A/N: ITS PERCY JACKSON"S BIRTHDAY! I COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT IT WAS AND I ALMOST DIDN'T POST TODAY OMG I'M SO SORRY BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY PERFECT BECAUSE THIS IS AN AMAZING PERCABETH CHAPTER AND I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THE DATE I'M SO HAPPY THE GODS HAVE BLESSED ME I CANNOT BELIEVE I ACCIDENTALLY WROTE MY FAVORITE PERCABETH CHAPTER AND WAS PLANNING TO POST IT ON PERCY'S B-DAY ACCIDENTALLY THE STARS HAVE ALIGNED AND OUR PLANET IS FINALLY IN GATORADE. ANYWAYS, I HOPE YOU GUYS ENJOY THIS CHAPTER AND MAKE BLUE COOKIES! I ALSO FINISHED THIS CHAPTER AT 12 AM SO DON'T HATE IF THERE ARE SOME MISTAKES! Also, shoutout to Guest who was really nice to me and really gave me motivation to write this chapter, also shoutout to Lifeofroos because he/she gave me some great ideas and I used them in this chapter! Now that I've calmed down, on with the chapter!

ANNABETH

Life couldn't get any worse, or should Annabeth say better. She's always been a master at keeping her emotions in check, but ever since she met Percy-her emotions kept spiraling out of control. She's just so afraid, especially after Luke.

Annabeth thought that she would never be able to meet another boy again without remembering Luke. He did some horrible things to her. Annabeth shook him out of her thoughts and tried focusing on Percy. His soft, gentle hands. His wind-swept hair and deep sea-green eyes, twinkling with mischief.

She took all of that in, when they were swirling in the pool-and then they were inches apart. His salty smell invading her nose as they floated there. She searched his eyes and she swore she saw that emotion that Luke never showed her, the emotion her family never showed her until recently. Then it was replaced with guilt, he pushed away from her and she wanted nothing else but to cry. She knew she would never be loved-just like it's always been.

They haven't spoken after that incident and Annabeth felt like she was slowly dying. Every time she saw his sea-green eyes or his tousled hair, she sighed inwardly. She was tempted to approach him and start up a conversation, but every time she tried, she was reminded of Luke and she felt like throwing up.

All of a sudden, she's seeing this girl with 10 pounds of make-up on, wherever Percy is. Her heart feels heavy, like all that girl's joker-like make-up is sitting on it. Annabeth has always been good at reading people, thank the gods for that. After one quick glance at Percy's face, and maybe a few more-she realizes that Percy hates this girl.

Annabeth learned that her name was Drew and quickly realized that Drew was now targeting her. She honestly didn't have time for her, but when she went after Percy, and physically forced him to kiss her. She was reminded so much of that bastard Luke. He forced his way into a relationship and guilted girls into being with him. Annabeth found it so revolting, she held nothing back. All her anger, and sadness and jealousy boiled in her blood-and she let it all loose with one punch.

She has to admit, she felt pretty good about it. Nobody was a fan of Drew, she was too manipulative and bossy. All the teachers turned a blind eye. Ares was obviously in the front of the crowd watching the entire thing, but he pretended he was never there-even Hermes didn't gossip about it, and that's saying something.

People have been coming up to her from all over the school, asking her about the encounter, asking if this rumor or that rumor was true. She found it facetious how suddenly everybody wanted to be her friend, but also quite aggravating. All she wanted was for Percy to talk to her, to thank her for what she'd done, but he left as fast as he could, and she hasn't seen him since.


Now, three days later, she was standing outside his door, Piper at her side. Annabeth doesn't even want to get started on Piper. Annabeth isn't quick to trust but she instantly knew that Piper was trustworthy. Annabeth confides everything in Piper-her emotions, her family and countless other things. She's been the best friend Annabeth has ever asked for, and she couldn't thank Piper enough.

Piper gives Annabeth an encouraging nod as Annabeth warily raises her hand to the door. Doubts we're slipping their way into her mind, there were too many what-if's-she didn't know if she could handle them.

