Percy's Pov:

I was in pain. What an understatement eh? It's hard to describe what death was like. I was in a land of black and everything hurt. It was a strange feeling but next thing I knew, I was in a memory. It wasn't mine.

Three kids were running for their lives. The blond boy held a short sword. The little girl held a knife. The girl with the shocking blue eyes held a spear. Chasing behind them were demented cyclopes. They ran towards the entrance of camp. I realized it was Annabeth, Thalia and Luke. As they ran, Annabeth tripped on some roots and fell to the ground. Luke and Thalia stopped and get her up but it's too late.

I yell silently, "Run!"

Thalia turn towards the cyclops and turns and says something to Luke. Luke starts arguing but she snaps back furiously. Luke reluctantly grabs Annabeth and runs for the hills while Thalia faces off against the giant one eyed monsters.

She holds her own pretty well against them. She jabs her spear into one of the monsters foot while vaulting over a club swing. She yanks the spear out as she flips gracefully over the monster's head and stabs down into his skull. The monster pops into confetti of golden dust as she falls. Thalia turns around to see a giant club swinging at her. Time seems to slow down for her as she makes a split second decision. She throws her spear at the second cyclops. The spear twirls as it spins towards the monster. Lightning catches it to send it faster. But it is too late. The club smashes into Thalia, who gets sent back so hard she smashes into a big pine tree and goes completely through it, leaving a gap in the tree. The spear slams into the cyclops' eye and it dissolves into golden dust.

Reinforcement comes out too late with Luke close behind. He sees the remains of Thalia. He slides next to her and sees the mangled body he had once been friends with. He gives a loud scream of anguish as he clutches her tightly. Blood seeps into his clothes.

I can see his face clearly now. His eyes are filled with rage. With vengeance. He opens his mouth and I can hear him clearly.

"You will be avenged Thalia. I swear my life to it."

With a painful gasp I wake up with a panic. Where was I? I thought as my eyes flash open.

"Easy my brave one." I hear a soothing voice. I turn towards the speaker and I'm surprised. Calypso sits at the side of the bed as she waves her hands over my body. I can feel the touch of her healing powers.

"Ca- Calypso?" I say, not sure whether I can still talk. She gives me a smile and her chestnut eyes shows relief.

"You have been out for a very long time my hero. Please rest and I will account to my knowledge of what happened." She says quietly.

I nod and she goes onto tell me what had happened. After the fates had left, I had been sent to Camp Halfblood and Calypso had been summoned to heal me. I've been out for 3 weeks.

"Is Annabeth okay?" I asked. A flash of hurt went through Calypso's eyes but disappeared so quickly, I thought I had imagined it. She gave a small nod as she started her singing once more. It sped up the healing and I already knew the message.

Sleep.

Line Break

The next time I came to was less pleasant. I opened my eyes and saw a figure filling something up in the corner. I focused my eyes on the figure.

Luke.

As if my gaze had some sort of physical prod, he turned around surprised. His eyes sped through from shock, guilt and than guarded. We stared at each other for a second until he looked away to close the lid of the nectar filter.

"Welcome back to the living." He offered. I gave a dry chuckle. We sat there in awkward silence. I had so many questions and thought of different ways to be more polite about it. Than I thought, Fuck it. He doesn't deserve kindness.

"How are you here? You should be in Tarturus." I said bluntly. He flinched as he saw the cold gaze I gave him.

"I'm not even going to bother with a long apology because you wouldn't believe it." He started. "Damn right." I said refusing to give him satisfaction. He huffed. "But I'm sorry. And to answer your question, I don't know." I nodded. We sat again in silence.

"Aren't you going to ask me why I did what I did?" He asked suddenly. I shook my head. "I know why." He stared at me confused. "Dream." I said simply. He nodded this time.

"Do you love Annabeth?" I asked, not holding back anything anymore. He seemed to let those words process in his mind. "I don't know." He replied simply. I bit my tongue to not snap at him. I would not give him the satisfaction. He than said, "Do you?"

I replied without hesitation. "Yeah." He looked at me with a mix of emotion and than stared out the window. "She loves you." I blurted out before I could think.

He looked out the window with an impassive face. "I know."

My anger shot up. What a piece of shit. He knew and he still did this. He still hurt her.

"Get out." I said quietly. He nodded and got up. He reached for the door handles and opened it. As he was getting out he stopped half way.

"You know she loves you too." And with that, he left. I closed my eyes and willed sleep to come back to me.

I woke up for good the third time. Third times the charm right? I woke up to see a familiar blond hair and gray eyed girl. She had her knees up on her seat and had her arms around it. When she saw my eyes opened, she shot up immediately. "Percy!" She shrieked. She gathered me for a hug and the wound hurt but I didn't want to stop.

"Hi." I replied softly.

She ended up laying beside me as we talked about what had happened after. I was still uneasy because something was holding me back. I had to know.

"Annabeth we need to talk." I said after a minute of comfortable silence.

"We are talking Seaweed Brain." She said. I let a second to take in the sound of her voice saying Seaweed Brain and turned my attention to her again.

"I'm talking about you, me and... Luke." I said hesitantly. I felt her stiffen up next to me. I continued. "Just let me talk and you listen okay?" I didn't wait for her reply.

"You know how I feel about you now. Well you should by now. And I know how feel about me. But I know how you feel about Luke too." She opened her mouth to argue but I shushed her. "It has been so long for you to make up your mind Wisegirl. I want to know what your decision would be now."

Annabeth looked up at me. "I don't know."

That was all I needed to hear. I shrugged away from her. "Wait Percy." She said. I just shut down.

"Please get out Annabeth." I said softly. I felt her wanting to voice something. But she simply got up and walked away.