Haunted
Nico had never felt so alone. Not even when Bianca had died. Because then, he'd had friends to comfort him. Mainly Percy and Annabeth, even though he'd been mad at Percy. They were his only friends. But now, they were somewhere in Tartarus and Nico was alone. Percy was like a brother to him, one of the only people who had ever accepted him. And Annabeth...he'd always had a crush on her. But he knew she didn't like him that way. It haunted him, thinking that one day he might have to see their ghosts in the underworld.
"Well, at least if we die down here in Tartarus we'll get to see Beckendorf and Silena," Percy said morosely. It had always haunted him, knowing it was his fault Beckendorf had died. If he had taken the Greek fire instead of Beckendorf, he might still be alive.
"We're not going to die," Annabeth breathed, pulling Percy out of his thoughts. They pushed onwards.
Memory
"Let's take a breather," suggested Leo. "We could sit in the library." Percy, Hazel, and Leo plodded over to the library doors, which opened automatically. As they slouched in the padded chairs against the wall, Percy felt something tug at his brain. 'Annabeth would have liked this place,' he thought. She had always loved books, hadn't she? He remembered hugging her in between the shelves of the Athena cabin's library. For a moment he felt happy, but it faded as quickly as it came.
Fragile
*CRASH*
"Percy, what have you done now?" Annabeth yelled from the living room. Percy stared at the ceramic shards on the floor.
"I...uh..." he said. Annabeth jumped up and hurried into the kitchen. She groaned,
"You broke your moms favorite coffee cup? Nice."
"What should I do?" Percy panicked.
"We'll have to buy her a new one. Come on! She'll be back in an hour!" They raced down the stairs and took a cab to the mall. Unfortunately, it wasn't coffee cup season and they couldn't find any coffee cups...except one.
And that's the story of how Sally acquired a Snow White and the seven dwarfs coffee mug.