Hello! I'm back very quickly! I am writing right now because of an awesome review from Percabeth1300. I would be doing some boring math assignment! So yeah… I am sitting around listening to Red, ignoring my homework, just to write for you guys! That is how much I love you! I'm just kidding, I already finished. Anyway, thank you so much for your reviews. I wanted to cry when I saw how many I had. When I first wrote this, I was in homeroom, bored out of my mind, and then I published it, thinking that I might get 50 for the entire story, but then you guys gave me 130 and we're like, a quarter of the way through this! Anyway, thank you guys so much, it means a lot to me that you like this. Anyway, two weird things happened today… Some random guy walked up to me and he's all like 'my friend wanted to know if you wanted to go out with him' and I was like…What the… The other weird thing…I dissected a pig heart. My advice: Don't ever do it. I wanted to barf. All over my teacher's shoes.
Percabeth1300: This review inspired me to pick up my dad's laptop, and start writing. I never thought that I would get compliments like that! Thank you so much! It means a lot!
Fantasy girl loves fantasy: Did you really think I would leave him like that? I am deeply hurt.
Doubled-Helix: It's cool, I randomly distribute chapters to people who are worthy! Anyone who sets things on fire frequently…Is worthy!
Ultra Happy Peep: Read and find out, my dear. And yeah, Percy's boss. I hated Drew's character too, she annoyed me to death! She's the same person. In the Kane, and HOO. I found it on a facebook page. It's legit. And, it also said that Calypso's coming back! Enjoy!
Christinazhangsw: Aww! Thank you! Tell your friend thanks for recommending me!
Guest: I made somebody cry! OMG! I mean…sorry!
Ghost 77731: Thanks! I try very hard, especially in class…
Elliefs: Thank the gods someone understands!
Song of the chapter: Um…I don't know… pick your favorite! Tell me what you want this song of the chapter to be!
Annabeth's POV
I numbly went along with whatever Luke said, my eyes locked on Percy, who was currently slung over the back of a black Pegasus that's the exact same color as his hair.
He's laying stomach down on the Pegasus's back, head, arms and legs hanging over the side.
"Will he fall off?" I asked worriedly, as I made my way onto the pure white Pegasus. Luke hoists himself onto the front of the white beauty, so that he's in front of me. Jerking the reigns so that both Pegasi lift into the air, he turns around, facing me. "He'll be fine. Jackie can handle Percy." I'm forced to hold onto him, or fall off. I can't fall off, or I can't protect Percy. Insert overprotective girlfriend mode here.
I turn my head away from Luke, to look at Percy who is beginning to stir. I hear a bloodcurdling scream when he realizes he's not on the ground. He starts to kick and squirm off of the horse, but Jackie realizes what he's doing.
She lifts higher into the sky and he screams again. He pulls himself up onto the horse, and wraps his arms tightly around her neck, burying his face into Jackie's mane. I peel my eyes away from the trembling Percy to find Luke shaking with laughter.
I aim my fist, and punch him in the gut. He doubles over, coughing, about to fall off while I smirk in satisfaction.
I'm really gonna miss you picking fights
And me, falling for it screaming that I'm right
And you would hide away and find your peace of mind
IF YOU DON'T KNOW THIS SONG, THEN THAT'S COOL, I JUST THOUGHT THE LYRICS WENT WITH THIS! I JUST HAD TO PUT THIS HERE! THIS REMINDED ME OF MY FIRST SPELLING TEST. JUST PICTURE LUKE AS MY TEACHER, AND ANNABETH AS ME, AND SUBSTITURE THE PROBLEMS FOR WORDS LIKE I, AM, THE…
-Flashback-
Annabeth: "Okay, Luke. Ask me another."
Luke: "Do I have too Annie?"
Annabeth: "DON'T CALL ME ANNIE?! JUST READ THE STUPID FLASHCARD!"
Luke: "How many states are there in Canada?"
Annabeth: "LUKE!"
Luke: "Okay, Okay! What's the square root of four?"
Annabeth: "Two."
Luke: "Square root of nine?"
Annabeth: "Three. I thought these were suppose to be hard questions."
Luke: *Mumbles* "For the average seven year old they would be."
Thalia: "Care to repeat that, Luke?"
Luke: "I'm good, Thales."
Annabeth: "Please give me a hard one, Luke? Please?"
Luke: "Okay, Annie. This is the hardest one. Ready?"
Annabeth: "Yup."
Luke: "You sure?"
Annabeth: "Of course I'm sure."
Luke: "Really?"
Annabeth: "Luke…"
Luke: "What's one plus one?"
Annabeth: "LUKE!" *Annabeth chases Luke around central park*
Luke: Thalia! Your turn! I'm gonna go *Annabeth glares at him* BYE!
