Due to insomnia, I am writing the third chapter when I would LOVE to be sleeping but can't. Therefore, the story comes forth. Oh and for the people who didn't read a Twist in Time before reading this, shut up about Thalia. She isn't a hunter and Nico is a year older in my story. If you had read the other story you would have known that.
Disclaimer- Yo hacer no propio. He vivio en una caja los ultimos diez anos, huelo mal? (You see? Evil deeds done. Go you the funder of my Spanish knowledge!)
Annabeth's POV
The elevator must have know that this was my final hour. Because the light bulb had been changed to a dark blue one, casting a suffocating dread over the people in the metal box, and played one of the worst songs of all time considering the reason I was on the elevator in the first place. It repeated the choirs over and over, "Lets talk about sex baby, lets talk about you and me!"
"The elevator is mocking me." I said glaring at the speaker that was admitting the horrid choice of a song. Thalia looked at me worried then glanced at the speaker.
"Annabeth you have a mental deformity if you think an elevator can mock you." I faced her, she was giving me the look teachers would give me if I had just said homework was pointless.
"I don't think, I know. Are you hearing this song!? Apollo must be finding great amusement in my pain." I glared at the speaker mumbling a curse. Percy gripped my hand reminding me he was standing there. He took a deep breath and held me by my shoulders, looking into my eyes every seriously.
"Annabeth if I die promise not to name the baby Athena….especially if it's a guy. And those magazines under my bed are Nico's. He asked me to hide them for him so Thalia wouldn't-"
"SAY WHAT ABOUT MAGAZINES!?" Thalia screamed turning to a now cowering son of Hades.
"Oops…."
"I REPEAT, SAY WHAT ABOUT MAGAZINES!?" Nico stumbled over his tongue but managed to get out, "!" Thalia stumbled back confused while Percy hid behind my hair, parting it and looking over my shoulder.
"What!?" Nico took a deep breath and stood up, straitening the wrinkles out in his shirt.
"Yes those are my Glamour Girl mags under Percy's bed." Thalia's jaw must have hit the floor. Ding! Gold elevator doors slid open to reveal the 600th floor, being re-built by mwa. Percy whimpered. As we walked to the temple my mother would most likely be in Thalia was franticly asking Nico questions as to why he read girls magazines. I tried to ignore them. My only focus was on keeping my boyfriend alive. If my mother killed him then I would have to deal with this whole baby thing all by myself and I had no intention of doing that. On the plus side, she would be guilty forever and probably buy me crap all the time to make up for it. The tip of my shoe bumped the bottom step of the temple drawing me from my thoughts and reminding me I was still walking. I gripped Percy's hand and pulled him up the steps with Nico and Thalia following very slowly.
The sight in the temple was a bit more awkward than what I had to do. Athena and Poseidon were playing checkers on a stack of books, considering that they were in a library. Now I know what your thinking, checkers? I love checkers, can I play? Don't think that. Throw that thought far far from your head. Because this was the godly version of checkers. And Athena and Poseidon were playing it! It consisted of holographic figures fighting each other, my mothers people were colored grey and Poseidon's green, some grey archers were hiding on a book shelf shooting Poseidon's swordsmen while some of the green sea men were attacking my mothers swordsmen. See? Has nothing to do with checkers at all, they just like the sound of it. And their favorite part of "checkers"? They get to scream at each other. Hence forth the reason Athena and Poseidon were playing it.
"Get some Athena, my right flank just kicked your right flanks as-"
"No way, do you not see that I have more people alive!?"
"Watch it Book Worm!"
"Book Worm!? Who you calling Book Worm Fish Face!?"
"HA! My archers just obliterated your left flank and pike men! What you gonna do about that Athena! Yeah that's what I-HEY!"
"HA! YOU NEVER SAW THAT TRAP COMING DID YOU!" Was their polite conversation as we entered the scene. The four of stood in a line waiting for them to notice us, which my mother did after Poseidon yelled, "SCUM BAG CHEATER!" and she turned to leave before she did something brutal.
