I Knew You Were Trouble
"I knew you were trouble when you walked in
So, shame on me now
Flew me to places I'd never been
Now I'm lying on the cold hard ground"
Ever since she met him, Annabeth knew Percy was trouble. It was sort of a given for demigods; trouble followed them everywhere they went. But she followed him. He was hers, and she was his, and that was the way that fate had determined it would be. She had no choice in the matter. Annabeth loved Percy for all that he was. They spent every waking moment together, whether it was on a quest, or training, or recovering demigods and bringing them to camp. They were a matching set, and no one dared to split them up.
That was, until Percy went missing.
By the third day he was gone, Annabeth was in a panic. She hadn't been this scared facing Titans, or being led through the labyrinth by Daedalus' horrible spider. The one person she was meant to be with was gone, and no demigod or satyr across the country had seen him. Each new piece of news, or lack therefore of, felt like a laestrygonian was sitting on her chest. The pressure got heavier and heavier as she continued to push herself, flying on Blackjack as far as the eye could see, searching for him.
He had opened her eyes, taught her to take risks, helped her through so much, saved her life countless times… He taught her things she would have never been able to teach herself, even as a daughter of Athena. They needed each other like an electric current needed a battery. His disappearance had taken a toll on her, one that even the newest campers could see.
Where was he?
She was lost without him, the one person that had been such a consistent figure in her life for the past five years, the one person she trusted more than anything. The person who held the sky for her. But now, she felt crushed, like Icarus falling from the sky; her wings were broken, the winds of life taking her directions she wasn't completely sure of, sending her plummeting towards the ocean. But this time, Percy wasn't there to ride a wave and catch her.