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I'm back again guys! I have a campout tonight and then I have work most of the day tomorrow so I want to put out a chapter early today to hold everyone off who's reading it. I might get another chapter out late tomorrow night.

I apologize for the dark ending on the last one, but it was important to the story and the plot that I have written out, and I hope you'll stay with me as the story progresses.

I've kind of been losing a bit of motivation for this story though, because it seems like it's being abandoned. Only 12 people have read Chapter 4 and I don't know if anyone even wants this story to continue, so please PM me, or leave a review, or something to let me know if you want me to continue writing.

And now, without more delay, Chapter 5!

Percy's POV

The first thing I was aware of as I regained consciousness was the feeling of sheets over everything but my face. I was slowly regaining feeling, I realized how tired I was, the parched feeling in my mouth, and of the course the severe ache in my stomach.

My stomach… I remembered my last moments before I had blacked out and what I had done to myself.

The day, the journal… the knife.

I opened my eyes and saw that I was in the infirmary, laying on the bed with a sheet on top of me.

I lifted the sheets and saw a bandage wrapped tightly around my stomach where my wound had been. I looked to my left at the nightstand and saw that there were two glasses, one with nectar, the other with water, and next to them was my journal.

I didn't know why someone had left the journal by me, but I didn't care enough to find out. I looked to my right and saw Nico sitting alone in a chair by the wall several feet away from me, just watching me.

He didn't say a word, he just sat there and waited for me to say something.

I sat, trying to compose my thoughts and think of what to say to him.

"Why did you come to find me?" I asked, monotone without emotion.

"You've were missing the whole night, and besides, I try to take care of my friends."

Friends… It didn't seem that I had any of those, not recently.

"What do you mean the whole night? Don't you mean last night?"

"No, Percy you've been unconscious for two days. I've been helping out with taking care of you, with the fact that I can sense death Chiron thought it would be a good idea for me to be here permanently because I could see if you were alright."

"What do you mean helping? Who else has been here?"

"Chiron was here the first day, Grover came and visited a few times. Jason, Leo, and Piper came and visited too. We sent an Iris message to Frank and Hazel at Camp Jupiter too. And of course, Annabeth has been here nearly non-stop with me, but I figured I should send her away when it seemed that you were waking up. She's waiting outside right now."

When he mentioned Annabeth I looked away and focused on my hands, the walls, anything else. Why was she here? She knew how I felt about her, and I was sure she knew she was the cause of this.

"Why is she here?" I asked him harshly, still not looking at him.

"She feels guilty for what happened. She was miserable with stress that you might die, and she was with me when I found you in your cabin. I could hardly stop her from crying for the first few hours while you were close to dying."

"She doesn't have any reason to cry, or even care about me. She left me, and she knew how much I cared about her."

"Percy, I can't pretend to be an expert on feelings, or even people, but she still feels something for you. She was the one who asked me to help look for you."

I didn't believe it. She didn't have feelings for me, she had made that pretty clear.

"You'll get over this Percy, I know how you're feeling. I felt the same way when I lost Bianca. I felt sadness, depression, anger, and there wasn't a way to let it out. You need to come to terms with yourself and get over it, bottling up your emotions won't help, it'll only make you feel worse. You have to let it go."

I didn't respond to that. There wasn't anything I could say to that.

"Annabeth wants to talk to you Percy, that's why she's waiting outside. She—"

"No." I immediately respond.

"Whether she feels anything for me or not, I don't want to see her, especially not now."

"Percy you're being-"

I cut him off again "Unreasonable? I'm being unreasonable for being angry at the one person I loved for leaving me? For crushing my feelings with no reason that I know except she found someone else?"

"She didn't-"

"No, not now, maybe another time." I said while rolling onto my side facing away from him. "I don't want to see her."

I heard Nico sigh as he stood up and walked out. I had my eyes closed, trying to sleep. I heard someone walk in and come next to me.

The last thing I remember before falling asleep was a gentle touch of someone brushing their hand across my cheek.

And that's chapter 5! I hope you all enjoyed! Please Review or PM me if you have an idea or suggestion for me to put in my story. Thank you to all of my readers, and I hope to see you in the next chapter!