She realizes she's been staring off into her space as Piper shakes her on the shoulder. "Hey, Annabeth" she say's soothingly, Piper always knew how to calm Annabeth down. "Are you sure you're ready for this? You don't have to go through with it, if you don't want to." Annabeth doesn't answer, but quickly knocks on the door before she can change her mind.

Piper smirked and got that mischievous look back in her eyes, when the door swung open and a tall, blonde handsome man stood in the doorway. "Hey!" the surfer dude says, smiling. "You're Annabeth, right? The girl who knocked Drew out!" He looks like he's about to hug her when he thinks better of it and lays his hand awkwardly on the doorframe. "I'm Will" he says, "and she is?" he questions, gesturing towards Piper.

I start to answer, before Piper cuts me off. "She is called Piper, and can speak, by the way." He grins sheepishly before inviting them in.

"You're all that Percy's been talking about these past few days" he whispers as we approach the big lump underneath the blankets on Percy's bed. "Apparently, you're his hero, but he's too afraid to talk to you, after the pool. Whatever that means."

Annabeth blushes slightly when he mentions the pool, but she hopes it's too dark to notice. They're all standing at the foot of the bed, staring at the un-moving lump.

"He's okay, right?" Piper asks Will

"Define okay?" he questions back, giggling. "But yeah, he seems fine. Still upset and maybe a little traumatized, but he'll get over it. Won't you Percy?"

He's answered with a loud snore, which seems to be a suitable answer for him because he turns towards Annabeth. "Do you want to wake him up, or come back later?" She honestly didn't know what to say until Piper answers for them.

"Annabeth will wake Percy up, but I need you to help me with some homework Will" She looks at him pointedly and he finally seems to understand.

"Ah, gotcha. Homework" He says, not-so-subtly winking at Piper. She sighs, exasperated and leads him out of the room. She mouths a good luck back to Annabeth before she turns and shuts the door.


She stands still, at the foot of Percy's bed, unsure of what to do-should she wake him up? Wait for him to wake up? Just walk out of the room? She doesn't want to hurt Piper, who put so much effort into convincing Annabeth to talk to Percy.

She sighs and decides to wait for Percy to wake up. She walks around to where she can see Percy's face. He looks so content and worry free-his hair is hopelessly tangled and a small line of drool, drips from his mouth. Surprisingly she doesn't find it gross, she actually finds it a little cute.

Annabeth sigh's again and continues to watch Percy sleep. She likes watching Percy sleep, seeing him happy makes her happy-even if she's not with him. She still cares and would do anything for Percy. There I go again, Annabeth thinks. All rational thought out the window, gods I hate emotions.

Just then, Percy's eyes flutter open and he stares at Annabeth, his eyes un-focused. He registers what he's seeing and practically leaps out of bed. His cheeks burning like they never have before. He catches Annabeth suppressing a grin and pretends to look suave. He pulls it off pretty decently, even with bed hair, she thinks.

"So um, why were you watching me sleep?" Annabeth starts blushing as hard as Percy and looks towards her feet. She was so caught up in trying not to grin at Percy freaking out that she forgot she had been in his room, watching him sleep, alone. She felt creepy, but Annabeth couldn't let Percy know.

Since her thought process had been thrown off track, she doesn't have any sort of decent comeback. Instead of looking dumb, she says the first thing that pops into her mind. "You drool when you sleep" she says confidently. He looks taken aback and sub-consciously wipes his mouth with the back of his hand.

They stand like this for a little, the awkwardness almost thick enough to see, before Percy casually leans back and laughs. "I guess I should be thanking you" he says "What you did back there was pretty freaking awesome, scary-I'll admit-but awesome. So, thank you." He says it so genuinely, making Annabeth blush harder.

"It was nothing, really" she says, "I just hate bullying, and especially hate manipulative people." He laughs again, giving Annabeth more butterflies.

"Let me take a quick shower, then we can properly talk."

