Chapter 9

Percy´s POV

When I woke up I felt a warm figure cuddled up to my chest. I opened my eyes and looked down a little bit and had to grin. Annabeth was still soundly asleep with her half body draped over mine.

Images from yesterday filled my mind – our escape from Delphi, the kiss and how we fell asleep on a couch in a small cozy room in the spaceship.

I lovingly kissed the top of her head and gently lifted her body off mine so I could get up. Unfortunately she had one of her arms slightly wrapped around her neck and the other around my waist which made it pretty much impossible to move her without waking her at the same time.

So I had two options: Either wake her up or stay right where I was with my beautiful girlfriend. I didn´t even thought twice about it and just draped on of my arms protectively over her shoulder and decided to just enjoy the moment and watch her for a while.

This also gave me a little time to think about what would probably happen when we reach Olympia and my mouth immediately went dry. The king would totally kick my but for falling for his daughter and probably tell me to back the hell off.

Of course he will! She is a god damn princess and I´m just her guard!

I realized that those few hours on this spaceship would probably be the first and last time where we could be… well together. This hit me like meteor and I suddenly felt sick.

What have I done!

I knew that I couldn´t just give her up and I was pretty sure she couldn´t either… No I would not give her up without a fight! With that in mind I sat down next to my sleeping girlfriend and gently stroked her cheek and kissed her on top of her head. The response was a soft sigh in content from her and then she inched a bit closer to me.

Smiling I wrapped my arms around her waist and decided to stay with her for a while longer.

About two hours later Zoë came in the room panting "We have a problem!" but when she saw us she covered her eyes and yelled "Aw common did I really have to see that?"

Annabeth gave me a confused look because she couldn´t really understand the huntress´ distress. We were actually just lying on the couch and making out… and yes we had our clothes on!

I shook my head "Oh grow up Zoë!"

The huntress apparently just realized that we were fully clothed and removed her hands from her eyes and her expression went back to the hurried one that she came in with and said "An Olympian battleship just contacted us. They think we are a small strike force from Minos and messaged me that we better explain before they blow this ship to bits."

I face palmed myself. How on earth had I forgot about that? Of course they would think we would be enemies if we were in one of their ships.

Fast as lightning I untangled myself from Annabeth, who yelped when she almost fell on the floor and then I ran coursing loudly into the control room. I jumped into the pilot seat and pressed the button to contact the battleship that was flying right next to us with half of their weapons aiming right at us.

Immediately a loud voice could be heard "This is your last warning! Identify yourselves and state your business here or we are forced to start counter measures!"

"Hello? Can you hear me? This is Percy Jacksons speaking, deputy commander of the royal guard!"

The captain of the ship was so shocked at first that he yelped "What the hell? What? I- I mean alright Commander! Hang on I call the ground control."

Then the connection got canceled and I exhaled in delight. Then I felt a pair of small hands roam over my shoulder and a warm breath on my cheek "So… I guess we won´t get blown up then?"

I grinned and turned my seat around while grabbing her waist and lifting her on my lap and kissing her cheek "At least not today."

King Frederick sat on a large brown chair and eyed Annabeth and me strangely and I felt a tad bit uncomfortable under his gaze. After we explained our whole "trip" to the king and some of his advisors, where I got praised into heaven for bringing the princess back, we went to this small room where he just starred at us. Zoë got currently questioned from Jason and Clarisse in another room.

Annabeth who sat next to me didn´t seem to be too comfortable either and bit her lip nervously. Finally the king sighed "Alright what´s up with the two of you? You have been acting strange since your arrival."

I managed to maintain my emotionless face but then I saw Annabeth smiling a bit and then she spilled the beans "We kinda got together now."

Alright I´m dead! I´m so fucking screwed!

I thought he would kill me or something but then he just grinned "Well at least the journey wasn´t for nothing…"

Alright now I was really confused. Why is he not yelling at me?

Annabeth gave him one of her famous don´t-mess-with-me look and the King began to laugh "Just kidding I´m glad you finally got together, was about time if you ask me…"

"DAD!"

The king threw his hands up in defense and chuckled quietly.

I gave Annabeth a questioning look and she just patted my arm and then I realized something and I whispered a bit angry in her ear "You already talked to him didn´t you?"

"Mhm."

On the one part I was really happy that the king approved of our new relationship but on the other I was a bit pissed that she closed your mouth about this for so long.

Now Frederick clapped his hands "Alright now. I guess you two are pretty tired. Your rooms are already prepared."

Annabeth had a dreamy look on her face at the thought of a warm bed and I suddenly had some problems to focus on anything besides thinking of some earned sleep.

Alright, alright! It´s been a while since I updated last time. I actually have no idea why it took so long I guess I was a bit lazy. Sorry about that.

I got so many pm´s about when the next chapter is going to come out while I was away, it was kind of intimidating.

To answer around 70% of those questions: No I haven´t forgotten about the story and yes I will update it. I hope more frequently than with this chapter though :D

Anyway this chapter is a bit shorter partly because I found it really hard to write it and I just wanted to get it over with.

-Inverted Logic