Annabeth-

The next three hours passed at different paces for everyone. It felt like forever to Annabeth. Her mind was buzzing with excitement, nervousness, anxiety…Pretty much everything. There was no way to put a strategy into this. No way to know how this would turn out.

She went on the top deck to see Jason, knowing he was probably feeling a similar way to her at the moment. He was there staring down to the sea below them.

"A few minutes away. Let's hope they aren't waiting for us." He muttered as she climbed the latter.

"Do you think they'll attack on sight?" Annabeth asked.

"Let's hope your boyfriend got the message to tell them not to. If I'm here they shouldn't attack but they won't see me from far away. All they'll see is a ship flying towards them and Romans don't normally take that nicely." Jason told her grimly.

Soon the camp came into view. Annabeth could see the number of people growing along the shoreline to watch as the ship flew nearer and nearer to Camp Jupiter.

Eventually, Annabeth could see him. Percy. His dark hair blowing in the wind, his purple toga- Wait, purple toga? She'd laugh about it later.

Jason landed the boat just inshore and the moment it touched the ground he hopped off and ran over to a girl with brown hair and kissed her. On the lips. Passionately. She kissed him back.

Annabeth looked across the boat's deck to Piper who's eyes filled with tears as she looked down to hide the,. Annabeth walked over to her and put her hand on her shoulder. She could feel Percy's gaze on her face but she ignored it.

Being afraid of Percy wasn't normal, but this was just scary, Annabeth would put this moment off as long as she could.

"I'm fine. Piper whispered.

Now Annabeth couldn't resist a look into Percy's eyes.

"Go." Piper told her.
"I'm scared." She whispered back.

"It'll be fine, you'll have to face him sooner or later." Annabeth sighed, "You're right." And with that, she walked off the deck and slowly made her way towards Percy. Trying to read his face was pointless, he was expressionless. Five more steps and she stopped a few feet away from him.

"Annabeth." He greeted still not giving any hints as to what he remembered, but Annabeth's heart raced and her eyes lit up.

There was hope!

"Percy," She whispered hopefully, "You remember?" Her eyes were starting to tear up now and she blinked frantically for the tears to leave. 'I will NOT look weak, I won't.' she told herself.

"Only you." She said quietly.

Hope was fading.

Annabeth didn't know what to think. At first she was upset, what exactly did he remember about her? About them? But as she thought about it, he did remember her like she wanted…

She walked into his arms and they stood there hugging for a while. Then he lightly kissed her on the forehead and they broke apart.

Annabeth looked around for Jason. Neither he or the girl he had kissed were in sight. Percy seemed to be looking too but he had about as much success as Annabeth did.

"Well, I guess it's up to me, then." He said turning to the crowd of Roman campers. "Everyone to the dining hall for dinner, be sure to be friendly and introduce yourselves to the Greeks from Camp Half-Blood."

"Are you, like, leader now?" Annabeth asked him as they walked to the mess hall.

"Me and Reyna, yeah. I took Jason's place which I'm not exactly thrilled with, especially now that he's back. If he turns up at dinner I'm giving it back to him then. What I hear is that I'm Greek and I should be leading someplace else. Is there any truth to that?" Percy asked.

"Yep, true. Before Hera took you, you were the leader at Camp Half-Blood." Annabeth explained to him.

"And you with me?" Percy raised an eyebrow.

"I kind of gained respect before you came five years ago, so I guess you could say that. You're the one who defeated Kronos last summer, though." She carefully watched his reaction to this information.

He bit his bottom lip, "You're going to have to explain this to me in a bit more detail."

Annabeth's heart sunk, "You…don't remember anything about last summer?"

Percy thought for a moment, "You and me…We were officially together then. After we…" He hesitated, "Something big had just happened. Wild guess: that whole Kronos thing you were just telling me about?"

"Good guess. It was your sixteenth birthday, your great prophesy had just finished. We had just come home to camp, after defending Manhatten, your home town, where Kronos was invading." Annabeth explained.

Percy was quiet for a while, registering this information.

"I…Remember it…Sort of. It's like I had heard this story a long time ago and I had forgotten about it, and not I'm hearing it for a second time. It's not totally clear but… I recognize it, you know what I mean?"

Annabeth nodded, "That's how Jason was too. But he's got most of his memory back now. You'll have to have a chat with him sometime.

Percy agreed, "I plan to."