Hey everyone! Let me just way WOW! The response I got from chapter five was amazing! I can't believe there are so many of guys out there! It is just amazing! I would also like to point out a reader who said very nicely and politely that it would be a better idea for me to slow down on the whole touchy feely stuff because it is making the story seem unrealistic. I would to thank this person because they gave me CONSTRUCTIVE criticism. When you are writing stories, everything seems like it is perfect at first. But when you look back on it that's when you start to see the flaws. So thank you to the reader who pointed this out in a positive way and I am glad that you find this story enjoyable. But you guys don't want to hear me yapping, ON TO THE STORY!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Percy Jackson series Rick Riordan does.

Oh my god! I just couldn't look away! And he still hasn't noticed me just standing there! In front of me lies Percy, who has his back facing towards me and a stuffed fish in his right hand. But that's not the funny part. The funny part is that he is running back and forth around the room, making fish noises with his mouth.

He grips his stuffed fish tightly as he runs around the room again, still not noticing my presence. Most people would find this weird, but I don't! I find it hilarious! He looks like a five year old as he finally takes his fish to "shore" on his bed. He literally throws his body onto his bed! I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing. He was supposed to be getting clothes, but when I come in he's playing with a FISH? My laughter immediately draws Percy's attention towards me. He quickly throws the fish to the other side of the room and stands up abruptently. He made his way towards me as I continued to laugh. He just stood there red faced and waited for me to calm down. After about five minutes of laughter I realized how mean I was being. I shouldn't have laughed at him for having fun. I WISH I could be as carefree as him! I forced myself to calm down while Percy looked around the room in shame. When he noticed that I've finally calmed down he rubbed his neck and said

"So…..um, did you like the show?" he joked even though he was embarrassed. I rubbed my lips together to keep myself from smiling, but it must not have worked because Percy said
"You know you wanna smile" and then wiggled his eyebrows. I giggled at his silly antics. How can he make me laugh so easily?

"Why don't we just forget this ever happened" Percy suggested. Even though he was smiling and laughing could see in his eyes that he was truly embarrassed.

"Forget what happened?" I said. He looked at me puzzled for a second before realization crossed across his face.

"That's the spirit smart-alec" Smart-alec? I gave him a questioning look.

"I'm not good with nicknames" He admitted. "But anyway I will go and get your clothes" He gave me a look when I cracked a smile and said "for real this time"

With that he walked back into his bedroom while I waited outside. Percy came back with a gray t-shirt and a pair of shorts. He handed them to me and said

"They might be a little big, but they should do for the night. You could change in the bathroom" I take the clothes and head into the bathroom. I change into the t-shirt and realized Percy was right. The shirt reached my mid-thigh and the shorts were so big they were practically falling off my body. The shirt exposed a lot of skin and I wasn't really comfortable with it. I can't sleep in this let alone go out there in this! Someone knocked on the door.

"Hey, Annabeth you okay in there?" Percy shouts through the other side of the door. Geez, he's acting as though we're miles apart! So he doesn't become suspicious I shout as loud as him while I say

"Yeah, I'm fine! You just busted my ear drum that's all!"

"Sorry" Percy yells. As he walks away from the door I could hear him mutter

"smart-alec"

I let out a chuckle, but then return back to the problem at hand. Now what am I going to do? Maybe I could put my arms in the shirt. Yeah, that could work! I might look stupid, but it's better than exposing all my unattractive arms. If only I could hide my legs too….Oh well. I open the bathroom door and quickly stuff my arms in, before I make my way into Percy's room. Percy has already changed into a light blue t-shirt and pajama pants that have…fishes on them?

"Hey" he says. He looks at me up and down inspecting my outfit. Though his intentions were good, it reminded me of when Luke used to do that. Only now when Percy looks back up at me his face doesn't hold one of disdain. Phew!

I guess I spoke too soon because Percy glanced back down at my shirt and cocked his head to the side.

"W-What's wrong" I said nervously. Percy smiled amused and said

"Do you mind telling me why you have your arms stuffed into the t-shirt?" Oh that!

