When Paul pulled up into the hospital parking lot I raced inside, not even thinking about waiting for him. Luckily he was right behind me. I ran to the receptionist who had an annoyed look on her face.

"Hi." I said slightly out of breath. "I need to see Percy Jackson." The lady typed something on the computer.

"I'm sorry." She said in a nasally voice. "Family members only."

"Well I am his family." I said and the woman raised an eyebrow. "I'm his… cousin!" I blurted out.

"And I'm his step-father. Now please let us in." he said sternly. She looked back down at her computer screen.

"Third floor, room 23." She said. "It's not certain he'll live but-" I didn't hear the rest because I was already sprinting towards the stairs. The elevator would take too long. I took two steps at a time and within a few seconds I was standing in front of room 23. I took a deep breath to prepare myself and opened the door. Well, I'm just going to go ahead and say that no amount of deep breaths would have prepared me for this. Percy was laying in the hospital bed with multiple cuts and bruises, his arm was in a cast, there was a bandage wrapped around his head and his stomach. Sally was sitting in a chair beside him, holding his hand.

"Annabeth." She said standing up. "I'm glad you came." She walked towards me and gave me a hug. Her hugs are the best. She pulled away and there were tears in her eyes.

"Of course." I said feeling my own tears make an appearance.

"I'll be right back." She said. "I'm going to go find the doctor." I nodded and she gave me one last hug before disappearing through the door. I looked back at Percy and sat down where just moments earlier Sally was sitting. I grabbed Percy's hand and put my forehead against it. I let a few tears slip down my cheeks. I lifted my head up to look at Percy again. I slowly moved my hand up to his head and brushed some hair from his forehead. That's when it happened. His heart monitor started beeping faster.

"Come on Percy." I said. "You can fight it. You can wake up." His monitor got a little louder. "You still have a whole life to live you can't leave yet." Faster. I stood up and leaned over him. "Come on Seaweed Brain. Open your eyes." I pressed my lips against his. They were cold and unresponsive but I didn't care. I kissed him like I would've if he was awake. I needed to see his eyes again. I was about to pull away when I felt his lips move against mine. He lifted his good arm against my back and pulled me closer. I pulled back to look into the sparkling sea green eyes of Percy Jackson.

"Hi." He said.

"Don't ever do that again." I said. "Ever."

"I don't plan on it." He said. Then the door opened and Sally walked in.

"Percy!" she yelled and threw her arms around him in a hug. He grunted.

"Mom." He said.

"Oh I'm sorry sweetie." She said and he just waved it off.

"Where's Paul?" I asked.

"He had to go back to school but I'll text him that you're awake, Percy." He nodded.

"Mom I'm hungry." He said. I rolled my eyes.

"Oh I'll go get you some food." She said and once again was out of the door.

"You almost die and the first thing you do is ask for food?" I asked.

"No. The first thing I did was kiss you." He said wiggling his eyebrows. "True loves kiss." He said in a sing-song voice. I blushed but he didn't seem to notice. "Thanks for waking me up from the dead by the way."

"No problem." I said. "It was actually my pleasure." I said and he laughed.

"Mine too." He puckered his lips and I rolled my eyes again before giving him a quick peck. "You're amazing." He said.

"Why, cause I give such great kisses?"

"Well, I'm not gonna lie that's most definitely part of it." He said. I laughed.

"You're weird."

"Rude."

"Yeah but true."

"Whatever you say princess." I stuck my tong out and he smiled. We kissed. It was great and it wasn't a small/short kiss either. We were rudely pulled back into reality when Sally entered the room with Percy's food.

"Whoops, sorry." She said.

"It's fine." I said, pulling away. It took about five minutes for Percy to wolf down his food and ten minutes later Sally had to leave.

"You should get some sleep." I said.

"Why? I'm not even tired." He asked before yawning. I raised an eyebrow and he pouted. Then he smiled mischievously. "Lay with me?"

"Percy I don't think-"

"Oh it's fine. Please?"

"Fine." I said and got up to lay beside him. He scooted over a bit and I rested my head on his chest. Soon we fell asleep. The first thing I heard when I woke up was a squeal. Then a 'Shut up!'. Then 'Sorry!'.

"Oh hey guys." Percy whispered. "Funny seeing you here." I heard someone scoff. Probably Thalia.

"So uh… whatcha doin'?" I heard Rachel ask.

"Huh? Oh. Um sleeping…?" Percy said uncertainly.

