tad bit since the last time I saw him, and like me he let his facial hair grow a bit. Other than all of that, he hadn't really changed too much. Annabeth, well, she let her blond hair grow a bit longer than usual. Her hair wasn't in a ponytail like how she would usually have it. It was just out free and wavy. It's length back then was just at the top of the small of her back, now it goes down to the very bottom of the small of her back. I think she also grew about an inch or two or so. I don't know, but her height seem a tiny bit bigger than usual.
"Hey Perce." Grover said with a small smile in the corner of his lips.
"Hey." I dully responded.
"How've you been man? Have you been okay?" Grover asked.
"Can you two please just get to the point as to why you're here and what you need to talk to me about?" I suggested getting out of my cabin and closing the door so they don't end up getting Clarisse involved in this, whatever this is about.
"Is it true Percy? Is Clarisse really pregnant and is the baby she's carrying really your baby?" Annabeth asked with something I slightly spotted but couldn't identify in her eyes; I couldn't tell if it was anger, jealousy, or some other kind of negative emotion, but it was definitely something negative.
"Yeah, it's all true, so what?" I answered not really looking forward to where this conversation was already going to.
"Why?" Annabeth asked with that thing I detected in her eyes earlier again.
"Why what?" I responded.
"Why would you do this Percy?" Annabeth specified.
"If you were paying attention to the conflict that happened a while ago at the dining pavilion Annabeth, then you would know that neither Clarisse nor I meant for this to happen. But it did and there's nothing anyone can say or do about it." I answered.
"Well Perce, it's nice that you and Clarisse actually have something to share with each other, but this is mostly likely going to cause some serious problems for you two." Grover explained.
"And what makes you say that?" I asked.
"This baby you and Clarisse are going to bring into this world may attract the attention of many monsters. Most demigods die before they reach adulthood. But the thing about that is that every demigod here is a child to a mortal and a god. Never has Camp Half-Blood ever had a second generation demigod before, a demigod that is a child of two other demigods instead of a mortal and a god." Grover explained.
"So in other words, you think that Clarisse and I have most likely put camp in greater danger than ever before just because Clarisse and I ended up naked in her bed and had sex and now have an innocent unborn child to prepare for." I stated.
"Percy, you know he's right. And more to the point, how do you and Clarisse think that the Olympian gods are going to react to this?" Annabeth asked.
"I don't fucking care what anyone has to say or think about my son or daughter. If any of you two or anyone else have a problem with my child, well guess what, fucking deal with it." I said crossing my arms.
"Percy, this is serious. So would you stop being so stubborn right now and listen to us?" Annabeth asked while also slowly starting to slowly get angry about this.
"I have nothing to apologize or to feel sorry and/or bad about. I do feel scared and frightened about this, I will admit that. But I will not now or ever regret the best thing that has ever happened to me." I said while my temper, just like Annabeth's, was slowly beginning to increase to a level people will not like to see it at.
"Perce, all we're trying to tell you is that we're very concerned about where this is gonna lead everyone here. I don't want to argue with you about this at all and neither does Annabeth, we really don't. But I'm not entirely sure if you know how dangerous this might be. I don't think you understand just how exactly serious this could be." Grover stated.
"Maybe I do, maybe I don't. But that's for me to find out, not you. So how about you stop getting on my case about this and just let Clarisse and I handle this?" I stated with my irritation slowly getting at a stronger level, a level that I don't usually reveal, but a level I actually did have and would end up making someone regret getting me at that certain rate.
"How about you stop just flipping us off just for trying to help you and think logically for a minute? How about you take a minute to consider all of your options, like making sure that baby doesn't end up endangering the whole camp by attracting a lot of monsters to the camp?" Annabeth suggested, or most likely demanded with the way she was beginning to raise her voice and how that thing I keep detecting in her eyes was slowly starting to become visible.
"How about you do us a favor, stop think terrible thoughts about my baby, stay away from us and shut your fucking mouth." Clarisse said who was coming out of my cabin.
I hadn't even noticed that she came out of my cabin. Hell, I hadn't even notice any sight or noise of the door being opened at all either. I must've been so focused on this conversation that I actually wasn't paying any attention whatsoever to anything or anyone other than Annabeth and Grover. Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen, if this argument wasn't ugly enough, it was about to get even uglier.
