Chapter song
My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark , Fall Out Boy
Percy's POV
It was Friday, the last day of school for the week. I was happy about it, because I would get to spend some quality time with Annabeth. I could feel my Wise Girl curled up next to me asleep, her head was on my shoulder. I replayed the events in my mind as to how I ended up in her bed.
I woke to the sound of terrified screams, I knew it wasn't me but I also knew those screams. I was up, Riptide in my hand still in pen form, and out my bedroom door. The screams had awoken my mum, she was standing in her bedroom doorway when I got out of my room. She looked at me and just nodded, then trudged back to bed. I was out the door and bounded up the flight of stairs that separated us. I reached her door, I had grabbed my key as I was running out of my apartment. I unlocked the door walked inside and closed it re-locking it. I look up to see Malcolm, Annabeths older half brother who lived with her, he saw me and a thankful look appeared on his face, he nodded to me in acknowledgement then headed back to his room. I take three steps and I'm at her door, I quietly ease it open. I see her, she's tangled up in her blankets still asleep but screaming and thrashing around. I quickly make it to her side, I grab a hold of her arms shaking her slightly saying " it's just a dream, I'm hear now, your safe, I'm safe, and we're both alive." She wakes up, I'm instantly enveloped in a hug and can feel her sobbing on me. I lift up the blankets and crawl in next to her still enveloped in her hug. We stay like that until she calmed down enough to explain what happen. After listening to her I tell her that we're safe and alive and that I love her. She's fallen asleep, I gently kiss her forehead then fall asleep next to her.
The memory returns to me, I'm glad I was able to calm her down this was one of the worse ones yet. I feel Annabeth start to stir beside me, I can't help myself I lean over and kiss her nose. She wakes up instantly a huge smile on her face. She cuddles into my shoulder and murmurs something barely audible. We stay like that for a minute then her alarm goes off. The loud blaring of Immortals, by Fall Out Boy hits us. She reaches over to turn off the alarm and in doing so falls of the bed. I look down at her the alarm still blaring and she's laughing, her training from camp made her react quickly so she didn't hurt herself. I start to laugh with her. She turns off the alarm, I hop up off the bed and help her up. She's still laughing when I leave the room to let her get ready, I wait leaning against the door. This week had been awesome, the gang had adjusted to have Annabeth around really well. She'd made really good friends with the girls in the group, and was good friend with the boys two. We were going to a party tonight, most of our grade was going it was a back to school party. Hopefully it turned out better than the last mortal party we attended, that was back when we were fourteen and were helping Grover bring the Di Angelo's to camp. In the midst of my reminiscence the surface I was leaning on falls out from behind me, I fall to my back and am left looking up at Annabeth. "We should've stayed in bed, much less falling," I say and we crack up laughing. I jump up and look Annabeth over, I nearly fall over again. She's wearing a grey v-neck, blue washed out denim shorts, with her grey converses. Her hair is braided down her back in one braid. She walks past me I stumble inside her room, and get dress into the spare clothes I keep here. I'm wearing a blue v-neck and a pair of jeans. I walk out, and join Annabeth together we walk downstairs for breakfast. After breakfast we decide to walk to school, it was a nice day better not to waste it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Annabeths POV
First lesson today was sport, and our sport teacher Mr Lohe set a big bag of pool noodles cut in half in front of the class. "Today I will elect two team captains, these captains are to come up with a game that can be played with the pool noodles and then shall elect team members, explain the game and the you shall play. Any Problems? No, the captains are Annabeth, and Percy." Mr Lohe explains. I look at Percy, we both grin evilly and nod. We were going to play capture the flag, Camp Half Blood style. We begin electing team members, I manage to get Travis, James, Alex, and a few other kids from classes that I'm in. I strategically pick the rest. After picking Percy and I begin explaining. When we say that we plan to play Capture the flag, there's a lot of groaning but when we explain out version of the game the class look a lot more enthusiastic. Connor whose on Percy's team face mirrors Travis's, at camp they never get to verse each other because there brothers this game was going to be very interesting. I take my team to the sunnier end of the playing ground, we set up the flag and I go through a battle plan with them. Travis has teamed with the Athenian campers enough to trust in my plan, James and Alex trust me and have figured that my plan would more than likely work. I have three defenders set a equidistant way around the flag, two meters away from it I set seven players up as a first line of defence staggered to make it look like lots of easy gaps which were in fact covered. The rest I split into a group of two, one group contained Travis who would be leading the distraction the rest which consisted of James, Alex, a boy named Dylan who was a really good runner from what I observed earlier in the week, and myself. I wondered if Percy would figure out my plan, I hoped not. Then the games begun. Normally I would have my cap on and my dagger, but this was school not camp. I waited for the first attackers to come the just reach our line of defence when I see Travis lead his group of to the left of the field. I count to ten as I take down a few attacker and the I start to run my group follow. I can still see Percy on his side of the field, I run towards him with my group. We get within five meters his fighting one of the distractions. I tell the others to run and get the flag then defend Dylan who was the runner. I weave and doge my way to Percy to take him on in battle. As I expected the distraction was sent to jail because of him. I take him on in battle.
We had spared a few time but never really versed each other. I jab, he blocks, he parries, I deflect. We continue neither able to land a decent blow. I know how he fights, I've fought by him enough and he know that I know his way of fighting. I see a blonde streak past with a blue flag, two defenders around him but I'm more concerned with Percy. I hear the whistle blow but Percy and I continue our fight. He tries to feint to the left of me, which is just the opening I was looking for. I get inside his guard and put my pool noodle to his throat. His pool noodle comes up to the back of my neck. All around us is awed silence. Percy looks around at our quiet onlooking class. I take the chance to judo flip him. I end up with his pool noodle in my left hand, my own in my right hand, my foot pinning him to the ground. All around us clapping starts, I look up and every one is looking at us with a renewed respect and clapping us on. I get of Percy and help him up, he gives me a hug and whispers in my ear "when are you going to stop judo flipping me." I laugh and so does he we break apart and look at Mr Lohe he has a look of absolute shock on his face as if he had never seen two better fighters, he is moving his mouth like a fish unable to say any thing. Ten the bell rings.