"Percy?" Annabeth repeated, only a little louder than before.

I nudged her knee with my nose.

"Can-can you understand me?"

I tilted my head slightly to the side and grunted, not knowing what else to do, seeing that I couldn't talk.

"Is that a yes?"

I nudged her again, knowing she would know that I was saying yes.

"Oh my gods." She whispered. "What happened to you?"

I whined, wanting to say, 'I was hoping you would know.'

"Oh gods." She said. "This is not good."

My green eyes looked up at her gray ones, concerned. I wanted to ask her if she was alright. She looked very pale and so helpless.

She took a deep breath and said, "Come on, we need to tell Chiron. Now."

I grunted in agreement and followed her out the door.

Pretty much everyone was at the campfire, so we didn't have to deal with unfortunate, oh-my-gods-Percy-Jackson-turned-into-a-wolf-let's-all-freak-out sort of encounters. Much to our dismay, Chiron was at the Amphitheater, too.

When we were a couple yards away from where everyone was, she turned to me and said, "Stay here. Don't want to attract more attention than necessary. Will you be okay for a few minutes?"

Standing on all fours, I came up to a little lower than her shoulders, so I nudged her back in the direction of the campfire.

"Okay, okay. Jeez. I'll be back in a minute. Don't do anything stupid." She said pointedly.

I laughed and saw her roll her eyes. Then she turned, and ran towards the campfire.

When she was out of my sight, I sighed. That girl is going to be the death of me.

The thought was kind of Ironic, considering Hecate came to me because of Annabeth. Not that I blamed her at all. Even if she doesn't like me the same way I liked her, Annabeth would never do anything to get me hurt and I would give everything to make sure she was safe.

I heard Chiron and Annabeth approaching and strained to hear Chiron.

"What is it, child? You look very upset. Wh—" He stopped mid-sentence when he saw a wolf, instead of the 5'12, green eyed, black haired boy he knows me as.

"Oh, my." He muttered. "How...?"

"I don't know. I found him like this in his cabin. There was a bright light and then he screamed. I got there as fast as I could, but by the time I got there the light was gone, and Percy was…well, look." Annabeth tried to explain as best as she could through her hysteria. She was trying to hide it, but I could tell she was freaking out.

"I see. We should get him to the Big House before anyone sees. Come along, you two."

When we got there, Chiron told us to sit, so Annabeth sat on a chair and I sat on the ground next to her.

After much pondering, Chiron decided to IM Olympus to see if they knew anything. Annabeth was sitting with her head in her hands, worried, while I silently watched her, wanting to tell her everything, despite her best friend being a wolf, was going to be fine. We would find a way to fix this.

I noticed she looked really upset so I tried to ask her if she was okay. It sounded like a whine, though. She lifted her head to look at me.

I titled my head to the side and grunted, repeating the question.

"I don't know what you're saying." she whispered miserably, massaging one of her temples with her hand.

I rested my large head on her lap and sighed. With her freaking out this much, she wouldn't be able to figure out anything I was trying to say to her.

Chiron came back in then. "I talked to Athena and—"

"My mom? What does she have to do with this?" Annabeth questioned.

"She said that she believes it actually has to do with…you, my dear."

"Me?" She asked, shocked.

"Yes, she said she believes that Hecate has recovered and—"

He stopped talking when she gasped loudly. She didn't know that Hecate was involved in this yet. She looked absolutely terrified, and I wanted nothing more than to tell her that she was going to be okay, that Hecate wouldn't touch her. I would protect her with my last breath.

"What about her?" She finally said, motioning for him to continue.

"Well, she said that you and Hecate weren't exactly on good terms," She grimaced "And that she wanted revenge, and that maybe, maybe she went to Percy looking to make you pay, but that he may have refused…." He trailed off and looked at me.

I lifted my head off Annabeth's lap and was flailing around vigorously, trying to letting them know what happened.

Annabeth gasped again, then looked down. I instantly felt horrible that I said-or tried to say, anyway- anything, because by the look on her face, she felt just as horrible as I did.

"Annabeth, what happened?"

She hesitated for a moment, biting her lip, but told Chiron the whole story about how Hecate had visited her and how she had cursed her.

She hadn't looked at me during her entire explanation, but when she finally did, I saw dread. She was afraid that I would blame her, even hate her, which, of course, was impossible. I already knew what happened and wanted to reassure her, so I put all the emotion I was feeling in my eyes.