Clarisse's POV
When Percy closed the door, I got up from his bed and made my way to the door and listened into their conversation. The very second that I learned that this conversation was a matter consisting of my baby, my hand went straight to my pregnant belly. It was weird, but this seemed to be a habit for me now, rubbing my belly and rubbing my little baby growing inside of me. Actually, now that I think about it, I actually started doing this before I even learned that I was pregnant. I definitely had a number of cramps and sudden yet unexpected sources of energy running through me, or rather my belly to be more exact. I've been rubbing it for a while and yet I somehow wasn't able to determine why I was doing it in the first place or what was driving me to do such a new yet random thing. I also now realize that I probably should've learned I was pregnant beforehand. I mean now that I take a closer look at my pregnant belly, it definitely wasn't as slim as it once was. There was definitely a small bump growing in me. It's not too noticeable yet, but if you look closely, you can definitely see it. But it doesn't really matter, I now know, and I have to say, while I felt a bit awkward about it at first, I now just feel happiness and joy about it.
What I was also feeling joy about was the way that Percy was defending our baby. He was pretty much defend himself, our baby, and even me, just like how I defended the three of us earlier today at dinner. Percy was truly a lot of things that I could never imagine or dream of being. True, I have the decency to defend myself, my baby, and my baby's father, but the three of us are really the only people I think I could possibly defend from anything or anyone. Percy on the other hand, he'd defend anyone from anything. He has a kind of strength I couldn't possibly fully understand. Though despite all the people he would protect right now, his top priority of protecting someone are him, me, and the baby. It was nice to listen to Percy hero instincts take hold over here. I wanted Percy to be able to handle all of this. I really didn't want to get involved in this argument because I knew where it was most likely gonna lead to. But when that dense blonde started to lecture about how she thinks our baby is just gonna put the camp in even greater danger than ever, that's when I couldn't take it anymore. I knew Percy was capable of handling this on his own, but this concerns me as well, and just staying out of this without having a few good choice words to say just wasn't what I intended. So I decided that I needed to give them a piece of my mind as well.
"How about you do us a favor, stop think terrible thoughts about my baby, stay away from us and shut your fucking mouth." I said opening the door and standing next to Percy.
"Stay out of this Clarisse." Annabeth said with slow and slightly gritting teeth.
"This involves my baby and the father of my baby, so no, I will not stay out of this Annabeth." I strictly made clear to her.
"What do you care about Percy anyways? All you are is nothing but a bully to him Clarisse, and all you care about is being the best in camp and making a fool out of Percy." Annabeth threw at me.
That actually felt like a knife to the heart. I couldn't deny that I knew that Annabeth was right. I truly was nothing but a bully to Percy. And I really did put myself before him over and over again without even caring how he felt. But I can't possibly still be like that, can I? I hope not. I'm not usually one to be asking or begging for help from anyone, I'm also not a person who likes admitting this, but I need Percy. I need my baby's father. As tough as I can be, I can't possibly do this alone. If there's one thing I've learned from watching my mother, being a single mother of a single child or a bigger amount of children can be very difficult. With that being said, I know, as much as I hate to admit it, I can't raise my baby on my own. Annabeth was truthfully right when she said what she said. But one thing Annabeth seemed to have forgotten was that I wasn't the only here that actually caused Percy harm.
"Well at least I'm not the one who befriended him just to abandon him and just completely ignore him for three or four months." I threw at Annabeth.
With how Annabeth looked after I said that, she was clearly trying to come up with a retort, trying, but failing. It was a painful and horrifying experience for her to have people witness her think but not be able to think of how to respond to something. Annabeth thinks she's actually perfect just because she's the daughter of Athena. Well guess what, she isn't. With how stubborn, prideful, pigheaded, and shallow she can be, she can be just as worse as me. I may have caused more pain to Percy than what Annabeth has to him, but right now, Annabeth is just as much of a terrible person to him as I am.
"Is that what you're angry about Percy? Are you angry that Annabeth and I have been hanging with Thalia?" Grover asked shocked.
"I'm not angry that you two hung out with Thalia. I'm angry that you two completely forgot about me and pretended that I wasn't even your friend anymore. I didn't mind you two spending so much time with Thalia instead of me for like the first week or so, but the more it continued these past few months, the more I felt like you two completely forgot about me. I felt like you two didn't want or need me anymore. I felt left out, like I was being casted out of your lives." Percy explained.