"Annabeth, what are you doing here sweetheart? It's your day off." She said in her sweet mother voice, very different from the voice she was using on Poseidon, who was standing beside Athena now, just a minute ago. I glanced at Percy for reassurance, he was looking at my mother with his chin tilted up only quivering at bit.
"Mom….I…I'm…..I need to talk to you. Both of you actually," I smiled weekly at the Sea god, better to kill two birds with one stone as opposed to just one I suppose, "Percy and I both need to talk to you. So, ah, if you would sit down please." Athena and Poseidon shared a glance, well a glare really, then took the seats they were just sitting in. The rest of us found a stack of books and sat on those, I was forced to sit on Percy's lap. My mother looked like a red skittle….mmmm, skittles….I need to get me some of those…I think there's a vending machine by Apollo's-FOUCUS ANNABETH! Thalia prodded my side, her form of encouragement. I took a deep breath.
"Mom I'm pregnant." Athena looked at me funny for a bit then laughed. Poseidon was looking at her worried, also laughing but doing so nervously where as my mother was in complete hysterics, slapping her thigh and some what rolling on the ground. My first reaction was to laugh with her, as if it was a cruel joke of some sorts, but what was happening was my eyes were burning, threatening me with tears. Percy rested his forehead in the curve of my back, sighing.
"She thinks your joking. Great." Percy mumbled.
"Annabeth dear, I must say that is funny but do not make jokes like that. Do you have any idea how bad I would look if my most cherished daughter got pregnant with a son of Poseidon?"
"Awesome." Poseidon put in winking at me. Oh. He got it. He knew I was pregnant but my mother hadn't caught on? The goddess of wisdom slower than the god of the sea? Oh the irony.
"No I would not look awesome barnacle beard. I would-"
"Mom I'm not joking. I really am pregnant. Two weeks, three days, and six hours pregnant. I have this odd thing with counting now that I'm pregnant…I even counted the specks of dirt on my shoes, about 2,345.6 I was very bored. And that reminds me," I looked down at my worn converses, "I need to wash my shoes." Nico squeaked just as Percy gasped and flinched. I looked back up and saw my mother was, for the first time in my entire life of knowing her, dumbfounded. It was an odd thing to see the goddess of wisdom like this, her left eye twitched rapidity and she kept sputtering unfinished sentences. The curious god of the sea looked at her and laughed.
"Gods Annabeth, you finally found a way to shut the living dictionary up," He scratched his beard, "If I had known that all it took was this to do the trick, I would have told her I was pregnant ages ago!" Then he laughed again. Mt mother gulped and managed a glare at Poseidon then looked at me. Pain written on her face.
"Annabeth….you got…Pregnant? With…..with Percy? As in….baby?" Wow. My mother could barely compose a sentence. Oh gods I broke my mother!
"Um yes. Are you mad?" Wrong question. She was mad the second the syllable Y came out of my mouth.
"ANNABETH CHASE YOU ARE GROUNDED! AND I CAN GROUND YOU, I AM YOUR MOTHER! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DESIGN A BULDING FOR THREE WEEKS! DO YOU HEAR ME!? AND YOU-" She zeroed in on Percy, "You sex crazed, hormonal teenager who desecrated my Annabeth. You will suffer in the field of punishment! I plan to-HEY! GET BACK HERE JACKSON! THERE IS NO RUNNING MY LIBRAY!" Then my mother grabbed a book off the shelf next to her and chucked it at Percy. It hit him with perfect accuracy in the legs, sweeping them from under him and sending him toppling into a stack of books.
"Athena don't throw books at my son, its rude. Didn't Zeus teach you any manners?" Poseidon said lazily from behind the brim of his fishing hat. Athena pointed a stern finger at him and threw a Sex-ED book at Percy's head just as he was getting up from the last attack.
"Someone call me?" A thundering voice sounded from the doorway. Zeus walked in wearing a tweed jacket and brown kaki pants, a golf bag slung over his shoulder and a funny hat on his head.
"Golfing in Ireland again brother?" Zeus grinned pulling a driver from his bag and shaking it in the air.
