A/N: Just to say something – I think happy endings are overrated, so be warned.
Disclaimer: PJO is not mine. Only my OCs and the plot line are mine. So yeah!
Percy blearily looked up at the surrounding trees, his chest aching.
"Oooowww" he moaned.
"Dammit, Percy!" Annabeth shrieked, and smacked him on the head.
Once Percy came to his senses (the smack helped) he sprang up.
"No! Annabeth!" he yelled, "You - you need to leave . . . I'm not safe . . . this place isn't safe! You should . . . ooww" Annabeth had smacked him again.
"You idiotic piece of crud! You insufferable little turd! Why do you keep LEAVING?!"
"I'm trying to frigging PROTECT YOU! From ME!" he bellowed, and ran off, snatching up a packet of ambrosia on his way out.
"FINE!" Annabeth screamed, "JUST – JUST . . . leave" she whispered at the end.
She picked up her stuff and walked back to camp.
~oOo~ (A/N: Yep. Changed my line break)
Percy ran through the forest. He noticed regretfully that he seemed to do that a lot.
Finally he reached the edge of the forest – the edge of camp.
One monster. Wasn't he lucky.
Why did Annabeth have to be so – so bad about everything he did? Didn't she get that he was only trying to protect her? Did she not think she needed to be safe from him? Didn't she get how broken his mind was?
Did she not care?
That thought stopped him dead in his tracks. She had said she loved him . . . did she still love him?
No. No one could love him after this.
~oOo~
Annabeth ran back to camp, blindly stumbling though the forest. She tripped and fell, skinning her knee on a . . . was that a juniper branch? Oh thank the gods.
"Juniper?" she called, "Juniper?"
"Annabeth? Why are you all bloody?" she asked concernedly, "Oh my gods" she said, gasping, "Why were you here? Did you run into a monster? Where's Percy? I saw Grover and he said something about . . . um, Annabeth?"
Annabeth had sunk to the forest floor, her shoulders shaking.
"Oh my gods! Annabeth, are you crying?"
"N-no" Annabeth sniffled.
"But – but you never cry. Only something really bad could have . . . wait-" realization dawned on her, "Did Percy break up with you? Is – is he dead?"
"No!" Annabeth shrieked, "Don't even suggest that! But . . yeah, in a way he did, um, break up with me"
"WHAT THE FUDGE? He seriously did that? While, I'll go up to him and-"
"Juniper" Annabeth interrupted, "He's . . . gone"
"Um, Annabeth? Is grief screwing up your brain? Cause first he's not dead, and now it sounds like he is dead . . . so? What's up with him?"
"No! Ugh! I mean he left camp!" Annabeth yelled.
"Jeez, sorry" Juniper began backing away.
"No – I – Juniper – I'm sorry – I just – wait – no – ugh"
~oOo~
Percy decided to wait out the approaching night at the border of camp and the real world.
His dreams were anything but peaceful.
'Little hero'
Gaea?
'Abandoned your friends, I see. But no matter. All the easier to kill you'
Percy tried to speak, but it was like his mouth was glued shut.
'Let me show you what will happen now'
A vision flashed.
Annabeth, standing alone at crossroads.
Piper, screaming as Jason ran into the surrounding darkness.
Leo, looking at a serpent-legged monster that bore down upon him.
'That is the future you have spawned, little hero'
A/N: YAAAAY! Excitement! Review!