"Well, um….it just got a little bit chilly in the, um bathroom so I put my arms in" I lied terribly. I waited for him to call me out on it, when he just shrugged his shoulders and said

"Ok, ready for bed?" Wow! Well…..that was easy!

"Yeah I'm ready, it's just…where am I going to sleep?" I asked. I felt so needy. I was already borrowing his clothes and now I'm taking up space in his house!

"Here of course" he said pointing to his bed. Then where is he going to sleep? I must have made a face because he quickly added

"I will sleep in the living room"

"On the couch? No, its fine I will sleep on the couch, you've done enough for me already" I insisted. He shouldn't have to be uncomfortable all because of me!

"Annabeth your my guest its fine"

"Okay" I say giving in. A couple minutes later Percy is sleeping on the couch while I lay awake unable to sleep. My thoughts are racing so much that I am unable to fall asleep. This isn't normal. You don't just meet random strangers and let them take you home to spend the night! I know Percy would never do anything to me, but what was I thinking? I shouldn't have been so eager to join him and I just don't want to get hurt again. If Percy breaks my heart it will be much more painful than the last time and I'm still not over the last one!

What if Percy is like Luke! What if he decides that he doesn't want me either, what happens then? I go down the same path as before? No, I don't think so! Percy hasn't given me any reason to think these thoughts, but let's just take this day by day and see what happens. I mean who knows! We might actually have a shot at being together! As friends, best friends…..or even a couple!

I chuckle to myself.

"A couple?" I say to myself before I fall asleep.

"Yeah right"

Time Lapse

CRASH! I wake up in a jolt.

What was that! I hear voices outside of the bedroom door. Its appears to be two males and a women. And they're arguing.

I try to pick up what they are saying, but I was too far away. I heard another crash, only a lot louder and this time the women screamed.

I quickly got out of bed and searched for my phone to call 911. I look for my purse, only to remember I left it at the café. Crap! The yelling starts to escalate, before I hear a big thump. I make my way out of the room to see what happened and I am shocked at what I see!

The living room looks completely trashed! The couch is flipped over, a bunch of beer bottles are lying around and there is glass everywhere!

How did I sleep through this? I run to the kitchen to see what was going on and to find out what happened. In the there is a bald, headed fat man. He is wearing a very nasty colored t-shirt with spots of white on it. I think the t-shirt was originally white! Gross! He was also wearing jeans three sizes too small. His face is very ugly, especially since he is scowling. His brown eyes have a very evil glint to them. He seemed like the type to kill a person.

At the other side of the table is Mrs. Jackson looking terribly frightened and Percy who looks deadly. What is happening?

Percy is standing in front of Mrs. Jackson protectively with his eyes trained on one target. The slob in front of me. The man and Percy don't notice me and continue to glower at each other. But when Mrs. Jackson sees me her eyes widen in fear and she frantically waves me to her. I go to the wall farthest, from what I assume to be the intruder, and sprint to Mrs. Jackson. Mrs. Jackson lets out a sigh of relief and wraps me in a motherly embrace. I could feel her trembling.

I pat her back to comfort her, before she breaks the hug and looks back, worriedly at Percy.

"Just give me the damn money!" The man growled at Mrs. Jackson. "Unless you want another black eye" Whoa! I could smell the alcohol from here! But there's something about this man's voice. It sounds very familiar…..

Percy takes a threatening step towards the man and shouts

"You're the one who's about to get a black eye! I swear if you EVER touch my mom again, you will end up in the hospital"

"Shut up bastard before I kick you and your stupid mothers-"

"Don't talk about my mother" Percy exploded! Percy made a move towards the man, but Mrs. Jackson quickly grabbed her sons arm. He turned around for the first time and noticed me standing there.

"Don't do it Percy! You could get hurt" she pleaded. She was terrified and so was I.

"Percy, what is going on" Percy was about to answer when the man said

"Who the hell are you? What are you doing in my house?"

"Don't talk to her!" Percy yelled, his anger spiraling out of control. His fist were clenched so tightly that his knuckles were turning white, and his jaw was wired shut.

"Don't you ever talk to her!"

"Oh really! What are you going to do about it? She's just a stupid blonde, with and even stupider boyfriend!" Percy lost it!