"Uhu." Rachel said. I was still half asleep so I involuntarily moaned and shifted a little. Percy immediately shushed me and pressed a kiss on my forehead.

"Oh my gods. PERCABETH IS REAL!" Grover yelled. I groaned and threw a pillow in the estimated direction of his face. I smiled in satisfaction when I heard a loud: "Ow!" I buried my face into Percy's neck.

"Wait for real?" Thalia asked. I'm pretty sure Percy nodded because a few seconds later I started hearing screams from Piper, Rachel and yes, Grover. The rest of the day 'the gang' was obsessing over the fact that Percy and I were dating. Even Thalia. It was crazy... But hilarious.

~o0o~

After Percy was cooped up in the hospital for days he was finally aloud to go home. Sally and I threw a small party in celebration. We had blue cake and blue balloons. It was fun. After a few weeks Percy's cast came off and his bruises and some scars started to fade. We still hadn't told my dad about us and I wasn't really planning on it. But just as fate would have it, he found out on his own at completely the wrong moment. Percy and I were in my room and as far as I was aware my dad was burying himself in his work. We were watching How I Met Your Mother and arguing about who Robin should be with.

"She just evens Barney out! Ted's had his chance." I said.

"Oh come on. Barney? He's slept with like, over 200 women." Percy said.

"So?" I argued. "Robin's slept around too."

"Yeah but come on. Barney and Robin? How do you come up with this stuff?"

"I guarantee that Barney and Robin will be married by the time this show ends. Barney's going to pull something. Like, from the playbook or something."

"I'll bet you 20 bucks that won't happen." Percy said.

"You're on." I challenged.

"You won't win." He said.

"We'll see." (I won.) Percy rolled his eyes but pulled me closer to him and put his face in my neck.

"I love you." He said pulling away.

"What?" I asked.

"I mean you don't h-have to l-like say it back or anything I just-"

"Percy." I said. "Shut up." Then I kissed him. When we pulled away he grinned.

"Does this mean-?"

"Yes." I said. "I love you." He smiled even wider and so did I but it was short lived because guess who decided to eavesdrop? My dad threw the door open, startling Percy and I. We quickly scrambled off the bed.

"Dad." I said.

"Do you love him?" he asked. I'm not gonna lie, I was tempted to say something along the lines of, No of course not. Happy early April fools! Obviously I didn't, but if looks could kill Percy and I would've been dead ten times over.

"Yes." I said. "I love him." Percy grabbed my hand and I had to hold back a smile. My dad glared at our hands and quickly walked over to grab the hand that was holding Percy's. He then dragged me away from Percy and into the living room. Percy followed us and my dad's hand tightened around my wrist.

"Ow. Dad you're hurting me." I said. He loosened his grasp but didn't let go. I reached for Percy's hand with my free one and he took it.

"Let go of her hand." My dad said.

"With all due respect sir," Percy said. "she's not your property and neither am I. So I can and will hold her hand."

"She's my daughter." He said glaring daggers at Percy.

"And she's my girlfriend but that doesn't mean I own her." And that's when all hell broke loose. My dad threw me to the side and took a step closer to Percy. He tried to throw a punch but my dad was old and slow and Percy knew martial arts. Percy blocked easily and did a weird arm hold on him so that he couldn't do anything.

"Percy." I said. "Let go." He did and my dad stumbled backwards, rubbing his arm.

"Get out of my house!" He yelled at Percy.

"Dad-" I said.

"You too. I want you both out of my house!" He yelled. I took a step back.

"Dad, we can-"

"No! Get out!" he pointed to the door.

"You can't just kick me out!" I yelled back. "I'm your daughter."

"I just did." He said. "Now leave." With tears in my eyes I turned around and pulled Percy out of the door.

~o0o~

After awhile Thalia and Piper left and I was alone. Well, alone with Coldplay. I spent the day listening to them and Imagine Dragons because, I'm not gonna lie, they calm me down. I decided I would start on some homework when my phone went off. It was a message from Percy. I ignored it but they kept on coming. They finally stopped and I was relieved until the phone started ringing. It was Percy. I ignored it. After the phone stopped ringing he tried to contact me on any type of social media he could. Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram. And as a last resort he came to my house. I groaned when the doorbell rang.

"Annie!" Bobby yelled. "Percy's at the door!"

"Tell him to go to Hades!" I yelled back then I locked the door to my room and waited.

~o0o~

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