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-Chapter 19- Horror and Percy Don't Match

-Percy POV-

All of the sudden, when I was working on the generator, I saw a flash of light, and felt a flash of heat. But I didn't feel anything.

"AHH!" someone screamed, and I heard the sound of something falling, creating a 'thud' .

Oh no.

I ran to the other side of the generator, and saw Annabeth on the ground, coughing. I could see some traces of smoke coming from her clothes, and noticed that the ends of her hair was singed… owe.

"Annabeth!" I exclaimed, kneeling down beside her. I don't really know what I was planning on doing, but I thought I might as well try to help her out. "Are you okay?"

"Do I look okay to you?" Annabeth sneered, pushing my hand away from her. She stood up herself, coughing even more as she brushed herself off.

"No, you don't. I was just being nice… I think you should sit down for awhile," I told her, taking her shoulder. She would have none of that, though.

"Percy. I have to help you with the generator," Annabeth told me firmly. "I'm not always the damsel in distress, you know."

"Could've fooled me," I muttered, causing Annabeth to raise an eyebrow as if she was saying, 'Don't you dare push me.'

I decided quickly, by the look on her face, that it would be rather wise if I stuck to the plan and let her help… and didn't push it.

"So… do you know what that flash was?" I asked, looking at her knowingly. I mean, I thought she was the smart one here.

"I guess I… caused the generator to do that…" her voice softened when she understood what she had done. "You were right about me not knowing how to fix this."

"Now, was that so hard to say?" I asked, smirking at her knowingly. She glared and stuck her tongue out at me, and walked over to the generator.

"It was acid on my tongue. Now shut up and get to work," she commanded, and I saluted to her teasingly.

"Aye, Aye, captain," I joked, putting the flashlight back into my mouth. Once I got back to work on the generator, I saw that Annabeth had too. But at the same time, her eyes were a tad bit more hesitant than they were before, and I could tell she did not want to get shocked again.

I connected some wires that looked like the needed to be connected, and I replaced some nails with the extra nails my mother made me supply down here a few years ago. But not too long where they would rust… which was defiantly a good thing.

"Done?" Annabeth asked, flashing her light over to where I had been working.

"Done," I confirmed, and walked over to the side that had the switch. "Now, for the moment of truth…" I put my hand over the switch, and saw Annabeth cross her fingers and close her eyes. Looks like someone wants this to work. I'm just scared of being Annabeth's punching bag if it doesn't.

I flipped the switch to 'on', and I heard some gears turning, and then light. It worked!

"Yes!" Annabeth cheered giving the air above her a giant fist pump.

"And let there be light," I said, smiling. Annabeth laughed, and walked into my open arms. We enjoyed a silent moment, happy of what we actually accomplished. Did I think it would work? Nope. Did I hope it would work? Heck yeah.

"What are we going to do now?" she asked, looking up at me. I shrugged, and started walking towards the entertainment area of the basement.

"Watch a movie?" I suggested, plopping down on the leather couch that was placed directly in front of a 58'' flat screen, not to mention the surround sound.

"What about the others?" Annabeth asked, standing where I just was a few seconds ago, but she had her arms crossed. Great.

"Screw the others. I want to watch a good movie with my girlfriend."

"Percy!" Annabeth gasped glaring at me. "They're our friends, and they'll watch a movie with us if it's the last thing I do. Besides, it'll be halfway through when Nico and Thalia are totally out of it. And we know how shy Grover and Juniper are. It'll be like we're the only two there…"

"Fine. But you owe me," I told her giving a sly wink. She blushed a bit, breaking her angry facade, then quickly snapped back to it.

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Everyone was downstairs, happy now that the power was back on. And now everything was at peace, well, indoors at least.

"Okay, are we going to watch a movie or not?" Thalia grumbled. "Cause' I got stuff to do."

Okay. All peace is now gone.

"Well, before we even watch a movie, we have to pick one out," Annabeth told her, though I knew it was directed to everyone.

"Okay, I vote Incidious," I announced, raising my hand. Annabeth, who was sitting next to me, raised an eyebrow.

"You sure seaweed brain? Because I happen to know for a fact that horror movies and you… aren't a good match."

"Annabeth?" I asked, my voice higher pitched.

"Yeah?" she asked, mocking how I spoke.

"Shut up please."

"Now, I'm sure your mom would be mad if I told her you said shut up to me. So much for the gentleman she raised," she kept on grilling me on the subject.

"Annabeth?" Thalia asked, and I could tell she was trying to hide a snicker. But the fact I knew that told me she failed at doing that.

"Yeah?" Yes! She stopped nagging me!

"Let's just watch Incidious… besides, I want to see how Percy and horror movies don't match," Thalia said, and laughed at the end, soon followed by everyone else but Annabeth and me. Somehow, Annabeth was still able to keep a straight face. Even though she was the one who saw a little episode while we were watching 'It Waits'.

"Okay."

Annabeth got up, plopped in the disk for Incidious, and when the starting credits came up, she was smart, staying there so she could hit play on the DVD player. One of the reasons that I can add to my list of why I love her like I do.