Thalia: come back when you've found your pride! (to Annabeth) come on, kiddo.
Annabeth: K!
-end flashback-
I snapped out of the past to see Percy falling before my eyes.
Percy POV
I was falling. Falling! As in out of the sky.
I was screaming. Screaming. Not in pain, but in fear. I should have been stronger than that.
I was crying. Crying over her. I was going to die without Annabeth.
Just as I was about to hit the ground, I heard Annabeth scream my name. I felt a horses's teeth clamp over the hood of my jacket, he lifted me up into the air, and I reached upward, putting my arms around his neck and swinging myself onto his back. I hung on as tight as I could, pulling my face into his, or her mane, just like I did the first time. I vaguely registered someone talking angrily, but I was out of energy. I was so tired. I needed to sleep. Had to sleep. Did I mention that sleep sounded really good right now?
Annabeth's POV
I snapped out of the past to see Percy falling before my eyes. He screamed as he fell, and there was pure fear in that scream.
"PERCY!" I called into the air. Suddenly the black mare dove down and grabbed him right before he hit the ground. I could hear gentle sobs coming from his mouth.
I looked over at the grinning Luke.
"What did you do?" I asked him, looking straight into those blue eyes that I had come to hate.
"You resisted. Anything you do," he says, smiling sadistically "will be taken out on him."
My eyes widen, and my eyes automatically go to Percy, who is hugging the horse like it's his lifeline. Tears are streaming out of his closed eyelids.
"Please don't hurt him." I say, voice small and pitiful. "Please."
Luke grins at me, and suddenly, his arms are around me and I'm crying into his shoulder. "Please don't Luke. I need him. Please don't hurt him. He's all I have, everyone else left. You promised you'd always be there for me. Don't you want me to be happy?"
"Shh. Of course I do, Beth. Just not with him. Could you be happy with me? I know you love him, but you love me too. Just think. Remember the sirens? I was there. You wanted me. Not him. Me."
As he says the words I feel bile rise in my throat. A blush rises in my cheeks. Maybe I did see him. But that was years ago. Before…Before Percy. Not before him, but Percy was always there. Even when I hated him. He was there, a shoulder for me to cry on, there to protect me. Luke avoided me when I hated him, and he wouldn't come to me when I needed him. Percy was always there when I wanted him. Luke wasn't there to protect me, he was fighting against me.
I slowly shake my head. "I love Percy, Luke. But I miss my brother. If you could be my brother again…"
But I want to be more than your brother. I want you to love me like you used to."
"Luke, as long as I'm alive, I'm going to love Percy. As long as my soul exists." Luke's eyes flash in anger with these words, and with a jerk of his hand, I'm falling, down, down, down.
Wind whistles in my ears and I barely hear Percy scream my name, and I look above to see him diving headfirst off the side of the horse. He catches up to me in an instant, and hugs me close to him.
BTW this is also the way I picture the scene right after MOA
"Are you alright?" He shouts above the wind.
"Percy Jackson this is by far the stupidest idea you have ever come up with. How could you-?"
He cuts me off. "I couldn't let you fall alone." He hugs me tighter to him, and then turns our bodies so that his back is facing the ground. I realize what he's doing.
"Perseus Jackson, you will not take the force of this fall!" I punch him in the chest, and he winces, but holds his ground. "Percy, Percy don't do this, please, please be safe for me. Don't die. Don't die." I repeat the words over and over again, because I so desperately want him to be safe, and it's not fair to just get him back and then have him die.
'I won't, Wise Girl." He says confidently. Then he grins. "I'm good at cheating death." The fact that that's true makes me want to thank Thantos and punch Percy again. He looks up at me, and there is peace in his eyes.
"You know that I'll always love you, right? Forever and always?" I tell him.
"Forever and always." He agrees, right before he hits the ground, and his eyes, his beautiful eyes close.
End totally HOH worthy scene.
Luke's POV (betcha didn't see that coming)
It wasn't supposed to end like this. We were supposed to have a life together. Annabeth was supposed to want me. Not him. He ruined our love. I watched him hit the ground, watched Annabeth futilely attempt to bandage his broken back. I go to the ground, and yell at the girl of my dreams. "Get on the horse. We can heal him when we get there."
She looks at me with pure fury in her eyes, but collects his broken body in her arms, and boards the horse. She's whispering things to him as we go, and I know that she loves him. I have lost to Percy Jackson.
I wrote this at school, so I have to go right now! Byez! BTW, Percy's not dead. I am offended that you would think I'm evil enough to do that. And yes I know what you're thinking. By the way, If you were like, PERCABETH! That entire time, I was too. I really hate Lukeabeth, and I really wanted to show how that would never happen. LUKE LOSES! YAY!