He grabs some clothes and hops in, coming out a few minutes later with wet, uncombed hair. He plops down onto his bed and pats the spot next to him.

"We've never really had the opportunity to talk just one on one" he explains sheepishly as Annabeth move's over to sit next to him. He looks so cute when he's embarrassed. "I guess it's time we change that."

At first, talking with him was incredibly awkward. They never knew what to talk about and they were both holding information back. They were desperately trying to avoid all their awkward, random encounters, but to no-avail. It kept coming back to the pool or to the fight. As time went on, the words started flowing, we started trusting each other more. I told him about my family and he told me about his. How his mother and step-father live in Manhattan and how he misses them so much. I decide to leave out Luke when we're talking, but it's definitely for the better.

The pair kept on talking, about everything and nothing, not really paying attention to the topic, just enjoying each other's presence, and the sound of each other's voices. Percy puts his arm around Annabeth as he's talking, and she can't help but snuggle up to him. His warmth seeped through Annabeth, as she laid her head on his chest, listening to his heart beat.

Annabeth had stopped talking, and was just listening to Percy, until he faltered. He looks down at her with those mesmerizing sea-green eyes and she feels like she's about to melt into a puddle. She straightens up a little and Percy moves his arm from around her neck.

Annabeth is extremely disappointed until he grabs her hands in his. He stands up and leads Annabeth to a couch, facing the window. It was a beautiful, starry night. Wisps of clouds blotted out light here and there, but Annabeth was as happy as she could be, sitting here with the only guy she's ever truly loved.

He looks deep into Annabeth's eyes, emotions showing in his own and Annabeth knows that they feel the same way for each other. He leans forward and touches her forehead with his own, causing some of Annabeth's hair to fall into her face.

He reaches out and tucks it behind her ear, all the while smiling kindly. His hand is on her neck and his other arm on her waist. He pulls her in closer and starts talking again, only this time he brings up the pool subject. It was such a perfect moment that they couldn't help but look back at it and laugh.

Percy suddenly quiets down and stares deep into Annabeth's eyes. "This is for the pool" he whispers, before pulling Annabeth into her most amazing, love filled kiss ever. She felt like she was melting-but she didn't want it to end. She pressed deeper into the kiss and Percy pressed back. It was the most magical moment of her life, but she had to breathe so she pulled away first. They stared into each other's eyes once more and Annabeth saw the guilt flicker in Percy's eyes, this time he didn't pull away, but he closed his eyes and sighed.

"Rachel" he said, before Annabeth had time to ask the question. Of course it was about another girl, Annabeth was usually great with figuring out other's problems but when it involved romantic feelings, she was the wrong person to ask. "We only broke up a week ago, and I felt so awful whenever I felt these feelings for you. They were driving me crazy because I thought that I wanted you."

Annabeth drew in a sharp breath, thought, the word echoed around in her mind, like a bat, wanting to escape into the cold freshness of the night. She knew this wasn't going to end well but she forced herself to look in Percy's eyes as he finished what he was saying. His eyes were filled with so much love and warmth, but Annabeth knew those emotions weren't directed to her-she was about to look away when Percy started talking again. "Thought…but now I know that I want you."

And he kissed her again, this one bursting with emotion and she finally knew the true meaning of love. Their relationship was true love-not the fairy-tale bullshit- but the love that comes from a similar past and past trauma. A love that emanates from within the soul, reverberating until it comes out at full blast. A love that she wouldn't give up for the world. No way in hell.

I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter! Have a good day and read every Percy Jackson fanfic that you can! I'm still super excited so I don't really know what to say but I don't exactly know when I'm going to post again because this is my last chapter, so I'm going to write a bunch and then post when I'm back ahead of the game. Catch you on the flip-side! -Kylo :D

Edit: My Power literally went out less then 10 minutes after I posted this and it only just came back. Now I don't know if we're in Gatorade or Powerade and it's really messing up my chi. Just wanted to let you guys know.