A/N: So, this is not going to be a really upbeat one, but it'll be quite fluffy and Percabeth. Still sad, though. I think you'll enjoy this one! Also, I know that this is my second time updating in one day. I just wanted to get this sad one out of the way. There are only, like, two and half (Don't ask XD) The regular: Characters/Places belong to Rick Riordan, and song belongs to Miss Swift of AwesomeLandia.
I see your face in my mind as I drive away
'Cause none of thought it was gonna end that way.
Annabeth was walking away from the Big House, where she had been discussing Percy's strange disappearance with Rachel, Chiron, and a few other campers. Tears prickled her eyelids as she closed them and walked the familiar path back to the Athena cabin. She heard the whispers from the Aphrodite girls as she passed their cabin. The only good person in there was Silena, and she was gone…just like Percy.
People are people and sometimes we change our minds.
But it's killing me to see you go after all this time.
They had just started dating, but they had been friends since they were twelve. And now, now of all times! they had to be separated, with Percy gone without a trace. Annabeth's heart always hurt from the pain of losing her boyfriend.
Mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm.
Mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm.
She lay down in her bed, enveloping herself in the sheets. She wouldn't let anybody see, no one, but tears leaked from her eyes and down her cheeks, landing in her hair.
Music starts playing like the end of a sad movie
It's the kind of ending you don't really wanna see.
All the sad songs Annabeth had ever heard were playing in her mind. If this was a movie, like she wanted to believe it was, Percy would come back from some amazing adventure and give her a big hug.
'Cause it's tragedy and it'll only bring you down.
Now I don't know what to be without you around.
Annabeth was allowed to take days off of activities when she didn't feel up to it. She was often spotted pacing around the Poseidon cabin, Cabin Three, in a daze as if waiting for Percy to magical appear and pull her into a kiss. Some people laughed as they passed, and some shot her sympathetic glances. Poor Annabeth was oblivious to all, with her eyes closed and earbuds in. "Come back…be here. Come back…be here!"
And we know it's never simple, never easy.
Never a clean break, no one here to save me.
You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand…
Wouldn't everything be so much better if Percy were here, or if Annabeth knew where he went? Wouldn't it be lovely if she was okay? But it wasn't. Percy was a huge part of her life, and with him gone she barely knew herself anymore. "I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still tryna find it.…"
And I can't breathe, without you, but I have to
Breathe, without you, but I have to.
The tears were started to fill her open mouth in nostrils. She would often wake and have to scream into her pillow, which caused shortness of breath. Annabeth was her own person, but Percy was part of that person. Part of her. It was like half of her heart had been ripped out and thrown away, all the way across the country maybe. Wherever her dear, dear Perseus Jackson was. Persassy Jackson. Probably not so sassy now without Annafab Chase.
Never wanted this, never wanted to see you hurt.
Every little bump in the road I've tried to swerve.
She could only imagine his face as he realized his girlfriend wasn't with him. The thought caused her almost as much pain as her own Percy-less life.
But people are people and sometimes it doesn't work out,
Nothing we say is gonna save us from the fall-out…
"It'll be alright, we'll find him," was something Annabeth heard on a daily basis. Saying they were sorry for her, and that they wished Percy was here too wasn't going to help her. It just wasn't. It's not the way it works.
And we know it's never simple, never easy.
Never a clean break no one here to save me.
You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand…
Why did he have to go? Why? Why did this essential person have to leave poor Annabeth alone?
And I can't breathe, without you, but I have to
Breathe, without you, but I have to.
"He'll come back. I'm sure of it." When Nico had visited and told her this, Annabeth's spirits only lifted slightly. That means he was still alive, at least. She took a few breaths, having to remind herself to breathe. In, out. In, out. In, out.
It's two a.m., feeling like I just lost a friend.
I hope you know it's not easy, easy for em.
At two a.m., a distraught Annabeth Chase sat in the Big House, mumbling about something and clutching a cup of hot cocoa. Tears stained her cheeks and more came down, and Chiron was sitting next to her to comfort her. In the corner, Mr. D sat moodily, but didn't say anything. And when he did, he said Percy's name right.
It's two a.m., feeling like I just lost a friend.
Hope you know this ain't easy, easy for me.
"We were best friends…but then we were more than friends…and it's gone!" The cup went crashing to the floor, scalding hot drink covering everyone's feet, hooves, ankles, and horse legs. Thick porcelain shards were everywhere, and miniscule dust particles were on their feet and hooves. No one had the heart to clean it up, or to scold Annabeth for letting her hands slip.
And we know it's never simple, never easy.
Never a clean break no one here to save me, oh.
"These things aren't ever easy," Chiron said, placing on arm around Annabeth as a side-hug. She just nodded, wiping her eyes and cheeks dry.
And I can't breathe, without you, but I have to
Breathe, without you, but I have to
Breathe, without you, but I have to.
Her Seaweed Brain…she missed him a lot. Like, a lot. Maybe one day he'd come back.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, yeah I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
From up on Olympus, Hera watched everything Annabeth did in her sadness and sorrow. She found out that Annabeth's memory was too great. Hera frowned upon the two, but this time with pity, not hate. "I'm sorry," she whispered. "This will work out in the long run…I promise."
For the first time, Annabeth cried over a boy. For the first time, Hera felt regret for doing something evil to a demigod. For the first time, Zeus acted loving to his wife to rid her of this odd feeling. For the first time, Mr. D wasn't horrible to every camper, as he was struck by the fact that they did in fact feel emotions. For the first time, a Hunter (Thalia, to be exact) visited camp to see a friend. For the first time, a camper was aloud to stay in another's cabin, as Annabeth got into the habit of falling asleep in Percy's bed. Lots of first times were created until Percy was found, and Heroes of Olympus began. And it was all for Annabeth, and for Percabeth's love torn apart by Hera, the goddess who was feeling regret for her actions.