He jumped over the table and socked the man right in his face. Mrs. Jackson shrieked and ran to her room. Did she just leave me!

The man was knocked to the ground by the force of the blow, but he quickly recovered and lunged at Percy. This time I shrieked! Both of them crashed down onto the kitchen floor with a big THUMP! They both struggled trying, to get on top of one another when Percy landed a solid punch to his face. Oh my god!

The man was momentarily stunned which caused him to loosen his grip on Percy's shirt. Percy quickly tried to get out of his hold, but the man yanked him back in. I stared in horror as they continued to fight.

What am I supposed to do? I can't break up the fight, and there's not a phone in sight for me to call 911! Both of them broke free of the other and the stranger came charging at Percy again trying to knock him down, but this time Percy moved out of the way. The man ran straight into the table! He doubled over in pain as Mrs. Jackson ran into the room.

She stood at Percy's side trying to hold him back. His hair was disheveled, his shirt was all crumbled up and his lip was bleeding. He was breathing like a raging bull his eyes still set on the stranger. The man was still doubled over in pain, when he looked up and stared straight at me. A flash of realization spread across his ugly face, before he smiled menacingly. Uh oh!

"You" he slurred pointing a nasty yellow finger nail at me.

"I know you! You did all this! You dumb blonde!" He tried to lunge toward me, but I grabbed the closest thing to me and hit him with it. I prayed that it was something useful, as I swung it with all my force. The man's head snapped the other way and he paused for a moment. I looked down to see what was in my hands and I saw that I was holding a spatula. Well then thank god for spatulas!

Percy broke free from his mom and tackled the guy before he had the chance to attack me again. This time Percy just kept wailing on the guy! He must have hit him at least ten times before the door slammed open. The police came barging in as Mrs. Jackson continued yelling at Percy to stop. Why would you tell him to stop! Hell the guy dissevered twenty more punches if you ask me!

It took four police officers to pry Percy off of the man, and even then he was still glaring menacingly at the dangerous man. The police pulled the man out of the apartment, but even with a bloody nose and two black eyes he taunted

"You think this is the last you've seen me? Well think again! I'll see you again you little bastard! When I come back you, your stupid mother, and your stupid girlfriend are all going to get! You'll see!" The police officers rushed him out the door before he could make any more threats. Wow!

I rushed over to where Percy was sitting. He was on the couch with any ice pack to his busted lip and a police officer was interrogating him. I sat next to him.

"What is the relationship of you and the man" the officer interrogated. The women looked tired and uninterested as she questioned him.

"He was my stepfather" Percy responded. His face took on a dark look as he explained their history. "Gabe and my mother divorced two years ago, but he still comes back. He claims that he paid for the apartment for years, and that we owe him, but he didn't. My mom had to work three jobs to pay for this place, while he just sat on his ass" The officer wrote his response down and then continued.

"Is this the first time you have gotten into an altercation with your ex-stepfather?"

"No this is not the first time Gabe and I have gotten into a fight. When I was younger he used to abuse my mother and I, but I was too small to do anything about it and my mom was always afraid I would get home. One day when I was eighteen I came home and I saw him hitting my mom repeatedly and….. and I just lost it. That was our first fight and soon after my mom divorced him." Oh my god, poor Percy! I would have never guessed he was abused. He just seemed so happy and so care free! I can't believe anyone would do that to a mother and a child. Nobody should have to go through such cruelty. Percy sat through the rest of the interrogation and it was heartbreaking to hear all the abuse that monster put him through. The monster shouldn't be rooming the streets, he should be in jail!

Throughout the whole interrogation my mind kept drifting back to Gabe and how he seemed so familiar. He had this cruel look in his eyes that reminded me of something….. And the way he looked at me before he attacked me. He remembered me and I had a bad feeling about why.

The police officer decided she had enough information and decided to finally leave. It was like she had no compassion or sympathy throughout Percy's whole story!

"Thank you" she said in a monotone voice before she left the apartment. I've never met such a heartless women in my life!

Shutting the door behind him, Percy goes to his room without a word to anyone. His face held no emotion and his whole body was tense.

