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Chapter Two: Where She Went

~Annabeth's POV~

The next morning when I woke up, I found myself in a prison like…thing. The floor was cold and damp, the air dry and smelling like toxic fumes. The room, if you could even call it that, I was in was cloaked in a creepy darkness. I sat up, and found myself on a bed. Well, calling it a bed was a bit of a stretch. It was more like a cot. The mattress was torn and ragged, not an ideal sleeping place, if you ask me. I cautiously slid my legs out of the cot, and my feet hit the icy stone with a thump. I called out, wanting to know if I was alone. Who had captured me. I wanted answers.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Annabeth Chase, my stepdaughter." A chilling voice spoke from the black depths of the dungeon.

"Wh-who's there?" I stammered weakly.

"Why, Helen Chase of course. Your stepmother."

It was then that the bone chilling realization dawned on me. Helen. The Queen of the Forgotten. She had married my dad a few years after I was born, and had given birth to my sister, Annabelle, before leaving a few weeks later, leaving my dad with my mom, Athena. She must've left to come back here. To make sure that nobody left.

"You. You're the one that purposely destroyed my family!" I yelled, my voice quivering slightly. I was furious, yet terrified at the same time. I had only been four at the time, but I was old enough. I had watched her destroy everything we'd built, and then leave a few days after her daughter was born.

"Well, I wouldn't say destroy. More like alter."

Alter? She thinks she altered it? She broke my mom's heart, then she broke my dad's. The only reason they're together now is because of their undying love for each other.

"Whatever you say. When can I leave?" I asked, knowing the answer, but I wanted out so desperately. I wanted—no, needed to see Percy.

"Never." Helen spoke in a villainesque tone, one that was only used by the cruelest of fairy tale villains.

~Percy's POV~

It killed me, watching her run away like that. I felt my heart shatter into millions of pieces, and there wasn't a thing anyone could do about it. The look on her face when I chose Rachel over her. What was I thinking? Seeing her tear streaked face, my heart wrenched in my chest and I reached for her, knowing that something was about to go terribly wrong. "Annabeth." I called desperately, but she was already gone. Running faster than I'd ever seen her run before, like she had to get away from me. As if she couldn't stand to see me anymore. That thought hurt me more than anything ever could. I watched her blond hair flowing out behind her, until she disappeared into the woods. As minutes passed, I found myself forgetting about the whole thing. As more minutes passed, I found myself not remembering that I ever had a friend named Annabeth. As far as I was concerned, that name was fake, unrealistic, yet somehow beautiful. As far as I was concerned, Rachel was my soon-to-be girlfriend, and nothing else had ever happened. Five minutes turned into ten, and the name Annabeth slipped from my mind completely, as if nonexistent, and never having existed in the first place. And when one of our teachers blew the whistle, signaling recess's end, I slipped my hand into Rachel's, pulling her with me, and savoring the sound of her soft giggle, a smile blooming on my face.

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