Chapter 9
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Annabeth's POV:
I sat down on my bed crying. "Why am I such a bad mother? How could I get my little Alec taken away from me? I'm a terrible mother!" I sob to no-one in particular. Percy plops down on the bed next to me. "Maybe it would help if we talked about it," Percy suggests. "You start, tell me about your daughter," I say to him. He lies down. "Aphrodite, wonderful Goddess, is her mother. unfortunately for me Amelia got the ability to charmspeak. She can get me up in the morning by making me go to the toilet, it's really weird," Percy says. "No kidding," I say with a smirk. "Haha, she gets straight A's in school, it pains me to look at her, she is so much like you and she isn't even your daughter. In fact I don't think I ever stopped loving you," he says looking at me with love in his eyes. "Tell me about Alec," he says trying to change the subject. "His dad is Apollo, he want to be a doctor. He never shuts up about water or the sea, and he acts so much like you its scary. I missed you Percy, I feel lost," I tell him, lying back and using his stomach as a pillow. "I missed you too Annabeth, you have no idea how much I missed you," he tells me stroking my blonde curls. We lie there a few minutes, both just talking about our lives when I hear Percy snoring and decide to go to sleep aswell. I fall asleep instantly and that's when I know I'm still in love with him.
Percy's POV:
It was nice to talk to Annabeth like this again. It made me feel special knowing that I was the only one that she'd had this talk with. I just wish there was a way for me to explain what was going on all those years ago.
-Dream-
Annabeth and I in the back garden. "Mummy, Mummy look what I found!" says a little girl about three. "It's beautiful Summer, why dont you show your baby sister," Annabeth says to the little girl called Summer. "Here look Buffy, its a pretty flower isn't it!" The girl says happily to the little baby. Thats when I see me picking Summer up. "How's my little Summer Flower?" I - no - Dream me says to the girl. Was she my daughter, my daughter that I could have with Annabeth. They're so beautiul. I see Dream me put down Summer walk over to me and say "You gotta get her back man, you gotta," he says as they all fade away.
-End Dream-
Getting Annabeth back is now my mission in life, I have to meet those girls, they will happen. But how? I lie there, thinking about how I am going to get Annabeth back, I dont realise that she is waking up and looks up at me. "Whats the matter?" she asks me, sounding like she woke up from a 100 year sleep. "Just thinking," I say to her. She laughs. "Perseus Jackson, thinking, i never thought I'd see the day," she says sarcastically. "Hurtful, I do think, very rarely though," I mutter. "Course you do seaweed brain, Of course you do," she says to me. I laugh this time. "Hey, do you possibly want to go out for some food? We have to leave Camp at some point," I say to her and she knows it's true. "Yeah, let me get dressed, you might want to change clothes too," she says walking over to her dresser. "See you in five seaweed brain," she says, motioning for me to leave. So I do. I walk to my cabin and pick out some faded jeans, blue converse and a sea-green top. I go and wait outside her cabin and when she walks out it's as if the world stops. well at least my world. I must have been staring at her for minutes because when I entered the lovly world called reality she was waving her hand in front of my face. "Sorry, I blanked out there," I say to her. "Where do you want to get food from?" I ask her. "There's a new Italian down the street, we could go there?" she says to me. I had heard about that italian and decided it was worth the risk of leaving the camp properly. They had expanded the camp, to make it more like a college campus, with little restaurants and small shops and things like that, run by demi-gods. "Lets go," I say offering her my hand which she gladly takes. When we arrive at the restaurant we are shown to a nice small booth and are handed our menus. I order a pineapple and ham pizza (earning me the remark "How can you eat pineapple? Or Hawian Pizza?" from Annabeth and me saying "My Dad's the sea God, I love tropical island food,") with a glass of wine and Annabeth ordering a pepperoni pizza and a glass of wine. We eat our meals reminising about the old times, staying clear from the times we were a couple. When the cheque comes she offers to pay half but I won't let her, "But then isn't this a date?" she asks. "Only if you want it to be Anna," I say, hoping that she says yes. "If it has to be a date, then it is a date," she says. I decide to take her to a little place for a coffee. "This place is nice Percy," she says. "I hoped you'd remeber it, we did have our first date here," I say to her, her mouth dropping open in shock. We walk back to camp. "Annabeth, I meant it when I said I never stopped loving you," I say. She looks down to the floor. "I know, I meant it when I said I missed you. In fact,, I never stopped loving you either," Annabeth confesses to me. Thats when it happens. The heart-wrenching scream. "Rachel?" We both say. "That's right, I'm back and better than ever,"