AN:
Here is the 3rd chapter of this series sorry for the delay. It was just difficult to pick it up after a long gap. I hope you guys like it, forgive me for a few grammatical errors I am just a beginner. Please follow and mark favorite if you like it,
Characters belong to Rick Riordan, but the plot is mine.

Chapter 3

Percy P.O.V.

She was running away from me, to her apartment. I could say that it was one of those memorable days for both of us. I could hear her childish giggles as she ran. I turned around to walk back to my home. Then I heard an ear-splitting scream, and I sat upright in my bed. That scream was still ringing in my ears, and it felt so real. I was shivering, and it was just 5:15 am. I tried sleeping again but it was no use, sleep was the last thing on my mind as I kept turning in my bed.

At 6:00 I gave up on sleep, I took a cold shower. A cold shower was all I needed to forget my problems, until now. That scream, it was stamped permanently in my memory. I let the cold creep into my blood, and it helps to dull the pain. The pain, it was like your body if falling into an endless pit. After mourning over my current emotional state, I got out of the shower.
It was a Saturday morning no one was up in the house, I mean it was still just some minutes past 6:30. I sat at my desk looking at the pictures I had on my bulletin board, especially those of her and me.

Flashback

"Percy, come on! Are you even listening to me?" Tyson said exasperatedly.

"Mom! He is ignoring me" Tyson yelled.

"Wait! No. Hell No" I said coming out of my dream world.

"Then why were you not answering me?" he said glaring at me.

"I was just a bit distracted" I defended.

"What's keeping you distracted nowadays?" Mom asked.

"Just stuff."

"Is that girl stuff" mom teased.

"Oh no, no, no," I said desperately hoping for her to drop it.

"Then why did I hear that you were drooling over some girl in your class," she said trying to contain her laughter.

"Eww! Percy drools over girls" Tyson said laughing.

"Where did you hear that?" I asked in a panic as blood rushed to my cheeks.

"Paul heard you talking to one of your friends over the phone."

"And that's why I need a cell of my own," I said in an annoyed tone

"Do you want the bird and bees talk honey?" mom asked as she covered Tyson's ears.

"No! Mom" I screamed doing my best to seem terrified, I ran into my room leaving my laughing family alone.

It was Thursday, and I reached school early today as Paul gave me a ride. The corridors were empty. I went to my locker and took out my notebook for the first lecture. I was just roaming around waiting for others to show up when I heard someone laughing in our class.

It was still better of half an hour for the class to start, so I went to investigate. I tried to look through the glass in the door and saw that there were three people in there but could not make out their faces. I was leaning too much on the door and then made a less than decent entry into the room.

Luke, Thalia, and Annabeth were staring at me with wide eyes.

"What are you doing down there Perce? Looking for ants?" Luke said amused

"Stop being mean" Thalia argued.

"Was he spying on us" Annabeth wondered aloud.

"If that's so I'm going to kick his ass" Thalia thundered.

"Give the guy a chance to get up and explain himself" Luke defended me.

"He's right" Annabeth agreed, coming towards me, and extending her hand.

I took her hand and stood up. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath in trying to search for an excuse. Then I thought to screw it and stick with the truth this time.

"Actually, I was kind of spying on you guys," I said as Thalia cracked her knuckles.

"But I didn't know it was you" I defended.

"But why were you spying?" Luke questioned holding Thalia back.

"I reached early today and was roaming alone in the corridor when I heard someone laughing," I said as they shared looks between themselves.

"I tried to look through the glass to find out who it was, and you know what happened next."

Luke and Annabeth nodded, but Thalia just kept staring at me in an unsettling way.

"Well no need to spy you can join us if you want to," Luke said as Thalia moved her stare to Luke and Annabeth made a thoughtful expression.

"That won't be half bad" Annabeth murmured to herself.

"Really?" I questioned.

"Come on now, before I change their minds," Thalia said in a slightly amused tone.

I sat down with them, and we had a decent chat with them before others started showing up. Thalia was not that bad to talk to, but Annabeth was mostly silent unless she got asked something. It felt that she was trying to read me like her storm gray eyes were trying to get into my mind and read all my secrets.

Annabeth and I sat together for the algebra class as Nico had to home for some unknown reason, something was freaky about this guy. Luke had forced Thalia to sit with her and insisted that I sit with Annabeth because he thought I needed some good company.

"So, how good are you in algebra?" Annabeth questioned

"Well, I guess I am not qualified to judge myself."

"Why?"

"I will be pretty biased and say something like 'I am the best' etc..." I stated with a thoughtful expression while she just shook her head.

"Boys" she murmured under her breath, but I heard it and acted like a hurt puppy.

"Annabeth and Perseus, would like to share that valuable information with us?" the teacher thundered.

"Sorry Sir" Annabeth croaked.

She remained silent for rest of the class.

"You are ok," she said suddenly.

"What?"

"At algebra."