Not knowing whether to go in or not, I go to find Mrs. Jackson. She should know how to comfort him better than anyone. Mrs. Jackson was in the kitchen cleaning up the beer bottles and the chairs. I started to help when she said

"Don't" she turned to me and gave me a watery smile

"Don't worry about the mess, I got it. I'm….I'm sorry you had to see that"

"No it's fine' I said trying to reassure her, but she wasn't buying it.

"You're our guest Annabeth! And you could have gotten hurt tonight because of me!" she said in a pained voice.

"Mrs. Jackson it's okay! I'm fine! And it's not your fault! If it's anybody's fault it's Gabe's!" I said shocking myself once again. I could tell in her eyes that she didn't believe me and it made me sad that she thought that this was all her fault.

"Thank you Annabeth" she said turning back to the glass on the table.

"Why don't you head back to bed, it's getting late" Knowing that I couldn't persuade her to change her mind and she didn't want to talk anymore, I head back to my room.

I hesitate before I open the door. Maybe I should just leave him alone? He might not want to be bothered. I mean why else would a person go into their room and shut the door.

But what if it's just an act? What if he really wants to be comforted and know that people care about him? I was beginning to wonder if I was describing him or myself…

I take a deep breath before I open the door and step into the room. I don't know what I was expecting, but I definitely wasn't expecting this. I saw Percy lying on his bed staring at the ceiling. That's all he was doing. Just staring at the ceiling with a blank expression on his face, and an ice pack to his lip. As I walked over to the bed I could feel my confidence draining with each step. When I got to the bed I sat at the edge waiting for him to say something, to acknowledge my presence or just do something. Anything! But he remained still, not saying a word. I didn't want to say anything that would upset him so for a while we didn't say anything at all. We just sat in silence, waiting for the other to talk.

After about five minutes of silence, I awkwardly cleared my throat and said

"I'm sorry about your ex-stepfather" My voice was quiet, but it boomed in the still room. A few seconds past by, before he said in a small voice

"Me too"

"Are you okay" Of course he's not okay! An okay person wouldn't be not talking and staring at the ceiling!

"We should go to sleep" he said suddenly sitting up. What?

"It's getting late" He said now fully standing up. "Sorry for keeping you up"

"Percy wait" I said on his way out. He paused and turned around looking at the floor. I didn't say anything for a while, unable to find the right words until he started to leave again.

"It's not your fault" I blurted out. I didn't know where these words were coming from, but I kept talking.

"What happened tonight was not your fault" I said more confidently. Percy laughed, but it was not his usual sweet lighthearted laugh. It was a dark humorless laugh.

"It's not my fault" he scoffed.

"Me losing my temper and getting into a fight with a lunatic, almost getting you and my mom hurt in the process is not my fault! I have a hard time believing that Annabeth"

"Percy you can't see it that way"

"Is there any other way to see it? You guys were put in danger because of my stupid mistake! I shouldn't have fought him-"

"Percy stop! You can't keep blaming yourself when it's not your fault! Gabe probably would have went after us anyway, with his violent past! He also needed a good beat down if you ask me" Percy cracked a smile at that.

"Thanks Annabeth, but I'm still sorry for-"

"That better not be another apology!" Percy chuckled and held his hands up in surrender.

"Okay okay! No more apologies! Guess you're not as shy as I thought you were!" he said on his way out. Before he left he paused as if remembering something. He turned back and stood in front of me. He then wrapped me in a tight embrace.

"Thanks Annabeth" he said as he hugged me. He smelled so good!

"No problem" I said back. When we finally let go of one another he wished me one more goodnight and then he was gone.

I snuggled back into his bed and sighed content. My mind wasn't racing about today's events or worrying about me explaining my crazy breakdown tomorrow. Instead I was relaxed. I didn't feel like a thousand bricks weighed on my shoulders. I felt something I hadn't felt in a long time. Peace

Well there's chapter six! And let me tell you guys, Gabe is going to cause a lot more trouble than this! I mean there's a reason Annabeth finds him familiar ;) But anyway let's talk about the next chapter! Annabeth definitely has some explaining to do don't you think? But don't worry I won't keep you guys waiting for too long. You guys will get another chapter sometime next week. And never forget….PERCABETH RULES!

See ya!