"Three hole in ones! With this same driver!" Athena had cornered Percy and was yelling, "Don't they teach dimwitted children like you what that human invention called a condom is!?" while Poseidon sighed.
"Shocker there, you know, considering that you can only control the wind to carry the ball into the hole!" He said sighing again. Zeus shrugged.
"It's not cheating, I'm simply using my resources," Then he looked at the scene going down and noticed Thalia sitting there, he visibly perked up, "Hello sweetheart, how are you? What is going on in-HEY! ATHENA GIVE THAT BACK, IT'S MY FAVORITE DRIVER!" While Zeus was talking Athena had came over and took the golf club right out of Zeus hands so she could smack Percy across the head with it, denting the club and sending Percy spiraling to the floor out cold. Athena smiled and gave her father his club back, Zeus glared and left the room muttering, "It's okay Fred, Daddy will knock this dent out of you in no time, Nasty 'ol Athena just hurt you didn't she? Well it's okay, Daddy will take care of you." and my mother crossed her arms and sat down with a huff. There was an awkward silence that followed before,
"Isn't he, like, out?" Thalia asked, motioning to my snoring boyfriend on the ground. I nodded.
"Then you owe me ten bucks." She grinned evilly.
"Are you freaking serious!?"
"Yep."
"Arrrg! Fine, here you go! I hate you and disown you as a friend!" Thalia scrunched her eye brows then shrugged.
"Okay. Whatever. Nico you owe me 20 bucks."
"Why?"
"Remember when we made the bet about Annabeth being wrong? Yeah that's this time. Pay up." Nico sighed and pulled money out of his pocket glaring at his smiling girlfriend.
"I can't believe your pregnant," My mother was saying while watching Percy twitch on the floor, "I mean why would you want to have sex with that!?" I blushed but made no comment.
"I sure hope it's a boy. So I can teach him how to fish!" Poseidon said jumping up and counting on his fingers the numerous things he would teach my future child to catch, including wild sea monsters.
"No no no Kelp Face, whatever this child will be it is a girl. So I can teach her to read and speak in 6 different languages." Athena grumbled behind her curtain of hair. The god of sea stopped and looked at her funny.
"Are you crazy!?- INTERMISSION- Short thing before we go on here, one thing you NEVER call the goddess of wisdom is crazy, so, with that in mind, continue-BACK TO THE STORY-" The baby is SO going to be a boy!"
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!" Poseidon grinned.
"Es loca!" My mother blinked real hard then stood up screaming as she did.
"YOU JERK, I HATE YOUR FAT HEAD! I HOPE YOU DIE…EVEN IF YOU CAN'T, I HOPE YOU ENDURE TORUTRE FOR THE REST OF YOUR STUPID LIFE!"
"YOU CAN'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT! I AM YOUR ELDER, RESPECT YOUR ELDERS DAMN INGRATE! CURSE YOUR FAMILEY!" My mother glared long and hard, Poseidon on her toes glowering down at her.
"YOU'RE MY FAMILEY IDIOT! AND YOU CAN'T TALK TO ME LIKE THIS, I'M TELLING ZEUS!" Then Athena stormed off while Poseidon mocked her by pretending to be angry.
"Oh I'm so scared 'cause your going to go tell on me." He mocked her voice dancing in circles.
"POSEIDON! GET YOUR BUTT IN HERE!" Zeus's voice sounded from a distance. Poseidon snapped his fingers mumbling, "Curses, she really told on me" then waved to me and Nico, Thalia was drawing on Percy's face with a marker.
"Keep us updated on the babies progress Annabeth. I have to go do damage control. Your stupid mother just had to go whining to her daddy. Typical, the goddess of wisdom is a tattle tale. Pshhhh, what is that?" Then he was gone. Percy moaned just as his father left and sat up rubbing his head.
"I'm…IM ALIVE! IT'S A MIRICLE!" I sighed. This was going to be a long child bearing. Let's hope (and pray to my mother) that this child had more sense than it's father.
Well I hope I didn't let you guys down with this chapter like I was VERY afraid I would do. I personally think this chapter sucks, but you guys tell me what you think in a nice review.