"Gee! Thanks"

"Always there to judge you, Mr. Jackson."

"Well if you are going to judge me…" I trailed off

"Yes, so."

"Could you help me with my backlog" I spoke in a whisper hoping she would somehow miss it.

"Ya, sure tomorrow after school" she replied positively to my surprise.

"Percy, Luke is here to get you" Mom called out as I was suddenly jerked out of my thoughts.

I checked the time and it was 8:30 already. I got dressed as quickly as I could and rushed out to meet Luke. He tried to greet me, but I did not give him the chance as I grabbed his arm and left the apartment.

"Slow down Perce" Jason called as I kept dragging him.

"If we are quick, we can catch the next bus and be at the hospital by 9" I reasoned.

"Are you forgetting something?" Luke asked.

I turned to face him, as he jingled his car keys.

"I am sorry, it's just that my mind is not really in the right place this morning"

"I just need to see her." I continued.

Luke suddenly clapped my face with both his hands. It took me totally by surprise.

"Calm down dude" he said as he took his hands off my face. I just stared back at him still surprised.

"It always seemed to calm you down when Annabeth did it, so, I gave it a shot" he said sheepishly.

"Did it work?" he asked.

I just nodded in response as we walked towards his car. We both were silent during the drive to the hospital. I was just hoping that I will get some good news when we get there.

We parked in the lot but did not leave the car. I was sure he was thinking the same thing I had on my mind. We finally left the car about 10 minutes later.

"You have to keep yourself together man. There are going to others there who are doing their best to hold on to sanity, especially Annabeth's parents" he finished.

"I know" I replied.

"Now can I count on you?" he asked me.

"Yes" I said meekly as we entered the hospital.

Luke took the lead as we reached the reception of the hospital.

"Hi, I am looking for Annabeth Chase. She was admitted here yesterday after an accident" he asked the receptionist.

"Yes, she is here. But only family can visit her. You can wait it in the lounge area with rest of her friends" she told us.

"Can he visit her?" Luke asked again gesturing towards me.

"He is her boyfriend" he finished.

"I am very sorry but that is still not allowed" she said looking at me sympathetically.

When we reached the lounge, Thalia and Silena were already there, from their looks it seemed they had been sitting here crying all night. Luke went straight to Thalia and hugged her as she began to cry again. I sat beside Silena and held her hand as she sobbed silently.

"What did the doctors say?" I asked in a somewhat balanced tone.

Silena began to cry aloud now as she leaned on my shoulder and absentmindedly began to smooth out her hair.

"It cannot be that bad?" my voice started to crack

"Sh She…"

"Uh-huh" I encouraged her.

"She is in the ICU" Silena sobbed out.

"They said that the next 48 hours are the most critical for her" she finished.

She broke down completely, and I was crying too. Thalia was still crying and hugging Luke. We all sat like that for I do not know like hours.

Luke tried to make Thalia go home, and I convinced Silena. Thalia being her stubborn self, did not budge. Finally, she agreed that Luke would swing by her apartment and bring a change of clothes as well as drop off Silena.

"So, they won't let us in, huh?" Thalia asked me

"Ya, not even me."

"Why would they? What's so special about you?" she sneered.

"You weren't even here when they brought her in" her helplessness and sorrow changing into anger.

I lost my breath, what was special about me. I closed my eyes and remembered that kiss. The warmth it gave me and then took in a long breath.

"We are together now" I squeaked out.

Her eyes lost her anger, and they were now just as blank as mine. She did not reply, and my confession had just swept her legs from under her.

"I was in a cell. I punched the hell out of Ethan" now getting my voice back.

"Since when?" she asked softly.

"Tomorrow morning, she kissed me and ran towards her building. And then she got hit midway" I averted my gaze from her as more tears started to roll out.

"I am sorry Percy" she came over to me and kneeled in front of me.

"I was trying to take out my frustration, and I didn't know" she stopped speaking mid-sentence.

She was looking somewhere to her left side. I followed her gaze I saw Annabeth's mother coming out of a room crying followed closely by her father. Mrs. Chase just went past us as if we did not exist. Mr. Chase, however, stopped by us.

"I am sorry, I didn't know that her friends are not allowed in ICU," he said apologetically.

"If I knew better, I would have kept you up to speed."

"How is she now?" Thalia interrupted

"We are aware that if she doesn't wake up soon, she will go into a comma" she added

"She is still out, and no one knows what is happening to her for sure" he replied.

"Any chances of her waking up," I asked.

"I have no idea," he said looking sadly towards me.

"I have to drop Athena home, Bobby and Matthew are with a babysitter," he said as he left.

Thalia went back to her seat, and she kept eying the guards for that block of the building as the nurses and doctors went pass them again and again. She then suddenly turned towards me, her eyes sparkling as if electric sparks were lightening them up. I remember thinking this is not going to end well.

AN:
This is the edited version, removed Jason added Luke
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