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Chapter 2 : Casualties of Love
Annabeth's POV
I walked through the strawberry fields, thinking of Luke who had gotten really injured by Percy's poisoned knife. I had a big secret inside me I would hide forever if it was necessary. I loved Luke like nobody else would. I didn't knew why this had happened to me. Maybe it was his muscular chest and arms. Maybe his sweet smile, his beautiful blue eyes, and his perfect blond hair. Or maybe I liked his scar. But then I realized it was the way he treated me. He was always sweet and gentle. I was about to fell asleep and start dreaming of him when Silena startled me. " Hi", she said. "Hi". She sat down besides me and sighed. "Annabeth, I have to tell you something." " Luke just said to me that he loved me, and I guessed he was thinking I was you." I gasped. She stared waiting for a response." Oh", I said. " So what up with that?" I said trying to look away so she wouldn't see the tear running down my cheek. " Annabeth, as much as you try to fool me, you just can't." " I know you love Luke." I stared blankly into her eyes. " How... how,how do you know that?!?!" I asked in amazement. " Well first of all the way you look at him, like you want to be always with him, and secondly, as hard as you tried to hide it from me I will always know it because I am a daughter of Aphrodite". I tried to make all the info fit through my head. I felt numb, and I had this feeling that made me cry. Silena tried to comfort me remembering me that she was already with Charlie, and that I had already broke up with that idiot of Percy. But still I was mad, pretty mad. Then, I realized I was mad at myself for breaking Luke's heart into million pieces all this time. I got up and started running toward the nursery. When I got to the top of the hill I noticed something was wrong. I looked back and Silena was no longer there. I looked to the Big House which was now empty, the volleyball pit's net was all shredded, and worst of all the nursery was on fire.
When I got down there, the place started to crumble apart and I started to scream in desesperation. I tried the front door but it all went down. Then I tried the back door and luckily I got inside. I gasped as I watched how Luke's body on the floor. I grabbed him and struggled to get him out. Just then a really muscular,African-American teenager about seventeen years old, helped me get Luke out. He had a black cloak over his face but I could see his skin color. He putted aside his cloak and I held my breath as waves of relief hitted me. It was Charlie. "WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING, ANNABETH?!?!?!" he asked me with a worried face. "I couldn't just let him there", I said. "Please could you explain me what in the world is happening?" I asked. "Well the thing is, Annabeth,that Kronos, the Lord of Time, and the Titan King,has escaped Tartarus. He stopped time and possessed Mr D.'s body. By doing that he's got a lot of power. He totally froze the entire camp, and made every single living organism to age 20 years. Don't worry it didn't affect the humans,that is the only thing that Kronos couldn't defeat. I don't know how but we managed to trespass his spell of time. We need to recover Silena. I know he has her. She's still out there." I tried to accomodate everything perfectly in my mind, but hell yeah this was a lot of info. We settled in a cave nearby the beach. " What about Luke?" I asked. "He will wake up,eventually", he replied. Just then Luke's eyes began to open and I almost die when I saw the expression on his face. He was checking me out!!!! Charlie filled him with everything that had happened and Luke began to worry. I told him about Silena, carefully enough not to let Charlie hear her name. Charlie then left the cave. I guess he kinda filled the mood. Luke blushed, as well as I did, and right there he began to pull my face to his. I started to feel his breath. His lips were inches away from mine. Right then Charlie entered the cave again for something he had forgotten. They were some tools in a rock, and some duct tape in the floor. He apologized, and stormed out of the room. Luke and I decided it was not the right time or the right place neither. We just made a fire and went to sleep. Since we needed to be warm because Kronos spell causes weather to be cold, I curled up in his arms. "I love you", he mumbled in my ear. "I love you too", I said, "but I know this will be complicated." As soon as he said we fell asleep...