Hey, we may have a pretty sarcastic relationship, but I love her all the same.

She walked up to me, and sat next to me, and I immediately put my arm around her shoulders unconsciously. I know I have never done that before… this love is all new and different to me… but I like it.

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I actually ended up getting through the movie with a total of 13 jumps and only 5 screams. Annabeth ended up laughing through all of the scary parts… or the parts I thought was scary, and she thought was funny. Or maybe I was the funny one…

Well, anyways, I actually got through the movie. All in all, I was pretty proud of myself.

So much for every girl's dream guy. If the media found out about how… horror and I don't mix, I'd immediately go from America's teen hottie, to America's teen loser. And I do not want that to happen.

"Seaweed brain! Come on! We need to pick out the next movie!" Annabeth exclaimed, pulling me away from my thoughts.

"How about The Mummy? I need some good cheesiness to get myself away from the nightmares I'm going to have," I said, joking around with myself. Of course, cueing Annabeth to laugh.

"Sure. I think it'll be good to watch something like that anyways… never can have too much of the old cheesy horror."

It ended up where everyone decided it would be good to watch that too, which gave me the feeling they had enough of the scared Percy for a day. Maybe they'll get a good laugh in tomorrow, but I think it's the end of that side of me for today.

"So… ready to watch some Rick and Evie mush?" Nico asked, laughing a bit.

"Heck yeah I am!" I exclaimed, causing everyone, including me, to laugh. "Brendan and Rachel in real life really aren't that bad, either," I said in a hinting voice.

"Oh my gosh! You actually met them?" Juniper asked, squealing a bit.

"Fangirl?" I asked, and she shook her head no.

"It's just shocking that you know them," Juniper explained pointing to the screen that a credit scene of the movie was on. It was of Rick and Evie in front of the Mummy.

"Uh, sweetheart, you're talking to a famous person himself… he's met all kinds of people," Grover told her, though rather shyly. It was as if he was scared she would lash out at him. Young love.

"Yeah… that makes sense."

We were all quiet, and Annabeth pressed play. She got up and sat next to me in an uncomfortable silence… I know it's normal to not to talk in a movie, but still, something about this was making me nervous.

"What's wrong?" I whispered in her ear. I had my arm wrapped around her shoulders again, at least she let me do that, but I could feel her tense up under me when I did so.

"Shh. Trying to watch the movie," she whispered, her voice broken, but still she gestured to the screen. She looked up at me, trying to give me a reassuring look, but I could easily read her like an open book. She was everything but okay.

"Come on, Annabeth," I whispered, taking her hand, and leading her out of the sight of the stares from everyone else. Surprisingly she didn't argue or pull back, but instead she followed me. Her grip on my hand was as if she was scared of losing me.

And I didn't understand why.

As soon as we got away from everyone, she freely started to cry. She leaned into me, crying into my chest. I didn't know what do besides wrap my arms around her and whisper it's okay into her ear.

"No, Percy," she cried, sniffling a bit, "It'll never be okay."

I pulled away to get a look at her face, "What's going on here Annabeth? I don't understand."

"When we leave here, you'll forget all about me," she sniffled. "You'll go back to the life of stardom that you've always lived."

"Annabeth, it would be impossible for me to do that," I gasped out, holding her shoulders. "If I leaved you, I don't think I would ever be me again. Annabeth, you brought out the real me. The person the press knows, the fans know, that's not the real me. I'm stupid, arrogant, idiotic, and a jerk. And when I found you… it was a reawakening for me again. I am me."

"That's not true," Annabeth whispered, stray tears still falling down her cheeks.

"Yes it is." But that wasn't my voice.

We turned around to see the others standing there, Nico holding Thalia close to him, and Grover with an arm around Juni's shoulders.

"What?" Annabeth asked, looking more clueless than I've ever seen her before. And I've seen her clueless quite a bit, if you ask me.

"Percy was an arrogant jerk. He bossed everyone around, making their lives miserable. The only reason why we stayed friends with him was because we knew something millions of others didn't- that really wasn't the real him," Nico said.

Grover started, "Us three have been friends ever since we were little. When Percy's dad died… he kind of changed. He blamed himself for his father's death, and when he realized there was too much blame to take, he started to blame everyone else. We stayed with him, hoping somehow… he would change back to the old Percy we were friends with."

Annabeth looked up at me, her face unbelieving. "I-I'm so sorry… I had no idea what you went through-"

I cut her off, "It doesn't matter, Annabeth. You were the one who got the real me out of the psycho person I turned into… I guess that's what I ended up doing to get over my fathers death. Taking the blame, and giving the blame."

"I love you," Annabeth whispered, leaning into me even more.

"Love you too. And don't you ever forget that," I mumbled into her hair, kissing her head.

"Awe! Now, lovebirds let's get back to the movie!" Thalia exclaimed, as if nothing just happened. Leave it to Thalia to bounce back quickly, dragging everyone with her.

I laughed as she took Annabeth and I's arms dragging us back to the entertainment room.

And now I know that no matter what obstacle Annabeth and I have to overcome… I know we can do it together… with the help of a friend occasionally…