A/N: Hey everyone! I am so sorry I haven't posted in ages, I have been really busy with school work :( Anyway, I know that this chapter isn't very good and is really short but I thought I should post something as it is the 2ND OF OCTOBER! I was really sad because my sister got the Mark of Athena but she won't let me read it until she has :( Does anyone else have it yet? Well i hope you like this chapter, i know it is not great but it was REALLY rushed :)

Percy POV:

A few days after 'the big announcement' the hunters came to stay at camp. Of course this was the perfect opportunity for us to tell Thalia about our engagement, well when I say us I mean Annabeth. We both decided that it was the best thing to do as she is a hunter, you know, sworn off boys and stuff so she probably won't approve of us getting married so young.

Well, I was on my way to the lava wall when I happened to walk past the Athena cabin. I didn't mean to stop and eve's drop but wouldn't you if you heard your name being said over and over again? So naturally I stayed to listen for a bit. There were a lot of 'raised voices' for a while but I don't think she was angry, more of the kind of 'are you sure you want to do this' type thing. I couldn't quite understand what they were saying because they were using 'hushed/loud' voices, you can't quite understand what they are saying because you weren't in the conversation to start with sort of thing. But I caught bits of it:

"Annabeth you are only twenty-two! What about university and your architecture business you wanted?" Obviously Thalia.

"It just feels right, Thals. I love him…" I smiled at this. "Even if he is a seaweed brain sometimes."

"Hey!" I said without thinking. There was shuffling inside but before they could open the door I was gone.

A few hours later everyone was at the campfire. I was sitting alone on a log closest to the fire when Thalia approached me. She sat down to my left and stared into the fire. We sat silently for a few minutes, it wasn't that uncomfortable silence when someone is afraid to talk but the kind when there is so much to say, you don't have to.

"Annabeth asked me to be her maid of honour." Thalia said simply.

"That's great!" I looked at her. Her head was down and her raven hair had been blown into her face. She looked up and stared at me straight in my eye as if she was analysing me. I had known Thalia a long time now and I knew something was up, but even if I asked she would probably be too proud to say anything.

"Thals, what's wrong."

"There is nothing wrong Percy."

"Look, I know there is, and I promise, in fact I swear on the River Styx that I will not tell anyone not even Annabeth what it is." There was a loud clap of thunder.

"I have been thinking about it for a long time now." I gestured for her to continue. "It's not that I don't love it but…"

"Thals, you haven't said what it is yet."

"I think I might quit the Hunt." My mouth hung open, I didn't really know what to say; I thought that she loved the Hunt and all of the moving around and hunting down monsters.

"When Annabeth asked me to be her bridesmaid I realised that I want that. I want to be able to have a wedding with all of my friends and family together. To be completely happy, just for once. Not to have any burden to carry on your shoulders and the weight of other people's life's to carry." I sat there speechless. Honestly I didn't know what to say so I just held out my arms and hugged her.

"I never really wanted to become a hunter. But I didn't want to be the one of the prophesy even more. So I joined the Hunters and was happy for a while, the war came and past as did the next one and people kept 'leaving' and getting older. And one day I thought that I didn't want to be the only one left." She cried into my shirt, and no I have now found out that my powers don't extend to tears. I rubbed her back soothingly and she wiped her eyes, sat up straight and said:

"Thanks Percy, but remember you promised to not tell anyone, I haven't made my mind up yet."

"Of course. I wouldn't want to get shot down by lightning now would I?" I said with a cheeky wink.

"I will see you tomorrow, bye!" she jogged off towards the Artemis cabin and left me to my thoughts. I thought about what I would do if I had had the choice between an immortal life of the weight of the world on my shoulders… I don't know now I think about it. At that age maybe I would have.

I walked back to my cabin thinking about what had just happened, but my mind drifted towards the thought of tomorrow. That was the day that myself and Annabeth would tell our parents (from both sides) about our engagement. To put it lightly I was scared. Telling your girlfriends parents that you are going to get married is tough enough, not to mention that they are Olympian Gods who could turn you into dust if you did something wrong, like marry their daughter! I opened my cabin door, slammed it shut and flopped onto my bed. I wasn't exactly tired, but I had to get up REALLY early tomorrow morning on Annabeth's orders so we could get Mrs O'Leary and go and see our parents. 'Well that will be interesting' I thought as I drifted into a deep sleep.

Well i hope you liked it, please review (i hate saying this because it is annoying) but it would actually make my day so please?

lots of love and i hope you all love the Mark of Athena! :)

Saltwater10 xx