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Chapter 2: Morning sickness

Annabeth

It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself—

I got up. I was feeling sick, no I was sick, and I was going to vomit right now. There was no bathroom near were I was and I was going to be sick right now. I looked over to an empty plant pot we had.

"Did you just puke in our plant pot?" Percy said, standing in the doorway.

"I don't know why they call it morning sickness, if you get it all the time." I groaned letting my head hit the desk.

"It's fine, Annie. We can just get another pot."

"I told you about calling me Annie."

"I'm sorry." He smiled. But he didn't look sorry. "What do you want to eat?"

"Pickles." I mumbled.

"You hate pickles."

"The baby doesn't."

"Alright, do you just want pickles? Or do you want something to got with it?"

"Do we have any cookie dough?"

"Ok, I'm just going to bring you the pickles."

Lyric

I leaned over the toilet for the tenth time today. "Is it too late for me to join the hunters?" I groaned to Thalia, who was sitting on the edge of the bathtub.

"Honestly, it was too late when you started dating Valdez, because I knew you two wouldn't break up." She laughed.

"I guess so."

"How're you feeling?" She asked.

"I'm leaning over a toilet, how do you think I feel?" I said. "I feel like shit."

"I meant with Leo being away at college."

"Oh." I said as I got up to brush my teeth. "I really don't know. I mean part of me wants him to finish school. And the other part wants him with me while I go through this. I really do miss him though."

"But don't you want him to be here for the first trimester. It's sometimes said to be the hardest."

"I'll be fine. I have my mom, who's helping a lot; I have Percy and Annabeth, you and Rachel. I'll be fine, I always am."

"Alright." Thalia shrugged. "Have you thought of names?"

"The thing is literally the size of a pen top. I haven't thought about even giving it a name."

"But come on, every girl has thought about what they want to name their kids, except me, of course."

"Well, the only names that have bounced around my head are girl names like Brooke or River—"

"Sea names? Really?" Thalia mocked.

"I know, how daughter of Poseidon of me." I laughed. "Though there is one name that always stuck."

"What's that?"

"Phoenix."

Reyna

"Further more, senators. I believe that…" Octavian's words just drowned out of my ears until he sounded like a white noise machine (A trick I managed to learn many years ago.) I watched Nico sit across the room in his Black toga, which was pinned by a blood red clasp. What was I going to do? Chances were that Nico did not want a kid; much less by some girl he slept with once. But the only other options besides keeping it were adoption or abortion. And I just didn't know which one I wanted. I—

I got up and ran past Octavian to the bathroom and threw up my entire lunch.

I washed my face off as best as I could, I was still flushed but it was manageable. I grabbed a mint and a water bottle and headed back into the main hall.

"Nice of you to join us again, Praetor Reyna." Octavian smirked. "Perhaps if you are sick, you can take your leave home."

"I'm fine, Octavian. Please continue your meaningless speech." Octavian kept his mouth agape before clearing his throat and talking for the next half hour.

"Reyna! Reyna wait!" I heard someone say as I walked out the meeting hall. I turned and saw Nico running up to me.

"What?" I said, crossing my arms.

"I just wanted to check if you're ok." He shrugged. "Are you ok?"

"Not really."

"What's going on?"

"I'm preg…"

"I'm sorry, what?"

"I said I'm Pre…"

"Reyna, I can't hear you if your going to mumble."

"I'm Pregnant!" I hissed under my breath.

"What?" If Nico could get any paler, he just did.

"Look, don't worry about it. I'm going to get an abortion and we can just forget this ever happened." I said walking away.

Nico stood there before yelling. "What? No!" He ran over to me and turned me around.

I backed out of his grasp. "What do you mean no?" I sneered. "It's in my body, I can do what I want."

"This is just as much my child as it is yours." He said. "I know I'm old fashioned, but I don't think that's the right answer. Now if you just want to have the baby and hand over to me, that's fine. But I will not sit back and let you harm my child."

"Our child."

"Exactly! And it should be just as much my choice as it is yours. And I want to keep the baby."

"Nico, I'm already pushing it with being a female praetor." I said. "Do you know what they could do if they found out that I was not only pregnant but unwed?" I choked back the sobs but it didn't stop the tears from falling from my eyes. Nico looked at me for a second before pulling me into a hug. I let myself cry into his shoulder.

"I'm scared, Nico. For the first time in forever, I'm scared." I mumbled into his shirt.

"Hey, it's ok. I'll protect you. I always protect my family and now you and this baby are a part of it." He said to me. And for some reason I felt better. "And if it helps you could always stay in the underworld."

I laughed. "And become Proserpina? No thank you."

"I'm sure she would love to here you say that." He grabbed my hand. "Come on, I'll walk you home."

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