I stared into his deep green eyes, and we both fell silent, the tension in the air was enough to kill me.
"I...I don't know how to say this."
"Are you..." the shear thought of it scared the Hades out of me, "Are you breaking up with me?" I asked him.
"No, no, oh gods, no! You should know that that will never, ever happen, I promise."
"Then what? What's going to break my heart this time?" I asked while laying back and leaning on Percy.
"I got a little message from your mom today."
"WHAT?!" I asked, I had come to learn that messages from the gods weren't good.
"She said that you can't continue to date me-"
"So?! Who cares what she thinks, Percy? We belong together, I am never leaving you."
"She said that you couldn't keep going out with me, or ... Wait, Annabeth, I need to tell you something, although you probably know it. You are my everything, you know that right?"
"Well I do now, and you're mine too!"
"You are THE one, Annabeth. Someday, I want to like marry you and all that junk, but because of our parents we may never get to..."
"What is it Seaweed Brain?"
"They said...they said that one of us has to die for the other person. You're mom said she prefers me."
Normally, I would have laughed at that, but this was different, we were gonna...die?
"I'll die...for you." I volunteered, but by now tears were streaming down my face as Percy held me close, and wiped them away.
"No, I'm going to die. But who ever said we had to listen to them?"
I whipped my head around, and turned around so I was facing Percy, and instantly my eyes were locked with his.
"So what are we going to do?" I asked.
"We're going to go and kick the gods butts until they refuse to kill us."
"Hmm...Making immortal enemies, possibly dying sooner then we need to...sounds fun!" Percy gave me a look that pretty much meant, that should've been my line, but I just ignored him.
"Soo, what are we supposed to do?" I asked again, my heart ready to beat right out of my chest, as I leaned into Percy again.
" We could just tell them politely that we want to live?" He said it so innocently, like he thought it was totally normal, you just had to laugh!
"And this is just the beginning." I muttered under my breath, but I knew that Seaweed Brain could totally understand what I said.
"Huh?" He asked, even though he'd heard me fine.
"Do you want to be with me? I mean truly be with me? Forever?"
"Yes, there's not a second of hesitation for me, Annabeth, I could never picture the rest of my life without you being a part of it." That was so sweet I gave him a hug for it.
"I know, I picture it too, all of it. Me, and you, forever. But, do you know how many times stuff like this is going to happen?"
"Well, I think only once, since, you know, we're going to DIE!"
"I mean threats and stuff, you know that. I mean how many times are we going to avoid people or something. My the time we're 20 we'll be living in a hideaway in the middle of nowhere."
"I would do it, just to be with you, I would do anything."
" Thanks, Percy, but compliments aren't going to fix this, you know that."
"I know, we'll have to go to Olympus to talk to our parents first."
He dragged me up to the Empire State Building in no time. Every second I could feel my pulse quickening until it reached lightening speed, and cold sweat was dripping from my forehead, more coming down every second.
"Annabeth?" Percy said, getting my attention, "You ready?" he asked.
"I don't think I'll ever be, not facing the gods."
"Then you can just stand there and look pretty, I don't think it'll be too hard for you, and I'll talk, deal?"
"Deal!" I was blushing as my cheeks turned into bright red cherries.
We went into the elevator, 600th floor, and took the ride up to . When I got there all I could think of was how amazing I could make this place if I was the architect. That would be awesome! But my thoughts were interrupted by Seaweed Brain.
"Here we go!" He chanted, grabbing my hand.
"Here we go." I replied, my voice cracking because I was so nervous.
Before I knew it I was standing in front of the council, while Percy screamed at this father.
" How could you do this? Do you even care about me? Obviously not! But guess what? You can't kill us, I've got a prophecy to live up to."
"But the girl doesn't!"
"The girl has a name, and it's Annabeth, and she's incredible, you can't kill her either, she's probably the one who'll save the world, or at least figure out how to! So you loose, we win, that's how it goes. You are not breaking us up, ever. So why don't you just go plan a war or something, anything better then ruin peoples lives!" He was brave, as he took my hand again, and we both stormed off.
"Just the beginning!" he exclaimed.
I leaned in and gave him a sweet, short kiss, and I decided not to think of all that just yet, just be happy in Percy's arms.