"I'm so sorry." She whispered to me. "This is all my fault." A tear made its way down Annabeth's cheek and she bit her lip again. It was painful to see her so upset.

I whined softly then went in front of her and put my head between her shoulder and head. She was smart. She would know that I was hugging her, that there was no reason to forgive her because I was never mad at her; never blamed her. In fact, I though what she did was pretty amazing and I was proud of my best friend.

She wrapped her arms around my large neck and cried more.

I hated seeing her like this. Annabeth was one of the strongest people I knew, and seeing her so scared and vulnerable was hard to watch. My heart twisted in the worst way possible by witnessing this scene. I wanted to say something to comfort her so bad. This wasn't her fault, but I can tell she felt terrible, anyway.

When she pulled away to wipe some of the tears, I licked her face. Really, I wanted to kiss her, but, that didn't work out too well… I just had to do something that would comfort her and let her know to stop worrying; she wasn't going to lose me. And I knew she would understand this gesture crystal clear.

"Eww!"

She laughed and wiped her face.

I laughed and smiled as best as I could with my wolf mouth.

"You better be glad you're cute, or you'd be dead."

I smiled again, only ten times wider, because that single line gave me hope beyond belief, that Annabeth might actually feel the same way about me as I feel about her.

The only problem is, I don't know if she meant I was cute in person, or as a wolf. I really hope she meant as my actual self and not as a fury beast.

I had completely forgotten Chiron was in the room with us until he cleared his throat.

We both looked over at him, and for the first time today, I was a little grateful that my face was fury, because you couldn't see me blush, but you could definitely see Annabeth's blush. She looked adorable.

"Uh- so, what are we suppose to do, Chiron? I mean, to get Percy back to…Percy?"

"I'm afraid I really don't know, child. Did Hecate say anything to you before she did this to you, Percy?"

They both turned to me in question.

I wracked my brain trying to remember what she had said.

'The only way out of this…form is to trust your life with one person. The person most dear to you has the answer'

That was what she had said!

I still had no idea what she meant, but I knew that one person was Annabeth. But how do I tell them this?

I decided to at least let them know that she had given me a clue, so I nodded my head wildly up and down.

Annabeth piped up and said, "What did she say, Perce?"

I barked what Hecate had told me, but then I realized my effort was futile. I couldn't even understand what I was saying, and no matter how smart Annabeth was, she can't understand wolf.

Annabeth tilted her head to the side.

"Okay, you can't say what she said, but maybe you can…write it down?" She asked.

I shrugged, telling her that I would give it a try, even though I obviously couldn't write, but maybe I could try to write with the pen in my mouth.

She looked at Chiron and he got the message and went to get some paper and a pen.

It took a while but eventually I had written out 'U HAVE ANSWR'

Annabeth rolled her eyes at my spelling but then what I had actually written down seemed to sink in and she looked at me while I looked right back into her eyes.

I nudged her knee letting her know, even thought she probably already knew that I wasn't talking about Chiron, that I was talking about her.

"What? How do you know? What did she say exactly?" She whispered to me.

I wrote down, a little faster than last time, 'PERSON MOST DEAR 2 ME'

Also, my handwriting- mouth writing -whatever, was getting more eligible.

She just started at the paper, then, looked up at me, so I nudged her knee yet again.

"Percy, that could be anyone: Your mom, Gover, your-" She started but I cut her off by barking quite loud and more forceful than I meant to, but I had to let her know that she was most dear to me.

She jumped at the loudness of my bark and I tried to make an embarrassed smile, and I think she got the hint at what I was trying to do, then turned serious again and looked right into her eyes, nudged her knee, looked up at her again, and then kissed-well licked- her hand that she had laying in her lap.

She looked down at her hand, then back up at me for the longest time.

She whispered, "It can't be me."

She really had no idea how much I care about her.

I had no idea what else to do to make her see that it was her, not with out words anyway, but I had one more idea.

I really did not want to tell her like this, on paper, as a wolf, but I was all out of other ideas.

I grabbed the pen in my mouth again and wrote down my message very carefully.

It took a little while, because I wanted to make sure she got the message loud and clear, no mistaking what I wrote down. Plus, it took me a a little bit of extra time to build up the courage.

She was looking at me curiously while I wrote. I had positioned my body so that she couldn't see what I was writing until I wanted her to see.

Finally I dropped the pen and stepped away, exposing the words that I had wanted so badly to say to her, in person, since the war.

She gasped quietly and stared at the paper in shock, because the words she was reading were 'I LOVE YOU'.

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