As he got that pressure off of his shoulders I could detect some sorrow in his eyes with how his sea green eyes looked all light and yet dead. I could tell he was still carrying all that pain in him. Out of the desire to comfort him like how he did for me, I wrapped an arm around him and brought him towards me.
"Why didn't you say anything before Percy?" Annabeth asked, her anger starting to fade away.
"I tried, but you wouldn't let me, you just completely ignored me. Every time I tried to talk to you, you always gave me an "I can't talk right now Percy, Thalia wants to hang out." excuse." Percy answered.
Annabeth and Grover looked guilty at that. Good, they should feel bad.
"Percy, we're sorry." Annabeth apologized.
"It's gonna take a lot more than just a simple apology to earn my forgiveness Annabeth." Percy said.
"But Percy," Annabeth started.
"Annabeth, just beat it." Percy said going back inside his cabin.
I followed him in and locked the door behind us so that Annabeth and Grover couldn't follow us in. Percy than just sat on his bed without really saying anything. I guess he wasn't really okay with telling Annabeth and Grover with how they made him feel. I guess he's actually a bit like me when it comes to emotions, we both seemed to not really seem found with sharing our emotions with other people. I guess even though people make him look like it, even me unfortunately, he doesn't like it when he looks weak in front of people.
"I'm sorry Percy." I said sitting next to him.
"Don't worry about it. It's about time I start moving on and to stop dwelling on the past. Besides, we have something very important ahead of us." Percy said placing his hand on my belly.
Like last time, I couldn't help but gasp at this. It was just too sweet and too kind, even for me to ignore. I placed my hand on top of his and my head on his shoulder. Once again, I couldn't help but feel so warm, so safe, and so secure with Percy Jackson right now.
-Line Break-
"Are you sure it okay for me to stay here?" I asked Percy.
"Yeah, like you said, you want to feel safe when you sleep. Though I should warn you, I only have one bed here." Percy answered.
I didn't really feel safe sleeping in my cabin. I didn't think anyone would try anything while I was asleep, but I didn't really want to take any chances.
"Then we'll just sleep together." I said.
"Are you sure?" Percy asked nervously.
"It's no big deal Jackson. Besides, sleeping next to each other is nothing compared to other things we've done." I say and then blush.
"Okay then." Percy responded.
We then both got in bed. Despite what I said a minute ago, we both still felt a little nervous about this. Can you blame us?
"You okay?" Percy asked me.
"Yeah, I'm just . . ." I started, but stopped at what I felt.
"What?" Percy asked lifting a brow.
I grabbed Percy's hand and placed it on my belly, and he to gasp as he felt what I was feeling right now. The baby was kicking. Our baby was kicking.
"The baby's kicking." I said.
"Yeah." Percy simply responded.
What happened next was so unexpected. And it was yet another reason for me to gasp in shock and yet happiness. Percy leaned in and planted a kiss on my belly.
"Don't worry, you'll be out soon, you just need some time to grow before you're ready little one." Percy said, talking to our baby.
I felt tears of joy form at this. Percy freely loved and talked to our baby without any second thoughts or concerns at all. It really made me wish we could have our baby right now.
"Goodnight Clarisse." Percy said lying back down.
"Goodnight Percy." I said lying down.
For a while, I just stared at the ceiling. And then I turned to look at Percy and saw that he was sound asleep. Feeling the confidence I think he felt when he kissed my belly and talked to our baby, I moved so his arm was around me and I was lying against him. Looking at his sleeping form, I knew it as a fact that Percy was going to be an amazing father. We'll show everyone here. We'll show them that our baby isn't just an attraction for an unusually large group of monsters. I know we can do this. And I know we'll be able to overcome whatever obstacles people throw at us. All we need to do is stick together. With all of this in mind, I was able to finally get some sleep and not have to suffer staying awake all night.
I hope you all liked this. Sorry if you were expecting a cat fight or something. I didn't really think this chapter needed one, or would make much sense if it did have a cat fight in it. Anyways, thanks again, and now, I need to get updates ready for my other three stories, as well as get my dumbass little brother to get the chapters he owes me finished for those other two stories. Goodnight.
